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RFK: Trump will have his revolution

US presidential election

Published 8 November 2024
– By Editorial Staff
RFK Jr shakes hands with Donald Trump.
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On election night, journalist Tucker Carlson broadcast live from Mar-a-Lago, Florida, and was joined by several prominent guests – not least Robert F. Kennedy, who believes that Trump is unique in American politics.

– He is unlike any politician we have seen in American history. Maybe the one comparison that I would make would be Andrew Jackson. As Andrew Jackson came in without any money or backing from powerful interests – everybody was against him, but he was truly a populist candidate and he came in and did what no one thought was possible – he challenged and dismantled the banks and installed a lot of people who were heretics in public office.

– A lot of people think that Trump is a conventional political because the last time around he initially appointed a lot of very conventional people, lobbyists etc. People don’t remember almost his entire cabinet was gone within two years as he learned to govern.

RFK says he was “shocked” when he realized the significant changes Trump actually wants to make to the US political apparatus and says it will be “unprecedented”.

– He does what he wants to do. He wants a revolution and I think hes going to get one.

Drinking water free of fluoride

As an example, RFK highlights how the Trump administration will call on all US drinking water systems to stop adding fluoride to their water as early as January – because, according to Kennedy, it is associated with lower IQ, nerve disorders and other negative health effects.

– As it turns out fluoride is very very dangerous, it causes IQ loss… It’s something that you wouldn’t want in the water supply, he says and explains that it is most dangerous for children, and that it also can cause bone cancer, arthritis and
other diseases.

Kennedy also highlights how the perception of opposition to fluoride in drinking water has changed over time and how those who opposed it have long been labeled as crazy conspiracy theorists – while today it has become an increasingly accepted and common view.

– It’s just insane that it is in our waters. It’s absolutely insane. It’s one of the easiest things you can do to restore the american health – just get the fluoride out of the water. You are going to have higher IQ children, you are going to have less bone cancer and so on.

Focus on science and testing

RFK is also highly critical of the fact that pharmaceutical giants are not required by law to take any legal or financial responsibility for the harm their vaccines or other medicines cause to the American people, and believes that major changes are needed here too.

– When I was a kid there were 3 vaccines and my kids now are required to take 72 vaccines and I think they have added another six vaccines.

– I just want to make this clear, I don’t want to take vaccines away from people. I don’t want to impose my choices on the American people… But people should have informed choice. They should have good science that tells them the cause and benefits of these products, particularly since they are being ordered to use them… It’s the only medical product that is given to healthy people. You want a product like that to be extra solid, to make sure there is no risk.

According to RFK, no one knows today exactly how dangerous vaccines are or whether they even prevent more problems than they cause. He adds that not a single vaccine in the US vaccine program has been tested thoroughly enough to adequately assess its harmful effects.

– What I am going to do if I am given this job in the White House is I’ll make sure that those studies get done, that there are people on the panels that are approving these products that are not loaded with conflicts of interests, with real science by disinterested people and that doctors and patients in America knows exactly the cost and benefits of every vaccine are so they can make a rational decision.

Getting rid of corruption

Kennedy also says that Donald Trump has asked him to tackle three major problems. The first is to get rid of corruption and conflict in US public health care, and to refocus on public health instead of serving the financial interests of pharmaceutical giants and other large corporations in the field.

The second point is to return US government health agencies to the “gold standard” of the past, which was based on world-class science – not lobbyist agendas.

The third problem to be solved is stopping the “epidemic” of chronic diseases the American people have suffered in recent decades, and Trump wants to see concrete measurable results within two years – something RFK has also promised he can deliver.

It is not yet clear whether RFK will tackle these problems through a leadership position in the US Public Health Service or as a White House health adviser – but whatever the context, he promises big changes.

Democrats have become “the party of war”

Kennedy also talks about the shift in American politics and how in his youth the Democrats were “the party of peace, but today have become the party of war”.

– It was the party of constitutional rights. Now its the party of surveillance and censorship and the weaponization of the federal law enforcement agencies against American democracy. It was the party that stood up for working and poor people and today its the party of big pharma, Wall Street, big tech, the military industrial complex. Its also the party that has completely abandoned the working class base.

He explains that many American workers have abandoned the Democratic Party for the Republican Party because they can no longer relate to their old party. Even in terms of money, the roles are now reversed, with the Democrats now a much richer party than the Republicans and able to raise more money quickly from wealthy donors.

– The Democratic party today is a party that has abandoned democracy, he explains, pointing out that it is a party that today actively censors and opposes uncomfortable voices and wants the state to decide what is “misinformation” and what is not.

Stopped challengers

He also says that the Democrats have worked against him in various ways and that he has been actively and through various strange rules prevented from running and challenging Joe Biden as the party’s presidential candidate.

– They were rigging the party to make sure they could protect their president who was cognitive impaired. They made sure he didn’t debate anybody… I could have won the election for the democrats if they allowed my to run. I’m not saying I am the only one, there are probably many candidates that could have outperformed Joe Biden but they would not let us run, says Kennedy.

By the time Biden debated Trump, and the world saw how mentally unhinged the president really was, it was too late for other Democratic candidates to challenge him – instead, the party announced Kamala Harris as its new presidential candidate.

– They just performed a palace coup against him. We don’t even know how it happened. And then they picked a candidate who never got a single vote.

–They abolished democracy and they chose a candidate who has not been a good candidate, who does not seem to be able to talk off script. The problem with that is, who is writing the scripts for her? At the democratic convention it was the neocons.

Cold War warmongers remain

RFK points out that Harris mostly talked about how the US should continue to act as a world policeman and dominate and rule the world, and says that in practice she is a puppet for powerful interests without any major abilities of her own.

– We need somebody who is willing to stand up to the military industrial complex and these big institutions, he declares.

That Harris would be capable of brokering peace in Ukraine is unthinkable to RFK, and he does not even believe she is capable of sitting down and conversing with other world leaders.

He also emphasizes that the same powerful forces that pursued war between the US and the Soviet Union still exist – and that the US now needs a strong president who does not blindly follow directives from the military-industrial complex but can form his own view of things and make his own decisions – and that Trump, in his view, could be just that president.

Editorial Staff
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https://nordictimes.com/world/trump-avoids-punishment-in-hush-money-case/

World

Trump avoids punishment in hush money case

US presidential election

Published 14 January 2025
– By Editorial Staff
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President-elect Donald Trump has been convicted of accounting violations in the high-profile “hush money” case – but still escapes punishment.

During a court hearing via video link in New York on January 10, 2025, the judge announced that Trump will receive an unconditional release, meaning he will avoid both a prison sentence and a fine.

The case involves payments to buy the silence of several people, including porn actress Stormy Daniels, ahead of the 2016 presidential election. Trump has consistently denied the allegations, describing the process as a politically motivated attempt to undermine his chances in the 2024 election.

– It’s been a political witch hunt. It was done to damage my reputation so that I would lose the election, and, obviously, that didn’t work, Trump said during the hearing.

The unconditional release decision means that the conviction remains on Trump’s record, making him the first presidential candidate in US history with such a charge. However, Trump plans to appeal the conviction.

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https://nordictimes.com/world/keir-starmer-accused-of-meddling-in-us-elections/

World

Keir Starmer accused of meddling in US elections

US presidential election

Published 14 January 2025
– By Editorial Staff
Keir Starmer and Joe Biden during a meeting last summer.
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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer faces allegations that the Labour Party influenced the 2024 US presidential election by sending volunteers to assist Kamala Harris’ campaign.

At the same time, criticism of the Prime Minister is growing at home, where he is accused of failing to act against Pakistani grooming gangs and a former Labour politician was arrested in a pedophile scandal days after he took an official stance on Starmer.

A political storm with international ramifications began in October 2024 when Donald Trump’s campaign accused UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and the Labour Party of trying to influence the US presidential election.

According to a complaint filed with the Federal Election Commission (FEC), the Labor Party sent volunteers to the United States to assist Kamala Harris’ campaign, which the Trump campaign described as “blatant foreign interference”.

– To protect our democracy from illegal foreign influence, it is imperative that the Federal Election Commission investigate this matter immediately, said Gary Lawkowski, campaign lawyer for Trump.

The complaint specifically pointed to a now-deleted LinkedIn post by Labor Party Chief Operating Officer Sofia Patel, in which she urged volunteers to travel to North Carolina and promised: “We will sort your housing”.

The Labor Party has not denied that volunteers traveled to the US but insists that no law was broken.

– The Labour party has volunteers, who have gone over pretty much every election, said Keir Starmer. They’re doing it in their spare time, they’re doing it as volunteers.

Criticism of Starmer’s domestic policy

Meanwhile, criticism of Starmer is growing at home. Violence against girls has reached record levels and the controversy surrounding grooming gangs continues to dominate the debate. During his time as head of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), Starmer has been accused of failing to act forcefully against these groups, leading to widespread abuse scandals in towns such as Rotherham and Rochdale.

Last August, there was a knife attack in Southport in which three girls were killed. The incident has become a symbol of rising crime in the UK and led to riots in several cities. Four months later, in January this year, Elon Musk tweeted “Prison for Starmer ” in reference to the attack, further increasing pressure on the Prime Minister.

Starmer defender arrested in pedophile scandal

The crisis for the Labor Party deepened recently when former Labor MP Ivor Caplin was arrested after a sting operation carried out by citizen activists. Caplin is accused of trying to arrange a meeting with a 15-year-old boy.

Caplin, who had previously called Musk’s criticism of Starmer “unacceptable” and “unfounded”, was arrested just days after he publicly defended the prime minister. He has been released on bail pending the investigation.

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https://nordictimes.com/analysis/how-polls-can-be-used-to-influence-public-opinion/

Analysis

How polls can be used to influence public opinion

US presidential election

Many pollsters predicted a very close presidential election in the United States - or even a clear victory for the Democrats. The question is whether the explanatory models for the major "miscalculations" hold up, or whether the institutes are really being used to influence opinion rather than to research it.

Published 19 November 2024
Opinion poll presented on American ABC just before the presidential election.
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In the run-up to the US presidential election, both domestic voters and international audiences were told that the election would be an uncertain affair. It was claimed that Harris had “momentum” and a good chance of defeating Donald Trump – with several polls even showing her as the clear favorite to win by several percentage points.

As we know, that didn’t happen – at all. Trump won all seven battleground states and won 312 electoral votes – compared to a measly 226 for Harris. Despite losing big states like California, Trump also won the most popular votes in the US election. The result can probably be described without exaggeration as a landslide victory for Trump.

In the aftermath of the election, there have been many attempts to explain it away. Some claim that the pollsters and those behind the polls “underestimated” Trump’s voters. Others claim that they failed to “reach out” to Trump’s voter base, and that is why they were so wrong.

Some also argue, somewhat sweepingly, that the purpose of the polls was never to give an accurate picture of the situation or predict the outcome of the election, but only to show “patterns”, “attitudes” and “more or less qualified assessments” – and that therefore one should not react to the fact that in many cases they gave a seriously misleading picture of Harris’ and Trump’s real support among the American people.

People prefer a winner

Overall, there is much to suggest a very different and more sinister explanation for why the polls “happened” to be wrong about the outcome of the election. Rather, it may be that they have been systematically used as an active tool to influence elections.

Officially, of course, they say that they are only “investigating” what voters intend to vote for. In practice, there is evidence that these results have been both exaggerated and skewed in various ways in favor of the Democrats, making it appear that Kamala Harris was on her way to victory, when in fact she had almost no chance.

The reason would be very simple and logical – to try to shape public opinion to get the more politically insecure masses to go out and vote for Harris – and at the same time to make the more moderate Trump supporters feel resigned and stay home – because their candidate could not win this time either.

Psychologically, the strategy is not difficult to understand. A candidate who is portrayed as a winner or with a strong tailwind will attract more supporters than a candidate who is portrayed as a perceived loser. If voters perceive that their candidate has no real chance of defeating the opponent, many will abstain from voting – while many of those who are politically uncertain will tend to join the “winning team”.

Peer pressure is real

Despite the fact that there is often a lack of transparency in the activities and practices of pollsters and analysts, they enjoy an almost sacrosanct position in media coverage – or at least are widely interpreted as neutral, as actors without ulterior motives.

This view may be considered naive. These are not actors driven by a sense of justice, but by political ambitions and financial interests, and of course this does not only apply to the US presidential election. Opinion polls can strongly shape people’s views on many controversial issues – whether it’s NATO membership, migration policy, government support for the LGBT lobby, or whether Swedish arms should be sent to Ukraine and Israel.

The impact of peer pressure on human behavior is very real. Standing out and going against the grain is perceived by many as something unpleasant – with the risk of attracting social stigma in various ways. This is a basic psychology that politically conscious actors are of course aware of, and therefore inclined to use to their advantage. If a reluctant citizen who is leaning towards voting for the Sweden Democrats reads at the same time that 9 out of 10 Swedes would never consider voting for the party, the decision to actually do so becomes psychologically more difficult.

In the case of the US presidential election, there is much to suggest that support for Trump’s campaign – and perhaps above all dissatisfaction with the ruling Democrats for a variety of reasons – was so strong among broad segments of the population that it was simply not possible to manipulate public opinion to his detriment to the extent necessary to determine the outcome of the election.

Nor did it seem to matter that the entire left-liberal media establishment did everything it could, year after year, to paint Trump as a criminal, rapist, racist, fascist, extremist, or generally irrational lunatic. The explanation seems to be that a growing number of Trump supporters simply don’t care – largely because their trust in those pushing such messages has already been so badly eroded that the attempts to character assassinate Trump have not been effective enough.

So the subtle influence of the pollsters is by no means omnipotent, but for the discerning observer it is definitely a factor to consider in how opinion is actually shaped in practice.

 

TNT Editorial Team

https://nordictimes.com/world/fema-supervisor-ordered-aid-workers-to-skip-trump-supporters-homes-after-hurricane-milton/

World

FEMA supervisor ordered aid workers to skip Trump supporters’ homes after hurricane Milton

US presidential election

Published 18 November 2024
– By Editorial Staff
Public confidence in FEMA is at an all-time low after it was revealed that the agency failed to help Republican hurricane victims.
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FEMA relief workers were told by their supervisor to avoid helping Donald Trump supporters after Hurricane Milton, which claimed around 30 lives.

The supervisor has now been fired for her actions, which her boss calls “reprehensible”.

According to a report by The Daily Wire, a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) official has instructed disaster relief workers to avoid homes with signs supporting Donald Trump while working in Florida after the hurricane.

Internal correspondence shows that Marn’i Washington, a FEMA supervisor, ordered his team to “avoid homes advertising Trump” as they surveyed the damage in Lake Placid, Florida, to determine which residents might qualify for federal aid.

Multiple federal employees confirmed to The Daily Wire that at least 20 homes with Trump signs or flags were skipped over between late October and early November because of this specific instruction.

Images from the system used by federal aid workers to track homes visited also showed notes such as: “Trump sign no entry per leadership” and “According to management, no stop at Trump flag”.

– I volunteered to help disaster victims, not discriminate against them. It felt wrong to discriminate against Trump supporters when they were most vulnerable, said one relief worker.

“Clear violation of FEMA’s core values”

FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell responded to the revelation by firing Washington, stating:

“More than 22,000 FEMA employees every day adhere to FEMA’s core values and are dedicated to helping people before, during and after disasters, often sacrificing time with their own families to help disaster survivors. Recently, a FEMA employee departed from these values to advise her survivor assistance team to not go to homes with yard signs supporting President-elect Trump”.
“This is a clear violation of FEMA’s core values & principles to help people regardless of their political affiliation”, she continued.

Damaging the agency’s credibility

The incident has prompted the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability to schedule a hearing to investigate the conduct. Committee Chairman James Comer has asked Criswell to testify before lawmakers on November 19. In addition, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has launched a statewide investigation into the incident.

The exposed scandal has led to massive outrage in the United States, with many questioning whether the agency can be considered a serious player at all – or whether it should be seen as a haven for hostile left-wing activists who let their political beliefs determine who gets help and who doesn’t.

Deanne Criswel, however, insists that the behavior is “reprehensible” and that, like Marn’i Washington, any other staff member who behaves in a similar way will be fired.

Editorial Staff
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