[ZeroHedge] Most people on the right have no idea just how crazed many people on the left have become. Right now, a conspiracy theory which claims that President Trump is preparing to declare martial law in the United States is spreading like wildfire on social media.
According to that conspiracy theory, a report will be submitted to President Trump on April 20th which will recommend that he should invoke the Insurrection Act to help deal with the border crisis. That would allow U.S. troops to help secure the border, but many leftists are convinced that President Trump will also use U.S. troops to round up political activists and send them to prisons in El Salvador. I realize that this may sound really bizarre to many of you, but this is what many of them actually believe.
Early last month, an article that was published by the San Francisco Chronicle got the ball rolling by highlighting the fact that the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security will soon submit a report to President Trump recommending whether or not to invoke the Insurrection Act…
The clock is ticking down on a crucial but little-noticed part of President Donald Trump’s first round of executive orders — the one tasking the secretaries of the Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security to submit a joint report, within 90 days, recommending “whether to invoke the Insurrection Act.”
Many of us are now holding our collective breath, knowing that the report and what it contains could put us on the slippery slope toward unchecked presidential power under a man with an affinity for ironfisted dictators.
That is not exactly an honest characterization of what that executive order says. I have reproduced the relevant portion of that particular executive order below…
Within 90 days of the date of this proclamation, the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit a joint report to the President about the conditions at the southern border of the United States and any recommendations regarding additional actions that may be necessary to obtain complete operational control of the southern border, including whether to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807.
The Trump administration wants to use U.S. troops to help secure the border, and that is probably what we are going to see.
But many leftists are absolutely convinced that we are also about to see martial law in this country.
An article that was authored by an anonymous leftist known as “Aletheisthenes” that was entitled “Part 1: On April 20th, 2025, the United States may Cross the Point of No Return” has created a firestorm of panic among far left radicals. According to that article, once President Trump officially invokes the Insurrection Act it will set a “larger plan in motion”…
And as his two months in office has already shown, he won’t stop at just a legal opinion.
Expect an executive order even that same day or the next, officially declaring the Insurrection Act, restricting freedoms in the name of restoring control of the border and perhaps in blue-state cities, and setting the larger plan in motion.
Of course, this won’t be framed as an attack on democracy. It will be packaged as a necessary response to crisis — as authoritarian takeovers always are.
But once it happens, there’s no going back.
This will be the point of no return.
Aletheisthenes believes that the plan to implement martial law in this nation will unfold in eight stages…
1. “Resist!” Demonstrations Grow — Just As Planned
2. The False Flag Crisis: Turning Protest into “Terror”
3. Trump Declares Expanded Martial Law — And Calls for Militia to assist the police and Military
4. Mass Arrests of Opposition Leaders
5. Military & National Guard Take Over Major Cities
6. Press Censorship & Total Media Control
7. Borders Close & Dissidents Are Trapped Inside
8. Elections Are “Postponed” Indefinitely
Needless to say, this is not what Trump intends to do.
But I do believe that anti-Trump protests funded by very deep pockets on the left will continue to grow, and every time President Trump does something to try to keep those protests under control it will fuel their delusions even more.
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[REGNUM] "Guided by humanitarian considerations, today from 18:00 to midnight from Sunday to Monday, the Russian side declares an Easter truce. I order all military actions to cease for this period.
We assume that the Ukrainian side will follow our example. At the same time, our troops must be prepared to repel possible violations of the ceasefire and provocations from the enemy, any of its aggressive actions."
This decision by Vladimir Putin became one of the main news items in the Western media. And they do not see any moral grounds in this decision (forgetting that Vladimir Putin is a believer and also respects the desire of other believers to celebrate Easter with dignity) or military ones.
"It looks more like a diplomatic dance than a military or moral manoeuvre," Sky News writes.
There was certainly a diplomatic component to the decision. And Western media see two points here. As The New York Times notes, it was about an appeal to Donald Trump and an attempt to put Volodymyr Zelensky in a difficult position.
With religious conservatives who honor Easter in power in the United States, “for Russia’s supporters, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s statement on Saturday looked like a tribute to Trump,” CNN writes.
It is also clear that Donald Trump, on the eve of his 100-day "anniversary" as president, needs some serious progress on Ukraine. "This is a ploy to keep Trump's attention and allow him to characteristically announce some kind of victory in the negotiations," The Telegraph is confident.
"The ceasefire announcement comes amid reports that the Trump administration is considering recognizing Crimea as Russian territory," the British newspaper The Guardian points out. Forgetting that Russia needs recognition of not one, but five territories.
Yes, some write that the Russian president was motivated not by trump cards but by concerns. According to Sky News, if “Trump blames Putin for the lack of progress,” this could become a problem. Others claim that Trump has already made this threat public. “The action came a day after the Trump administration made its impatience clear,” writes The New York Times.
However, this is not true. To confirm its words, the publication cites the words of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who announced his intention to reassess the US involvement in the conflict within a few days. However, in this statement, Rubio did not say anything about Russia.
The Americans clearly understood that the main reluctance to move toward peace came from Kiev. That it was Ukraine that needed to be punished for dragging out the negotiation process. So yes, partly the decision on the Easter truce, as The New York Times writes, “apparently was aimed at showing the impatient Trump administration that Moscow was still open to peace talks.”
In essence, Zelensky found himself in a bind. “He could reject the ceasefire offer and risk angering Mr. Trump. Or he could accept it and risk allowing Russia to take advantage of the planned end to the fighting to marshal its forces for a new offensive,” The New York Times writes. He initially chose the latter option, then (after calling his Western handlers and fearing the consequences) changed it to the former.
The same CNN is already justifying possible violations by Zelensky. "If Ukrainian forces suddenly and immediately stop fighting on Putin's orders, it will be a logistical nightmare for them. Some positions on the front lines could end up in the center of violent clashes," the publication writes.
He said ending the fighting would require days of preparation and readiness, and misinformation would inevitably confuse troops about how the ceasefire would be implemented, how to report or respond to violations, and even what to do when the ceasefire ends.
According to the very original opinion of The Telegraph journalists, the order received by the Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov to record Ukrainian violations is a "set-up" and pushes for "fabricating incidents". It turns out that the publication declares Zelensky a white and fluffy boy who keeps his promises. Which, of course, is absolutely not true - including in the matter of ceasefires.
Other media outlets try to be a little more objective.
“This is not the first time a pause in hostilities has been suddenly declared – a previous attempt at a ceasefire during Orthodox Christmas in January 2023 failed,” the BBC writes, laying blame on both sides.
But this is also only a half-truth - then the Kiev regime simply refused to observe the ceasefire. This is what the BBC journalists' colleagues admit.
“The proposal was dismissed by Ukraine and its allies as a cynical move to buy time on the battlefield and public goodwill,” NBC points out. Simply put, Zelensky and the collective West were flush with enthusiasm after the autumn’s successes on the front lines and believed they could handle Russia.
Now Zelensky needs a long-term ceasefire because they are finishing him off. So he not only agreed to the Easter ceasefire, but also (again, after his partners explained everything to him) offered to extend it for 30 days. And for Western media, the question now is whether Vladimir Putin will accept it.
"It remains unclear whether the cease-fire is a genuine step toward de-escalation or a strategic pause prompted by growing international pressure and Trump's rhetoric," NBC asks.
Apparently, the local journalists had not heard all the previous statements of the Russian leader, where he clearly outlined the conditions necessary for agreeing to a long-term truce. Among them are the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from Russian territory, the cessation of pumping weapons into the Kyiv regime, and similar steps.
So far, Kyiv and its Western partners have not fulfilled any of the conditions.
[ZeroHedge] I don’t fit neatly into a political box, especially when it comes to immigration. I’m a wife to a man who came here illegally at 16. I’ve taken legal guardianship of an unaccompanied minor and folded him into my family. I work in both hospitality and agriculture—industries that rely heavily on immigrant labor. My views on the border don’t align with any party line, and I’m aware that people on both sides of the aisle might find something in this article to disagree with. But that doesn’t make the conversation less necessary. It makes it more urgent.
America needs labor. That’s not up for debate. We’ve raised a few generations of kids who are not equipped for hard, uncomfortable work—especially those who came of age during the pandemic. I’ve had over 350 employees at any one time in my businesses, and I’ve watched the workforce shift dramatically in just 10 years.
At the same time, I believe a border wall is not racist.
A wall, like a fence or a locked front door, doesn’t carry moral weight. Strong borders make good neighbors. But let’s be honest: the southern border is already secured—just not by us. It’s secured by the Mexican cartels.
Every person crossing is paying $10,000 to $13,000 to make that journey—not including the pre-planned robbery that happens to nearly every person along the way, and sometimes additional financial extortion afterward.
We’re not just turning a blind eye to this—we’re funding it.
Our labor shortage—our need for labor—is creating a massive revenue source for the cartels.
Many commentators scream, “Come legally!”—but the reality is, there are almost no viable legal pathways for Mexicans to do so.
Unlike people from other countries, Mexicans cannot easily claim asylum. Citizens of many Central and South American nations can claim asylum and stay in the United States while they await trial—a process that often takes five to 10 years. Even if their claim is denied, most never leave. Mexicans do not have this option. We are effectively prioritizing other nations over our immediate neighbor, and it makes no sense. We should be prioritizing Mexico first, and then Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras.
The humanitarian crisis is not what the media portrays. The real crisis is what happens before these people arrive - the women and children abused, trafficked, and disappeared in cartel territory.
It’s the man who hasn’t seen his mother in 20 years, or the woman who has children on both sides of the border and cannot return to see her children or grandchildren. She may never see her children here again. These are real stories. I live with them in my family and in my community. My husband didn’t see his mother for 12 years prior to marrying me and becoming an American citizen.
Yes, America is a melting pot. Yes, we welcome the tired and the poor. But no, we cannot take everyone. It’s not sustainable. And pretending otherwise only perpetuates suffering.
Let’s create a 10-year low-skill work visa. It would cost $10,000 - money that currently goes to cartels. Workers would be permitted to come and go, visit family, and live with dignity. Employment would be mandatory; workers could not remain unemployed longer than three months. Applicants must have no criminal history. This visa would never lead to citizenship, even through marriage. The best case would be a green card, but not a vote. Workers would pay taxes and contribute $10 per paycheck to Social Security, which they would never draw from. After 10 years, the visa could be renewed once—or the worker could return home.
We would prioritize Mexico, and then Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras—because a strong neighbor is national security. If your neighbor’s house is burning down, your own home is at risk.
A strong, thriving Mexico makes for a safer America.
A healthy economy and stable society in the countries closest to us reduces pressure on our border and increases mutual prosperity.
This plan would dismantle the cartels’ business model, reunite families, end the incentive to bring children as props for border entry, and redirect billions of dollars from crime syndicates to the U.S. government. Migrants could fly directly into cities where jobs await—no more treacherous desert crossings or predatory smugglers.
One side of the aisle screams that we don’t want them—but still enjoys the literal fruits of their labor. The other side screams “humanitarian crisis” and “racism”—but takes no meaningful action, even when in power.
In closing, I believe there’s a solution that supports integrity for our border, for our businesses, for our families, and for our neighbors.
But both sides of the aisle have not been interested in real solutions for a long time—and that begs the question: why?
What is the benefit of the gray? What is the benefit of a system that is clearly broken and leads to drugs, rape, murder, and chaos?
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[REGNUM] "Yustas. According to our information, senior officers of the SD and SS security services appeared in Sweden and Switzerland, looking for access to the Allied residency. In particular, in Bern, SD people tried to establish contact with Allen Dulles' employees... A l e x s."
This cipher, which the Moscow Center sent to Berlin to SS Standartenführer von Stirlitz (aka Colonel Isayev), became the beginning of the main mission of the Soviet super-intelligence officer in "Seventeen Moments of Spring." The cipher was, of course, fiction, but the fears of the Soviet leadership were real.
The author of this book and the script of the same name for one of the most popular Soviet TV series, Yulian Semyonov, had access to archival documents, many of which will only be declassified in our time.
And - despite the fantasy of the figure of the Soviet "supermole" with access to the highest leaders of the Reich (from Heinrich Himmler to Martin Bormann ) - the eighth novel about Stirlitz was a "true detective" based on real events.
Just as, most likely, the conversation between Joseph Stalin at the nearby dacha in Kuntsevo with the curator of the “Soviet secret service abroad” that took place in the spring of 1945, reconstructed by Semyonov, had a basis.
That same Alex. Neither the book nor the film mentions this person's name, but most likely it was the head of the foreign department at the main department of the NKVD, Pavel Fitin. He signed his ciphers, if not with Alex, then with another short, common European name - Victor.
Stalin told Fitin: "Any attempt at an agreement between the fascists and the anti-Soviets of the West must be considered by you as a real possibility. Naturally... you must realize that the main figures in these possible separate negotiations will most likely be Hitler's closest associates, who have authority both among the party apparatus and among the people."
Meanwhile, in Berlin, which is being bombed by Allied aircraft and towards which the Red Army is inexorably approaching, the head of foreign intelligence of the security service (Department VI of the RSHA) Walter Schellenberg reminds his boss Himmler: "Reichsfuehrer, it is now the spring of '45, not the fall of '41." It is necessary to negotiate with the Anglo-Americans before the Russians take the citadel of the Reich, the head of intelligence hints.
This phrase was also invented by Semenov (by the way, it is in the script, based on which Tatyana Lioznova shot the film - but not in the book). But these words of Oleg Tabakov - Schellenberg are also based on real events.
Here is a real phrase from one of the last letters of Reich Minister of Armaments Albert Speer, sent to Adolf Hitler in the last days of March 1945: "You addressed me with words from which, if I understood you correctly, it clearly and unequivocally followed: if the war is lost, let the people perish too! This fate, you said, is inevitable."
Total war, the beginning of which was announced by Joseph Goebbels back in 1943, implied that the shame of November 1918 would not be repeated, Germany would perish, but would not capitulate.
But this obsession, significant for the corporal of the First World War Hitler and Goebbels, who did not have time to fight, but was poisoned by his own propaganda (including the myth of the “stab in the back”) - this suicidal idea in the spring lost all meaning for many of the top leaders of the Nazi state.
Especially when the Red Army took Königsberg and Danzig-Gdansk, advanced towards the Oder and developed an offensive on Vienna, and the Allies crossed the Rhine and pressed the Wehrmacht towards the Elbe.
THREE WERNERS AND THE SLY FOX
The first to become disillusioned with the idea of a suicidal war, along with “Russian Bolshevism” and “Anglo-American plutocrats,” were those who were not enchanted by it – the Prussian generals. They also remembered how the war on two fronts ended in 1918.
The first attempt to stop World War II took place before the war began.
In 1938, the Imperial Minister of War Werner von Blomberg (nicknamed "Siegfried with the monocle") and another Werner, the commander-in-chief of the ground forces von Fritsch, planned to remove "Corporal Hitler" and not get involved in a confrontation with the West.
"The Corporal" removed both military leaders from service - Blomberg went into retirement, and Fritsch very conveniently died at the very beginning of the Second World War.
But military conspiracies continued.
The most famous attempts to stop the war by eliminating Hitler were Major General Henning von Tresckow 's 1942 plan to blow up the Fuhrer's plane during his trip to the Eastern Front, and the famous Operation Valkyrie of 1944, inspired by the same von Tresckow.
The disagreements within the circle of conspirators are indicative.
The most famous hero of "Valkyrie", the perpetrator of the failed assassination attempt on Hitler, Claus von Stauffenberg, was sure: "We must use every opportunity to conduct political negotiations with Russia, which is our neighbor."
According to Count Stauffenberg, the last pre-war ambassador to the USSR, Werner von Schulenburg, was to become the liaison with Moscow.
But the political leader of the conspiracy, who aimed to become the chancellor of the new Germany, Carl Goerdeler, held a different opinion. As did the head of the Abwehr, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, nicknamed the "Sly Fox", who was connected with the rebellious generals.
They were looking for a way out to the same Allen Dulles, a key employee of the US Office of Strategic Services, the future CIA, who worked on the German direction.
"The main principle of Goerdeler-Dulles-Canaris was the unilateral end to the war only in the West in the name of continuing the war against the Soviet Union. This caused a protest among young officers," noted the Soviet historian, Germanist and military translator Lev Bezymensky.
SWISS CANAL
But these were disgraced politicians, opposition-minded officers, high-ranking leaders of the Wehrmacht and military intelligence (people who were important in the structure of the Reich, but had no connection with its party-political elite). But long before the spring of 1945, treason began to mature in the Fuhrer's inner circle.
The most mysterious episode to this day remains the arrival in Britain in May 1941 of the Fuhrer's deputy for the party, Rudolf Hess. He, we recall, announced to the Lord Steward Douglas Hamilton : he had come to end the war and begin a common struggle between Germany and Great Britain against Bolshevik Russia.
Even if Hess was not “mad,” the Führer — judging by his reaction — did not sanction this adventure. As Speer recalled, Hitler, upon learning this, fell into a chair in confusion, saying: “Oh, my God! He flew over there!” and even uttered “an inarticulate, almost animal-like cry.”
Whether any of the Nazi bigwigs, other than Hess himself, were involved in his plan is something history is silent about.
The next episode looks more substantial.
In the summer of 1942, SS Brigadeführer Walter Schellenberg began to push his boss Himmler, the head of the SS, towards a scenario of reconciliation with the West.
The head of foreign intelligence believed that a figure of Himmler's stature should initiate negotiations with the Anglo-Americans while the Reich still had the strength to fight, in order to obtain the most favorable conditions.
Himmler was furious when his subordinate first floated the idea, but they soon began to seriously discuss "trading" the occupied territories.
According to this plan, the Germans were to withdraw their troops from Belgium, Holland and Northern France, building close trade ties with the French people. Austria would remain part of the Reich, and the countries of Eastern and Southeastern Europe would be governed by sovereign governments, but with close economic integration with Germany.
Himmler supported the initiative, although he said that he would immediately get rid of Schellenberg if he made the slightest mistake in its implementation.
It should be noted that Moscow had already learned of Berlin's "interesting" initiatives back in 1942. Thus, the famous intelligence officer Kim Philby reported that the German ambassador to Ankara, former chancellor (and former vice chancellor in Hitler's first cabinet) Franz von Papen was trying to contact US intelligence resident George Earle in Turkey.
But Himmler was indecisive and did not try very hard to convey Schellenberg's concept to Hitler.
He came to his senses towards the end of the war, when he realized that in order to take up an acceptable position in the post-war country, he had to “wash himself clean” of the crimes of the SS. And for this he used the same channel as Professor Pleischner and Pastor Schlag – Switzerland.
In early 1945, at a secret meeting with former Swiss President Jean-Marie Musy, Himmler reluctantly agreed to transport 1,200 Jews every two weeks to a neutral country.
The plan failed due to political intrigue: the head of the Imperial Main Security Office, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, reported to the Führer that Himmler and Schellenberg were acting behind his back, and in the eyes of Hitler, the SS chief was discredited.
Schellenberg persisted and chose as a mediator another "neutral", Sweden, which at that time had become the center of secret peace negotiations and spy games.
He arranged for Himmler to meet with the Swedish king's nephew, Count Folke Bernadotte, who convinced the SS chief to begin transporting Danish, Norwegian, Polish and Jewish prisoners from concentration camps to Sweden.
At the end of April 1945, Himmler met with the representative of the World Jewish Congress, Norbert Masur, and agreed to stop the extermination of Jews.
But the head of the SS was in no hurry to fulfill his promises, and his image in the West was so monstrous that Winston Churchill and the recently appointed President Harry Truman refused to negotiate with him.
WILLY BRANDT'S DELUSIONS
A number of modern publications suggest that Joachim Ribbentrop and even someone from Himmler's circle allegedly sought access to Soviet representatives. The most compelling evidence is a quote from the memoirs of Willy Brandt (Chancellor of Germany in 1969-1974, and an anti-fascist emigrant during the war):
"It became known that an official from Ribbentrop's department had already met in Stockholm in 1943, testing the waters, with embassy adviser Vladimir Semenov. In the end, Himmler's apparatus also tried, as one colonel put it, to establish "non-binding contact with Russia" through Stockholm.
Willy Brandt seems to have been less informed than he would have liked.
But the emigrant Brandt, although he was in Stockholm (and communicated there with people who had connections to the "Valkyrie"), hardly had information circulating through secret diplomatic channels. His "became known" is more like a retelling of rumors thrown in by someone.
If the "contacts with Russia" were not a pure conspiracy theory, they resemble "disinformation" for potential Western counterparties: if we don't reach an agreement with you, we'll reach an agreement with Stalin. A sort of Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact 2.0.
Even though this sounded fantastic at the time of the Battle of Stalingrad, the winter of 1943 was not the summer of 1939, when Soviet-German agreements were still possible.
In addition, we note that Brandt in his memoirs clearly tried to whitewash the reputation of all the participants in the "Valkyrie": "The officers who decided to rebel and the political figures associated with them sought to conclude a separate peace with the Western powers in order to then continue the war with the Soviet Union - this is one of the many legends that have been created around the plot of July 20."
They say that not only the anti-Hitler conspirator Goerdeler, but also Hitler’s inner circle, allegedly advocated for peace with the USSR.
What was actually documented, unlike Willy Brandt's stories, was Operation Sunrise (called Operation Crossword by the British), which became the basis for the key episode of Seventeen Moments of Spring.
THE CROSSWORD PUZZLE IS SOLVED
In March 1945, General Karl Wolff (who was brilliantly played in the film by Vasily Lanovoy) met with the future head of the CIA, Dulles, in Switzerland, the SS commissioner for Army Group C in Italy. Dulles had been in Switzerland since 1943, heading the residency of the Office of Strategic Services.
Dulles was helped to establish contacts with the Germans by the OSS employee and German émigré Gero von Schulze-Gaevernitz, the son-in-law of the Ruhr coal magnate Hugo Stinnes.
On the other hand, an agent of the German secret service SD, who had been planted in the OSS residency under the operational pseudonym Gabriel, reported to Berlin: Dulles does not trust his Russian allies and, moreover, hates them and considers them the main opponents of the United States.
From the German side, people from the RSHA (Reich Main Security Office) began to appear in February 1945 – envoys from Schellenberg and even his immediate superior, Ernst Kaltenbrunner.
On March 8, the first high-level contact took place in Bern: on one side, Dulles, the American General Lehman Lemnitzer and the Chief of Intelligence of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the British General Terence Airey. On the other, Wolff.
The secret negotiations (of which Moscow was not informed, as expected) discussed a separate capitulation of the northern Italian group - a plan that had been discussed earlier through the Vatican representative, the papal chamberlain Luigi Parelli. This plan was also supported by the British.
When on March 12 the commander of the Allied forces in Italy, Field Marshal Harold Alexander, true to his allied duty, informed the Soviet ambassador about some contacts regarding the capitulation of the Italian Wehrmacht group, there was what is called an awkward pause.
Especially after the State Department and the Foreign Office refused Vyacheslav Molotov’s legitimate request to include our representatives in the negotiations.
But the main thing is that Moscow, through its own channels, knew in full about the preparation, progress and nature of Operation Crossword, in particular that these were essentially preparations for a separate peace on the Western Front – in conditions when the Red Army was preparing for the battle for Berlin.
On April 5, 1945, Stalin sent Roosevelt a message that was formally polite towards the Allies (“I have never doubted your honesty and reliability, just as I have never doubted the honesty and reliability of Mr. Churchill”), but full of reproaches for trying to organize a unilateral capitulation without the participation of the USSR.
The second point of the message is especially interesting: "As for my informants, I assure you that they are very honest and modest people who perform their duties carefully and have no intention of offending anyone. These people have been tested by us in practice many times."
Thanks to Stalin's informants, Operation Sunrise, also known as Crossword, was thwarted.
DULLES SAYS GOODBYE TO PLANS
On April 20, 1945, Dulles received, not without surprise, an order from the headquarters of the Allied forces: given the conflict with Moscow, contacts with the Germans were to cease and the operation was to be curtailed.
Hitler, who apparently did not know about Wolff and Kaltenbrunner's mission, summoned both of them to the carpet, but showed no anger, merely scolding Wolff for "disregarding the opinion of the leadership."
Moreover, the Fuhrer shared his own plan: the total war would continue in three “impregnable fortresses” – in the north – in Schleswig-Holstein, in Berlin and in the south, in the Alps. At the same time, as Hitler believed, the Red Army and the Anglo-Americans, meeting in the center of Germany, would enter into a conflict, which the Reich would take advantage of.
But this, fortunately, remained an “alternative history”.
On April 16, our troops began the Berlin offensive operation, on April 25, the troops of the 1st Ukrainian Front met peacefully in the city of Torgau on the Elbe with the Americans from General Hodges' 1st Army. Roosevelt acknowledged the story of the attempted negotiations as "an incident that has faded and receded into the past without having brought any benefit."
Despite all their differences, the leaders of the USSR, USA and Great Britain together brought to the end the fight against those who decided to openly renounce their monstrous views for personal gain. Most of the Berlin "peace seekers" had to answer for many years of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Himmler, however, managed to escape retribution - at the moment of his arrest by the British, he bit into an ampoule of poison. Kaltenbrunner and Schellenberg found themselves in the dock at Nuremberg, as did the first "peacemaker" Hess.
SS General Karl Wolff's retribution came after Dulles resigned as CIA director (the head of the American intelligence agency clearly favored his former negotiating partner). In 1964, a West German court sentenced Wolff to 15 years in prison for complicity in the Holocaust.
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Glad I didn't have a job studying Russia Govt information. This piece is convoluted with some info that is general knowledge, some that is obvious fiction and some that I can't even figure out what it is about and in what year it is supposed to be occurring
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[Jpost] Sam Altman reveals that using polite language with chatbots like ChatGPT wastes millions of dollars in electricity and computing resources, urging a shift towards more efficient interactions.
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, the company responsible for the artificial intelligence software, ChatGPT, revealed this week that courteous, polite behavior with chatbots, such as saying "please" and "thank you," costs millions of dollars in electricity and unnecessary computing activity.
According to Altman, such politeness leads to a "global waste" that contributes to a tangible environmental impact.
Saying "please" or "thank you" may seem trivial, but it requires the system to interpret, process, and craft a full response, sometimes for long, complex texts. Every such interaction consumes electricity and costly computing time in advanced data centers.
[GeorgiaRecord] Here's the thing the American people outside the matrix understand that fear mongering Dems don't:
Inflation is now nonexistent. Groceries cost 30-40% less than they did a few months ago. Gas, too. A fill-up costs $30 less than it did. Over half a million unemployed private sector workers now have new full time jobs. Farmers, steel workers, coal miners, oil and gas workers, anyone who gets tips or overtime are now protected/making more money. People are finally buying and selling houses again. Not to mention people selling off clothes and furniture, etc. in online garage sales.
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Grocery prices have not gone back down as far as I can tell, but they aren’t increasing the way they were before. The inflation rate has slowed back to normal levels, not stopped, but I am not seeing deflation. As long as we can keep government from passing huge stimulus bills, we should be OK.
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[YouTube] Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) shared shocking footage of her foul-mouthed confrontation with a constituent who accused her of not doing townhalls while shopping at a “makeup store” on Saturday.
During the heated encounter with a man donning daisy dukes that she bashed as an “unhinged lunatic,” Mace accused him of “harassing” her and implied that he was gay, although he never divulged his sexuality in the video.
“I asked if you were doing any this year. It was one simple question,” the man says as Mace began filming.
“Do you want to keep going? You want to keep harassing me?” she hit back during the video. “You could have gone to a dozen town halls last year.”
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Illegal migrant buses heading to airport is forced to turn around after bombshell SCOTUS ruling.
Extraordinary footage has emerged showing busloads of aVenezuelan detainees in the process of being deported before a stunning Supreme Court intervention.
The buses, loaded with at least 28 migrants, were heading from ICE's Bluebonnet Detention Center to Abilene Airport on Friday, according to NBC.
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement buses were closely followed by a motorcade of 18 squad cars from varying law enforcement agencies.
The detainees - primarily Venezuelan - were driven back to the detention center after a bombshell Supreme Court ruling.
Justice Samuel Alito, one of the nation's top ranking legal authorities, has since issued a fiery dissent to the decision - which forced the Trump administration to temporarily halt the deportation of any Venezuelans held in a northern Texas detention facility under an 18th-century wartime law.
In his written ruling, Alito cited a government lawyer who insisted the administration had no intention of deporting anyone on Good Friday or Easter Saturday.
Judy Maldonado Rall, whose husband was reportedly on the bus at the time, said her husband was told by a guard he was headed toward the hellhole El Salvadorian prison where Trump has previously sent more than 200 suspected gang members.
She said after the buses were turned around, a guard told her husband: 'Well, you were lucky you were sent back because you were going to El Salvador, not Venezuela.'
That evening, the Supreme Court was weighing an urgent request to block the administration from conducting any deportations.
Simultaneously, Trump's nemesis Judge James Boasberg was hearing a case on the same matter. Lee Gelernt, a lawyer representing the American Civil Liberties Union, told the court: 'We hear they are on buses on the way to the airport.'
That sprung Boasberg into action, and he asked Justice Department lawyer Drew Ensign to ensure no Bluebonnet detainees were being deported under the Alien Enemies Act on Friday night.
Boasberg was burned by the administration before, after his ruling to turn planes carrying deportees around to ensure due process went ignored.
By early Saturday morning, a 7-2 Supreme Court majority ruled Trump must not deport any Venezuelans held in the northern Texas detention facility.
His administration invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to justify sending hundreds of suspected gang members and illegal migrants to a hellish El Salvadorian prison last month.
Alito's sharp dissent argued the court acted 'literally in the middle of the night' and with 'dubious factual support' to take the extraordinary measure of blocking the government.
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To me, it looks like SCOTUS has held deportations of Venezuelans under the Enemies Act only. It seems like the government has a strong case for the legality of the process so this is more of a delay. I don’t see any indication that regular deportations are on hold. Gang members and criminals continue to be eligible for regular deportation.
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The reason is to protect lawyer’s jobs. They do not make money if there is not a trial. Trump is a business man, not a grifter!
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