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June 20, 2020
Tweet o' the day from Joan Walsh
https://twitter.com/joanwalsh/status/1273683882647465985
June 20, 2020
How close was Berman to the target, to have warranted the clumsy and rushed Friday night hit job
Jist one week ago @NarativLive revealed Epstein's billion-dollar illegal arms trading network
https://twitter.com/ZevShalev/status/1274202465458630656
HERE'S THE THREAD:
https://narativ.org/2020/06/14/merchant-of-death/
"Jeffrey Epstein was a key member of a global arms trading network that sold weapons of war to the world’s most ruthless leaders.
Of the many terms used to describe Jeffrey Epstein’s tradecraft, international arms dealer rarely comes up. Epstein became globally infamous for trafficking in teenage girls and blackmailing politicians with compromising evidence of encounters with those women.
The human trafficking and blackmailing operation was just a means to an end – an elaborate cover story to protect from Epstein’s biggest secrets from leaking.
In this exclusive report, I reveal how Epstein was a key part of a global arms trading network which trafficked in weapons of war sold to countries mostly in the Middle East for decades."
Story at Link..
They all go down with this reveal including Trump & Barr & THIS is why Berman was targeted.
Among a few other incidentials, like Deutsch Bank
June 20, 2020
https://www.google.com/amp/s/theconversation.com/amp/marvin-gayes-1971-whats-going-on-remains-unanswered-today-88732
Marvin Gaye's 1971 'What's Going On?' remains unanswered today
SNIP
"The police was beatin’ on them, but they weren’t bothering anybody. I saw this, and started wondering what the fuck was going on.
What is happening here? One question leads to another. Why are they sending kids so far away from their families overseas?
Why are they attacking their own children in the streets here?"
These questions translated into a song Benson wrote with Cleveland, an in-house Motown composer. But his fellow members in the Four Tops weren’t interested in protest music. Fortunately, Gaye was very keen. Benson said:
Marvin already felt like this. He was a rebel, and a real spiritual guy.
Inspired by the harrowing stories told to him by his younger brother Frankie over his Vietnam war experiences, Gaye would eventually make the song his own. He added lyrics and, according to Benson:
"When you heard that song, you could see the people and feel the hurt and pain. We measured him for the suit and he tailored the hell out of it."
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LYRICS
Mother, mother
There's too many of you crying
Brother, brother, brother
There's far too many of you dying
You know we've got to find a way
To bring some lovin' here today, eh eh
Father, father
We don't need to escalate
You see, war is not the answer
For only love can conquer hate
You know we've got to find a way
To bring some lovin' here today, oh oh oh
Picket lines and picket signs
Don't punish me with brutality
Talk to me, so you can see
Oh, what's going on
What's going on
Yeah, what's going on
Ah, what's going on
In the mean time
Right on, baby
Right on brother
Right on babe
Mother, mother, everybody thinks we're wrong
Oh, but who are they to judge us
Simply 'cause our hair is long
Oh, you know we've got to find a way
To bring some understanding here today
Oh oh oh
Picket lines and picket signs
Don't punish me with brutality
C'mon talk to me
So you can see
What's going on
Yeah, what's going on
Tell me what's going on
I'll tell you what's going on, ooh ooh ooh ooh
Right on baby
Right on baby
Songwriters: Alfred W Cleveland / Marvin P Gaye / Renaldo Benson
1971 Protest Song Marvin Gaye 'What's Going On"
https://www.google.com/amp/s/theconversation.com/amp/marvin-gayes-1971-whats-going-on-remains-unanswered-today-88732
Marvin Gaye's 1971 'What's Going On?' remains unanswered today
SNIP
"The police was beatin’ on them, but they weren’t bothering anybody. I saw this, and started wondering what the fuck was going on.
What is happening here? One question leads to another. Why are they sending kids so far away from their families overseas?
Why are they attacking their own children in the streets here?"
These questions translated into a song Benson wrote with Cleveland, an in-house Motown composer. But his fellow members in the Four Tops weren’t interested in protest music. Fortunately, Gaye was very keen. Benson said:
Marvin already felt like this. He was a rebel, and a real spiritual guy.
Inspired by the harrowing stories told to him by his younger brother Frankie over his Vietnam war experiences, Gaye would eventually make the song his own. He added lyrics and, according to Benson:
"When you heard that song, you could see the people and feel the hurt and pain. We measured him for the suit and he tailored the hell out of it."
--------------------
LYRICS
Mother, mother
There's too many of you crying
Brother, brother, brother
There's far too many of you dying
You know we've got to find a way
To bring some lovin' here today, eh eh
Father, father
We don't need to escalate
You see, war is not the answer
For only love can conquer hate
You know we've got to find a way
To bring some lovin' here today, oh oh oh
Picket lines and picket signs
Don't punish me with brutality
Talk to me, so you can see
Oh, what's going on
What's going on
Yeah, what's going on
Ah, what's going on
In the mean time
Right on, baby
Right on brother
Right on babe
Mother, mother, everybody thinks we're wrong
Oh, but who are they to judge us
Simply 'cause our hair is long
Oh, you know we've got to find a way
To bring some understanding here today
Oh oh oh
Picket lines and picket signs
Don't punish me with brutality
C'mon talk to me
So you can see
What's going on
Yeah, what's going on
Tell me what's going on
I'll tell you what's going on, ooh ooh ooh ooh
Right on baby
Right on baby
Songwriters: Alfred W Cleveland / Marvin P Gaye / Renaldo Benson
June 20, 2020
Enes Kanter's father has been released.
https://twitter.com/youngdemokrat/status/1274033975057678339
June 19, 2020
U.S. Attorney’s Office Shuts Down Website Promoting Prostitution and Sex Trafficking, Indicts Owner
The website CityXGuide.com — a leading source of online advertisements for prostitution and sex trafficking that users described as “taking over from where Backpage left off” — has been seized and its owner charged in a 28-count federal indictment, announced United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
Wilhan Martono, 46, was indicted on June 2 on one count of promotion of prostitution and reckless disregard of sex trafficking, one count of interstate racketeering conspiracy (facilitating prostitution), nine counts of interstate transportation in aid of racketeering (facilitating prostitution), and 17 counts of money laundering. He was arrested on June 17 in Fremont, California by Homeland Security Investigations and the United States Secret Service.
Shortly after the defendant’s arrest, CityXGuide was replaced with a splash page notifying users that the website had been seized by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security pursuant to a warrant.
U.S. Attorney's Office Shuts Down Website Promoting Prostitution and Sex Trafficking, Indicts Owner
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndtx/pr/us-attorney-s-office-shuts-down-website-promoting-prostitution-and-sex-traffickingU.S. Attorney’s Office Shuts Down Website Promoting Prostitution and Sex Trafficking, Indicts Owner
The website CityXGuide.com — a leading source of online advertisements for prostitution and sex trafficking that users described as “taking over from where Backpage left off” — has been seized and its owner charged in a 28-count federal indictment, announced United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
Wilhan Martono, 46, was indicted on June 2 on one count of promotion of prostitution and reckless disregard of sex trafficking, one count of interstate racketeering conspiracy (facilitating prostitution), nine counts of interstate transportation in aid of racketeering (facilitating prostitution), and 17 counts of money laundering. He was arrested on June 17 in Fremont, California by Homeland Security Investigations and the United States Secret Service.
Shortly after the defendant’s arrest, CityXGuide was replaced with a splash page notifying users that the website had been seized by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security pursuant to a warrant.
June 19, 2020
Biden ad - 'You have the power, because We can't afford 4 more years of Trump'
And Trump responds 😫:
https://twitter.com/Adrienne_DNC/status/1273997296104017920
June 19, 2020
Feb 2019, Harris calls for common sense elections for every citizen
Kamala Harris February 2019
https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1097900871025754114Feb 2019, Harris calls for common sense elections for every citizen
June 17, 2020
Rick Wilson's word of the day.
Appropriately revived for 2020.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/what-is-failson-culture-look-no-further-than-the-family-trump-for-the-answer
"One is not born a failson. Nor does one simply inherit the status of failson.
No—failson status is earned through a display of equal parts incompetence, stupidity, and arrogance.
And until his book, no person in America—or maybe even the world, so bursting at the seams with louche heirs and dissolute royals with no throne to sit their pampered arses on—illustrated all the facets of a failson better than Junior."
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I'm thinking it could be expanded to "Failspawn"
Every damned one of them.
Revisiting this from 2019: "Failson Culture" by Molly Jong-Fast
https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/1273354812604723200Rick Wilson's word of the day.
Appropriately revived for 2020.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/what-is-failson-culture-look-no-further-than-the-family-trump-for-the-answer
"One is not born a failson. Nor does one simply inherit the status of failson.
No—failson status is earned through a display of equal parts incompetence, stupidity, and arrogance.
And until his book, no person in America—or maybe even the world, so bursting at the seams with louche heirs and dissolute royals with no throne to sit their pampered arses on—illustrated all the facets of a failson better than Junior."
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I'm thinking it could be expanded to "Failspawn"
Every damned one of them.
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