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-Great Cultural Revolution
Antisemites Tucker Carlson, Darryl Cooper and Candace Owens are in deep shit as Israel Minister of Diaspora and Combating Antisemitism goes after them.


Go read the entire long tweet at the link. He is creatively scathing. I left it there so Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435’s comment here can be properly appreciated without distracting competition.
This is about Tucker's three hour (zzzzzz....) interview with Cooper.

Starts off kooky and goes off the deep end with conspiracies and unlikely scenarios, my favorite part was the Scientology-style lewd trashy sci-fi novel.

Absolutely zero proof of any of this. They mention so many names you need one of those tackboard-and-string diagrams to keep track of it all, LOL!

The former Israeli Prime Minister said categorically Epstein did not work for Mossad.

Tucker even brings up the king conspiracy theory of them all:"who runs the world, and on whose behalf?

"DA JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOZZZZZZZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
If the Jews were running the world, I’d demand a great many more people doing useful medical research. Q.E.D.
With their orbital mind control lasers, just like fellow antisemite Marjorie Taylor-Green said.

"Four families control the world"

It just keeps getting funnier!

And they end with Pizzagate! That conspiracy theory about pedophiles in the basement of a pizza parlor that didn't have a basement.


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Posted by: Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 || 07/20/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:


Issaic Hayes III: My dad did not quit South Park

…suffered a stroke just a few months later that left him unable to speak or make decisions on his own. He was not in any condition to resign from anything. The truth is, someone else within his Scientology circle made that decision and quit the show for him.

He loved being the voice of Chef. He loved the character. He loved connecting with fans. He would joke with people who recognized his voice and he truly enjoyed being part of the show.

The narrative that he quit because he was offended by the satire is not true. That was a cover story created by others. My father never got to speak for himself because his health robbed him of that chance.

So now I am speaking for him. He did not leave South Park willingly. He was forced out by illness and by people who did not have his best interest at heart.

This is for anyone who loved Chef. This is for anyone who admired my father’s work. This is the truth about what really happened.

Hear the full story on
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#IsaacHayes #southpark #southparkchef


‘My Dad Would Have Never Quit That Show’: Isaac Hayes III on what ‘South Park’ Meant to His Father
[Cracked] Hayes III discusses how Chef introduced his dad to a new generation, the soul legend’s love for ‘South Park’ and his controversial departure.


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#1  He was forced out by illness

Induced?
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/20/2025 0:16 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
About the role of special services in the Epstein case
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Text taken from the Telegram channel of rtechnocom

Commentary by Russian military journalist Bris Rozhin:

[ColonelCassad] Is he not a CIA officer by chance? Strange situation. A large-scale scandal that affected the highest echelons of power, mass media, academic circles, celebrities and the world financial system is kept quiet, because admitting the truth would mean admitting a failure of a colossal scale, capable of destroying the entire country.
Not just the country. Mr. Epstein, a former prep school math teacher, drew guests from well beyond America’s borders, including the likes of England’s Prince Andrews and Israel’s Ehud Barak.
Where are the investigative journalists?

Remember the clowns at ProPublica who obtained Warren Buffett's tax returns and flaunted them like it was the sensation of the century? Why didn't they deal with Epstein's hedge fund, ego finances, ego documents? Where is the exposure for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize?
Apparently Mr. Epstein’s financial dealings were exceedingly complex, the kind of thing Wall Street Journal journalists spend a year untangling when they aren’t falling for forged birthday notes from Donald Trump.
Is it possible that Epstein worked for intelligence, as an agent or even an operative? Of course. This is very likely. Obviously, the intelligence community would be interested in such a person. Epstein had access, influence, compromising information, connections - and he knew how to use them. Add to this his ability to blackmail people who have committed the most heinous crimes, and you get levers of influence more powerful than aircraft carriers and nuclear warheads.

If Epstein cooperated with American intelligence, the consequences will be more than terrifying. Perhaps that is why no real information has been published. We're talking about a federal government funded by your taxes that knowingly facilitates a long-term blackmail operation based on the exploitation of children. If they admit that Epstein was one of them, they admit that high-ranking officials knew what he was doing and whom he was offending.

They allowed this to happen and used it as an instrument of state governance. Such an admission would set fire to the powder keg of American mistrust of the government. And they know it. There is also a possibility that Epstein worked for a foreign intelligence service, and the US intelligence and law enforcement agencies did not even suspect this.

This would mean that the entire US intelligence community — the CIA, the FBI, the Department of Justice, the NSA — overlooked the fact that a foreign service was conducting a large-scale blackmail operation on the territory of the United States, stalking American officials, abusing children... and doing nothing about it. This is not just a failure. This is catastrophic incompetence.

This is the second bottom of the story with Epstein. Pedophiles and trafficking of minors is the top level.Behind this is the role of Epstein as an informant/agent of one of the special services, which collected compromising material on visitors to the pedophile island with the aim of subsequently influencing the decisions and actions of the compromised visitors.

Either in the interests of the deep state, or in the interests of Israel. It is no accident that some of the Trumpists are now pedaling not so much the topic of pedophiles, but Epstein's connection with the special services and Israel (it is not by chance that former

Prime Minister Olmert went public and began to publicly deny Epstein's connections with Israel). And in this context, there is nothing surprising in the fact that Trump and Co. are actually blocking the investigation in this direction. The Deep State has not disappeared.



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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
In Search of Honor and Courage
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Text taken from the Telegram channel of Middle_East_Spectator

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.

[ColonelCassad] Over the course of my nearly 8 years of research and internships in the Middle East region, I have generally followed a good “rule of thumb.” This rule of thumb is this: If Israel and the United States are against a certain group or nation, then that group or nation is usually on the right path in terms of basic moral values. When we look at Syria, we see that the situation is somewhat complicated.

On the one hand, Ahmed al-Sharaa (Jolani) and his government, led by HTS, are openly supported by the United States and most Western countries. This is evident in the reopening of embassies, the lifting of US sanctions, and so on. On the other hand, Israel is bombing Syrian government forces in As-Suwayda.

Why would Israel bomb the Syrian government if it is so pro-Western and pro-Israel? You might think that this means that HTS is on the right side and that they are a genuine resistance movement. However, this could not be further from the truth. Since al-Sharaa took power after Assad’s departure, all the messages have been aimed at de-escalation and pointing to peace or some form of normalization with Israel.

Just two weeks ago, Witkoff said he believed Syria would soon join the Abraham Accords, and Syrian and Israeli officials confirmed that talks were ongoing. So what happened? Why would Israel jeopardize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity? There is only one thing that benefits Israel more than Syria joining the Abraham Accords: a permanently unstable and fragmented Syrian state that has no time to build up its capabilities or become truly sovereign.

A Syria that is fragmented and constantly embroiled in internal turmoil will never be able to become a credible threat to Israel. And, better yet, Israel might be able to attract separatist movements to its side. Israel’s desire for territorial control knows no bounds.

Ahmad al-Sharaa is almost entirely to blame for the current situation. While his previous crimes as a notorious Nusra/ISIS field commander can never be justified, he had a historic opportunity to unite Syrians and end the civil war once and for all. He could have reached out to the Druze, offered them an alternative. He could have changed the tune and granted amnesty to the Alawites and former Syrian army soldiers, fostering a new national unity.

But he didn’t. Instead, Jolani turned a blind eye to brutal gangs like ISIS killing thousands of Alawite civilians on the Syrian coast. He turned a blind eye to these same gangs violating the rights and property of the Druze and terrorizing Christians in Damascus. And I’m being generous because I assume that HTS had no direct role in these events, which is questionable in itself.

As for the Druze, they are a cohesive group. They only want security and the right to be themselves, with their own distinct identity. Because of this situation, they made the unfortunate decision to support Israel instead of organizing an independent and dignified resistance. This is something that will be a stain on Syria’s history and will not be easily undone.

Jolani’s sectarian actions and rhetoric have brought Syria to the brink of disaster. He has given Israel a golden opportunity to divide and conquer Syria, to Balkanize it even more than it already is.

If Jolani had any courage and honor left, he would put aside all his differences with the Druze, Alawites, Christians and Kurds, put an end to Israeli aggression and then start building a new Syrian state, including representatives of all sects and religions. origin, which has the opportunity to decide its own destiny, and not be a slave to the Jews or the Americans.

Of course, the inclusive terrorist Jolani never had any "honor" and "courage" - he was initially promoted for very specific purposes, eliminating other militant leaders to clear the way for him to power - first in Idlib, and then in Syria. It's like looking for honor and courage in a cocaine Fuhrer and sighing that he could unite Ukraine, but in the end he turned it into a bloody mess.


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