A few weeks ago we published, “Before 1913 No One Paid Income Taxes, Tariffs Covered Everything.” Actually we have always had tariffs as the Constitution requires “All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives…” and, “The Congress shall have Power: To lay and collect Taxes, Duties Imposts and Excises…” with duties being a synonym for tariffs (Article I, Sections 7 and 8). But 124 years later, with the ratification of the 16th Amendment in 1913, America replaced the tariff tax on countries selling their products in the United States as the primary source of revenue for the federal government with a forced income tax on its own residents. Today most paying are taxed a fourth of their income.
Canals, shown in red, were a major source of transportation in the Old Northwest 1820-1860. Two north south canals from Lake Erie traversed Ohio to the Ohio river continuing South to the Mississippi River then to the Gulf of America. The most famous of all the canals was the Erie Canal carrying goods from the Great Lakes to Buffalo, New York then 363 miles East to the Hudson River than South to New York City and the Atlantic Ocean. Commerce to and from New York City necessitated their going to skyscrapers to accommodate the traffic. Tariffs funded all this including the skyscrapers. There was no federal income tax until 1913. Americans kept all their earnings. The same was so of four transcontinental railroads that followed.
The first concern of the newly formed Republic was how it would fund itself differently than had their former British government, as an object of economic control which fed their rebellion. They passed the Tariff Act of 1789, “which levied duties on imported goods to raise revenue and protect American industries from foreign competition” (TRUMP’S TARIFFS Constitutional, or Executive Overreach?,”New American, March 24. 2025, p. 21-22). Such funded a series of canals in or through the Appalachian mountains, the most famous being the Erie Canal linking the Great Lakes with the Hudson River and the Atlantic Ocean, 363 miles long in an unprecedentedly efficient waterway. We had four transcontinental railroads, the Civil War, and the Spanish American War. We had schools, colleges, subways, an army and navy. Tariffs funded the Industrial Revolution and Americans kept all their earnings which stimulated the economy.
Many believe this still realistic if we do three things. 1) Remove the trillions in waste and fraud identified by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) led by Elon Musk. 2) Require all federal spending to stay within the constitutional list Article I, Section 8. 3) Return to the tariff as our source of federal income excepting “unavoidable wars,” as George Washington admonished in his famous Farewell Address.
It was Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt, however, that ushered in the fourth branch of government, the federal bureaucracy, that necessitated a gigantic federal budget. “Beginning with the New Deal, the entire complexion of the executive branch changed, as president Franklin D. Roosevelt effected an unprecedented revolution … a permanent entrenched, professional government bureaucracy to impose continuity.” He “set up a welter of new government agencies tasked with regulating every aspect of Americans’ lives, organs that could effectively legislate without the encumbrances of legislative process, and which were ‘apolitical’ – that is, unaccountable. All of this was accomplished by FDR via executive order, particularly during his fabled ‘First 100 Days,’ which featured an effusion of executive orders and proclamations without precedent, along with an enormous volume of enabling legislation passed by a supine Congress” (“President or King,” The New American, March 24, 2025, pp. 9-10).
Roosevelt created “69 new government regulatory agencies” now referred to as the alphabet soup agencies. No president changed the government and Constitution more in his first 100 days in office than he. It was indeed a bloodless revolution leaving us thereafter at the mercy of Big Government. Moreover, he put these —not under legislative branch authority but the executive—where they operated virtually “free of accountability….This sprawling regulatory regime, wholly illegitimate by any constitutional standard, has been inserted into the executive branch…[this] completely restructured the executive branch and redefined the powers of the presidency without even the formality of a constitutional amendment.” Roosevelt’s first 100 days in office established “an unprecedented executive power grab that utterly —and illicitly— transformed the entire federal government and laid the foundation of modern Big Government” (Ibid.).
Donald Trump emphasized the tariff in his first term and is presently making it ever more dominant in the economy today. With it he believes we can gradually end federal income taxes altogether—as was once the case for more than half of our history. He would also like to investigate and audit the Federal Reserve, with a view of removing it, which serves as an open-ended credit card for the Deep State allowing it to create money at will for its nefarious projects and purposes. The most visible consequence of it is inflation which destroys the value of everyones money especially retirees on fixed incomes and may prevent the young from ever owing a home of their own.
Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt virtually created the Big Government regulatory state wholly illegitimate by any constitutional standard. He created “69 new government regulatory agencies” and served four terms in office. He controlled the legislative and executive branches of government. The media and his party swooned over him. After him his own party supported a two term limitation on the office. If we ever had a dictator in office it was him. Ironically, President Trump is called by them a dictator for trying to undo his/their regulatory state. This makes Trump the only dictator in history advocating less government and taxes.
There is considerable evidence that the Deep State, then called Internationalists, abandoned the tariff for their federal income tax and the open-ended credit system of the Federal Reserve or Central Bank. These hatched the same year, 1913. Trump’s America First Policy is a return to protectionism and a rejection of the past—even present— move toward globalism.
Trump believes that “America has been taken advantage of through unfair trade practices which have weakened America’s “manufacturing, led to job losses, and made the country too dependent on foreign suppliers—particularly China.” He would like “to reduce our reliance on foreign nations for essential goods.” (TRUMP’S TARIFFS, p. 22). He believes he can do this and restore the tariff as the nation’s majority source of income as it once was, leaving the people untaxed.
Some are critical, as am I, as the Constitution gives only Congress the “Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises”—not the president. But that authority too was transferred by FDR to the Executive Branch by his signing the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act of 1934 (Ibid., p. 23). So Trump is not violating the Constitution by initiating tariffs as used by both parties for ninety years.
But that is a small issue next to Trump’s attempt to reveal and destroy the ‘secret combination’ now commonly called the Deep State and Congress seems unable to impeach even a single rogue judge. We’ll correct Mr. Trump later. Other than Kennedy and Reagan, Trump is the only president willing to take a bullet to remove the Deep State.
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Whether intentionally or unintentionally most presses still missed the most important JFK Assassination File Finding. It wasn’t about whether there were multiple shooters or one, whether Lee Harvey Oswald was that good of a shooter or wasn’t, whether there was a magic bullet or wasn’t, whether the bullet entered Kennedy’s head from the front or behind etc. Some can’t see the forest for the trees—or do not want to—as in the case of Deep State presses. These details are important but hide the forest.
President Trump releases 2,800 CIA secret documents known to exist but kept from the people for 62 years through several JFK investigations, until all involved were unpunished and safely dead. That makes them accomplices, to the crime. The documents prove the Deep State CIA responsible for the assassination. All past presidents knew of the existence of these files especially Gerald Ford, a member of Johnson’s Warren Commission, and George Herbert W. Bush, a past CIA director, but only Trump, despite enormous opposition, allowed them declassified. Both Kennedy and Trump fought their Deep State’s and worked to expose them and both took a bullet to the head for doing so.
So let me be more blunt. The JFK Assassination Files released by President Trump revealed Kennedy’s own government killed him, specifically the CIA, and was powerful enough to hide, perhaps the most public crime in American history even successfully covering it up, through multiple investigations for 62 years. That a Deep State then existed capable of perhaps a crime of the century such that it affected every American then born, the entity responsible was never identified, punished and removed thus is still in place (See “John F. Kennedy Assassination Files Revealed, A State Within a State,” LibertyUnderFire.com March 26, 2025). The Files document the existence of a Deep State without a thread of evidence that it no longer exists.
Although details are very interesting to historians, we can not let the present Deep State bury this crime under a mountain of frivolous detail that allows the above truth to disappear again—that our own government—not a foreign government—killed our president without consequence. We must do as Kennedy promised to do. “I will splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the wind.” Kennedy probably had no idea that the Deep State was by then as pervasive as it was. The media aided and abetted in the cover up or this would have been exposed years ago. Democrats, of all people, should be most firmly with Trump in destroying the Deep State’s shadow government. It assassinated their president!! The Democrat Party must now unite with Trump in removing the Deep State from America. We need their support. Some lifelong former Democrats have already done so notably: Elon Musk, Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The Deep State controlled virtually all major media outlets including Twitter. It was Musk who purchased Twitter and allowed it to have a free speech platform to enable opposition to Deep State propaganda. He renamed it X. He had never before voted Republican. Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democratic Congresswoman, now Trump’s Director of National Intelligence (DNI), just revoked security clearances for a number of high profile Deep State players in the Biden Administration including the former President and his family (Breitbart News). And Robert F. Kennedy Jr. former presidential candidate running against Trump, himself the nephew of the murdered president, and has done more than any other person to alert Americans to pharmaceutical fraud.
Kennedy told reporters on April 27th 1961 of his Deep State, which is equally descriptive of our own today, in a “Secret Societies” speech, called The President and the Press. The speech was delivered at the American Newspaper Publishers Association in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City. It reads in part, “We are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding it’s sphere of influence, on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific, and political operations. Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned.…It conducts the Cold War in short with a wartime discipline, no democracy would ever hope or wish to match.”
What we now know from the newly released 62 year old documents is that the CIA always had these in their possession and would not release them as they were culpable in the assassination. This photo purports to contain the CIA’s Assassination Directive for President Kennedy. Although we can mostly read this, we cannot confirm. To us it is more likely that it would be a voiced suggestion—for plausible denial. We would not be shocked if it came from Lyndon Johnson himself. Its the holding back that leads us to almost expect this extreme suggestion.
His phrase “on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day” referenced the CIA’s guerrilla Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba just enacted days before, that Kennedy inherited from the Eisenhower Administration. Kennedy was not talking about the USSR but America— about a covert entity, the CIA, that had embedded itself within our government. Created by Harry Truman, as the intelligence arm of the president, it had voided that assigned mission to one more akin to regime change which was what the CIA was doing in Cuba and elsewhere throughout the world. With time that morphed into the New World Order threat of the eighties and nineties and today into Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum’s Great Reset scam for world control.
So how do the JFK files help us understand Deep State activity today? Clandestine, an investigative reporter, summarized it best. “The JFK files don’t just prove CIA criminality in the past, they add much needed context to understand the corruption of the present. They add validity to the belief that the CIA USAID created C 19. They add validity to the CIA State Department coordinated regime change in Ukraine in 2014. They add validity to the belief that the CIA / Ukraine attempted to assassinate Trump. They add validity to the CIA USAID controlled much of the media around the globe. The JFK files prove that the CIA was willing to use any means necessary to get what they want. The JFK files prove that a Deep State is real and there are zero indications that it ever went away because the Deep State never went away” (X22 Report, Ep. 3601b, March 21, 2025, 19:00).
UNBELIEVABLY most presses missed the most important JFK Assassination File finding. If not identified, punished and removed completely this “secret combination” will return to power again very soon—perhaps in just 3 years and nine months. Other than the death of Lee Harvey Oswald, himself killed by Jack Ruby, no one paid a price for this crime then, nor has anyone yet for the 2020 Deep State overthrow of the US government. The Deep State’s present strategy is to just outlast Trump and keep him busy with judicial activists suits until then.
Dr. Harold Pease is an expert on the United States Constitution and a syndicated columnist. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. Read his weekly columns at www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column # 814.
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By now everyone knows that George Soros (94) received the Presidential Medal of Freedom Award alongside Hillary Clinton from the out going Joe Biden presidency— but few know the extent of this story. George Soros, the Hungarian immigrant to America, likes to rule from the shadows (the dark side). LibertyUnderFire first published about him in 2010, “Is George Soros the Most Influential Man on Earth?” After the death of David Rockefeller the answer was yes! And on October 9, 2020, “Is George Soros America’s Leading Insurrectionist?” Yes again!!
Joe Biden awards George Soros (94) the Presidential Medal of Freedom Award, the highest civilian award in the land. Alex Soros, his son, receives it for him. Given Soros’ Deep State world government background, Joe Biden could not find a person less deserving for the Presidential Medal of Freedom Award. Mitt Romney, in the background, is here to receive the same for his deceased father George Romney, former governor of Michigan.
The following tribute announced why he was selected for the most prestigious civilian award given by the president. It reads: “George Soros is an investor, philanthropist, and founder of the Open Society Foundations. Through his network of foundations, partners and projects in more than 120 countries, Soros has focused on global initiatives [world government] that strengthen democracy, human rights, education, and social justice” (White House, Jan. 4, 2025). He is at the center of the Deep State. Any appointment in a government would be a step down for him.
His history tells it all. The Washington Examiner described Soros as, “The kingmaker of chaos: George Soros’s failed experiments threaten his kingdom,” by Gabe Kaminsky, August 9, 2024. Likely the most hated man in the world from “beyond the US, to Armenia, Australia, Honduras, the Philippines and many other countries.” Neither Russia or China will allow him on their soil.
“Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused Soros of being at the heart of a Jewish conspiracy to ‘divide’ and ‘shatter’ Turkey and other nations. In Italy, former deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini accused him of wanting to fill the country with migrants because ‘he likes slaves.’ The leader of the UK’s Brexit Party, Nigel Farage, has claimed Soros is ‘actively encouraging people… to flood Europe’ and “in many ways is the biggest danger to the entire Western World (“Why is billionaire George Soros a bogeyman for the hard right?” September 6, 2019, BBC).
But in his birth country, Hungary, he is hated the most. Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his populist nationalist government “claim that Soros has a secret plot to flood Hungary with migrants and destroy their nation.” The Hungarian government “has spent 100m euros on a media campaign warning voters not to let Soros ‘have the last laugh’ and introduced what it calls ‘Stop Soros’ laws, criminalizing help for illegal immigrants and taxing support for organizations ‘promoting migration.’” They do not allow immigration because they believe the practice is being used by Deep State globalists to destroy their country.
Orban, an international advocate for freedom and national sovereignty, and friend to Donald Trump,—just opposite Soros—probably most accurately characterizes Soros. He said, “We are fighting an enemy that is different from us. Not open but hiding. Not straight forward but crafty. Not honest but unprincipled. Not national but international. Does not believe in working [for a living] but speculates with money. Does not have its [his]own homeland but feels it [he] owns the whole world” (Ibid.).
In America he is accused of the same things. Everyone knows that the illegal immigrant caravans are organized and financed by someone, presumably Soros. And on their arrival financing is shifted to the taxpayer. Soros is also accused of funding the Antifa and Black Lives Matter city chaos of 2020—and other “rent a mob” movements like last years Palestine Liberation campus encampments. Most of these participants could not tell you where Palestine is.
One of many George Soros’ billboards in Hungry. The Hungarian government “has spent 100m euros on a media campaign warning voters not to let Soros ‘have the last laugh’ and introduced what it calls ‘Stop Soros’ laws, criminalizing help for illegal immigrants and taxing support for organizations ‘promoting migration.’” He has influence in 120 + countries but his birth country, Hungry, hates him the most. He uses his billions to subvert the will of the people who oppose socialism, illegal immigration, and world government.
In America Soros has given his main group, the Open Society Foundations, $32 billion for what it calls democracy-building efforts in the United States and around the world. In addition, in the United States, Soros has personally contributed more than $75 million over the years to federal candidates and committees, according to Federal Election Commission and IRS records. During the 2016 campaign, Soros donated more than $16 million to groups supporting Hillary Clinton.
Soros has vested money in District Attorney races in 17 states over the past few years these include: Florida, California, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia. Oregon, Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Louisiana, Missouri, Illinois, Mississippi, Georgia, and New York (Soros’ Prosecutorial Power Grab, https://youtu.be/q1k1gvPOxSo). His intent is to burn down American cities by financing Democrat District Attorneys who open our jails allowing criminals to repeat their crimes destroying justice and safety which makes him an enemy to all who love liberty.
His hatred for Donald Trump is well known. “Clearly I consider the Trump Administration a danger to the world,” he told the World Economic Forum, in their Annual Meeting 2020, in Davos, January 21-24.
But it is his bid to take over talk radio that is the nation’s major threat today. He just purchased over 200 radio stations. The Federal Communications Commission last Fall “adopted an order allowing Soros, through his firm Soros Fund Management, to purchase Audacity, the nation’s second-largest radio network. Audacity operates radio stations in more than 46 US markets and includes shows by Sean Hannity, Mark Levin and others” (“Soros’ Acquisition of 200 US Radio Stations Ahead of Election Being Fast-Tracked by FCC,” By Jared Harris, The Western Journal). It is reasonable that he would eventually seek to silence these voices. Fait accompli. A large part of the radio industry will be compromised in favor of the far-left as is cable news.
Outside the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) who seeks to replace America as the world’s most powerful nation, Soros is the world’s leading threat to freedom—most certainly in America. With “foundations, partners and projects in more than 120 countries” with intent to destroy freedom in each, Joe Biden could not find a person less deserving for the Presidential Medal of Freedom Award. Why would he do so? Because neither value freedom or the will of the people.
Dr. Harold Pease is an expert on the United States Constitution and a syndicated columnist. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. Read his weekly columns at www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column # 802
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The two most hated men in modern times by the Deep State are Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. Why? Both oppose the Deep State. For nine solid years the Deep State media’s relentlessly vilified both men. They were wrong on Trump who is likely to emerge as one of America’s most popular and great presidents. And it may be that they were wrong too on Putin. Everyone knows that if the Deep State can’t get America on the front lines into direct military engagement with Russia—including its nuclear arsenal—they cannot have their world war, their Great Reset and their world government.
In no area have we been more deceived than about Ukraine. Absent knowledge of America’s Deep State takeover of Ukraine in 2014, the 13-16 American built and financed bioweapons labs in Ukraine on Russia’s border, the dots cannot be connected accurately. Zelenskyy and Putin will negotiate with Trump who has said, “I Will have that war settled prior to taking the White House as President-Elect. I Know all the players.” He also knows that only the Deep State wants World War III. No good coverage of either man has been given by the America’s Deep State press. Yet today they appear to be the only ones who can stop both wars.
As we previously published the Deep State intends for America to be so far into World War III before Trump is inaugurated that he cannot pull us out. Even now Joe Biden is considering giving the Ukrainians nuclear weapons. Remember, Ukraine fired ballistic missiles deep into Russia two days after receiving authorization to do so by Joe Biden—they are likely to use them offensively in short order. The Deep State seeks to provoke Russia to retaliate with nuclear weapons on a NATO country, so that all NATO countries are obligated, under Article 5, to come to that country’s defense against Russia. As we published last March 6, 2024, “The New York Times Documents CIA Provoked War with Russia for a Decade” (LibertyUnderFire.org).
Until America understands that a free press is not a censored press we will continue to be deceived by the Deep State press on virtually every subject—this goes for Fox News viewers as well. In no area, other than the false validity of the presidential election of 2020, have we been more deceived than about Ukraine. Volodymyr Zelenskyy is not a freedom fighter but a tyrant. He has outlawed all opposing political parties and presses, has even postponed elections.
The common enemy for both Trump and Putin is the Deep State, and George Soros, a prominent Deep Stater, hates both. Russia expelled Soros many years ago but America did not forbid the Hungarian coup d’état instigator’s immigration. Soros’ relationship with China and China’s with Soros is similar—neither Russia nor China will allow him into their country. The Deep State wants world government over ALL NATIONS—all subservient to it. China, and perhaps Russia also, may want world government but definitely not under the West’s Deep State. When Alex Soros, son of George, learned that Biden had authorized Ukrainian forces to use western-made long-range weapons to strike inside Russia he responded, “This is great news.” (X22 Report, hereafter not cited, Ep. 3504b, Nov. 18, 2024, 30:58). What, World War III is great news!?!
Trump, Putin, and Xi Jinping do not want world war, nor does the world. Despite Russia’s and China’s authoritarian governments, these are allies against the Deep State, and Trump will work with Putin to stop the Ukraine Russian war and World War III, which has already begun (“World War III Begins, First Missiles Fired in War Against Russia,” LibertyUnderFire.org , Nov. 27, 2024). The Deep State will howl, “Putin has Trump in his pocket.” Oh, they will howl!
Will Putin start a war with United States? No!!! He could have done so with cause years ago. Consider the following offenses:The Ukrainian Civil War where Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton installed the Deep State as Russia’s immediate neighbor, the American built and financed bio weapons labs on Russia’s border (Russia’s first targets in the Russian Ukraine war were these labs), America’s severance of the Nord Stream Pipelines in the Black Sea —Russia’s natural gas lines to Europe, America’s being the lead funder of the Russia Ukrainian War, America’s providing most of the war materials used against Russia, and America’s authorizing long range ballistic missiles to strike deep inside Russia then followed with an attack. All of these would have been considered acts of war were Russia doing them against the United States.
In recent weeks we have learned of the development of two new weapons of war. In retaliation for the missiles fired by Ukraine via NATO into Russia, Putin returned fire with his new # Oreshnik Missile System a Mach 10 hypersonic Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM)—which according to Putin “cannot be intercepted.” And could hit, presumably anywhere at will with nuclear detonation if he desired. Indeed it landed in Ukraine as programed, of course, absent Putin riding it. America has new technology that reportedly enables it to jam any incoming missiles from Russia or China; perhaps a checkmate?
We are now inviting Ukrainian forces to train on an Air Force system in the U.S. giving them specific training “to operate, maintain and sustain a defensive system.” Finally, the role of the United States in organizing 32 NATO countries, against Russia. Indeed, Russia has posed little threat to retake land outside what it once governed as the USSR—this included Ukraine (“NATO Pushed Ukraine into War with Russia then World War III?” LibertyUnderFire.org Dec. 4, 2024). It is the U.S. Deep State that is threatening Russia not Russia that is threatening the U.S., as in the Cuban Missile Crisis. Putin could have started a war when Obama supported the Islamic State of Syria and helped create ISIS, an enemy to Russia, America and non-Muslims . Instead, he waited and supported Trump’s then total annihilation of ISIS in his first year.
Putin maintains that, “Russia has no reason, no interest — no geopolitical interest, neither economic, political nor military — to fight with NATO countries. Putin has maintained he is open to peace talks, …that the Kremlin is ready to stop the war and recognize current battlefield lines. Actually Putin is making the first move. The Daily Mail reported, “Moscow reveals Putin is prepared to discuss Ukraine peace deal with Trump,” (by Taryn Pedler, Nov. 20, 2024). Putin says, “He takes Donald Trump’s plan to end the war with Ukraine very seriously and Russia supports it” (Ep. 3491b, Nov. 4, 2024, 26:53). Putin does, however, have one demand in the negotiations—that “there be an investigation into America’s bioweapons lab development in Ukraine” (Ep. 3497b, Nov. 11, 2024, 22:17). We agree!
Zelenskyy and Putin will negotiate with Trump who has said, “I Will have that war settled prior to taking the White House as President-Elect. I Know all the players.” He also knows that only the Deep State wants war. Remove it from Ukraine and America and peace follows. This he intends to do. Russia will not be provoked to nuclear war.
Tucker Carlson ended his interview with Putin last February with a curious question about the CIA. Carlson asked, “So you’re saying the CIA is trying to overthrow your government?” Putin answered yes! He gave no details. Apparently they have coup d’états in common. The CIA is in the very center of the Deep State. Trump and Putin will stop the Deep State’s World War III.
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Globalists own all six of the major news outlets thus, mostly globalist (another term for the Deep State) news is presented in America. When censorship prevails there is only their approved side. What follows is largely the omitted side of the Ukraine Russia War that just escalated into WW III when Biden supplied, then authorized, firing long range missiles into Russia. North Korea has entered on the side of Russia and the UK and France have authorized troops should Trump discontinue funding that war, which is certain.
Sweden joined NATO this year becoming its 32nd member, 20 new members since the existence of the USSR that so frightened the world causing the Cold War. It did so after the Soviet Union disintegrated in 1991 and the need for NATO for defense dissolved.
The Deep State media still refuse to share two important aspects of the Ukraine Russian War story—their own 2014 Coup d’état gaining power in Ukraine and NATO’s roll in provoking Russia first to war then to World War III. As to the first, LibertyUnderfire.com formally published, “Putin is Destroying the New World Order in Ukraine,” March 18, 2022. The other presents NATO as the foundational cause of the conflict. Cold War history, foreign to most millennial journalists, cannot be omitted. The facts presented here can easily be verified, not by an non-degreed fact checker employed to discredit any view outside the globalist view, but by a common 20th Century textbook or encyclopedia.
NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, was formed April 4, 1949, after World War II as a security alliance against further expansion of socialist/communist countries via Russia. Since 1917 Vladimir Lenin, then Joseph Stalin, consolidated its neighbors becoming the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or USSR. Article V of the NATO military alliance agreement obligated all 12 signatory nations to treat an attack on one country as an attack on all.
Russia correctly saw the alliance as a threat to its socialists interests. In response she created the Warsaw Pact in 1955 to counter NATO, comprised of eight surrounding nations. They too adopted the philosophy—an attack on one by the West is an attack on all. Its eight members were: Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Russia,. A standoff between the NATO, “freedom” nations, and the Warsaw Pact, socialist nations, lasted for the next 36 years. The Berlin wall collapsed in 1989 and two years later, in 1991, the Soviet Union disintegrated under Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev.
A unified Germany was looking to join one or the other alliance. President George H.W. Bush wanted to ensure Germany joined NATO and made an offer to Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev. That offer “suggested if Germany became a NATO member NATO would stop expanding ‘not one inch eastward’—no new members. Today the US says it made no such promise, that no such agreement was ever struck, but hundreds of memos, meeting minutes, and transcripts from U.S. archives indicate otherwise.” Germany joined NATO in 1990. Part of that understanding was that both the Warsaw Pact and NATO would dissolve. Russia dissolved the Warsaw Pact ending the Cold War, NATO did not.
That promise was broken and “NATO refused to cease its operations. And to add insult to injury, they kept the door for membership open. Russia saw it as a stab in the back and NATO kept pushing the dagger deeper.” Without any effective resistance to NATO expansion it continued to assimilate country after country coming ever eastward toward Russia—absorbing former USSR, or Russian federated countries. In 1999 Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic joined NATO followed five years later, in 2004, by another wave of seven Central and Eastern European nations: Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia. In 2009, “Albania and Croatia joined NATO and the most recent entries are Montenegro and North Macedonia, both situated in Russia’s backyard…. As of 2021, NATO officially recognized three more aspiring members, Bosnia/Herzegovina, Georgia and Ukraine” as wanting membership. Since then NATO had been in talks with Sweden, Finland and Serbia for membership (“Two Sides to Every Story: Did NATO push Ukraine into War? Gravitas Plus, by Palki Sharma Upadhyay, March 6, 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzgPJeYZaOU).
Although the West applauded the disintegration of the Soviet Union most Russians instead were traumatized by it. “In an instant they lost 1/3 of their territory, half of their population and most of their military might.… They felt that an unjust settlement had been imposed on them and it was done in their moment of maximum weakness and vulnerability. So they looked at any state leaving Russia sphere of influence as both a strategic loss and a matter of national humiliation.”
Russia dissolved the Warsaw Pact ending the Cold War on July 1, 1991. NATO did not.
NATO started with 12 founding members when there was fear of the USSR bringing communism to Western Europe, now it has more than doubled to 32 countries where Russia has posed little threat to retake land outside what it once governed as the USSR. So, much of Eastern Europe, once part of the Soviet Union, has now been assimilated into “NATO and this happened despite Russia’s protests and warnings.” Actually, all of the Warsaw Pact countries except Russia are now NATO members; and two of them, Poland and Romania, house U.S. military bases. If Russia manned military bases in Mexico the USA would deem it a threat.
In 2007 Vladimir Putin addressed the annual Munich Conference. “NATO has put its frontline forces on our borders. This expansion represents a serious provocation that reduces the level of mutual trust. And we have the right to ask: Against whom is this expansion intended? And what happened to the assurances our Western partners made after the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact?” Said another way, “This NATO military alliance has technically absorbed the entire security belt of Moscow” (Ibid).
We too today ask Bill Clinton, father and son Bush, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden the same thing. “Against whom is this expansion intended?” The United States had more impact in NATO’s enlargement than any other country. You are the ones who financed and built 13 or more bioweapons labs in Ukraine and placed a historical enemy military pact, NATO, on Russia’s very border. Why would Russia not feel threatened when NATO organized 32 nations against it? Again, Russia has posed little threat to retake land outside what it once governed as the USSR. For what purpose? You’re disregard of, and insensitivity to, NATO history is equivalent to poking the once Soviet Bear into rage.
Russia’s attack on Ukraine may or may not justify Putin’s cleaning out the bioweapons labs and the Neo-Nazi Deep State globalist forces in the country threatening Russia but it should be noted that NATO, and the above named U. S. presidents, should accept responsibility for poking the bear by NATO’s 20 country enlargement. It presents NATO as the foundational cause of the Ukraine Russia War and of World War III as well. Yes, Joe Biden pulled the trigger starting World War III by authorizing the firing of long range missiles deep inside Russia but NATO certainly and intentionally nudged him. NATO has outlived its purpose.
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By now everyone should know that Biden, and his Deep State government, have taken us into active war with Russia. It began with his authorizing Ukraine to use American made and provided long-range ballistic missiles deep into the Russian homeland. The Deep State government of the UK also gave permission to Volodymyr Zelenskyy to fire their missiles as well. The attack happened two days later. And France has followed with the same authorization. This is a De fecto declaration of war on the sovereign country of Russia triggering WW III.
America is fighting its second war for independence. The enemy is the Deep State from within and world wide. If the Patriots win, justice is restored and censorship ends. Joe Biden will appear in future history textbooks as the president who intentionally started World War III which is likely to be nuclear. He played a major role in the Deep State Coups d’état in Ukraine in 2014 and in the United States in the 2020 presidential election. History will not treat him kindly.
Biden expected promised Russian retaliation if Ukraine fired these missiles because he shut down the US embassy in Kiev. NATO countries Italy, Spain, and Greece also shut down their embassies in Kiev. Also, because Putin has repeatedly warned that if this happens, “Russia would consider it as being in direct war with the US, and nuclear response would be on the table” (X22 Report, hereafter not cited, Ep. 3504b, Nov. 19, 2024, 31:33). Meanwhile Reuters reports, “Biden approves Anti-Personnel mines for Ukraine, US official says,” further escalating our threat to the region (Reuters, X22 Reports, Ep. 3505b, Nov. 20, 2024, 2712).
Putin had warned that “Only NATO troops can operate these missiles—The Ukrainians can’t do it. To allow Ukraine to use these weapons to strike inside Russia we are talking about a decision for NATO to be directly involved in the conflict or not. That would mean a change in the conflict—USA and NATO countries would be in direct war with Russia” (X22 Reports, Ep. 3503b, Nov. 18, 2024, 33:48). And we are!! Biden started World War III through NATO.
And Russia fired back as promised. This with a new weapon altogether, the # Oreshnik Missile System a Mach 10 hypersonic Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM)—which according to Putin “cannot be intercepted.” Reportedly this was a “combat tests” of the new system. He added, “We have the right to use our weapons vs. military facilities of those nations who allow their weapons to be used against our facilities.” He re-warned the West, “In case of an escalation we will act as decisively in a mirror response” (Ep. 3507b, Nov. 22, 2024, 28:43). Indeed, NATO did not intercept it.
Putin again, “From this point onward [use of US and UK missiles vs. Russia] the regional conflict in Ukraine provoked by the West has assumed elements of a global nature after America’s attack on Russia” (Ibid., 28:11). Even liberal publication POLITICO reported, “World War III has officially begun, Ukraine’s ex-top general says.” Russia’s use of a weapon that “cannot be intercepted” immediately resulted in an emergency NATO meeting the result of which has not been reported. Obviously, this was unexpected and Russia could hit, presumably anywhere at will with nuclear detonation.
None of this should surprise our readers, we have anticipated and reported on this for years. The fake news on Trump, now recognized by most, was also the fake news on Putin and the Ukraine. America’s war with Russia actually started in 2014 with the Deep State’s Coup d’état in Ukraine bringing themselves to power in Central Europe. Just this year alone we shared two columns of their desire to bait Russia to war with the United States and NATO. These were: “The New York Times Documents CIA Provoked War with Russia for a Decade,” published March 6, 2024 and in September 21, 2024 we published “Still Baiting Russia for World War III in Ukraine.” What we predicted is now current events.
Deep State strategy for WW III is to have America so deep into war with Russia and its allies that Trump cannot pull us out. It also: camouflages Deep State existence, crimes against humanity, election coups, assassination attempts and etc.—all the things we have revealed over the years— now coming to light. If they win they stay in power forever.
Defending Russia was difficult for LibertyUnderFire.org. The country, besides Germany, most responsible for taking liberty from the earth through communism was hard to defend. Future uncensored history will show the United States, the land of the freest people on earth and birth of the American Constitution, as the country most responsible for starting World War III. The Deep State fully conquered Ukraine before it fully, through a similar Coup d’état, conquered the United States for the last four years.
Deep State strategy for WW III is to have America so deep into war that Trump cannot pull us out. It also: camouflages Deep State existence, crimes against humanity, election coups, assassination attempts and etc.—all the things we have revealed over the years— now coming to light and justice on those responsible. Nuclear strikes and death will be the headlines. War also accomplishes depopulation, something the Deep State has always wanted.
America’s most respected retired general, Mike Flynn, demanded Vice President Kamala Harris “immediately invoke the 25th Amendment and remove Biden,” (Ep.3504b, Nov. 19, 2024, 34:04). When America is having its greatest threat of nuclear war since the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vice President is vacationing in Hawaii.
Days later when nothing happened Flynn wrote. “Breaking: 1) We appear to be on the brink of WW III. 2) Congress is set to go on recess for Thanksgiving. 3) We’ve heard nothing from the POTUS. 4) Offensive nuclear capable weapons have occurred between Ukraine and Russia. 5) the real potential for global escalation outside the boundaries of this regional war is as high as they have been. So what congress should immediately [do is] demand POTUS address the nation either to a joint session of Congress or from the Oval Office. One way or the other the American people deserve to hear from our president if there are any dangers presented to our safety and security here in our homeland, and to better understand what vital national security interests are at stake here (Ep. 3506b, Nov. 21, 2024, 35:26). He objects also that “the Deep State has started WW III and its being treated by the fake news as a minor story” (Ibid. 33:43)
Dr. Harold Pease is an expert on the United States Constitution and a syndicated columnist. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. Read his weekly columns at www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column # 796
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