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From Power To Perversion: The Corruption And Depravity Of The World Economic Forum
[American Liberty News] The World Economic Forum was not always a punchline. Once draped in the velvet language of progress, innovation, and multilateral cooperation, Davos promised an annual symposium where the world’s elites would set aside self-interest to solve humanity’s biggest challenges. But the past tense is no accident. The forum today is not a temple of wisdom, it is a brothel of globalist self-delusion, run by elites who fly private jets to preach carbon neutrality and who lecture ordinary citizens about equality while groping their assistants behind closed doors.

To the casual observer, the WEF might still appear to be a high-minded gathering of the world’s best and brightest. But peer closer, and the facade cracks. What lies behind it is not merely hypocrisy or elitism. It is institutional rot: a culture marinated in sexual deviance, financial impropriety and moral impunity, presided over by a founder who used the organization’s resources as a personal pleasure dome.

Recent whistleblower accounts and journalistic investigations have shattered the illusion of principled global leadership. Klaus Schwab, the forum’s founder and until recently its high priest of stakeholder capitalism, has now resigned under the weight of allegations that would shame a banana republic dictator. The claims against Schwab are numerous and damning. He is accused of sexual misconduct, including lewd advances and inappropriate comments toward female employees. One example: Schwab allegedly placed his crotch near a woman’s face while propping his leg on her desk, musing aloud that he needed to find her a man, and would put himself at the top of the list were he not married.

This behavior was not anomalous. According to internal reports, the WEF harbored a broader culture of harassment, discrimination and retaliation. Female employees recount being propositioned, ridiculed, and ultimately fired for reporting abuse. A Black woman described how her manager joked about setting her wig on fire. Others described how senior executives impersonated medical professionals to coerce young women into removing their shirts under the guise of medical checks.
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#1  "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely" - Lord Acton
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/12/2025 15:12 Comments || Top||


Britain
'The Russians Are Coming!' Why Britain Killed Thousands of Soviet POWs
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Mark Leshkevich
Because it was a nasty, ugly war and soldiers are not emotionless automatons?
[REGNUM] Five days before the capitulation of the Third Reich, on May 3, 1945, British Royal Air Force aircraft attacked and sank three German ships carrying prisoners from Nazi concentration camps in the Bay of Lübeck: the ocean liner Cap Arcona, the cargo ship Thielbek, and the ship Deutschland. The scale of the tragedy has only become clear now.

According to recently declassified FSB documents, the British airstrike killed between 7,000 and 12,000 people. Most of them were Soviet prisoners of war.

These ships were used to "evacuate" prisoners ordered by the SS from Germany to Nazi-controlled Norway in the final days of the war. Despite the Allied command being informed of the prisoners on board, the attack was carried out anyway.

"THEY ACTED LIKE FASCISTS"
The FSB archive contains a letter that Vasily Salomatkin, a former prisoner of the Neuengamme concentration camp who miraculously survived the raid on Cap Arcona, sent to the Office of the USSR Council of Ministers Commissioner for the Repatriation of Soviet Citizens. It states, among other things:

"The prisoners who were on the deck took off their undershirts (they were white) and began waving them, making a sign to the English pilots that the ship was surrendering, accepting capitulation, but the English pilots, like the fascist pilots... continued to bomb the ships. The bombing took place at a very low altitude. The English pilots saw all the horrors of their bombing and continued to do it even more, not paying attention to any pleas from the people."

After the second bomb hit the deck of the liner Cap Arcona, Salomatkin "threw himself into the water along with other Russian prisoners." Not far from the site of the Cap Arcona's sinking, English torpedo boats appeared, having left Lübeck, which was occupied by the British.

"When we saw them, we rushed to swim towards them, thinking that they would pick us up and save us. It turned out to be the opposite. The soldiers on the boats stood and shot the floating prisoners with machine guns."

Salomatkin was washed ashore by the tide and woke up in a hospital set up by the British. There he learned that "out of 12,000 prisoners, only three hundred were saved."

And after leaving the hospital, the recent prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp was convinced: German prisoners of war feel at ease under British occupation power. They walk the streets of Lübeck, attack "Untermenschen" and even threaten them with reprisals. According to a survivor of "Cap Arcona", the English commandant of the city ignored the complaints of the Russians.

Red Army Lieutenant Vasily Filippovich Salomatkin was lucky - already in 1945 he returned from the British occupation zone to his homeland, passed the SMERSH counterintelligence check without any problems, and was discharged into the reserve in October 1945. After the war and until his retirement, this holder of the Order of the Red Star and the Order of the Patriotic War worked as a teacher in his native Krasnoslobodsk (now the Republic of Mordovia).

The USSR MGB considered Salomatkin's testimony credible. The report that the special service sent to the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs in September 1949 noted that the words of this former concentration camp prisoner were confirmed by several other eyewitnesses.

“Thus, the witness V.D. Kozulya, a former commander of the Soviet Army aviation detachment, who was interrogated on September 15 of this year, testified: “On May 3, 1945, at approximately one o’clock in the afternoon, I and other prisoners who were in the Cap Arcona cabin saw three Hawker Hurricane aircraft approaching our ship and then dropping bombs on it.”

Interrogated on September 14, 1949, “witness Strandberg E. N. testified: “English planes flew over the ship at low altitude several times and shot at people on the upper deck with machine guns. The Tilbek soon sank.”

Soviet authorities recorded the testimonies of 14 survivors who confirmed the mass extermination. The MGB stated that the attack was carried out on unarmed people, and that the survivors were subjected to violence after the tragedy.

A tragic mistake – this is how British historians interpret the sinking of three non-military ships in May 1945. They say that at the time of the storming of Lübeck, the Royal Air Force could not allow ships on which Nazis might have fled to pass through the Baltic. But, logically, the British should have known who exactly was being transported on the Cap Arcona, Thielbek and Deutschland.

CONCENTRATION CAMP ON A SHIP
With the beginning of spring 1945, when the prisoners of the remaining concentration camps were about to be liberated, the Nazis began to herd prisoners on death marches in a futile attempt to evade the advancing Red Army and Allied forces. This was also the case in the state of Schleswig-Holstein, home to the cities of Flensburg (the seat of the last Nazi government led by Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz ) and the port city of Lübeck. Prisoners from the Hamburg concentration camp Neuengamme, where Vasily Salomatkin was a prisoner, were also herded here.

But since the Lübeck Gauleiter and the local SS leadership panicked, many of the SS "personnel" of the remaining camps and prisoners were "evacuated" closer to May 1945.

Neuengamme was the largest concentration camp in northwest Germany.
All these manipulations were known to the British advancing on Lübeck - both aerial reconnaissance and information from the ground helped.

Intelligence on May 2 saw that the ships were not heading for Norway, as was later claimed to justify the attack. The ships were stationary, not moving, and were not under steam.

Information about the prisoners was passed on May 2 to Major General George Roberts, commander of the 11th Armoured Division advancing in the Lübeck area, according to a report compiled in June 1945 by Major Noel Till. It also states that for unknown reasons the information was not passed on to other units of the British Army advancing there and aimed at capturing Lübeck and other centres as quickly as possible. Roberts also failed to inform the Air Force command.

The British had the opportunity to prevent the attack on the Cap Arcona by taking into account at least three reports provided by the Red Cross. But they did not do so.

Meanwhile, the ships had left the shore. The Cap Arcona, which had received the most prisoners, was overcrowded: initially planned to accommodate about 2,200 people, but in the end the number of prisoners exceeded 8,000. This led to unbearable overcrowding and lack of space. The conditions on board were unbearable.

Surviving prisoner Shmuel Pivnik (after the war, the renowned British Holocaust researcher Sam Pivnik) called the ship a "floating hell." Prisoners were locked in cramped quarters, and the bodies of the dead were thrown overboard, where they floated in the water like garbage. Food on the ship was given out extremely irregularly, sometimes without anything.

The prisoners were placed on the ship according to racial theory - people of Western European descent received better conditions, while Russians and Jews found themselves in the lower holds without light, air or water. In fact, the structure of the Neuengamme camp was transferred to the ship, including the organization of life, supervision and abuse. But the prisoners did not know that a real "hell on water" awaited them ahead.

On the morning of May 3, Dr. Hans Arnoldsson of the Swedish Red Cross informed the British command about the prisoners on the ships. Later, the officers promised to "take action" - but the bombardment had already begun.

POLITICAL REASONS
The main question remains: why did the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy attack ships – albeit German, but obviously not military? There was a version that the SS officers who led the “evacuation” planned to sink the “Cap Arcona”, “Tielbek” and “Deutschland” with all the prisoners. This was stated, in particular, during interrogation by Georg von Bassewitz-Behr, the last head of the SS and police in Hamburg. But then the British should have stopped this atrocity, and not committed it “for the Nazis”.

Part of the explanation can be found in the testimony of Vasily Salomatkin: he reported that by the time the German garrison of Lubeck capitulated, the ships were 6 km from the city of Neustadt. At that moment, the British demanded that the ships' crews surrender.

"The SS command of the ships rejected the capitulation. Then the English air force took off in large numbers and began bombing the ships we were on," explained Salomatkin.

But in any case, the question arises: why did the British sink ships on which the vast majority were not SS men, but concentration camp prisoners? Why were the unfortunates shot from boats?

The most logical version seems to be that in the chaos and haste during the capture of Lubeck, the Air Force and Navy, as well as some part of the ground force, were “forgotten to convey” intelligence and Red Cross information. And the haste, confusion and fuss were caused by purely political reasons and a phobia called “the Russians are coming!”

The agreements between Joseph Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, reached in Yalta, implied, among other things, the division of Germany into occupation zones. But the Allies, until the last moment, tried to draw the borders of their zones and the Soviet one in their own way, fearing our attack on the West.

At meetings with the member of the House of Commons, future Prime Minister Anthony Eden, regarding the creation of these zones, Churchill emphasized that “our arrival in Lübeck before our Russian friends from Stettin (arrive) will save us from many disputes later.”

The Western Allies emphasized the urgent need to reach Lübeck before Soviet soldiers could occupy Denmark (especially since our troops actually landed on the Danish island of Bornholm on May 9). The primary need to reach the Baltic coast and stop a hypothetical Soviet advance to the West led to panic in the top leadership of England. And this panic was transmitted "through the chain of command," right up to General Roberts.

Then the case began to be hushed up - the British military command's report from 1946 did not make any strict conclusions. The investigation was conducted in a hurry, without involving the testimony of surviving prisoners.

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#1  The Japanese moved American POWs out of the Philippines late in the war. Our navy sank one such ship. Tragedies of war.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/12/2025 15:13 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
'Direct Talks': Vladimir Putin Gave the West a Lesson in Political Judo
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Gevorg Mirzayan

[REGNUM] On the night of May 10-11, literally a few hours after the three-day ceasefire expired, Vladimir Putin made a new statement.

He proposed that the Kyiv regime hold talks on ending hostilities in Istanbul on May 15.

"Despite everything, we propose that the Kiev authorities resume the negotiations that they interrupted at the end of 2022, resume direct negotiations. Moreover, I emphasize, without any preconditions. We propose to begin without delay next Thursday, May 15, in Istanbul, where they were held earlier, and where they were interrupted," the Russian leader said.

According to him, Moscow is set on serious negotiations with Ukraine. "Their purpose is to eliminate the root causes of the conflict, to establish a long-term, lasting peace for the historical perspective. We do not rule out that during these negotiations it will be possible to agree on some new truces, a new ceasefire," the president added.

For the West, this proposal came as a surprise – and an extremely unpleasant surprise. Over the past few days, the Kiev regime and European leaders have been promoting their idea of ​​introducing a 30-day ceasefire. They demanded that Moscow agree to it (and thereby, they say, prove that Russia is striving for peace), but at the same time they made no secret of their intention to continue supplying the Kiev regime with weapons even during the ceasefire.

And at the same time, perhaps, they would have tried, under the cover of a ceasefire, to deploy NATO troops on Ukrainian, or even on Russian territory occupied by the Kyiv regime, under one sauce or another.

"Putin's initiative is, of course, a reaction to the ultimatum that Europe and Ukraine had put forward to Russia the day before. Accepting it was absolutely unacceptable for Russia, but simply rejecting it would have been unprofitable," Dmitry Suslov, deputy director of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, explains to Regnum.

Therefore, as the expert believes, it was important for Moscow not just to refuse, but to offer something of its own. And this “own” was precisely the idea of ​​direct negotiations. “We are offered a ceasefire on Monday, May 12, and we are offering to begin direct negotiations on Thursday,” Suslov explains.

Putin's response contained four key points, which constituted the essence of the message. They concerned the format, topic, place and conditions of the negotiations.

Thus, the Russian president proposes direct negotiations. That is, one-on-one, without the participation of third parties. In this way, he does not allow the European Union, dreaming of sitting down at the table of Russian-Ukrainian and Russian-American negotiations, to sabotage the negotiation process from within.

It does not allow a situation to be created where several players will gather at the table against one Russia, who will morally and materially support each other.

Direct talks do not mean high-level talks. Several months ago, Vladimir Putin made it clear that if Zelensky wanted to talk, the Russian president would appoint someone to discuss with him.

Simply because Zelensky is not the legitimate president of Ukraine - or even a person worthy of hosting a summit at the highest level.

The topic for the talks was also well chosen. Putin has effectively hijacked the agenda - instead of a truce, which the West insisted on, he proposes to talk about peace right away. Long-term, serious, ending the bloodshed once and for all.

"There are military actions going on now, a war, and we are proposing to resume negotiations that were not interrupted by us. What's wrong with that?" Putin asks rhetorically.

And overseas journalists actually supported the Russian president here: the headlines of almost all American publications sounded like “Putin proposed direct Russian-Ukrainian negotiations.”

The venue for the negotiations, Istanbul, was not chosen by chance either. And it is not a matter of special relations with Erdogan, but of continuity. “We are not starting negotiations from scratch, but renewing them on the basis of the Istanbul agreements. Naturally, taking into account the new realities,” explains Dmitry Suslov.

In essence, despite all their minuses, the basis of the Istanbul agreements was still advantageous for Russia. There, the Kiev regime agreed to both demilitarization and neutral status. It is much more reasonable to resume negotiations from this basis, making adjustments for the situation "on the ground," rather than to form a new one.

And finally, the fourth aspect of Putin's proposal was the rejection of any preconditions. This does not weaken the Russian position in any way: Moscow, in general, has never put forward preconditions for the beginning of dialogue - except perhaps demanding that Kyiv lift the self-imposed ban on negotiations imposed by Zelensky himself.

At the same time, the Kiev regime has put forward and continues to put forward this condition, in particular, now Russia is required to first agree to a ceasefire. And now, against the backdrop of Putin's proposal to simply sit down and talk, Zelensky with his demand looks extremely weak.

Yes, in theory Vladimir Putin could have avoided this political judo. He could have given the order to use the same Oreshnik immediately after saying that the Kiev regime was not fulfilling the terms of the ceasefires (energy, Easter, May 9).

However, the Russian leader acted differently. "Putin is not going to tighten the methods of conducting the SVO primarily in order not to antagonize Trump. It is advantageous for us to maintain constructive interaction with the American president and not allow the consolidation of Europe with the United States," says Dmitry Suslov.

And his proposal for negotiations, already actively supported by Trump, will introduce an additional split into transatlantic relations. And therefore, it will become a serious support and acceleration for the victorious completion of the SVO. And regardless of how this completion is achieved - at the negotiating table or on the battlefield.

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Europe
VDH - Germany Is On The Brink Of National Suicide
[ZERO] The designation sent shockwaves through the political landscape.

AfD immediately challenged it in court, prompting the agency to suspend enforcement while litigation proceeds.

But the damage, Hanson said, has already been done.

This move, he argued, wasn’t about public safety—it was about political control.

"Recently, the German government announced that it is going to label or maybe relabel the Alternative for Deutschland," Hanson explained.

"The conservative party that has an antithetical agenda both to the German government of both liberal and conservative factions, but also to the EU in general."

He said the classification ensures AfD will remain on the outside of political power, regardless of how many people support them.

"It will cement this aura that no government under their parliamentary democracy system will ask them to join to form a majority government," Hanson said.

"So the process of ostracism and demonization of this party continues."

And for what? The real issue, he said, is that AfD simply offers a different vision.

"The party is advocating an alternative for the way that Germany is going."
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#1  German tourists violently attack Israelis in Budapest shouting 'Heil Hitler'
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 05/12/2025 8:22 Comments || Top||

#2  German tourists violently attack Israelis in Budapest

Tourists feeling free to do abroad what they only wished to at home, or just continuing their habitual domestic practices? It’s hard to find “visibly identifiable Jews” (those with long beards and kippas) back home in Germany, where they look like everyone else.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/12/2025 19:44 Comments || Top||


How are the remains of fallen soldiers searched for? A conversation with the head of the search unit, Tālis Ešmits
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Viktors Demidovs
(Latvian Radio correspondent)

[LSM] Interview with Tālis Ešmits, head of the soldier search unit "Legend"
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This week marks 80 years since the end of World War II in Europe. Although a long time has passed, the ashes of soldiers from that time can still be found in the territory of Latvia. The discovered bones of Latvia's defenders are reburied in cemeteries, but the bones of Nazi German and Red Army soldiers that are found are stored in a so-called bone depot.

According to an interstate agreement, the bones of people who fought on the Nazi side are registered and described by specialists from Germany, where the ashes are also transported.

Read more about the topic in a conversation with Tālis Ešmits, head of the fallen soldiers search unit "Leģenda".

Viktor Demidov: In November, you spoke about the activities of the so-called black archaeologists. In the South Kurzeme region, foreigners had excavated and looted the burial grounds of World War II soldiers. Your unit managed to find out the names of three specific people, who were allegedly from the Netherlands. At that time, you discovered many pieces of ash in a large pit, which for an unknown reason had been dragged more than five kilometers from the original location and hidden on someone else's property. How did this story end? Have the alleged violators been caught?

Tālis Ešmits: No, it has been refused to propose any actions, because in essence it was not a grave originally. Well, there is some international legislation that says that the place where a soldier died is his grave. But it is a convention document that is not currently reflected in the legislation of the Republic of Latvia. Lawyers have worked on it. This issue has been refused.

As a result, these soldiers will be buried in the cemetery. Basically, as I understood it, the damage is that he has already been eliminated, as a result of which everything will be sorted out, and that if such people ever come, we will pay attention to it and continue to monitor this activity. That was the police response.

How many illegal archaeologists are there in Latvia who excavate soldiers' graves? Is the problem still relevant?

She will always be relevant. Not only in Latvia. But we need to look at this problem from another angle – what is the countermeasure to this problem. But this again happens in two directions. This is the legislative base, how it is punished, and the other, one could say, is public education or explanatory work, which is also not unimportant.

In the Republic of Latvia, with some special cases, such as this case in the Netherlands, [it is noticeable] that this situation is still moving for the better for us. People are becoming more educated. People – not only those who are engaged in such activities, but also those who own the land, who see what someone is doing. We don't have a place in Latvia where we don't see something. We always see everything, believe me.

In this case, when there was this situation in the Netherlands, we went around in a circle, and [the residents] saw where, what they were doing, and therefore we can take them to the exact place where it happened, and go to the exact person who saw them and who specifically took [and recorded] what it was like.

It has been 80 years since the fall of Nazism, many places in Latvia have been examined, and the remains of soldiers have been found, but your association continues its work. How do you select the places where you will search for ashes? Are there any places that have not yet been studied?

The first direction, which is the most urgent, is that you suddenly find, when you dig a ditch, build a road, even here in Riga, the Brasa Bridge, when [the remains of soldiers] are there and some decision needs to be made, then you have to go there and do it.

Then the other direction is requests from relatives. The last one we had was on May 3, 2025. There was Kurt Egler, a German lieutenant who was in World War II, who died in 1944 on the Gulbene side. [His] relatives have done something. Then information comes with a red cross in the middle that he is somewhere here. You look at a modern map – 20 hectares of green land. It is clear – a field. A big, big field there.

And he is buried there alone.

Alone. It's easier to find a needle in a haystack if you know it's there - burn the haystack and you'll have it there. But here you can do whatever you want.

We drive there, we go there, then you exclude everything that doesn't need to be excluded. You realize that in the middle she's not there. You have to look somewhere on the edges.

Then you turn on the experience, the feeling, go to nirvana and then you start thinking the way they thought, and [you] think that there is a cave somewhere. But it can be completely wrong, it is 100 percent wrong, but you accept what you want as existing. Take it and hope for a miracle.

But sometimes you know it's there, and then you can't find it. There are things here, even in Pieriga, Kekava, probably Katlakalna. We've been searching there regularly every year since 2012. There's already a kilogram of all kinds of papers, and you can't find anything there, and that's it. Everything is built up there, everything is different. You find it last year. Then you have to calculate how many years [have passed] from 2012 to that [year]. There are 40 soldiers there in two rows, including Latvian legionnaires. These are requests from relatives.

Is there a map like what you're looking for?

Yes, there are archives, there are various materials, stories. It is a legion where Latvians have been, but have not been found. Then there are Red Army soldiers. Our guys check the previous burial sites, supposedly during the war. Go and look. It is as if they must have been reburied in the graves. Then they go, perform exhumations, rebury in those graves, in which place the names of those Latvian soldiers are inscribed. That is also another direction in which we are working.

Those are the three bases in which we find them. There are also those accidental ones, when, let's say, you come for information that you have to do this and that, then at the same time you, taking a metal detector or listening to the story of the neighbor's house, go to the neighbor's house and still find these soldiers. It's such a coincidence. That's at the very end - the fourth option that I could name.

What happens to found foreign soldiers?

First of all, these are international conventions, but a convention is quite broad: let's sit down, let's consult, let's do it. That's the level of a convention.

Then, based on these levels, we arrive at local legislative acts, which may not be precisely defined for us in Latvia.

After these acts, we come to interstate agreements, which are again a priority. There are these interstate agreements between Germany and between Russia and Latvia. These agreements are still working – both one and the other – and are in force.

[Regarding] the Red Army soldiers who are found, according to the agreement, they are, as they say here, the responsibility of the Russian side. Because Russia has taken responsibility, and she is acting in accordance with this agreement. At the moment, the agreement regarding the remains of soldiers works quite like this - on a case-by-case basis. There have been periods when he worked very well, and there have been periods when he worked very hard. At the moment, he is practically not working at all.

Russian specialists are not coming to Latvia?

No, Russian specialists will never go to Latvia.

So what are you doing? Sending to Russia?

No, we don't send them to Russia. We do everything ourselves. Period. Because it's not necessary on their side. Why? Because there are no medical records of the same level created before the war as there were on the German side.

Burials were not carried out in the primitive manner that the German side did during the war.

The Red Army burial system is a mass grave – a mass grave, as we know it. Yes, there are modern technologies – DNA analyses. We can do them, but how much, I’m sorry, it will cost millions. If someone can afford it, please, because here we cannot guarantee that these remains are not mixed up.

There is a situation with four Red Army soldiers, and they have been requested to be transferred to their homes, to family graves. At the very beginning of the war, the Latvian side agreed and gave permission for the transfer of the remains of these soldiers to the Russian Federation, for burial in family graves. The Russian side disappeared.

Now, as I understand it, the affiliates have all come together in one group, and these are the guys who are dealing with exactly this, they said that we told them: "Write to your president to do something!"

Vladimir Putin?

"Yes, he says, well, then write to your president. We've already written to everyone. You've also [written] to everyone." Their relatives were more involved in that. So what about us?

But until Russia takes this step, you're just burying the ashes, right?

No.

So they're stored in boxes somewhere?

Yes, yes, the bone depot. They're waiting there.

And how many are there – hundreds or thousands?

There are about a thousand now. More. Two thousand.

So much.

That's normal. We have a history of war like that.

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#1 
Sometimes Governments don't want to find the missing for various political reasons (elections).

Eg. A US Special Ops Team was formed and trained in the early 1980's to rescue a collection of known US POW's still being held captive in LAOS.

The Mission was canceled.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/12/2025 18:09 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
America is Under Siege – 233 Federal Cases Against Trump
[USAWatchdog] Renowned attorney Larry Klayman predicted on USAWatchdog.com that there would be full-blown, legal civil war happening in the court system. He also predicted that violence from the "rabid left" would not only increase but explode. Klayman, founder of Judicial Watch and now Freedom Watch USA, says there are now more than 233 federal court cases trying to stop or delay President Trump and his Administration. Klayman is here to update us on what is going on with the struggle America is having with the Deep State trying desperately to hold on to power. Let’s start with Joe Biden’s appearance last week on ABC’s "The View," where he looked confused and incompetent. Can all of Biden’s last-minute pardons of criminals and J6 members who destroyed evidence be enforced or are they null and void as President Trump has declared? Klayman says, "They are null and void and so is every other thing that was allegedly signed by him (Biden). He couldn’t even remember what he signed. . . . This is more than a scandal. It’s the worst scandal ever. Let me tell you something, Biden has not been abused as an elderly person. He abused the American people, and it’s much more than abuse. Biden committed treason."

What about suspending "habeas corpus" as President Trump is thinking about doing to more quickly deport millions of illegal aliens? Klayman says, "He can do that in dire times, times of war. We are, in effect, in a war. We had drug traffickers, human traffickers, sex traffickers and terrorists running across our border in mass, over 10 million in the Biden Administration alone and many before that. So, yes, it’s a war-time situation, and he (President Trump) can suspend it. . . .Just get them the heck out of here. They are here illegally. They have no right to be here. The President should just ignore these edicts by these San Francisco judges and other judges . . . and do what he needs to do, and they can’t do anything. You know the judiciary has no ability to enforce any ruling. It’s only the Executive Branch, President Trump’s branch that he sit’s over, can enforce the rule of law. This President has been sued thus far . . . in places like San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, Seattle, Portland and other places where they know they are going to get a Leftist judge. Federal judges are supposed to be assigned randomly. It’s like Wheel of Fortune, but that really does not happen. . . . They actually steer these cases. . . . We need to prosecute these judges and set up the Department of Judicial and Legal Accountability and work with President Trump. I hope he will appoint me to head that with others that will come on board because we need some strong leadership right now because he’s sinking. He (Trump) has been enjoined 70% to 80% of the time in every Executive Order that he has issued. This last one said Trump has no control over his departments anymore. There was a temporary restraining order that says you can’t cut workforce; you can’t do anything."

Why all the attacks on President Trump? Klayman says, "They are attacking him because they hate him. . . . they are attacking him, and it’s all orchestrated. Washington is one giant, excuse the French, circle jerk. It’s a club."
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/12/2025 05:04 || Comments || Link || [95 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "They are attacking him because they hate him. . . . they are attacking him, and it’s all orchestrated. Washington is one giant, excuse the French, circle jerk. It’s a club."

He's not one of them and he threatens the (not so shadow) Deep State government.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/12/2025 5:11 Comments || Top||

#2  And you thought it was a republic? LOL
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/12/2025 15:14 Comments || Top||



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