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“The CIA is not the top of the food chain.”

“The oligarchs are the ones really in charge.”

“Intelligence agencies work for them.”

Whitney Webb just broke down the truth about the Epstein class.

“This is who Epstein was really working for … ”

“There’s this transnational group that Epstein was part of.”

“He’s like middle management in it.”

“They are not overseen by any national government, nor loyal to any of them.”

“The public governments that we all know have basically been reduced to enabling environments for the policies made by these other people that are then filtered down through think tanks or philanthropic foundations.”

“The Gates Foundation, for example.”

“Epstein was setting up a lot of these philanthropic foundations that influence policy.”

“He was doing a lot of shady financial stuff, helping powerful people hide their money.”

“One of the funds that Epstein was involved in setting up was actually handling money for our current Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent.”

“And he refuses to release Epstein’s Treasury records.”

“A key actor in this network testified to Congress in the early ‘70s about what was going on with this group.”

“I think he really gave it away, but they didn’t care.”

“It’s really brazen.”

“It’s Samuel Pisar, who was a lawyer.”

“He was Robert Maxwell’s lawyer and … involved with building up commerce relations between the eastern bloc and the western bloc during the Cold War.”

“What he argued in the early ‘70s to Congress is that what was happening was the creation of a trans-ideological corporation that was becoming the de facto power in the world, making the nation state irrelevant.”

“It was capitalist western multinational corporations entering into joint ventures with communist state-owned corporations.”

“These forces were essentially joining hands and creating a structure that was really running the world of economic governance.”

“So you see it back then in the early ‘70s being told to Congress: we’re making a sovereign corporation that runs everything.”

“It doesn’t matter what national governments do.”

“National governments bow to us.”

“And if you look at intelligence agencies, let’s take the CIA for example, they serve those same masters.”

“For example, if you look at the early coups of the CIA, who were they for?”

“Iran in [1953], it was for Anglo American Oil.”

“In Guatemala, it was for United Fruit Company.”

“The CIA’s regime changes are almost always at the behest of corporations.”
 


🚨 BREAKING: In a jaw-dropping betrayal, White House anti-fraud task force vice chair reveals the Biden admin TURNED OFF fraud protections in tens of billions worth of welfare programs under the excuse of "COVID"

They used COVID to legalize fraud...

THEY LEGALIZED FRAUD!!

Now the Trump admin is switching the fraud protections BACK ON.

ANDREW FERGUSON: "The excuse that I often heard at the beginning was that they turned it off because of COVID and they didn't want people in COVID not to get money that they are entitled to, but they just kept it off!"

"One of the first tasks that all of the agency members of the task force have been given by me is that they have to write a report that is going to explain what the Biden administration did for 4 years to perpetuate fraud and what we've done immediately to turn all those systems back on."
 
Harbinger?



Recruiter with 15 years in the game just pulled me aside at a coffee shop and started shaking

Not metaphorically. Actually shaking.

"I've placed 2,847 engineers in my career. This year I've placed 11."

She used to get 50-80 applications per role. Quality applications. Now she's seeing 3,200+ per posting.

"Senior React position posted Monday. 4,847 applications by Wednesday. Half are ex-FAANG. A third have advanced degrees."

The ghost rate is 94%. Companies schedule first rounds then vanish. No explanation. No follow-up.

"Three clients told me they're 'pausing human hiring indefinitely' while they 'optimize their AI workflows.'"

A Series B fintech just told her they replaced their entire 23-person engineering org with 4 AI specialists and offshore contractors.

"The CEO said they're building faster than ever. Same CEO who spent $400K on my placements in 2022."

Two major enterprise software companies have gone 8 months without hiring a single engineer.

"I'm watching the entire profession disappear in real time. 15 years of relationships. 15 years of expertise. And I can't place a senior architect with 12 years at Google."

She's thinking about selling insurance.

The woman who used to have VPs on speed dial is applying to work at her kid's elementary school.
 
Was starting this war, and when he did...was it smart? The onset of planting season. Even the wind-up to the midterms! ANY way you add it up, this is gonna hurt the US, the West, the global economy, and yes, Trump's own political party and his prospects from January next year.

This clearly doesn't do anything for any plan or prospect he has, favors, or needs. It adds up to his being compelled, somehow, into doing it.

I don't think Trump is stupid, either...although I do believe senility is setting in...
 
Sadly, I don't think Massie's future is overly bright. Not in politics.

Trump is the demarcation line. The Trump cultists will continue to follow his every word; and an argument can rationally be made that not supporting him will have far-worse result.

And the TDS sufferers will continue to rail against everything he does, BECAUSE he's doing it. Unable to articulate a more nuanced reason why.

Those of us who put actions and principles ahead of personalities and party lines...are now stateless. We're wandering a political no-man's land. Many of us are just not gonna vote - because I'm damned if I'm gonna honor this nation's yielding to Nuttin' Yahoo's INSANE orders to his colony state, to launch WWIII, to bring about the prophesy of the coming Messiah. And because we're ISRAEL, which means YOU MUST OBEY.

I'm out. Which means, probably, Trump will be destroyed - of what he did, compelled-to or not. And Massie will likewise be destroyed by the crazed Woketard Ghey Mafia.

America was a great place. But nothing lasts forever.
 
Those of us who put actions and principles ahead of personalities and party lines...are now stateless. We're wandering a political no-man's land. Many of us are just not gonna vote - because I'm damned if I'm gonna honor this nation's yielding to Nuttin' Yahoo's INSANE orders to his colony state, to launch WWIII, to bring about the prophesy of the coming Messiah. And because we're ISRAEL, which means YOU MUST OBEY.

I'll go out on a limb and say the Establishment is concerned about non-participation in the illusory political process. So much so, the AEC (Australian Electoral Commission) is concerned about the growing number of informal votes

AEC launches blitz to save Farrer from the informal bin​


The Australian Electoral Commission will mount an intensive voter education blitz ahead of the Farrer byelection, warning a “congested” information environment and rising misinformation could undermine confidence in Australia’s preferential voting system.

The move comes amid a spike in informal voting in parts of the country and a political push from minor parties and conservatives to overhaul how preferences are allocated.

NSW – where preferential voting is optional at a state level – recorded the highest informality rate at the last federal election, at 8.06 per cent – a slight increase on the previous poll. The seat of Farrer, which includes regional towns and cities including Albury, Deniliquin and Griffith, sat even higher at 9.03 per cent. Officials fear the byelection could mean that figure climbs further if a crowded field produces an unwieldy ballot paper.

An AEC spokesperson said the commission was stepping up efforts to ensure voters understood how to cast a valid ballot and how preferences flow under the system, saying there was a “clear and increasing” requirement to provide information about how Australia’s preferential voting system works for federal House of Representatives contests.

The campaign will include instructions printed directly on ballot papers, handouts at polling booths, posters and multilingual guides, alongside a broader media push spanning radio, social platforms and direct messaging to voters.

“The communication environment during a byelection can be congested and difficult for voters to navigate,” the spokesperson said. “The AEC is alert to the prospect for incorrect information to be spread around how preferential voting works – from a variety of potential sources.”

It will also revive its “stop and consider” messaging, aimed at countering misleading or false claims circulating online.

The intervention follows controversy at this month’s South Australian state election, where Pauline Hanson’s One Nation distributed “open” how-to-vote cards that listed only a first preference for its candidate, leaving the rest blank.
The tactic led to confusion among some voters, with reports of candidates or campaigners filling in preferences themselves, prompting accusations of “dirty tricks”.

Hanson has seized on the issue to argue for optional preferential voting last week, similar to the NSW system, where voters can choose to mark a single preference or continue numbering candidates. She said people were “fed up” with sending preferences to the Greens or Labor and the system was aimed at keeping the major parties in control.

The push has found some traction. In Queensland, the Liberal-National government is examining optional preferential voting, while in NSW Labor figures are arguing the opposite – for tighter compulsory preferential rules to maximise flows from progressive voters.

The AEC said its role was not to enter the political debate but to ensure voters could navigate whichever system was in place. With a byelection likely to draw an unusually large field and heightened political scrutiny, officials are bracing for a test not just of voter patience – but of the system itself.

But election experts have rejected claims the current system disadvantages minor players.

Bill Browne, the director of the democracy and accountability program at the Australia Institute, a left-aligned think tank, said Australia had a long history of preferential voting which had benefited either side of politics.

“Preferential voting actually makes things simpler for Australians because it removes the need for tactical voting, where you’re trying to guess who are going to be the final two people in the race, and you can just vote according to your true beliefs,” he said.

Dr Jill Sheppard, from the Australian National University’s school of politics and international relations, said it was easy to underestimate how hard preferential voting could be for many voters.

“Generally, we know that that informality – which is the percentage of votes that don’t get counted because they make mistakes in preferencing – is always higher in rural areas and particularly in areas with high numbers of migrants who aren’t used to voting in Australia,” she said.

“Organic campaigns to try to undermine people’s confidence and knowledge about the electoral system, but I doubt we’d see it from One Nation this time because they’ll want to make sure that as many of their votes are included at the end of election counting as possible.”

 
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