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bill of attainder | Wex | US Law | LII / Legal Information Institute

Posted by M. C. on April 11, 2023

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/bill_of_attainder

A bill of attainder is a piece of legislation that declares a party is guilty of a crime. Bills of attainder allow the government to punish a party for a perceived crime without first going through the trial process. 

In the United States, bills of attainder are unconstitutional as stated in Article 1 Section 9 and Article 1 Section 10 of the U.S. Constitution. Article 9 prohibits federal bills of attainder and Article 10 prohibits bills of attainder by the states. The constitutional ban on bills of attainder works to uphold separation of powers principles by preventing Congress from assuming the functions of the judicial branch…

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GOP embraces a new foreign policy: Bomb Mexico to stop fentanyl – POLITICO

Posted by M. C. on April 11, 2023

Republicans suggest everything from terrorist labels to an invasion to decimate drug cartels in Mexico.

I suspect Mexican civilians, you know – women/children, will be the primary victims.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/10/gop-bomb-mexico-fentanyl-00091132

A growing number of prominent Republicans are rallying around the idea that to solve the fentanyl crisis, America must bomb it away.

In recent weeks, Donald Trump has discussed sending “special forces” and using “cyber warfare” to target cartel leaders if he’s reelected president and, per Rolling Stone, asked for “battle plans” to strike Mexico. Reps. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) and Mike Waltz (R-Fla.) introduced a bill seeking authorization for the use of military force to “put us at war with the cartels.” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) said he is open to sending U.S. troops into Mexico to target drug lords even without that nation’s permission. And lawmakers in both chambers have filed legislation to label some cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, a move supported by GOP presidential aspirants.

“We need to start thinking about these groups more like ISIS than we do the mafia,” Waltz, a former Green Beret, said in a short interview.

Not all Republican leaders are behind this approach. John Bolton, Trump’s third national security adviser who’s weighing his own presidential run, said unilateral military operations “are not going to solve the problem.” And House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Mike McCaul (R-Texas), for example, is “still evaluating” the AUMF proposal “but has concerns about the immigration implications and the bilateral relationship with Mexico,” per a Republican staff member on the panel.

But the eagerness of some Republicans to openly legislate or embrace the use of the military in Mexico suggests that the idea is taking firmer root inside the party. And it illustrates the ways in which frustration with immigration, drug overdose deaths and antipathy towards China are defining the GOP’s larger foreign policy.

Nearly 71,000 Americans died in 2021 from synthetic-opioid overdoses — namely fentanyl — far higher than the 58,220 U.S. military personnel killed during the Vietnam War. And the Drug Enforcement Agency assessed in December that “most” of the fentanyl distributed by two cartels “is being mass-produced at secret factories in Mexico with chemicals sourced largely from China.”

Democrats, meanwhile, are allergic to the Republican proposals. President Joe Biden doesn’t want to launch an invasion and has rejected the terrorist label for cartels. His team argues that two issued executive orders already expanded law-enforcement authorities to target transnational organizations.

“The administration is not considering military action in Mexico,” National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson said. “Designating these cartels as foreign terrorist organizations would not grant us any additional authorities that we don’t already have.” Instead, Watson said the administration hopes to work with Congress on modernizing the Customs and Border Protection’s technologies and making fentanyl a Schedule I drug, which would impose the strictest regulations on its production and distribution.

Gen. Mark Milley, the Joint Chiefs chair, told Defense One in an interview last month that invading Mexico was a bad idea. “I wouldn’t recommend anything be done without Mexico’s support,” he said, insisting that tackling the cartel-fueled drug trade is a law enforcement issue.

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Biden Admin tacitly admits that mRNA shots have failed

Posted by M. C. on April 11, 2023

$5 billion taxpayer dollars invested in “next gen” vaccines.

A product that was once widely marketed as the cure to the coronavirus has become so unpopular in the sane world that neither The Washington Post nor the Biden Administration will even discuss it. It’s a tacit admission of a historic, bipartisan failure. Nonetheless, the Big Pharma-Big Government mafia continues marching forward.

https://open.substack.com/pub/dossier/p/biden-admin-tacitly-admits-that-mrna?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android

The national emergency is over, but “Project Next Gen” has just begun.

On the same day the Biden Administration declared an end to the Covid hysteria era, the White House launched what amounts to Operation Warp Speed 2.0, devoting at least $5 billion dollars to develop new coronavirus injections.

It goes without saying that taxpayers are once more getting absolutely fleeced. As readers of The Dossier know all too well, Pfizer and Moderna have raked in hundreds of billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded profits over the past few years.

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Pfizer reports $100 billion haul, with vast majority of profits looted from US taxpayers

It is the most expensive “free” product of all time.The Dossier is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Pfizer colluded with the federal government to siphon off $100 billion dollars from the American taxpayer last year, in filings…

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And given that these two events occurred on the same day, this situation stinks of a quid pro Joe – a seeming $5 billion+ Big Pharma golden parachute commitment in exchange for the money train coming to an end.

But what’s most important here, if you read between the lines in the government’s rhetoric, is the tacit admission that mRNA “vaccines” have failed.

Not once does the government’s spoon-fed Washington Post scoop on Project Next Gen even mention mRNA.

While some Americans are half a dozen (or more?) mRNA shots deep by now, the White House coronavirus chief declared the need for “next-generation vaccines and treatments.” While some Americans decided to spend the last three years shooting up Covid shots like street junkies, the White House has bad news for these NPCs, as the piece notes that the Biden Administration intends to focus significantly on funding new nasal vaccines.

Moreover, a senior HHS official made mention of how they are “surveying the landscape out there — assessing what vaccine candidates are available, [and] moving through what exciting technologies are there” for funding. That sure doesn’t sound like a ringing endorsement of the mRNA gene serum.

Project Next Gen has bold ambition, the WaPo stenographer proclaims, as it intends to fund R&D to create a pan-coronavirus vaccine. What remains unexplained is how exactly they will create an effective universal vaccine, when they haven’t ever displayed the ability to adequately protect against a single coronavirus strain.

A product that was once widely marketed as the cure to the coronavirus has become so unpopular in the sane world that neither The Washington Post nor the Biden Administration will even discuss it. 

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Abstract Nouns

Posted by M. C. on April 10, 2023

“It is remarkable to see how quickly the men who had got rid of the Christian God began to create fictitious deities for themselves out of abstract nouns and concepts like the state.”

Herbert Butterfield, Christianity In Modern Europe 1952

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Epstein Scandal Could Break The Banking Cartel

Posted by M. C. on April 10, 2023

While banks maintain a higher debt to equity status – they also are routinely being bailed out due to poor performance and management. Those bailouts are paid for by Taxpayers as the losses are absorbed. Taxpayers are also on the line for all NGO’s that receive Federal Funding. Americans are thus funding Soros, and funding the Trillions in taxfree receipts these NGO’s enjoy!

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/04/no_author/epstein-scandal-could-break-the-banking-cartel/

By Helena Glass
Helena-The Nationalist Voice

Jeffrey Epstein may be dead – but his pedophilia legacy lives on and on and on!   Cindy McCain explains how everyone (in the government) were well aware of his predilections and vagrant behavior but did nothing because they were afraid…   JP Morgan is now to be even more entrenched than originally believed as it attempts to fight the Virgin Island Lawsuits.   And Jamie Dimon, in the midst of the lawsuits is calling for the governments across the globe to ‘seize private property’!

But let’s talk Trump Indictment…. Distraction.

JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank are the Defendants in 3 lawsuits alleging the banks knowingly gave Epstein unlimited access to funds to grow his sex trafficking business with Ghislaine Maxwell.   JP Morgan is denying any knowledge and instead is claiming a former executive, Jes Staley, was to blame. Jes Staley claims he is the ‘scapegoat’.

I am not too old to remember the days when employers were responsible for the conduct of their employees.  

The top two banks used by billionaires are Bank of America and JP Morgan Chase “Private Client”.   Largest individual shareholders of JP Morgan include Jamie Dimon and CEO, Mary Callahan Erdoes.  If JP Morgan is indicted – will Biden Bail Them Out?

Between 2020 during the height of the Pandemic to October 2021, JP Morgan’s shares ‘doubled’.   Could it be a ‘new Epstein’ is being bankrolled?    According to JP Morgan’s latest Balance Sheet their Net Equity is a mere 7% on gross assets. On a pure debt to equity – they are twallete water.   In addition, asset valuation typically involves a bit of ‘creative accounting’ and does NOT include unrecognized losses.

Deutsche Bank may look good at first glance with assets under management in excess of $1.3 trillion, but upon closer scrutiny Net Equity on Assets is just 5%. Bank of America’s Net Equity is just 9%.   Credit Suisse, which is in bankruptcy merger negotiations, has a Asset to equity ratio of 8%.

HOUSTON We Have A Problem.   Banks are in Crisis.

While banks maintain a higher debt to equity status – they also are routinely being bailed out due to poor performance and management.  Those bailouts are paid for by Taxpayers as the losses are absorbed.   Taxpayers are also on the line for all NGO’s that receive Federal Funding.   Americans are thus funding Soros, and funding the Trillions in taxfree receipts these NGO’s enjoy!

The Epstein Lawsuits levied against JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank could throw them under the bus of the banking cartel and collapse the entire banking Industry as a dominoes ripple effect.   Too Big to BAIL.

If all of congress was more than aware of the illegal trafficking within the Epstein conclave, that would mean the CIA, FBI, and all other 3-letter agencies were aware.   The fact that they did ‘nothing’ makes them accessary.   The prison sentence for a pedophile is relatively minor given the extent of injury – 6 years.  However, The Purge would empty DC and Langley. The huddle to protect that nomenclature arrangement is backed by $$$trillions.

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Dailywire Article-Pentagon Shares Easter Sunday Update On Classified Docs Leak

Posted by M. C. on April 10, 2023

The news outlet also noted the documents indicate the United States knows more about Russia’s military campaign than Ukraine’s defense plan, which it has spent around $200 billion to assist.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/pentagon-shares-easter-sunday-update-on-classified-docs-leak

By  Daniel Chaitin

US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley and U.S Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin (not seen) hold a joint press conference in Pentagon Arlington-Virginia, United States on March 15, 2023.
(Photo by Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

The Department of Defense (DoD) issued on Easter Sunday its most detailed public statement to date regarding the apparent leak of classified information.

“An agency effort has been stood up, focused on assessing the impact these photographed documents could have on U.S. national security and on our Allies and partners,” Pentagon deputy press secretary Sabrina Singh said in a statement. “Over the weekend, U.S. officials have engaged with Allies and partners and have informed relevant congressional committees of jurisdiction about the disclosure.”

Up until Sunday, the Pentagon had only commented publicly on the matter to say it was aware of the images and that a criminal referral had been made to the Department of Justice (DOJ).

Singh confirmed on Sunday the DOJ had opened a criminal investigation. “The Department of Defense’s highest priority is the defense of our nation and our national security,” she added.

Dozens of images reportedly began popping up in recent weeks on social media, starting with Discord, showing what appears to be secret details about Russia’s war in Ukraine, surveillance efforts, and more. The source of the apparent leak remains unclear, but documents reportedly look authentic. A U.S. defense official told The Washington Post many of the documents look like they were prepared for Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and other senior military officials, but stressed these records would be available broadly to people with proper clearance.

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Watch “Is AllTrails LEAKING your home address? #shorts” on YouTube

Posted by M. C. on April 10, 2023

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The Word “Presstitute” Is Insulting (To Sex Workers): Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

Posted by M. C. on April 10, 2023

China must be stopped before it imposes totalitarian diplomacy on Ukraine and authoritarian peace in the middle east.We’ve got to stop China from achieving peace over there so we don’t have to stop it from achieving peace over here.

https://open.substack.com/pub/caitlinjohnstone/p/the-word-presstitute-is-insulting?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android

Caitlin Johnstone

Responding to a war caused by NATO expansion by expanding NATO.

Fighting Russian authoritarianism by increasing censorship.

Fighting Russian propaganda by increasing propaganda.

Pursuing peace by rejecting diplomacy.

Defending Europe from Russia by bombing European pipelines.

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Twitter has dropped its entirely appropriate designation of NPR as “state-affiliated media”, instead creating an entirely new designation, “Government Funded”, which it has also now given to the accounts of outlets like the BBC and Voice of America. You still see establishment guard dogs decrying this new label for western propaganda outlets on nonsensical pedantic grounds, but really the problem is that they’re not receiving the same “state-affiliated media” label as outlets like RT and Press TV despite being equally propagandistic. The label is designed to provide the false impression that western propaganda outlets are not propaganda outlets.

It’s actually very revealing how huffy and indignant empire apologists are getting over the “Government Funded” label, because it shows that they see it as Twitter’s responsibility to facilitate western propaganda. Imperial spinmeisters have a vested interest in maintaining the illusion that propaganda is something that only happens to other people, and any move that might disrupt that illusion even slightly is met with hostility.

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It’s one of the most shameful jobs in the entire world to spend your time doing critical reporting on the enemies of your government while ignoring your own government’s far more egregious crimes. 

People talk about sex work as shameful, and in America they’ll even shame you for working a low-paying job like McDonald’s, when on all our screens every day we see people selling their own government’s ugly foreign policy in a line of work that is entire universes more shameful.

That’s why I dislike the use of the word “presstitute” to refer to these people. Not because it’s insulting to the press, but because it’s insulting to sex workers.

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Over and over and over again we see US officials talking very differently about a hot war with China over Taiwan than they talked about hot war with Russia over Ukraine. This is absolute screaming insanity, and it should enrage everyone.

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US Congress: A Conduit For The Banking & Military Cartels

Posted by M. C. on April 10, 2023

The Western powers that be have deliberately refused any concessions that could lead to a peaceful resolution.   War Pays.   It is the means for the Banking Cartel to embellish their wealth tenfold.   War Pays. It is the means by which the Military Complex garners additional Taxpayer funding.   Whether we agree – or not.   

-This is what our Federal Government has become – a conduit for The Cartel.

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/04/no_author/us-congress-a-conduit-for-the-banking-military-cartels/

By Helena Glass
Helena-The Nationalist Voice

The MSM is in overdrive pushing a Russian Defector, Gleb Karakulov.   While the story proceeds to have Comrade Gleb demonize Putin as insane, a man unhinged, a warmonger, a bad guy…   Mr. Karakulov would appear to be a shadow.   He has no history, no past, and no present other than one article distributed amongst 100+ Liberal media outlets.   He could be an AI creation.   His story a liberal fantasy.

In fact, despite his being hailed as a high ranking officer in Putin’s closest circles – his name has NO Google Presence – at all – NO Russia media presence at all – No Turkish media presence at all….

Does the Cartel really believe that by creating an AI manufactured person who speaks in vitriolic contempt of Putin, that suddenly everyone will change their opinion?   Or is this like WWI wherein an assassination of an Austrian ArchDuke was used as the impetus for chaos?   Is the Cartel establishing a platform from which to justify a Russia COUP?   The justification for the assassination of Putin?   The means to colonize Russia?

The sniff test – desperation.

Mexico is shifting to the BRICS.   Argentina, Indonesia, UAE, Algeria, Bahrain, are shifting to the BRICS. But the most spurious is Saudi Arabia – and the Cartel is violently shaking in their Italian loafers… The defectors will not return to a European NATO.   America has been declared a political monstrosity.   Every Single global leader is playing the Biden game – but it simply went too far.   They don’t want to play with America any more.

WWI was initiated on far less!

Historically, for the Cartel war has been their only means of roundtable unity.   There was absolutely no reason for the US to enter WWI – once again Cartels were the existential CAUSE.   The US was in a recession and needed a distraction to lift its economy.   Massive federal spending ensued.

Estimates:   20 million dead and over 25 million wounded.   That would be the agenda, the cause, and the solution to all things earthly under the Mafia Cartel.  

1913 heralded Woodrow Wilson, the rise of the Banking Cartel, the move of rural America to cities, and the rise of “Progressive Politics”.   The US began to annex territories.   Anti-Germany propaganda was brutal.   As a result, US citizen sentiment became inflamed against Germany and pro Britain via the media.  

The US government began sending food, aid, ammunitions and arms to Britain valued at over $1 billion in 1916.   All under the guise of ‘neutrality’.   American men volunteered to fight against the brutal regime of Germany and flew to Europe.

The US position of neutrality was soon scrapped.   When it was levied that Britain and France had no viable army or military equipment the media sought to create Hero statuses.   “We Must Save Europe – our Allies” – was the call to action! Yeah – WAR!

The EXACT same tactics, propaganda, and ploys utilized today to support the European and US intervention in the Ukraine/Russian conflict were employed 120 years ago.   Wouldn’t one think that intelligence tactics and strategy would have evolved?

HISTORY REPEATING.

Yet, it isn’t exactly a cyclical repetition – it is a contrived repetition within a shadow Cartel that has no military acumen, no strategic acumen, and continues to deploy the exact same war strategy every single time.   Much like a 33 record on a Viktrola – constantly spinning until someone pulls the proverbial plug.

As we relive this same propaganda in Ukraine, each and every move is a re-creation of WWI and WWII.   The record is in auto play. Why?   Because Military acumen is on a downward spiral. As Musk noted – it would be nice if the IQ quotient allowed those above 100 to participate.

The legacy of WWI states that Wilson’s desire to send US troops to Fight Germany came with – Media support – even in the face of heavy losses and life.   Because the Media was – even then – the progenitor of Truth and WH Decision Making.

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Is France Beginning To Steer an Independent Course? – Antiwar.com Original

Posted by M. C. on April 10, 2023

The disagreement is fundamental. The Biden administration’s signature foreign policy framework has been the battle between democracy and autocracy. France is not subscribing to that Manichean battle. Macron refuses to conclude that different forms of government entail a generational battle.

Maybe it’s just because a lot of people wear useless masks in China. Macron likes masks.

https://original.antiwar.com/Ted_Snider/2023/04/06/is-france-beginning-to-steer-an-independent-course/

by Ted Snider

Is it time to put Freedom Fries back on the menu? Back in 2003, french fries became freedom fries in the US in disgust with “our so-called ally, France” who took an independent “self-serving” course and refused to support US policy on Iraq. Having finally become popular on American menus again, is it time, once again, to replace French fries with freedom fries?

France is not breaking with the US and charting its own course against Russia in the war in Ukraine. But it is gently veering off. And in the prelude to any future conflict with China, the gap is wider and the course more independent.

The US has insisted on the acceptance of the starting point that Russia’s war on Ukraine is unprovoked. It has refused, including refusal to negotiate Russia’s December 2021 security proposals, to take seriously Russia’s security concerns or to negotiate security guarantees for Russia. It has refused to even discuss NATO expansion to Ukraine or NATO troops and weapons in Ukraine, topics that were never even on the table.

French President Emmanuel Macron, however, has said that the West should prepare to negotiate all three. Veering widely off the course charted by the White House, Macron has said that “We need to prepare what we are ready to do, how we protect our allies and member states, and how to give guarantees to Russia the day it returns to the negotiating table. One of the essential points we must address – as President Putin has always said – is the fear that NATO comes right up to its doors, and the deployment of weapons that could threaten Russia.”

Breaking from the US, France has glanced, at least, at Russia’s fear of NATO on its borders and weapons at its door. It has heard Russia’s calls for the indivisibility of security and said the West needs to reconsider how to protect its allies while guaranteeing the security concerns of Russia. Macron has gone so far as to agree with Putin that Ukraine joining NATO and NATO deployment of weapons in Ukraine are “essential points” that must be negotiated.

France is firmly in the US fleet in supporting Ukraine in the war against Russia, but it is veering away in preparing for the negotiations to end the war.

And when it comes to preparing for a future conflict with China, France is veering even further away and, seemingly, charting its own course.

President Biden cannot get Chinese President Xi Jinping to talk to him. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin cannot get his Chinese counterpart, Li Shangfu, to take his calls. And China has refused to put Antony Blinken’s trip to Beijing “back on the calendar” after the US Secretary of State canceled his scheduled February visit over the Chinese balloon incident.

Macron, however, does not need to beg for a brief phone call. He is in Beijing for three days where he will be granted more than six hours of personal meetings with XI, “treatment described by Western diplomats as exceptional.”

And it is not just China that is treating France differently. France is treating China differently. In a significant break from the US, France is far from dismissing China’s role as a broker in negotiations to end the war: it is encouraging it.

On February 24, China published its “Position on the Political Settlement of the Ukraine Crisis.” It pledged that China is willing to assume “a constructive role in this regard.” The US has consistently and assertively rejected that role.

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