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Brent Molnar describes the horrible living conditions on board the USS Abraham Lincoln.

One look at the aircraft carrier and its accompanying ships reveals how the USA has become an emperor without clothes.

The ships look like the inland, many cities and public transport of the USA: a sore for the eyes and far behind on infrastructure.

The sailors live like many veterans in the USA: unsanitary accommodations and only the bare minimum of food.

https://brentmolnar.substack.com/p/floating-prison-neon-diversion-the
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https://www.europesays.com/videos/88241/ What have US sailors been up to in Thailand’s ‘raucous’ resort? #AbrahamLincoln #itv #ITVEveningNews #ItvNews #ITVX #military #pattaya #Sailor #SOLIDER #Thailand #UsTroops #USS

Tom Hanks’ Abraham Lincoln Movie Rounds Out A-List Cast With Meryl Streep, Bill Hader & More

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Tom Hanks’ Abraham Lincoln Movie Rounds Out A-List Cast With Meryl Streep, Bill Hader & More

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Tom Hanks’ Abraham Lincoln Movie Rounds Out A-List Cast With Meryl Streep, Bill Hader & More

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Tom Hanks’ Abraham Lincoln Movie Rounds Out A-List Cast With Meryl Streep, Bill Hader & More

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Tom Hanks’ Abraham Lincoln Movie Rounds Out A-List Cast With Meryl Streep, Bill Hader & More

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https://www.europesays.com/ro/287749/ Trump s-a declarat „cel mai bun” președinte din istoria SUA. Istoricii îl contrazic: „În niciun univers de cercetători” #AbrahamLincoln #BarackObama #BreakingNews #BreakingNews #CelMaiBunPresedinteSUA #CeleMaiPopulareSubiecte #DonaldTrump #FeaturedNews #FeaturedNews #GeorgeWashington #Headlines #Internațional #JoeBiden #LatestNews #LatestNews #News #RO #Română #Romania #Romanian #Știri #TheodoreRoosevelt #Titluri #TopStories #TopStories #World #WorldNews #WorldNews

https://www.europesays.com/videos/87257/ Table dancing, shots and bikini-clad women: US sailors arrive in Thailand’s ‘sin city’ #AbrahamLincoln #bikini #news #NewsPublisher #Newspaper #pattaya #SexTourismInThailand #Soi6 #Telegraph #TheTelegraph #Trump #UKNews #UsArmy #WarInIran #WorldNews

USS Lincoln crew hits the streets of Thailand’s Pattaya after over 260 days at sea

PATTAYA, Thailand (AP) — Buses carrying crew members of the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier streame…
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https://www.europesays.com/hu/231301/ Rászabadultak az amerikai tengerészek a thaiföldi szexközpontra #AbrahamLincoln #AmerikaiHaditengerészet #Főcímek #Headlines #Hírek #HU #Hungarian #Hungary #Külföld #Magyar #Magyarország #News #Pattaya #szexturizmus #thaiföld #TopStories #VezetőHírek

Iran-US war latest: Trump labels strikes a ‘love tap’ in bizarre rant after new wave of bombings https://www.byteseu.com/2332827/ #AbrahamLincoln #Conflicts #Iran #ThailandUSCarrier

Trump ranks himself the greatest US president ever. Historians beg to differ
By Adam Gabbatt

Donald Trump posted his own presidential rankings to Truth Social last week, separating past US presidents into six categories from ‘greatest’ to ‘failures’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/03/greatest-president-trump-historians-disagree

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Trump ranks himself the greatest US president ever. Historians beg to differ
By Adam Gabbatt

Donald Trump posted his own presidential rankings to Truth Social last week, separating past US presidents into six categories from ‘greatest’ to ‘failures’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/03/greatest-president-trump-historians-disagree

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Trump ranks himself the greatest US president ever. Historians beg to differ
By Adam Gabbatt

Donald Trump posted his own presidential rankings to Truth Social last week, separating past US presidents into six categories from ‘greatest’ to ‘failures’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/03/greatest-president-trump-historians-disagree

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Trump ranks himself the greatest US president ever. Historians beg to differ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/03/greatest-president-trump-historians-disagree #DonaldTrump #UsNews #AbrahamLincoln #UsPolitics #FranklinDRoosevelt #BillClinton #BarackObama #JoeBiden

Trump ranks himself the greatest US president ever. Historians beg to differ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/03/greatest-president-trump-historians-disagree #DonaldTrump #UsNews #AbrahamLincoln #UsPolitics #FranklinDRoosevelt #BillClinton #BarackObama #JoeBiden

Trump ranks himself the greatest US president ever. Historians beg to differ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/03/greatest-president-trump-historians-disagree #DonaldTrump #UsNews #AbrahamLincoln #UsPolitics #FranklinDRoosevelt #BillClinton #BarackObama #JoeBiden

Trump ranks himself the greatest US president ever. Historians beg to differ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/03/greatest-president-trump-historians-disagree #DonaldTrump #UsNews #AbrahamLincoln #UsPolitics #FranklinDRoosevelt #BillClinton #BarackObama #JoeBiden

Trump ranks himself the greatest US president ever. Historians beg to differ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/03/greatest-president-trump-historians-disagree #DonaldTrump #UsNews #AbrahamLincoln #UsPolitics #FranklinDRoosevelt #BillClinton #BarackObama #JoeBiden

Und wieder eine interessante Doku, wie ein Weltkonzern in die Krise schlittert!

Gier frisst Moral!

Synonym für die deutsche Autoindustrie! Auch hier hat die Hybris die Moral gefressen!

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Und wieder eine interessante Doku, wie ein Weltkonzern in die Krise schlittert!

Gier frisst Moral!

Synonym für die deutsche Autoindustrie! Auch hier hat die Hybris die Moral gefressen!

https://www.zdf.de/dokus/zdf-info-100#focus=zdfinfo-boeing-in-der-krise-absturz-eines-giganten-100

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US aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln finally heads back home after nine months

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Long-deployed USS Lincoln being relieved by new aircraft carrier

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Asia-based USS George Washington aircraft carrier is now operati…
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“US Aircraft Carrier Problems Tied to Iran’s Early Strikes on Bahrain Base – NYT”

by Palestine Chronicle Staff on Substack

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“Key Takeaways;

- Iranian strikes heavily damaged the US naval base in #Bahrain, forcing the #Navy to shift a major #logistics operation thousands of miles away to #DiegoGarcia.

-The USS #AbrahamLincoln has been at sea for nearly nine months without a liberty port, amid reported supply shortages and concerns about crew mental health.

- Despite mounting logistical pressures, President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth insist the US can sustain its naval operations indefinitely.”

https://palestinechronicle.substack.com/p/us-aircraft-carrier-problems-tied

#Press #SocialMedia #Iran #War #Trump #Israel #OperationEpsteinFury #OperationEpicMistake #RegimeChange #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Hormuz #Empire #Collapse #US #Sanctions #EconomicWarfare #Hegemony

US pulls last aircraft carrier in Asia as Trump focuses on Iran and the Western Hemisphere

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s war against Iran is stretching the limits of U.S. aircraft carriers and l…
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A quotation from Abraham Lincoln

Often an idea about it would occur to me which seemed to have force and make perfect answer to some of the things that were said and written about my actions. I never let one of those ideas escape me, but wrote it on a scrap of paper and put it in that drawer. In that way I saved my best thoughts on the subject, and, you know, such things often come in a kind of intuitive way more clearly than if one were to sit down and deliberately reason them out.
   To save the results of such mental action is true intellectual economy. It not only saves time and labor, but also the very best material the mind can supply for unexpected emergencies.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Remark (1863) to James F. Wilson (Attributed)

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Iran-backed militias signal will to attack as Iran-US tensions run high

DUBAI, United Arab …
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A quotation from Lincoln

How hard, oh, how hard it is to die and leave one’s country no better than if one had never lived for it.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Remark (1850-09?) to William H. Herndon

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A quotation from Lincoln

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Remark (1865-02) to Joshua Speed

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A quotation from Lincoln

It was not the mere matter of the separation of the colonies from the motherland; but something in the Declaration giving liberty, not alone to the people of this country, but hope to the world for all future time. It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Speech (1861-02-22), Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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A quotation from Lincoln

Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation we began by declaring that “all men are created equal.” We now practically read it “all men are created equal, except negroes.” When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read “all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and catholics.” When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty — to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Letter (1854-08-24) to Joshua Speed

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Obama’s former speechwriter Ben Rhodes examines America through its 15 most defining speeches https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/may/28/ben-rhodes-all-we-say-book #Books #ObamaAdministration #FrederickDouglass #AbrahamLincoln #FranklinDRoosevelt #MartinLutherKing #JohnFKennedy #RonaldReagan #DonaldTrump #PoliticsBooks #Culture #History #TrumpAdministration #UsPolitics

A quotation from Lincoln

It was a time when a man with a policy would have been fatal to the country. I have never had a policy. I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Remark (1865-02) to John M. Palmer

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A quotation from Abraham Lincoln

There is a vague popular belief that lawyers are necessarily dishonest. I say vague, because when we consider to what extent confidence and honors are reposed in and conferred upon lawyers by the people, it appears improbable that their impression of dishonesty is very distinct and vivid. Yet the impression is common, almost universal. Let no young man choosing the law for a calling for a moment yield to the popular belief — resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer. Choose some other occupation, rather than one in the choosing of which you do, in advance, consent to be a knave.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Speech (1850), Notes for a Law Lecture (fragment)

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A quotation from Lincoln

As a general rule never take your whole fee in advance, nor any more than a small retainer. When fully paid beforehand, you are more than a common mortal if you can feel the same interest in the case, as if something was still in prospect for you, as well as for your client. And when you lack interest in the case the job will very likely lack skill and diligence in the performance.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Speech (1850), Notes for a Law Lecture (fragment)

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A quotation from Lincoln

   If A. can prove, however conclusively, that he may, of right, enslave B. — why may not B. snatch the same argument, and prove equally, that he may enslave A?
   You say A. is white, and B. is black. It is color, then; the lighter having the right to enslave the darker? Take care. By this rule, you are to be slave to the first man you meet, with a fairer skin than your own.
   You do not mean color exactly? — You mean the whites are intellectually the superior of blacks, and, therefore, have the right to enslave them? Take care again. By this rule, you are to be slave to the first man you meet, with an intellect superior to your own.
   But, say you, it is a question of interest; and, if you can make it your interest, you have the right to enslave another. Very well. And if he can make it his interest, he has the right to enslave you.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Note (1854-07-01?), On Slavery (fragment)

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A quotation from Lincoln

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser — in fees, expenses, and waste of time. As a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Speech (1850), Notes for a Law Lecture (fragment)

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A quotation from Lincoln

   The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves — in their separate, and individual capacities. In all that the people can individually do as well for themselves, government ought not to interfere.
   The desirable things which the individuals of a people can not do, or can not well do, for themselves, fall into two classes: those which have relation to wrongs, and those which have not. Each of these branch off into an infinite variety of subdivisions. The first — that in relation to wrongs — embraces all crimes, misdemeanors, and non-performance of contracts. The other embraces all which, in its nature, and without wrong, requires combined action, as public roads and highways, public schools, charities, pauperism, orphanage, estates of the deceased, and the machinery of government itself.
   From this it appears that if all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Speech (1854-07-01?), fragment on government

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A quotation from Lincoln

If all men were just, there would still be some, though not so much, need of government.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Speech (1854-07-01?), fragment on government

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A quotation from Abraham Lincoln

Although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Speech (1854-04-01), “Fragment on Slavery”

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A quotation from Lincoln

We may congratulate ourselves that this cruel war, which has cost a vast treasure of blood and money, is almost over. But I see in the future a crisis approaching which fills me with anxiety. As a result of the war, corporations have become enthroned, and an era of corruption in high places will follow. The money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its rule by preying upon the prejudice of the people, until all wealth is concentrated in a few hands, and the Republic destroyed. I feel at this time more anxiety for the future of my country than at any time in the past, even in the midst of war.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
(Spurious)

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A quotation from Lincoln

I desire to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861–65)
Speech (1863-09-30) to the Missouri Committee of Seventy

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As a nation, be began by declaring that 'all men are created equal'.... When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty &mdash to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.
-- Abraham Lincoln

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Strikes on 3 alleged drug boats leave 11 dead

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military said Tuesday that it carried out strik…
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A quotation from Abraham Lincoln

The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress, was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons. Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This, our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us. But your view destroys the whole matter, and places our President where kings have always stood.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Letter (1848-02-15) to William H. Herndon

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A quotation from Lincoln

Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you shall allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose, and you allow him to make war at pleasure. Study to see if you can fix any limit to his power in this respect. If to-day he should choose to say he thinks it necessary to invade Canada to prevent the British from invading us, how could you stop him? You may say to him, “I see no probability of the British invading us”; but he will say to you, “Be silent: I see it if you don’t.”

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Letter (1848-02-15) to William H. Herndon

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A quotation from Abraham Lincoln

I must save this government if possible. What I cannot do, of course I will not do; but it may as well be understood, once for all, that I shall not surrender this game leaving any available card unplayed.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Letter (1862-07-26) to Revardy Johnson

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A quotation from Abraham Lincoln

Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation we began by declaring that “all men are created equal.” We now practically read it “all men are created equal, except negroes.” When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read “all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and catholics.” When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty — to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Letter (1854-08-24) to Joshua Speed

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