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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (403433)	9/28/2023 6:41:13 AM
From: FJB	3 Recommendations Recommended By DinoNavarre HairBall Thehammer Respond to of 458435

Holy sh*t a former J6 prosecutor stabbed someone in a road rage incident and then tried to stab another couple trying to help. As I've said repeatedly, something very wrong with these people. https://t.co/PapMWnd7xG — Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) September 27, 2023

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (403433)	9/28/2023 1:22:00 PM
From: FJB	3 Recommendations Recommended By Schnullie Sr K Tom Clarke Respond to of 458435

I thought Dana Perino and her team did a poor job moderating the debate last night. Seemed like they wanted a circus that would make the GOP look stupid. Then I woke up this morning and read a post that she was at a Clinton Global Initiative meeting last week. pic.twitter.com/KBCh5WJuIW — Josh Power 🇺🇸 (@JoshPower80) September 28, 2023

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (403433)	9/28/2023 6:59:17 PM
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You Will Never Guess What Happened To "The Strong US Consumer" After Today's Huge GDP Revisions There goes the myth of the "strong US spending" keeping Bidenomics afloat. Oh, and there goes $1.1 trillion in savings that never actually existed in the first place..

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (403433)	9/28/2023 7:01:06 PM
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Our Society Is Melting Down Even Faster Than Most People Thought That It Would Our society is literally coming apart at the seams* all around us...*

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (403433)	9/28/2023 7:02:39 PM
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A Third Of All Workers Say They'd Quit Or Find A New Job If They Were Asked To Return To The Office If the UAW strikes haven't proven to you that workers want to do less, for more money, perhaps this new survey will.

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (403433)	9/28/2023 7:14:28 PM
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Victor Davis Hanson: The Ukrainian Gordian Knot ...the entire region is an historical Gordian Knot of poorly understood but ancient intertwined and competing threads - one that may risk being cut by a Russian nuclear sword. Most Americans understandably favor the Ukrainian resistance against Vladimir Putin’s Russian naked 2022 aggression. Yet for Ukraine to break the current deadlock - our generation’s Verdun with perhaps 600,000 combined casualties so far - and “win” the war, it apparently must have the military wherewithal to hit targets inside Russia. Such strategically logical attacks might nevertheless provoke a wounded and unpredictable Russia finally to carry out its boilerplate and ignored existential threats. [url=][/url] From the last 75 years of big-power rivalries, the operational “rules” of proxy wars are well known. In Vietnam, Korea, and Afghanistan, Russia supplied America’s enemies - sometimes even sending Russian pilots into combat zones. Thousands of Americans likely died due to our adversaries’ use of Russian munitions and personnel. Likewise, Russia lost 15,000 fatalities in its decade-long misadventure in Afghanistan. In part, Moscow’s defeat may have been due to deadly American weapons, including sophisticated Stinger anti-aircraft missiles. In the bloody decades of these big-power proxy wars, many were fought on or near the borders of Russia or China. Yet none of these surrogate conflicts of the nuclear age ever led to hot wars between the U.S. and Russia or China. But Ukraine risks now becoming a new - and different - proxy war altogether. Never has the U.S. squared off against Russia or China in a conventional proxy war over either’s respective historical borders (whether illegitimate or not). Neither has Russia nor the U.S. itself ever provided weapons to a proxy belligerent that were used directly inside the respective homeland of either side. They understood superpowers react unpredictably to any third-party who fuels direct conventional attacks on their homelands. Nobly protecting both Ukraine and Taiwan understandably holds a potential risk of big-power escalation that even Vietnam, Korea, Afghanistan, and Iraq likely did not. The U.S. rightly is very sensitive to intrusions of any rival big power near its own borders. When the Soviets had supplied missiles aimed at the U.S. to its proxy communist Cuba, the Kennedy administration was willing to risk war against Moscow. Indeed, America went to DefCon 2, the second highest level of nuclear readiness. If all the current 1916-style talk of going into Mexico—ostensibly to stop the cartels from importing drugs over an inert border that kill 100,000 Americans a year—were to be reified, would the U.S. warn Moscow not to supply Mexico or the cartels with weapons or advisors? The U.S. in 1917 declared war in part because of German interference in our own territorial affairs. A hacked telegram from German State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Arthur Zimmermann revealed Germany had promised a potential proxy, Mexico, some U.S. territory if it were to join the Central Powers to defeat the Allies. That provocation helped convince enraged Americans to enter World War I. The 9/11 hit was followed by an immediate American invasion of Afghanistan on the grounds that the third-party Taliban helped terrorists strike our homeland. Additionally, nowhere in the world has territory been more disputed than in Ukraine. Seventy-eight years ago, Joseph Stalin’s Russia formally annexed his previously stolen western regions of currently independent Ukraine. The lands were taken mostly from Poland, but also a few parts from Hungary, Romania, and the former Czechoslovakia. Russia also seized and occupied Crimea in 2014. The peninsula had previously been Russian from 1783-1954. Yet Crimea was only ceded by Soviet Russia to Soviet Ukraine in 1954 as a political ploy of then Soviet Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev —himself born near the Ukrainian border. Khrushchev sought to ensure that a restive Ukraine stayed an integral part of a supposedly eternal Soviet Union by ceremonially including Crimea into one of its own Soviet state’s sub-jurisdictions. With the fall of the Soviet Union, the short-lived Russian-majority, and independent Republic of Crimea (1992-95), was annexed by the newly independent Ukraine. It then remained part of the Ukrainian nation for 19 years until the 2014 invasion. Why Putin for a third time dared invade Ukraine is obfuscated by contemporary domestic politics. He likely enacted his irredentist agenda of restoring the borders of the former Soviet Union in 2008, 2014, and 2021, because he gambled—correctly—that the Bush, Obama, and Biden administrations could not successfully oppose his serial annexations. Equally forgotten were the policies of the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations regarding the 2014 Russian annexation of the Donbas and Crimea. Prior to the February 24, 2022 Russian attack on Kyiv, none of the three had ever sought to force Russia to give up either the borderlands or the Crimea. The Obama administration’s disastrous 2009-2014 Russian “reset” appeasement policy, the 2015-16 Russian collusion hoax, and the humiliating American skedaddle from Kabul also convinced Putin that America either would not or could not oppose his 2022 invasion. America should help Ukraine resist Russian aggression. But we should be mindful in doing so that the entire region is an historical Gordian Knot of poorly understood but ancient intertwined and competing threads—one that may risk being cut by a Russian nuclear sword.

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (403433)	9/28/2023 8:04:14 PM
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Elon Musk Has Fired Most Of Twitter's "Election Integrity" Team ...because they were "undermining election integrity"...

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (403433)	9/29/2023 4:10:15 AM
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Treason?! Biden BOMBSHELL thread details energy deal between Biden family and Chinese co. connected to Xi BREAKING - President Joe Biden's brother, James Biden, told FBI agents that Hunter Biden and the Biden family attempted to help a Chinese energy company purchase U.S. energy assets while believing the Chinese company's chairman was directly tied to Chinese President Xi Jinping. James Biden told the FBI in an interview last year about efforts by him and Hunter Biden to help CEFC China Energy buy a liquid natural gas facility on Monkey Island off the coast of Louisiana, according to explosive new documents made public Wednesday by the House Ways and Means Committee. "James B noted that RHB [Robert Hunter Biden] portrayed CEFC to him as Chairman Ye was a protégé of President Xi," FBI agents wrote in the report. Last October, the @MarcoPolo501c3 Report on the Biden Laptop revealed that President Xi Jinping, whom Hunter and his business partner referred to as "#1" and "no 1" in text messages, personally approved of the business partnership between CEFC China Energy and the Biden family. Hunter and James Gilliar, his business partner, alluded to President Xi's involvement in approving meetings and ownership shares on two separate occasions. On May 16, 2017, Gilliar told Hunter business partner Tony Bobulinski: "As I know chairman [Ye Jianming] will come to meet VP [Joe Biden] if he gets approval from no 1 [Xi Jinping]..." The following day, Bobulinski, who later confirmed that "#1" and "no 1" referred to President Xi, expressed concerns about the Bidens potentially overruling him on corporate decisions. Hunter responded, "TONY that is what Zang implied - they are both [Zang Jianjun and Ye Jianming] coming to be MY partner to be partners with the Bidens. He [Zang Jianjun] has implied that the #1 [Xi Jinping] has made that clear and available to him." In other words, the Bidens were paid millions by their Chinese energy partners, effectively operating as unregistered foreign lobbyists, in a business partnership personally approved by Chinese President Xi Jinping, which leveraged the Biden family's connections within the U.S. government to assist China in acquiring U.S. energy assets. Just a few years ago, these actions by a President and his family would have been considered treasonous. BREAKING - President Joe Biden's brother, James Biden, told FBI agents that Hunter Biden and the Biden family attempted to help a Chinese energy company purchase U.S. energy assets while believing the Chinese company's chairman was directly tied to Chinese President Xi Jinping.… pic.twitter.com/WOSVnMKrr1 — KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) September 28, 2023