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๐Ÿšจ ๐„๐’๐๐'๐’ ๐‰๐ž๐Ÿ๐Ÿ ๐๐š๐ฌ๐ฌ๐š๐ง ๐ข๐ง๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐จ๐ง ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐จ๐๐œ๐š๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐š๐ฅ๐ค ๐š๐›๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐ก ๐‚๐š๐ซ๐จ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐š'๐ฌ ๐›๐ข๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐›๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐Œ๐‹๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐‘๐š๐ฅ๐ž๐ข๐ ๐ก With MLB set to expand to two more cities, Jeff Passan, ESPN's senior MLB insider, listed Raleigh as one of six serious candidates to land one of those franchises....

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Want to be a part of putting #RaleighOnDeck? ๐™…๐™Š๐™„๐™‰ ๐™๐™ƒ๐™€ ๐™ˆ๐™Š๐™‘๐™€๐™ˆ๐™€๐™‰๐™ ๐Ÿ‘‡ ๐Ÿ”—

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@JeffPassan If this happens, my suggestion is for Dundon to buy the rights to and resurrect the Carolina Mudcats as the MLB team. The color scheme matches the Hurricanes and NCST athletics, it's perfect.

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@JeffPassan Way to go, Lou! What will it take? Getting more people like @JeffPassan to share the truth about Raleigh and overcome lazy, outdated narratives. #RaleighOnDeck #MLB2NC

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@JeffPassan

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Full Interview:

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@JeffPassan But why does the graphic have Charlotte on the map not Raleigh ๐Ÿค”

MLB2NC ็š„ๅคดๅƒ
MLB2NC3 ๅคฉๅ‰

@JeffPassan Because everyone makes mistakes.

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@JeffPassan Incredible work representing Raleigh and NC.

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@JeffPassan This has been so THRILLING to watch play out man. My fingers are crossed as tightly as they possibly can be. Thank you so much for your time & support @JeffPassan ! ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿฟ #MLB2NC

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@JeffPassan My god what a case he laid out. Wish I had a billion to throw in

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@JeffPassan go get em Lou

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Business Savant3 ๅคฉๅ‰

@JeffPassan Great segment

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@JeffPassan Great job!!๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

Joseph Rodriguez ็š„ๅคดๅƒ
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@JeffPassan ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿ™Œ

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@JeffPassan Raleigh will have a disgusting attendance by year 2-3 and will relocate to Charlotte. So stupid.

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@JeffPassan ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

Bleached Aho ็š„ๅคดๅƒ
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@JeffPassan Great stuff! ๐Ÿ‘ ๐Ÿ‘ ๐Ÿ‘

Bill Board ็š„ๅคดๅƒ
Bill Board3 ๅคฉๅ‰

@JeffPassan Good job!

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J Eugenius3 ๅคฉๅ‰

@JeffPassan Great job

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@JeffPassan Excellent

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@JeffPassan Tom Dundon's involvement isn't the flex you think it is.

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"๐‘๐š๐ฅ๐ž๐ข๐ ๐ก ๐ก๐š๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐š๐œ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐๐š๐ฌ๐ก๐ฏ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ž ๐๐จ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ." Triangle Business Journal is reporting what everyone here in North Carolina and the rest of the baseball world is starting to realize... Nashville may not be the 'front-runner' for MLB expansion in the East after all. And that's not just opinion anymore... - ๐“๐ก๐ž๐ฒ'๐ฏ๐ž ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ž๐ $๐Ÿ.๐Ÿ๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐›๐ฅ๐ข๐œ ๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ฌ to building a brand new NFL stadium for the Tennessee Titans. A stadium which will likely not have hosted a single game by the time MLB Expansion kicks off. - ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐ฅ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ž๐ซ๐ž ๐ญ๐š๐ซ๐ ๐ž๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐š ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐›๐จ๐š๐ซ๐. Nashville just approved the East Bend redevelopment rezoning, which prohibits stadium or arena use on the property. - In an interview on WKRN radio in Nashville, Mayor Freddie O'Connell said in response to landing an MLB expansion team, "๐–๐ž ๐๐จ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐š๐ง ๐Œ๐‹๐ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ, ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฐ๐ž ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐›๐ฅ๐ข๐œ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ง๐š๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐จ๐ง๐ž." - ๐๐จ ๐จ๐ฐ๐ง๐ž๐ซ ๐ก๐š๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ž๐ ๐ฎ๐ฉ, and they've publicly stated they are hoping MLB provides them with one. So if Nashville is not the front-runner, then who is? ๐ˆ๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฐ๐ซ๐š๐ฉ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ก๐ž๐š๐ ๐š๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ง๐จ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐‘๐š๐ฅ๐ž๐ข๐ ๐ก ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ง๐ญ ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ง๐ง๐ž๐ซ for East Coast MLB expansion. And here's why ๐Ÿ‘‡ ๐–๐ž ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐ข๐ญ ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ. - A billionaire owner who just won a Stanley Cup in our market + another with pro sports ownership experience that has publicly stated interest - Multiple land options (w/ districts) ready to go - Bipartisan support in the government which has put forth the initial framework for a stadium funding plan ๐๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ฌ, ๐ฐ๐ž ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐ž๐ซ ๐ฆ๐š๐ซ๐ค๐ž๐ญ... - 5M MORE people in our state (largest in the US without MLB) - 1.2M MORE people within 60 miles of our city center - #22 media market in the country; they are #27 - 3 Top-50 media markets in our state; they have 1 It's only a matter of time before people start digging and begin to realize that the past 8 years haven't just been a fun social media campaign... It's been a strategic, non-stop statewide collaboration to bring every single piece of the puzzle together, at the right time, to make it nearly impossible for MLB to say no to expansion in North Carolina. Great reporting from Dane Huffman and the tbj, and we're pretty sure in the coming months you'll hear a WHOLE lot more of the same from outlets all over the country. #RaleighOnDeck #MLB2NC

MLB2NC

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๐“๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐›๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐š๐ง๐ญ ๐ข๐ง๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ก๐ž๐š๐ซ ๐ญ๐จ๐๐š๐ฒ, ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ž๐ž๐ค, ๐จ๐ซ ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ž๐ฅ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง. โ€œWe know from all of those extraordinary classic writers that totalitarian systems all over the world and throughout history have always begun with the censorship of speech. That is the first step down the slippery slope to totalitarianism. There is no time that we look back in history and that the people who were censoring speech were the good guys. Theyโ€™re always the bad guys.โ€ โ€œIf you donโ€™t understand that misinformation and disinformation is protected by the first amendment, then you are disqualified from being president of the United States.โ€ โ€œA government that has the power to censor its critics has a license for every atrocity.โ€ โ€œAs soon as they realized that they could get away with censoring speech, they went after all our other rights. They went after freedom of worshipโ€ฆ They went after freedom of assemblyโ€ฆ They shut down property rightsโ€ฆ They shut down jury trialsโ€ฆ They took away the 4th amendment guarantee against illegal searches and seizuresโ€ฆ We saw the entire bill of rights dismantled with one exception, the second amendment. Thatโ€™s probably because it was the second amendment.โ€ โ€œThose rights were won for us by a generation of Americans in 1776โ€ฆand in one year our government took them all away from us. ๐ˆ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐ญ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ž ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ซ๐ž๐ž ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ž ๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฆ๐ž๐ฆ๐›๐ž๐ซ. -One is that when a government takes a power from us, a right from us, it will never voluntarily relinquish it. -Number two, any power the government takes from us it will ultimately abuse to the maximum extent possible. -Number three, nobody ever complied their way out of totalitarianism.โ€ โ€œ๐–๐ž ๐ง๐ž๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ž๐š๐œ๐ก ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐œ๐ก๐ข๐ฅ๐๐ซ๐ž๐ง ๐ญ๐จ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ, ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ, ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ, ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ก๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐ž๐ž๐ณ๐ž๐ฌ ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ - ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ง ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฆ ๐จ๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ข๐œ๐ž.โ€

Anna Matson

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US-ISRAEL WAR ON IRAN: The UAEโ€™s๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ช โ€˜years of planning for such a scenarioโ€™ prepared it for this crisis โ€˜The UAEโ€™s air defence system is not only THAAD, itโ€™s a combination of a number of air defence systems, including one that is built here in the UAE. We have recently heard the White House spokesperson specifically say that the attack that has happened on the US Consulate was defended with missiles produced here in the UAE. So that is something that has been in the making for years, and it just happened to happen that we used them today. We hoped that we would never do that. What got me surprised, really, is how nonchalant it feels here. All of these attacks, the number of missiles and drones that have been targeted at the UAE, that is actually more than all of the missiles that went to all of the other countries Iran has targeted. Yet we can drive outside, we go to the mall, we go to restaurants, we go to the mosque for prayer. We need to credit the first responders, the way they have been conducting themselves. Fires have been extinguished at a very high speed. Peopleโ€™s lives are being facilitated and eased up. Tourists whoโ€™ve been stranded here in Dubai have got their bill for their hotel extensions picked up by the UAE government, and those corridors are now being opened slowly to allow those stranded to go back home. Itโ€™s an amazement of how work of years and years of planning has now come out useful whenever it was needed.โ€™ -Mohammed Baharoon, Director General of the Dubai Public Policy Research Center joins us on Mondayโ€™s Going Underground to discuss the UAEโ€™s navigation of the regional crisis Donโ€™t miss it, follow us on X to watch the full interview on Monday, or follow our Rumble ๐Ÿดโ€โ˜ ๏ธ channel, link below in the replies๐Ÿ‘‡

Going Underground

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Josep Borrell accuses Israel of the largest ethnic cleansing operation since WWII for it's actions against the Palestinians "We all know what happens there and we all hear statements from Netanyahu's ministers that are clear statements of genocidal intent" "Rarely have I heard a responsible state official express so openly a plan that meets the legal definition of genocide" "You can die by being shot in the back of the head, you can die in a gas chamber, you can also die of starvation" "And in any case, it is about the will to exterminate a people" "We are facing the biggest operation of ethnic cleansing since the end of the Second World War" "To create a splendid holiday resort once the million tons of rubble have been removed from Gaza and the Palestinians have left or have died" "One horror does not justify another horror" "I have said it many times. The horror of ever does not justify the horror of Israel's response" "Europe has the capacity and the means to not only protest, but to influence behaviour, and it does not do so" "We supply half of the bombs that fall on Gaza" "And if we really believe that there are too many dead, the natural response would be to supply fewer weapons and to use the Lever of the Association Agreement to demand that international humanitarian law be respected and not just lament that it is not being done" "We all condemned this terrorist attack by Hamas and proclaimed Israel's right to defend itself" "But the right to defence, like all rights, has its limits" "It has the limits of international law and international humanitarian law" "And in its response, Israel has violated all these rules, systematically using the starvation of the civilian population as a weapon of war and by bombing more than 50,000 dead among the population of Gaza, among them mostly women and children" "An explosive power equivalent to three times the Hiroshima bomb has been dropped on Gaza" "And for months nothing has been entering Gaza" "Nothing" "No water, no food, no electricity, no fuel, no medical services" - "And the shocks we suffer have two names" "Their names are Putin and Trump" "Two characters who, each in their own way, represent the old imperialism of the 19th century, which we know well because we have been its protagonists" "As I said before, one is much more intelligent, cunning and crafty than the other, although the other does not know it" "And that has consequences for everyone" - "What is peace?" "First and foremost, it is the peaceful coexistence between different people the coexistence between humans who for a moment think that it is better to cooperate than to fight" "And that, for example, today in the Middle East, means the ability of Palestinians and Israelis to live each in dignity and freedom, each with their own state" "Peace is the ability to face together global challenges" - "Today, on the contrary, war has returned to our borders and Trump is back in the White House" "Our time is no longer defined by peace, democracy, open trade and liberalism but by conflict, populism, protectionism and war" - "And today, for Europeans, the big issue is no longer the war between us" "And we do not sufficiently appreciate this extraordinary result" "Against our background, to have achieved 70 or 80 years of peace was an historic result which alone would justify the European Union" "The European Union has been a peace project and must remain so" "And even if we now talk a lot about rearmament, must remain a peace project conceived not for the relationship between us, but for the relationship with the rest of the world" - "Europe is the place in the world where humanity has built the best combination of political freedom, economic prosperity and social cohesion" "And today more than ever we can say that Europe is the land of the free" "When in the US people start to be afraid to speak out, Europe is more than ever the land of the free" - "It is the land of relative economic prosperity, but greater than elsewhere, which is accompanied by an effort of social cohesion so that no one is left to their own devices, so that the health of your neighbour is also a problem for you" "But not a theoretical problem, but a problem that is solved with fiscal transfers that make things that are not provided by the market, but that are human rights" "But rights are not free" "Rights are paid for, and they are paid for with taxes, paid for with collective effort" "This is what characterises Europe" "We pay more taxes than in other parts of the world" "This is the price of cohesion" "Cohesion is the price of security, and security is the way to guarantee freedom"

Farrukh

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Francesca Albanese on Fire: A Lesson to Canada ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ on International Law and Palestinian ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ Rights "The priority is to stop the genocide. If the government here, the parliamentarians here want to call it a 'Ceasefire,' call it the way they want, but this is the priority. The rest is secondary. Which doesn't mean that the recognition of the State of Palestine is not important. My question is, if this country has entertained discussions on the two-state solution, how come it does not recognize the state of Palestine yet? What is there to be debated? The recognition of Palestine ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ shouldn't take time; it should be automatic and be an act of coherence. Otherwise, if you don't recognize it, it means that you shouldn't be talking about it at all. Why are you even a voice in the debate? It's about coherence. I know what I'm saying is blunt, but we need to be blunt because the impunity that has been granted to Israel for decades has led to this, which is a disaster both for the Palestinians and the Israelis. Again, diplomatic talks have been turned into a place to justify the unimaginable, the illegal... Is Canada spending any of its political capital to make sure that the genocide ends as soon as possible, the ceasefire, whatever, but then there is already a deadline set for the end of occupation? The ICJ has passed an advisory opinion which declares the occupation unlawful and to be dismantled unconditionally and totally as rapidly as possible, and that 'as rapid as possible' has been defined by the General Assembly; it must happen by September next year. What is Canada doing to ensure that the Occupation is dismantled? And then, more than these, there is Apartheid. I know that in this country, you feel uncomfortable with the word 'Apartheid,' but you have to tell me why? Because I, together with Israeli human rights organizations, Palestinian human rights organizations, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Harvard University, and thousands of Israelis, talking about Apartheid, give you the evidence of it, and here, like in other parts of North America, I hear, 'Hmm... we cannot say that word.' It's your problem... International law is so clear that it doesn't allow you to find excuses. So, however, end the genocide, end the Occupation, end the Apartheid; this is what it means to apply international law and help build peace for Palestinians, Israelis, and anyone who calls that land home." โ€” Francesca Albanese at a Press Conference in Canada. Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

The Compass Report ๐Ÿงญ

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Chamath and Larry Summers Debate the Market Reaction to Trump's Tariffs Lawrence H. Summers: "If this is such a terrific thing, why do markets think it's so terrible for the American economy?" "Maybe the market's just completely wrong ... but the job of markets is to look forward." "It's to look passed the immediate." "It's to see what the long run consequences are going to be." "And markets are making a pretty devastatingly negative judgment on this step." Chamath Palihapitiya: " Larry, that's not true." " So let's just establish a couple facts about 'the markets.'" "Number one, there are two markets and they behave totally differently, and sometimes inversely to each other." "There's the stock market and there's the bond market." 1) Stocks: mean reversion "With respect to the stock market, what they are debating, and you're right Larry, is what is the effective long-term rate of return a dollar needs to generate in order to pay me back that dollar?" "That is what the fundamental stock market does." "And what we've seen for many years with trade imbalances, trade deficits, and close-to-zero interest rates, of which more of that happened under Democrats than Republicans, we have allowed the stock market to inflate past historical averages." " What we've actually seen happen in the last week is what most people would call mean reversion." "The stock market is still way above where it was last year, two years ago, three years ago." "What has happened is that the forward multiples have compressed. So that's number one. That's a fact." 2) Bonds: it's possible a major trade blew up "And then with respect to bonds, what we are seeing now is there are two very complicated issues." "In the last two days, we saw one part of the bond market totally get out of whack." "And what we know is that the yields changed materially in a very acute way, which is atypical of how the bond market typically digests a philosophical change in approach to policy." " What we heard in the last 24 hours is a lot of this move may have been attributed to an enormous levered bet on US treasuries by a Japanese hedge fund." " It will take three, and four, and five, and six weeks for us to really know." 3) Private credit: something to watch closely " Separately, what we do know, though, where the structural complexity of the market โ€” and this is where, Larry, I agree with you โ€” is acute and important to observe is in the credit markets for private companies." "And that is where you have to pay a lot of attention."

The All-In Podcast

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Ambassador Chas Freeman: Israel Is Worse Than Nazis Itโ€™s very clear what Israel wants. Itโ€™s made no secret that it wants to depopulate Gaza by whatever means it can, by starving people into leaving, expelling them, or killing them all. And thereโ€™s no question that it meets the definition of genocide. They have the intent to destroy an entire people. They have the ability and they are, in fact, carrying out an operation intended to do so. I think itโ€™s also quite clear why Hamas did what it did. This was in the nature of a jailbreak from the worldโ€™s largest concentration camp. And having been treated like animals they behaved like animals. What they did was horrifying, it was inexcusable, but it was understandable. The Israeli reaction has been vastly disproportionate and that is Israelโ€™s custom. It tries to react disproportionately in order to intimidate and deter anyone from attacking it. That is not new but what is new are the genocidal statements and proposed emptying of Gaza. 60% of the buildings in Northern Gaza have been destroyed and we know that over 12,000 Palestinians have been murdered by one means or another. Israel has destroyed most of the hospitals in Gaza. It now seems to be working on the schools. So it is totally ruthless and the whole thing is particularly macabre because it is such a vivid reminder of the Warsaw Ghetto, a very parallel situation in which driven beyond any ability to tolerate what was being done to them, the Jewish inhabitants of the Warsaw Ghetto rose against Nazi Germany and the Nazis exterminated them all and leveled the ghetto. One would think that the survivors of that Holocaust and the larger Holocaust in Europe would not wish to repeat a holocaust against another people but evidently, that is expecting too much of human nature. It now appears that much of the killing at the music festival was actually done by Israeli forces who fired indiscriminately at both the Hamas warriors and the milling crowds at the festival. Similarly, some of the major damage in the kibbutzim and the murders of the settlers there were done not by Hamas but by Israeli forces firing tank bullets into houses and hellfire missiles into cars and so forth. So this was a dreadful beginning to what has turned out to be an absolutely nauseating months and a half of slaughter, not finished. The United States has the ability to stop this by halting armed supplies to Israel but does not do that, opposes a ceasefire in support of Mr. Netanyahuโ€™s revenge against the Palestinians, and Mr. Netanyahu, I would remind you, is on record many years ago as expressing hope for a war in which Israel could expel all the Arabs in its midst and seems to be taking advantage of this to do that hoping, I suppose, that his reputation which has been greatly damaged by charges of corruption and by his suspension of judicial independence in Israel, can somehow be redeemed by this act of revenge. Where we are is a very bad place. What Israel is reporting is extraordinarily crude propaganda, some of it obviously, utterly false, and theyโ€™ve been caught. Even some of the mainstream media are beginning to report that the Israeli Defense Forces are lying about a huge number of things. Younger people, generally in the West, certainly in my own country the United States, are far more inclined to be sympathetic to the Palestinians than they ever were before. Itโ€™s not that they dislike Israelis but now confronted with with graphic images of horror, the murder of 12,000 [Palestinians], theyโ€™re not dispassionate. Not only are they demonstrating in all of the worldโ€™s capitals for a ceasefire which their governments declined to support for the most part, but social media is now overwhelmingly pro-Palestinian as opposed to pro-Israeli. But I think the Palestinians, generally, have been motivated to remind the world that they exist. That their problems canโ€™t be set aside. The Israeli government, with the connivance of the Biden Administration, and before that the Trump Administration, was making an effort to set the Palestinian issue aside in order to produce Arab-Israeli normalization. And the Palestinians set out with this raid into Israel to demonstrate that that is impossible, that the only way that you can have peace in Palestine is with a two-state solution. And oddly enough, although Hamas, of course, started as a movement funded in part by the Israelis โ€” Mr. Netanyahu has openly admitted that he corroborated with Qatar to fund Hamas in Gaza in order to divide the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza โ€” I think Hamas seized the moment to provoke Israel into doing exactly what Israel has predictively done in order to make it clear to the world that you have to have a two-state solution which had become a talking point. There was no reality to it at all. There had been no peace process for twenty-some years. Now there must be. People have recognized that the one-state solution โ€” which many favored, meaning a purely democratic one-man-one-vote arrangement in Palestine in which inevitably the Jewish population given its higher level of culture, civilization, and finance, would have called most of the shots โ€” is off the table. After all the hatred that has been demonstrated on both sides, coexistence in one state is obviously impossible in Palestine. Two states, however, would give the Palestinians a stake in peace. They have no stake in peace at the moment. Theyโ€™re like a rabbit being swallowed by some kind of boa constrictor. As time goes on they go farther and farther down the throat of the snake and theyโ€™re crying out, and they were doing so at a pitch that, apparently, no one internationally could hear. And now their cause has been dramatized. We canโ€™t have a resolution of what is going on now that takes the form of another expulsion of Palestinians, more tolerance of massacres, the condoning of genocide... and I think those in the West, including President Biden, who has been prepared to give Israel a pass on these issues, are beginning to pay heavily in terms of their political prestige in their domestic politics. Settler colonialism invariably leads to some attempt at genocide. That was the case in the United States, Canada, and Australia. It wasnโ€™t the case in New Zealand because the Mฤori were too tough. It wasnโ€™t the case in South Africa because the Zulus, and other South African blacks, were too tough. It wasnโ€™t the case in Kenya because, eventually, black Kenyans rose up in the Mau Mau movement, which was itself a horror, but it did result in a separation from the colonial rule of the British. The same thing could happen. Now the difficulty of all this is obvious in terms of the fact that youโ€™ve got an Israeli cabinet that is the most determined, genocidal cabinet the world has ever seen, and I donโ€™t excuse the Nazi cabinets from that comparison. The overt statements of genocidal intent are unmistakable. Thereโ€™s no effort, as the Germans did make, to conceal what is in store for the Palestinians. Thereโ€™s no fake camp for Jews like the one the Nazis set up to bring the Swiss Red Cross in to show how wonderful they were treating the people they had taken away from their homes. No effort whatsoever of that sort, just bombing and strafing and murder on the ground. Israel appears to be paying quite a heavy price for that in terms of combat losses, but, of course, is not reporting accurately what is happening.

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Bilbo Baggins: When a Life Is Stretched to Its Limit There is a line spoken by Bilbo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings that has stayed with me: โ€œIโ€™m old, Gandalf. I know I donโ€™t look it, but Iโ€™m beginning to feel it in my heart. I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.โ€ At first, this might sound like nothing more than the complaint of someone who has lived too long. But what caught my attention was not that Bilbo says he is old. It is the way he describes that feeling: โ€œI feel thin.โ€ He does not say that he is in pain. He says that he is being stretched. And from there, I began to see this line as an image of a being carrying a burden greater than the scope of an ordinary life. This is my personal interpretation. Tolkien does not directly present a concept of โ€œcapacityโ€ or โ€œthe elasticity of a lifeโ€ in the way I am using those ideas here. I am simply taking Bilboโ€™s own image of โ€œbutter and breadโ€ and using it to look more deeply into the feeling he is describing. Too Much Bread and Too Little Butter If I had to imagine that feeling through another image, I would think of a balloon. When it is in its natural state, it has a certain shape. As the pressure increases, it begins to stretch. It has not burst. But it is no longer in its original state. And I think Bilbo is much the same. He has possessed the Ring for sixty years. Yet what is remarkable is that, after all that time, Bilbo is still Bilbo. He still loves the Shire, loves Bag End, cares about Frodo, writes books, smokes, and talks with Gandalf. The Ring has affected him, but it has not completely taken over who he is. That is why I do not think Bilboโ€™s endurance should simply be understood as: โ€œHe was so strong that the Ring could not affect him.โ€ Quite the opposite. The words โ€œI feel thin, sort of stretched...โ€ show that he has already begun to feel that pressure from within. And this is where the image of โ€œbutter and breadโ€ becomes especially interesting. The piece of bread does not necessarily have to be understood as the Ring itself. In the way I see it, it is something broader. It is the entire scope of what Bilbo is carrying: the passing years, his unusual existence, the pressure of the Ring, and everything that comes with it. The butter, meanwhile, is Bilbo himself. A finite being with finite capacity. A little butter is enough for a reasonably sized piece of bread. But when it has to be spread across a piece of bread that is too large, it has to become thinner. And that is what I feel in Bilbo. It is not that he suddenly becomes weak. It is that the same being is having to stretch itself to accommodate a burden that has grown beyond the boundaries of an ordinary life. โ€œStretchedโ€ Does Not Mean Destroyed This is the part I find most important. Bilbo is still alive. He is still himself. He still has things he loves and still has the ability to experience the world around him. But something has appeared within him that perhaps was not there before: He feels that he is being stretched too thin. So, being โ€œstretchedโ€ does not mean that Bilbo has been destroyed. It shows that he is still enduring, but that his endurance has begun to leave a mark. Being able to endure does not mean being unaffected. A person can endure something for a very long time and still become tired. Someone can continue living almost normally while inwardly feeling that they are being stretched too thin. Bilbo is in precisely that state. And perhaps that is why his next words feel so natural: โ€œI need a holiday, a very long holiday...โ€ I like the way Bilbo says this. He does not try to prove that he can endure more. He simply realizes that he needs to leave. To me, this is a remarkable form of awareness. Bilbo does not wait until he has completely lost himself before recognizing the problem. He realizes that he is being stretched. And from that realization, he wants to step away from the circumstances creating that pressure. Recognizing Your Limit Is Also a Form of Strength If we continue with the image of the balloon, Bilbo has enough elasticity to withstand that pressure for decades. But that elasticity is not infinite. The more it is stretched, the farther it moves from its original state. And what catches my attention most is that Bilbo is still aware enough to recognize this. From this perspective, I see Bilboโ€™s decision to leave in a different way. He does not leave because he has failed. He leaves because he has recognized his limit. To me, this is much more meaningful than simply saying that Bilbo is โ€œstrongโ€ because he was able to possess the Ring for so long. A being can be remarkably resilient and still have limits. And being able to recognize those limits is not weakness. It is awareness. Bilbo does not say: โ€œI can endure more.โ€ He says, in a very different way: โ€œI need a holiday.โ€ Perhaps that simplicity is exactly what makes the line so thought-provoking. He does not need to prove how strong he is. He only needs to be honest about what he is feeling. Why Is the Image of the โ€œButterโ€ So Sad? That is also why I find Bilboโ€™s image of the butter so sad. Bilbo is still there. He has not disappeared. He has not been destroyed. But he feels as though he has been spread too thin. The image does not describe a moment of collapse. It describes a process. The burden creates pressure. The pressure forces Bilbo to adapt. That prolonged adaptation makes him feel increasingly stretched. And eventually, he realizes that he cannot continue that way forever. That is what makes the words โ€œI feel thinโ€ so important. โ€œThinโ€ is not a declaration of weakness. It is a sign that a being has been pulled away from its natural state for too long. And recognizing that opens a choice for Bilbo: To leave. It makes me see Bilbo differently: โ€œBilbo is not a being that cannot be stretched; he is a being that has endured pressure for a very long time, yet remained aware enough to recognize that his capacity to stretch is not infinite.โ€ And perhaps that is what I like most about this line. Strength is not always about enduring more. Sometimes, strength is knowing that you have endured enough.

๐ŸŽผ๐ŸŒบMusic Loveโ™ฅ๏ธ

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Thank you to all who joined us in Brewer yesterday to fight to stop this senseless war. Full remarks and video below. ********* First, I want to say thank you to Food and Medicine for having me. The work of Food and Medicine, the Eastern Maine Labor Council, quite frankly, has really kept organizing alive and as part of the state for a long time. And if you have the time and the energy to get involved, I highly recommend that you do. I also just want to give a hearty thank you to everyone who's joined us here today. It means a lot and it also shows that this is, whether it's mothers, whether it's veterans, whether it's people just running for political office and part of our main community, nobody wants this war. Absolutely no one thinks that this is a good idea. And the reason why they don't want it is because they know what it's actually about. This is a war that's being pushed by Benjamin Netanyahu. He's been trying to make this war happen for almost 30 years. This is a war that's being pushed by the Saudis, who have also wanted this war to happen. Two nations that are happy to watch American blood be expended on their behalf. This war is also being pushed because Donald Trump is in the Epstein files. And other people in the White House, and other people connected with the Epstein class. They are terrified that we have noticed what they are doing. They are terrified that we're going to start wondering why the hell we let them stay in power. And to do that, they're going to do the oldest trick in the book. They're going to try to just start a war to distract all of us. They are willing to sacrifice the lives of young American men and women and the lives of Iranian civilians simply to protect their political interests. I cannot think of a more reprehensible act. I cannot think of a more unpatriotic act, of a more un-American act, than to send our sons and daughters off to die, to kill, to bring immense violence to innocent civilians abroad simply because you're afraid you might lose the midterms. It is disgusting. As reprehensible as it is, it's also important to remember that this situation we find ourselves in is only possible because we have had a Congress that for decades has abdicated its responsibility, its constitutional responsibility, in making war. We need to rescind the 2001 Authorization of Use of Military Force. Its vague language and lack of clarity has been abused by multiple administrations of both parties to carry out wars in the name of the military-industrial complex and those in power, to carry out military operations that did absolutely nothing to keep Americans safe, but made some people very, very wealthy and protected the political interests of those in power. It needs to go. But not only does it need to go, we need a war powers resolution that actually claws power back from the executive branch. The resolutions that are on the table, I highly recommend you call your elected officials and put pressure on them to vote for them. They are necessary, but they are not sufficient. We need a truly reformed War Powers Act, where we really pull the power back. No more 48 hours of combat operations where you have to notify Congress. No more 60 days of combat operations before you have to prove to Congress that you should have gone to war in the first place. No. We need to know why military force is used right off the bat. And it needs to be approved by Congress right off the bat. The Constitution is clear about who is supposed to have the power of waging war in this country. It is the body that is most representative of the American people because it is the American people who have to bear the brunt of combat. It is the American people who are asked to make the sacrifice. It is American families who have to bury their dead sons and daughters. It is American friends who have to watch their best friends come home from a war and struggle for years with physical and mental trauma.

Graham Platner for Senate

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Pepe Escobar (Pepe Escobar) and Zulfikar from Transition Protocol report that the Mecca Pact is moving from paper to concrete military integration. Saudi Arabia has told Trump directly to get out. Iran is ready. The petrodollar itself is now on the table. Pepe Escobar: โ€œThis is a war for oil. This is a war for an oil choke point. This is a war about an independent sovereign nation that moves energy bypassing the US dollar. This is a war to defend the petrodollar. And this is a war against existential threats to the United States โ€” Iran, Russia and China.โ€ Zulfikar: โ€œPakistan, Turkey and Saudi Arabia, in furtherance of their Mecca Pact, have actually begun to take concrete steps โ€” significant concrete steps. They have announced joint military exercises involving all three branches of the military, which are the army, the air force and the navy, and these exercises will be conducted very soon in all three countries. So this is the first step of military integration. The exercises are a first step of military integration, which is really significant. If there is going to be an involvement that invokes the military of all three countries, they have to be integrated, and this is the first step in that. So those people who did not take this pact seriously or thought that, well, this is just window dressing, blah blah blah, nothing is going to come out of it โ€” no, no, no. Our reporting says that they are deeply committed to integrating their joint defenses so that if the death cult continues to have these wet dreams of attacking any one of them, they are not going to get very far. So that is an important part of the news. The other important part of the news is that the message to Trump from Saudi Arabia โ€” the second phone call โ€” was very, very significant: This is our problem, we are going to solve it, we are solving it, get the hell out of here. We donโ€™t need you to meddle. Very clearly. So it was mentioned by Saudi Arabia in the direct phone call. Heโ€™s very direct when he talks and when heโ€™s made up his mind. But it was backed up by the Pakistani negotiators to the people with whom they are speaking โ€” and this is either directly with JD Vance sometimes or with his office โ€” that we donโ€™t want you here. The time has come for you to get out. Now, as you and I know, we are dealing with a malignant toddler. That is my definition of Trump. Another piece of news that I want to emphasize: Iran has a swarm capability of 2,000 fast boats equipped with torpedoes. 2,000 of them. This is in addition to their midget navy. This is in addition to their underground subterranean capability of attacking anybody who tries to breach the Strait of Hormuz. And in fact the word that Iโ€™m privy to announce to you from Mohsen Rezaei is that he actually wishes that the United States will make an attempt to breach the Strait of Hormuz because then that will give him the ability to sink a warship or two and he would be fully justified and that will be the final nail in the coffin of the malignant toddlerโ€™s wet dreams or delusional ideas. So the next few days โ€” Iโ€™m not even saying a few weeks, the next few days โ€” are extraordinarily important because if the final outcome of that is that Trump and the American empire come to the right decision to get the hell out of the region, that will be the beginning of the end of the American hegemony in the world, not just in that area. That will mean the first step towards the destruction of the petrodollar. And when the petrodollar is destroyed, the ability of the United States to simply print money and to finance its debt is going to be over. We are witnessing an extraordinary, extraordinary change in global politics, tectonic shifts; the next 5โ€“10 years are going to be very different than the past 75 years.โ€ This is no longer about one country or one strait. It is about the end of the system that has financed the empire for half a century. The next few days will tell.

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Occupation under international law has to be the occupation of another state's territory. There is no state that's being occupiedโ€”in this case by Israelโ€”because the Palestinians have, on six different occasions, been offered a state of their own, and in each case have rejected the state. Every poll that's ever been conducted and every political settlement that's ever been brokenโ€”from 1936, 1947, and 1967 after Khartoum, to Oslo in 1993 and the offers in 2000 and 2008โ€”show that the Palestinians do not want a second state. They want one state from the river to the sea, a fully Arab state with no Jews on it. This is the analogy I like to make: You go to the store and they tell you that a pair of jeans is a hundred bucks. And you say, "Okay, I'll, gonna pay a hundred bucks." Then a guy next to you in line comes, he returns a shirt that was worth 50 bucks. He wants to buy the same pair of jeans. How much does he have to pay? He only has to pay 50 bucks. He gave back a shirt that was worth 50 bucks. The pants were a hundred bucks, he only has to pay 50 bucks. Now, if you say to the store owner, "Hey, I don't want to give you anything of value, not the shirt, not the money, but now I want the jeans," no business person in the world would accept that claim. You can't say, "I take the jeans, I give you no money." That's not how business transactions work. It's not how the law of contracts work. But that's exactly what the claim of occupation does in this case. The Palestinians rejected the state that was offered to them, insist on calling themselves a state, and then claim that Israel is occupying their territory. But here's the problem: There is an international law test for the creation of legitimate nation states. There are over 7,000 ethnic groups in the world that archeologists and anthropologists and linguists have pieced together. The vast majority, over 98%, don't have a state of their own. So who gets to have a state? There are only 193 states in the world. These are nation states that meet these four elements from a conference in Montevideo in 1933. The four elements are: 1. Do you have a defined population? 2. Do you have defined borders? 3. Do you have a single effective government? 4. Do you have the capacity for conducting international relations? Israel has unquestionably met all four elements every single day since its founding. The supposed state of Palestine, which people now claim is more legitimate than the Jewish state, indisputably fails at least two of those four elements.

Roy K. Altman

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After decades of telling developing nations to privatise and let the invisible hand of the market do its thing, the West is coming out and saying government intervention is the way to go. Here, American political scientist, Elizabeth Economy says the United States, a country that has historically portrayed itself by free-market capitalism, canโ€™t compete without direct state intervention in the economy. She says that if the US wants to compete with China itโ€™s โ€œgoing to have to adopt some elements of their playbookโ€. This is is important because sheโ€™s effectively saying the Chinese model with its strict control of the commanding heights of the economy is simply the better model. This moment would have been a great opportunity for the US to showcase to the world once and for all that letting the market dominate the economy is superior to having the state dictate the economy. Instead, we have the supposedly most pro-market country in the world coming out to say the markets simply cannot do it when forced to compete against state intervention. This goes even harder when you realise that Economy is responding to a question asking her if the market is not a better option. He response is that China has created a โ€œplaybookโ€ of state intervention, and the United States doesnโ€™t have anything to compete with. And you thought they had capitalism. All of this just reinforces what serious people have been saying for years, that taking firm control over energy, finance, heavy transit and raw materials to dictate national strategy, rather than trying to play a passive, balancing referee is precisely what separates perpetually โ€œdevelopingโ€ nations from those that go on to realise their full potential. Of course, you have people who insist on some voodoo called a โ€œmixed economyโ€, and claim thatโ€™s what China is doing. What they donโ€™t say (or realise) is that this middle-of the-road half-assed โ€œmixedโ€ bs approach is what the most stagnant, perpetually โ€œup and comingโ€ countries have been doing for a while now. Think Brazil, India, South Africa and others. Beyond just its vagueness, the โ€œmixed economyโ€ stuff doesnโ€™t work because whenever a developing state attempts to โ€œbalanceโ€ public interests with private market forces without establishing absolute strategic control, the private sector ends up controlling the state. Again, see the B, the I and the S in BRICS. This is because private monopolies, a.k.a. oligarchs in energy, telecom, or banking use their profits to buy political influence, dismantle regulations and extract state subsidies without any pressure to deliver public infrastructure. The result is that instead of getting a โ€œdynamic market with government oversightโ€ as promised, the nation gets crony capitalism where risks are socialised onto the public while profits are privatised. See Nigeria and Mexico. The historical reality is that from the West to the Far East, every nation that successfully transformed from poor agrarian societies into industrial powerhouses did so by exercising absolute control over its strategic economic nodes, and not by handing them over to the โ€œefficiencyโ€ of the private sector. In the end, controlling the foundations of the economy with an iron fist, while forcing everything built on top of those foundations to compete ruthlessly, as China is doing, is the most proven industrial formula in modern history, and the Americans are openly admitting it now that doing so suits them.

Sizwe SikaMusi

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Catherine Austin Fitts connects Iran and the control grid: "Iran... is the largest leakage... if you're [doing] programmable money globally." "This [isn't about] American national interests. [It's] a syndicate asserting... control [for] the next phase of the financial system." "Our debt is... unsustainable... [so] how do you deal with that? One way... is to implement a digital control grid." "There is likely to be an effort to put boots on the ground and... to get bogged down... for a long, long time." This clip of Fitts, a former Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, investment banker, and founder of the Solari Report (The Solari Report | Catherine Austin Fitts), is taken from an interview with Steve Kirsch (Steve Kirsch) posted to the VSRF (Vaccine Safety Research Foundation) Rumble channel on April 2, 2026. ---------------Partial transcription of clip--------------- Fitts: "There are two sides of the balance sheet here that are driving this. One of course is oil and energy, but the other is the financial control grid. Because Iran right now is the largest leakage in the system. If you're going to do a global, programmable money globally, you know, Iran and, and what Iran is doing with China and some of the other countries, puts too much leakage in the system. "So I think that what is unfortunate here is there is, there is likely to be an effort to put boots on the ground and we are likely to get bogged down in there for a long, long time. Kirsch: "So do you think that is the right thing to do for America to have boots on the ground or even be involved in attacking Iran? I mean we were the first aggressor here. We, we fired the first shots in Iran. Is that the right thing to do for our country? Fitts: "That is the right thing to do if you want to implement the digital control grid. It's not the right thing to do if you want to represent America. But this has nothing to do with American national interests. This has to do with essentially a syndicate asserting sufficient control to implement the next phase of the financial system." Kirsch: "So you think they got to Trump and convinced Trump or wasn't it really Israel saying hey, we're going to invade Iran and we'd like someโ€” Why don't you do it with us? Because there's an opportunity and Trump saw that as opportunistic rather than this being something that is strategic." Fitts: "So the way I think of this is the White House operates within a lane that is set for them by the nature of the machinery they're running. So think of it this way. The US government spends $6 to $7 trillion a year and it gets $4 trillion of revenues and the other $2 to $3 trillion comes in from borrowing in the bond market essentially through the central bankers. "And so it, it has to, you know, and if you say to the Americans, you know, we're going to tell the bankers to go jump in the lake, the Americans say no, no, no, no, we want our check. And so you're between an Iraq and a hard place because everybody in America wants their check. "And you've got to do what the bank, you've got to operate within those lanes to make the bankers happy. And if you look at the whole US dollar reserve currency system, you've got to do whatever you've got to do to make the system go. "And right now, and the chairman of the Federal Reserve just said this... [that] the debt is growing at a faster rate than our fundamental growth rate. And, you know, if you look at one of the, you know, the big push by Kennedy and HHS to change the food and health issues in America, part of that is to get that growth rate back up. You can't get a growth rate from poisoning your people. Ultimately that doesn't work for economic growth. "So all of these issues are integrated... but our debt is growing in an unsustainable pattern. And the question is, how do you deal with that? One way you deal with that is to implement a digital control grid in a way that uses digital tokens and stablecoins to dramatically suck in more money globally into the machinery. And that's what they're trying to execute. So if you want the digital control grid, you know, what is happening makes sense."

Sense Receptor

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[WATCH] The question before the Court is short, and it is a question of law. When a political party has completed the Commissionโ€™s prescribed forms and uploaded its lists onto the Commissionโ€™s own system before the hour, has that party submitted its lists? The movement says it has. The Commission says it has not. That is a disagreement between a political party and a public institution about what a statute means, and this country built a specialist court for precisely that. The Electoral Court will decide it. The ANC will abide by what the courts decide. I say that now, before judgment, so that nobody need ask afterwards. I want to address the judgment the Electoral Court handed down on Friday in the matter of the UDF Party, because it has been reported as a blow to the ANC. The Court held that the Commission has no power to exempt one party from a deadline that binds all others. The African National Congress agrees with that. We have never asked for an exemption. We have never asked for an extension. We are not asking for one now. What the UDF asked for and what the ANC asks for are different things, and Fridayโ€™s judgment is the clearest statement yet of that difference. And to those who have warned the Commission against giving the ANC โ€œpreferential treatmentโ€, I say this plainly. The ANC wants none. Whatever relief the Court grants, the movement has asked that it apply to every affected party on the same terms โ€” to the forty-four other parties as much as to us. If the ANC succeeds, two thousand and ninety-three candidates who are not ours succeed with us. That is the only kind of relief this movement would accept. Now let me speak about the Electoral Commission again. The Electoral Commission is a Chapter Nine institution of our Constitution. The African National Congress, more than any other organisation in this country, argued for it, negotiated it and built it. Through seven national elections and six local elections, the ANC has accepted every substantive result the Commission has declared โ€” including the result of 2024, which took from this movement the majority it had held for thirty years. We accepted it on the night. We did not go to a stage and call the Commission a thief. That record is who we are, and it is not for sale in a dispute over six councils. So let me be clear about what the ANC is doing and what it is not doing. The ANC is not attacking the Electoral Commission. The ANC disagrees with the Commission on a point of law, and it has taken that disagreement to the court that Parliament created to hear it. Disagreement in a court is how a democracy respects an institution. Disagreement on a stage, with slogans, is how a democracy weakens one. The movement has chosen the court, respectfully. There are parties in this country who have used this matter to relitigate their own grievances against the Commission. The ANC will not join them, and it will not be used by them. Where the Commission is attacked for doing its work, this movement will defend it, as it has always defended it. We have a responsibility to the institutions of this state that the Commissionโ€™s other critics do not carry, and we will carry it even while we are in court against it. And there is a responsibility on all of us that goes beyond this matter. Forty-five parties used one channel and had challenges. That is a fact about the channel, whatever the Court decides about the law. After this election the ANC will go to the Party Liaison Committee and propose, for every party, that the electronic route carry a receipt; that its final step be prescribed in regulation, published in the Gazette, where every party can read it, and not only in software; and that a party be able to see the record of what the Commission holds from it. Not so that the ANC is spared next time. So that no party, large or small, ever again stands where forty-five parties stand this morning. #ANCMediaBriefing #SGMbalulaSpeaks #LGE2026VoteANC

ANC SECRETARY GENERAL | Fikile Mbalula

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Rubioโ€™s speech in Munich was one of the strongest, clearest, most morally confident speeches of both Trump administrations. It reminded me of another one he gave โ€” which almost nobody saw โ€” delivered in Jerusalem on September 15, 2025, at the inauguration of the Pilgrimage Road in the City of David. The ceremony was closed to the media, and the full recording of his speech has never been released. But in the excerpts that have surfaced, you hear Rubio speak unapologetically about spiritual and civilizational roots, moral order, the source of human dignity, and Jerusalem: ๐Ÿ”ธ๏ธ โ€œThe United States was founded on a powerful idea, defined not by geography, ethnicity, or anything else. It was founded on the very powerful principle that the rights of mankind come from their creator.โ€ ๐Ÿ”ธ๏ธ โ€œIt was here [in Jerusalem] that God fulfilled his promise to His people. It was here that the lessons that formed the bedrock and the foundations of our laws โ€” the principles upon which we decide what is right and what is wrong โ€” were built.โ€ ๐Ÿ”ธ๏ธ โ€œIf you think about the things that today we, in civilized societies, use as rules to govern us, these things did not come because good people wrote them. They came because they were rooted in ancient teachings.โ€ ๐Ÿ”ธ๏ธ โ€œFor deep inside of us, we all know that we were created for a purpose and for a reason, that our dignity comes from our creator.โ€ ๐Ÿ”ธ๏ธ โ€œTo stand here [in Jerusalem] today on the very road, where not 2,000 years ago so many from everywhere ventured to fulfill that desire to be closer to the creator, is a humbling and honoring experience.โ€ ๐Ÿ”ธ๏ธ โ€œAs you go through the layers of history, you realize that all the civilizations that conquered this city, all the ones who tore it down and built on top, are all gone. The Roman Empire is no more, nor any of the others that sought to conquer and rule this land. But one people remain. They have returned.โ€ ๐Ÿ”ธ๏ธ โ€œFor Godโ€™s promise is eternal, and it is perfect, and His word is always true. And Iโ€™m honored to be a part of its fulfillment here with you tonight.โ€ It is extraordinarily rare to hear an American Secretary of State speak like this. The fact that the full speech still hasnโ€™t been released is borderline criminal.

Eitan Fischberger

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