China and India preparing for war (WSJ)

A billion people here, another billion there

(WSJ) How China is quietly bracing for war with India. Pakistan is delighted. How much money will Israel and its affiliated arms dealers make from selling weapons in this conflict? How will the CIA angle for long-term advantage (full spectrum dominance) in the region? And does the 14th Dalai Lama regret taking sides and affiliating himself with The Company (aka the CIA)?

• WSJ Coordinates, The Wall Street Journal, July 23, 2025; Pfc. Sandoval, CC Liu, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Pedo: Trump flip-flops on Epstein Files

(Keith Edwards) Tape unearthed revealing Donald Trump telling Howard Stern and Robin Quivers about his desire to sleep with (have sex with) girls as young as 12-years-old but no younger than that, bragging that he can get any gal he wants, other than possibly Robin.

(The Young Turks) Trump in 2006 was a well-known kiddie "pervert"

• Trump sues over Wall Street Journal's Epstein report: How dare the WSJ humiliate me with my own words in Jeff's birthday card wishes. I'll get my revenge on them!!!
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Trump, Epstein's best friend, molested me

Epstein's ex-girlfriend molested by Donald J. Trump, Jeff's BFF

What does the Molester-in-Chief have to hide? Trump flip-flops on release of Epstein Files

(Democracy Now!) July 18, 2025: Latest Shows. Support this work: democracynow.org/donate. A major rift has formed within Don [Juan] Trump's MAGA base over his reversal of many campaign promises to release the "Epstein files" to the public.

Giuffre killed. Who's next?

Prince Andrew, Molested Guiffre, Ghislane

Many Trump supporters see his denials of the existence of a "client list" belonging to Jeffrey Epstein, the powerful and well-connected [blackmailer hiding as an] investor who was charged with the sexual trafficking and assault of numerous teenage girls and young women before his [alleged] death [or release from prison after his suicide was faked], as a betrayal of Trump's promises to "drain the swamp" and expose what many supporters believe is proof of criminal corruption among primarily Democratic "elites."

What's Epstein's brother say?

🚑 Silenced?

Trump's insistence that his supporters drop their fixation on Epstein-related "conspiracy theories that his people have long nurtured" is "making it exceedingly difficult for some of his biggest supporters and boosters to not start at least suspecting that he has something to hide," says Rolling Stone's Asawin Suebsaeng, who has been reporting on the fallout from Trump and his [righthand woman] Attorney General Pam Bondi's handling of the Epstein case.

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• Amy Goodman (DemocracyNow.org), July 18, 2025; Pfc. Sandoval, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Let's get to know VP candidate Tim Walz

Who is Tim Walz? Why Kamala Harris picked Minnesota governor as VP running mate | WSJ

National Guardsman Tim Walz

(The Wall Street Journal) Aug. 6, 2024: #20 on Trending. VP Kamala, 59, has named Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, 60 [a real manly hillbilly, redneck, and Midwesterner compared to Yale's JD Vance], as her running mate.

Gov. Walz is a former schoolteacher and seasoned Washington lawmaker who has been credited with a new political diss “weird” against Republicans like wacko JD Vance and senile DJ Trance.

WSJ’s Ken Thomas explains what Gov. Walz brings to the Democrats’ election showdown with DJ Trump and JD Vance.

(MSNBC) Let's take a deeper dive into the life of future VP Tim Walz

Congressman, governor, National Guard veteran, manly Midwesterner

CHAPTERS

• 0:00 Harris’s running mate
• 0:46 Who is Tim Walz?
• 3:47 What does he bring to the ticket?
• 4:58 What’s next?

News Explainers Some days the high-speed news cycle can bring more questions than answers. WSJ’s news explainers break down the day's biggest stories into bite-size pieces to make sense of the news.

72-y.o. Golden Bachelor: Meet his dates

ABC; Wall Street Journal (WSJ) ARTS & CULTURE TV; ABC, Family Guy; The View; Sky News Australia; Seth Auberon, Ashley Wells, Sheldon S., CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

I would do date Gerry. wait is it Gary  or Jeri? Oh, I'd date him hard, better then these...

Hi, I'm Grandpa Gerry. But you can call me Fabrizzio, the Golden Fox and geriatric lover.

America’s new most eligible bachelor, 72-year-old grandpa Gerry Turner, is a retired restaurateur who fills his days with pickleball. He’s about to date 22 women, one as young as 61, on national television (WSJ).

• Hollywood's The Golden Bachelor premieres tonight

ABC has high hopes for senior dating (Variety)

(WQ) It's a spectacle that will have bedrooms across the nation's old folks' homes retirement villas roiling with lust and provocative thoughts ("girl porn" romantic ideas sure to make married men groan, regretting they gave up the remote control because the game is on, and the power tools are getting cold in the garage and shed, and the lawn needs mowing, and there's a poker game over at Big Al's, and they're showing ESPN clips at the bar, and and...uh, help, there's got to be more to life than this garbage programming!)

Preview review

OMG, my work is never done.

The critics have seen it, and here's the problem: On the regular youthful version of the show with 20-somethings, if imbalanced young ladies come on and entertain us with their drama and humiliating loss of love after being drummed out, it's easy to imagine them meeting someone new the very next week. There's no reason for them to mope.

But here, in this golden years version, with all the silver foxes coming after the geriatric bachelor, if they're heartbroken, it's really easy to imagine that this was their last chance at true love or any love. They're hitting the wall, and now they're about to hit the ceiling as they get beat out by brighter, craftier, more cunning opponents. Will 60-year-old Nancy, Maria, or Joan win out because of their age...or will a crone rule the roost -- and the pickleball court -- and take the man chicken in hand as she does a man chicken walk in front of the other hens?

Will the Bidens be watching, Jill?

Cannabis may prevent coronavirus: study

Jimmy Dore (jimmydorecomedy.com); Pat Macpherson, Crystal Q. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Cannabis extracts prevent coronavirus

CBD with THC is a healing plant entheogen.

Cannabis extracts may help to prevent coronavirus, preliminary study suggests.

CBD may become a useful and safe addition to the treatment of Covid-19 as an adjunct therapy (independent.co.uk, May 18, 2020).

Canadian researchers at the University of Lethbridge in Calgary are studying more than 400 strains of cannabis and have determined that at least a dozen may offer potential as part of treatments to prevent coronavirus from infecting a host.

According to the researchers the effective strains have, in some instances, managed to reduce virus receptors, which reduces the chance for an individual to catch coronavirus....

Marijuana may prevent COVID-19

Researchers are making new medicinal strains.

New Canadian study says marijuana may prevent the [novel] coronavirus (thesource.com) Weed preventing COVID-19? That high hope seemed to rise from this headline:

"Cannabis may stop coronavirus from infecting people, study suggests." University scientists are now theorizing that certain marijuana strains [they don't reveal which] could possibly prevent COVID-19 infection.

The study’s head researcher Dr. Igor Kovalchuk said, “A number of them have reduced the number of these (virus) receptors by 73 percent, the chance of it getting in is much lower. If they can reduce the number of receptors, there’s much less chance of getting infected.”

Researchers were able to identify 13 CBD extracts that are able to change ACE2 levels, an enzyme previously linked to COVID-19 infection. The data also suggested that some strains were also able to control serine protease TMPRSS2...

Cannabis stops coronavirus?

April 2020 was another record-breaking month for sales in Canada of 89 million dollars.

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Cannabis may stop coronavirus from infecting people, study finds (merryjane.com, May 14, 2020).

A new study from Canada suggests that cannabis extracts containing THC and CBD could prevent the novel coronavirus from infecting human cells.

The study, published online at Preprints, was conducted by a team of biologists licensed to grow marijuana and hemp under a Health Canada research license.

Using 13 different cannabis oils extracted from newly developed strains, the team discovered that certain oils containing the cannabinoids CBD and THC could lower human cell production of two key proteins that serve as gateways for COVID-19 virus to enter the body and cause infection.

Spotify strikes $100 million podcast deal with Joe Rogan

In more news of the strange that's not so strange: It pays to sell out while appearing to speak truth to power. Case in point: Don't subvert the Powers That Be, and they'll reward you handsomely. Wall Street Journal headline: "Spotify strikes podcast deal with Joe Rogan worth more than $100 million," which is more than Seth MacFarlane makes for his genius comedy on TV (TJDS).

Wht House Czar calls for end to War on Drugs

Gary Fields (Wall Street Journal) May 14, 2009

Gil Kerlikowske, the new White House drug czar, signaled yesterday his openness to rethinking the government's approach to fighting drug use.

Kerlikowske says [war] analogy is counterproductive; shift aligns with administration preference for treatment over incarceration

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration's new drug czar says he wants to banish the idea that the U.S. is fighting "a war on drugs," a move that would underscore a shift favoring treatment over incarceration in trying to reduce illicit drug use.

In his first interview since being confirmed to head the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, Gil Kerlikowske said yesterday the bellicose analogy was a barrier to dealing with the nation's drug issues.

DISCUSS: “That the War on Drugs has been a complete failure is not even a question anymore” -- David Dimston

"Regardless of how you try to explain to people it's a 'war on drugs' or a 'war on a product,' people see a war as a war on them," he said. "We're not at war with people in this country." More>>

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