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John Bolton should switch places with Assange. Bolton is a war criminal who should rot. Assange is a hero. Free Assange.

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Oct 6, 2022·edited Oct 6, 2022

He supported the Vietnam war, and he was of age to enter the war he supported, but chickened out, since so many others could take his place, die, or be maimed. I hate him!!!!!!!!!!! He knew when we entered the Iraq war it was based on a lie, no doubt they all knew, but they supported death, and destruction, and I wish they all would grow horns.

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During the interview serpent Bolton not so subtly threatened already compliant editors at NYT and WP to stay in lockstep with USG.

Free Assange.

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Absolutely!

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I just seconds ago said the same thing on the actual video. 😊

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Oct 7, 2022·edited Oct 7, 2022

at least War criminals, usually, get their HANDS personally dirty. This Bolt-On character, just sits inside the Beltway, makes one TV appearance a week, collects fees, and retires to his Beltway Mansion/s. He's far far far more evil. He's the slander that enables war criminals to trap their souls in evil while the slander slithers on generation after generation. He's the snake....ssssssssss that whispers in your subconscious "go ahead be evil".

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Thank you for bringing this to all our attention. I remember Julian pointing out the logical fallacies in the newswhores trying to trip him up. I'm glad his wife has that same level head on her shoulders. Okay, I'm ready to watch the slapdown!

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If you've had your cigarette and are ready for the slow version, Putin's Sept 30 speech is the most thorough takedown I've ever seen of Western arrogance. Here's a snippet:

"Such self-confidence is a direct product not only of the notorious concept of exceptionalism – although it never ceases to amaze – but also of the real ”information hunger“ in the West. The truth has been drowned in an ocean of myths, illusions and fakes, using extremely aggressive propaganda, lying like Goebbels. The more unbelievable the lie, the quicker people will believe it – that is how they operate, according to this principle.

"But people cannot be fed with printed dollars and euros. You can't feed them with those pieces of paper, and the virtual, inflated capitalisation of western social media companies can't heat their homes. Everything I am saying is important. And what I just said is no less so: you can't feed anyone with paper – you need food; and you can't heat anyone’s home with these inflated capitalisations – you need energy.

"That is why politicians in Europe have to convince their fellow citizens to eat less, take a shower less often and dress warmer at home. And those who start asking fair questions like “Why is that, in fact?” are immediately declared enemies, extremists and radicals. They point back at Russia and say: that is the source of all your troubles. More lies."

The rest is at Matt Ehret's Substack: https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/putins-historic-speech-must-be-experienced

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Oct 6, 2022·edited Oct 6, 2022

I find that the following geo-political commentators in Youtube give excellent analysis of the war in Ukraine:

The Duran

Garland Nixon

Jackson Hinkle

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Garland Nixon has an excellent video explaining how the US deep state runs the world , the current geo-political status of the Ukraine war and the EU leaders.... and what awaits Europe.

Look for his video called ''EU leaders caught between an angry empire and an angry electorate''.

All of his videos are excellent..... and he is funny too!

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Thanks Ralph. Take advantage that Substack allows us links and post some to your favorites! I love it about Substack that I don't need to hunt and peck. If you'd like more of my take on geopolitics, by any chance, here's one with extensive quotes from Putin: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/russia-a-wrench-in-the-reset-gears. It's hopeful that there's more than one agenda afoot, not all nefarious.

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OMG! speaking of....google is the gestapo of censorship. Even fact based counter views are scrubbed off silently. constant shading by the evil stasi/gestapo google.....they have even more info than the stasi. anonymize your searches away from the gestapo agency, i say.

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Ooooh, that was very satisfying ...

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"This guy wants to go to war with everybody!" -- President Trump, right after he fired John Bolton.

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Trump could have pardoned Assange, Snowden, Ulbricht, and others, but chose not to. Along with Covid, huge errors.

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Obama could have pardoned Assange, and did not. Trump could have pardoned Assange, and did not. Biden could pardon Assange today, and will not. The suppression of journalism in the U.S. is completely bipartisan.

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"SHOWbama". Please, always use the term "SHOWbama". SHOWbama presided over the germination of our fascist moment, and kept it well covered. He got a publishing company "payout" immediately upon retire.

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and then he would have been JFKed, but alas he's no JFK and we have had no JFKs in the white house since JFK. nixon and trump are closest though.

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Wel that maybe depends on whether JFK was "JFK"ed. Not everyone believes that. I certainly don't.

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JFK didn’t get his brains blown out in public?

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What have you read that didn't manage to sway you?

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Paycheck stub

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Today's Jimmy Dore went at length on the topic.

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Trump is part of the 2 party kabuki. He's not who you think.

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Trump certainly has not been treated like one of the insiders. He is not invited to the Clinton Bush Obama photo ops, he is shunned. And, DOJ, the FBI, the Congressional deep state, SCOTUS, and even the NY Atty Gen won’t leave him alone. He also just offered to broker peace in UKR, again touching that electric rail that nearly got him thrown out of office; no US insider would ever do this. Trump made plenty of mistakes, especially in 2020 (Covid, letting mail in voting get out of control, and failure to use his pardon power) but he is not controlled opposition.

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Also, he didn’t want the Fed to raise rates. He encouraged them to do quite the opposite. Continue spending with reckless abandon and kick that can down the road.

Is he better than Bush, Obama, Romney, Clinton, Graham, Cheney and the uniparty of Washington insiders? Without question, but he’s hardly the messiah the right portrays him as.

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IF postures were real, the world would have long back extinguished itself in chaos.

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Some wonder why Trump brought this guy in in the first place (including, I think, Bolton himself).

My hypothesis is that it was an "Art of the Deal" type thing. Trump sits this blood-thirsty, war-hungry walrus in front of foreign adversaries at the negotiating table, and then he gets to come in, play the good cop, and ink a deal meeting in the middle. That may have been Trump's idea, at least.

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Trump seemed ill-prepared for the swamp. I mean, you can't drain the swamp and also appoint a bunch of swamp monsters.

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I rather suspect that Rump fired Bolton because he refused to shave off the mustache even though he was repeatedly ordered to do so. Narcissists don't like being told "No".

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Normally I wouldn't hope that somebody literally slapped someone else upon seeing a headline like that, but I make an exception in Bolton's case.

I don't know what made him the way he is and I hate him too much to care. I hope karma gets him someday and he suffers as much as he's made others suffer.

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I just love your work Caitlin! You are a star of forthright journalism - confronting and excoriating the wicked of the world. And Bolton is a monster.

Stella Assange is fearless in her pursuit of justice for Julian. Speaking for millions of us who detest the warmongers of the US - she took the case into Bolton's court - accusing him of his many unpunished crimes. Bravo.

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Stella is an absolute hero right along with Julian. It just breaks my heart all that they have to go through and she handled this remarkably. I would have told that bastard to F off!

And yes, everyone get to London or DC this Saturday if you can and spread the word even if you can't!

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The very sight of that piece of filth war criminal Bolton makes me want to vomit! Thanks Caitlin and Mrs. Assange for your courage and thanks for standing up to that piece of trash!

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Oct 6, 2022·edited Oct 6, 2022

Last night, Tucker Carlson said that suspect #1 for blowing up the pipeline is Biden or his proxies. I realize Caitlin is not a Carlson fan, but it is good to take allies where you can who are also against the end of humanity.

Carlson also spent a lot of time talking about how the propaganda is so thick in America that you can't read Putin's speeches or get a contrary point of view because of both the administration, and the tech overlords. That was welcome to hear.

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I believe that a lot of the smoke screen preventing factual discussion is caused by the Jewish Neocons.

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I'm not in favor of blaming Jews, but as a lifelong conservative, I can't stand the neo-cons.

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I think my Jewish father was at home watching Masterpiece Theatre or Nova on PBS when the cabal met to divvy up the loot.

The poor guy died penniless, and because he was low on the income side, not big on the spending side.

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I'd be interested in the links.

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Sorry, I just saw this. It didn't come up on my notifications, only my e-mail.

Anyway, here's the first and most comprehensive, it's a long read, perhaps 30 minutes or so, it's like a book chapter but the best summation in that length of material that I've seen.

https://www.unz.com/lromanoff/jews-and-revolutions/

Here's the second one, also by LR;

https://www.unz.com/lromanoff/stalins-jews/

Presumably you're familiar with that site. Lots of great stuff over there and 1A all the way.

Let me know if you need more info after reading those.

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Chelsea Manning testified the video was not classified, and it should not have been classified because it involved US crimes, the deliberate targeted killing of civilians, two of them Reuters journalists. To top it off, the whole sordid mess prompted a sick joking/laughing reaction from the perps. Unless US crimes are privileged under international law, the public should have the right to a record of what is done in their name. Bolton is an ossified fool, a war criminal, a sub-human: who, what, was endangered by the release of this video? Only US moral credibility, already shot through with more holes than a sprinkler system. I believe Bolt-off's indignation has more to do with certain servers, and the Dem party HQ. Can't let party secrets of either variety out of the can : the public might lose faith in the system.

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Yes, but American neocons don't care.

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A lot of people don't care, and many more don't care enough. But Assange and others make the ignorance and complacency of such people inexcusable: it's on them.

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Stella is a star (for you Latin scholars).

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Oct 6, 2022·edited Oct 6, 2022

The Orwellian society we now inhabit treats GWB as a wise statesman and Jillian Assange like a war criminal. How stupid does a person need to be in order to ignore the actual evidence in both print and video of exactly the opposite facts. The answer lies in the human willingness to accept unsubstantiated claims made by those we trust. Stop blindly trusting leaders and demand an end to redaction as a means of hiding incompetence and corruption. Jillian and Edward’s revelations about our corrupt government should have earned them the love, devotion and gratitude of all Americans. I stand in wonder at their courage and sacrifice.

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American neocons are not interested in truth. Their sole focus is on maintaining US global dominance.

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Truth is a subjective label used to obscure a complete understanding of right and wrong. Neocons are arrogant, agressive, never admit mistakes and unquestionably self righteous.

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Stella Morris/Assange is made of steel. Julian Assange can count on her to not let go of this situation as long as she lives. I admire her.

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Yes, and she sticks to fact based reason, able to hold back immense emotions, I'm sure, and then able to show a smile to the idiots before her. Good for Stella.

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She’s incredible. Julian has a good one fighting for him.

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I’m sorry Caitlin,

I don’t hear a “nervous laugh” from Bolton… I hear an arrogant, evil and patronizing laughter. But maybe that actually comes being deep down nervous. Nervous from having lost his sense of what it actually means to be human.

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Narcissistic Psychopaths

Narcissistic PsychopathsNarcissistic psychopaths are manipulative and often charming individuals. However, there are certain signs that can indicate that someone is a narcissistic psychopath. If you notice any of the following behaviors in someone, it might be wise to stay away from them.

Individuals that have an inflated sense of self-importance and a deep need for admiration. They often lack empathy and can be manipulative and exploitative. These psychopaths often have a grandiose sense of self and can be very destructive.

If you know someone who is always putting themselves first, constantly demands attention, and has no regard for others, they might be a narcissistic psychopath.

It can be a result of their upbringing, genetics, or other factors. However, there are certain signs that you can look out for to determine whether someone has narcissistic psychopath tendencies.

Someone who blames others for their own mistakes rather than taking responsibility is likely a narcissist. If they refuse to recognize your feelings and instead insist on being right all the time, it could be another indication of narcissistic behavior. The inability to take feedback from anyone else without feeling personally attacked indicates strong egoism in these individuals as well. 1 Narcissistic Psychopaths

2 Warning Signs of Narcissistic Psychopaths

2.1 Lack of Empathy

2.2 Inability To Take Criticism

2.3 Grandiose Sense of Self

2.4 Manipulative Behavior

2.5 Delusional Behavior

2.6 Exploitive Behaviour

2.7 Constant Need of Admiration

2.8 Selfishness And Greediness

3 How To Deal When You See Warning Signs Of Narcissistic Psychopath?

3.1 Reach Out To Help

3.2 Try To Support Them

3.3 Avoid Being Angry With Them

3.4 Help Them To Find Support Groups

4 Conclusion

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From what I remember Obama was not going to pursue extradition. Didn't Trump talk at one time about pardoning both Snowden and Assange and then do a complete turnaround and start the extradition process? Free Assange! Free speech!

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If one takes as granted that Trump had some good instincts, from his actions,

one must conclude that Trump was a weakling cuck.

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Trump was a cuck. But he was also a psyop perpetrated by the deep state. Trump was (and still is) the thermite in the controlled demolition of America.

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I think Trump was talked out of it unfortunately.

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One of the worst mistakes of Trump's time in office was naming that war criminal as his National Security Advisor. After Trump assassinated General Soleimani, Iran responded with pinprick strikes on US forces in Iraq, so precise that they didn't kill any soldiers. At that point Bolton was begging Trump to go to war. To his credit Trump not only didn't listen to Bolton but fired him. Now, with the US pushing for nuclear war against Russia, Trump is calling for negotiations. (BTW, where is Obama?) Bad as Trump was at times, he is not nearly as evil as the corpse, and his cadre of neocons, illegally occupying the WH.

I've heard from a few sources that Trump was set to pardon Assange during his lame duck session but was threatened by Mitch McConnell that if he did that there would be hell to pay. Sadly, Trump backed down, another stain on his presidency.

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In another comment to this article, I offer a theory about why Trump brought Bolton on board.

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