Lone Candle
Champion of Truth
When asked basic questions about the administration’s use of Signal, to avoid basic transparency and oversight of their actions, administration officials attack the questioner or Democrats on tangential issues rather than honestly answer the questions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yu0vd7ZT7E
Why the Fall of Syria Checkmates Russia & Iran
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oytfhLUy0Fg
Why the GERMANS (and Europeans) don’t understand the Arab-Israeli conflict
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGDhBY4V_CI
Putin’s invasion of Ukraine roused the Japanese people, making them fear more than they have previously and increase their support for militarization. If Russia invades Ukraine, China may likewise attack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZknEU38CDtE
Sometimes violent militias grew stronger with Trump’s rise and are motivated by supporting him.
Facebook cracking down on these groups actively hurt their ability to recruit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y27jpnf2WO8
“The number of credit card holders making only minimum payments on their bills has jumped to a 12-year high, a study by the Philadelphia Federal Reserve found.
The level of cardholders only making minimum payments rose to 10.75% in the third quarter of 2024, the study found, continuing an upward trend from 2021.
The number of 30+ day delinquencies also rose during this period, up to 3.52%. That’s double the delinquency rate of 1.57% from the pandemic low in the second quarter of 2021.”
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/28/consumers-car-payments-credit-cards
“Human-caused climate change made the Los Angeles-area fires more likely and more destructive, according to a study”
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“The study — from an international group of 32 climate researchers — shows how climate change fits into the myriad factors that made the multiple blazes one of California’s most destructive and expensive wildfire disasters on record.”
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“The scientists found that low rainfall from October through December is now more than twice as likely compared to the climate that existed before humans began burning fossil fuels such as oil, coal and gas for energy.”
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“the LA fire season is becoming longer, with “highly flammable drought conditions” lasting about 23 more days now than during the preindustrial era.”
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/28/la-fires-cause-climate-change-more-likely
Brooks and Marcus on political reaction to Trump officials using app to discuss Yemen plan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGZXP3k8Q_k
Middle East Dialogues: Tarek Masoud in conversation with Einat Wilf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdmDEXatXts
NATO was a defensive alliance of pacifists with small military budgets. It was not a threat to Russia and not Putin’s reason for invading Ukraine.
If Nixon really did make the comment about the madman theory referring to a part of his strategy in Vietnam…it didn’t work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8wTBy_tgKo