AHH … Concerning the ‘non-entity’ … did Will imply a double entendre?

10 min vidclip

AHH… your take on this please … esp Iran and Turkiye meeting

The Lies Being Used to Justify the US’ War Against Venezuela (and Latin America in General) Are Unravelling Before Our Eyes

Israel is launching its campaign for a massive increase in U.S. aid – will it succeed?
By Mitchell Plitnick  November 24, 2025  13

Israel wants to start negotiations over a massive new aid deal that could shape the U.S.-Israeli relationship for the next 20 years. But it is far from certain, as support for Israel is at an all-time low. The time to stop the deal is now.

article here:  https://mondoweiss.net/2025/11/israel-is-launching-its-campaign-for-a-massive-increase-in-u-s-aid-will-it-succeed/

10+ mins

I agree shooter definitely not a lone gunman … bottom line though is Trump now has his excuse to illegally (as ruled earlier) send Nat’l Guard into American cities …

“Afghan shooter of two Nat’l Guardsmen worked with CIA …”

There are several reports of this … here’s link to a cache …

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=afghan+shooter+worked+with+CIA&atb=v310-1&ia=web

4 min vidclip …

2nd 4 min vidclip

Chris Norlund short clip also …

Ted posted this at Smoothie’s a few mins ago … this may not be the thread to place it … my apologies if not… however I found it interesting and am wondering how others view it.  Does it merit discussion? or, is there already too much talk?

ted richard 5 minutes ago
https://substack.com/home/post/p-179404454

a tasters choice snippet………………………

My reflections on war, on what everyone can see by watching the television news (our daily spectacle), have therefore led me to a new interest in religion as a historical factor. Observing the consequences of the disappearance of religion in the present day has even opened up a completely new field of research for me. When I describe the history of the disappearance of religion, I now distinguish three stages: active religion, zombie religion, and zero religion.

Active religion is when people believe in their god and worship him. I am talking here about religion in a Western, monotheistic sense. I am thinking of Christianity, I am thinking of Judaism.

Then, the second stage is the zombie stage, when belief in God has disappeared, when worship has disappeared, but in a social world where the moral habits associated with religion are still alive. Individuals remain bound by a system of values, they remain capable of collective action. Religion is replaced by substitute ideologies, such as national sentiment, class sentiment, and all kinds of ideological groups that replace the original religious affiliation.

And then there is the third stage, the one we are in now, the stage of zero religion, in which the values inherited from religion have disappeared. We are entering a world where the individual is truly deprived of fundamental values; they are now alone, deprived of the capacity for collective action. They are weakened individuals because the values instilled by religion, and later reused by ideology, were a source of strength for their personality.

This state zero of religious beliefs is not experienced by the individual as true freedom. Human beings find themselves confronted with the very common problem of the meaning of life. What are they doing on earth? What is the purpose of their existence? In this kind of context, we see the emergence of what I call nihilism.

The fear of emptiness turns into glorification, into deification of emptiness. A passion for the destruction of things, the destruction of men, the destruction of reality, gradually emerges. The current psychological state of the West is partly this: nihilism, which leads to a passion for war in people’s minds, and a preference for war in geopolitics. We understand the moral background to the West’s new preference for war.

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