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Conservatives are writing ‘happy’ articles about Ackman supporting Trump in 2024. IMO he’s a Wall Street globalist chameleon who can’t be trusted. Example:

FLASHBACK:

Investor Ackman tweets to Trump: Close down the country

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-ackman-idCAKBN21528E/

Excerpt:

Billionaire investor William Ackman, who has long worried about risks posed by the coronavirus, called on the Trump administration on Wednesday to seal off the country for 30 days and said stocks would “soar” if such restrictions were imposed.

“The only answer is to shut down the country for the next 30 days and close the borders,” Ackman said in a post on Twitter, adding: “Tell all Americans that you are putting us on an extended Spring Break at home with family.”

Ackman also said he had bought stock in private equity group Blackstone Group as well as portfolio companies his hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management already owns, including Hilton Worldwide Holdings.

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He was either in on the Covid scam or bought the propaganda and wanted action that would harm the average American. Ackman is not MAGA he is Wall Street only changed his support due to the antisemitism of the demofascists.

Hong Kong Court Convicts 14 Pro-Democracy Activists in Major National Security Case

https://x.com/AFP/status/1796109293080420859

Excerpt:

Major Points

A Hong Kong court convicted 14 pro-democracy activists on charges of conspiracy to commit subversion under a national security law imposed by Beijing, which has greatly restricted public dissent.

The accused include former lawmakers such as Leung Kwok-hung and Lam Cheuk-ting, who now potentially face life in prison. Two former district councilors were acquitted.

These activists were charged for their participation in an unofficial primary election aimed at obtaining a legislative majority to veto government budgets, which the court claimed could paralyze the government and lead to a constitutional crisis.

The court’s verdict emphasized that “unlawful means” used in the conspiracy did not have to be criminal acts and that the accused did not need to be aware of the unlawfulness.

The case is seen as an example of how the national security law is being used to suppress political opposition and erode civil liberties in Hong Kong, despite promises of maintaining Western-style freedoms after the 1997 handover from Britain to China.

As this legal saga continues, international and local observers remain deeply concerned about the implications for Hong Kong’s political landscape and its promises of maintaining Western-style civil liberties post-handover from Britain in 1997.
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The ‘concern’ by observers is laughable given what is happening in the US and EU to civil liberties. This case has many similarities to what the deep state is doing to innocent citizens here in the US.

Parallel to Soros are the Wall Street globalists who have been raping and destroying American business since the ‘90s. DeSantis biggest backers, when he tried to run for Prez were Wall Street globalists like Ken Griffin. DeSantis and the establishment RINO parties in every state, here’s looking at you Bushies Jeb and the crooked boyz, are entrenched with deep pockets thanks to the Wall Street globalists.

Example:

This week ConocoPhillips announced they were merging with Marathon in the gas & oil sector, yet not a peep about Anti-trust implications even though we have antitrust laws on the book. The refusal to enforce antitrust laws has created the behemoth corporate fascism we are seeing today, thanks to politicians like DeSantis and the RPOF being owned by the Wall Street globalist parasites.

Boeing is another example of Wall Street henchmen running a company into the ground. From 1998 to 2018 Boeing spent $61 billion in stock buybacks. 81.8% of their profit during this period spent on stock buybacks, not R&D nor product development. Basically milking the company dry. This is done thanks to a Reagan era loophole that allows this to be done on the open market. If this money had been spent on R&D and product development instead of ‘self-enrichment’ by Wall Street, many of the companies that left the US would still be here IMO.

The crooks behind the stock buybacks and mergers and acquisitions that are truly antitrust violations are the ones backing DeSantis and the RPOF RINOS in Florida and many other states.

It is more than just Soros. In my part of Florida Soros isn’t a factor but entrenched local RINOs are.

Biden opens up access to U.S. banks to communist Cuba’s ‘private’ businesses

https://www.cubanet.org/destacados/oxigeno-regalo-al-regimen-activistas-y-politicos-reaccionan-a-nuevas-medidas-de-ee-uu/

Translated excerpt:

Professor Omara Ruiz Urquiola, dismissed by the regime from the Higher Institute of Industrial Design, where she served as a teacher, expressed her skepticism and concern about the new measure, which she said had been postponed at least since 2021.

“It’s about ‘Vietnamizing’ Cuba to stop the emigration, nothing more. For that purpose, it is essential to annihilate the true civil society, suffocate it, nullify it, and replace it with one created by the General Intelligence Directorate [DGI] of Cuba, including ‘independent’ media acting as legitimate spokespersons for the strategy,” Ruiz Urquiola stated to CubaNet.

For the academic, the anti-government protests on July 11 and 12, 2021 (11J) “halted” the measures in favor of the Havana regime. “It was too scandalous then, now they are going all out. Here we have to congratulate the agents of influence and the professionals of Cuban Intelligence, this is their triumph,” she said.

Also in statements to CubaNet, Orlando Gutiérrez-Boronat, president of the Cuban Resistance Assembly, condemned the measure considering it beneficial for the Cuban regime: “They have given a gift to the communist regime in Cuba that contributes to its strengthening. I believe this measure will give more room for maneuver to the communist regime in Cuba,” he said.

Gutiérrez-Boronat also emphasized that only actions that shorten the regime’s lifespan will truly benefit the Cuban people.

Professor and researcher José Raúl Gallego also criticized the decision, saying that “the Cuban DGI and its lobbyists” had managed to get the Biden administration to take “some of the steps needed to facilitate the operation and enrichment of their frontmen disguised as the private sector.”
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Cuban American legislators are also seeing right through this ruse. Knowing how the Cuban regime operates, which the Biden administration’s State Dept. is fully aware of but refuses to acknowledge, they see this change as a major victory for the Castro dictatorship that will give the regime the help it needs to keep its stranglehold on power.

https://www.cubaheadlines.com/articles/282710

In his X account, Republican Congressman Carlos Giménez accused the Biden administration of perpetuating “the Castro dictatorship in power and abandoning the Cubans who fight for freedom,” while calling it “an accomplice” of the communist regime. “President Biden has just granted more concessions to Cuba’s murderous regime,” he stated.

Meanwhile, legislator María Elvira Salazar argued that opening the U.S. banking system to the ‘private sector,’ which she considers “a front for the regime to obtain foreign currency,” will give “more lifeline to the dictatorship.”

For all the Biden administration’s claims of wanting to help the Cuban people break free of communist tyranny, this policy change will have the opposite effect, and they know it. It’s been the plan all along.

A Globalist In Patriot Clothing

DeSantis Is What He Does NOT Say...

https://miamiindependent.com/a-globalist-in-patriot-clothing/

Excerpt:

.....The REAL Ron DeSantis is to be understood by what he doesn’t say, the issues about which he stays silent, the bills he actually signs, after last minute legislative manipulations to change them from what he just told you he’d promised.

Two bills, SB7050 and SB 252, now law in Florida, are prime examples of DeTreachery behind DeFace. Floridians remember them. The “election integrity” law makes machine voting MANDATORY, drop boxes/early voting encouraged, and any public audits/questioning of election processes or results, an illegal activity. The medical “freedom” bill, SB252, simply ended the Covid emergency, when it was already over didn’t stop payment to hospitals for Covid deaths!) but gave Floridians NO protection from future mandates from the WHO or the DC cabal.

The latest glaring non-statement from DeSilence concerns the actions of his RPOF, which has recently taken legal action against Judeo-Christian constitutional conservative organizations in the state, who dare to use the word, “Republican” and the elephant as a symbol. This, of course, has NO basis in law, just in the minds of the persecutors. (Remind you of goings-on in the District?)

The RPOF has also removed a party regular delegate to the RNC national convention from any key committees. I published his statement which he released, on the treachery. His crime was to believe in the people (aka “grassroots”) and an avid Trump supporter.

Where IS DeGov on all this? His silence is deafening, and shows his support for the purge of true conservatives/Trump supporters from the state party organization.

.....The RPOF does NOT support Donald Trump or his supporters. That doesn’t take a short guy in heels to announce. We get it.

In a time in our history, when unity against our country’s enemies is the sine qua non of our living in a free country, the RPOF has taken cause with the enemy.

Florida, YOU are the only ones who can change this, and time is short. Heat up Twitter, the internet and the phones to Tallahassee. The RPOF is planning something, I honestly believe. The possibilities are wide and dark. Let me know what you think they are doing. Hint: it’s probably NOT pro-American.
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SB 7050 explains why Florida has been silent about the voting machines at the local level.

YMBII:

Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers’ Fight Against the Left

by Daniel Greenfield

https://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/products/pre-sale-domestic-enemies-the-founding-fathers-fight-against-the-left

Excellent book showing everything being done now is a continuation of what has been done before by the Left, since our country’s founding.

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The Left is America’s oldest enemy.

It was here long before the 1960s, calling for the execution of George Washington, plotting to stop the ratification of the Constitution, and collaborating with foreign enemies.

Stolen elections, fake news, race riots, globalism, and socialism aren’t new problems; Americans faced them from the very beginning.

Domestic Enemies reveals the true origins of the Democratic Party and its radicals, who—even two centuries ago—were calling for the redistribution of wealth, the end of marriage, and the use of schools for political indoctrination.

From political battles to street fights, Domestic Enemies takes you into the heart of a century of forgotten struggles between America’s greatest heroes—such as Washington, Hamilton, Davy Crockett, and Abraham Lincoln—and radical villains like Aaron Burr.

This is a 1619 Project for the American Left: a history of the Democrats as you’ve never heard it before, told through the political debates, naval battles, race riots, scandals, secret societies, and domestic terrorism that made the Left what it is today.

Learn how the Founding Fathers defeated the Left before, and how we can beat it again.
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Well according to the NY Post, the Biden White House, the rest of the Fascist Democrat regime and their flying monkey operatives in the media are planning to celebrate Donald Trump being a “convicted felon.”

You know who else was a convicted felon?

Lech Walesa.

You know who else?

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

You know who else?

Nelson Mandela.

You know who else?

Mahatma Gandhi.

You know who else?

Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

These things rarely work out as the fascist goons in power think they will, and always to their detriment and to the benefit of freedom.

Go ahead Biden. Go ahead the rest of you fascist #lawfare thugs. Ride the whirlwind. See what happens.

https://x.com/CynicalPublius/status/1794659370674041231

‘Embarrassment to the government’: Judge slams prosecutors for unraveling of ‘Fat Leonard’ Navy bribery case

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2024/05/embarrassment-to-the-government-judge-slams-prosecutors-for-unraveling-of-fat-leonard-navy-bribery-case/

Excerpt:

A San Diego federal judge on Tuesday blasted the U.S. Attorney’s Office for its “significant misconduct” in the prosecution of the U.S. Navy’s “Fat Leonard” bribery and corruption scandal, saying the continued crumbling of the case is an “embarrassment to the government.”

U.S. District Judge Janis Sammartino said during a hearing in her San Diego courtroom that prosecutorial “misconduct started (the) unraveling of this case.” She called it an “extremely unfortunate” situation that was “all the government’s making.”

Sammartino made the comments during a hearing in which she agreed — reluctantly — to throw out a previous guilty plea by former Navy Cmdr. Stephen Shedd and dismissed all charges against him. She also dismissed felony pleas by three other former Navy officers and a retired Marine colonel and allowed the four men to each plead guilty to a single misdemeanor.

In a similar move last year as the result of the same government misconduct, the judge tossed out the jury convictions of four Navy officers who had been found guilty at trial and allowed them to plead guilty to misdemeanor counts.

Sammartino made it clear Tuesday that there was no new information to suggest the five defendants in her courtroom did not accept the bribes or commit the acts to which they previously pleaded guilty. But she said that the misconduct and its snowball effect made it so that dismissing Shedd’s charges and allowing the four misdemeanor plea deals was the best remaining option.

“While not a perfect resolution, it is accepted to minimize disparities in this case,” the judge said. If their previous felony pleas had been left to stand, the officers who pleaded guilty would have faced harsher penalties than those who went to trial.

Sammartino also said the government’s continued lack of communication to the public and the military community about what has gone wrong with the prosecution was “troublesome.”

U.S. Attorney Tara McGrath, who was present in the courtroom, declined to comment afterward.

Tuesday’s hearing provided the latest twist in what has become a spectacular unraveling of the legal case against the dozens of Navy officers who took bribes from Leonard Glenn Francis, aka “Fat Leonard,” the Malaysian contractor at the center of the corruption scheme.

.....Francis pleaded guilty early on, admitting that he defrauded the Navy out of at least $35 million, and subsequently cooperated with the prosecution for years.

But as the decade-old case dragged on, it began to show cracks. Defense attorneys raised questions about evidence that they believed prosecutors tried to hide — questions that led Sammartino to declare Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Pletcher, the former lead prosecutor in the case, had committed “flagrant misconduct.” The defense attorneys also questioned the reliability of other documents in the case and the prosecution’s failure to disclose that a key investigator had made false statements in a similar investigation. Defense attorneys also raised red flags about the preferential treatment that Francis received while on house arrest before he absconded and fled the country in late 2022. He has since been returned to the U.S. as part of a prisoner swap.

Sammartino cited those issues in a numbered list Tuesday in explaining her decision to dismiss the felony guilty pleas by Shedd and the four others: former Navy Cmdr. Jose Luis Sanchez; retired Chief Warrant Officer Robert Gorsuch; former Navy Capt. Donald Hornbeck; and retired Marine Col. Enrico “Rick” DeGuzman.

.....Sammartino said Tuesday that the filing was “just barely” sufficient and provided the “bare minimum” information necessary for her to accept the proposed resolutions.

In that filing, First Assistant U.S. Attorney Peter Ko acknowledged that the issues with the case could affect even more defendants than the nine who have already had their guilty pleas or trial convictions dismissed. Ko wrote that that the government was “committed to ensuring all the defendants receive any redress that is owed them for the (prosecution) issues” and said prosecutors were reviewing other cases to determine if other defendants were deserving of relief because of the prosecutorial issues.

What that potential relief could look like is still unclear, but several attorneys whose clients had previously been sentenced in the case were on hand Tuesday to observe the proceedings.
Shedd admitted to sending Francis classified information about planned ship movements and providing him with proprietary invoices from GDMA’s competitors so Francis could undermine their bids.

Prosecutors said Shedd warranted a full dismissal because he testified at trial. “We do not think it is fair or just for this defendant who acknowledged his guilt and testified publicly against peers of similar or greater culpability to be penalized more harshly or the same,” Ko wrote in a filing last year. “Considering how the (trial) cases ended, through no fault of Shedd’s, dismissal is the only realistic way to differentiate his effort to mitigate his wrongs.”

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