U.S. dragged by Israel into another war.

RT: ‘The threat is a lie’: Meet Israel’s lone anti-war voice in parliament. 

Ofer Cassif tells RT the war is driven by personal and political agendas, not real threats.

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RT: Israel and the US say that the war was needed to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons and to stop the threat of their ballistic missiles. How grounded are these claims?

Cassif: It’s important to remember that last June, after the first aggression against Iran, Netanyahu declared the following: “We achieved a historic victory. We removed the nuclear missile threat. We eliminated Iran’s nuclear project and its missile industry.”

So he lied then, and he’s lying now about both the nuclear weapons and the threat of the missiles. 

Over 30 years of his lies:

RT: The US-Israeli murder of Iranian schoolchildren cannot be whitewashed.

Comment at the above story:

RT: US preparing for months-long war with Iran – Politico.

Reuters: Former Marine and a Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate in North Carolina, Brian McGinnis is dragged out during the Senate Armed Services subcommittee hearing. 

This poor guy. Dragged out because he stands for no more wars for Israel. It's reported they broke McGinnis' hand (no audio): 

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Santa via NORAD

NORAD covers Santa's trip. Trip, beginning Far East and working his way westward, around the world, starting soon.

Check the bottom of their home page for the music. It's your basic operation; 'play', adjust volume and toggle ahead (as often as you like) and toggle back: 

Pearl Harbor, December 7.

National Day: Day of Remembrance.

Time and Date: December 7 - Pearl Harbor.

On Sunday morning, December 7, 1941, the American Army and Navy base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii was attacked by the Imperial Japanese Navy. The attack came as a surprise to the American Army and Navy and lead to great losses of life and equipment. More than 2000 American citizens were killed and more than 1000 were injured. The Americans also lost a large proportion of their battle ships and nearly 200 aircraft that were stationed in the Pacific region.

Mercury News (via Archive): Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day — just three survivors of the USS Arizona remain.

The three remaining USS Arizona survivors are Don Stratton, Lou Conter and Ken Potts.

Don Stratton was 19 at the time of the attack.

Lou Conter was 20 during the attack.

Ken Potts was 20 during the surprise attack.

The USS Arizona Memorial

Reader's Digest: A Powerful Firsthand Account of What Really Happened at Pearl Harbor.

It has been said that when an old person dies, it is like a library burning down. For the past 75 years, I have tried to share what I remember of World War II, but a day will come when I can no longer speak. Then what will become of everything I experienced on December 7, 1941? That’s why I wrote this account.

Veterans Day.

This history of Veterans Day.

IT IS THE SOLDIER

by Charles M. Province, © 1970, 2005:

It is the Soldier, not the minister
Who has given us freedom of religion.

It is the Soldier, not the reporter
Who has given us freedom of the press.

It is the Soldier, not the poet
Who has given us freedom of speech.

It is the Soldier, not the campus organizer
Who has given us freedom to protest.

It is the Soldier, not the lawyer
Who has given us the right to a fair trial.

It is the Soldier, not the politician
Who has given us the right to vote.

It is the Soldier who salutes the flag,
Who serves beneath the flag,
And whose coffin is draped by the flag,
Who allows the protester to burn the flag.

Not on the Hegseth train.

This is why. ⏬ 

Is this ^^ where this is going? This is why you need to see where this is going ⏩ ⏩ with Pete Hegseth and others. He's another AIPAC blueprint. The U.S. Military needs white American men who will, in the future, be ordered into combat, defending Israel and/or Ukraine. Or some other country that has nothing to do with us, and another endless war or conflict is upon us. Don't enlist white men; Resist.

Do you think the war profiteers are going to give up their cash cows?

Breitbart: Recruitment Will Go ‘Through the Roof’ with Pete Hegseth at the Helm. 

^^ Don't fall for recruitment. ^^

Middle East Eye: Next US defence secretary Pete Hegseth called for new Jewish temple at Al-Aqsa.

The U.S. is home to over 4 million adult Jews. Let them defend their home country.

Wiki: American Jews.

As of 2020, the American Jewish population is estimated at 7.5 million people, accounting for 2.4% of the total US population. This includes 4.2 million adults who identify their religion as Jewish[.]

WRAI: Jewish population by state. 

The approximate number of Jews in the United States is about 7,2 (is confirmed by 2022 census) to 10 million (which, incidentally, also makes it the country with the largest Jewish population in the world[.]

Let Israel and Jews fight their own wars. The same applies to Ukraine. 

Radio Free Europe: Why Do Ukrainians Oppose Lowering The Conscription Age?

^^ Both the Biden and Trump Administrations are encouraging Ukraine to lower their draft age from 25 to 18. Read the RFE story. Ukrainians are against this. Who can blame them? 

I don't think any country, including ours, has any business weighing in on the recruitment age of any other nation. It's no other country's business. 

To the adult Ukrainian-Americans living in the U.S.? High-tail it to ZelenskyLand and strap on the war boots. And any other Warmonger-American who support endless wars, because "muh home/ancestral country", that don't involve the U.S.? You all go first.

U.S. Census Bureau: More Than One Million Americans Report Ukrainian Ancestry.

Don't ignore the Tap Sign Meme. It's the truth. 

^^SOURCE

Jimmy Carter dead; age 100.

Breitbart: Jimmy Carter Dies at 100; Oldest President in U.S. History.

The Liberals grieving his death, real tears or fake, will be non-stop, massive, repeated ad nauseam, drooling series of Talking Points. 

Let's get some platitudes out of the way:

"The Carter Habitat for Humanity."

"Carter was a champion of civil rights..."

"His dedication to human rights."

"Tireless worker for clean air and water."

"The Carter Habitat for Humanity."

"Carter was a champion of civil rights..."

"The Carter Habitat for Humanity."

"The Carter Habitat for Humanity."

"a champion of civil rights..."

"The Carter Habitat for Humanity."

"The Carter Habitat for Humanity."

"The Carter Habitat for Humanity."

and...  

"a champion of civil rights..."

The Liberal deification of Carter will be deafening. Democrats will milk his death politically for all it's worth. Squeeze one final gasp from a corpse, as Liberals do. Never let a crisis or the death of a fellow club member go to waste. Exploit it for all it's worth.

Carter entered the White House because of the whole Ford-Nixon-Pardon-Watergate scandal created by ))) people ((( who were determined to undermine and oust Nixon. Carter had the blessing from the Council of Foreign Relations, and in return, he brought the U.S. closer to Globalism and the NWO.

He was a weak leader on the world stage: His disastrous hostage crisis. The first president to usher what is now a common refrain from other NWO NGOs to Americans: "Make do with less." Three Mile Island happened during his Admin. Interest rates, inflation and prices skyrocketed. 

His foreign policies were disastrous. Carter depleted our Military. The Carter Center, claiming its goal is bringing truthful inspection and reporting on voting results and transparency and integrity to elections, did nothing it claimed. It was a Front giving validation to whoever leader was installed by ))) TPTB (((. 

His domestic policies devastated the U.S. mining and energy industries, among others, with harsh environmental oversight, regulations and penalties.

He gave away the Panama Canal.

Even rabbits didn't like or trust him 🤣: On This Day (April 20, 1979): Jimmy Carter Attacked by a Rabbit.

 

Carter is grateful to Biden. Carter is now the second-worst U.S. President of all-time.

God Bless Carter, may he RIP, he had a long life. But don't ask me to play along with the Left's Narrative canonizing the peanut farmer-failed president.

MERRY CHRISTMAS, early risers!

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL! 

To All who find some reason to visit this blog once in a while, Thank You. May your Christmas be Blessed. 

Remember those separated from their loved ones - for whatever reasons - especially deployed U.S. Troops. Merry Christmas. May God watch over them and their families every single moment. God Bless You! 

For those experiencing this holiday alone, or for the first time without someone special in their lives, remember the good memories and hold onto them because those are the moments that matter.

U.S.: More Troops deployed to the Middle East.

AP: US is sending a few thousand more troops to the Middle East to boost security.

The Jeff Bezos Peoples' Republic: U.S. sends more troops, warplanes to Middle East as bulwark against Iran.

The moves were ordered by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin[.]

NY Times: Pentagon Sends Additional Troops to the Middle East.

[...] 40,000 U.S. troops already in the region and help with the defense of Israel.

Yahoo: South Dakota's Air Guard deploys to the Middle East.

TN Dept. of Military: Tennessee National Guard Task Force deploying to Middle East.

With what Tennessee is experiencing from Hurricane Helene, TN NG troops are deploying to Israel? Not surprising considering RINO Governor Bill Lee wearing his AIPAC kneepads 24/7. Same for Gov. Kristi Noem whose fealty for Netanyahu runs deeper than it does the people of SD. 

Netanyahu is determined to drag the U.S. into war with Iran solely for Israel's benefit.

But Satanyahu's son Yair? He's resides in Miami, exempt from the IDF. Nice huh? 

Three years today: Biden's disastrous Afghanistan exit.

Breitbart: Trump Honors 13 Fallen Heroes from Afghanistan Withdrawal at Arlington.

Former President Donald Trump honored 13 fallen American service members from the Biden Administration’s disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal during a wreath-laying ceremony Monday at the Arlington Cemetery.

Trump laid the wreath and placed his hand over his heart as a bugler played Taps in honor of those lost on August 26, 2021, during a Kabul airport attack.
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Trump also slammed Biden and Harris for “gross incompetence” in a statement posted on his Truth Social account. He said:

    This is the third anniversary of the BOTCHED Afghanistan withdrawal, the most EMBARRASSING moment in the history of our Country. Gross Incompetence – 13 DEAD American soldiers, hundreds of people wounded and dead, AMERICANS and BILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF MILITARY EQUIPMENT LEFT BEHIND. You don’t take our soldiers out first, you take them out LAST, when all else is successfully done. Russia then invaded Ukraine, Israel was attacked, and the USA became, and is, a laughing stock all over the World.

MSN: Taliban parades American weapons 3 years after chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan.

The Taliban commemorated the third anniversary of the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan by parading through a former U.S. air base with American weapons and vehicles.

USA MacPaper: On the anniversary of US withdrawal in Afghanistan, President Biden made the right call.

Far from being a blunder, the US withdrawal from Afghanistan delivered an important counterterrorism win for America.

"...an important counterterrorism win for America."  🙄

Meanwhile, the dementia-ridden diaper wearing, 5-time draft dodging pants shitter remains in hiding. 

NY Post: Biden taking second-straight week of vacation despite insisting he'd finish presidency strong.

President Biden began his second consecutive week of vacation Monday with nothing on his public schedule for the next seven days.

Stop doing this!

Just stop! 

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Happy Independence Day / July 4!

A Happy and Safe Independence Day / 4th of July to All.

Let us never forget the significance of this day.  Military.com:

On July 4, 1776, the thirteen colonies claimed their independence from England, an event which eventually led to the formation of the United States.
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In a June 7 session in the Pennsylvania State House (later Independence Hall), Richard Henry Lee of Virginia presented a resolution with the famous words: "Resolved: That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved."

PBS: A Capitol Fourth. 

Best Message: Patriotic Independence Day Messages for US Military, Soldiers, Army. 

We have a collection of the most powerful Fourth of July messages for soldiers, military & army. These USA Independence Day messages for US soldiers make the most motivating wishes to share with our army on this wonderful day.

For those who served or currently serve in any branch of the U.S. Military, to protect our freedoms and who put their lives on the line for our freedoms, this day would not exist if not for you. God Bless you.

Remember those who, for whatever reasons, cannot be with their loved ones.

 

 

  

 

 

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Flag Day 2024.

History

On June 14, 1777, the Second Continental Congress took a break from writing the Articles of Confederation and passed a resolution stating that “the flag of the United States be 13 stripes, alternate red and white,” and that “the union be 13 stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.”

Over 100 years later, in 1916, President Woodrow Wilson marked the anniversary of that decree by officially establishing June 14 as Flag Day.

MSN: Flag Day is June 14. What is the meaning? How to display U.S. flag.

More about Flag Day at Britannica.

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Added: U.S. Army’s 246th Birthday.

The U.S. Army was established June 14, 1775.  

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Also: DJT's birthday today. Happy birthday President Trump!

USS Liberty; June 8, 1967. #NEVERFORGET.

'We're Fed Up With It': Survivors of the USS Liberty Look for Answers.

"We the surviving crew members will not let the cover up continue as long as we live," [said USS Liberty Veterans Association, Larry L. Bowen].

If Americans Knew: The USS Liberty. 

USS Liberty Veterans. ⏬

On June 8, 2005 the USS Liberty Veterans Association submitted A Report of War Crimes Committed Against the USS Liberty, June 8, 1967 to the Department of Defense in accordance with the DoD Law of War Program.
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The Department of Defense has unilaterally waived its obligation under the Department of Defense Law of War Program by refusing to investigate the allegations contained in the War Crimes Report.  The Department of Defense has also refused to provide a speaker to address the crew of the USS Liberty and explain their actions with regard to the War Crimes Report.

BBC Documentary (and story) on the USS Liberty.

“Why would our government put Israel’s interests ahead of our own?”, asks [retired Admiral Thomas Moorer] [Chief of Naval Operations at the time of the attack].

Ken O'Keefe, Former U.S. Marine, political analyst; speaking about the attack ⏬ (1 minute, 51 seconds). Increase your master volume/audio output prior to playing.

#NeverForgetUSSLiberty

D-Day: 80 years later.

National World War 2 Museum: 80th Anniversary of D-Day. 

D-Day.org: 80th Anniversary of D-Day Schedule of Events. 

MSN: US World War II veterans travel to France to mark 80th anniversary of D-Day.

National D-Day: History of D-Day.

The morning of June 6, 1944, American troops and their allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy, France in an invasion, code-named Operation Overlord, during World War II, which began the liberation of France, and ultimately other areas of Europe, from Hitler’s Nazi regime. This day, known as D-Day, and the strategically planned landing of 156,000 British, Canadian and American troops at 6:30 A.M. on the five beaches of Normandy was code-named Operation Neptune.

Earlier in the morning of June 6, 24,000 airborne troops were dropped into battle by parachute in order to close exits and overtake bridges slowing the advancement of Nazi reinforcements. Troops entering the beaches by land and sea were met with Hitler’s ‘Atlantic Wall,’ 2,400 miles of bunkers, landmines, and beach obstacles (metal tripods, barbed wire, and wooden stakes) established in anticipation of a French coast invasion. Nazis planted 4 million landmines along Normandy beaches.

More at History.com: D-Day.

Britannica: The Normandy Invasion.

The D-Day Story: The Battle of Normandy Timeline.

Repub Tom Cotton=AIPAC tool. U.S. Military to serve in IDF?

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Saturday Night Retro Random Memes.

The original intent was Better Days From the Past memes. I dunno if days past were better, maybe they were or maybe we wax nostalgic. At least, as kids, (if you grew up any time from the 1950s-60s to the early/mid 1990s), we played outside, got dirty, drank from a water hose and weren't scrolling on smart phones 14 hours a day. 

A few other meme styles worked their way in. Nothing terribly "Sensitive" or "Bad Taste" but there are a few after the page break with Mature or Adult Content (think along the line of something of Big Mike falling out and visible). 

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Armed Forces Day.

National Today: Armed Forces Day – May 18, 2024.

The holiday was established in 1949. The creation of a single day celebration for all five branches of the United States military made sense due to its recent unification under the Department of Defense. Today, Armed Forces Day is celebrated on the third Saturday of every May, this year falling on May 18. Be sure to mark your calendar & support our military!

Time and Date: Armed Forces Day 2024 in the United States.

It is a day to pay tribute to men and women who serve the United States’ armed forces. Armed Forces Day is also part of Armed Forces Week, which begins on the second Saturday of May.

 

Matt Gaetz spars with Loyd Austin. U.S. pier Gaza Coast.

Matt Gaetz: Secretary Austin Reveals to Rep. Gaetz High Likelihood of Shooting Warfare Between U.S. Troops and Gaza Forces.

Rep. Gaetz: what do we do that's like so now want to move to the likelihood that we think someone from land and Gaza might shoot at our service members on this pier? Do you think that that's a likely scenario?

Secretary Austin: That's possible? Yes.

Rep. Gaetz: This is a very telling moment, Mr. Secretary, because you've said something that's quite possible. That could happen right? Shots from Gaza, on our servicemembers, and then the response our Armed Service members shooting live fire into Gaza. That is impossible outcome here so that we can become the Port Authority and run this period. Right.

Secretary Austin: That's correct. And I expect that we will always have the ability

Rep. Gaetz: You think that counts as boots on the ground? President Biden told the country that we weren't going to have boots on the ground in Gaza.

Secretary Austin: and we won't.

Rep. Gaetz: okay, but you guys parse the distinction between like when Americans think boots on the ground, they think Americans in harm's way, are engaged actively in a conflict. You guys seem to be sort of saying that boots on a pier, connected to the ground, connected to servicemembers shooting into Gaza doesn't count as boots on the ground.

Secretary Austin: It does not.
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Rep. Gaetz: So how many 100 million dollar paperweights Do we own?

Secretary Austin: I would not categorize the F 35 as a paperweight.

Rep. Gaetz: Well if it's not mission capable. What do we just stare at it and admire?

Secretary Austin: We continue to work to make sure that we we get our aircraft operational and continue to[.]

Austin, possibly the dumbest, and therefore dangerous, Secretary of Defense the U.S. has ever had. Hit the link, read the entire exchange, it's not a long story.

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Daily Mail: First photos of the $320 million US aid pier off Gaza; fury from Republicans and criticism that food is blocked on land.

The estimate is about double earlier estimates.
'The cost has not just risen. It has exploded'.
The US and Israel Defense Forces engineers are partnering to get in more aid. ["partnering," yeah, the U. S. will do ALL the heavy-lifting, as aways.-DD]
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'How much will taxpayers be on the hook once - or if - the pier is finally constructed?' Wicker asked.

'For every day this mission continues, the price tag goes up and so does the level of risk for the 1,000 deployed troops within range of Hamas' rockets.'

This is a farce. The aid will never be allowed to make it inland very far. This is an attempt by Biden's handlers to regain the support they lost from the American-Muslim voters. It won't work. It will work as a reason the Neocons, RINOs and UniParty want; for U.S. Military involvement in another designed war.

All this because Satanyahu blocks humanitarian aid, deliberately and sadistically starving Palestinian civilians to death.

Sunday Morning Dogs. (VIDEOS)

Puppy, duckling, butterfly: 

Tac Dog:

Lou Conter, last survivor of the USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor, dies at 102.

WVXU: Lou Conter, last survivor of the USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor, dies at 102.

Lou Conter, the last known survivor of the attack on the USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor, has died at the age of 102.

Conter, who was a 20-year-old quartermaster at the time of the naval assault, was on the back decks of the battleship on Dec. 7, 1941, when Japanese forces decimated the U.S. Pacific fleet. The unprecedented attack killed 1,177 on the Arizona, with over 900 of those individuals never recovered.

As the bombs rained down on the naval base, one landed between two main guns at the front of the Arizona. The explosion ignited a huge store of TNT black powder that was used for the ship's battery guns.

"There went a million pounds of powder," Conter recalled in a 2018 interview with the American Veterans Center. "It blew up!"

The explosion was so intense that it split the ship in two, "and the bow came up about 30, 40 feet out of the water and fell straight back down," he remembered.

The strike was catastrophic and it only took about 10 minutes for the ship to sink, David Kilton, a spokesman for the Pearl Harbor National Memorial, told NPR.

Meanwhile, amid the chaos, Conter abandoned the ship and eventually made it to safety, only to be ordered onto a rescue boat to help pull bodies from the water. "Some of those were individuals in distress, trying to figure out how to swim around the huge quantities of oil that had leaked out and the flames that were on the water," Kilton said.

"Guys were coming out of the fire, and we were just grabbing them and laying them down," Conter later said. "They were real bad. You would pick them up by the bodies, and the skin would come off in your hands."
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After WWII, Conter went on to serve in the Korean War. Later, he became the Navy's first SERE officer — an acronym for survival, evasion, resistance and escape. For years, he helped establish the program, training Navy pilots and crew how to survive if they were shot down in the jungle and captured as prisoners of war.

By the end of his 27-year career in the Navy, in 1967, he'd risen to the ranks of lieutenant commander. He then moved to California, became a real estate developer, and married his second wife, Valerie. They were together for 47 years.

Conter passed away on Monday at his home in Grass Valley, Calif., following congestive heart failure. 

Rest In Peace.