Sunday, August 23, 2026
Real life in 'sinful' Buddhist Cambodia
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| Near Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam |
This former U.S.-ruined Asian colony known as the Khmer Republic was illegally bombed by the U.S. in a massive genocidal campaign during the U.S. War on Vietnam in Operation Menu and Operation Freedom Deal. Neighboring Buddhist Laos was also bombed along with Vietnam as it suffered CIA subterfuge in Laos as The Company (the CIA) destabilized the impoverished the poor post-colonial nation with the Laotian Civil War.
- Angkor Wat: The world's largest temple
- Massive Angkor city-state, Siem Reap
- Wat Athvea ancient neighboring site
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| Zionist CIA loves secret wars in Asia and world |
‘Not in my name’: US Jews reject ✡️
‘Not in my name’: The Jewish communities fighting the consensus on Israel
Members of the US’s Jewish community say they reject Israel’s authority over their name amid Bezalel [Ben = son + of Azazel = demon?] Smotrich’s Israel Day parade appearance.
NEW YORK CITY, U.S. - MAY 5th: Anti-Israeli Jews gather at a "Stop the Sale of Stolen Palestinian Land" protest against "Great Israel Real Estate" event for Palestinian land sale at the Park East Synagogue in Manhattan on Tuesday, May 5, 2026, in NYC.
The NYPD tightened security on E. 67th and E. 68th Streets and set up a perimeter that extended for blocks around the Park East Synagogue (Selçuk Acar - Anadolu Agency).
Anti-Israeli Jews at a 'Stop the Sale of Stolen Palestinian Land' protest against 'Great Israel Real Estate' [Selçuk Acar/Anadolu Agency]
Longstanding tensions between the US’s progressive Jewish community and the ethnic cleansing Zionist Israeli government came into focus this month, when Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and other far-right Israeli legislators attended the annual Israel Day Parade in New York City.
As Smotrich, who says he is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC), joined the pro-Israel procession marching down Fifth Avenue, he was met by a chorus of “shame” and “war criminals” from protesters.
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Smotrich remained unfazed by the calls from New York’s progressive Jewish protesters and proceeded to link the community’s destiny to Israel’s, a common mantra of both Israeli and US politicians.
“This is a massive celebration – a profound connection uniting the entire global Jewish community, bringing together Jews in Israel and Jews in the United States. This shared destiny has grown significantly stronger over the past three years,” he said.
- [Why is it so important for criminal Zionists to drive Jews? Zionists engage in terrorism against Ashkenazi Jews worldwide to make them the ultimate victims (even promoting distortions of WW II history concerning the sacrosanct Holocaust) and drive them to become dual-citizen Israelis, being drafted into the IDF and taxed and press to give and give more to biased organizations...why? All is in the name of building up the Zionist ethnostate, no matter how dangerous or illegal, what hasbara/propaganda they have to spread, what crimes against humanity or rape atrocities Zionists routinely commit. Ask Jews Ilan Pappe, Norm Finkelstein, Medea Benjamin, Aaron Mate, Katie Halper, Amy Goodman, Russell Dobular, Keaton Weiss...]
“The State of Israel is the home of the entire Jewish people. The security of Jews worldwide relies on the strength and security of the State of Israel. There is no better place to live than in Israel.” [Such messaging is manipulative, Zionist, and a boon to politicians and arms dealers profiting from genocide.]
New York Mayor Zoran Mamdani fulfilled his election pledge by skipping the parade, a move welcomed by some American Jewish organizations critical of the powerful far-right undercurrent in Israeli politics.
“The Israel Day Parade, which features Israeli politicians who have not only cheered on the genocide of Palestinians, but are part of the government committing that genocide, is not a celebration of Jewish identity or pride. @NYCMayor knows this. We’re grateful he is not attending,” said Israelis for Peace and Jews for Racial & Economic Justice (JFREJ).
Jewish activists in Europe and the US say they are frustrated by politicians such as Smotrich using them and their religion to justify the genocide in Gaza and the occupation of the West Bank.
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They included groups such as Jewish Voice for Peace in the US and Na’amod in the UK. They say that the oppression of Palestinians is incompatible with the modern democratic values Israel claims to profess and contest the view that Israel, as a[n ethno-] state [without a constitution], should be an established fact.
Against the consensus
Emily Hilton, co-founder of Na’amod, says her critical view of Israel was formulated after its 2014 assault on Gaza, specifically the military’s killing of four Palestinian children as they played football on a beach.
“I began to question the acceptance of Zionist thought from university onwards,” Hilton told Al Jazeera.
“I’d met liberal Zionists who might question the politics of Israel, but it wasn’t until I went to University College London that I first began to meet Jews and Palestinians critical of Israel and what it meant.”
Hilton went on to join Jewish activist groups in the UK holding traditional Jewish mourning prayers for the Palestinians killed by Israel during the Great March of Return on the Gaza border in 2018.
Later, she joined a vigil after the Hamas-led [retaliation by an occupied, oppressed, civilian population with a legal right to defend itself against its criminal oppressor] on October 7th.
Israel’s subsequent War on [the starving, open-air prison, the largest in the world] Gaza has [genocided far] more than 75,000 Palestinians in Gaza and altered perceptions among some in Jewish communities across the world about their links to the country.
Protesters [and peaceful demonstrators] with Jewish Voice for Peace block traffic during a peaceful demonstration outside the New York office of Jewish U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer, calling for an end to the U.S.-Israel War on Iran and opposing U.S. weapons support, Monday, April 13, 2026, in New York (Andres Kudacki/AP Photo).
“More people are coming to realize that we’re right, Israel has lost the moral argument,” Hilton said. “Whatever claim it once had has gone. Now, it's only remaining claim is that it acts on behalf of the mainstream Jewish community, and even that is looking less certain.”
The main political threat to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu’s government, including right-wing former premier Naftali Bennett and opposition leader Yair Lapid, only argue over the degree to which apartheid and genocide should be enacted, Hilton said, and does not offer a better future for Palestinians.
“Claims that they’re acting in my name are, frankly, outrageous. It doesn’t matter whether it is the more polite apartheid advocated by Lapid and Bennett or the violence and destruction advocated by the current government, the problem is the system,” Hilton added.
“We need to imagine a life beyond Zionism; one based on justice and equality. The Israeli state is putting Jewish people in danger by claiming that we are somehow its foot soldiers. We’re not.”
- Simon Speakman Cordall, June 13, 2026. Listen to article (6 mins); Shauna Schwartz, Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Saturday, August 22, 2026
Tantric Sacred Sex, Yoga, Vajrayana?
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| Jambhala in yab yum position (Tantric sex) |
Tantric sex is associated with antinomian elements, such as the consumption of alcohol and the offerings of defiled substances like flesh to deities.
Moreover, sexual fluids may be viewed as "power substances" and used for ritual purposes, either externally or internally [1, 2].
The actual terms used in the classical texts to refer to this practice include "Karma-mudrā" (Tibetan ལས་ཀྱི་ཕྱག་རྒྱ las kyi phyag rgya, "action seal") in Buddhist tantras and "Maithuna" (Devanagari मैथुन, "coupling") in Hindu sources.
In Hindu Tantra, Maithuna is the most important of the five makara (five "tantric substances") and constitutes the main part of the Grand Ritual of Tantra variously known as Panchamakara, Panchatattva, and Tattva Chakra.
In Tibetan Esoteric (Vajrayana) Buddhism, Karmamudrā is often an important part of the completion stage of tantric practice.
While there may be some connection between these practices and the Kāma-Shāstra literature (which include the Kāma Sūtra), the two practice traditions are separate methods with separate goals.
As the British Indologist Geoffrey Samuel notes, while the kāma sāstra literature is about the pursuit of sexual pleasure (kāmā), sexual yoga practices are often aimed towards the quest for final spiritual liberation (moksha) [3]. More Tantric sex
- In 1992, Jane Wrightson passed with an Australian rating of R18 (like the American NC-17), the Australian tantric sex film Sacred Sex, which was appealed unsuccessfully to the Film and Video Board of Review by the Society for the Promotion of Community Standards, who viewed her classification as too liberal.
Tibetan monks chant over troll bridge
(Mantraon) Superstitious Buddhist monks crossing a dangerous bridge: deep Tibetan chant of Om mani padme hum for calm and nervous system reset with help of internet slop
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| Trolls and a princess (John Bauer) |
In later Scandinavian folklore, trolls became beings in their own right, where they live far from human habitation, are not Christianized and brought to heel (like Zionist Hillary Clinton might like), and are considered dangerous to human beings.
- TROLLS IN BUDDHISM: A kumbhāṇḍa (Sanskrit) or kumbhaṇḍa (Pāli) is one of a group of dwarfish, trollish, misshapen spirits among the lesser unseen being in Buddhist cosmology and mythology [1, 2]. Kumbhāṇḍa was a dialectal form for "gourd," and due to their large scrotums or stomachs, they got their name from the resemblance. But kumbhāṇḍa may also be interpreted as "pot-egg" since "pot" (kumbha like the world's largest festival, the Kumbha Mela, that pot or jar having spilled the the nectar of the gods, the amrita or ambrosia of immortality, on a few spots in India) and "egg" (aṇḍa). This was a common euphemism for "testicle," the kumbhāṇḍas were imagined as having testicles "as large as pots" [1]. The terms kumbhāṇḍa (dwarf or troll) and yakṣa (Sasquatch, female yakshi or Yeti, ogre) are sometimes used for the same creature. Yakṣa (Pali yakkha) in this case is the more general term, including a variety of lower woodland of for the most part unseen being. More
- Vajrayana Buddhism in Japan, Shingon, and self-mummification: They ate tree bark for 3,000 days then sealed themselves alive
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| Male and female kumbhandas (trolls) |
In Scandinavian folklore, trolls are sometimes associated with particular landmarks like bridges (sometimes said to have been formed by a troll having been exposed to sunlight).
Trolls are depicted in a variety of media in modern popular culture.
Etymology (word origin)
The Old Norse nouns troll and trǫll are variously defined as "fiend, demon, werewolf, jötunn," like the Middle High German troll, trolle, "fiend."
According to philologist Vladimir Orel, the word is likely borrowed from Old Norse, possibly developed from Proto-Germanic neuter noun *trullan, meaning "to tread, step on" [tromp, stomp, stamp]. The origin of the Proto-Germanic word is unknown [1]. Additionally, the Old Norse verb trylla means "to enchant..." More
A "mass spiritual awakening" - HOW?
(Asangoham) 5 unexplained mass spiritual awakenings: Rupert Sheldrake's morphic resonance?
Morphic resonance
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| We think individual, but we're collective |
Reading Kuhn's work, Sheldrake says, focused his mind on how scientific paradigms can change [16]. Sheldrake says that although there are similarities between morphic resonance and Hinduism's akashic records [31], he first conceived of the idea while at Cambridge U, before his travels to India, where he later developed it.
He attributes the origin of his idea to two influences, his studies of the holistic tradition in biology, and French philosopher Henri Bergson's 1896 book Matter and Memory. He says he took Bergson's concept of memories not being materially embedded in the brain and generalized it to morphic resonance, where memories are not only immaterial but also under the influence of the collective memories of similar organisms.
While his colleagues at Cambridge were not receptive to the idea, Sheldrake found the opposite to be true in India.
He recounts his Indian colleagues saying, "There's nothing new in this; it was all known millennia ago to the ancient rishis [seers]." Sheldrake thus characterizes morphic resonance as a convergence between Western and Eastern thought yet found by himself first in Western philosophy [15, 151].
Sheldrake has also noted similarities between morphic resonance and Carl Jung's collective unconscious, with regard to collective memories being shared across individuals and the coalescing of particular behaviors through repetition, which Jung called archetypes [15].
But whereas Jung assumed that archetypal forms were transmitted through physical inheritance, Sheldrake attributes collective memories to morphic resonance and rejects any explanation of them involving what he terms "mechanistic biology."
Lewis Wolpert, one of Sheldrake's critics, has described morphic resonance as an updated Drieschian vitalism [28, 152]. More
How to influence; win friends (NPR)
How to win friends: Can an app fix the "friendship recession"?
How to make friends and be an influencer
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| I have no idea why people follow me |
TRANSCRIPT
HOST SCOTT SIMON: Many of the old places where friendships formed -- the office, houses of worship, maybe the VFW [Veterans of Foreign Wars, a.k.a. degenerate bars] -- may have become less central to people's lives.
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| Just react to things with opinions! |
BYLINE LESLIE MCCLURG: When Jen Hobbs moved to Oakland last summer, she assumed friends would come naturally at the coffee shop or after an exercise class, but six months in...
JEN HOBBS: And on New Year's, I was kind of reflecting on things, and I realized I still don't have any friends.
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| Talk about fitness on TikTok with a hot bod! |
But instead of swiping for lovers, you're swiping for pals. Others, like Timeleft [or Friend Cult], go further by matching users with like-minded strangers for a meal. [SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING]
UNIDENTIFIED COMMENTATOR: In restaurants across the country [LAUGHTER] total strangers are gathering for conversation and community over shared meals. More
- We’re not a social club, we’re a Friend Cult™ -- a weekly, Oakland-based gathering that makes it easier to see friends. No more text tag, no more calendar Tetris, no more doomscrolling. Just show up and hang out — like it used to be. See friends. Eat food. Feel better. Die happy.
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Mr. Beast, what's an "influencer"?
(Blood and Alibis) Deny everything? Ego and influencing can get way out of control. Woe.
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| Mr. Beast is the biggest influencer |
This ability is either inherent to one's personality or is completely constructed by others for some benefit: social, personal, or economical [1].
The term "influencer" is used in media, business, religion, politics, and communication, referring to folks like social media influencers, podcasters, public speakers, religious influencers, writers, and newsletter writers who have dedicated followings [2, 3].
One writer defines influencers as those "who exercise influence over the organization and its potential customers" [4]. Another defines them as someone "who significantly shapes the customer's purchasing decision" [5]. According to another writer, influencers are "well-connected, create an impact, have active minds, and are trendsetters" [6].
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| What does every American want? |
Just because someone has many followers does not necessarily mean that person has much influence over them [7, 8].
In contemporary usage, it means a social media influencer [9, 10, 11] or an online influencer [12, 13, 14] who builds a grassroots online presence through engaging content such as photos, videos, and updates.
This is done by using direct audience interaction to establish authenticity, expertise, and appeal by standing apart from traditional celebrities by growing a platform through social media rather than pre-existing fame [15, 16].
The modern term is commonly a paid role in which a business entity pays for social media influence-for-hire activity to promote products and services, known as influencer marketing [17].
As such, an influencer effectively acts as a modern salesperson or a marketer. A 1% increase in spending on influencer marketing can lead to a 0.5% increase in audience engagement [18] for a company or corporation.
Types include fashion influencer, travel influencer, virtual influencer, content creators [19, 20, 21], and streamers [22, 23, 24]. More
How to Win Friends and Influence People
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| How to be an influencer? Keep talking until someone breaks your jaw like Jake? Read a book? |
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This classic self-help book written by Dale Carnegie came out in 1936. Worldwide, over 30 million copies have been sold since, making it one of the best-selling books of all time [1, 2].
Dale Carnegie had been conducting business courses in New York since 1912 [3]. In 1934, Leon Shimkin (Simon & Schuster) took one of Carnegie's 14-week courses on human relations and public speaking. He later persuaded Carnegie to let a stenographer take notes from the course to be revised for publication [3].
The initial 5,000 copies of the book sold exceptionally well, going through 17 editions in the first year [3]. In 1981, a revised edition containing updated language and anecdotes was released [4]. The revised edition reduced the number of sections from six to four, eliminating sections on effective business letters and improving marital satisfaction. In 2011, it was Number 19 on Time's List of the 100 Most Influential Nonfiction Books [5]. In 2022, a newly revised edition was published.
Author Dale Carnegie
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| I know what people want (Carnegie) |
Dale Carnegie began his career teaching night classes at a NY YMCA, later expanding to YMCAs in Philadelphia and Baltimore [6]. He then taught independently at hotels in London, Paris, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, writing small booklets to go along with his courses [7].
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| When evolution gets us |
After one of his 14-week courses, publisher Leon Shimkin of Simon & Schuster approached him [8]. Shimkin urged Carnegie to write a book, but he was not initially persuaded. Shimkin then hired a stenographer to type up one of Carnegie's long lectures and presented that transcript to Carnegie [9], who edited and revised it into its final form [10].
To market the book, Shimkin sent 500 copies to former graduates of the Dale Carnegie Course, with a note that pointed out the utility of the book for refreshing students with the advice they had learned [11]: 141.
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| Or just work out until you have a hot bod. See? |
The 500 mailed copies brought orders for over 5,000 more copies, so Simon & Schuster had to quickly increase the original print order of 1,200 [11]: 142. Shimkin also ran a full-page ad in the New York Times complete with quotes by Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller on the importance of human relations [12].
Originally published in Nov. 1936, the book reached the New York Times best-seller list by the end of the year and stayed on it for the next two years [11]: 141.
Simon & Schuster continued to advertise the book, relying heavily on testimonials as well as the testable approach the book offered [12]. More
- Lesley McClurg, Weekend Edition Saturday, NPR.org, Culture, July 25, 2026, 4-minute listen; BONEM (BONËM) "One More Time"; Can an app fix the ‘friendship recession’?; Dale Carnegie's classic book; Crystal Q, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Summer ends: Just Like Heaven (8/22)
Just Like Heaven 2026 PLAYLIST
When does summer really begin? It's not an astronomical question, as the people into genes insist gender is as easy to assign as reading x's and y's. It is easy if we make it that easy, but it is not so easy when we do not all agree to that as the objective measure.
New for 2026: Updated clubhouse amenities, enhanced VIP experiences, plus new shade sails, cooling misters, expanded shaded seating, and additional water refill stations throughout the festival grounds, giving concertgoers even more ways to stay cool and recharge between musical sets. For even more convenience, spend the day in VIP for a lot more money. Spend the day dancing in the expansive VIP viewing areas and lounging in shaded spaces between acts, all while enjoying exclusive food and drink options and air-conditioned restrooms.
Buy Now Just Like Heaven | August 22, 2026
"Defund the police" was a deception to provoke public outrage. Congress funds new secret police forces and pays them much more now. If police officers want to scam the system, overseers look the other way. Let's make THE PURGE legal for a little while, and then we can use the predictable mayhem and disorder as a pretext to implement some Orwellian policies for "public safety" and a smiley face police state.
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| Stereotypical Southern California summer |
What is "social summer"?
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| Mandatory: All Americans must visit a beach. |
There's a kind of social summer, which runs between Memorial Day and Labor Day, just an approximation. The seasons do not always cooperate even in parts of the US where four distinct seasons make themselves obvious. There is "Indian summer," which is just a way of saying a long hot spell after official calendrical summer should have ended.
Another example of social summer is the one set by the local school district: When school ends, that's summer. Just ask Alice Cooper! When school begins again, that resumption is the end, even if the weather is still great and drives to the beach are worth the traffic.
"Summer" = School's out!
There did not used to be a "universal time" but rather many different times depending on the place. They were not simultaneous but more dependent on the sun circling (not revolving) overhead chased by the moon. Those were Tartarian (Tartary) times, and that's all been erased now. A universal measure imposes a definition that does not make sense for everybody on the ground.
Another social summer measure is determined by the concert calendar. The end comes to Pasadena, Los Angeles with the Just Like Heaven Festival this Saturday (Aug. 22, 2026).
New weekend, same party
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Overpaying cops for police state
Will there be enough cops to stop trouble?
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| You will respect my authority...or else. |
Why Zionist Israel had to kill Charlie Kirk
(WLA) "Arrest Netanyahu now" [is a more correct reading because syntax matters]: Jewish Zionist Israeli PM Bibi Netanyahu panics as Jewish Israelis put him in jail [in effigy]
(The Jimmy Dore Show) Well, that about wraps it up for Mossad CIA Zionist secret agents working on Kirk's own security team with Pentagon, FBI, and other secret intel assists
(The Young Turks) Candace Owens reveals shocking evidence in the Charlie Kirk investigation, a mass humiliation ritual staged killed for maximum impact and shock value: You don't mess with Ashkenazi Jewish Zionist plans
Jeffrey Epstein is innocent and alive?
(James Updates) Trump's final defense collapses, judge signals jail! Could this possibly be true? (Seems unlikely since it looks like AI slop using the "Gnostic Talk guy theme," bald and reasonable sounding male named "James Reed"?) (Mr. Newberger's AI Funnies) MAGA Zone (Darlene Graham enters The Twilight Zone because of her dead brother, Lindsey, and Donald J's manipulation)
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| Jeff, you know Bubba likes his good times. Could you send Big Mouth Trump to my room? |
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| Did Trump service you, Bubba? - He sure did, J! |
(Anatomy of Evil) Okay, "innocent" is a stretch, but there's no doubt that Epstein's alive and well and being hidden by the powers-that-be. Madame Maxwell is also out of custody with a very unconvincing lookalike sitting in her place.
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| So what if I serviced Bubba? I love Bill's package like Monica does. - Don, Jeff got it on video. |
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| Trump was fellow child molester Epstein's best friend and co-playboy for years and years. |
Virginia Giuffre, a child worker at Trump's Florida mansion Mar-a-Lago recruited by Madame Ghislaine Maxwell, working for serial child molester, child rapist, and child sex trafficker Jeffrey Maxwell, who was made rich by fellow Zionist Lex "Victoria's Secret" Wexner.
Pres. Bill Clinton was on the Island and on the Lolita Express lots of time. Ambitious attorney and fellow politician Secretary of State Hillary Clinton knew it.
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| Sexy Israeli PM Ehud Barak |
Who would visit Pedophile Island (PDF Isle), or Little Saint James, home of the Island Boys and Epstein's fellow spies for Israel and its officials like Jewish Israeli Ehud Barak? The Epstein Files are worse than the Israeli-influenced, Trump-fearing corporate media is telling us.
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