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The Spectacle of a Police State: This Is Martial Law Without a Formal Declaration of War

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TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2025
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– George Santayana, Little Essays [1920]

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June 17, 2025 The Mainstream Media’s Fear of Investigating the JFK Assassination In my blog post yesterday, I showed how the mainstream media failed to investigate the early, secret introduction of President Kennedy’s body into the Bethesda Navy morgue. When the deep state was sneaking JFK’s body into the morgue almost an hour and a half before the official time that the body was brought into the morgue, It goes without saying that …
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