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Tadifi's legendBook 3 in 18 parts, By FinalStand. Listen to the ► Podcast at Explicit Novels.Meanwhile, Elsa was quietly amused. It wasn't like I could request the SD to force my House Guard to not do something they had been told to do by someone in my hierarchy. That would lead to chaos, and it was unfair to Juanita."Fine," I decided. "Get us three some water. Elsa and I will be practicing."Now Juanita was stuck. I wasn't asking her to leave the room, just leave me alone. I was technically her leader, respect notwithstanding."It is good to see you have not become drunk with power," Elsa smirked once Juanita had left on her errand."Your mockery is unappreciated," I glared back. I was only kidding. "I haven't seen you around recently. It is good to see you.""It is good to see you too," Elsa said in a voice far softer and compassionate than I would have preferred. After all, she had me drugged, beaten, then beaten me up again in the not so distant past.Of course, I had also sexed her up, bringing her to orgasm with my fingers alone. We had also exchanged a burning French kiss in Katrina's office that Buffy was aware of. Then there was the Buffy-Elsa personal feud and the Elsa-Rhada family feud. Balancing that was Elsa's super-hot body and intriguing personality. Sex with her promised to be memorable, more memorable than normal."What have you been up to? I'd like to say I've been behaving myself, but I don't want to advance our relationship by lying (right now, about this).""You are largely responsible for what I've been up to the past two weeks," she stepped back. She tossed her spear aside and entered her fighting stance. How nice of her to warn me, and get rid of her weapon. How erotically odd of her to give me the illusion of a chance."I deny everything," I rocked back. She was blindingly fast. The fact that I was able to block most of the blow was a testament to how much I had learned in the past two and a half months."Watashi wa nihongo o hanashimasu', 'Wǒ shuō pǔtōnghu ', 'Wǒ shuō guǎngdōng hu ' and 'Aku isa basa jawa'," she lectured me as she maneuvered me into a corner with a series of kicks and feints. She spoke Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese and Javanese. That was nice to know."Wait," then she kicked me off the mat."Amazons don't have a 'time out'," she smiled. I cautiously worked my way back onto the practice area."What part did you play?" I readied myself. This time, I went on the offensive. I used my greater strength and reach to compensate (rather poorly) for her superior reflexes."Someone had to ride herd on those disparate forces. My status was respected by the Amazons, I had experience dealing with outsiders, plus your person Addison nominated me, and Katrina suggested that you and I were close. That was enough for the Khanate. Your embassy and earlier aid to the Seven Families brought the 9 Clans along.""And you stole the carrier?""It was an once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to humiliate the Seven Pillars," she grinned. "Riding in a nuclear submarine was interesting, right up there with running around, spray painting translations next to all the markings onboard the captured vessel. Herding regular civilians wasn't nearly as much fun.""In the annals of the SD, that is going to be a victory hard to surpass," I got out right before my legs were swept out from under me. Before I could roll over, she landed on top of me. She didn't go for a pin. Elsa simply sat there, straddling my hips and looking down at me. We were both breathing heavily."I owe you for that," she patted me on my bare chest."Is that a good thing, or a bad thing?""I'll let you figure that out during the Great Hunt," she gave a sliver of a smile."Not you too," I groaned."Who else are you worried about?""You and twenty-nine other Amazons. By name, Rachel. She's pretty upbeat about her chances and believes she has a score to settle.""Rachel will be a tough one," Elsa acknowledged."Comfortable?" Juanita muttered."Yes, I am," Elsa grinned her way. "Thank you for asking." Juanita gave me a look that suggested I do something like protest, or actually try to fight her off."Why are you being nice to me?" I wondered."I've learned to appreciate your numerous qualities," Elsa enlightened me. "I am also honest enough to admit I was completely wrong about you. You make a good Amazon." That was huge praise indeed and more importantly, it was to a public audience. I was double fortunate that no one was close enough to see Elsa's camel toe resting against my lightly covered hard-on."Thank you. Is there anything I can do for you?""Aren't you engaged to someone?" Juanita reminded me. What she was really saying was 'don't you know you belong to the maidens of House Ishara?' Trust me, I know these things. Had she meant Hana, she would have said Hana."She has the patience of Job," I reasoned. "Oh, Elsa, Job is a figure in the Old Testament of the Bible." I doubted she knew."Oh. Is he a bloody-handed butcher, raging misogynist, or one of those pacifistic wimps?""He's a nice guy who gets swallowed by a whale.""That's Jonah," Juanita corrected me. "Job is the one who was tested by God. Job accepted God taking away all his family, wealth and health, only to be rewarded for his loyalty to God with more than he ever had before.""Wimp.""I would never turn away from Ishara," Juanita rumbled."Zorja would never feel the need to test my loyalty so," Elsa riposted."Oh look," I thrust my hips up. "I seem to need a shower." Elsa's expression was of superiority and lust combined into a lethal cocktail of my demise."Let's go. You can wash my back," she said as she rose over me. She even offered me a hand up. That was unexpected and accepted warily."Is there some battle wound that makes you incapable of bathing yourself?" Juanita got feisty. Holy Hell, she was my Caribbean Buffy-twin."None," Elsa smugly commented. "I like the feel of his hands on my body. He possesses non-threatening masculinity wed with sisterly solidarity. It is a unique experience that you seem woefully unaware of.""Yippee!" I whispered."You really are a man-whore," Juanita declared under her breath."Check," I gave her a thumbs-up. Sadly, Elsa gave me enough respect to walk at my side, not in front of me (so I could have been mesmerized by her buttocks.) As I was stripping down in the locker room, I noticed Juanita hovering close by. "Are you going to follow me into the shower?""Yes.""Why? I am not going to be in danger in the middle of Havenstone.""I'll be the judge of that," she insisted."You do realize I've had sex with an audience before, don't you?""I've been warned about that and know proper counter-measures.""What? What kind of measures?" I was now naked and, towel in hand, was making my way to the communal showers."Charlie horses, trips, stun-gun if applicable," she informed me with relish."You are threatening to damage my prestige," I enlightened her."Cáel, I was chosen for more than my martial skills. I was selected because I will not wilt before your childish ways.""Are you a lesbian?""No. Why would a woman have to be a lesbian to withstand your wiles?""You'll figure it out eventually," I chuckled. Actually, knowing what a playboy-cad I was turned out to be a counter-intuitive edge for me. Expecting me to be a letch just meant I totally ignored the woman. Then the doubt would set in. 'Why wasn't I hitting on her?' she would think. She'd go through the phase of her not being good enough for me to knowing that wasn't the case, definitely, and would come at me to prove herself right. Wham-bam, another one in the can. Oink.Step One: reduce the amount of time talking to her as a fellow human traveler of life. From here on out, I would address her by her name when I wanted something and otherwise treat her like furniture ~ furniture I was comfortable with. In this case, I treated her like a towel rack. She promptly dropped it. That was okay, I was planning to get dressed wet anyway.I rinsed off my hair quickly as Elsa settled underneath the showerhead beside me. As soon as I finished, she handled me a bottle of (scentless) body soap. It was probably one of those the jaguar will smell me coming ten miles away excuses Amazons used to avoid being girlie. I got my hands all sudsy and began working on her shoulders and neck from behind.Wordlessly, Elsa followed my physical directions, allowing me to wash her arms before working my way down her back in languid, amorous circles. Around the 10th thoracic vertebrae, Elsa gave me a deep, cleansing exhalation. I dug my fingers into her taut back muscles, racking them down to her buttocks, deftly ran them along the sides of her glutes and finished up caressing them along the line between her thighs and ass.I worked her buttocks apart, worked my fingers along her perineum, tickling the back of her labia then up, across her anus and back to her tailbone and the small of her back. A crazy idea came to me: maybe I could talk her into a tramp stamp; something like If you are reading this, know I'll kill you next. That would be so Elsa.I lathered her ass up for another half-minute before working my way down to her thighs, starting with the hip joints and then coaxing of her parted lips. I knelt down so that I was resting on the balls of my feet. Elsa obliged me by parting her legs, standing on her toes with her feet over a foot apart, then placing her hands against the shower stall while arching her back so that her hips were thrust back."Oh, come on," Juanita protested. "What kind of bath is this?""Did you hear something?" Elsa looked down at me."Nope. I was focusing all of my attention on you," I smiled up at her. I was really liking the way her muscles were stressed through her exertions. I couldn't seem to pay enough attention to her robust calves. I didn't pass up the opportunity to plant gentle kisses on each cheek either.Elsa's ankles and feet happened all too fast and the pretense of a bath was complete. She looked at me while she soaped up her breasts then let the water cascade all over her body."Thank you, Cáel," she gave me a regal nod of her damp head, turned and left. "Train harder for the Hunt. You are going to need every edge you can get.""I'm stalking oysters over the weekend. They are cunning and stealthy adversaries," I replied sagely. Elsa snorted, then started toweling off as she left, going toward her own locker. I walked past my soaked towel on the floor without a single glance. Juanita stalked behind me, clearly with a lot on her mind she was now waiting for the proper moment to share. I got dressed."Not going to dry off?" she grumbled."I never use towels," I lied. "I like the rain-washed feel." By ignoring her act of defiance, I really steamed her. I wasn't done. As we headed toward the elevator, I opened up with my next jibe. Buffy really shouldn't challenge me so. I'm a past-master of dealing with clingy, bossy women."Regretting you made that bet?" I mused while we waited."What bet?" she simmered."The bet where you assured Buffy and whomever else was in the room that you wouldn't break down and physically harm me ~ punishing me for my wicked ways?""What? How did," she groused then, "You are playing me.""Yep.""You really are full of yourself," she seared me with her gaze."No, but I know what I'm good at and I'm good at frustrating women. I've been working at it for the past four years and I've got over 200 women who would agree that I'm very good at doing it.""Why are you doing this to me? I'm on your side," she turned all pouty and hurtful."Because if I don't, I'll go mad, Juanita," I enlightened her. "You want to protect me, right?""Yes," she sensed a verbal trap. The elevator opened and we stepped in."See, I don't want to be protected," I started."That's,""Let me finish, please," I stopped her. She gave me the visual 'go-ahead'. "I don't want to live a life where I need to be protected. I don't want to worry that women I hang out with could be cornered by some unsavory types at an eatery because those women happen to know and like me.""I admire what you are doing, I really do. This is not the life I wanted, though. This is not what I wanted to be doing four months after leaving college. I wanted to be some corporate worm, barely scraping by on my work reviews and being, as you said, 'a man-whore'.""You don't have that luxury," she pointed out."Am I not doing my job?" I countered."I guess you are," she grudgingly admitted."Yet you feel you have the right to critique my personal life and how I approach it," I related. "I'm not beating you up by playing the I am Ishara bullshit. I certainly don't expect anyone to be grateful to me for the opportunity to be in a House. I don't because I believe that every member of House Ishara has already proven they belong here before I ever meet them. I believe in you. Sometimes I would appreciate it if my sisters would give me the same respect."She looked away because my harpoon had struck home."Unlike the rest of you, I inherited my place in this madhouse. Unlike every other Amazon here, I am only a part of House Ishara because I am the choice of a thousand ancestors to be our leader. Notice that no one asked me if I wanted to do this. And I don't think I ask too much of you because frankly, there are times when I feel unworthy to be in your company.""You are still Ishara and I must still be your guardian," she held her ground. I glared at her. She glared back. I coughed. She kept glaring."What's my name?""Oh," she shrugged. "Cáel Wakko Ishara.""That may sound silly you to, but I have chosen the designations for myself, my First Ancestor and the Goddess for a good reason."We rode in silence. When we got to the ground floor, we made our way to our bikes and got ready to head home."What is the reason?""To never take ourselves too seriously. The worst thing I can think to befall my House is we become as humorless as the rest of the bitches around here. 'Laugh at Death' should be our motto.""Isn't that a bit childish?""Of course it is," I groaned. "You clearly haven't been paying attention to a damn thing I've been saying. I swear I'm thinking about bringing back 'National Clown Nose Day'.""We had a 'National Clown Nose Day'?" she pedaled to keep up."God help me," I muttered.(Where is my Serge?)"You are not going to let me go through my door first?" I sighed in exasperation. Juanita insisted that she go through every door first, because today was so very different than yesterday, when I had Pamela, perhaps I protest too much."You have a gun," a somewhat familiar voice said from inside my/Timothy's apartment. Oh, fuck. Ya know, because Juanita was as pretty as she was lethal, which is to say 'too much for the given company'."Don't make any sudden moves unless you want to see it," Juanita cautioned her."Oh, it's okay," Odette intervened. "This is Anais Saint-Armour. She's a Mountie.""Oh, she's on the List too," Juanita grumbled. "What has he done wrong this time?""Why don't you tell me who you are first?" Anais growled at Juanita while I pushed my way into the room."I don't like your attitude," Juanita glared."Anais, this is Juanita Leya Antonio Garza; she's my latest bodyguard. Juanita, this is Anais, a good friend of mine who helped save my life in Hungary when the 'terrorists' were closing in," I somewhat exaggerated,, she had helped me catch up with the rest of the team when Pamela and I got sidetracked."Why did he chose you?" Anais fumed. Did I mention she's insanely jealous with an aching need to know why I was marrying anyone else, but her."What list?" Odette proved to be on the ball."He didn't chose me. I volunteered for the spot.""Buffy made an anti-girlfriend list. Elsa is on it too," I mumbled."I bet you did," Anais (responding to Juanita)."It is not like that," I moved to interpose myself between my Mountie and my non-mounted (for now) guardian. "I'm on the board of directors for Havenstone now and,""How did that happen?" Anais turned 'The Force' on me. (That's Canadian for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, really) "You insisted (reference back in the days we were seeing one another) you were impoverished.""I inherited it from my Father,""He's poor too. I ran a background check when we first started dating," Anais kept up the pressure."My Mother?""She's dead.""Okay, it was my Father through a convoluted meandering of genetics," I went back to attempting the truth (shame on me)."Which is it?" she glowered."My Father, but it's too complicated to get into now," I tried to touch her. She recoiled. She was still pissed with me."He's telling the truth this time," Odette rose to my defense."Why didn't you tell me this when you were in Hungary? For that matter, if you are rich, why didn't you use those resources to get yourself out of trouble instead of involving me?" She really was a great cop."I had to make a call to someone I trusted and who couldn't be traced back to me, or Havenstone, or the Irish Embassy," I fibbed."What have you gotten yourself into?" Anais thawed somewhat."I believe I promised you dinner," I reminded her."You did.""Where are we going?" Juanita stressed our lack of privacy."'We' aren't going anywhere. Ms. Anais Saint-Armour and I are going to a restaurant of her choosing. Don't worry about it. She carries a gun.""I'm not carrying a gun," Anais torpedoed my plan."Where are we going?" Juanita repeated herself. I had to switch mental gears quickly to take in the new looks I was getting from Anais. I shouldn't have ignored those cues."I can't get around my personal security service," I sighed. Why did I give in? Anais was all about gathering evidence and then drawing conclusions from the facts in available.I had been involved in some significant bad-assery in Europe that was way beyond anything she would have associated with the old me. Terrorist cells duking it out with me (and others) in a Budapest metro station? A rustic inn being reduced to ashes after a suspected firefight? Bomb threats? A full-scale military operation in Romania?I had been kidnapped with a resultant massive manhunt for me then returned under highly mysterious circumstances. There had been a young girl with me, we were close for reasons not really gone into and I had saved her despite all forms of parenthood had been anathema to me.I was a man who others deemed necessary to protect, thus a man making secretive phone calls, getting snippets of information and being involved in the deaths of way too many people to be the old, playboy me. Who had I become?I therefore might be a man who 'needed' to marry a billionairess due to some unspeakable political reasons, not out of any romantic/sexual desire of my own. Anais knew that I was a commitment-phobe, not a gold-digger. That meant she could be involved with me without it really being cheating. I needed her help, I had reached out to her when I was in crisis and she was in the people-helping business, right?There was clearly more evidence out there for her to discover and she had the good fortune to be able to have me in a spot where I could be interrogated."Where do you want to go?" I disengaged and went to my room. The door was only partially shut as I changed."Eleven Madison West," I was told."Oh," Odette cooed, "that place is expensive.""I know," Anais remarked."Why did you pick it?" Odette inquired."To remind Cáel that meals can be very expensive." That was my 'date' reminded me that I'd cheated with her over the course of a home-cooked meal, cooked not-by-her in someone else's home. I wondered how Maya was doing.Eleven Madison West meant I pulled out one of my Havenstone suits. They were tailored after all and I suspected that getting into this place at this time of night was going to take some charisma and finagling. Dressing as causal-me wouldn't do. When I stepped out, jaws dropped ~ I do look good all gussied up. Odette dispelled the shock by jumping into my arms."You look hot," she squealed. "Too bad I'm not going out with you.""You might want to remember that," Anais griped."We need to stop by Havenstone so I can attempt to dress up for this affair," Juanita stated."How about we call in a replacement? Give you the night off?" I suggested."Who?""Chaz?""You want that British SSR non-commissioned officer to be your personal bodyguard for tonight? You've got balls," Juanita coughed. I took out my phone and got ready to give him a call."Hey, Anais, why didn't you call me to tell me you were coming over?" I carefully avoided the word 'warned' as she would take that the wrong way."I don't have your personal phone number. I called your home phone and got the answering service, last night and again this morning," she narrowed her eyes."Odette, did Timothy get lucky last night?" I looked past the Mountie."No. A good friend of his rolled his motorcycle and he went to the hospital to help him out," Odette shook her head. Poor Timothy. My roomie/fuck-buddy misinterpreted Anais's pique. "Timothy is gay, not a sexual enabler.""Huh?" Juanita wondered."Wingman," I translated. "Sometimes the three of us go to gay clubs where I act as his wingman,""And they feed me to lesbians," Odette sounded enthusiastic. Thanks to me she was hardly a same-sex virgin."If there are three people living here and two bedrooms, who sleeps on the sofa?" Anais skewered Odette with her eyes."If Cáel has company and isn't sharing, I sleep with Timothy," Odette refused to wilt, or cut me some slack with Anais."Isn't sharing?" those ocular death orbs flicked my way."Hmm, if we are going to Elven Madison West, I had better make that call," I evaded. I rang Chaz."Nyilas," he answered. "How are you doing this evening?""I'm good. I have an ex-girlfriend from out of town visiting, she wants to go to a swanky place and Juanita isn't dressed for the detail so,""You want me to double date?""No, I need a bodyguard.""You are assuming I have something appropriate to wear.""You are British!" I protested. "Even your chicks have tuxedos.""Very well. Will this be a personal protection detail, or close support?""Aahhh,""Close support," said Anais."Personal Protection," countered Juanita."The one most likely to save me from being stabbed with a steak knife," I muttered."I am not going to physically attack you," Anais simmered. Yeah, right, I had heard that one before, and not just from her."Personal Protection it is," Chaz informed me."Oh, and she's a Mountie.""Is she armed?""No," I thanked the goddesses."Does she want to be?""Huh? Are you going to arm her?" I panicked."No. You have a NYPD liaison. Give Officer Kutuzov a call and make a formal request. If she is a law enforcement officer in good standing, it shouldn't be a problem.""Oh, I can do that?, I'm not sure that's the best idea," I prevaricated."Man up, Nyilas," he chided me. "You should work on making it so women don't want to shoot you instead of thinking of ways to disarm them.""Spoken like a man who wisely prefers the company of other men," I grumbled."Good use of the word 'wisely'. Next question: what are we using as a means of conveyance?""Umm,""I have my motorcycle," Anais was less than helpful."If you weren't one of the bravest human beings I'd ever met, I would determine at this moment that you are a dolt. Call Havenstone and arrange for one of those Mercedes Armored GL550s. Bring your license. I drive on the correct side of the road and I'm not keen on having a distraught paramour driving into a storefront at 80 kph.""Man, I like the way you speak," I joked."I took advantage of a proper English education.""I was joking with you.""I know.""Can I date your sister?" I didn't know if he had a sister, but he'd hinted there were multiple Tomorrow's out there. Anais' mood didn't improve."Yes. I like you. You are a good bloke.""Does your sister know how to kill people?""Yes. I'd say she's relatively proficient with a variety of small arms and hand-to-hand techniques," he enlightened me."Just checking.""Cáel, every woman you are interested knows how to kill people, or how to have people killed," Chaz reminded me."What about Odette? She's neither well connected nor lethal.""Odette is indeed an enigma. She counters that by being well liked by people who are capable of killing others who hurt her, except where you are concerned. You live a treasured life.""Have you made dinner reservations? If you need me for a black tie event it has to be, what is the American for it, swanky.""That's more of a Cael/Pamela thing," I corrected him. "American's say 'high class', expensive, or 'hot spot'.""Thanks for the update. Make those calls.""O-kay. Will do. I'll meet you at Havenstone in thirty minutes. Does that work for you?""Yes. Make those calls. I'll see you at, 7:52 pm, EDT. Mark.""Huh?""Goodbye Cáel," and he hung up."Who is this 'Chaz' character?" Anais questioned me."He is Color Sergeant Charles Tomorrow of the British Army's Special Reconnaissance Regiment, he's a badass and he's delicious," Odette answered for me."How do you know him, either of you?" came next."He was with," Odette began blabbing 'National Security' stuff."Odette, don't. Anais, he is member of the Joint International Khanate Interim Taskforce along with me. Odette helps out in an auxiliary role," I answered."Cáel, how did you end up doing this kind of work?" she was perplexed. "You were devoid of anything approaching civic responsibility when we were last together. Quite frankly, I didn't think you cared for anyone but yourself.""Hey now," Odette got feisty. She was my friend after all."We can talk about that over dinner?" I suggested. She didn't like that answer, so I lied. "I grew up," which was what she wanted to hear. I was spared any more interrogation at the moment by the necessity of making those three phone calls. Nikita liked hearing from me again, though she was less pleased that it was official business. She did agree to contact the appropriate agency for me, despite me making it for a different female law enforcement agent.I'd wised up about Havenstone. I called Executive services to have the car delivered to my door step. I cautioned the operative that, in my neighborhood, they might be stopped on suspicion of purchasing guns, drugs, and/or a good time. I would have the car in fifteen minutes and agreed to take the delivery driver back to work afterwards. I'd have done it even if I wasn't meeting Chaz.At Eleven Madison West, I got a snooty 'exactly who do you think you are?' followed by 'you will be placed on the waiting list, a spot may open up around 9:50'. Was I going to inform Chaz and Anais of this? Of course not. I planned to beg like a big dog, suggest that while I was a nameless face, I actually knew people, a person, and we'd see how far that got me.While waiting for the S U V to arrive and on the drive back to Havenstone, this is pretty much what followed:"Do you know who was behind your father's murder yet?""Yes, but I can't talk about it.""Was that the reason people are trying to kill you?""Yes. That and other reasons.""What other reasons?""Things I can't talk about.""Why can't you talk about it?""Secret society stuff ~ decoder rings, secret handshakes, writing in cyphers, holding clandestine meetings in public places after dark, and various other things world governments don't want me talking about.""Are you pulling my leg?" I wished I was running my hands over her legs. This wasn't the time for that revelation."No. Most of what I am telling you is the truth.""Were you in a shootout at the Chicago Medical Examiner's morgue?""Yes. I was unarmed at the time.""Was your life in danger?""It depends on what you mean by 'danger'. My allies had guns and were expert shots. I was shot at, but they missed me, so I not sure how much my life was at risk.""Can you please be serious?""I'm trying. You scare me.""You don't need to be afraid of me. I only want to help." That was mostly true. She was a diligent, hard-working incorruptible public servant,well, as long as you overlooked her charging me with bestiality when she was truly pissed with me."I'm not afraid of you hurting me. I'm afraid for you. You are an excellent peace officer and I'm worried that you will learn too much. Then your life will be as screwed up as mine.""I can take care of myself.""The reality that you are going out with me unarmed speaks volumes about what you don't know, Anais.""Don't think this line of questioning is over, Cáel.""Don't worry. I know you are not done.""Very well. How is your aunt?" The crab-fisherwoman, not the Irish menagerie."Happy as a clam, working a real job and living life on her own terms.""Where did you go wrong?" That was a loaded question. I had to tread carefully."A girl humiliated me in high school. I decided to take control of my life and somehow, despite my best intentions to be an unreliable lothario, I've ended up with people closer to me than family,and this constant need for physical protection.""Why are you engaged?" Finally, the real reason she was here. Had she come by to pick up her accoutrements, she would have been gone by the time I came home. She wanted answers, answers that allowed her to be in charge of our relationship again. It was the double-barreled impact of exceptional sex and wondering why she wasn't 'the one'.(Me) "Are you seeing somebody?""You didn't answer my question.""I've answered plenty of your questions. Answer mine.""No. Men expect too much from a career woman." Translation: 'I'm a bitch that, regardless of my dynamite looks and raunchy sex drive, repels men because I'm a compulsive control freak with abysmal trust issues.'"You do put your career first." Translation: 'I've totally forgotten that you are a compulsive control freak with abysmal trust issues.' It was what she wanted to hear."Your turn.""Put on your tin-foil hat. I did it to save lives in Central Asia when the anthrax strikes were going on. I have this friend over there that people listen to.""Who? The Great Khan?"I didn't respond which wasn't the answer she was expecting."How?" as in how could I possibly be good friends with the master of arguably the third or fourth most powerful nation on the face of the Earth"That's one of those things I can't talk about.""Do you love her?""I don't know. I'm lousy at relationships. I get along with her daughter. Her father wants to bury me alive in the Nevada desert. The rest of the family seems to be coming around to the idea that I might be one of them.""That isn't a 'yes'.""No, it isn't.""Do you think you can ever love someone?" If you need translated, sigh, okay, 'why don't you love me?'"Do you mean 'when am I going to stop stumbling from botched relationship to botched relationship and make something constructive of my personal life?'""Yes.""Did I mention that I've discovered I have a grandfather?""No. That isn't answering my question.""It is in a way. Did I mention that Mom had ten sisters I wasn't aware of? I had an uncle, but he died in my arms.""No. My condolences on your uncle. What does this have to do with you becoming more of an adult and becoming accountable for your life?""Did I mention I have an adopted grandmother who is my spiritual twin?""No.""Don't worry about my uncle. He died trying to kill me. My aunts murdered him, though I can never prove it.""Oh.""My grandfather? He was the one who sent those terrorists to kill me. It was his litmus test to see if I was worthy of being in his family. I passed.""Are you serious?""Yes. My spiritual grandma? She's a retired professional assassin. Daily I interact with a half-dozen people who have killed multiple human beings in their lifetimes. You want to know why I'm not behaving responsibly? I am acting responsibly. I'm trying to not get the decent civilians around me killed."She took awhile digesting that. By that time, we had returned to Havenstone and picked up Chaz. I made introductions."So, are you really with the SRR?" she asked him."Yes.""Why are you with Cáel?""My mandate contains multiple answers. Suffice it to say, since my RAF contemporary will not be returning from the UK until tomorrow, I am presently chief liaison officer for Her Majesty's government with JIKIT.""Why are you coming along as Cáel's bodyguard? Don't you have something better to do with your Friday evenings?" Subtle and polite, Anais ain't. Why was I putting up with her? She was a sexual tornado who would try anything once. She was a real prize."First question: Cáel is a friend, his life is in perpetual danger and I consider it my duty to keep him alive. He would do the same for me. Second question: the nature of my present assignment doesn't leave much room for any meaningful romantic associations.""Hmm," I contemplated what wasn't being said. "Chaz, you are nailing one of my security chicks, aren't you?""Yes.""Which one?""A man of character doesn't brag about such things."Chaz was getting some Amazon nookie. I had to find a way to tell him how dangerous that was. She might decide he's make good father material, not a good thing where Amazons were concerned."Are all of his security personnel women?" Anais pressed."Miss Saint-Amour, Havenstone is a corporation that employs over ten thousand people. There are precisely five men currently on their payroll. All their security personnel are woman. Cáel has very limited, if any, input on the matter.""Are you sure about that?""Yes, Miss Saint-Amour. Who would trust a man of Cáel's dubious experience with his own security?" Chaz pointed out."Oh." She hadn't thought of that."Can you tell me why you think his life is in danger?""He is far more likely to be kidnapped than murdered. He possess certain sensitive data that powerful entities would like to access, thus I am his bodyguard tonight. Considering the quality of the women who normally guard him, I consider it an honor.""To guard Cáel, on a date?""He was kidnapped visiting a child at a playground. Yes, we believe his life is in constant peril. The training and experience of his security service is top flight and it has been a pleasure to serve among them.""Were you with him in Budapest and Romania?""The metro station?""Yes.""Yes.""Romania?""Do you mean the counterterrorism action south of Miercurea Ciuc?""Yes.""Yes."Wow, these two were lousy communicators. I could imagine Chaz propositioning one of my Amazons.Chaz: 'You have a superior feminine physique which I find appealing. Want to fuck?'Amazon: 'You look like you have the prerequisite stamina and battle scars to be part of the New Directive. Sure.'"Were you involved in the actual combat? The SRR is normally an intelligence gathering unit.""I was gathering battlefield intelligence, Miss. That required my close proximity to armed and actively hostile enemy aliens (as in they were in Romania illegally, not that they were all supernatural beings). My involvement resulted in two KIA's and one WIA.""Damn Chaz, you rock.""I am a professional.""How many did Pamela gak?""One KIA.""Just one? Whoa, that's so unlike her.""She kept trying to bracket the cell leader (aka Ajax). He had the Devil's Own Luck.""Cáel, why are you making light of all those deaths?" Anais chastised me. "How many terrorists did you wound, or kill?""I wounded one guy.""That is disingenuous," Chaz chided me. "You orchestrated the operation, showed tactical expertise in seizing the most critical terrain feature and engineered the death of the terrorist leader.""My Cáel did that? When I knew him, he was adverse to violence," Anais shook her head."Considering the considerable number of people he's killed, he's still adverse to physical confrontation where his own life is involved. But God help you if you threaten someone he is close to, though. He's the man who can get things done when the team is in a pinch.""Cáel, what happened to you?" she didn't sound upset at all."I learned to care for people beyond my immediate interest, you know, actual long-term relationships," with the unspoken 'as opposed to women I'm currently having sex with'."It took you long enough," she snipped. Reference her being a compulsive control freak with abysmal trust issues.The interrogation was put on hold while we entered the restaurant and,"Mr. Nyilas?" the maytre dee greeted me."Yes.""We will get you a table right away," he nodded obsequiously. What the hell was up with that? Where was my two hour wait time? Oh yeah, I was a minor, fifteen seconds of fame celebrity."Will Ms. Sulkanen be joining you this evening?""No. She had to oversee a packaged Erythrosine-monosaccharides explosion in Boca Raton. Flaming plastic pink flamingo bits were raining down everywhere. I imagine it is taking an Everest-sized load of hush money to keep this out of the media," I replied. I was so eerily sincere, he bought it and a look of horror snuck over his face. I had become the public face of corporate malfeasance."Your table (gulp) is ready, Sir," he began to sweat. He took us to our table for four then beat a hasty retreat. Undoubtedly his civic-mindedness would have him calling up TMZ within a minute. After all, it was unlikely he owned any plastic pink flamingos, or invested in their construction. Once he was gone, Chaz let a thin smile break through his hard-earned military unfazed-ability."What exactly are packaged Erythrosine-monosaccharides?" he inquired."Packaged is self-explanatory. Erythrosine is pink food coloring and monosaccharides are,""Sugar," Anais frowned."Exploding pixie sticks, I have nieces and nephews. You are a genius at misdirection, Mr. Nyilas," he nodded."Thank you, Color Sergeant Tomorrow. It is nice to be appreciated for my bizarre and useless preoccupation," I grinned."You practice lying?" Anais' view of me dimmed."Miss, he excels at extraneous, outrageous utterances. No harm is intended.""Things like I was helping her find her contact lenses?" That had been my excuse when caught coming out of Maya's apartment. Sadly, Anais is highly perceptive and knew the lady didn't wear contacts. The copious female aroma wafting off me certainly hadn't helped."That's unfair," I countered. "Back then, I was a college nitwit suffering from undiagnosed nymphomania. I'd like to think I'm getting better."" tes-vous mieux?" she retorted in French."Je suis assez intelligent pour aller vers vous lorsque des vies  taient sur la ligne." That's right, Anais. When my life and the lives of others were on the line, she was the first one I thought to call. Letting a woman know that you admire her profession, professionalism and reliability never hurts."Are you really a nymphomaniac?" she returned to English. French is the language of sex, as is any derivative of Sanskrit, Farsi and Portuguese. Reference the multitude of Indians, the hotness of Persian women and the outpouring of lust that is Brazil."I had a magnetoencephalography recently. The neuroscientists didn't know what to make of my brain patterns. I appear to be somewhat unique in my madness."She didn't believe me. I didn't blame her. No one really likes hearing a truth they don't want to accept."Here," I leaned forward and pointed to the tiny divot in my forehead. "I was stabbed with a needle in the skull. That is why they looked at me, not because of my sexual malfunction."She touched it to makes sure. We were interrupted by the waiter stopping by to see if we were ready to order yet."We will have three of the most expensive appetizers, dinners, deserts and wines," Anais preempted us. Ugh. I was either a millionaire by the wonders of Havenstone accounting, or broke. I foolishly never looked into such things, never having had much money before. I needed a distraction."Hey Chaz, nice suit," was what came to mind. It was a swell masterpiece of the tailoring arts I hadn't expect from a ground-pounder from a family of ground-pounders serving Queen and Country for generations."Thank you. Pamela picked it out for me, suspecting an event such as this would transpire. She told me you paid for it," Chaz answered."I did?""I made the reasonable deduction that she forged your signature on whatever medium was used for payment," he shrugged, "in the same way she exhibits a criminal tendency toward every other aspect of her life.""What does Pamela look like?" Anais glowered."She's his grandmother," Chaz responded politely. "They make quite the pair. Normally we don't let them alone in the same room. Bad things happen.""Bad things?""Things like that scenic hostel being reduced to ruin," he enlightened her."This is the supposed assassin?""Retired assassin," Chaz corrected her. "So far she's only, what is the term you two use?" he looked at me."Sending a Get-Well card to their next of kin? Pumping up the volume? Making a critical attitude adjustment? Retroactively revoking their lease on life? We have a few.""Yes, those. Pamela has assured the team director that she no longer accepts assignments of a murderous nature. These days she only practices her skills on those we determine are a threat to the greater endeavor," he explained."She murders people? You all murder people?" Anais furrowed her brow. "Cáel, do you engage in these activities?""What? Who? Me? No!" I waved off any conspiratorial associations. "The vast majority of people I've killed was totally by accident.""How do you accidently kill people?" she pierced my soul with her voice."Okay, I let them kill themselves because warning them would have resulted in me and some friends meeting very immediate violent ends," I pleaded."Miss Saint-Amour, I've talked to trustworthy people who were on the scene when this happened. It was a paramilitary action with the lives of children on the line. Cáel acted to save the lives of innocents," Chaz defended me. That is what Anais wanted to believe; that I was basically a decent human being. I was a pig, but a courageous one. I had confronted her after my infidelity, on the other side of the US/Canadian border where her jurisdiction didn't apply.I knew my revelations were hideously hard to believe. In my favor, I had been in dangerous places doing dangerous things. The Metro firefight had been captured on the place's security system (which had been leaked to the public thus leading to some delusional admirers into thinking I would make a great new King of Hungary even though they hadn't had a monarch since 1918 nor was I from the right (Hapsburg) family. In case this whole Havenstone thing came crashing down in flames, I needed to keep my options open).There had been a bomb threat at Mindszent which I had reputable sources call in (and where I had admittedly hung out with a few of the women who saved me from an earlier disaster) and Miercurea Ciuc had made the international news. Well over 100 people had died and some of the terrorists were still at large. The Romanian government declared I had been 'instrumental' in the confrontation without saying what 'instrumental' meant.I was heroically vague, more mature than where we left off and clearly incited pussy-twitching memories. We'd once fucked so continuously hard and long one weekend that neither one of us could stand until an hour after we stopped. Anais was well worth the pain I was contemplating. Sex with her wasn't the pain I was worried about. It was dodging all her calls afterwards. Once again reference her being a compulsive control freak with abysmal trust issues.Oh, how did I know she was reveling in our past coital moments? She hadn't walked out on me yet. She hadn't walked out when she found Odette in my domicile, when she met Juanita, or when she found out that I worked with highly experienced killers as part of my new daily routine.Normally Anais was smarter than this and had a career in law enforcement to contemplate. Lastly, she hadn't asked to be armed, despite getting permission from the NYPD. Had she decided to get a gun, Anais was sure in her hormonally-cascading mindset she would have shot me by now. I incite all kinds of passion in women. It is a curse.The rest of dinner was unremarkable. Anais continued to interrogate Chaz who proved that he was both skilled in counter-interrogation techniques and not willing to spill anymore secrets about what anyone at JIKIT did. However he had provided her with every logical reason to beat feet back across the Canadian border and she hadn't taken the hints about what a disaster sleeping with me could be.We drove Anais back to her motel, then Chaz and I headed home in silence. Despite his earlier declarations, he knew how to drive the 'right' way all along. As he was letting me out in front of my building, he gave me this pleasant warning."I'm not going to lecture you about not going back there, or avoiding the crazy ones. You already know better and are going back by her place anyway. I do advise that whatever you do, don't let her restrict your movements in any way. She's likely to make you pay double for your past indiscretions and take payment out on your cock. Good luck, Mate.""Wait," I stopped him. "Can you help me hotwire her bike? I can use that as an excuse to darken her doorway.""Dolt," he muttered. He helped me anyway because that's what really good friends do ~ assisting you in your self-destruction so we could joke about it later. At least that was what I hoped was going on. Chaz being a closet sadist was an unsettling idea. I didn't get to immediately pursue my plan because,(We work for you, don't we?)At 9 am, the President of the United States of America, after a late night briefing and a good night's sleep, decided that for the sake of world peace he had to intervene in Southeast Asia ~ Thailand to be specific, though he had some vague notion that a summit of regional leaders was in the offing and the US needed to establish some sort of game plan instead of looking impotent and disinterested.Based on carefully selected bits of information supplied to him by us (JIKIT), he ordered two carrier taskforces to move to the Gulf of Thailand to enforce an anticipated UN arms embargo and 'No-Fly Zone'. It would take four days (September 3rd) for Carrier Strike Group Nine (built around the USS Ronald Reagan) and the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit (2,200 souls) to take up a position in the South China Sea close to the Gulf of Thailand. By fortuitous circumstance, 500 Marines and sailors were already deployed to Malaysia on a joint training mission with the Malaysian Marines.The second one, the USS Carl Vinson's Carrier Strike Group One wouldn't arrive until the 9th, six days later. What the US government wanted to know was what the Khanate and Vietnam would do in those long, lonely six days. The Khanate had as many modern, up-to-date combat aircraft on Woody Island as the Reagan could send up. The Vietnamese could add another 48 planes worth worrying about.There was the added complication that Thailand hadn't asked for help yet. His experts (us again) were suggesting that he was about to wake up one morning and find Khanate tanks rolling down the streets of Bangkok, which

We Need To Talk About Ukraine | The Todd Coconato Show  Website: www.PastorTodd.org To give: www.ToddCoconato.com/give We Need To Talk About Ukraine Right Now The grace that God showed us in allowing President Trump to win the 2024 election may be one of the greatest miracles of our lifetime. Because of what was at stake, we have all been given a gift of grace and more time. We cannot underestimate what God has just done—He spared us from calamity. That being said, we need to pray now more than ever. This battle is not over. Why do I say this? Look first at what's happening right now. Today, Ukraine has fired its first barrage of long-range missiles into Russia. Joe Biden (or whoever is currently running this country) just approved the use of these long-range missiles, which we supplied, to be used inside Russia. This marks a major escalation of the Ukraine war.  There is no reason, in my opinion, for the Biden administration to take this step other than to deliberately try to pull us into World War III before the inauguration, sabotaging President Trump's incoming administration. What kind of evil people make their primary focus the death of unborn babies? What kind of deranged people try to drag the world into a nuclear war? We need to seriously consider the level of evil we are dealing with here. These individuals seem to have no regard for life at all. Or are their minds completely reprobate? No person in their right mind would do what they are doing now. There is no logical reason for these actions. These missiles will only escalate the conflict without any real chance of winning the war. We now clearly see one of their major plans to disrupt the incoming administration, but this is only the beginning. Americans need to understand what is truly at stake. Our news media is not reporting the situation with the urgency it demands. Every American needs to grasp the gravity of what a full-scale conflict with Russia and her allies would look like. This is not a game. Millions of lives are at risk. The stability of the world is at stake. If globalist leaders succeed in pulling us into this war before the inauguration, it could mean invoking the “War Powers Act.” While I am not saying this will happen, it is a possibility. Additionally, Russia will be forced to retaliate against these attacks. What will that retaliation look like? Cyberattacks? Cutting undersea internet cables? Could it even be a staged operation by our own agencies, similar to the Gulf of Tonkin incident? Who knows? Please continue to pray against these demonic plans and the people carrying them out. Pray that God continues His grace on America and that we, as the Body of Christ, maintain the pressure through prayer and fasting against all these evil plans and agendas. I have not even addressed some of their other schemes. We cannot afford to go to sleep right now. This is just one of their plans; there will be others. Pray.

Are we under military control, Continuity of Government (#COG) and Continuity of Operations Plan (#COOP)? Derek Johnson provides in depth information based on federal documents and public information that indicate we may very well be under a military operation to take back our country. Full resources and references are listed below.  Podcast Segments Feature: #MichaelJaco, Retired Navy Seal (Seal Team 6) #DerekJohnson, Country Music Artist & Retired Army Veteran turned podcaster Derek Johnson guest appearance, Host Unknown Derek provides government operational analysis indicating military operational controls based on the Constitution, Continuity of Government (COG), the Law of War Manual, War Powers Act, and various Executive Orders by President Trump such as 13848. In many cases, Executive Orders have been left in effect by the Joe Biden administration. Some indications are that clean up of the government bureaucracy are ongoing. For full podcasts containing complete analysis by Derek Johnson, go to: Podcast #1 - Host Michael Jaco, featuring guest Derek Johnson Podcast #2 - Host unknown, featuring guest Derek Johnson Additional References & Resources: Purchase his book: Midnight Rider Rides Again - $24.99 Derek on War Powers Act on Rumble Derek on Presidential Emergency Action Documents Support Derek Johnson and follow him (not imposters) at: His website: https://www.rattletrap1776.com/ Facebook: @1776Nation  Rumble & X: @Rattletrap1776  Truth Social: @DerekJohnson  IG: DerekJohnsonCountry  Telegram: T.me/RattleTrap1776  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Aaron Ross Powell: Welcome to Zooming In, a project of The UnPopulist. I'm Aaron Ross Powell. I'm joined today by my colleagues, Shikha Dalmia and Akiva Malamet for our editors' round table. Recent reporting has uncovered plans by Trump allies, and Trumpist think tanks, and other organizations to deconstruct the administrative state.A transcript of today's podcast appears below. It has been edited for flow and clarity.Aaron Ross Powell: I think all of us agree that the administrative state is unaccountable and too large, so what's wrong with Trump's plans to reform it?Shikha Dalmia: Good morning, Aaron and Akiva. We haven't done this in a while, right? We are getting together in this format after a long time, but I'm surprised, Aaron, you didn't use the word “deep state,” because that's the term of art these days, right? What's wrong with the “deep state?” There are actually plenty of things wrong with the deep state, but we actually in the US don't really have a deep state.Deep state is an idea that was originally meant to describe the kind of bureaucracy we had in countries like Turkey and Egypt, which was controlled by the military and security forces. They engaged in all kinds of machinations behind the scenes to control civilian authorities and the populace at large. Their functioning was completely opaque and the subject of all kinds of conspiracy theories in the Middle East.That's not what we have here in the United States. What we have in the United States is a problematic situation, where those of us who believe in government of limited size and scope, the federal government is very large. It performs functions far beyond what, I think it's fair to say, the Founders originally visualized and the bureaucratic state, the administrative state, has grown apace.Now, if you talk to my friend Frank Fukuyama, he will tell you that actually, the bureaucracy is not large enough because the federal government's functions have grown far, far more than the bureaucracy has, and the bureaucracy simply can't keep up with providing the kinds of professional and efficient execution that it was meant to do. Now, regardless of what you think about that view, I think from our point of view, an administrative state that in its current form is quite problematic, but it is part of a bigger problem with the federal government.As the federal government was originally envisualized in this country, each branch had very specific role, and had very specific powers and functions. Each side was supposed to guard that, guard their functions in a very, very jealous way. The idea was that would allow the public at large to keep each government branch publicly accountable, and at the same time, each branch would provide a check on the other.Now, that actually has not how things have worked out in the United States. Over a period of time, Congress has delegated too much of its authority to both the president and the executive agencies under the president. If you think of the War Powers Act, it was supposed to curtail the president's war-making ability. But Congress has got used to giving very large authorization of power to wage all kinds of wars in all kinds of countries post 9/11. That was one huge usurpation of power by the executive, not intentionally, but in effect from Congress.Congress also writes very broad and vague legislations and then lets the administrative branch define them in any way it wants to. That essentially means, this is the critique of the administrative state, is that therefore the administrative branches have very sweeping legislative powers through their powers of interpretation that nobody can really control. Congress can't control the executive agencies and the president can't control the executive agencies either, because many of these people are civil servants and bureaucrats and they are protected by rules of a professional bureaucracy. So they become largely unaccountable.If you are listening to our conservative friends, there's an additional problem, which is that the civil servants tend to be somewhat leftist in their biases. They have an ideological agenda…to promote environmental legislation or equity legislation and what have you. All that becomes a problem for them. Now, I would be in favor of limiting the size and scope of the administrative branch if it was part of broader reform of government, where the Congress took back its legislative powers and therefore the administrative branches had to do less in terms of interpretation and execution. Then you could shrink the size of the administrative state too. But that's not what Trump is proposing.What Trump and the Republicans are proposing is not, in my view, a deconstruction, which is a term of art, or the rationalization of the administrative state. They want to co-opt and take over the administrative state for their own ends. Their ends are essentially twofold: To punish their enemies and rewards their friends. That's what the right has been saying it wants to do for a very long time.“What Trump and the Republicans are proposing is not, in my view, a deconstruction, which is a term of art, or the rationalization of the administrative state. They want to co-opt and take over the administrative state for their own ends. Their ends are essentially twofold: To punish their enemies and rewards their friends.”— Shikha DalmiaIn Trump's case, it means punishing enemies means not just ideological enemies, which is certainly a part of it, but actually, his personal enemies who have tried to hold him accountable for things like calling a mob to ransack the Capitol. He wants to go after Biden and Hunter Biden for purely political purposes. That's not really a reform of the administrative state. That's a co-optation of the of the administrative state.Now, how is he planning to do that? He's got a three-part plan to do this. The first part is that all presidents get to appoint 4,000 political appointments across federal agencies. That is not something that Trump alone would do, every president does that. What is different in this case is that most presidents will look for people who have expertise and merit, have some kind of claim to merit to run the agencies. That's not what they want to do. Heritage Foundation and America First Policy Institute and then Steve Miller's, I think it's America First Legal. They have a plan to install loyalist—Trump loyalists in these positions. That's a problem.The second part that they want to do is there are 50,000 employees who are Schedule F employees, and they are off-limits to the political branches in a certain sense. Trump wants to re-up his old executive order, which will essentially make them at-will employees and allow him to fire them. Again, if he was planning to do this in order to streamline and rationalize the administrative state, that would be one thing. That's not what it is. He [Trump] wants to flatten the points of resistance that he encountered in his initial first term that prevented him from implementing unconstitutional plans, many of which he still managed to do. For instance, on immigration and what have you. That's what he's trying to do. That's why it's all problematic from our point of view. Even though we want a smaller administrative state, we want a well-defined government with specific roles. This is not what that is.“He [Trump] wants to flatten the points of resistance that he encountered in his initial first term that prevented him from implementing unconstitutional plans … That's why it's all problematic from our point of view. Even though we want a smaller administrative state, we want a well-defined government with specific roles.”— Shikha DalmiaAkiva: I think those are excellent points, Shikha. I think one of the things that's important to emphasize here is the idea that there is a distinction between harnessing government for your own ends and making government smaller in general. That really the function of what Trump wants to do is to make government a tool of his own ends. One of the things that I think is critical here is that he doesn't really have a plan for what he wants to do in society. What he does is he has certain temperaments about who he likes, who he doesn't like, who his friends are, who his enemies are, and then follows those as a almost random or not random, but very disorganized set of policies to—what he wants to do is in a very disorganized way, punish his friends and reward his enemies and rather than enact any comprehensive plan of reform. In general, what he wants to do is change institutions wholesale so that they no longer serve the so-called “liberal elites” that he's so constantly in favor of attacking.Now, this resembles in many cases a similar plan that has been enacted in many European populist contexts in Hungary, Turkey, Poland, and so on, where there's no real plan for what government should or shouldn't do. There's an idea that there are certain people in power who we don't like, certain outgroups, social outgroups—liberals, feminists, gay rights advocates, and so on. We want them out of power. Instead, we want to put in our own socially conservative, hardline, nationalist stormtroopers. In essence, what we have is a cultural fight over which culture should the institutions of government be wielded. Should they be wielded in favor of a progressive "woke agenda" or they should be wielded in favor of a socially conservative, regressive, reactionary agenda? Of course, independent of whether you're on one side or another, there's one question which neither side has asked, which is should the institutions of government be wielded for these purposes at all? It's clear that what Trump is doing is simply agreeing with the progressives that the institutions of government should be wielded in order to force people into certain modes of action and modes of being but he wants to do it on behalf of his own conservative, reactionary forces rather than progressive ones.“There's one question which neither side has asked, which is should the institutions of government be wielded for these purposes at all? It's clear that what Trump is doing is simply agreeing with the progressives that the institutions of government should be wielded in order to force people into certain modes of action and modes of being but he wants to do it on behalf of his own conservative, reactionary forces rather than progressive ones.”— Akiva MalametAaron: That seems like that describes Trump who is just pure id without much in the way of ideological grounding or even conceptual coherence. He has a sense that there are people who are obsequious to him and he likes those people and people who aren't and he doesn't like those people. Does that describe the broader plan here?When the Heritage Foundation is putting out its 900-page proposal for policies, their Project 2025, I think it's called, or when they're vetting people to take over all of these roles in the administrative state that Trump will make vacant through these various machinations, it feels like those sorts of organizations and people like Stephen Miller do have a more coherent view of what they want society to look like, why they are doing this. They're using Trump as the way to gain power, and then these mechanisms are a way to further assert power because Trump has a certain sort of popularity with a distressingly large portion of the population and we can leverage that, but this feels much more calculated than what you're describing, Akiva.I agree, the Viktor Orban analogies, I think, hold, that there is this sense that we just-- what we want is what we, meaning the people advancing these plans, not me, want is a society that holds to a certain set of conservative views and values and uses the oppressive power of the state to stamp out feminism and LGBT identities and wokeism, whatever they happen to mean by that, and doesn't make white people uncomfortable by teaching the history of racism, and so on.It doesn't feel like just we want to change the culture of the institutions. It feels much more like there is a specific end goal of remaking society to look like a certain thing in mind.Shikha: No, I think that's exactly right. In Trump's first term, there was a disconnect, right? The existing conservative establishment had, which reflected the Reagan era consensus of a certain fealty to limited government principles … at least it offered lip service to those principles, and also wanted certain limitations on the power of the state. They may have had a cultural agenda, just as the left had a cultural agenda, but they had a higher loyalty to these sort of other principles. And they felt that if Trump came along, they could use the Federalist Society to put such jurists in courts and who were not primarily—who were originalists, limited government types, textualists, and what have you, first, and culture warriors second.Trump came along on a populist agenda. His was a populist mandate. He got elected as a culture warrior. Now, one can debate whether Trump is truly a culture warrior or not, it doesn't matter, but he got elected on a culture warrior agenda. That was combined with a certain taste for power in him. To the extent that the courts, the bureaucratic branches, the Republican Party was populated with these other kinds of conservatives, there was a mismatch in what he wanted, and his mandate, and what they wanted, and their long-standing, loyalties and commitments.That has all shifted now. Now there is a harmony in the mandate that Trump wants to get elected on and what the right-wing establishment wants to do. That's where the Heritage Foundations of the world come in. Heritage now looks very different. Heritage was never to my taste, but the Heritage of today is very different from the Heritage of pre-Trump. Now it's in it for the power. The whole idea of a limited government because you at least worry about what your opponents are going to do when they come to power is gone through the window. They want to amass as much power to cram as much of their culture war agenda as they possibly can. Trump, they see, will play ball on that. There will be no tension between that agenda and what Trump wants to accomplish.Trump's added need is for loyalty. Trump's added need is for personal power which they are just happy to go along with because in this case, his power will, in fact, serve their ideological goals.“The right is arguably the most radical political contingent in the United States right now, has abandoned conservatism and doesn't hold at all to a desire to maintain governing institutions but instead…is simply a political movement for exercising heavy power in the service of creating or reestablishing certain hierarchies that they see as having eroded under liberalism.”—Aaaron Ross PowellAaron: It seems like we are seeing then in the way that you describe it, something of a broader version of a longtime hobby horse of mine that I've written about, which is we, especially United States, tend to treat the right and conservatism as synonyms. They both just mean the same thing. If you're on the right, you're a conservative, if you're a conservative, you're on the right and their political projects are identical. It feels like what's happening now and what was recognized in the first Trump administration with the kinds of people, they appointed a lot of conservatives to positions of power.What they didn't get from that was a sufficient quantity of people who were the necessary degree of being on “the right” to do the things that they wanted. That these people had conservative commitments to institutions and principles and so on that got in the way of a far-right agenda. A second Trump term and this split in the Heritage Foundation, the Heritage Foundation used to be a conservative organization. Now it is a far-right organization that is not conservative. That there is this real decoupling and that the right is arguably the most radical political contingent in the United States right now, has abandoned conservatism and doesn't hold at all to a desire to maintain governing institutions but instead, it ties back to what the right has traditionally meant, is simply a political movement for exercising heavy power in the service of creating or reestablishing certain hierarchies that they see as having eroded under liberalism.Akiva: Yes, I think that's right. I think what's happened is we've had a destruction of the idea of conservatism, not just in the sense of small government, but in the sense of conserving institutions, in the sense of there being checks and balances and balance to power and preserving a certain liberal legacy of America's founding documents and a shift towards trying to exercise power for its own sake and to exercising power on behalf of certain culturally conservative ends. We have a shift from conservatism in the sense of conservation or conservatism in the sense of limited government to conservatism as revolutionary.“We've had a destruction of the idea of conservatism, not just in the sense of small government, but in the sense of conserving institutions, in the sense of there being checks and balances and balance to power and preserving a certain liberal legacy of America's founding documents and a shift towards trying to exercise power for its own sake and to exercising power on behalf of certain culturally conservative ends.”— Akiva MalametThis is something that Tom Palmer talks about in an unpublished paper that he delivered to the Mont Pelerin Society about the idea of a conservative revolutionary. This is something that the conservative revolutionary in the original sense were actually the predecessors to the Nazi regime in Germany. These were people who saw the whole business of democratic politics, of the give and take of democratic politics as impeding their ability to enact their will on the populace and to impose their social conservative agenda, and to revive the cult of the nation, and so on.Describe themselves very much as conservative, but not in the sense of everlasting principles and certain code of ethics and so on, but conservative in the sense of being right wing and right wing in the sense of being nationalist, being socially conservative, and so on. We see this repeat itself in the Trump administration to a greater extent and which is trying to follow in the lead of contemporary populists like Viktor Orban, like the former prime minister of Poland, like Giorgia Meloni in Italy and so on, and who see their role as agents of the right and the right being defined in a revolutionary way to transform society into an organ of their own making. An organ that is suffused and constructed to favor certain social classes and hierarchies to defend traditional gender roles, to defend the traditional family unit, to be anti-LGBT and so on.Shikha: Right. Yes, I think, Tom Palmer's piece on the conservative revolution was actually sort of eye-opening because it was so historically grounded, right? If you don't like the so-called liberal radicals, wait till you get the conservative radicals who get their hands on the levers of the state. It is pretty terrifying what they would want to do. If you look at some of like the blueprints of what the Heritage Foundation and Steve Miller have in mind, it's downright chilling.Steve Miller, his immigration agenda, and he has said that, he's openly mocking immigration advocates right now and saying, wait till our second term, you won't know what's hit you. The kinds of things he wants to do, not only will he re-up everything he did in his first term, he has plans to build all kinds of huge detention camps to throw immigrants, undocumented immigrants and anybody else coming into the country. There will be deportation raids galore. Beyond that, plans to take away, deport people who are openly pro-Palestinian or anti-Israel. At least this is Steve Miller's agenda.There will be litmus tests on the immigrants who are coming into the country to make sure they actually tow sort of like a right-wing line. Now, this kind of meddling, trying to socially engineer a public to serve the state ends of the right is kind of scary and not where this country has gone before, as best as I know, even under the worst of circumstances. Yes, so sort of the idea is to have some a conservative revolution in which you use the levers of the state to cram as much of the conservative social agenda as possible and then to hell with the next, the Democratic government once it comes into power. My fear is not just that, what conservatives are doing will end with conservatives, but then it will be picked up by progressives in future administrations to push their own, draconian ends. It's a downward spiral.I don't think we want to do is become cheerleaders for the administrative state in the way that in the early Trump administration and throughout the Trump administration, you suddenly saw progressives embracing the FBI as this force for preserving and protecting democracy and our freedoms.—Aaron Ross PowellAaron: We have a situation where you have a past president who hopes to be a future president who wants to come in and re-engineer the state along essentially to be what Polemicus thought of as justice, which as we've mentioned, is punishing your enemies and rewarding your friends. Married to these conservative intellectuals who want to take those urges and use them in the service of re-engineering society towards far-right ends.A lot of this is being spoken about is, to go back to our opening remarks, a lot of this is being spoken about in the language of reforming the federal bureaucracy, shrinking the administrative state, making it accountable, making career bureaucrats easier to fire so that we can get turnover and we can get accountability. All of these are things that classical liberals have talked about for decades, right? These are, we need to reform the administrative state. We need to figure out how to reform the administrative state. We need to figure out how to make it more accountable. We need to shrink it. We need to return lawmaking power to Congress or demand that Congress retake lawmaking power instead of writing this legislation that's like, this bill will, tasks the EPA with making the environment better and then lets the EPA fill in all the details of what making the environment better means and so on.All of that sounds very classical liberal, but is now being co-opted for decidedly anti-liberal, if not, outright authoritarian ends. What do we do about that? Because what I don't think we want to do is become cheerleaders for the administrative state in the way that in the early Trump administration and throughout the Trump administration, you suddenly saw progressives embracing the FBI as this force for preserving and protecting democracy and our freedoms. Shikha, when you were saying at the beginning that you didn't think there ever was a deep state in the US, the one counter example I could think of is like J. Edgar Hoover's FBI was about as close to what you were describing as I think, as far as big institutions go.We don't want to just become Pollyannish about the administrative state because all of those classical liberal critiques still hold, right? What do we, what do we do about this current situation? How do we fight back against misuse of administrative state reform without giving up on the real need to reform this for liberal ends?Shikha: One of the things that the Trump era did was to make me re-evaluate my positions about the administrative state. I think I've mentioned to you guys, I grew up in the India of the License Raj and the Yes Minister BBC series. The License Raj was this hidebound bureaucracy which controlled the lives of citizens because it had these powers to extract rents in the form of bribes from them for everything that an ordinary citizen wanted to do. You want to build a house? You're not going to get clearance from the bureaucrats till you give them a hefty bribe. There was so much corruption in India due to the administrative state that the reform of the administrative state was something that appeals to me inherently. The one thing that the administrative state in the US has done well—and I take your example of J. Edgar Hoover, Aaron completely, not just that he was going after Martin Luther King, they were going after Martin Luther King, the FBI was, and infiltrating civil rights groups for the worst possible ends—but that said, by and large, the administrative state has done a pretty good job of keeping public corruption at bay in this country.American bureaucracy and American government, at least at the federal level, is really not all that corrupt. I can't overstate just how much stability and trust that builds in institutions when you have institutions that at least don't have this one big vice, which is corruption. In the Trump era, the administrative state performed quite well, I think. It provided advice to him and provided resistance to his worst possible designs. Things on immigration would have been a whole lot worse if there hadn't been bureaucrats within the Department of Homeland Security telling Trump, no, you can't throw people into concentration camps, essentially, right?“American bureaucracy and American government, at least at the federal level, is really not all that corrupt. I can't overstate just how much stability and trust that builds in institutions when you have institutions that at least don't have this one big vice, which is corruption. In the Trump era, the administrative state performed quite well, I think. It provided advice to him and provided resistance to his worst possible designs.” — Shikha DalmiaYou can't simply go around taking funds from the military and putting them towards the wall, although Trump tried to do it via an executive order. The one role that the administrative, and this is where I agree with Frank Fukuyama, is there is a need to defend a certain amount of independence of the administrative state so that it can provide a check on the nefarious designs of government officials who wield a whole lot of power and ensure that they are wielding this power in a responsible and a non-corrupt way. How do we give some autonomy to the administrative state to provide this check on public corruption, while at the same time, not becoming monstrous and a bane on the public itself is a difficult question.What you don't do, you don't do is flatten these points of internal resistance so that a populist demagogue can simply come in and do exactly what he pleases, regardless of whether it fits in with the broader constitutional design or not. I don't know, that doesn't answer your question, but I think, the issue is to get the incentives right within the administrative state rather than to simply throw out the baby with the bathwater.Akiva: Yes, I agree with that. I think one of the things that classical liberals often overlook is that they may not want much of a state, but those parts of a state that they do want to function, have to function well. Even if you wanted a really small state, a night watchman state even, you need the courts to be not corrupt. You need the bureaucracy to be non-corrupt, to be accountable to people. One form of accountability is avoiding awarding political office on the basis of patronage, on the basis of nepotism, on the basis of special connections, because of bribes, and so on.“Even if you wanted a really small state, a night watchman state even, you need the courts to be not corrupt. You need the bureaucracy to be non-corrupt, to be accountable to people. One form of accountability is avoiding awarding political office on the basis of patronage, on the basis of nepotism, on the basis of special connections, because of bribes, and so on.”— Akiva MalametYou want a culture of meritocracy to exist so that you have a set of people in these agencies who are loyal to the agency and to upholding the rule of law and to upholding norms of impartiality rather than worrying about whether they're friends with their boss or whether their boss is friends with the president and so on. You want to avoid these kinds of norms of corruption that are so common in so many parts of the world in which the deep state is really unaccountable and in which you really don't have the kinds of checks and balances between the legislature, the executive, and the administrative state that you do in the United States.Aaron: Thank you for listening to Zooming In at The UnPopulist. 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Andrew For America presents the tenth installment of his supercut show, which is an artfully arranged assortment of clips that illustrate the status quo, the zeitgeist, the "spirit of the times" that we are living in here in the 21st century. This installment includes: the infamous "big club" meeting at Jekyll Island in 1910 involving the Rockefeller, Rothschild, and Morgan banking families, Joe Rogan says the Rothschild's own Antarctica, how Mossad may have been involved in the Kennedy assassination, Ron Paul on Osama Bin Laden, David Icke on the "agenda" and global media propaganda, Zeta Reticuli filmmaker says he was approached by Naval Intelligence with the "secrets of the universe," the FBI has Epstein's black book, Robert Kiyosaki says the American dollar crash is coming soon, Alexa says WW3 will begin on March 1, 2024 and that there will be no 2024 election because of the invoking of the War Powers Act, Biden will invoke War Powers Act in response to an alleged climate emergency, who created the "simulation" that we are allegedly living in, Richard Verner explains how the City of London and the Bank of England are not part of Great Britain, how the Queen of England is just a figurehead, and the true royal bloodlines that believe they have divine right have both Hebrew and Egyptian ancestors, how wokeism and feminism are being used to weaken the American population into accepting the transhumanist agenda, and how the implementation of world communism or "world democratic socialism" has been underway and happening for over a century now: from Woodrow Wilson and 1913 to the Great Depression, to the rise and fall of Hitler and Nazi Germany, to the creation of the United Nations, to the creation of the Soviet Union under FDR, the rise and fall of the Soviet Union, the Cold War, etc...all are part of the alleged "plan for the world." Andrew makes the case that what this "plan" is, is the creation of a world socialist democratic order, aka a "brave new Orwellian surveillance police state totalitarian dictatorship world order." Seek the truth...and the truth shall set you free. And my fellow Americans...you better do it quick. Because it's coming... Visit altmediaunited.com and check out all the awesome podcasts! Visit allegedlyrecords.com and check out all of the amazing punk rock artists! Visit soundcloud.com/andrewforamerica1984 to check out Andrew's music! Like and Follow The Politics & Punk Rock Podcast PLAYLIST on Spotify!!! Check it out here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1Y4rumioeqvHfaUgRnRxsy... politicsandpunkrockpodcast.com https://linktr.ee/andrewforamerica --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/andrew-foramerica/support

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On this day in legal history, September 29, 1983, the War Powers Act was invoked for the first time – by President Ronald Reagan in order to keep a U.S. Marine presence in Lebanon.On September 29, 1983, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 270 to 161 to invoke the War Powers Act concerning the deployment of American Marines in Lebanon for an additional 18 months. The resolution had bipartisan support, including from President Reagan. This marked the first time the House invoked the War Powers Act, a law designed to limit the President's war-making powers, which was enacted a decade earlier. The Senate would go on to approve the resolution.President Reagan thanked the House for its bipartisan vote, emphasizing the importance of cooperation between the legislative and executive branches. However, the vote also revealed concerns among lawmakers about the U.S.'s role in the Middle East and the potential for the Marines to be drawn into a larger conflict. Some representatives warned that the resolution was tantamount to a declaration of war and could result in American casualties.The debate in the House was marked by a sense of urgency but also caution. Lawmakers were torn between the risks of pulling out and staying in Lebanon, with some describing it as a "very unhappy choice." Despite reservations, the prevailing sentiment was that Congress had to back the resolution to support the President during a crisis.The War Powers Act mandates that the President must notify Congress when American troops face combat and withdraw them within 60 to 90 days unless Congress authorizes their continued deployment. Interestingly, President Reagan had not made such a notification, but the compromise resolution asserted the Act's applicability, making Reagan the first President to acknowledge its validity. This failure to abide by the initial notification requirement, coupled with the later request for an extension, in full light of history, was a major step forward in placing the power to declare war in the office of the presidency.At the time, the Senate was also debating an amendment requiring more detailed reporting from the President on the Marines' mission in Lebanon. The House had rejected a similar amendment, which would have postponed a decision on the Marines' future for 60 more days. The debate touched on the balance of power between Congress and the President, the definition of success in Lebanon, and the long-term implications of U.S. involvement in the Middle East. In the ensuing 40 years, every president has either explicitly or tacitly leaned on the War Powers Act to substantiate action abroad. By way of brief background, the War Powers Resolution mandates that the U.S. President can only deploy armed forces abroad through a formal declaration of war by Congress, "statutory authorization," or in the event of a national emergency caused by an attack on the U.S. or its armed forces. The President must notify Congress within 48 hours of committing troops to military action and cannot keep them deployed for more than 60 days without an additional 30-day withdrawal period, unless Congress authorizes the use of military force or declares war. The resolution was enacted by a two-thirds majority in both the House and Senate, overriding President Richard Nixon's veto. Despite its provisions, allegations have been made that the resolution has been violated in the past, such as George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq in 2003 and Bill Clinton's involvement in the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999. While Congress has disapproved of these incidents, no successful legal actions have been taken against any President for such alleged violations.Suffolk University Law School in Boston has a significant impact on the Massachusetts legal landscape despite its lower ranking in national lists. As of 2021, the school is the leading source of judges in the state, contributing 118 out of 440 judges on the Massachusetts bench. Additionally, three of the seven justices on the state's highest court and Judge Gustavo Gelpí of the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit are Suffolk alumni. High-profile roles in the state, such as the Secretary of State and Chief Public Defender, are also filled by Suffolk graduates.However, Suffolk Law ranks fifth in the Boston area and falls in the bottom third nationwide, according to U.S. News & World Report. Despite this, the school has a high retention rate for local graduates, which is crucial for Boston's legal market that faces competition from larger cities like New York and Washington, D.C. In 2022, 73% of Suffolk Law graduates took their first-year job in Massachusetts, a higher percentage than graduates from Boston University, Northeastern, and Boston College law schools.The school's strong presence in the state judiciary and public service sectors has created a cycle that attracts students interested in these fields. For example, state Sen. John Cronin chose Suffolk for its reputation in producing practice-oriented lawyers with distinguished careers in public service. The school's curriculum focuses on experiential programs, allowing students to gain real-world experience.Suffolk Law School also addresses a growing need in Boston's legal market by training scientists to become lawyers for biotech clients. The school offers a nighttime program in intellectual property law, attracting individuals with doctorates in science. Firms like Foley Hoag LLP and Foley & Lardner LLP have hired these specialists and sponsored their education at Suffolk's evening program.In summary, Suffolk University Law School plays a pivotal role in Massachusetts' legal ecosystem, particularly in the judiciary and public service sectors, despite its lower national ranking. Its strategic programs and high local graduate retention rate make it a cornerstone in the state's legal community. It stands as a clear example of the shortcomings and difficulties in trying to reduce a school's educational worth to a hierarchical ranking scale. Underdog Boston School Churns Out Judges, Big Law Partners (1)The IRS has released a plan outlining its operations in the event of a government shutdown, which appears increasingly likely if Congress fails to reach a funding agreement by October 1. The plan involves furloughing approximately 60,000 IRS employees, a change from last year's contingency plan. About one-third of the workforce will continue to work, funded by the Inflation Reduction Act, special compliance funding, and user fees. Essential functions like mail processing, criminal law enforcement, disaster relief transcript processing, and income verification for mortgage lenders will continue.However, the IRS will halt all audit functions, return examinations, non-automated collections, and will not answer taxpayer phone calls. Doreen Greenwald, President of the National Treasury Employees Union, expressed concern over the stress and financial insecurity that furloughed IRS workers would face. She also warned that a shutdown could exacerbate the agency's existing backlog by preventing new hires.Initial discussions had suggested that the IRS would remain fully operational by using funds from the Democrats' Inflation Reduction Act, which are not subject to annual appropriations and are available until September 2031. During the last government shutdown in 2018-2019, many IRS operations were halted, but tax refund checks would have been issued if the shutdown extended into tax-filing season. Eileen Sherr of the American Institute of CPAs advised taxpayers to use e-filing for error-free and direct-deposit refunds, as these will be the only ones processed during a shutdown.IRS to Partially Close, Furlough Staff in Federal Shutdown (2)A National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) judge has ruled that Starbucks violated federal labor law by increasing wages and benefits only for employees in non-unionized stores across the U.S. This marks the first nationwide ruling against Starbucks, which has been resisting a wave of unionization for the past two years. The judge, Mara-Louise Anzalone, stated that Starbucks engaged in a "corporate-wide effort to manipulate its employees' free choice" by tying their pay and benefits to their willingness to avoid organizing. The ruling orders Starbucks to compensate thousands of unionized workers who were unlawfully denied increased wages and benefits.This decision is significant as it is the first to find Starbucks in violation of labor laws on a nationwide scale, as opposed to previous rulings that were limited to individual stores. The unionization campaign against Starbucks has led to nearly 350 organized cafes in 37 states, and the NLRB has filed almost 100 complaints against the company. Of these, at least 75 are still pending.Starbucks has publicly denied any legal wrongdoing and argued that increasing pay for unionized workers would itself be illegal, as federal law prohibits unilateral changes to union workers' conditions. However, Judge Anzalone dismissed this argument, stating it wasn't made in good faith. She also ruled that Starbucks' actions illegally discouraged other workers from joining the union. While the judge did not order additional training for Starbucks managers on labor laws, she did mandate that the CEO read a notice of employee rights to U.S. workers and post it in every store.Starbucks Illegally Kept Wages, Benefits From Union Workers (1)The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) has enough funds to continue operations for about three months in the event of a government shutdown. The agency plans to use its $1.04 billion operating reserves to cover patent and trademark expenses. The PTO is primarily self-funded through patent and trademark filing fees but still requires annual appropriations from Congress. In the past, the PTO has remained open during government shutdowns, including the 35-day shutdown from December 2018 to January 2019.However, some patent attorneys have expressed concerns about the PTO's long-term ability to function if appropriations are not made. The agency's financial stability during short-term shutdowns is a change from the past when Congress would divert part of the PTO's revenue to fund other government activities. Although a provision to prevent such diversion was removed from the America Invents Act of 2011, Congress has since committed not to divert PTO fees.Legal practitioners seem largely unconcerned about a potential shutdown affecting the PTO, as the agency has successfully weathered past shutdowns. The Patent Public Advisory Committee and PTO officials have planned for such contingencies by increasing the reserve fund. If a shutdown were to last beyond the reserve's capacity, most PTO employees would be furloughed, and the agency's regional offices would close.A prolonged shutdown could also affect the rulemaking process, including proposed changes to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board and requests for comment on artificial intelligence issues. Other agencies involved in the rulemaking process, like the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, could be impacted by furloughs. Finally, while the PTO would continue to collect fees, it would not be able to use those funds without congressional authority.Patent Office Has Funds to Stay Open Three Months Amid ShutdownThe U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear a case involving Zackey Rahimi, who argues that his Second Amendment rights were violated by a law preventing individuals under a domestic violence restraining order from owning firearms. This case could have broader implications for where guns can be carried, including in malls and parks. The court's decision will be its first opportunity to clarify its 2022 ruling in New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n v. Bruen, which has led to varying interpretations in lower courts.In Bruen, the Supreme Court established that the government must prove a law restricting gun access aligns with the nation's historical tradition of firearm regulation. However, this has led to inconsistent rulings, as judges lack clear guidance on how closely a modern law must resemble historical laws to pass constitutional muster. The ambiguity has particularly affected laws prohibiting gun possession in "sensitive places" like parks and libraries.Judges have been divided on what counts as a "sensitive place," leading to contrasting rulings. For example, a New Jersey judge ordered the state to stop enforcing provisions that prohibit gun possession in parks and libraries, while a similar challenge in New York received the opposite treatment. Legal experts anticipate that the Rahimi case could provide much-needed clarity on how to apply the Bruen test.If the court sides with Rahimi, it could have far-reaching implications for existing gun legislation, including laws about carrying firearms in "sensitive places." The case also raises questions about linking modern rights to historical contexts that did not contemplate contemporary issues, such as domestic violence, which was not prosecuted as a crime until the late 20th century.New Supreme Court Case a Test for Carrying Guns in Malls, Parks Get full access to Minimum Competence - Daily Legal News Podcast at www.minimumcomp.com/subscribe

Roger Stone, a partisan Republican, and Gene Valentino compare the political past to the political future. Roger Stone predicts Trump will be the nominee.  He compares his firsthand relationship with Richard Nixon to his current relationship with Donald Trump.  He says Trump will be the beneficiary of a more open/honest election through effective oversight. How much of Trump's past experience in government will reflect the way he leads in the future?  Roger Stone capsulizes the inside truth about the John Durham report that there was an illegal use of the FISA warrants to spy of Donald Trump and staff. Roger describes that there were wire taps on his phone as well as Paul Manafort, and Carter Page, claiming they had ‘Russian collusion' communications.  He reflects on John F. Kennedy's presidential campaign against Richard Nixon.  “Had Nixon had the internet to launch counter offenses against Kennedy, he would have survived against Kennedy,” says Roger Stone.  Stone was also accused of Wikileaks communications with Julian Assange, which was not the case.  Evidence shows no such communication existed. Not only Donald Trump, but Roger Stone as well have questioned anomalies in the last 2020 election. Roger talks about the unsubstantiated accusations against Trump that led to the Trump indictments. Roger compares the Biden Crime Family antics, and those of the Democrat Party, to historical patterns that go back to the Kennedy/Johnson Administrations. Go to MarcoPoloUSA.org. Roger says that there you'll find the actual posted contents of Hunter Biden's laptop. Trump considers himself the sole reason Ron DeSantis became Governor.  Trump's support of DeSantis reinvigorated the doomed candidacy of DeSantis. For this reason, Roger says there's no chance Trump would entertain a Trump/DeSantis ticket. Roger wants DeSantis to focus on Florida's malaria epidemic and insurance crisis. On Biden's term of office, Roger thinks it's possible Biden will stay in office long enough to pardon himself and the others in the Biden Crime Family whether he's the Democratic nominee or not.  He believes Biden will enact the War Powers Act in order to avoid the next presidential election entirely, in order to postpone the next election indefinitely.  He says Trump will prevail across the board on all of these charges. He outlines Biden Administration's violation of a treaty we signed with Russia, all because Joe Biden felt the need to step up and protect Ukraine. “Under Trump we saw that Russia would not invade Ukraine.  Putin was scared of Trump.  We are vaulting dangerously toward WW3 under Biden's Administration.  When Trump prays, he prays for America, not himself,” Stone says.Originally Recorded on Wednesday, September 13, 2023 at 10:30am CSTSeason 2, Episode 17Learn More at: GeneValentino.comImage(s) Courtesy of: Gene Valentino Join the Conversation: https://GeneValentino.com WMXI Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/NewsRadio981 More WMXI Interviews: https://genevalentino.com/wmxi-interviews/ More GrassRoots TruthCast Episodes: https://genevalentino.com/grassroots-truthcast-with-gene-valentino/ More About Gene Valentino: https://genevalentino.com/about-gene-valentino/

How does the New Republic's use of force compare to the War Powers Act? Is Morgan Elsbeth an Imperial or Non-State Actor? Join us for our legal analysis (and a lot of historical comparisons) of Ahsoka, part 3, "Time to Fly." Support the showNo part of this recording should be considered legal advice.Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and TikTok @TheLegalGeeks

   In a tale of two halves, Mizzou rode Brady Cook's hot hand to a big halftime lead and cruised to a 35-10 season opening win.  Nebraska blew a lead and Lee Sterling got our patrons to 1-0 with his Utah pick.  Night one is in the books and now KU and KSU take the stage.    Travis Kelce has a message for Chris Jones... he busted it out on his podcast with his brother.  It's the same thing I've been saying and we'll play it for you.    A man on X has posted a video of his Amazon Alexa device saying there will be no election in 2024 because the Dems will invoke the War Powers Act.  What?  So I asked mine and it seems to be indicating the same thing.   84 year old Andrew Lester will stand trial after the grazing of teenager Ralph Yarl outside his front door months ago in the Northland.  But even a trial isn't enough for the crazy race baiters, now they're bitching that the cops were too gentle with the feeble old man.    Then Lee Sterling of www.paramountsports.com joins us for his week one picks in college football after starting 2-0 last weekend and hitting his pick last night.  Let's do this!

Andrew For America plays a game called "Coincidence or Conspiracy?" where he plays an assortment of clips including: Vivek Ramaswamy and Pete Buttigieg were once on an episode of Hardball asking questions to political candidates, Larry Ellison owns the island of Lanai, Bill Gates and Mosquito Week, Michio Kaku told CBS news 9 years ago that we had directed energy lasers that were being used to "modify the weather," Jeb Bush predicted a pandemic in 2016, Alexa says the 2024 election won't happen because of the War Powers Act and war with Russia and China, Dr. Peter McCullogh says they are building an "organized bio-pharma syndicate," Dr. Nass and the WHO pandemic treaty protocols, SEERS the new pandemic reported in Canada, John Kerry says climate change is "our fault," Man uses data to prove that climate change is a myth, DARPA put nanoparticles in the vax, Dr. Steve Hotze says its transhumanism: they are trying to "mind control" the population using "nano-warfare," Moderna calls the MRNA nanoparticles, "lipids," how to detox from the spike protein, and soon they will put the MRNA technology in our food and in our cattle! The song selection is the song, "United States of Amnesia" by the band Rainbow Coalition Death Cult. Visit altmediaunited.com and check out all the awesome podcasts! Visit allegedlyrecords.com and check out all of the amazing punk rock artists! Visit soundcloud.com/andrewforamerica1984 to check out Andrew's music! Like and Follow The Politics & Punk Rock Podcast PLAYLIST on Spotify!!! Check it out here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1Y4rumioeqvHfaUgRnRxsy... politicsandpunkrockpodcast.com https://linktr.ee/andrewforamerica

Prof. Juni brings a fresh, though disorienting, skepticism about “self-evident” perspectives on good vs. evil, proposing that our world views are totally blinded by our own ideology. Our international prism thus lacks any relationship to reality. Dr. Juni advances his provocative point of view,based on interpersonal psychology, that our perceptions and judgments are secondary to our needs and agenda. Is Putin a patriot or a villain? Juniargues that our individual perspectives – whether you live in New York or in Moscow – have been programmed by sociocultural factors and lack objectivity. To hundreds of millions, Putin and Lincoln are Patriots. Both were presidents of colonial powers. Both defended their amalgamated states against secession. Both engaged in warfare and justified killings based on nationalist values. And both were vilified by those who saw things differently. Donning his Civil War Historian aficionado hat, R. Kivelevitz notes the uneven appreciation by Americans – and even among Republicans -- of Lincoln. While historian Harry Jaffa portrays Lincoln as the sagacious ultimate noble human being, he was decried by many as an unscrupulous dictator and tyrant who wantonly suspended habeas corpus, illegally invoked the War Powers Act, and usurped private property by freeing slaves. R. Kivelevitz drew the parallel between Korach and Putin, citing various rabbinic sources (including Zohar) which feature silver linings about Korach and his constituents. Noting that history is written by the winners, Juni muses, “What would the Chumash look like if Korach had prevailed?” Prof. Juni is one of the foremost research psychologists in the world today. He has published ground-breaking original research in seventy different peer reviewed journals and is cited continuously with respect by colleagues and experts in the field who have built on his theories and observations. He studied in Yeshivas Chaim Berlin under Rav Yitzchak Hutner, and in Yeshiva University as a Talmid of Rav Joseph Dov Soloveitchik. Dr. Juni is a board member of the Association of Orthodox Jewish Scientists and has regularly presented addresses to captivated audiences. Associated with NYU since 1979, Juni has served as Director of PhD programs, all the while heading teams engaged in cutting-edge research. Professor Juni's scholarship on aberrant behavior across the cultural, ethnic, and religious spectrum is founded on psychometric methodology and based on a psychodynamic psychopathology perspective. He is arguably the preeminent expert in Differential Diagnostics, with each of his myriad studies entailing parallel efforts in theory construction and empirical data collection from normative and clinical populations. Professor Juni created and directed the NYU Graduate Program in Tel Aviv titled Cross-Cultural Group Dynamics in Stressful Environments. Based in Yerushalayim, he collaborates with Israeli academic and mental health specialists in the study of dissonant factors and tensions in the Arab-Israeli conflict and those within the Orthodox Jewish community, while exploring personality challenges of second-generation Holocaust survivors. Below is a partial list of the professional journals where Professor Juni has published 120 theoretical articles and his research findings (many are available online): Journal of Forensic Psychology; Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment, and Trauma; International Review of Victimology; The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease; International Forum of Psychoanalysis; Journal of Personality Assessment; Journal of Abnormal Psychology; Journal of Psychoanalytic Anthropology; Psychophysiology; Psychology and Human Development; Journal of Sex Research; Journal of Psychology and Judaism; Contemporary Family Therapy; American Journal on Addictions; Journal of Criminal Psychology; Mental Health, Religion, and Culture. As Rosh Beis Medrash, Rabbi Avraham Kivelevitz serves as Rav and Posek for the morning minyan at IDT. Hundreds of listeners around the globe look forward to his weekly Shiurim in Tshuvos and Poskim and Gaonic Literature. Rav Kivelevitz is a Maggid Shiur for Dirshu International in Talmud and Halacha as well as a Dayan with the Beth Din of America. This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodcasts/donate

Prof. Juni brings a fresh, though disorienting, skepticism about “self-evident” perspectives on good vs. evil, proposing that our world views are totally blinded by our own ideology. Our international prism thus lacks any relationship to reality. Dr. Juni advances his provocative point of view,based on interpersonal psychology, that our perceptions and judgments are secondary to our needs and agenda. Is Putin a patriot or a villain? Juniargues that our individual perspectives – whether you live in New York or in Moscow – have been programmed by sociocultural factors and lack objectivity. To hundreds of millions, Putin and Lincoln are Patriots. Both were presidents of colonial powers. Both defended their amalgamated states against secession. Both engaged in warfare and justified killings based on nationalist values. And both were vilified by those who saw things differently. Donning his Civil War Historian aficionado hat, R. Kivelevitz notes the uneven appreciation by Americans – and even among Republicans -- of Lincoln. While historian Harry Jaffa portrays Lincoln as the sagacious ultimate noble human being, he was decried by many as an unscrupulous dictator and tyrant who wantonly suspended habeas corpus, illegally invoked the War Powers Act, and usurped private property by freeing slaves. R. Kivelevitz drew the parallel between Korach and Putin, citing various rabbinic sources (including Zohar) which feature silver linings about Korach and his constituents. Noting that history is written by the winners, Juni muses, “What would the Chumash look like if Korach had prevailed?” He studied in Yeshivas Chaim Berlin under Rav Yitzchak Hutner, and in Yeshiva University as a Talmid of Rav Joseph Dov Soloveitchik. Dr. Juni is a board member of the Association of Orthodox Jewish Scientists and has regularly presented addresses to captivated audiences. Associated with NYU since 1979, Juni has served as Director of PhD programs, all the while heading teams engaged in cutting-edge research. Professor Juni's scholarship on aberrant behavior across the cultural, ethnic, and religious spectrum is founded on psychometric methodology and based on a psychodynamic psychopathology perspective. He is arguably the preeminent expert in Differential Diagnostics, with each of his myriad studies entailing parallel efforts in theory construction and empirical data collection from normative and clinical populations. Below is a partial list of the professional journals where Professor Juni has published 120 theoretical articles and his research findings (many are available online): As Rosh Beis Medrash, Rabbi Avraham Kivelevitz serves as Rav and Posek for the morning minyan at IDT. Hundreds of listeners around the globe look forward to his weekly Shiurim in Tshuvos and Poskim and Gaonic Literature.

Brad Young welcomes Cully Stimson, Senior Legal Fellow at The Heritage Foundation, to the show to break down the Congressional Power under the Biden Administration.  Stimson reflects on The War Powers Act and how Foreign Countries currently view the strength of the United States under the Biden Administration.   © 2023 KFTK (Audacy). All rights reserved. | iStock / Getty Images Plus

Ron Placone is joined by Ryan Grim of the Intercept to discuss the attempt by Biden to stop the War Powers Act from being voted on after being put forth by Bernie Sanders. As well as the recent contract being forced through on the Railroad Workers. Then he will talk about Biden means testing the Child Tax Credit, and Ron DeSantis passing Trump in popularity among Republicans. Ron Placone: https://www.ronplacone.com | @RonPlacone on Youtube | @RonPlacone on Twitter Ryan Grim: DC Bureau Chief at The Intercept and co-host of Counter Points | @ryangrim on Twitter SUPPORT Status Coup's ON-THE-GROUND and investigative reporting on the stories the corporate media COVERS UP: https://www.StatusCoup.com/Join --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/statuscoup/support

Hassan El-Tayyab came back on Antiwar Radio to give an update on the effort to end the war in Yemen. First, Scott and El-Tayyab discuss the last-minute extension of the two-month ceasefire. El-Tayyab reports that airstrikes have stopped completely and crucial fuel supplies have finally been allowed into the country. That said, there has still been some difficulty getting medicine in, although relief teams are working on the issue. They then turn to Congress, where some resolutions invoking the War Powers Act are gaining momentum. El-Tayyab shares some resources that can help you press your representatives to pass legislation that would make this ceasefire permanent.  Discussed on the show: “Yemeni Civil War Unleashes a Plague of Locusts” (Antiwar.com) 1-833-STOPWAR Hassan El-Tayyab is a musician and peace activist, who works as the lead lobbyist on Middle East policy for the Friends Committee on National Legislation. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: The War State and Why The Vietnam War?, by Mike Swanson; Tom Woods' Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; EasyShip; Free Range Feeder; Thc Hemp Spot; Green Mill Supercritical; Bug-A-Salt and Listen and Think Audio. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjYu5tZiG. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

 Download Episode. Hassan El-Tayyab came back on Antiwar Radio to give an update on the effort to end the war in Yemen. First, Scott and El-Tayyab discuss the last-minute extension of the two-month ceasefire. El-Tayyab reports that airstrikes have stopped completely and crucial fuel supplies have finally been allowed into the country. That said, there has still been some difficulty getting medicine in, although relief teams are working on the issue. They then turn to Congress, where some resolutions invoking the War Powers Act are gaining momentum. El-Tayyab shares some resources that can help you press your representatives to pass legislation that would make this ceasefire permanent.  Discussed on the show: “Yemeni Civil War Unleashes a Plague of Locusts” (Antiwar.com) 1-833-STOPWAR Hassan El-Tayyab is a musician and peace activist, who works as the lead lobbyist on Middle East policy for the Friends Committee on National Legislation. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: The War State and Why The Vietnam War?, by Mike Swanson; Tom Woods' Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; EasyShip; Free Range Feeder; Thc Hemp Spot; Green Mill Supercritical; Bug-A-Salt and Listen and Think Audio. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjYu5tZiG.

Yemeni Alliance Committee chairwoman Jehan Hakim: 70 Groups Call for End to US Complicity in Saudi-led Yemen War that's Killed Nearly 400,000Code Pink Women for Peace co-founder Medea Benjamin: Groups Working to Unfreeze Billions of Afghan Assets in US to Fund Humanitarian Aid  Salon.com contributing writer Heather Digby Parton: GOP Openly Conspires to Steal the Next ElectionBob Nixon's Under-reported Weekly Summary:• Britain seeks to send refugees arriving via English Channel to Rwanda• Labor shortage stifles new US oil drilling in North Dakota• Rep. Connor Lamb, D-Pennsylvania, shifts view on campaign finance

Here's what we're talking about today on Leid Stories:   President Biden has opened the gates to the nation's coffers -- to check the threat of economic and social woes that loom large nationwide. A grateful nation--and a normally adversarial Congress--considered it a good move. That program just getting off the ground and showing encouraging results, Biden is urgently beseeched by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine to help repel Russia's declared its intention to reclaim territories it had lost to Ukraine in previous battles. The Russia-Ukraine war is ongoing, with both sides suffering significant losses and setbacks. Should Biden, without making his case to the nation, be allowed to commit the United States to billions of taxpayer dollars in military support to Ukrain -- and without conditions? Is Biden skirting the War Powers Act? Why hasn't Biden presented his case openly to Congress and the people?

War.  We've all seen footage from war zones on the nightly news and most recently the tragic images from Ukraine.  Did you know Congress has not actually declared war since World War II? How has the use of military force been authorized since then? What is the War Powers Act and how has it been applied?  What does the Constitution say about this?  What were the differing views from the Founders on war, specifically the differences between Hamilton on one side and Jefferson and Washington on the other?  And how is all of this highly relevant in today's heightened geo-political landscape?  For all of these answers, please join our special guest, Andrew Langer with the Institute for Liberty and our student panel as we discuss this salient topic.

Good morning, this is Toby Sumpter with your CrossPolitic news brief for Tuesday, January 7th, 2020. In response to the US killing of Iranian Terrorist Qasem Soleimani last Friday, the Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said that the US had committed a grave mistake. On the day of the attack, Iran's Foreign Minister Javid Zarif tweeted that the airstrike was an “act of international terrorism,” suggesting that General Soleimani had been the most effective force fighting ISIS and Al Qaeda. The Foreign Minister said the act was “extremely dangerous & a foolish escalation” adding that “the US bears responsibility for all consequences of its rogue adventurism.” “Soleimani was the international face of resistance,” Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a statement, “and all lovers of resistance will be his avengers.” He added that “harsh retaliation is waiting.” Khamenei has ordered three days of public mourning, according to the AP.  The Daily Mail reports that on Saturday, Iranian General Gholamali Abuhamzeh, a Revolutionary Guards commander in the southern province of Kerman, threatened that Iran had itendified 35 targets for potential strikes and raised the red flags of revenge over every key mosque. Abuhamzeh said vital American targets in the region had been identified a 'long time ago', including ships in the Persian Gulf, the Strait of Hormuz and Tel Aviv. “The Strait of Hormuz is a vital point for the West and a large number of American destroyers and warships cross there … some 35 U.S. targets in the region as well as Tel Aviv are within our reach,” he said, according to Reuters. Trump responded on Sunday via Twitter: “Iran is talking very boldly about targeting certain USA assets as revenge for our ridding the world of their terrorist leader who had just killed an American, & badly wounded many others, not to mention all of the people he had killed over his lifetime, including recently.... ....hundreds of Iranian protesters. He was already attacking our Embassy, and preparing for additional hits in other locations. Iran has been nothing but problems for many years. Let this serve as a WARNING that if Iran strikes any Americans, or American assets, we have... ...targeted 52 Iranian sites (representing the 52 American hostages taken by Iran many years ago), some at a very high level & important to Iran & the Iranian culture, and those targets, and Iran itself, WILL BE HIT VERY FAST AND VERY HARD. The USA wants no more threats!” Many commentators pointed out that the threat to strike 52 cultural sites would seem to be a breach of international law. Others were also quick to say that this is the sort of international crisis they feared Trump would blunder into. But Trump continued on Twitter undeterred: Quoting a tweet from Texas Representative Dan Crenshaw who asked what is so controversial about there being repercussions for terrorists attacking the US, Trump said, “They attacked us, & we hit back. If they attack again, which I would strongly advise them not to do, we will hit them harder than they have ever been hit before! Trump followed up with two more tweets on the subject: “The United States just spent Two Trillion Dollars on Military Equipment. We are the biggest and by far the BEST in the World! If Iran attacks an American Base, or any American, we will be sending some of that brand new beautiful equipment their way...and without hesitation! These Media Posts will serve as notification to the United States Congress that should Iran strike any U.S. person or target, the United States will quickly & fully strike back, & perhaps in a disproportionate manner. Such legal notice is not required, but is given nevertheless!”  The US House Foreign Affairs Committee's Twitter account shot back, quoting this last tweet from the President, “This Media Post will serve as a reminder that war powers reside in the Congress under the United States Constitution. And that you should read the War Powers Act. And that you're not a dictator.” It seems that the House is suddenly interested in the constitution again…  On Sunday Iran announced that it is withdrawing from the 2015 nuclear deal. In exchange for economic sanctions being lifted, Iran had agreed to end all uranium enrichment programs for at least 15 years and submit to various inspections. However, last May, Trump had reinstated sanctions against Iran and states that trade with Iran, effectively ending America's participating in the deal. Iran responded by giving the other nuclear deal signatories 60 days to protect it from US sanctions, threatening to resume production of enriched uranium. Nuclear watchdog IAEA says that Iran has recommenced enriched uranium production. Trump responded to Iran's announcement on Sunday with all caps and an exclamation point: “Iran will never have a nuclear weapon!” Meanwhile the Iraqi Parliament passed a non-binding resolution asking US forces to leave the country, and Reuters reported Monday that the US Marine Corp Brigadier General William H. Seely III, the commanding general of Task Force Iraq had written a letter addressed to the Iraqi defense ministry's Combined Joint Operations Baghdad, stating, “Sir, in deference to the sovereignty of the Republic of Iraq, and as requested by the Iraqi Parliament and the Prime Minister, CJTF-OIR will be repositioning forces over the course of the coming days and weeks to prepare for onward movement… We respect your sovereign decision to order our departure.” [This letter was later repudiated by Defense Secretary Mark Esper, who insisted that the US has no plans to withdraw troops, according to Reuters. Trump also said such withdrawal would only be accompanied by severe sanctions.] Finally, on this topic, it's worth noting that a 1996 interview with Joe Biden captures him on a news program insisting strongly that if Iran every attacked a US facility it should be considered an act of war and that ANY retaliation would be warranted. Hmmm… We'll just let simmer for a bit and see if anyone notices. Probably not.  But speaking of fires, Australia continues to be ravaged by the worst wildfires seen in decades. CNN reports that dozens have died and more that 1300 houses have been destroyed, with over 14.7 million acres burned across six states, with 8.9 million of those acres in the hardest hit New South Wales. It's estimated that perhaps a third of the koalas in New South Wales may have been killed by the fires, which has caused some Hollywood elites to speak out in great alarm. But of course you can get more sympathy in Hollywood for koalas than you can for human babies, as evidenced by the applause and tears Actress Michelle Williams received at the Gold Globe Awards on Sunday night, when she announced that she had employed “a woman's right to choose,” implying that she had killed at least one of her children, so that she could pursue a career in acting.  But back to the Australian forest fires, higher than average temperatures, high winds, lightning strikes, arsonists, and the recent legalization of sodomite marriage in 2017 are all blamed by leading scientists. However, what you won't hear in the news is the fact that beginning the 1990s, Bob Carr's liberal Labor government began a massive forest lock-up program. Peter Austin writes at theland.com.au, “Before that "greening" frenzy began, soon after Carr came to office in 1995, national parks and reserves accounted for some 4.8 per cent of New South Wales. Today the total area of the state controlled by the National Parks and Wildlife Service is more than 9pc. In less than 20 years, therefore, the area of national parks and related reserves has virtually doubled, but the resources deployed to manage this vastly expanding empire have not doubled with it. On the contrary, it was revealed last week that even since 2011, successive budget cuts have resulted in the NPWS slashing its staffing of rangers by one-third, thereby impairing its capacity to conduct hazard reduction burns. But before Carr took over, much of the coastal bushland now locked up in national park was prudently managed state forest, where fuel loads were kept down by logging programs, regular thinning and cattle grazing.” Turns out that the GREEN Religion doesn't keep things Green at all. It just results in them turning black. And I'm not just talking about the United Methodist Church. This a lesson in government incompetence. But it's also a lesson in biblical jurisdictions. It is not the Civil Magistrate's job to managed forests. Incidentally, it's not the civil magistrate's job to fund the arts or media or news or education. God did not give those jobs to that office. Therefore, it is disobedience to God and inevitable tyranny for the State to assume those powers. Should Christians care about the environment? Of course. But we should care about it through private ownership of land, and private foundations and associations that will have skin in the game. Personal responsibility is key to success. Bureaucrats and committees cannot be expected to care that much about what doesn't actually belong to them. The other thing to note here is that God commanded mankind to take dominion of the earth and cultivate it. This means in part that the earth needs cultivating. We need godly foresters and loggers and conservationists who understand that just like man is not good all alone and needs a helper, so too, the land is not good all alone and needs gardeners. And the more the GREENIES fail to actually care for the earth, enterprising Christians should be looking for ways to pry the government's fat fingers off the land and return it to private citizens and foundations.  This is Toby Sumpter with your CrossPolitic New Brief for Tuesday, January 7th, 2020. If you would like to encourage more of this, and why wouldn't you, please share the show and consider becoming a CrossPolitic Member. As a member you get access to a number of behind the scenes interviews, our CrossPolitic Worldview Series, and several masterclasses on parenting, Christian business principles, God and Government, eschatology, and a Proverbs Bible Study. You can find out more and become a member at flfnetwork.com/membership. 

In this week's episode, we discuss the new Homeland Security Advisory Bulletin labeling all citizens of the United States who disagree with the government narrative, or who "sow disbelief in the government through misinformation" as a potential threat to our nation. We also discuss Justin Trudeau also labeling his own citizens as potential terrorists by invoking the War Powers Act for the Freedom Convoy. We also take a deep dive into the ties between the Biden administration and the Military-industrial complex and the history of the Military-Industrial Complex. All of that AND MORE on this week's show!  Donate to the Revolution! Red Pill Revolution Merchandise ----more---- Subscribe to the links below to stay up to date with the Podcast! 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just search the national terrorism advisory system bulletin from February 7 from the Homeland security website and this is a summary this is what it says him to read it verbatim cases the United States remains in a heightened threat environment fueled by several factors including an online environment filled with false or misleading narratives and conspiracy theories in other forms of miss this and mall information which they give an acronym of MDM right we are introduced and/or amplified by foreign and domestic threat actors who these threat actors seek to exacerbate societal friction to sow discord and to undermine the public trust in government institutions to encourage unrest which could potentially inspire acts of violence mass casualty attacks and other acts of targeted violence conducted by lone offenders in small groups acting in furtherance of ideological beliefs and or personal grievances pose an ongoing threat to the nation while the conditions underlying the heightened threat landscape have not significantly changed over the last year the convergence of the following factors has increased the volatility on predictability and complexity of the threat environment the proliferation or the proliferation of false or misleading narratives which sew discord or undermine public trust in US government institutions continued calls for violence directed at US critical infrastructure and soft targets and mass gatherings faith-based institutions such as certain churches synagogues mosques institutions of higher education racial and religious minorities government facilities and personnel including law enforcement and the military the media and perceived ideological opponents and caused by foreign terrorist organizations for attacks on the United States based on recent events so that was a bunch of words basically to say that they are now defining a terrorism threat as having different ideologies and ideological beliefs then our government which you'll see a little bit more they try to pointed out as being foreign threat actors I try to throw that in there three or four times what you know now you there on Instagram you know not you over there that were calling the terrace were: foreign threat actors but but but they give you use the words here because now that the the weight that this holds is one that opens up a Pandora's box of legal ramifications for what they can now do to people that they believe is sowing doubt in governmental narratives so let's go ahead and readable a bit more about this it says the primary terrorism related threat to the United States continues to stem from loan offenders or small cells of individuals were motivated by a range of foreign and or domestic grievances often cultivated through the consumption of certain online content the convergence of violent extremist ideologies false or misleading narratives and conspiracy theories have and will continue to contribute to a heightened threat of violence in the United States Key features contributing to the current heightened threat environment include the proliferation of false or misleading narratives which sold discord or undermined public trust in US government institutions so this is a key factor of contribution to the current heightened terrorism threat environment and it says this the proliferation of false or misleading narratives which sew discord to undermine public trust in US government institutions is the number one key factor contributing to this heightened threat environment according to homeland security that's crazy the next one they state his continued calls for violence directed at US critical infrastructure soft targets and mass gatherings faith-based faith-based institutions such as churches synagogues we talked about that one hey goes on to say that foreign terrorist organizations and domestic front actors continue to amplify pre-existing false or misleading narratives online to sow discord and undermine public trust Fallon extremis inspired by a range of grievances so we have Artie touched all of these also says that as covert restrictions continue to decrease worldwide in nationwide increased access to commercial and government facilities in the rising number of mass gatherings could provide increased opportunities for individuals looking to acts of violence to do so often with little or no warning meanwhile: mitigation measures particularly Cova 19 vaccine mass mandates have been used by domestic violent extremist to justify violence since 2020 while and could continue to inspire these extremist target government healthcare and academic institutions that they institute with those measures and none of this is for sure they give you no reasoning as to why they believe this is now a terrorism threat not a single one they say every single thing on here says it could everything right could meanwhile this could you know have been used by domestic extremists to justify violence it's not about what's going on around sent about things that are happening that make them want to put that push this out it's about who they want to go after you and me people that disagree with the vaccine and mask mandates that's literally on this national terrorism advisory bulletin is about people who disagree and so misinformation about vaccines and masks and now you're a terrorist for doing so for disagreeing with her narrative which consistently has been wrong across the board has been consistently wrong now if you disagree with their wrong narrative completely false information then you can be labeled a terrorist because you have a belief we are now the thought police and were utilizing our US government and our US you know shadow governments like the CIA homeland security NSA and CIA and I think I said CIA and FBI which we can now target people as terrorists for disagreeing with you for disagreeing with our government for disagreeing with Joe Biden for disagreeing with with our governmental institution which is been wrong over and over and over again they been wrong now if you disagree with them in the moment even if they are wrong later you can be labeled a terrorist a national terrorist advisory bulletin for people who disagree with Joe Biden and disagree with the vaccine and mass mandate narratives crazy so it also goes on to say that some domestic violent extremists have configured your continued to advocate for violence response to false or misleading narratives about substantially unsubstantiated election fraud you know the election fraud which is had countless people how lets people arrested for things that are literally old election fraud not to mention the more recent things that have come out about that you know that the GPS tract you mules who are dropping off hundreds if not thousands of votes for people and taking pictures of them in front of the booths dropping them off now if you disagree with that or you mentioned that you so you so doubt in the government you could now be labeled a terrorist honors of this advisory so the next thing is going to say so he then goes on is a small numbers of threat actors are attempting with our threat actors according to them I really like to see us in a home and security definition of a threat after the small number of connectors are attempting to use the evacuation and resettlement of Afghan the nationals following the US military withdrawal from Afghanistan last year as a means to exacerbate long-standing grievances and justify attacks against them as against immigrants but it doesn't give an example none of these gives an example of single one of these and say hey this happened this is going on right now and so were raising our heightened you know are our terrorism advisory right so is is how we are responding says that the FBI will continue the church I'm sure timely and actionable information intelligence with the broadest audience possible yet the FBI's very well known for sharing all of their great information it then goes on to say that we conduct reoccurring threat briefings with private sectors in state and local tribal territory on campus partners including two informant security planning efforts so nothing doing nothing about it says that the DHS office of intelligence and analysis establish a new dedicated domestic terrorism branch to produce the sound timely intelligence needed to counter related threats the department expanded its evaluation of online activity as part of its effort to assess and prevent acts of violence while ensuring the privacy rights of civil rights and civil liberties wow now that's a joke out of course I'm sure you're really ensuring our privacy is a top concern when you're going after literally normal people for having opinions within the domestic a dedicated domestic terrorism branch have we I'm sorry have we had a legitimate domestic terrorism threat or attack in the United States in the last I don't know – gave sure there's been like serious mass shootings which even when they happen and they are more than likely a terrorist act they don't want to call them that right like what was at the I feel like I'm a might be wrong here but I there was the there was that shooting at the management plenty of shootings is been plenty of shootings that could have been labeled terrorist acts that they decided not to label it as it didn't fit the narrative at the time and now they're in a late live in a wholly open eight and higher office of intelligence and analysis for dedicated domestic terrorism branches so the next he says in 2001 there was a debt designated domestic violence extremism as a national priority area within his homeland security grant resulting in $77 million all while the got money for labeling us terrorism there Terrace that's cool ha so says how you can help be prepared statement is to be safe online and don't disagree with us use different. People or else will make you a terrorist interesting so I die I believe that's probably the more concerning things I've seen come out of our government in a very long time that they are literally opened up an entire division of the government specifically to spy and label people domestic terrorists for sowing disbelief in our government for having a belief were literally the thoughtfully but the thought police now you know then in true Orwellian fashion we have a thought police if you disagree and you post it online there's now going to be a dedicated branch of the US government which is going to label you as a potential terrorist threat which is interesting while I talk about this that's Gary that's Gary so well comes with that right what is that really allow them to the what what it will in a what are we gonna do about it is what it says on what really are they gonna do about it there are to enact the patriot act there and a spy on every single person who talks about anything that disagrees with their narrative right because they feel like you're losing ground they feel like they're there they are losing this fight right now and they know it the losing the war on information in their 100% understand this and there scratching at everything that they can to try to win this war back against people from having free thoughts and in speaking them out loud or to tweeting them on twitter right they don't want you doing that because that's what's up you know your information is true and so people believe it and their information is full of shut and so now they want to come after you and him and when you can't win an argument what you do usually turn the labels right many people if there were losing an argument and they can't edge of the note at it when the conversation and educated manner though usually start labeling you a something write the usually start to label you as if in some way that they can now make you the other right like we talked about in the episode about the mass formation psychosis you have to label them the other because before you do there just like you and you can't do the horrific things that generally follow this historically rights you have to make them the other and in the way that they're trying to make us the other right now is by saying hey if you disagree with us if you disagree with our information which is been probably more wrong then correct probably 80% wrong and Leah I mean that's super just frivolously throwing out a number but very very statistically inaccurate information coming out of our government over the last three years I got from the federal interest of the see a spreadsheet of all the things of the government said that has been the held weight and whether or not it was factually accurate and to see what percentages actually come out within the last two years as being actually accurate because I highly doubt it's it's been a very high percentage so it to me that's really concerning and if you are paying attention to this emotion start to because you know if you are in any of these groups any of the circles listening to podcasts in the podcast in sharing this information you could very well find yourself on on the wrong end of this you know advisory system bulletin which is very concerning just holding a belief right just for holding a belief now you can be labeled as the other you can be labeled as in this case a potential terrorist because your sewing disbelief in the government that's horrifying and literally that it is says this it says these threat actors seek to exacerbate societal friction to sow discord and undermine public trust in government institutions to encourage unrest which could potentially it says inspire acts of violence they'll say that this there's been threats of violence don't say that there is this rally and always people are coming in with guns and the minute you know because all this violence it'll say that they say they have thoughts we don't like those thoughts sort and label them terrorists so that we can spy on all of you every single one of you we can now spy on you we can listen to your conversations we can tap your cell phone we do all of this now because we put out this information I says hey we don't like what you're thinking and if you keep thinking that it may potentially possibly with a very very extremely low statistical likelihood lead to violence and because of that belief in my in that there had because of that belief that it could potentially lead to violence now you can be labeled a terrorist this is literally horrifying horrifying that the what will be the ramifications of this what will they now be able to do now that they've put this bulletin on this was released a week ago what are you to be able to do now there going to be able to enact the patriot act for sure if the label you a terrorist because that's the patriot act is for so now because if you so disbelief by disagreeing with her narratives you could now be labeled a terrorist horrifying so on that note let's move on the next topic which is discussing the freedom rally the freedom convoy in this article says Canadian leader Justin Trudeau invokes emergency powers to end disruptive protests so says Prime Minister Justin Trio on Monday invoked emergency powers to disband the truckers and other demonstrators who have been clogging the streets in Canadian capital of Ottawa and block block borders crossing elsewhere to protest over 19 restrictions in invoking Kansas emergency acts which give the federal government broad powers to restore order Trudeau ruled out using the military and said the action would be limited in time and targeted to the trouble spots while that's really reassuring it is no longer a lawful protest at a disagreement over government policy it is now in illegal occupation there literally just playing a word game because these people are making money you know that you know much money truckers make truckers make great money these people are not making more money by sitting there with their trucks not moving with businesses not making an income now it's illegal occupation so all they have to do is label it as that and now they are no longer allowed to say the words that you want to say because now you're no longer protesting your having a legal job because people donated to you and they wouldn't even give you the money but you have to be eventually be paid to further be out of the occupation you'll just get to work for free and then not get paid because the government decides to take your money anyways which is what they try to do with gifts and go some occupation you are literally protesting in there to the end and then the same time there pouring out gallons of fuel right putting out fires taking firewood away when it's probably like -10 in Ottawa right now and they want to freeze these people out so it says and goes on to say basically that the when he invokes these these powers it allows him to use in the same way that they're invoking the power from the national terrorism advisory bulletin the second that they get to say these were that you you do not have this is what this tells me in both of these countries you do not have the right to think you absolutely do not have the right to think on your own will give you that thought until we really don't like it if we really don't like what you're saying or you do it for too long to where we think were to lose were going to now label you a terrorist which is what they did in the United States on February 7 and what they did further Justin Trudeau and this was on February 14 so yesterday so within a week of each other both Canada and the US labeled their own citizens terrorists because they had differing beliefs than what the government holds and they were expressing them truly Tara Tara terrifying terrifying on both accounts and if you're a trucker and you're in Ottawa right now more power to you because this the only way this is going that this is going out and see only way the vaccine passports are in and it's the only way that were gonna win this information battle right that's why I'm sitting here talking about these things seven days after that labeled a thought terrorist if you disagree with the government and on that on the backs of that you know were seeing what's happening in Russia right in the last two days three days the Ukrainian border has basically been flooded with about 70% of Russians military just surrounding the border as a response Joe Biden seems to think that it's time for us to go to war Tubac Ukraine which we've never seem to have any type of vested interest in before this so let's go ahead and watch what Biden has to say on this Russia situation then were going to talk about Biden's role within the military-industrial complex number to talk about the history of the military-industrial complex little bit so stick around with mere but before we do that what did you do if you do it already he 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offset raising prices so I think the and the important thing to see if from then there's this was an 11 minute clip which I'll include in the podcast companion on sub stack so I'm go check it out there but I think the important part of that there was you know it's it's so interesting to me how these politicians like Tryon like assume the sale I think that he knows how weak we call in sales right is like if I use the words as if you're already gonna buy from me then of their likelihood that you buy for me is higher so what he says there is Americans understand that this is going to impact us here at home you know Americans understand and are willing to fight this battle it's like no were not were not the ones profiting off of this film is profiting off of this is probably Hunter Biden there in some way with his beautiful paintings you know the people who are who are making money off of this are the people who were lobbied by you know Lockheed Martin and you know all of these military-industrial complex corporations which have embedded themselves into our political spectrum sense the 40s or since the Cold War at least so he tries to use that in his speech radiantly sees given that you can see what how much is squinting at the Teleprompter that he's really trying to read these words as if he doesn't he's gonna just fall off the rail so he says there you know of men and women in the United States understand that were in a have to give something up and what that something might be is horrific gas prices and energy prices you know trying to find a way to see you know this might even like come back to the freedom convoy for all we know that they're trying to find a reason to point at something else other than their mandates because if you really start to feel the gas prices raising and you also are on the side of the freedom convoy you really might start to put the heat on the government especially from the United States standpoint so this could entirely be a façade to try and you know pass the buck essentially and try to make it seem like it's not their fault for imposing vaccine mandates on Canadian truckers that the gas prices raced like crazy and that the supply chain is basically going to have a really big issue over the next few months when the freedom convoy continues as a result of these totalitarian mandates which need to end no you don't need to label freedom convoy terrorists no you do not need to label people who disagree with the United States government terrorists what you need to do is get rid these stupid ass mandates on governments and on and corporate institutions and on truckers trying to pass through the border to deliver your Amazon falcon package we need to do is stop these bull ship mandates not blame Russia in literally invading Ukraine for rising energy prices now I'm not saying that if Russia goes to war with Ukraine that is not going to have an effect because we believe we do get a large portion of our fossil fuels from Russia specifically like for a very large percentage which could very well impact that because of the sanctions that were can I impose on Ukraine but just know that this you know we haven't had a legitimate war and how long and in and how will you know Joe Biden comes becomes president and within the year we get out of Afghanistan and almost immediately immediately how how long go to get out of Afghanistan how long go to get out of Afghanistan three months for months I leave a note for less than six months ago we left Afghanistan and it almost immediately we begin to find a way to embed ourselves and some other random ass country we have no business being in under the name of democracy Ryan I've seen a ton of people say and I haven't dove deep into the politics of Ukraine but but I see a ton of people saying that do you know Ukraine is even a legitimate democracy and the only reason that were trying to fight this war you know is is basically to keep the war machine turning right as as the Black Sabbath war pigs song goes if you have it you know it does listen to this that the were picks right before it started as it were a black Sabbath war pigs is the single most spine chilling song about the military-industrial complex to listen to it in the theme of this podcast once this is over go ahead and listen to war pigs by Black Sabbath because if you haven't heard in a while a little while you need to hear because that the words are truer now than ever and it's like an ominous ominous deep-seated you know theme song within the military-industrial complex but but these are the war pigs you know Joe Biden's the work picked that that the Chief of Staff is the war pigs the you know the corporations that are need this that need us to jump immediately from Afghanistan over into Ukraine because when you have a entire Melinda how much money to be spent on a military trillions of dollars a minute okay imagine a spirit if you are that's it what's a good example let's use the you know what use let's use the airline industry okay imagine us if the airline industry decided that hey working to continue staffing all of our people but were not gonna fly anymore how well do you think that would go for the shareholders of the airline industry you hello you think Boeing will be doing a fight we have to keep all of these people staffed but were no longer going to have flights at least for the foreseeable future how long do you think that Boeing or Delta a gestalt is a better one is going made the plans and are making a profit anyways but Delta and Boeings actually a huge military-industrial complex player when it comes to the actual Beano aircraft some things but one of the biggest military industrial complex corporations but how will you think they'll to a dude would do if they maintain their staff while also not flying out it would go under with and like 34 months you can't maintain a corporation without paying finding a way to continue the money coming in you have to do what you were designed to do this the same place at the same case in the military if you have a however many soldiers and however many no planes flying in the air on a regular basis and that you know I am wearing this U.S. Air Force shirt because I served in the Air Force served my time in the Air Force before your contract in the Air Force as an air traffic controller between the age of 18 and 22 and so I'm not somebody just coming in here and speaking on these things frivolously I am a patriot I went into the military to fight for my country I had no idea what I was getting myself into and I thought everybody got a gun for some reason 18 I went into fight for my country I'm a patriot I believe in the Constitution I believe and that the flag that flies over our great nation but I do not believe in this government full system I do not believe in Joe Biden's way of trying to incite this war and if I was in the military right now I would be highly concerned about direction especially given the vaccine mandate status especially given that you know that that there were lingering NATO potential world war that couldn't be incited as a result of all of the countries that are good and could potentially get involved in a small conflict in Ukraine I would be highly concerned if I was in the military right now so I speak from the heart I could very well have been 18 right now join the military and been under Joe Biden and that seriously concerns me as as a father as a as a man a military aged man and a veteran mind you so I'm not just speaking on these things frivolously must begin on them because II have no experience with the military I was active duty in the military and because of that it concerns me even more and so to me you have to you have to keep the war machine turning because the second that you're not you're no longer in the conflict we have 800+ military bases across the country across the world I'm sorry don't be nuts if we have crossed the country 800 military bases in the world in many probably more than that if you include the ones that we don't talk about so how well do you think that business would do if they just said were done with more we think that we should be a peaceful nation and we think that we should not involve ourselves in the wars of countries that you know our citizens should not shed blood over how well do you think that was fair for a military as a business and how well you think that would fear for the trillion dollar industry of military-industrial complex corporations that are involved in the lobbying that got Joe Biden even put in the place of the puppeteers could sit there between George Soros and the Rockefeller foundation and pulled his little weekend at Bernie's strings to get him to incite these wars how will you think that will go for them if they just decided to stop and so you cannot stop that is the war machine that is the military-industrial complex it has to keep moving the second we pull out of Afghanistan we have to embed our military somewhere else and find a new conflict to put American lives at stake for because if they stop they will stop making money they will no longer have their business model and then what there's a shop you know CEO of Lockheed Martin or Boeing is just gonna call it a day ago I made enough money guys have enough power no of course not they have to find a way and whether that's in batting threat actors according this online terrorist hood lingo or whether that's sewing this like narrative around the Ukrainian Russian conversation to make it you think and in convince you that we should be shedding American blood over this Russian conflict so let's go on and let's let's learn a little bit about this Joe Biden military-industrial complex conversation I think it's an important one I have this is by the hills so we get to swap some of our favorite favorite people here discuss these topics so let's go ahead and watch this hill which talks about exposing Bidens deep state ties to the military-industrial complex his record on many of these things and his cozy relationship to these companies so many of these facilities are each little black box in terms of clients we really don't know they work for even after all of this research I can only tell you about a couple dirt bike so a lot of guesswork we can see what folks say publicly when they talk about foreign-policy interest it's quite militaristic so we really raises question is about already being influenced by their clients now a president bided that is still coming to fruition but was foreign policy would look like we know he would have a close relationship with someone like me even if I'm not that doesn't really reflect the progressive bushes in the Army so really is these personal relationships that bind in his having developed over years or decades they might have more cash changes ministration actual calls other interesting aspects of your reporting here Wednesday no way binding is operated internationally, it reminded me of the way that we think about trumps foreign policy is all about like relationships and gladhanding and like you trust and who you have close buddy buddy feel for typically argue that buying has essentially taken same personality driven approach to foreign policy just elaborate a little bit on I think Biden is no will of the state he knows these leaders I would make a big station with present truck who really has no right you what he's doing a foreign policy we were talking uninvited is someone who's really using these personal relationships with advanced really the main street really are policy ideas that are all too well known in Washington and frankly have were I mean I remember when VP Biden was in Israel in 2010 and his gang when I was a huge amount of settlement and he still warriors later saying that the number is are you so were really talking about a status quo not as destructive as a pronghorn policy but still you don't knock it and make the massive changes there's a whole industry of think tanks research institutions consultancies are all banking on a return to normal note by item presidency and that's really with these folks represent I'm really glad they say that because it's it's so important to understand The think tank industrial complex in DC that also is very much intertwined with that many of these defense contractors jumping to new way and lay out a little bit about what this means in practical terms for Iraq and Afghanistan two of the most important measures one of the better parts of your piece was actually just about finding is a very strange record where he liked Shane showed restraint but also back to the most disastrous leader like in Iraqi history with no real morality and his you showed terrible instincts in many cases cannulae into a little bit let me first say it's very common for surgeons to do she's motioning to get a huge amount defense funding while Michelle Flournoy was running the tape received at least $4 million worth of funding for defense contractors it's hard to not say it was with people's ideas are so not exactly were hoping to see as far as the actual content there but they touched on a few things which was basically that the two of the main advisors that Biden had originally that was a year old clipper so because there were still discussing Afghanistan but two of the advisors five of Biden's advisors including one who spoke on the specific Ukraine situation within the last week what had immediate ties to the you know military-industrial complex so let's see if we can find there was a clip about him what word that the advisor himself the national security advisor what's this Judge clown's name he looks like the guy from what is that Adam Sandler movie who's the guy with the it's like Adam Sandler's body who like his eye looks this way and happy Gilmore not the big dude but anyways he looks like the clowning of Adam Sandler's body anyways his name is Jake Sullivan he's the national security advisor and he was specifically named in that video as being one who had ties to the military-industrial comfortable form even got to this point and now he this Jake Sullivan is saying that the White House first they are saying that Russia could invade Ukraine before the limp accent which is around the same time that was four days ago that he said that and that's around the same time that the Ukrainian president said yesterday basically that he expects in invasion on Wednesday then he came out and said that he was being ironic or joking which of the div the message that he had on Facebook was not ironic at all it was not funny at all he wasn't joking he was specifically saying that he was going to you know basically invade the invasion was in happened on Wednesday specifically called out as being on Wednesday and then backtracked almost immediately and there a lot of financial institutions and things plummeted as a result so let's go head will read the what he said so this is the president of Ukraine said this on Facebook yesterday which was the 14th so says great people of a great country or of any serious there has been a serious external and internal challenges in front of our country which require responsibility confidence in concrete actions for me in each one of us we are intimidated by a great war and once again set the date of the military invasion is not the first time but our state is stronger today than ever we strive for peace and we want to solve all issues exclusively through negotiations and Don Bass and Crimea will return to reprint only in a diplomatic way we don't stare at someone else's but we won't give our own we have an amazing Army our boys have unique combat experience in modern weaponry this is already eight times stronger than Army eight years ago we are confident in our Armed Forces and our military to should feel or support our togetherness and their unity the basis of our army is the confidence of our own people and a strong economy he then one on to say he then went on to say here that we are intimidated by great where we talk about that we are told that February 16 will be the day of the attack we will make it a union day the decree has already been signed this afternoon we will hang national flags put on yellow and blue ribbons and show the world our unity and then came out and said will lease the presidential advisor Micah Hollow pulled Olea said that Lenski was being not literal but ironic when he said that February 16 will be the day of the attack so Lenski wrote that the Ukrainian government was told that Wednesday would be the day of the attack as he announced a new decree to establish a national day of unity increasing fund the funding of military service people accelerate development of defenses and create an information system to appraise the upright citizens of the national situation were working to get the okay so basically super rear that the Ukrainian president said yeah the 16th is what is happening it's happening on Wednesday but just kidding could you imagine if you lived in Ukraine in your present was like yeah three days from now rush is gonna come across our border news literally see tanks lining up and being you know ran on trains over to your border and you see the Russian government flying you know hundreds of military aircraft over your border and helicopters coming into slick tool role moves over towards your your country and then your president comes out and says Wednesday get ready it's going down GS getting what the fark what in the world if our president said that if they said you know Russia's Adler border and they said Wednesday day Wednesday they're goingto invade we know they're gonna invade were not be together were to have unity were to be  in a we believe in our military we have no great weaponry Wednesdays when it's allgonnagodown jus tkidding like how terrifying could you imagine being a mother of the children that'sinthecitybytheborderwhereyouseetheseRussianforcesyouknowhavingathattheretherestrongholds in seeing this military presence by Russiain youryouryourpresentsizeinfourdaysthatyoushouldbereadyforwar andthensays I'm beingironic whatareyouhowdoyoujustifythehowdoyoubelieveyourpricethatandwhatdoesthisdoforhiscitizensifyouwereoneofthem inyourbeliefoflisteningtoyourgovernmentiftheygiveyouadate andthensaythattheywereofinvasion buyerofanworldwidesuperpower andthensaythattheywerekidding Mikecouldyouimaginethat'sthat'sterrifying itmakesnosensesoyouknowwhoIpostedthis andpeoplehavesomestufftosayaboutit whichwasbasicallythatlet'sgoaheadandwhatwillwillsiftthroughsomeofyourcommentshere somepeoplethatoneofthetopcommonsensesomethingweirdisgoingon yup Ismelldeepstateisanotherthingthatsomebodysaidwhichisabsolutely anotherpersonsaidlet'sgohaveasiftthroughsomeofthese said itwasironicbeatenbecausethatwasnotthecaseuntiltheUSanditsalliesstartedsendingtroopstotheborders 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theywillexplaintousthehistoricalandgeopoliticalbackgroundofwhatweareconfrontedwithandtheywillshowtoushowthisagendahasbeenplannedforatleast20yearsstartedstartingwithoperationdarkwinterin2001andsome10yearslaterthelockstepgenericscenariobytheRockefellerfoundationendingwiththedressrehearsal event201inOctober2019 andtheandtheywillexplainhow arewellyouwouldliketomethatwhateveryourInstagramhandlewasthatdoesnotdiscusstheUkrainiansituationbutlet'sgohead-onandIknowKellybelievesthatofhowthatjusttoverifyIdon'tseehowthathasanythingtodowithitsomebutIIdothinkthatyou'rerightandthentheUkrainianpresidentcameoutandsaidthisatonepointwerehesaidthatthereyoudon'tstoptalkingaboutRussiaasifthey'regoingtoinvadeuswedon'tbelievethatyet wedon'tthinkthat'swhat'sgoingonandwedidalittlebitmoreofadeepdiveintothisacoupleepisodesagowhereItrytofigureoutwhatthehellisgoingoninRussia withUkrainewefoundoutthatbasicallythey'retryingtoinvadeUkraineoversometypeliketerritorytospewanorioleinallofthisotherstuff but theotherthingsthatweregoingonbehindthesceneswasthatbasicallythatthatwasinvolvingtheUnitedStatesinNATOwasthat Iputandsaidthathedidnotwant NATOallowingUkrainetojoinNATOasitisapartof NATOitselfbecausethatwouldgivethemoverarchingonheatobviouslycuteanddidn't Hootondidn'tsaythisbutthatwouldobviouslygiveUkrainesomesortofprotectioniftheirpart ofNATO rightsonowtheycouldn'tbeoverthrownorovertakenbyRussia so youknowitsohesaidIdon'twantthemtobeapartofNATO healsosaidthattheydoesnotwantyouknowlikemilitarylikearmament byNATOinUkraine asaresultsobecausethatwouldinvolveNATOandin acountryliketheUnitedStatesinawarwithRussiaeventuallyinRussiadoesn'twantaworldwar RussiawantsthispieceoflandthatUkraineoccupiesinsomewayforsomereason whichwe fromourconversationafewepisodesagofoundoutseemstobeaboutsomesortofterritorydisputeandyouknowoil disputefervorresourcesinincomemaythefewotherpartsofUkraine butitisno 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theUSmilitary-industrialcomplexwantsawarinUkrainesowhatthissaysandisnotavideoswallowtouchonitfairlyquicklyherotrytoreadit quickquickerthanusualisbasicallythatclaimsbytheWestthatRussiansgettingreadytoattackUkraineandthisisonthe13thsotwodaysagofromwhenI'mreadingit thattheWest herclaimsbytheWestthatRussiaisgettingreadytoattackUkrainehavereachedafeverpitchinrecentdays withtheWhiteHouseaskingAmericanstoleavethecountry ASAPinUSmediaclaiminginnovationwillstartnextweekRussianofficialssayNATOispumpinguptensionsjustifyputtingmoretroops inEasternEurope sotheUSmilitaryindustrialcomplexneedsofwarinUkrainetojustifynewarmsfundinginthesolidifyanewall-outColdWarwithRussia formerUSCongresswomanintimateDemocraticpresidentialcandidateTulsaGabberthasalleged shesaid twoandTuckerCarlsonshowupfirstofallillegitimatePres.BidencouldendthiscrisisandpreventawarwithRussiabydoingsomethingverysimple guaranteeing thatUkrainewillnotbecomeamemberofNATO becauseifUkrainebecameanthemamemberofNATOthatwouldputyoutheUSandNATOtroopsdirectlyonthedoorstepofRussiawhich asPutinhaslaidoutwouldunderminetheirnationalsecurityinterests therealityisthatitishighlyhighlyunlikelythatUkrainewillbecomeintheamemberofNATOanyways justsomethingup naturallysaid daytheywillbecomeapartofNATOanywayssothequestioniswhydoesanillegitimatepresidentbytheNATOleadersactuallywilljustsaythatandguaranteeit whyareweinthispositionthatiftheanswertothisandpreventingthiswarisveryclear reallythatjustpointstooneconclusionthatIcanseeistheyactuallywantRussiatoinvadeUkraine whywouldthey becausenumberoneitgivestheBidenadministrationaclearexcusetolevydraconiansanctionswhichareinmodern-dayseizureagainstRussiaandtheRussianpeople innumbertwoitcementsthisColdWarinplace themilitary-industrialcomplexisonethatbenefitsfromthiscompletely theyclearlycontrolledbytheministration warmongersonbothsidesinWashingtonhavebeendrummingupthesetensions theformeractive-dutyNationalGuardwomanwhoisclosetoget whohashadtwotoursintheMiddleEastunderherbeltincludingadeploymentrepemphasize themilitary-industrialcomplexwillmakeatallandmoremoney ithasintheso-calledwaronterrorfightingAlQaeda makingweaponsfrom whopaysthepriceshehad theAmericanpeoplepaythepriceUkrainianpeoplepaythepricetheRussianpeoplepaytheprice itunderminesourownnationalsecurity butthemilitary-industrialcomplexthatcontrolssomanyofourpoliticians windsandtheyruntothebankshesent so verysimilartowhatIjusttoldyou right IguessIguessIknowmorethanIthoughtitshouldisthatithipperthantojustcomeoutandsaythatwerenotcanitallowUkrainetobeapartofNATO andthatwerenotgoingtoputtroopsontheborderofUkraine makessure thatthere'sgoingtobenoconflictfortheUSpeople orfortheUSsoldiersanywaysorforRussiaorforabiggerNATOconflictoutsideofthisUkrainianissueandmaybeUkrainewouldneverbeinvadedinthefirstplaceifthiswasn'tanissue sogoodonTulsaGabbard forbeingsmartenoughtosaythethingsthatIsent justgettingfeltsolet'sgoaheadandwatchaquickconversationofTrump talkingaboutthemilitary-industrialcomplex andthenitwillwatchacoupleotherveryshortclipsincludingEisenhower'sspeechregardingthemilitary-industrialcomplex andthenwillgoaheadandcallitaday hereisDonaldTrumponthemilitaryindustrialcomplex willallowtheonethattalksabouthiswarsin19yearsandpeoplearejustthereanddon'tkidyourselfyoudohaveamilitary-industrialcomplextheydolikemore youknow inSyriawith thecaliphate soIwipeout100%ofthecaliphatethatdoesn'tmeanIcanhavethesecrazypeoplegoingaroundblowingupstoresandblowingupthingsisseriouslyillpeople Iwanttosayoldandwipedeconomiccrisis butIwantget100%ofthecaliphate Ishallwanttobringourtroopsbackhome theplacewentcrazy theywanttokeepitthatweletpeoplehearhimwhatshewantedtheyneverwanttoleave IthinkyouknowwhatI'lldoleaveacouplehundredsoldiersbehind butifitwasuptothemasitbringsthousandsofsoldiersandsomedaypeoplewillexplainwhatthisisanacutedohaveyoudohaveagroupandtheycallitthemilitary-industrialcomplex theyneverwanttoleavetheyalwayswanttofightnoIwanttofight but youdohavesituationslikeKarenyoucan'tletthemhave nuclearweaponsyoujustcan'tletthathappenIgavethegenerals Isaid goaheadgetoneyear shewouldyoucandoinAfghanistan JodyfightfightfightbeginaweektakenawaydowninAfghanistanundernoviewsayingthatshewastakenawaydown now roughplaceBadPl.,LottabadthingshappentheWorldTradeCenterbombersweresortofcreditsliketheHarvardUniversityofterrorismokay ifyouwanttobeachurchyougooverthereokay rightsothere'sonerightonepresidentwhospokeabout themilitary-industrialcomplexoneofonlytwopresidentseverreallytomentionit andtheotheronebeingEisenhower knowsverycandidconversationthathesaidandtheyalwayshaveacouplethingsaboutit whichwasbasicallythatyesyoudohavepeoplewhoneedwartosurviveeconomicallyanditisthewarmongersitisthemilitary-industrialcomplexifyougaveit ifyouifyougavethemtheopportunitytheywouldputyourson andmyson andyourdaughter andyourdaughter toyourdaughtersifyouhavetwoofthem inoneofmydaughtersthereputtingoursonsanddaughtersinharmswaytopickupweaponstofireagainstotherpeople core alsocontrolledandpaidforbythesamepeople sothattheycanprofit offofbothsides rightifyoucanifyoucaninsight inalet'slet'simaginethisyoupostpostersalloverschool allofherschool youpostallthepostersthatyoucan aboutthishugesnowballfightthat'shappeningattheendoftheday outside thishugesnowballfightandyouyoustartmakingthingsupabouttheseventhgraderstalkandsharedabouttheeighth-gradersandit'sallgoodtogodownonthesnowballfight andyougooutsideandyoumakehundredsofsnowballs hundredsofsnowBosniapackthemup andyouputthesnowballsinthebigpileandthenyouask everysinglepersonwhoyouincitedthisfightthissnowballfightwasincited byyouyouposttothepostersalloveryouwillspreadthepropagandayoustartedthewar andthenyoupackaged theneededgoods toallowthewartohappen 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not notifthatmeansshuttingthebloodofmyson over youknowyourseventhandeighthgradesnowballfight thatyouincitedtobeginwithright andthenprofitoffof solet'sgoaheadandwatchEisenhower's speechonthemilitary-industrialcomplex avitalelementinkeepingthepagesaremilitaryis ourarmsmustbemightyreadyforinstantsothatnopotentialaggressormaybetemptedtoriskhisowndestruction ourmilitaryorganizationtoday bearslittlerelationtothatno howmanyofmypredecessors inbeta orindeedbythefightingmenofWorldWarII whatcanyou untilthelatestofourworldconflicts UnitedStateshadnoarmamentsindustry Americanmakersofplowsharescould withtimeandisrequiredtomakestorageaswell butwecannolongerriskemergencyimprovisation ofnationaldefense wehavebeencompelledtocreateapermanentarmamentsindustryofvastproportions Idothis 31/2millionmenandwomen aredirectlyengagedinthedefenseestablished weannuallyspendonmilitarysecurityalone morethanthenetincomeofallUnitedStatescorporationscorporations howthisconjunctionofanimmensemilitaryestablishmentandalargearmsand isnew intheAmericanexperiment thetotalinfluence economic political evenspiritual isfeltineverycity everystatehouseeveryofficeofthefederalgovernment werecognizetheimperativeneedforthisdevelopment yetwemustnotfailtocomprehend itsgraveimplications ourtoil resourcesandlivelihoodareallinvolved soistheverystructureofoursociety inthecouncilsofgovernment womencarguardagainst theacquisitionofunwarrantedinfluence whethersoughtorunsought bythemilitary-industrialcomplex thepotentialforthedisastrousriseofmisplacedpowerexists andwillpersist wemustneverlettheweightofthiscombinationendangerourliberties democraticprocess weshouldtakenothingforgranted onlyanalertandknowledgeablecitizenry cancompel thepropermeshingofthehugeindustrialandmilitarymachineryofdefense withourpeacefulmethodsandgoals sothatsecurityandliberty mayprospertogether sointerestingenoughthatisoneoftwopresidentsasfarasmyknowledgegoes thatincaseyou'rewonderingthatwasJohnF.Kennedysayinghello thefollowingvideothatisoneoftwopresidentswhoisevermentionedthemilitaryindustrialcomplexmyknowledge andendedinhisfarewellspeechforareason right veryspinechillingreason whichisinterestingenoughwithJohnF.KennedysayinghelloanywayssotherewasacouplethingsthatIhadmentionedonmystorythisweekonInstagramwhereIaskyouknowwhatyouwanttoknowwhatdoyouknowaboutthemilitary-industrialcomplex andthecanIgothroughacoupleofthoseforyouguyssothefirstone isistheRussiaUkrainethingtobolsterbuy-inathomeonsoIthinkthatthatkindofimpliesthefactthattobolsterhimwouldmeantokindofmakehimlookinabetterlightyouknowIIthinkitcouldbetakingawayyouknowhemadeitmaybetothemitcouldpossiblybetryingtoputhiminapositionwherehehastheopportunitytolookgoodbasedonlookingpowerfulthroughourmilitarypositioningororandandGinoinsomewayengaginghopefullynotinsomewayinthiswarbutIdon'tthinkspecificallyasitisregarding BidenIthinkithastodowiththeNATOrelationsandIthinkthat'salittlebitbiggerpicturethanwhattheonethatbindinplacebutIdothinkthatBidenisthepuppeteerinwhichthepeoplewhoareplayingthisgameandareutilizingtomakepointssoifyouunderstandthatyoucansaythatinsomewayit'sbeingutilized forBidenbutmostlyit'sbeingutilizedthroughBidentoyouknowimposethesebeliefsystemssoyouknowthesamereasonhe'ssquintinglookingattheTeleprompter isinno whowrotethatoratleastwhowas paidtoRiowhopaidthepersontowritethatscriptforhimandsothat'swhoisbolstering youknowit'sbolsteringtheagendaofthepeoplewhohaveavestedinterestinthissituationhappeningwhichisagaingoesbacktothemilitary-industrialcomplex soIhopethatanswersyourquestionnowthenextquestionandthatwasbyIamnotJensen but nowthenextquestionwas let'sseeherewhatisitinasinglesentenceforakidtounderstandselectivetheRedditexplainlikeI'mfivesoIwishIcouldIwouldhavewrittenthisoutbutIthinkthemilitary-industrialcomplexisanindustrythatprofitssolelyfromthebloodshedof governmentand worldwideconflicts andtheonlywayforthemtocontinueprofitisthroughincitingadditionalworldwideconflictsand that'swhatwesawwiththeimmediatechangefromAfghanistan withinmonthsleavingAfghanistanandnowgoingintosometypeofconflictwithpotentiallywithRussiafromthestatestandpointsoIthinkthat'sthewaytoputitisistheindustryof bloodshedandconflictandwarbutspecificallytheindustryofyouknowproducinggoodsmaterialsandinthecorporationsthatareinvolvedinthemwhichengageinprofitable actionsonlywhenthereisspecificallyconflictrightandsotheyhavetoperpetuatethatyouknowit'slikeifyouwantedthenoteisspecificallythatthemilitary-industrialcomplexisreferringtotheentityiswhichprofitfromwarthroughsellingandpushingthegoodswhich inturn incentivizesthem toinciteadditionalconflicts rightit'slikethatyouknowgoesbacktothesnowball analogythatIjustusethereforeyou andIthinkthereisonemoreherethatImetatouchonandthatthatone wasASCEMSIOM_247ascension suretoforce that'sthequestionsothankyouforthatandthen 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shipstartedtochangerightlythingsstartedtohappenandsoifwebecomeeducated andinwedecidenottoengageinnoandeducateourchildrenevenmoresosothattheyaregoingtogointothemilitarythattheydecidetonotrenewtheircontractwhentherearethingshappeningbecausethatthatcontractisistheonlywaythatthemilitary-industrialcomplexgetstoperpetuatethisisbypayingpeopleto pushtheiragendabecauseasthewarpigssonggoes youknowthey'resittingupontheirhighhorseandhavingnothingtodowiththewarwhiletheysendourchildrentogoshedtheirbloodonbehalfoftheirprofits soeducatingourselveseducatingourchildrentorealizewhenweshouldbepushingtheseagendasandwhenweshouldn'tbe youknownotjustyouknowblindlyfollowingwhatourleadershavetosaybutthinkeducatingourselvesthatwhenthey'resayingsomethingthat'soff orwrong orinspiredbyprofitwecanidentifythemandgooh weseewhatyou'redoingIamnotsendingmychildormychild'snotgoingtodecide togofightforyouwhenthisiswhyyouwantthemtofightwhichwehavetomakeafastdecisionwhenweaspeopleasasAmericansassoldiers aregoingtofightthesewarsandobviouslyyoucan'tthrowupyourcontractintheworldbecausethecomeafteryouhaveforyouinjailifyoudecidetogo AWOLordecidethatyou'reknockingtocontinueyourcontractbuteveryfouryears yougetthatdecisionagain andifenoughpeoplemakeamoraldecisionthatwerenotinagoshutourown blood sothatyoucanperpetuateyourprofitthat'soneway youknowsoisn'tthatwhatitbeginswith andIthinkthatwouldbeamoraldecisionmadeovertimebythepeoplewhoyouknowwhoeducatethemselvesnotthatwearelikeyouknowaskingyoutodothatrightnow youknowthatwouldbeyourowndecisionthatyouwouldcometobygettingeducatedaboutthesetopicsandnotfeelingrightaboutgoingoverthere andandandenactingthese youknow engagementsinnowaygettingitintheseconflictsover thingsthatyouknowyoudon'tmorallyagreewithbecausesoldierswhohaveverylowmoraletendtonotstickaroundtoolongandthatmoralecomesfromyoufromsurethere'sareasonthatmoraleandmorals aresocloselyaligned rightsothatwouldbeoneway righte

This week, Ed and Lee discuss the breaking news that Justice Breyer plans to retire.  He hasn't made any public announcements.  Is he being pushed out?  Also, with ongoing tension between Russia and Ukraine and President Biden alerting troops, Ed and Lee convene the People's Law School to discuss the War Powers Act and how it affects the use of military force.Email us at Comments@LetsThinkPodcast.comWe have new social media accounts on Parler and Gettr.  You can follow along at:Twitter:  @LetsThinkPodca2Parler:  @LetsThinkPodGettr:  @LetsThinkPod

Fox News' Chris Foster talks to Rep. Dan Crenshaw of Texas about how Americans can reestablish strength, bravery, and heroism in the face of today's sensitivity culture. Crenshaw also talks about his reelection campaign, his solutions for the environmental crisis and his rejection of the 2020 War Powers Act, which he calls a "silly, petty, really partisan act." A lot is riding on the Nevada Caucuses especially after the confusion in Iowa due to a malfunctioning app. What happened in Iowa is only a part of what is fueling the debate about changing the primary process. FOX News Politics Editor Chris Stirewalt weighs in on the process for picking presidential nominees. Plus, commentary by Kristin Tate, author of "The Liberal Invasion of Red State America". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jacki Schechner and Hal Sparks take an even further dive into The War Powers Act and what is necessary for Congress and the President to go to war.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Jacki and Hal take a deep dive into The War Powers Act and what it SHOULD take for the US to declare war on another nation, all done with their signature sense of humor.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Stephen K. Bannon, Jason Miller, and Raheem Kassam are joined by Congressman Matt Gaetz hot on the heels of his vote with the Democrats on the War Powers Resolution in Congress on Thursday. 

Stephen K. Bannon, Jason Miller, and Raheem Kassam are joined by Congressman Matt Gaetz hot on the heels of his vote with the Democrats on the War Powers Resolution in Congress on Thursday. 

Stephen K. Bannon, Jason Miller, and Raheem Kassam are joined by CNN National Security Analyst ans author of the new book Trump and His Generals Peter Bergen. The four discuss the War Powers Act and the debate ensuing after Trump's strike on Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, as well as Nancy Pelosi's impeachment stall, and the implications of the Harry and Meghan split with the Royal Family.

Stephen K. Bannon, Jason Miller, and Raheem Kassam are joined by CNN National Security Analyst ans author of the new book Trump and His Generals Peter Bergen. The four discuss the War Powers Act and the debate ensuing after Trump's strike on Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, as well as Nancy Pelosi's impeachment stall, and the implications of the Harry and Meghan split with the Royal Family.

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

The House of Representatives is considering limiting president Trump's presidential powers in the Iran conflict. For analysis, we talk to professors Marjorie Cohn and Karen Greenberg. Guest: Marjorie Cohn is Professor Emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego, California. A former president of the National Lawyers Guild. Author of Drones and Targeted Killing: Legal, Moral and Geopolitical Issues. Her articles can be found at marjoriecohn.com Karen Greenberg is the Director of the Center on National Security at Fordham University School of Law and author of several books. Author of several books, including her latest Rogue Justice: The Making of the Security State. She is the editor of the new book Reimagining the National Security State: Liberalism on the Brink.   The post House Considers Vote War Powers Act appeared first on KPFA.

0:08 – Congress to use War Powers Act over Iran, set to vote later today. Mitch Jeserich is the host of Letters and Politics, and Pacifica's Congressional correspondent. 0:20 – What's the impact of new sanctions on Iran? Nicholas Mulder (@njtmulder) is a historian and postdoctoral associate at Cornell University, currently working on a history of economic sanctions.  0:34 – Author interview: Celeste Watkins-Hayes (@watkinshayes) is a professor of sociology and African American studies, and faculty fellow at the Institute of Policy Research at Northwestern University. She's author of The New Welfare Bureaucrats: Entanglements of Race, Class and Policy Reform – her new book is Remaking a Life: How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality. 1:08 – Mental Health First is a first responder program that recently launched in Sacramento, specifically to respond in mental health crises without police. Asantewaa Boykin, RN is the co-founder Anti Police-Terror Project (@APTPaction), and leads the Sacramento Chapter. 1:18 – In Mississippi, 5 people have been killed and over 20 wounded amid a statewide prison lockdown. Mississippi has one of the nation's highest rates of incarceration, with chronic overcrowding in prisons across the state, according to Democracy Now. Advocates say the violence and tensions have escalated due to a crackdown on protests against the inhumane living conditions, sewage leaks, pests, lack of food and medical care. We speak with Bezal, an organizer with IWOC – Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee of Mississippi. 1:34 – Author interview: Jenny Brown (@JennyBrownLN) is a national Women's Liberation organizer and former editor of Labor Notes, a media and organizing project centered on the union movement. She's the author of Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now and her new book is Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight Over Women's Work. (Rebroadcast) The post Congress to use War Powers Act over Iran to limit Trump's powers to attack; Plus: How Women living with HIV/AIDs confront inequality with sociologist Celeste Watkins-Hayes appeared first on KPFA.

Comprehensive coverage of the day's news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Congress invokes War Powers Act to limit U.S. strikes against Iran, critics point to its loopholes Trump rallies supporters, brags about killing Iranian general, and criticizes Democrats Bernie Sanders and progressive Democrats promote No War in Iran Act in both houses Without evidence, Trump claims Iranian general was planning to strike U.S. embassy Canada and U.S. say Iran missile downed Ukraine jetliner killing all 176 onboard Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell says impeachment trial likely next week Trump announces rollbacks of environmental law to fast track infrastructure like oil pipelines San Francisco's progressive District Attorney, Chesa Boudin, sworn into office Protesters demand San Francisco DA uphold pledge to close jail at 850 Bryant 9th Circuit Court considers wrongful death lawsuit against Berkeley Police for killing Kayla Moore Wildfires increase in Australia as protests are planned to address nations “climate emergency” The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – January 9, 2020 appeared first on KPFA.

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

Comprehensive coverage of the day's news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. President Trump backs down from escalating tensions with Iran after strike against U.S. forces Lawmakers scrutinize Trump administration's classified Iran debriefing as inadequate Senate committee considers War Powers Act to limit strikes against Iran Congressional Progressive Caucus announces package of bills to stop war on Iran State lawmakers introduce bill to mandate power to hospitals and others during power outages San Francisco Mayor London Breed inaugurated as city's first African American woman mayor Trump administration opens 1.2 million acres of California land to fracking State officials consider wildlife corridors to reduce roadkill and traffic collisions The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – January 8, 2020 appeared first on KPFA.

Today, a conversation with Louis Fisher on the 1973 War Powers Act, designed to limit the U.S. president's ability to initiate or escalate military actions abroad. Louis Fisher is a scholar at The Constitution Project. Then, Mitch Jeserich talks to arms specialist William Hartung about the economics and who makes money during a war. He is the director of the Arms and Security Project at Center for International Policy and author Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex. The post The War Powers Act and The Making Money on War appeared first on KPFA.

This is NOT Painter's way of apologizing for the Iranians for their terrorist acts around the world. The questions he ponders, when should we be killing them or waging attacks against them? What's the timing of this attack? Painter wants a bi-partisan examination of the War Powers Act so no one, a Democrat, Republicancan be the solely responsible for Americans dying overseas or at home.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Apologies for being a day late; I was unable to upload to Anchor yesterday, the file would remain at 0% uploaded. Seems fixed today. ⦁ DECEMBER 14 1799. George Washington dies. 1911. Roald Amundsen becomes first explorer to reach the South Pole. 1939. USSR is expelled from the League of Nations. 2012. Sandy Hook Shooting. ⦁ DECEMBER 15 1890. Sitting Bull killed by Indian police. 1961. Architect of the Holocaust sentenced to die. 1978. United States announces that it will recognize communist China. ⦁ DECEMBER 16 1773. Boston Tea Party. 1944. Battle of the Bulge begins. 1950. President Truman declares state of emergency over Korean War. 1998. President Clinton orders air attack on Iraq. ⦁ DECEMBER 17 1777. France formally recognizes the United States. 1862. Union General Ulysses S. Grant expels Jews from his military district. 1903. First Airplane Recorded Flight. 1941. Commander at Pearl Harbor relieved of his duties. 1944. U.S. approves end to internment of Japanese Americans. 1991. Boris Yeltsin announces the Soviet Union will cease to exist by New Year's Eve. 2011. Kim Jong Il dies. ⦁ DECEMBER 18 1620. Mayflower lands at Plymouth Harbor. 1916. Battle of Verdun ends. 1941. Japan invades Hong Kong. The War Powers Act was passed by Congress on the same day ⦁ DECEMBER 19 1777. Continental Army enters winter camp at Valley Forge. 1917. National Hockey League (NHL) opens its first season. 1941. Hitler takes command of the German army. ⦁ DECEMBER 20 1963. Berlin Wall opened for the first time. 1989. US Invades Panama. 1995. NATO assumes peacekeeping duties in Bosnia.

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On this week's Electric Libertyland Brian McWilliams salutes an invoking of the War Powers Act to strike down U.S. support for the war in Yemen before turning his attention to attacking the 2018 Farm Bill's subsidy madness. Brian then laments California's "texting" taxation attempt and finishes up the podcast by gaping in awe at Elizabeth Warren's newest and dumbest plan to lower drug prices. The would-be Native American senator just introduced a bill that would get government into the pharmaceutical manufacturing game and truly "socialize" medicine.  Show notes can be found at lionsofliberty.com/ell103 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

David Schoenbrod formerly of the Natural Resources Defense Council and currently a Trustee Professor at New York Law School sits down with ChangeUp Media's Ben Weingarten for Encounter Books to discuss his new book " DC Confidential: Inside the Five Tricks of Washington." During the interview, David and Ben discuss a variety of topics including the various types of chicanery engaged in by politicians in Washington, how and why the political system developed as it did, the costs to the American people, legislation that could hold the key to drastically curtailing such tricks and restoring accountability and much more. Read 'DC Confidential': tinyurl.com/kbpw2gl. 'Freeway' by Kurt Vile is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License. Download 'Freeway' here: tinyurl.com/p4tkyfb

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The Republican presidential candidates debate, the War Powers Act fight, and free speech in America's schools Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices