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To: Fiscally Conservative who wrote (13676)	8/17/2025 10:52:32 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13771

You're welcome. Magnanimity is one of my wonderful traits. Happy to help you. I never expect religious zealots to change their minds, but hope springs eternal. Competing ideas do battle at the interface of reality and consciousness. The bung ideas are washed from the human gene pool, replaced by those more attuned to reality. Everyone is wedded to their ideas but the more adept ditch their bung ideas before reality subsumes them. My favorite current one is Germans foaming at the mouth ready to do Barbarossa 2 on Russia. Many of them are more circumspect but they have not yet got control. The Nazis are banning them from competing for political power. France wants to re-enact the 1812 Overture. The British want to re-enact The Charge of the Light Brigade which cost my great great grandfather his life, fortunately AFTER my great grandmother had been born. I've never seen a nuclear war. If Germany attacks Kaliningrad, we'll probably see what a modern one looks like. Hopefully it will be just half a dozen demonstration explosions to cause a rethink. But it could go full scale deflection in minutes. Being in the southern hemisphere I might even survive for weeks or months before civil war and famine get going. Preppers must be topping up their supplies. I guess USA will be unscathed unless the Eurostan megalomaniacs go MAD. Mqurice

To: Fiscally Conservative who wrote (13676)	8/17/2025 11:20:46 PM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Recommended By Broken_Clock E_K_S Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13771

You're funny FC. Interfering in elections was invented by USA. Not just interfering but arranging coups if not actual attacks such as in Syria. Russia watched and listened to the coup in Kiev by Nobel Peace Prize Obama, Zbigniew, Graham, McCain, Nuland and co conspirators. That wasn't interfering in an election. It was murder by shooting. Then burning alive in Odessa. Then attacking in the East. Russia sensibly told their troops in Crimea where they'd been for centuries to take over from Ukraine soldiers. The Prosecutie was threatened by the evil witches of the West. The new USA regime in the West attacked the Eastern people who rejected the coup. Russia moved in to help the Russians in the East. And the war was on. USA geared up along with Germany UK France and co conspirators to defeat Russia. Break it up. Assassinate who they could. Weaken it to a has been. Oops a daisy, Russia did very well and won the war. Now the Ukrainians and Eurostan rulers are whining like a fleet of Koreans who whined like a fleet of 747s over QUALCOMM royalties although CDMA made them rich and created mobile cyberspace from nothing. USA should apologize for their crimes, rebuild Nordstreams, agree to Russia running the eastern independent provinces, and to the rest of Ukraine being neutral and disarmed. Agree to full free trade with Russia, give their money back. Return other stolen property. Invite Russia to join a condominium with Eurostan. Hold a United nations reconstitution conference to update the agreements to reflect 2025 geopolitical facts. Mqurice

To: Fiscally Conservative who wrote (13676)	8/18/2025 4:14:10 PM
From: nicewatch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13771

Your opinion is worthless, imo, but you have one. You don't get to make up your own facts. When reality changes do you adjust or do you double and triple down like you have with turd stock GLBS and likely countless other turd stocks? I think I already know the answer. :-) _____________________________________________________________________________________ Russiagate Releases Lifting a Veil on Surveillance State Abuses The latest revelations in the Trump-Russia mess increasingly point toward severe systematic abuses, indicative of a true police state Matt Taibbi Aug 14, 2025 Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s office released two damning emails yesterday, the first being a letter from former DNI James Clapper to former FBI head James Comey, former CIA head John Brennan, and then-NSA chief Michael Rogers. Dated December 22, 2016, Clapper’s letter explains how the chiefs should approach writing a new Intelligence Community Assessment, whose conclusion — that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump — had already been reported: Mike John Jim; Understand your concern. It is essential that we (CIA/NSA/FBI/ODNI) be on the same page. and are all supportive of the report — in the highest tradition of “that’s OUR story, and we’re stickin’ to it.” This evening, CIA has provided to the NIC the complete draft generated by the ad hoc fusion cell. We will facilitate as much mutual transparency as possible as we complete the report, but, more time is not negotiable,” We may have to compromise on our “normal” modalities, since we must do this on such a compressed schedule. This is one project that has to be a team sport. Jim Clapper’s email was in response to a note about “concerns” from Rogers, the NSA chief who never upgraded his agency’s confidence level in the “Russia did it for Trump” conclusion from “moderate” to high. The Rogers letter makes it clear that the head of the Pentagon’s most powerful surveillance agency was being asked to sign off on a conclusion without seeing the most “sensitive” intelligence. From Rogers: I asked my team if they’d had sufficient access to the underlying intelligence and sufficient time to review that intelligence. On both points my team raised concerns… I’m concerned that, given the expedited nature of this activity, my folks aren’t fully comfortable saying that they have had enough time to review all of the intelligence to be absolutely confident in their assessments… I do want to make sure that, when we are asked in the future whether we can absolutely stand behind the paper… I’m concerned we are not there yet. This is a devastating exchange. It shows that in assembling perhaps the most high-profile group analysis since the 2002 National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq’s WMD program, four of America’s most powerful enforcement officials said, “To hell with evidence, let’s just put out a tale and stick with it.” In the specific context of this scandal, it makes a joke of years of public narratives about Trump, Putin, and Russia. Along with more documents funneled from Kash Patel’s FBI to Just The News asserting that senior Justice Department officials squashed Hillary Clinton corruption investigations, and that Comey gave a middleman access to highly classified information to help plead his case to newspapers like the New York Times, the new Gabbard docs further elucidate how years of Russia mania were built on fraud. But this cascade of revelations is bringing a more disturbing story into focus. A subtext is the unnerving casualness with which procedural rules were broken. Even before Rogers and the NSA were asked to blindly bless a domestic political probe built in part atop “evidence” from an illegal FISA warrant, the FISA court had begun investigating misuse of the surveillance program. Onetime Trump aide Carter Page is not the only American in a politically sensitive position recently monitored under this dubious legal end-around. There was FISA monitoring of campaign manager Paul Manafort, “non-compliant” use of FISA to investigate the January 6th Capitol breach, even FISA tracking of ordinary Americans overseas applying for benefits. In the coming weeks you’ll be reading (at Racket, among other places) about wholesale abuse of other surveillance programs. It turns out an alarming number of senior Trump campaign officials from the 2024 cycle were notified about prior FBI surveillance (news about Kash Patel, Dan Scavino, and Jeff Clark receiving such notices has already broken, but more names are coming). Widespread surveillance of congressional officials in a 2017 leak probe was the underlying context of recent revelations suggesting two members, Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell, approved leaks of classified information. The legacy press is ignoring the releases both because they paint Donald Trump as a victim of overreach and because the press played such a prominent role in the Russiagate corruption. They’re betraying audiences who might be concerned about the larger pattern coming into relief. That story is about intelligence agencies meddling in domestic politics at all — Trump or no Trump — through a list of forbidden practices. We’re about to find out that far more people in the political world were under routine surveillance than previously thought, including mainstream and independent reporters who communicated with political sources of all stripes. I’m technically on vacation, but there’s more coming on this front, from players now forced to come forward. Please also tune in to America This Week tomorrow for a review of all the new materials with Walter Kirn, before he appears as a guest with Bill Maher. racket.news