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Kid Berwyn

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June 25, 2026

Towel Boy

Now THIS is Journalism...



Fox News viewers fume 'that's just weird' as Donald Trump sits on towel for TV appearance

President Donald Trump appeared on Fox News for a live TV interview, but viewers were left baffled after spotting what appeared to be a dark towel under him on the white couch


by Gavin Quinn and Ellie Hook Senior Showbiz and TV Reporter
The Mirror, 25 June 2026

Fox News viewers were left puzzled following Donald Trump's appearance during a live television interview, with many struggling to believe what they were witnessing.

Trump appeared to be seated on a black or navy blue towel — or had some object placed beneath him — while positioned on a white couch during the live broadcast. The striking contrast between the sofa's light tone and the mysterious "towel" was quickly noticed by sharp-eyed viewers and comes amid shocking evidence that he may have 'pooped himself'.

The 80-year-old, who has been the focus of considerable health speculation since beginning his second term in office, appeared to be in good form as he spoke with a Fox panel, yet many viewers found themselves fixating on his seating arrangement rather than the actual interview topic. While the "towel" in question could conceivably be his coattails, screenshots from the broadcast went viral as viewers voiced their opinions. One viewer posted on Threads, "Why did you put a black towel under Trump? Inquiring minds want to know." It comes as swathes of fed-up supporters walked out of the State Fair while Trump was still speaking, after he made a ludicrous boast.

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https://www.themirror.com/entertainment/donald-trump-fox-news-towel-1905337

The Towel Boy of Merde-el-Lardo's got a nice ring to it.

June 24, 2026

Q-Anon meets Falun Gong

With an especially gross dose of Putin and Xi.

June 22, 2026

Fascist Origins of today's GOP

They shoulda been locked up, but no.





The Dulles Brothers, Harry Dexter White, Alger Hiss, and the Fate of the Private Pre-War International Banking System

The election of Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952 had permanent consequences for U.S. foreign policy. The U.S. major oil companies, which before the election were facing criminal charges for their cartel arrangements, instead were freed to continue their activities, until “In some of the faraway countries where it did business.… Exxon’s sway over local politics and security was greater than that of the United States embassy.”1 Parallel to this was a radical escalation in 1953 of CIA covert operations. Major plots to overthrow the governments of Iran and Guatemala, both of which had been turned down by Truman and his Secretary of State, Dean Acheson, now proceeded, redefining America’s relationship to the third world.2

The key to this important change was not Eisenhower but the Dulles brothers, formerly both partners in the firm Sullivan and Cromwell, which for years had represented the oil cartel:

As long as his brother, John Foster Dulles, was Secretary of State, [CIA Director] Allen Dulles had no need to chafe under political “control.”…. An adventurous director… whose brother held the second highest office in the administration… was able to act almost at will as he was shielded from any unpleasant consequences.3

The 1952 Republican campaign, for which John Foster Dulles was partly responsible, successfully attacked Truman’s supposed weakness in dealing with the alleged treason of two of his civil servants, Treasury assistant secretary Harry Dexter White, and State Department official Alger Hiss. In fact neither White nor Hiss was ever convicted of treason; nor were they ever proven to have committed it. But both men’s careers had been ruined by the sensational charges brought against them in 1948 by a freshman congressman, Richard Nixon, in the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC).

An Overview of This Essay

It has long been known that Nixon, in his interrogation of White and Hiss, was being fed information by FBI agents acting with the approval of J. Edgar Hoover. This essay will argue that Nixon also received assistance from the Dulles brothers, especially in a key meeting between the three men on August 11, 1948, five days before White’s untimely and disputed death.

At stake in the meeting was the Republican campaign of 1948, the first campaign, ultimately unsuccessful, in which “the GOP dubbed the Democrats ‘the party of treason.’”4 But deeper issues were also at stake. As we shall see, Harry Dexter White, backed by Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, had his own candidates for treasonable behavior: above all Allen Dulles’s friend and former OSS agent, Thomas McKittrick, the American wartime president of the Bank of International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland.5

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https://apjjf.org/2014/12/16/peter-dale-scott/4109/article



Additional detail (from PDF)



The Nixon-Bush NAZI Connection

by Mark Aarons and John Loftus
Press for Conversion!, August 2004

Richard Nixon’s political career began in 1945, when as a navy officer he was assigned to review some captured Nazi documents. Allen Dulles told Nixon to keep quiet about what he had seen and, in return, arranged to finance the young man’s first congressional campaign.

The documents that Dulles was eager to cover up concerned Karl Blessing, the former Reichsbank officer and then head of the Nazi oil cartel called Kontinentale 01 AG, or “Konti.” Konti was in partnership with Allen and John Foster Dulles’ principal Nazi client, I.G. Farben, the infamous chemical/weapons producer. Both companies had despicable records regarding their complicity with the Nazis and their ill treatment of Jews during the Holocaust.

Dulles was also covering up for Blessing in order to protect continued control of German oil interests in the Middle East. Blessing’s Konti was the Nazi link to King Ibn Saud [whose family was empowered to rule the Arabian peninsula thanks to Nazi collaborators within British and U.S. intelligence] and Aramco (the Arab-American Oil Co.). If Blessing went down, he could have taken a lot of people with him, including Allen Dulles.

The Dulles brothers took Nixon under their wing and escorted him on a tour of fascist, “freedom fighter” operations in Germany.

When Truman was reelected in 1948, Nixon became Allen Dulles’ mouthpiece in Congress. Both Nixon and Senator Joseph McCarthy received volumes of classified information to support the charge that the Truman administration was filled with “pinkos.” When McCarthy went too far in his Communist investigations, it was Nixon who worked with CIA director Bedell Smith, to steer investigations away from the intelligence community.

The CIA was grateful for Nixon’s assistance. Dulles had been recruiting Nazis under the cover of the State Department’s Office of Policy Coordination, whose chief, Frank Wisner, had systematically recruited the Eastern European émigré networks that had worked for the Nazi SS. (Editor’s Note: Since WWII, these Nazi émigrés have been instrumental in many U.S. government covert operations including drug and weapons smuggling, Latin American death squads and protofascist regimes, LSD mind control experiments (like MKULTRA), the Republican National Committee’s Ethnic Heritage Councils as well as the presidential campaigns of Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.)

Source (PDF): chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/54/54_35.pdf



About the image at the top of the page: "Nixon's the one! Four more years!"-- part of the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art.
June 20, 2026

Before SpaceX IPO, Investors in China Secretly Acquired Stakes



Before SpaceX IPO, Investors in China Secretly Acquired Stakes

One previously unreported SpaceX investor has ties to Chinese military contractors. The information was revealed only after ProPublica went to court to obtain it.


by Justin Elliott and Joshua Kaplan
Pro Publica, June 18, 2026

A businessman with ties to Chinese military contractors was among the overseas investors who acquired stakes in SpaceX while it was still a private company. An entity linked to the Qatari royal family also took a stake.

The new details come from a private investor list obtained by ProPublica that sheds light on a particularly delicate issue for Elon Musk’s rocket company: which people in countries like China bought into the company, and how. SpaceX built its business off sensitive U.S. government work like making spy satellites for the Pentagon. While there is no ban on Chinese investment in U.S. military contractors, such investment is heavily regulated.

In a sign of its sensitivity to the concerns, SpaceX barred investors from China and Hong Kong from buying shares in its initial public offering last week due to “regulatory and compliance risks,” Bloomberg reported. The U.S. government alleges that China has a strategy of using investments in sensitive industries for espionage and to get access to cutting-edge technology.

The company’s IPO last week was the largest ever, making Musk the world’s first trillionaire. Musk has extensive business interests in China, where Tesla builds many of its cars.

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https://www.propublica.org/article/spacex-elon-musk-ipo-foreign-investors-china

Gee. Some NAZI trillionaire kingmakers have all the luck in the world and soon off of it.

Wonder why this hasn’t been on the tee vee?


June 14, 2026

Crappy Birthday, Traitor!

Trump winks at Putin



ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPH ABOVE

French President Emmanuel Macron Hosts A Lunch For The commemoration Of The 100th Anniversary Of The End Of The First World War

PARIS, FRANCE - NOVEMBER 11: In this handout photo provided by the German Government Press Office (BPA), US President Donald Trump sits opposite Russian President Vladimir Putin during lunch at the Elysee Palace during the occasion of the commemoration ceremony of the 100th anniversary since the end of The First World War on November 11, 2018 in Paris, France. Heads of State from around the world gather in Paris to commemorate the end of the First World War (WWI). The armistice ending the First World War between the Allies and Germany was signed at Compiègne, France on eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month - 11am on the 11th November 1918. (Photo by Guido Bergmann/Bundesregierung via Getty Images)

Source: https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/putin-wink
June 12, 2026

Elon Musk becomes the world's first trillionaire with SpaceX's IPO

Source: CBS News

Elon Musk has become the first person to cross the trillionaire threshold, at least on paper, after SpaceX priced its blockbuster initial public offering at $135 a share.

Before the IPO, Musk was worth an estimated $813 billion, a fortune more than twice as large as the planet's second-richest person, Google co-founder Larry Page, who is worth an estimated $288 billion, according to Forbes.

SpaceX formally setting its stock price at $135 boosted Musk's fortune to just over $1 trillion. The shares, which will trade under the ticker symbol "SPCX," are poised to begin trading on Friday after the Nasdaq Composite index opens at 9:30 a.m. If SpaceX rises above $135 per share, Musk's wealth will climb further, though he could fall below the trillionaire threshold if the stock sinks.

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Musk's surging fortune represents a "new Gilded Age" of wealth inequality, Oxfam America senior director of economic justice Nabil Ahmed said in a statement.

"Elon Musk's rise to trillionaire status marks a new pinnacle of oligarchy," Ahmed said.



Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-spacex-ipo-trillionaire-wealth/



Hope it all ends up in the pockets of Epstein’s victims and their families.
June 12, 2026

The retired federal judges should try SCROTUS

Remove the guilty. Afterward, they can nominate and elect new members.

Better than MAGA setting the unconstitutional legal agenda.

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