Jack Mullen, Boston, 1761: The Courtroom Clash Over Unwarranted Surveillance That Helped Birth the Fourth Amendment

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Jack Mullen   Writs of Assistance: A Fire In The Heart Of A Man In February 1761, a young John Adams sat in the Council Chamber of Boston’s Old State House and listened to James Otis rage for nearly five hours against the writs of assistance — those blank-check general warrants that let royal customs officers kick in doors, ransack warehouses, and paw through private papers on nothing more than suspicion. Adams never forgot it. Nearly sixty years later he described the scene to William Tudor, recalling the five judges…

An Unpredictable President, a Grim White House: Trump Faces Down the Midterms

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By Katie Rogers The White House has been rocked by turnover and anxiety over the midterms. The president, who is tightening his inner circle, has lashed out at critics, held meandering rallies and feasted on a diet of news clips and “A.I. slop,” as one aide put it. President Trump’s private dining room, located just off the Oval Office, is where he goes to watch television, make phone calls and sift through stacks of printed-out news articles and documents that eat up most of the space. A spot has been…

Patricia N. Saffran, NY City Council Horse Drawn Carriage Horse Ban – Fifth Amendment Violations and Pure Propaganda

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Patricia N. Saffran   After Mayor Mamdani applies his John Hancock to the City Council bill recently passed banning the carriage horse industry, the TWU immediately will be in Federal court defending the carriage drivers. They’ll ask for an injunction. TWU attorney Arthur Schwartz found Fifth Amendment and State constitution violations. He said, “They can’t take away your property without due process. Sometimes the government can act quickly to try to eliminate a public nuisance, but no one is claiming that the horses are a public nuisance. You can regulate businesses, you can adopt…

Vigilent Citizen, France Is a Laboratory of the Elite’s New World Order

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Vigilant Citizen                     The French riots were not accidental or spontaneous. They were planned and even predicted by the elite. Here’s how France is setting the blueprint for the elite’s New World Order. The “student protests” in France were not protests, and those behind them were not students. Those who organized them operate in the shadows, and those who carry out their orders are better described as urban guerrillas. French President Emmanuel Macron himself stated: “Last Saturday we had political and…

Caitlin Johnstone, Bell Review Confirms Only Anti-Israel Attitudes Are Rising, Not Antisemitism

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Caitlin Johnstone    British attitudes toward Jewish people and Israel show two broad trends. Anti-Jewish attitudes are typically less prevalent and have remained more stable, whereas anti-Israel attitudes are more prevalent and have been increasing.   RSS Video Link   I’m still thinking about the admission in the UK’s “antisemitism” review contradicting widespread claims by the western political/media class that antisemitism is rising to dangerous levels throughout our society.   We discussed this yesterday, but as a reminder, the UK’s Department for Education released a review led by David Bell…

Gordon Duff, FLASH/FLASH/Trump’s Iran Attack Fantasy: THE WRONG BOMB, IN THE WRONG SKY

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Gordon Duff Why the GBU-43 story fails on four levels, and what a B-2 over Iran actually means By TID Service Group Iceland/Orenstein/Duff Thesis The version being fed to the public is that the United States will drop the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast — the “Mother of All Bombs,” the largest non-nuclear bomb in the inventory — on Iran’s buried nuclear sites, delivered by a B-2 Spirit. It fails four times over. The B-2 cannot carry it. The MOAB cannot reach the targets. The sky over Iran is denied…

Patricia N. Saffran, NYC Council Carriage Horse Ban Vote Looming – Unethical to Vote in Favor

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Patricia N. Saffran   NYC Council Speaker Julie Menin and Mayor Mamdani have announced that they support the upcoming vote to ban (and destroy) the horse drawn carriage business. They have no valid reason to do so since the carriage horses represent the safest form of transportation in the City. By contrast, the hated and feared e-bikers caused 133 deaths only since 2019. I suspect that the family of the late Romanch Mahajan, who died regrettably in the only Central Park fatal carriage horse accident in 167 years, will be present in the Chamber for this…

Paul R. Pillar, By pursuing a big ‘win’ in Iran, Trump is destined to lose

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Paul R. Pillar The war is most likely to end through a minimalistic ceasefire that opens a path to a broader deal President Donald Trump, seeing the success of the U.S. Navy’s operation in the Strait of Hormuz in blocking most of Iran’s imports and oil exports while restoring some of the non-Iranian oil trade through the strait, evidently does not regard the conflict with Iran as stalemated. The current situation regarding the flow of oil and distribution of economic pain is actually more complicated and does not constitute a…

Jack Mullen, A Nation On The Edge Of Forever

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Jack Mullen …when we lose our commitment to accuracy, honesty, and justice, we lose our ability to make a difference, because we also lose our vision of what is possible. ― Harlan Ellison, The City on the Edge of Forever: The Original Teleplay The global debt market is cracking… and the financial system IS broken. So Greg…………………….. what will they do try “fix it?” THEY WILL PUMP THE SYSTEM WITH MORE/HYPER-DEBT. TRY TO KEEP BOND YIELDS “CONTAINED.” AND THEREFORE, WITH BOTH 1, AND 2 ABOVE, FURTHER DESTROY THE PURCHASING POWER…