tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-115398372024-03-19T04:04:39.171-05:00subrealismliminal perspectives on consensus reality...,Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger16000125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-90587684447018170352024-03-19T00:00:00.000-05:002024-03-19T04:04:06.348-05:00Africom Expelled From Niger Just Like Little French Bishes...,<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="585" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/s-EEq-cq1aI?si=amKPnbYvHeiQdHhn" title="YouTube video player" width="900"></iframe></div>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/us-weighing-options-africa-after-niger-junta-orders-108248249" target="_blank">abcnews |</a> On Saturday, following
the meeting, the junta’s spokesperson, Col. Maj. Amadou Abdramane, said
U.S. flights over Niger’s territory in recent weeks were illegal.
Meanwhile, Insa Garba Saidou, a local activist who assists Niger’s
military rulers with their communications, criticized U.S. efforts to
force the junta to pick between strategic partners.</span></p><p class="EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“The American bases and civilian personnel cannot stay on Nigerien soil any longer,” he told The Associated Press.</span></p><p class="EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Singh
said the U.S. was aware of the March 16 statement “announcing the end
of the status of forces agreement between Niger and the United States.
We are working through diplomatic channels to seek clarification. These
are ongoing discussions and we don't have more to share at this time.” </span></p><p class="EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">State Department spokesman Vedant Patel said the discussions were prompted by Niger's “trajectory." </span></p><p class="EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“We
are in touch with transition authorities to seek clarification of their
comments and discuss additional next steps,” Patel said. </span></p><p class="EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The junta has largely
been in control in Niger since July when mutinous soldiers ousted the
country’s democratically elected president and months later asked French
forces to leave.</span></p><p class="EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
U.S. military still had some 650 troops working in Niger in December,
largely consolidated at a base farther away from Niamey, Niger's
capital. Singh said the total number of personnel still in country,
including civilians and contractors, is roughly 1,000. </span></p><p class="EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
Niger base is critical for U.S. counterterrorism operations in the
Sahel and has been used for both manned and unmanned surveillance
operations, although Singh said the only drone flights being currently
conducted are for force protection. </span></p><p class="EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
In the Sahel the U.S. has also supported local ground troops, including
accompanying them on missions. However, such accompanied missions have
been scaled back since U.S. troops were killed in a joint operation in
Niger in 2017.</span></p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="585" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_d_UH3lyqb8?si=JJm3otefLq8PHdND" title="YouTube video player" width="900"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-67967072481784941552024-03-18T00:02:00.011-05:002024-03-18T00:02:00.136-05:00What Is France To Do With The Thousands Of Soldiers Expelled From Africa?<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="585" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/75q7RTr9Uew?si=yOPQwuD-9sdmPaaZ" title="YouTube video player" width="900"></iframe></div>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/03/15/out-of-africa-macrons-belligerence-towards-russia-is-compensating-for-rejection-of-colonialist-france/" target="_blank">SCF |</a> Russian President Vladimir Putin was spot-on this week in his observation about why France’s Emmanuel Macron is strutting around and mouthing off about war in Ukraine. Putin remarked in an interview that Macron’s wanton warmongering over Ukraine was borne out of resentment due to the spectacular loss of France’s standing in Africa. One after another, France’s former colonial countries have told Paris in no uncertain terms to get out of their internal affairs. Since 2020 and the coup in Mali, there has been immense political upheaval on the continent, particularly in West and Central Africa, stretching from the vast Sahel region down to the equator. At least seven nations have undergone coups or government changes against Francophone rulers. They include Mali, Burkina Faso, Chad, Niger, Central African Republic, Gabon, and Guinea. The continent-wide changes have come as a political earthquake to France. The new African governments have adamantly rejected old-style French patronage and have asserted a newfound national independence.<br /><br />Paris has had to recall unwanted ambassadors, shut down military bases, and withdraw thousands of troops. Where to put these French troops? In Ukraine, pitted against Russia? Popular sentiment across Africa is exasperated with and repudiating “Francafrique” corruption. Meanwhile, with an unmistakable end-of-era sense, French media have lamented “France’s shrinking footprint in Africa.” A former diplomat summed up the momentous geopolitical shift thus: “The deep trend confirms itself. Our military presence is no longer accepted. We need to totally rethink our relationship with Africa. We have been kicked out of Africa. We need to depart from other countries before we are told to.” Africa analysts are now watching two key countries closely. They are Senegal and Ivory Coast. Both are currently governed by pro-France presidents but the rising anti-French political tide is putting those incumbents at risk of either a coup or electoral ouster.<br /><br />The blow to the French political elite cannot be overstated. The loss of status in its former colonies is conflating multiple crises tantamount to the traumatic loss of Algeria back in the early 1960s. Financially, for decades after handing over nominal independence to African nations, Paris continued to exploit these countries through control of currencies and their prodigious natural resources. Most of France’s electricity, for example, is generated from uranium ore mined in Africa – and obtained like most other African resources for a pittance. The system of neocolonial suzerainty was typically sustained by France bribing local corrupt regimes to do its bidding and offering security guarantees from the continuance of French military bases. Not for nothing did Paris think of itself as the African Gendarme.<br /><br />One of the extraordinary curiosities of this neocolonial arrangement was that African nations were compelled to deposit their gold treasuries in France’s central bank. Any African nation trying to resist the neocolonial vassalage was liable to be attacked militarily through counter-coups, or its nationalist leaders were assassinated like Thomas Sankara in 1987, who was known as “Africa’s Che Guevara”. Nevertheless, the halcyon days of France’s dominance over its former colonies are over. African nations are discovering a new sense of independence and purpose, as well as solidarity to help each other fend off pressure from France to reinstate the status quo ante. The collapse of France’s status in Africa is perceived by the French establishment as a grievous loss in presumed global power.<br /><br />No French politician can feel more aggrieved than President Emmanuel Macron. Macron imagines himself to be on a mission to restore “France’s greatness”. He seems to harbor fantasies of also leading the rest of Europe under the tutelage of Paris. It was Macron who proclaimed one of his grand objectives as achieving a reset in Franco-African relations, one which would renew continental respect for Paris and promote French strategic interests. How embarrassing for Macron that a whole spate of African nations are asserting that they no longer want to have anything to do with the old colonial power. Chagrin indeed.<br /><br /> [..] The French president declared with hysteria that: “If Russia wins this war [in Ukraine], Europe’s credibility will be reduced to zero.” Macron’s recklessness is criminal. He is talking up war with Russia based on sheer lies and vanity. When he says Europe’s credibility will be reduced to zero what he really means is that his credibility and that of NATO will be reduced to zero when Russia defeats the NATO-backed NeoNazi regime in Kiev. Macron is a most dangerous kind of politician. He has an inordinate ego that has been bruised, his delusions have been shattered, he is an impotent vassal of American imperialism, and he is desperate for his sordid political survival. The French people are all too well aware of the charlatan that poses like a Louis XIV Sun King in Elysée Palace basking in his presumed vainglory. How ironic. Kicked out of Africa… and now trying to start World War Three in Europe. How pathetic and criminal.</span><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-88589731377382370302024-03-16T00:04:00.005-05:002024-03-16T00:04:00.135-05:00Even Old Greazy Ms. Lindsey Knows Better Than That!!!<p> </p><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="585" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wdG3j0-X8M4?si=GWyrNB23Lzqc5UYW&start=158" title="YouTube video player" width="900"></iframe></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-25936450230265693322024-03-16T00:03:00.017-05:002024-03-16T00:03:00.142-05:00Why Is Chucky Hashing Out Intra-tribal Affairs On The Floor Of The "U.S." Senate?<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="585" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bydSg7sweP8?si=jkEnHauI2BenIrQo" title="YouTube video player" width="900"></iframe></div>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://archive.is/qtcp1#selection-681.0-739.350" target="_blank">NYTimes |</a> Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the majority leader, on Thursday delivered a pointed speech on the Senate floor excoriating Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel as a major obstacle to peace in the Middle East and calling for new leadership in Israel, five months into the war.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Many Democratic lawmakers have condemned Mr. Netanyahu’s leadership and his right-wing governing coalition, and President Biden has even criticized the Israeli military’s offensive in Gaza as “over the top.” But Mr. Schumer’s speech amounted to the sharpest critique yet from a senior American elected official — effectively urging Israelis to replace Mr. Netanyahu.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“I believe in his heart, his highest priority is the security of Israel,” said Mr. Schumer, the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in the United States. “However, I also believe Prime Minister Netanyahu has lost his way by allowing his political survival to take precedence over the best interests of Israel.”<br />Mr. Schumer added: “He has been too willing to tolerate the civilian toll in Gaza, which is pushing support for Israel worldwide to historic lows. Israel cannot survive if it becomes a pariah.”</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The speech was the latest reflection of the growing dissatisfaction among Democrats, particularly progressives, with Israel’s conduct of the war and its toll on Palestinian civilians, which has created a strategic and political dilemma for Mr. Biden. Republicans have tried to capitalize on that dynamic for electoral advantage, hugging Mr. Netanyahu closer as Democrats repudiate him. And on Thursday, they lashed out at Mr. Schumer for his remarks.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the minority leader, said on the Senate floor that it was “grotesque and hypocritical” for Americans “who hyperventilate about foreign interference in our own democracy to call for the removal of the democratically elected leader of Israel.” He called Mr. Schumer’s move “unprecedented.”</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“The Democratic Party doesn’t have an anti-Bibi problem,” Mr. McConnell said, referring to Mr. Netanyahu by his nickname. “It has an anti-Israel problem.”</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, called Mr. Schumer’s remarks “earth-shatteringly bad” and accused him of “calling on the people of Israel to overthrow their government.” And House Republicans, gathered in West Virginia for a party retreat, hastily called a news conference to attack Mr. Schumer for his comments and position themselves as the true friends of Israel in Congress.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mr. Schumer’s remarks came a day after Senate Republicans invited Mr. Netanyahu to speak as their special guest at a party retreat in Washington. Senator John Barrasso of Wyoming, the No. 3 Republican, asked Mr. Netanyahu to address Republicans virtually, but he could not appear because of a last-minute scheduling conflict. Ambassador Michael Herzog, Israel’s envoy to the United States, spoke in his place and also addressed the House G.O.P. gathering on Thursday.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In his speech at the Capitol, Mr. Schumer, who represents a state with more than 20 percent of the country’s Jewish population, was careful to assert that he was not trying to dictate any electoral outcome in Israel. He prefaced his harsh criticism of Mr. Netanyahu with a long defense of the country, which he said American Jews “love in our bones.”</span><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-85593624602174064592024-03-15T00:03:00.015-05:002024-03-15T00:03:00.144-05:00Dr. Martin Kulldorf Did Nothing Wrong<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="585" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8v05h4eau3k?si=iiKNMTxi0CRXww7_" title="YouTube video player" width="900"></iframe></div>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/harvard-martin-kulldorff-great-barrington-declaration/" target="_blank">childrenshealthdefense |</a> <a href="https://brownstone.org/author/martin-kulldorff/">Martin Kulldorff, Ph.D.</a>, an epidemiologist and professor of Medicine at Harvard University, on Monday confirmed the university fired him.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Kulldorff has been a <a href="https://jacobin.com/2020/09/covid-19-pandemic-economy-us-response-inequality">critic of lockdown policies</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/MartinKulldorff/status/1564252668108972033">school closures</a> and <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/vaccine-passports-prolong-lockdowns-11617726629">vaccine mandates</a>
since early in the COVID-19 pandemic. In October 2020, he published the
Great Barrington Declaration, along with co-authors Oxford
epidemiologist <a href="https://www.biology.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-sunetra-gupta">Sunetra Gupta, Ph.D.</a>, and Stanford epidemiologist and health economist <a href="https://healthpolicy.fsi.stanford.edu/people/jay_bhattacharya">Jay Bhattacharya, M.D., Ph.D.</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In an essay published Monday in <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/harvard-tramples-the-truth">City Journal</a>,
Kulldorff wrote that his anti-mandate position got him fired from the
Mass General Brigham hospital system, where he also worked, and
consequently from his Harvard faculty position.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Kulldorff detailed how his commitment to scientific inquiry put him at odds with a system that he alleged had “lost its way.”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“I am no longer a professor of medicine at Harvard,” Kulldorff wrote.
“The Harvard motto is Veritas, Latin for truth. But, as I discovered,
truth can get you fired.”</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">He noted that it was clear from early 2020 that lockdowns would be futile for controlling the pandemic.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“It was also clear that lockdowns would inflict enormous collateral
damage, not only on education but also on public health, including
treatment for cancer, cardiovascular disease, and mental health,”
Kulldorff wrote.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“We will be dealing with the harm done for decades. Our children, the
elderly, the middle class, the working class, and the poor around the
world — all will suffer.”</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">That viewpoint got little debate in the mainstream media until the epidemiologist and his colleagues published the <a href="https://gbdeclaration.org/">Great Barrington Declaration</a>, signed by nearly 1 million public health professionals from across the world.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The document made clear that no scientific consensus existed for
lockdown measures in a pandemic. It argued instead for a “focused
protection” approach for pandemic management that would protect
high-risk populations, such as elderly or medically compromised people,
and otherwise allow the <a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/">COVID-19</a> virus to circulate among the healthy population.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Although the declaration merely summed up what previously had been conventional wisdom in public health, it was subject to <a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/great-barrington-declaration-covid-lockdowns-censorship/">tremendous backlash</a>.
Emails obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request revealed
that Dr. Francis Collins, then-director of the National Institutes of
Health called for a “<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/fauci-collins-emails-great-barrington-declaration-covid-pandemic-lockdown-11640129116">devastating published takedown</a>” of the declaration and of the authors, who were subsequently slandered in mainstream and social media.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-23274742528994053392024-03-15T00:02:00.018-05:002024-03-15T00:02:00.140-05:00Dr. Martin Kulldorf Was Fired For Cause From Both Mass General And Harvard <div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="585" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/n20XrYv0_e0?si=jU6JURuLDWYIM1v6" title="YouTube video player" width="900"></iframe></div>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2024/03/13/martin-kulldorff-fired-from-harvard/" target="_blank">respectfulinsolence |</a> So what was (and is) going on? Kulldorff now says he was fired as
though the firing happened recently, but two and a half years ago he was
already referring to his time as professor of medicine at Harvard
Medical School in the past tense. Something odd is going on here but
what could it be. One big hint is his profile on the Harvard website,
which lists him as being “<a href="https://connects.catalyst.harvard.edu/Profiles/display/Person/78448" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">on leave</a>,”
which led me to immediately recognize that trying to figure out when
Kulldorff went on leave was a job for the almighty Wayback Machine at
Archive.org. There, I found that, as early as December 2021, Kulldorff’s
status had already been listed as “on leave.” So where did <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Kulldorff">Wikipedia</a>
get the idea that he had only been on leave since 2023? Whatever the
case, it’s clear that before his “firing,” Kulldorff had not been
working for Mass General Brigham or Harvard since at least November or
December 2021, given that the last archive of his webpage showing him
not on leave is <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201020032510/https://connects.catalyst.harvard.edu/Profiles/display/Person/78448">dated October 20, 2021</a> and the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211220204945/https://connects.catalyst.harvard.edu/Profiles/display/Person/78448">next one on December 20, 2021</a> shows his status as “on leave.” This time period aligns very nicely with his move to the Brownstone Institute.
</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">However, it also aligns with the Harvard vaccine mandate for the fall
2021 term. So maybe Harvard did fire him for refusing to be vaccinated
and raising all sorts of nonsensical objections, such as his claim that
it was against his religion because the vaccine mandate was more
religious than science-based? If that was the case, though, then why was
he listed as “on leave” on the website, rather than as suspended? Let’s
look further.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Here’s yet another hint. If you look at <a href="https://connects.catalyst.harvard.edu/Profiles/display/Person/78448" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Kulldorff’s Harvard listing</a>,
you’ll see that it includes his research support, specifically his
grant support. This listing indicates that he has not had NIH grant
support since 2019. To understand why this is important, you need to
know that lots of universities, but in particular Harvard Medical
School-associated positions, require faculty to maintain grant support
sufficient to cover a specific percentage of their salary. This
percentage can range from a relatively modest 30-50% to a rather
draconian 100%. (If you have to get grants to cover 100% of your salary,
I always wonder, what good is the university?) While it is true that
there is some wiggle room in that if you lose grant funding for a while
usually the university will support you until you reacquire funding, but
the university won’t support you forever. Kulldorff’s leave started a
bit more than two years after his NIH R01 grant support expired, which
is a fairly reasonable period of time for Harvard to support whatever
percentage of Kulldorff’s salary that had been grant-supported, in the
hopes that he would reacquire NIH funding.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The overall narrative is that the reason that Kulldorff had to go on
leave was because of Harvard’s vaccine mandate for its fall 2021 term,
which somewhat fits with the timeline. However, what doesn’t make sense
(at least to me, at least) about this potential explanation. Harvard <a href="https://huhs.harvard.edu/patients-and-visitors/medical-records-and-immunizations/immunization-compliance/">got rid of its vaccine mandate a week ago</a>.
Would Harvard decide to fire Kulldorff now, given that it had
progressively decreased its requirements for boosters and now has
eliminated the COVID-19 vaccine mandate altogether? Possibly. I can’t
rule it out entirely. Certainly, that’s what Kulldorff appears to be
claiming, that he was fired because he refused to be vaccinated.
However, it seems rather excessive that it took over two and a half
years. I also believe, based on my experience observing him, that
Kulldorff is not to be trusted, which is why I’m skeptical of his
explanation.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Here’s my educated guess as to what really happened, and I freely
acknowledge that it is nothing more than an educated guess. However, it <i><b>is</b></i>
a guess that makes sense given the timeline and what we know. My guess
is that in late 2021, having failed to garner any new NIH RO1 grants,
Kulldorff saw the writing on the wall and decided to go on leave in
order to accept Tucker’s offer to become senior scientific director of
the new right wing think tank that Tucker was forming, the Brownstone
Institute. (It is also possible that Harvard’s imposition of a vaccine
mandate for fall 2021 might have played into his considerations.) My
further guess is that Brigham has a limit to how long you can be on
leave before you lose your position. Here we are, over two years since
Kulldorff went on leave, and Kulldorff shows no signs of renewed
academic activity that might allow him to score new NIH or other
government grant funding. Assuming that Kulldorff was not tenured, which
now seems likely, that meant that it was time for him to go.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Of course, I still can’t totally rule out the possibility that he was
actually canned because he refused to be vaccinated against COVID-19
and that he was tenured, which somehow allowed him to drag out the
process two and a half years. However, it still seems unlikely (to me,
at least) that he would have been able to drag out the appeals process
that long even as a tenured full professor, particularly given that in
the intervening time Harvard has progressively decreased its vaccine
mandate until it got rid of it altogether a week ago. Still, it seems
rather implausible that it would take two and a half years from his
refusal to his being fired, and it seems even less plausible that
Harvard would go through with firing Kulldorff after that long given how
much the political winds have shifted with respect to mandates and how
much heat Harvard would face for doing so, in particular after its
president Claudine Gay was <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/harvard-president-resigns-amid-plagiarism-claims-backlash-from-antisemitism-testimony">forced to resign</a> over her testimony regarding campus free speech plus plagiarism charges.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-68969138807603906092024-03-14T00:02:00.001-05:002024-03-14T00:02:00.127-05:00Are Palestinians Human?<p> </p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet tw-align-center" data-media-max-width="900"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">BREAKING: <br>LEAKED audio of Columbia University vice president Gerry Rosberg unable to respond when asked if Palestinians are human. <br>He stated that this question was “intimidating”. <br>Acknowledging that Palestinians are human is “intimidating rhetoric” to Columbia admin. <a href="https://t.co/T1U2qrOQls">pic.twitter.com/T1U2qrOQls</a></p>— Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine (@ColumbiaSJP) <a href="https://twitter.com/ColumbiaSJP/status/1767659055907053789?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 12, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-50809252920746779622024-03-13T00:02:00.011-05:002024-03-13T00:02:00.131-05:00If .45 Was The Commander In Chief - Why Didn't He Decapitate The Intelligence Community?<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="585" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/w3C8ihfeQ_w?si=Ww8dpRNqMDsA9o0d&start=869" title="YouTube video player" width="900"></iframe></div>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://roburie.substack.com/p/the-cia-and-the-decline-of-the-american" target="_blank">roburie |</a> <span>While the Washington Post has long been considered the </span><a href="https://www.theamericanconservative.com/spies-journalists-and-info-ops-against-america/" rel="">mouthpiece of the CIA</a><span>,
the New York Times has been more effective at carrying water for it in
recent years. The recent longish Times article entitled </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/25/world/europe/cia-ukraine-intelligence-russia-war.html" rel="">The Spy War: How the C.I.A. Secretly Helps Ukraine Fight Putin</a><span>
contains recitation of CIA-friendly talking points that portrays it as
indispensable to ‘our’ ability to commit pointless, petty atrocities
against Russia as the US sacrifices more Ukrainians in its misguided
war. Missing from the piece is any conceivable reason for the US to
continue the war.</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/269166" rel="">oft ascribed motive</a><span> (and </span><a href="https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP77-00432R000100340008-2.pdf" rel="">here</a><span>)
for the CIA’s existence is to act as the US President’s secret army
abroad. The wisdom of this arrangement has been debated over the years.
Former US President Harry Truman, who oversaw the founding of the CIA
from its predecessor, the OSS (Office of Strategic Services), later </span><a href="https://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/peter-fenn/2015/01/28/truman-was-right-to-warn-against-cia-power" rel="">regretted the decision</a><span>
and argued that the CIA should be brought to heel. Later, the Cold War
presented cover for the CIA to act badly under the cover of national
defense.</span></span></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In Stephen Kinzer’s book, </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/All_the_Shah_s_Men/fozuEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover" rel="">All the Shah’s Men</a><span>,
the CIA paid people to pretend to be communists so as to convey the
fiction that the CIA’s effort was about ‘fighting communism’ rather than
stealing Iran’s oil. Similarly, in the </span><a href="https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/jacobo-arbenz-guzman-deposed/" rel="">US coup that ousted</a><span>
Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz for daring to raise the minimum wage
paid by foreign-owned industries in Guatemala, also featured fake
communists intended to convince the American press that the CIA was
fighting for freedom and democracy rather than to steal wages from poor
people for the benefit of rich Americans.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Together, these
imply that fake communists had been more effectively demonized by
Federal agencies than other available out groups because of the threat
they didn’t pose to American capital. Recall, in 1919 Woodrow Wilson
sent the American Expeditionary Force to join the Brits, French, and
Japanese in trying to reverse the Russian Revolution. Later, through the
Five Eyes Alliance, ‘the West’ spent the post-War era attacking the
Soviets while alleging that they were responding to political violence
that they (Five Eyes) started.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Oddly, given recent history,
the claim that the CIA is the President’s secret army still appears to
be the received wisdom in Washington and New York. This is odd because
while the CIA appears to be </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/25/world/europe/cia-ukraine-intelligence-russia-war.html" rel="">acting as Joe Biden’s secret army</a><span>
in Ukraine and Israel, it went to war with (the duly elected President
of the US) Donald Trump for his entire four years in office. While Mr.
Trump played the victim of the US intelligence agencies to perfection,
he didn’t do what many normal humans would have done in his
circumstance--- clear out the top few levels of management at CIA, the
FBI, and NSA and see where this leaves ‘us.’</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Implied
is a reversal of political causality whose proof can only be deduced. Is
Biden directing the CIA, or is the CIA directing Biden? For instance,
while Biden was Barack Obama’s point-man in Ukraine before, during, and
after the US-led coup there in 2014, Mr. Obama was </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.congress.gov/116/meeting/house/110331/documents/HMKP-116-JU00-20191211-SD994.pdf" rel="">publicly arguing</a><span>
that Ukraine was of no strategic value to the US. With Donald Trump
following Mr. Obama as President, the CIA likely saw its 2014 coup in
Ukraine going to waste. This interpretation sheds a different light on
the Hunter Biden laptop fraud perpetrated by </span><a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/media/in-the-news/biden-campaign-blinken-orchestrated-intel-letter-discredit-hunter-biden-laptop" rel="">51 current and former CIA employees</a><span>.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(FBI informant Alexander Smirnov has been </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/now-indicted-fbi-informant-was-heart-gops-case-joe-biden-rcna139200" rel="">convicted of nothing</a><span>
related to the new charges of ‘Russian interference.’ As was proved
with Russiagate, charges are easy to make, difficult to prove. No one---
not a single person, was convicted on the now antique charges of
Russian collusion. Those who were convicted were convicted on process
charges unrelated to the collusion charges. This use of the law as a
political weapon is called lawfare).</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The view in this piece
is that Donald Trump was elected in 2016 because Barack Obama threw
several trillion dollars at the malefactors on Wall Street who blew up
the global economy while he pissed on the unemployed, the foreclosed
upon, and every working person in the US. In so doing, an income and
wealth chasm was rebuilt between the public welfare recipients who run
Wall Street and Big Tech and the former industrial workers whose jobs
were sent abroad as the final solution to the ‘problem’ of organized
labor.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">With the current panic in the US over the rise of the BRICS
(China and Russia), the same politicians and economists who thought it
wise in 1995 to gut the industrial base with NAFTA are now busy
launching WWIII. These people never learn from their mistakes. For
instance, it apparently never occurred to them that outsourcing military
production might come back to bite when geopolitical tensions
inevitably flared again. Likewise, just-in-time production and inventory
management produced economic brittleness / fragility that created
problems when the Covid-19 pandemic hit.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Biden was a </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/11/06/two-capitalist-parties-compete-humanity-loses/" rel="">known quantity</a><span> when he was </span><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/21/obama-for-biden-campaign-430636" rel="">appointed by Barack Obama</a><span> to be President in 2020. The CIA, acting </span><a href="https://www.justice.gov/storage/durhamreport.pdf" rel="">in league with the FBI</a><span>, had spent prior years </span><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/19/hunter-biden-story-russian-disinfo-430276" rel="">softening up</a><span> the American public with </span><a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/02/09/why-russian-meddling-is-a-trojan-horse/" rel="">lies about US foreign policy</a><span>, </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmZoJ1vKEKk" rel="">lies about American history</a><span>, lies about Donald Trump and his supporters, lies about their own roles in </span><a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/media/in-the-news/biden-campaign-blinken-orchestrated-intel-letter-discredit-hunter-biden-laptop" rel="">rigging American elections</a><span>, lies about the </span><a href="https://roburie.substack.com/publish/posts/detail/50592766?referrer=%2Fpublish%2Fposts" rel="">American-led coup in Ukraine</a><span>, </span><a href="https://news.yahoo.com/russian-bounty-story-falls-apart-192123174.html" rel="">lies about Russian military ambitions</a><span>,
and lies about US plans for the destruction of Ukraine. To be clear,
these American agencies weren’t lying to the Russians. They were / are
lying to the only people who believe their bullshit--- Americans.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">So,
where is this going? With the CIA’s and FBI’s undermining of the
elected President’s (Trump) political agenda and its open efforts to rig
the 2020 election in favor of his opponent (Biden), it certainly
appears that the CIA is now running the US. Biden’s foreign policy
team---Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, and Victoria Nuland emerged from
the Clintonite death cult buried deep within the bowels of the American
foreign policy establishment, That they appear to be as uninformed and
arrogant as their policy outcomes to date suggest they are is only a
surprise inside Washington and New York.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">However, this is at best a
partial explanation. What is surprising about US foreign policy is how
ignorant of world history, US history, basic diplomacy, military
tactics, economic relations, and basic human decency the American
political leadership is. It’s almost as if the answer to every foreign
policy conundrum of the last century has been to bomb civilian
populations, kill a whole lot of people, and then pretend it never
happened. Vietnam? Check. Nicaragua? Check. Syria? Check. Iraq? Check.
Ukraine? How can the body counts be hidden from beleaguered, clueless,
citizens so effectively?</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Some recent history: the US launched a war against Russia when it (the US) </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.scmp.com/video/1606855/recorded-conversation-between-asst-sec-state-victoria-nuland-and-amb-jeffery-pyatt" rel="">invaded Ukraine in an unprovoked coup</a><span> there in 2014 (see </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoW75J5bnnE" rel="">here</a><span>, </span><a href="https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs/2017-12-12/nato-expansion-what-gorbachev-heard-western-leaders-early" rel="">here</a><span>, </span><a href="https://responsiblestatecraft.org/cia-ukraine-russia/" rel="">here</a><span>)
and ousted its elected government. The Russians had taken issue with
the US / NATO surrounding it with NATO-allied states (maps below). Years
earlier, as Russian President Vladimir Putin stated in his recent </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOCWBhuDdDo" rel="">interview</a><span>
with Tucker Carlson, Mr. Putin had approached former US President Bill
Clinton about Russia joining NATO. Mr. Clinton ‘spoke with his people’
before telling Mr. Putin no to joining NATO </span><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?102025-1/nato-expansion" rel="">as he reneged</a><span> on George H.W. Bush’ s promise to keep NATO away from Russia’s border.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A
bit of additional history is needed here. The USSR was dissolved in
1991 to be replaced by non-communist Russia surrounded by former Soviet
states. Ukraine is one such state. The political – economic reference
point of post-Soviet Russia was an anachronistic form of neoliberalism.
Recall, Americans had been told since at least the early twentieth
century that ‘communism’ was the ideological foe of Western liberalism.
Current Russian President Vladimir Putin is proudly anti-communist. But
the US MIC (military-industrial complex), of which the CIA is a part,
needs enemies to justify its existence.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Following the
dissolution of the USSR (1991), there was discussion inside the US
regarding a ‘peace dividend,’ of redirecting military spending inflated
by the Cold War towards domestic purposes like schools, hospitals, and
civilian infrastructure. However, the CIA had been so hemmed in by
Federal budget constraints that it had </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://ips-dc.org/the_cia_contras_gangs_and_crack/" rel="">inserted itself into</a><span>
the international narcotics trade forty years prior in apparent
anticipation of just such an event. With the (George H.W.) Bush
recession of 1991, an election year, the peace dividend was rescinded.</span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-54669068492858745682024-03-12T00:02:00.013-05:002024-03-12T00:02:00.247-05:00Britain's Role In Sustaining The Zionist Entity<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="585" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dbn4i7_CFIM?si=7xm6M3H7YKOYKlLE" title="YouTube video player" width="900"></iframe></div>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://thecradle.co/articles-id/23749" target="_blank">thecradle |</a>
British Defense Minister James Heappey informed parliament that Israeli
military operatives are “currently … posted in the UK,” both within Tel
Aviv’s diplomatic mission “and as participants in UK defense-led
training courses.” This hitherto unacknowledged arrangement amply
demonstrates how, despite </span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y-R7u7ite0"><span style="color: #4a6ee0;">recent calls</span></a><span style="color: #0e101a;"> from
officials in London for Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to exercise
restraint in its genocide of Gaza – if not institute a ceasefire – the
UK remains international Zionism’s covert nerve center.</span></span><span><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-size: medium;">Mere days earlier, Heappey </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2024-02-01/12729"><span style="color: #4a6ee0;">likewise admitted</span></a><span style="color: #0e101a;"> that
nine Israeli military aircraft landed in Britain since Operation Al
Aqsa Flood on 7 October last year. Investigations by independent
investigative website Declassified UK show that Royal Air Force
aircraft </span><a href="https://www.declassifieduk.org/u-k-is-training-israeli-military-in-britain/"><span style="color: #4a6ee0;">have flown</span></a><span style="color: #0e101a;"> to
and from Israel in the same period, along with 65 spy plane missions
launched from the UK’s vast, little-known military and intelligence </span><a href="https://commonwealthchamber.com/associated-territories/sovereign-base-areas-of-akrotiri-and-dhekelia-on-cyprus/"><span style="color: #4a6ee0;">base in Cyprus</span></a><span style="color: #0e101a;">.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-size: medium;">The
purpose of those flights and who and/or what they carried are a state
secret. Freedom of Information requests have been denied, Britain's
Ministry of Defense has refused to comment, and local media is by and
large silent. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-size: medium;">Nonetheless, in </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://twitter.com/declassifieduk/status/1681202286612082695?s=12&t=36dTnOCYhvcJ2igaIuakuA"><span style="color: #4a6ee0;">July 2023</span></a><span style="color: #0e101a;">,
British ministers admitted that the UK's training of Israeli military
personnel includes battlefield medical assistance, “organizational
design and concepts,” and “defense education.” It is unknown if that
“education” has in any way informed </span><a href="https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/nearly-30000-palestinians-killed-during-82-day-israeli-genocide-gaza-enar"><span style="color: #4a6ee0;">the slaughter</span></a><span style="color: #0e101a;"> of more than 30,000 Palestinians since 7 October.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-size: medium;"><b>British military presence in occupied Palestine </b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-size: medium;">Yet,
indications that London has long provided a highly influential guiding
hand to Tel Aviv in its oppression and mass murder of Palestinians are
unambiguous, even if hidden in plain sight. For example, in </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/israeli-fighter-jets-to-take-part-in-exercise-over-british-skies/"><span style="color: #4a6ee0;">September 2019</span></a><span style="color: #0e101a;">, the Israeli air force participated in a joint combat exercise with its British, German, and Italian counterparts. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-size: medium;">The
Israelis deployed F-15 warplanes for the purpose, which have been
blitzing Gaza on a virtually daily basis since 7 October,
indiscriminately flattening schools, hospitals, businesses, and homes
and killing untold innocents.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-size: medium;">A year earlier, in October 2022, it was </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2022-10-18/66031/"><span style="color: #4a6ee0;">quietly admitted</span></a><span style="color: #0e101a;"> in
parliament that London maintains several “permanent military personnel
in Israel,” all posted in the British Embassy in Tel Aviv:</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-size: medium;">“They
carry out key activities in defense engagement and diplomacy. The
Ministry of Defense supports the HMG Middle East Peace Process Programme
in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Israel. The program aims to
help protect the political and physical viability of a two-state
solution. We would not disclose the location and numbers of military
personnel for security reasons.”</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-size: medium;"><b>'Joint activity'</b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-size: medium;">Netanyahu
and other Israeli officials have openly and repeatedly boasted of their
personal role in blocking Palestinian statehood. We are thus left to
ponder what these British operatives are truly concerned about – it
certainly isn’t protecting “the political and physical viability of a
two-state solution,” as that entire project was evidently never
“viable,” by design. It could be those “permanent military personnel”
who are present under the auspices of a highly confidential </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.declassifieduk.org/the-icc-must-investigate-british-ministers-for-gaza-war-crimes-heres-how/"><span style="color: #4a6ee0;">December 2020</span></a><span style="color: #0e101a;"> military cooperation agreement inked by London and Tel Aviv.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-size: medium;">British
Ministry of Defense officials describe the agreement as an “important
piece of defense diplomacy,” which “strengthens” military ties between
the pair while providing “a mechanism for planning our joint activity.” </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-size: medium;">Its
contents are nonetheless concealed not only from the public but also
from elected lawmakers. Speculation can only abound that the agreement
compels Britain to defend Israel in the event it is attacked. Such
suspicions are only compounded by the </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.kitklarenberg.com/p/britains-sas-abetting-gaza-genocide"><span style="color: #4a6ee0;">visible presence</span></a><span style="color: #0e101a;"> of the UK’s elite SAS forces in Gaza today.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-size: medium;">As a </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://thecradle.co/articles/secrecy-shrouds-british-military-actions-in-lebanon"><span style="color: #4a6ee0;">December 2023</span></a><span style="color: #0e101a;"> investigation by <i>The Cradle</i> revealed,
this apparent deployment is protected from media and public scrutiny by
a dedicated Ministry of Defense-issued D-notice, as are other ominous
indicators Britain is shaping the theater and setting the stage in West
Asia for a full-blown, protracted region-wide war. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-size: medium;">This included an as-yet-failed effort </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://thecradle.co/articles-id/13215"><span style="color: #4a6ee0;">to pressure Beirut</span></a><span style="color: #0e101a;"> into
allowing armed British soldiers total, unrestricted freedom of movement
within Lebanon, along with immunity from arrest and prosecution for
committing <i>any </i>crime.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-size: medium;"><b>The monarchy's departure from neutrality</b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-size: medium;">At </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://twitter.com/AlanRMacLeod/status/1713498386018582881"><span style="color: #4a6ee0;">countless protests</span></a><span style="color: #0e101a;"> the
world over in solidarity with Palestinians since last October,
demonstrators have brandished banners and signs imploring US President
Joe Biden to impose a ceasefire in Gaza, if not order Netanyahu to seek
peace. It is a noble demand, yet potentially misdirected. The true power
to halt Tel Aviv’s current push to fulfill Zionism’s genocidal founding
mission may not lie in Washington DC but in London – specifically,
Buckingham Palace.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-size: medium;">An
extraordinary and largely unremarked upon development since Israel’s
military assault on Gaza began has been the British monarchy’s shameless
abandonment of “political neutrality” over Israel. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-size: medium;">Queen
Elizabeth II, publicly at least, refrained from commenting on current
affairs or appearing to take “sides” on any issue throughout her 70-year
reign. However, her recently coronated son has apparently, without
fanfare, comprehensively shredded that longstanding convention.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-size: medium;"><b>King Charles the Zionist </b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-size: medium;">Within hours of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’s eruption, King Charles </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/uks-king-charles-appalled-by-barbaric-acts-israel-spokesperson-says-2023-10-11/"><span style="color: #4a6ee0;">openly condemned</span></a><span style="color: #0e101a;"> Hamas,
saying he was “profoundly distressed” and “appalled” by the “horrors
inflicted” by the resistance group and its “barbaric acts of terrorism.”
Hamas is not recognized as a terrorist entity by a majority of
countries internationally, while the BBC – which has relentlessly </span><a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/analysis/western-media-manufactures-consent-for-gaza-genocide"><span style="color: #4a6ee0;">manufactured consent</span></a><span style="color: #0e101a;"> for genocide in Gaza every step of the way – rejects the </span><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67083432"><span style="color: #4a6ee0;">designation’s use</span></a><span style="color: #0e101a;">.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-size: medium;">In the years immediately prior to taking the throne, Charles made his Zionism </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-royal-familys-800-year-relationship-with-britains-jews-in-7-historical-tidbits/"><span style="color: #4a6ee0;">abundantly clear</span></a><span style="color: #0e101a;">,
breaking with his mother’s unspoken policy of not visiting Israel,
secretly attending the funerals of former Israeli leaders Yitzhak Rabin
and Shimon Peres. In the latter instance, in 2016, he also </span><a href="https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-716906"><span style="color: #4a6ee0;">visited the graves</span></a><span style="color: #0e101a;"> of
his grandmother, Princess Alice, and her aunt, Grand Duchess Elisabeth,
in a cemetery on Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives, near the world’s largest
Jewish cemetery. Both were Christian Zionists.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-size: medium;">The Jerusalem Post </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-716906"><span style="color: #4a6ee0;">approvingly dubbed</span></a><span style="color: #0e101a;"> Charles’
Zionist sympathies and familial connection to the Mount “a problem for
Palestinians,” arguing he has a clear view of “who the city and the
country belong to.” Meanwhile, the Times of Israel </span><a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/king-charles-iii-a-friend-to-uk-jewry-with-special-and-historic-ties-to-israel/"><span style="color: #4a6ee0;">has hailed</span></a><span style="color: #0e101a;"> him as “a friend” to Jewry “with special and historic ties to Israel.” One such “tie” was an </span><a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/prince-charles-mourns-uks-rabbi-jonathan-sacks-he-spanned-sacred-and-secular/"><span style="color: #4a6ee0;">intimate friendship</span></a><span style="color: #0e101a;"> with Britain’s former chief Rabbi and President of United Jewish Israel Appeal, Jonathan Sacks.</span></span></p></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="585" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/egfCTz-ZuZU?si=3lCw4329eRgrOX1m" title="YouTube video player" width="900"></iframe></span></div><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-5126714555928213092024-03-11T00:02:00.012-05:002024-03-11T00:02:00.132-05:00This Is Why Valodya Is Hated By The Patrons Of "Our Democracy"<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="585" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/48Kk7kobMQY?si=ajGlmLvtfqOQZSu7" title="YouTube video player" width="900"></iframe></div>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/05/world/europe/05russia.html" target="_blank">NYTimes |</a> PIKALEVO, Russia
Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin arrived here by helicopter on Thursday
to publicly chastise the three businessmen who jointly own the city’s
lone factory, which has not paid its workers for the last three months.
He saved his sharpest criticism for <a class="css-yywogo" href="http://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/10/billionaires08_Oleg-Deripaska_UCP9.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="Profile of Deripaska">Oleg Deripaska</a>, once Russia’s richest man.</span></p><div class="css-53u6y8" style="text-align: justify;"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><span style="font-size: medium;">“I wanted the authors of what happened here to see it with their own eyes,” Mr. Putin said in <a class="css-yywogo" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ievtOub0OEw" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="Video of the meeting from YouTube.com (in Russian)">a televised meeting</a>
inside the factory. “Addressing these authors, I must say that you’ve
made thousands of residents of Pikalevo hostages of your ambition, your
nonprofessionalism and maybe your greed. Thousands of people. It’s
totally unacceptable.” </span></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mr. Deripaska
hung his head like a schoolboy. Meanwhile, $1.5 million in back wages
flowed into citizens’ bank accounts, and snaking lines appeared in front
of cash dispensers all over the city.</span></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mr.
Putin’s intervention in Pikalevo, population 22,000, comes as similar
economic troubles unfold across Russia’s industrial heartland, despite
the recent rise in world oil prices, which has relieved some budgetary
pressures on the Kremlin. There are at least 400 Russian “mono-cities,”
places like Pikalevo where the shuttering of a single factory could
throw a whole population into crisis.</span></p><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Since late last
year, sociologists have debated whether these towns had the potential to
explode or whether Russians would quietly adapt to hardship, as they
have in the past. For months, evidence has pointed to the latter. </span></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><span style="font-size: medium;">But
that calculus changed this week in Pikalevo, where many workers have
been surviving on staples like cabbage soup and becoming progressively
angrier. When the local utility shut off the city’s hot water over
unpaid wages in mid-May, a group of them <a class="css-yywogo" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr7LvSTmNmI" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="A Russian news report of the incdient (youtube.com)">forced their way into the mayor’s office</a>. On Tuesday, several hundred people <a class="css-yywogo" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxD9OhL-WoE" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="A Russian news report of the incident (youtube.com)">blocked a federal highway</a> for six hours; the next step, they said, was blocking the railroad, or a hunger strike.</span></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><span style="font-size: medium;">During
his visit, Mr. Putin took pains to say he did not approve of the
workers’ protest actions, and even suggested that demonstrators had been
paid to participate. But the police did not disperse Pikalevo’s
demonstrators, mostly middle-age women who had logged decades at the
factory. As they celebrated, citizens here said they could never have
attracted Mr. Putin’s attention if it were not for the protests. </span></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><span style="font-size: medium;">Pikalevo
“is not dying, it’s already practically dead,” said Aleksandr Kruglov,
26. “People were so worried about their families that they went out into
the street. I think it is the only way to defend yourself.” </span></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><span style="font-size: medium;">That
message could resonate in other industrial cities. Mikhail Viktorovich
Shmakov, chairman of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions, said
Thursday that the protest mood was rising in “many one-factory towns,”
among them the cities of Tsvetlogorsk and Baikalsk, where 42 employees
of a paper mill have begun a hunger strike over unpaid wages.</span></p></div><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-79329551811090886432024-03-10T12:10:00.000-05:002024-03-10T12:10:20.328-05:00Did The Black Nobility's Power Survive The 20th Century?<blockquote class="twitter-tweet tw-align-center" data-media-max-width="900"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">The Banks that control the world are run by by the Rothschilds family. Mayer Rothschil 5 sons were sent by their father on his dying bed to control vital parts of Europe through loans and interest. <br /><br />The Rothschild family is behind The Federal Reserve and the creation of Israel.… <a href="https://t.co/eA5VUCegj2">pic.twitter.com/eA5VUCegj2</a></p>— Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives (@dom_lucre) <a href="https://twitter.com/dom_lucre/status/1765907830312218803?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 8, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://ia903405.us.archive.org/32/items/2021-02-11-16-33-06-1613075586/2021-02-11-16-33-06_1613075586.pdf" target="_blank">archive |</a> The black nobility is the base of the global crime syndicate that controls this planet. The black nobility or black aristocracy are the aristocratic families that sided with the papacy under Pope Pius IX after the army of the Kingdom of Italy led by the Savoy family entered Rome on September 20, 1870, overthrew the pope . and the Papal States, and took over the Quirinal Palace, and the nobles later ennobled by the Pope prior to the Lateran Treaty of 1929. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Any family that produced popes for the Vatican is royalty. Most of the black nobility are Vatican royalty. The black nobility consider themselves sovereign princes. These families earned the title of "black" nobility for their relentless unscrupulousness. They used murder, rape, kidnapping, robbery and all kinds of deception on a large scale, without resisting the achievement of their objectives.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The black nobility were the families that financed and created the holy corporation of the Vatican with the aim of imposing world slavery as a necessary institution, with the sole belief that some are born to rule and others to be ruled. The idea that certain families were born to rule as an arbitrary elite, while the vast majority of a given population is condemned to oppression, servitude, or slavery became the theological position of this elite. The "New World Order" is an attempt to take control of society by these fascist families with the purpose of the total slavery of humanity. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Vatican is an imperial nation and is the largest empire in this world. The Vatican City, or the Holy Vatican Corporation, officially the Vatican City State, is a nation that operates as the largest intelligence network in the world. The Holy See is the "All-Seeing Eye" in society and a corporate entity connected to many other corporations and governments through papal and royal statutes. Archbishops and high-level bishops are the overseers of society within their districts and oversee politics, police, business, and organized crime. The same year that the professor of ecclesiastical law and practical philosophy at the University of Ingolstadt, Adam Weishaupt, created the Order of the Illuminati, was the same year that they created the United States as a corporation to run it as their private army and lead I dig the agenda of a "New World Order" for the elites, mainly, thanks to the infiltrated Freemasonry and directed by the Jesuits. The New World Order is a conspiracy of lineage at the top. They are ancient and evil bloodlines that build and destroy empires for control through an order out of chaos. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Royal and noble houses are corporate entities and claim to rule and own land, resources, and people. Landlords have always been the dominant owners of gold and precious metals. They empower and finance bankers and entrepreneurs to work for them through their corporate homes. They authorize and issue the creation of laws, agencies, the military, companies, and universities. They create and run religions and secret societies. They also finance and organize organized crime syndicates as if they were commercial enterprises. Some of the major royal bloodlines include Savoy, Bourbon, Medici, Glücksburg, Wittelsbach, Nassau-Weilberg, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Romanov, Grimaldi, Orleans, Braganza, Habsburg, Hannover, Windsor, Saud, Thani, Khalifa, Alouwite , Zogu, Hohenzollern, Orange-Nassau, Bonaparte and Bernadotte. Many royal bloodlines still rule their nations as heads of state such as the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Monaco, Spain, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Morocco, Sweden, Norway, and Luxembourg.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Vatican City State is also a kingdom with the Pope of Rome as its monarch. The Black Nobility are the ancient bloodlines of the Papal States and they own the Holy See and the Vatican. They produced the first popes of Rome and held leadership positions in the Vatican from its inception. The Colonna and Torlonia still hold the hereditary positions of the Assistant Princes to the Papal Throne. The black nobility consider themselves sovereign princes. The Vatican is used as a central point of control and the Holy See is one of the oldest and most criminal corporate entities in existence. The Spanish Catholic Church is immensely rich, it has not suffered the crisis and also enjoys a true tax haven, being free to pay taxes, such as the IBI, works, companies, etc. The vast majority of the assets in their possession and on their accounts are completely opaque. This situation is illegitimate, unfair and presumably illegal, and this occurs with the complicity and consent of the public powers.</span><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-22226829455572920292024-03-09T00:02:00.016-06:002024-03-09T00:02:00.139-06:00Channeling James David Manning....,<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="585" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/npG8LF9s4ws?si=4KGvBOpTVlkLUrcv" title="YouTube video player" width="900"></iframe></div>
<p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://archive.is/VX52u#selection-4465.0-4585.12" target="_blank"> NYTimes |</a> <span>Mark
Robinson, the Republican nominee for governor of North Carolina, has
for some reason not bothered to take down his old Facebook posts about
the Jews.</span></span></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">“There
is a REASON the liberal media fills the airwaves with programs about
the NAZI and the ‘6 million Jews’ they murdered,” Robinson, the state’s
lieutenant governor, <a href="https://archive.is/o/VX52u/https://www.facebook.com/mark.k.robinson.3/posts/pfbid02BuUCj5g2LVMaPb7G7XQMMfpp3X71ZrXfuuqcf1rUtbzydc7AzhdxXJdSpirpBQqal" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px rgb(50, 104, 145); color: #326891; cursor: pointer; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline 1px rgb(50, 104, 145); vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">wrote</a>
in one 2017 post. (The reason was left unsaid, but the scare quotes
spoke loudly.) He regularly argued on Facebook that focusing on the
evils of Nazism obscured the greater danger: the one represented by the
Democratic Party. “George Soros is alive. Adolf Hitler is dead,” he <a href="https://archive.is/o/VX52u/https://www.facebook.com/804552359/posts/pfbid0jnc4Xm7Z6Mm5JHVU7pqbjiVZ2AtZKJTEYcRGAnaYPuXVTkSzCQJ15i8xE7zhpaJNl/?mibextid=cr9u03" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px rgb(50, 104, 145); color: #326891; cursor: pointer; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline 1px rgb(50, 104, 145); vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">wrote</a> in one post, and in <a href="https://archive.is/o/VX52u/https://www.facebook.com/804552359/posts/pfbid029xoT5pwWFwH3fmgDzWbgJBiWLTifHHTKYS2mdC2EMB1an7HK5VvydSXRan6KLW18l/?mibextid=DcJ9fc" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px rgb(50, 104, 145); color: #326891; cursor: pointer; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline 1px rgb(50, 104, 145); vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">another</a>, “Who do you think has been pushing this Nazi boogeyman narrative all these years?”</span></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">In
2018, Robinson, who is Black, offered some thoughts about what he
seemed to see as a Jewish plot behind the hit movie “Black Panther.” The
title character, he <a href="https://archive.is/o/VX52u/https://www.facebook.com/804552359/posts/pfbid0AihssktAjTqVNW2iJ2nTAn3gsFjZYyJHK75wvNcdYpa6VMDzJUjuPkpXZkKceSZzl/?mibextid=DcJ9fc" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px rgb(50, 104, 145); color: #326891; cursor: pointer; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline 1px rgb(50, 104, 145); vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">wrote</a>,
was “created by an agnostic Jew and put to film by satanic Marxist,”
calling the movie “trash” that was “created to pull the shekels” from
the pockets of Black people, whom he referred to using a Yiddish slur.
He has refused to apologize for these statements, though he called them
“poorly worded” and has denied that he’s antisemitic.</span></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">None
of this appears to have hurt Robinson with the Republican electorate in
North Carolina, where on Tuesday he won nearly 65 percent of the vote
in the gubernatorial primary. (In November, he will face the Democratic
state attorney general, Josh Stein, who is Jewish.) Donald Trump
enthusiastically endorsed Robinson, <a href="https://archive.is/o/VX52u/https://apnews.com/article/north-carolina-donald-trump-endorsement-governor-cf9092cc8c10d0f2106aacedc63fd8af" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px rgb(50, 104, 145); color: #326891; cursor: pointer; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline 1px rgb(50, 104, 145); vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">calling him</a>
“better than Martin Luther King.” We’re in the middle of a wrenching
national discussion about antisemitism on the left, and where it
overlaps with anti-Zionism. But Robinson is a reminder that in electoral
politics, there is far more tolerance for antisemitism in the
Republican Party than the Democratic one.</span></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">I
don’t want to downplay the problem of left-wing antisemitism or its
closely related cousin, a jejune anti-imperialism that treats Hamas as
heroes. Both phenomena have shocked me in the months since Oct. 7, and
shouldn’t be rationalized as understandable reactions to Israeli
savagery in Gaza.</span></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">In an Atlantic cover story, Franklin Foer recently <a href="https://archive.is/o/VX52u/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/04/us-anti-semitism-jewish-american-safety/677469/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px rgb(50, 104, 145); color: #326891; cursor: pointer; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline 1px rgb(50, 104, 145); vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">reported</a>
on anti-Jewish bullying, vandalism and conspiracy-mongering in Northern
California. “In the hatred that I witnessed in the Bay Area, and that
has been evident on college campuses and in progressive activist circles
nationwide, I’ve come to see left-wing antisemitism as characterized by
many of the same violent delusions as the right-wing strain,” he wrote.
The fact that this kind of antisemitism more often comes from random
civilians than public officials or authority figures is unlikely to
comfort most Jews, who’ve inherited a deep fear of the mob as well as
the autocrat.</span></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Still,
we should be clear about which political faction is willing to give
antisemites power. And even if you believe that the Michigan Democrat
Rashida Tlaib’s use of the anti-Zionist slogan “from the river to the
sea” is obviously antisemitic — I don’t — it’s worth asking why it
received so much more coverage than Robinson’s apparent Holocaust
denial, or for that matter, the promotion of antisemitic websites and
social media posts by Republican congressmen like Arizona’s <a href="https://archive.is/o/VX52u/https://azmirror.com/2023/04/17/paul-gosar-promoted-an-antisemitic-website-that-praised-him-for-condemning-jewish-warmongers/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px rgb(50, 104, 145); color: #326891; cursor: pointer; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline 1px rgb(50, 104, 145); vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">Paul Gosar</a> and Georgia’s <a href="https://archive.is/o/VX52u/https://jewishinsider.com/2024/03/mike-collins-georgia-tweet-esther-panitch/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px rgb(50, 104, 145); color: #326891; cursor: pointer; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline 1px rgb(50, 104, 145); vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">Mike Collins</a>.</span></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">According
to NBC News’s Ben Goggin, this year, white nationalists had an
unusually easy time penetrating the Conservative Political Action
Conference, keynoted by Trump. “At the Young Republican mixer Friday
evening, a group of Nazis who openly identified as national socialists
mingled with mainstream conservative personalities, including some from
Turning Point USA, and discussed ‘race science’ and antisemitic
conspiracy theories,” Goggin <a href="https://archive.is/o/VX52u/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nazis-mingle-openly-cpac-spreading-antisemitic-conspiracy-theories-fin-rcna140335" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px rgb(50, 104, 145); color: #326891; cursor: pointer; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline 1px rgb(50, 104, 145); vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">wrote</a>. If this caused a national uproar, I missed it.</span></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">There
are several reasons that anti-Jewish attitudes on the right — including
Robinson’s — often don’t get the attention they should. For one thing,
they’re old news. Back in 2022, the scholars Eitan Hersh and Laura
Royden debunked the idea that antisemitism is a similar problem on both
left-and right-wing ideological extremes, <a href="https://archive.is/o/VX52u/https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10659129221111081" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px rgb(50, 104, 145); color: #326891; cursor: pointer; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline 1px rgb(50, 104, 145); vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">writing</a>,
“The data show the epicenter of antisemitic attitudes is young adults
on the far right.” Antisemitism at Columbia University, located in a
city with the largest Jewish population in the world, is surprising in a
way that antisemitism among, say, Trump supporters no longer is.</span></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">And
like Trump — who, let’s remember, had dinner with the antisemitic
rapper Ye and leading white nationalist Nick Fuentes in 2022 — Robinson
has many other terrible qualities that can overshadow his history of
anti-Jewish rhetoric. Chief among them is his misogyny. The lieutenant
governor is in the news for a recently <a href="https://archive.is/o/VX52u/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/north-carolina-gop-mark-robinson-women-vote_n_65e7d899e4b0f9d26cacc002" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px rgb(50, 104, 145); color: #326891; cursor: pointer; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline 1px rgb(50, 104, 145); vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">unearthed video</a>
from 2020 in which he said, “I absolutely want to go back to the
America where women couldn’t vote.” (His somewhat incomprehensible
argument was that in those halcyon days, Republicans led on issues
including women’s suffrage.) “The only thing worse than a woman who
doesn’t know her place is a man who doesn’t know his,” he wrote in 2017.</span></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">There’s
also a tendency for some in the Jewish establishment to overlook
antisemitism among supporters of Israel. That’s how we ended up with the
end-times preacher John Hagee, who has <a href="https://archive.is/o/VX52u/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/divisive-pastor-john-hagee-criticism-role-march-israel-rcna125346" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px rgb(50, 104, 145); color: #326891; cursor: pointer; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline 1px rgb(50, 104, 145); vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">said</a>
that Hitler was sent by God to drive the Jews to their rightful home in
the holy land, speaking at a major November rally against antisemitism,
and the Anti-Defamation League <a href="https://archive.is/o/VX52u/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/20/opinion/adl-elon-musk-antisemitism.html" style="border: 0px rgb(50, 104, 145); color: #326891; cursor: pointer; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline 1px rgb(50, 104, 145); vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">praising</a> Elon Musk, despite both Musk’s own antisemitic posts and the platform he’s given to <a href="https://archive.is/o/VX52u/https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxjyxq/an-official-organization-on-x-is-just-openly-glorifying-hitler-now" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px rgb(50, 104, 145); color: #326891; cursor: pointer; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline 1px rgb(50, 104, 145); vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">virulent</a> Jew-hat</span><span style="font-size: medium;">ers.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-36445076017931145982024-03-09T00:01:00.001-06:002024-03-09T00:01:00.256-06:00How Has ATLAH Managed To Survive All These Years?<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="585" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FhhZyC3h4h4?si=sEDgJ_cxAk3IBv_O" title="YouTube video player" width="900"></iframe></div>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.wnyc.org/story/former-students-make-new-allegations-against-harlem-private-school-described-cult/" target="_blank">wnyc |</a> The Atlah World Missionary Church in Harlem, and its pastor, James
Manning, have been the subject of long-standing criticism due to a
history of homophobic and incendiary statements. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In a <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/harlem-atlah-church-james-david-manning_n_5cba0a9ae4b06605e3ee5cde">HuffPost investigation published last spring</a>,
former students at the church's private school in Harlem also described
suffering psychological abuse and estrangement from their families
under Manning's leadership. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Now, three more former students have come forward to corroborate the
original investigation by HuffPost reporter Rebecca Klein, and <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/atlah-high-school-harlem-part-2_n_5ddd4e63e4b0d50f3297fd84">share allegations</a>
of their own. One of them, David, told Klein he was kicked out of the
school and the church for wearing sneakers. Then his mother, an Atlah
Church member, kicked him out of their home. They no longer have a
relationship. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The city's Department of Education says it has opened a probe
into Atlah High School, seven months after Klein's initial
reporting. She says the agency is responsible for ensuring private
schools provide <span>instruction that is "substantially equivalent"</span><span> to
that of public schools -- but it's still unclear who is responsible for
investigating how the school and Manning are treating students. </span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"I spent a long time trying to figure out who specifically was
responsible for this school and this type of school and I was
ping-ponged all around," Klein said. <br /></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="585" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0hnWQ8hlGKA?si=nzggU3o0MvSFbkuS" title="YouTube video player" width="900"></iframe></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-90490407187560533762024-03-08T13:22:00.003-06:002024-03-08T13:22:25.815-06:00The State Of The Union<p> </p><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="585" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XxNPCRUAdOM?si=qiFxaUuJ9Yv86-xJ" title="YouTube video player" width="900"></iframe></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-38405547765151384052024-03-08T00:02:00.014-06:002024-03-08T00:02:00.123-06:00Oligarchs Unaccustomed To Online Rough And Tumble Despise Free Speech<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="585" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/X8SZi7bDtD4?si=FTNyCVJfmm4di4Gu" title="YouTube video player" width="900"></iframe></div>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://endoftheamericandream.com/there-is-a-war-on-free-speech-and-they-wont-ever-be-satisfied-until-it-is-completely-eradicated/" target="_blank">endoftheamericandream |</a> The freedom to say whatever we want is one of the most fundamental
rights in a free society. If we are not free to speak up, it is is just
a matter of time before all of our other rights are taken away as
well. So it should deeply alarm all of us that free speech is under
attack like never before. Much of the population has become convinced
that “hate speech” is a special class of speech that does not deserve
protection. Of course in practice “hate speech” ends up being whatever
forms of expression that the leftist elite hate. That is why “hate
speech” laws are always written so vaguely. That way they can be used
to go after whoever the leftist elite feel like going after at the time.
</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It is not always easy to have a society where people are allowed to
say whatever they want. People say things all the time that deeply,
deeply offend me. And there are some that have said things about me
that are tremendously hateful and untrue.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">But if we are going to have a free society, people have got to be
free to say whatever they want. So we should never support freedom of
speech being taken away from anyone, because once we start going down
that slippery slope it is just a matter of time before they come after
our freedom to say what we want.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">That is why what is happening in the state of Washington is so alarming. A new law would allow private individuals to collect <a href="https://libertysentinel.org/send-your-neighbor-to-prison-for-wrongspeak-get-2000-from-taxpayers-in-state-of-washington/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="up to $2,000">up to $2,000</a> every time they report someone to the new “hate crimes and bias incidents hotline”…</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2023-24/Pdf/Bills/Senate%20Bills/5427.pdf?q=20240303122231" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="Senate Bill 5427">Senate Bill 5427</a>,
after it is signed into law, would allow private individuals (note:
this is not limited to American citizens) to report “bias incidents<b>*</b>”
(see definition below) to the State Attorney General’s Office, with the
possibility of receiving up to $2,000 of taxpayers money for this<b> noncriminal
incident. The bill was very clear: this is a non-crime which they will
then forward to local law enforcement to investigate. </b>What’s to investigate? No crime, no investigation.</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">The Progressives & Marxists who sponsored this bill say it is intended to help “victims of hate crimes” <b>before</b> a crime even happens. Say what? In reality, <b>SB 5427</b> would
create a “tattletale hotline,” undermine legitimate criminal
investigations, and freeze, not just chill, speech & the press in
Washington State. People will stop talking to others and writing to
others except very close friends & relatives, for fear a greedy <b><a href="https://dianelgruber.substack.com/p/red-flag-laws-putting-karens-in-charge" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="“Karen”&nbsp;">“Karen” </a></b>will report them to Washington’s version of the Gestapo.</span></p></blockquote></div>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This is crazy.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Do we live in East Germany now?</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It has been pointed out that those that use social media could make a fortune reporting their fellow citizens to the new <a href="https://libertysentinel.org/send-your-neighbor-to-prison-for-wrongspeak-get-2000-from-taxpayers-in-state-of-washington/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="“tattletale hotline”">“tattletale hotline”</a>…</span></p>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>“Spend five minutes on Twitter on any given
day and I assure someone would say something offensive under this law
that we could call a ‘hate crime’ and collect $2,000 from the attorney
general,”</b></i> Conservative Ladies of Washington Founder and President Julie Barrett told the Senate Ways and Means Committee at a Feb. 20 <b>public hearing</b>. <i><b>“It
potentially target[s] people for actions they don’t like, but are not
actually hate crimes. In collaboration with bills like <a href="https://dianelgruber.substack.com/p/its-baaaaaack-bill-to-jail-americans" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="HB 1333">HB 1333</a>, this would create sort of a ‘tattletale hotline’ to report people one doesn’t agree with or doesn’t like.”</b></i></span></p></blockquote></div>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Of course we have seen similar efforts in other states.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In New York, Governor Kathy Hochul intends to <a href="https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/following-90-spike-reported-hate-crimes-governor-hochul-proposes-major-expansion-hate-crimes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="massively expand">massively expand</a> the hate crime laws in her state…</span></p>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Governor Kathy Hochul today highlighted her
groundbreaking State of the State proposal to expand the list of charges
eligible to be prosecuted as hate crimes and announced grant funding to
strengthen safety and security measures at nonprofit, community-based
organizations at risk of hate crimes or attacks because of their
ideology, beliefs, or mission.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;">“The rising tide of hate is abhorrent and unacceptable – and I’m
committed to doing everything in my power to keep New Yorkers safe,”
Governor Hochul said. “Since the despicable Hamas attacks of October 7,
there has been a disturbing rise in hate crimes against Jewish and
Muslim New Yorkers. In recent years we’ve seen hate-fueled violence
targeting Black residents of Buffalo and disturbing harassment of AAPI
and LGBTQ+ individuals on the streets of New York City. We will never
rest until all New Yorkers feel safe, regardless of who they are, who
they love, or how they worship.”</span></p></blockquote></div>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And in Michigan, last year a bill was introduced that would have made it a felony if someone felt <a href="https://www.heritage.org/gender/commentary/michigans-hate-crime-law-unconstitutional-full-stop" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="“terrorized, frightened, or threatened”">“terrorized, frightened, or threatened”</a> by your words…</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-37974968171999142462024-03-07T00:02:00.014-06:002024-03-07T00:02:00.139-06:00America's Elite Disconnect<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="585" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-m8ER7zZT-0?si=d8PZLkMGLksptnhU" title="YouTube video player" width="900"></iframe></div>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://darkfutura.substack.com/p/americas-super-elite-disconnect" target="_blank">darkfutura |</a> <span>The one seeming contradiction is that these elites
predominantly “live in zipcodes exceeding a population density of 10,000
people per square mile.” This misleading implies they live in large
cities like New York, where they </span><i>would</i><span> in fact be
forced to endure daily commingling with the peasantry. In reality, we
know they sit entrenched in highly sequestered aristocrats’ quarters
within these cities—like the Upper East Side in Manhattan, or Kalorama
in D.C. Being shuttled in swank car service to and fro, they rarely
deign to cross paths with the commoners for whom they have nothing but
contempt, apart from some token quick-grab at the corner coffee-and-bun
kiosk to reassure themselves that they’re ‘in touch’ with the slipstream
of society. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In many respects, this is an age-old problem: elites have
always existed in parallel societies. However, the advent of digital and
social media technologies have allowed them to encase themselves in an
ever-impermeable confirmation bias bubble like never before. Listen to
interviews with top Washington policymakers, corporate bigwigs, etc.,
and note how they </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>exclusively</i><span> mainline the most
mainstream corporate publications like WaPo, NYTimes, etc. It becomes
its own hermetic self-referencing feedback loop increasingly shut-off
from the </span><i>real</i><span> outside world of human experience. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As the earlier NYPost article described: </span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>If
America is to avoid a tailspin into this toxic feedback loop, its
elites will need to step outside their bubble, stop conforming in an
effort to blend in with their myopic peers and start addressing the
legitimate grievances of their fellow Americans.</i></span></p></blockquote></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This
explains such things as the elites’ obsession with climate change, as
that is one issue that exists solely ‘on paper’—as an abstraction—and is
not realistically felt in the common quarters. The aristos who
repeatedly reflect their own shrill echochamber alarmism on this issue
get increasingly radicalized, particularly given that—as reported
earlier—they put far more store in institutions of authority than the
average prole. This results in the calcification of their blind belief
in specters like climate change, despite their paying only lip service
to it, and not acting accordingly in light of such an existential
‘threat’. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The problem is exacerbated by social ills which create
divisions along gender lines, disproportionately giving weight to
female-centric concerns, as per the Longhouse theory:</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>The
Longhouse refers to the remarkable overcorrection of the last two
generations toward social norms centering feminine needs and feminine
methods for controlling, directing, and modeling behavior.</b><span> </span></i></span></p></blockquote></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Women
are naturally wired to be more sympathetic—and thus suggestible—to the
social engineering imperatives co-opting the current narrative. Men are
being increasingly pushed out from higher education, which means that
even among the elites funnelled upward, the stances skew increasingly to
the ‘Longhouse’: </span></p><div class="captioned-image-container" style="text-align: justify;"><figure><span style="font-size: medium;"><a class="image-link is-viewable-img image2" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F17bc33e3-49b2-4b90-bece-59e4e425c70e_619x258.png" rel="" target="_blank"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"></source><img alt="" class="sizing-normal" data-attrs="{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/17bc33e3-49b2-4b90-bece-59e4e425c70e_619x258.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":258,"width":619,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":179942,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null}" height="258" 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href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa434bfe2-9101-4c66-ac28-9fdd054f4ef2_689x194.png" rel="" target="_blank"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"></source><img alt="" class="sizing-normal" data-attrs="{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a434bfe2-9101-4c66-ac28-9fdd054f4ef2_689x194.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":194,"width":689,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":51739,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null}" height="194" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa434bfe2-9101-4c66-ac28-9fdd054f4ef2_689x194.png" width="689" /></picture></div></a></span></figure></div><div class="captioned-image-container" style="text-align: justify;"><figure><span style="font-size: medium;"><a class="image-link is-viewable-img image2" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff61d5299-11d1-43be-9703-c3f541c896bd_910x683.png" rel="" target="_blank"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"></source><img alt="" class="sizing-normal" data-attrs="{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f61d5299-11d1-43be-9703-c3f541c896bd_910x683.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":683,"width":910,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":552645,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null}" height="683" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff61d5299-11d1-43be-9703-c3f541c896bd_910x683.png" width="910" /></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><svg class="lucide lucide-maximize2" fill="none" height="16" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" stroke-width="2" stroke="#FFFFFF" viewbox="0 0 24 24" width="16" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"></svg></div></div></a></span></figure></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><figure><span style="font-size: medium;"><a class="image-link is-viewable-img image2" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F88fc64d5-26bf-44c3-90fc-698d781c96fd_711x383.png" rel="" target="_blank"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"></source><img alt="" class="sizing-normal" data-attrs="{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/88fc64d5-26bf-44c3-90fc-698d781c96fd_711x383.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":383,"width":711,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":273652,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null}" height="383" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F88fc64d5-26bf-44c3-90fc-698d781c96fd_711x383.png" width="711" /></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><svg class="lucide lucide-maximize2" fill="none" height="16" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" stroke-width="2" stroke="#FFFFFF" viewbox="0 0 24 24" width="16" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"></svg></div></div></a></span></figure></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This feminization of the managerial class can be seen from a variety of vantage points:</span></p><div class="captioned-image-container" style="text-align: justify;"><figure><span style="font-size: medium;"><a class="image-link is-viewable-img image2" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9a5ef2ec-820c-46ae-a270-96d8f8fcde9a_597x345.png" rel="" target="_blank"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"></source><img alt="" class="sizing-normal" data-attrs="{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9a5ef2ec-820c-46ae-a270-96d8f8fcde9a_597x345.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":345,"width":597,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":72039,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null}" height="345" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9a5ef2ec-820c-46ae-a270-96d8f8fcde9a_597x345.png" width="597" /></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><svg class="lucide lucide-maximize2" fill="none" height="16" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" stroke-width="2" stroke="#FFFFFF" viewbox="0 0 24 24" width="16" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"></svg></div></div></a></span></figure></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><figure><span style="font-size: medium;"><a class="image-link is-viewable-img image2" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4e885c06-434f-4026-af17-104b6fb454c8_630x354.jpeg" rel="" target="_blank"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"></source><img alt="" class="sizing-normal" data-attrs="{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/4e885c06-434f-4026-af17-104b6fb454c8_630x354.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":354,"width":630,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":52415,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/jpeg","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null}" height="354" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4e885c06-434f-4026-af17-104b6fb454c8_630x354.jpeg" width="630" /></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><svg class="lucide lucide-maximize2" fill="none" height="16" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" stroke-width="2" stroke="#FFFFFF" viewbox="0 0 24 24" width="16" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"></svg></div></div></a></span></figure></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As
everyone is now aware, unmarried women by far make the most
disproportionate jump into Democrat Land, as well as increasingly
radicalized hyperliberal policies—which reflects in other interesting
ways:</span></p><div class="captioned-image-container" style="text-align: justify;"><figure><span style="font-size: medium;"><a class="image-link is-viewable-img image2" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6531a0f8-2299-4bcc-acde-fe06f1c8dbb4_680x272.jpeg" rel="" target="_blank"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"></source><img alt="" class="sizing-normal" data-attrs="{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6531a0f8-2299-4bcc-acde-fe06f1c8dbb4_680x272.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":272,"width":680,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":34247,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/jpeg","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null}" height="272" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6531a0f8-2299-4bcc-acde-fe06f1c8dbb4_680x272.jpeg" width="680" /></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><svg class="lucide lucide-maximize2" fill="none" height="16" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" stroke-width="2" stroke="#FFFFFF" viewbox="0 0 24 24" width="16" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"></svg></div></div></a></span></figure></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As an aside, one X user had a topically cogent comment about the screenshot below: </span></p><div class="captioned-image-container" style="text-align: justify;"><figure><span style="font-size: medium;"><a class="image-link image2" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F09d4258d-185d-479c-929c-3eaec776a887_900x222.jpeg" rel="" target="_blank"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"></source><img alt="" class="sizing-normal" data-attrs="{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/09d4258d-185d-479c-929c-3eaec776a887_900x222.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":222,"width":900,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":48837,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/jpeg","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null}" height="222" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F09d4258d-185d-479c-929c-3eaec776a887_900x222.jpeg" width="900" /></picture></div></a></span></figure></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>Most
of the bluecheck unpacking of the collapsing male college enrollment
story focuses on how worrisome it is that these men won't espouse elite
political opinions</b></i></span></p></blockquote></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">But one of the most
revealing disparities in the Rasmussen survey showed just how out of
touch the elites are specifically to economic issues which affect the
plebs most—as opposed to the airy abstractions of fringe intellectual
culture war issues: </span></p><div class="captioned-image-container" style="text-align: justify;"><figure><span style="font-size: medium;"><a class="image-link is-viewable-img image2" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F75bcc278-f1ab-44d9-94c9-f83fb5a7e656_914x353.png" rel="" target="_blank"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"></source><img alt="" class="sizing-normal" data-attrs="{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/75bcc278-f1ab-44d9-94c9-f83fb5a7e656_914x353.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":353,"width":914,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":362425,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null}" height="353" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F75bcc278-f1ab-44d9-94c9-f83fb5a7e656_914x353.png" width="914" /></picture></div></a></span></figure></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-47189326715738705132024-03-06T00:02:00.023-06:002024-03-06T00:02:00.137-06:00Who Finally Grew A Pair And Fired This Evil Fat Failtard?!?!<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="585" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Y0beU4SZc2c?si=sSiA6D9W5DNbvFRK" title="YouTube video player" width="900"></iframe></div>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/03/ukraine-cookie-monster-retires.html" target="_blank">MoA |</a> A big fat rat is leaving the ship.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">One might interpret this as the State Department's admittance of defeat in the U.S. war against Russia in Ukraine:</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.state.gov/on-the-retirement-of-under-secretary-of-state-for-political-affairs-victoria-nuland/">On the Retirement of Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland</a> - Anthony Blinken / State Department, Mar 5 2024</span></p>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">Victoria Nuland has let me know that she intends to step
down in the coming weeks as Under Secretary of State for Political
Affairs – a role in which she has personified President Biden’s
commitment to put diplomacy back at the center of our foreign policy and
revitalize America’s global leadership at a crucial time for our nation
and the world. <br />...<br />[I]t’s Toria’s leadership on Ukraine that
diplomats and students of foreign policy will study for years to come.
Her efforts have been indispensable to confronting Putin’s full-scale
invasion of Ukraine, marshaling a global coalition to ensure his
strategic failure, and helping Ukraine work toward the day when it will
be able to stand strongly on its own feet – democratically,
economically, and militarily. <br />...<br />President Biden and I have
asked our Under Secretary for Management John Bass to serve as Acting
Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs until Toria’s replacement
is confirmed.</span></blockquote></div>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Victoria Nuland, a member of <a href="https://asiatimes.com/2021/12/neocons-bent-on-starting-another-disaster-in-ukraine/">the neo-conservative Kagan clan</a>, is only 62 years old - too young to retire regularly.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">She will be remembered for handing out cookies to anti-government demonstrators in Ukraine and for <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957">installing the 2014 coup regime</a>.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">That has been her main project in the State Department. But the 2014
Maidan putsch that turn the Ukraine into a battering ram against Russia,
has ended in a complete failure.</span></p>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img src="https://www.moonofalabama.org/17i/nulandgraves-s.jpg" /><br /><a href="https://www.moonofalabama.org/17i/nulandgraves.jpg">bigger</a></span></div>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Neither was Russia '<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/25/russia-weakedend-lloyd-austin-ukraine">weakened</a>'
by the war nor has Ukraine any perspective to survive but as some
Russian controlled land-locked backwater country in Europe's east.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Given that billions were spent on Ukraine with little controls and
nothing to show for Nuland, and her family, have certainly made a bit on
the side. One wonders if any of the ongoing and coming investigations
into the black hole Ukraine will leave them unscarred.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As even <i>Guardian</i> commentators are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/05/nato-ukraine-russia-germany-military-leak">now waking up</a> to the mess they helped create it is high time for European politicians to also finally accept this reality:</span></p>
<blockquote style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Western Europe has no conceivable interest in escalating the
Ukraine war through a long-range missile exchange. While it should
sustain its logistical support for Ukrainian forces, it has no strategic
interest in Kyiv’s desire to drive Russia out of the majority
Russian-speaking areas of Crimea or Donbas. It has every interest in
assiduously seeking an early settlement and starting the rebuilding of
Ukraine.
</span></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As for the west’s “soft power” sanctions on Russia, they have failed
miserably, disrupting the global trading economy in the process.
Sanctions may be beloved of western diplomats and thinktanks. They may
even hurt someone – not least Britain’s energy users – but they have not
devastated the Russian economy or changed Putin’s mind. This year
Russia’s growth rate is expected to exceed Britain’s.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The crass ineptitude of a quarter of a century of western military
interventions should have taught us some lessons. Apparently not.</span></p>
</blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="585" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QkL0boUFmCc?si=i3Q4xNQJTtRaVvKG" title="YouTube video player" width="900"></iframe></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-50114452424997188182024-03-05T14:13:00.002-06:002024-03-05T14:13:49.440-06:00FUH WRONG WITH YOU! DORITOS?!?!?!<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="585" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bCwDO23ZpG8?si=gp8QmX9kFVgnhSdm" title="YouTube video player" width="900"></iframe></div>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13156881/doritos-slammed-hiring-samantha-hudson-transgender-brand-ambassador.html" target="_blank">dailymail |</a> Doritos is being slammed <span data-track-module="internal-body-link"><a class="class" href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/markets/article-13142277/Bud-Light-transgender-row-boycott-hits-growth-worlds-largest-brewer-AB-Bev.html" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_self">as the new Bud Light</a></span>
after hiring a trans influencer as a 'brand ambassador' despite the
activist appearing to promote child sexual abuse in the past.</span></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Spanish
native Samantha Hudson - whose real name is Iván González Ranedo - is a
singer and activist with over 30,000 subscribers to her <span data-track-module="internal-body-link"><a class="class" href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/youtube/index.html" id="mol-21735230-da87-11ee-9832-ef2f4320ae6d" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_self">YouTube</a></span> channel. Her partnership with Doritos <span data-track-module="internal-body-link"><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/spain/index.html" id="mol-69641710-da9a-11ee-8e17-6188016fbed5" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_self">Spain</a></span>, run by PepsiCo Spain, was recently announced. </span></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Hudson,
24, has identified herself as 'anti-capitalist' and 'Marxist' in
interviews, released a song critical of the Catholic Church and even
said in one video that she is for 'the abolition of [and to] destroy and
annihilate the traditional monogamous nuclear family.' </span></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As a teen, she has also tweeted about wanting to do 'thuggish things' to a minor. </span></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
partnership between Hudson and Doritos was quickly blasted online and
many made reference to Bud Light's disastrous partnership with trans
influencer <span data-track-module="internal-body-link"><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/dylan-mulvaney/index.html" id="mol-1da9e8f0-da99-11ee-8e17-6188016fbed5" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_self">Dylan Mulvaney</a></span> - which saw Budweiser <span data-track-module="internal-body-link"><a class="class" href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/article-13146243/cost-Bud-Light-boycott-Dylan-Mulvaney.html" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_self">lose $1.4 billion in sales as a result. </a></span></span></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Daily Caller posted a screenshot of a
tweet she allegedly made in 2015, when Hudson was 15, writing in Spanish
about the seeming assault of a minor. </span></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Another
alleged post translates to: 'In the middle of the street in Mallorca in
panties and screaming that I’m a nymphomaniac in front of a super
beautiful 8-year-old girl.'</span></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">According to <a class="class" href="https://www.newsweek.com/doritos-spain-faces-backlash-transgender-brand-ambassadors-resurfaced-tweets-1875763" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">Newsweek</a>,
she has also been accused of mocking sexual assault victims, though
Hudson herself has claimed she was sexually abused as a teenager <a class="class" href="https://www.marca.com/tiramillas/television/2023/02/08/63e35cd322601df7588b4587.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">in a 2023 interview</a>. </span></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Hudson's new partnership with Doritos was announced through a 50-second video called 'Crunch Talks.' </span></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Social media users were quick to point out similarities <span data-track-module="internal-body-link"><a class="class" href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13092151/Unhinged-Dylan-Mulvaney-TikTok-rant-Bud-Light-fame-NOT-over.html" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_self">to the Bud Light campaign and its impact. </a></span></span></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">'Doritos is about to get the Bud Light treatment,' wrote one user on X, formerly <span data-track-module="internal-body-link"><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/twitter/index.html" id="mol-217267d0-da87-11ee-9832-ef2f4320ae6d" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_self">Twitter</a></span>. </span></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Another
wrote: 'Just make flavored tortilla chips. You don't need to have a
stance on anything other than that. It's not tricky.' </span></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">'Why
are brands like Doritos being so self-destructive? Have they learned
nothing from the Budweiser snafu? Let me guess, their advertising
division is headed by a DEI hire?' </span></p><p class="mol-para-with-font" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">DailyMail.com has reached out to PepsiCo and Frito Lay for comment.</span></p><p class="mol-para-with-font"></p><p class="mol-para-with-font"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="585" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9JR4ylzcDOs?si=LwMWUfSXAt-yulUk" title="YouTube video player" width="900"></iframe></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-73108270974153650532024-03-05T00:02:00.016-06:002024-03-05T00:02:00.135-06:00Deathstar Ukraine The Largest Operation In CIA History <div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="rumble" frameborder="0" height="580" src="https://rumble.com/embed/v4dw3zc/?pub=4" width="900"></iframe></div>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://humanevents.com/2024/02/29/jack-posobiec-and-mike-benz-when-the-dust-settles-ukraine-will-be-the-largest-operation-in-cia-history" target="_blank">humanevents |</a> Jack Posobiec hosted guest Mike Benz on <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/human-events-daily-with-jack-posobiec/id1585243541">Human Events Daily</a>
Thursday to hear his take on the New York Times article that detailed
the CIA's involvement in Ukraine prior to the Russia invasion, which
Benz said will reveal itself to be "the largest operation in CIA
history."<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
The pair unpacked the reasoning behind the New York Times releasing
their story which essentially agreed with what conservative commentators
such as Posobiec have been saying since the war began.<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
"This is actually such a shocking moment in American journalist
history," Benz stated. "These are highly highly, highly classified
operations."<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
He said that "It's my contention that when the dust settles on this, the
Ukraine skirmish in the aftermath of the 2014 Maidan coup is going to
ultimately be the largest operation in CIA history."<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
Compared to the CIA's Syrian operation under Barack Obama, which was
revealed to be the most expensive operation up to this point, Ukraine
will blow it out of the water once all said and done, Benz said.<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
Posobiec clarified that Benz was implying the NYT article was a "limited
hangout" when "an operation becomes so compromised, or public knowledge
or public interest becomes so obvious around something," that the CIA
begins to unveil pieces of the big picture, like an "onion."<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
When the US involved itself in Ukraine in the Barack Obama, Hillary
Clinton, and John Brennan era, "We were riding high and riding dirty.
And that's what this was, we thought we were unstoppable and we could
just coup anyone we wanted, there'd never be any repercussions, and no
one would ever stand up for themselves, and Russia would never actually
backstop it," Benz said.<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
This, however, was a "serious miscalculation."<br /></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
"And when it turned out that their own population didn't support these
dirty tricks, either in the form of the rise of a populace presidential
candidate like Donald Trump who was running on putting America first in
domestic priorities over foreign policy," he explained, "then all hell
broke loose."</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-47822852343515312492024-03-03T00:03:00.009-06:002024-03-03T00:03:00.129-06:00What Will It Take To Get MAGA To Open Fire?<blockquote class="twitter-tweet tw-align-center" data-media-max-width="900"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I have a weird feeling about Mitch McConnell stepping down today <a href="https://t.co/GSYhH6G2ll">pic.twitter.com/GSYhH6G2ll</a></p>— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) <a href="https://twitter.com/MikeBenzCyber/status/1763005891169702371?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 29, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-15204781573816173942024-03-03T00:02:00.001-06:002024-03-03T00:02:00.137-06:00This Is Why MTG Needs To Slap The Taste Out Of Chuck Schumer's Mouth<p> </p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet tw-align-center"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I hope everyone appreciates what this means. The CIA disclosed highly classified intelligence to hand-picked journos in order to fight a PR war against Republicans in Congress who want to scale back Ukraine war funding.<br><br>The CIA is literally unleashed on Republicans in Congress. <a href="https://t.co/bt9DzmajQA">https://t.co/bt9DzmajQA</a></p>— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) <a href="https://twitter.com/MikeBenzCyber/status/1762979210723778658?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 28, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-31850990202149499622024-03-02T00:02:00.016-06:002024-03-02T00:02:00.137-06:00Lil' Buckwheat's Capacity To Lie On The Fly No Longer Up To Cornpop Standards....,<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="585" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3-QQ6XlPbGM?si=F8VufYKuvwvEpXBc" title="YouTube video player" width="900"></iframe></div>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://dailycaller.com/2024/02/29/karine-jean-pierre-john-kirby-white-house-press-secretary-briefing-joe-biden/" target="_blank">dailycaller |</a> Karine Jean-Pierre has turned over her spotlight to Admiral John
Kirby in an “unprecedented” way as the White House barrels toward a
pivotal election season, a Daily Caller review of briefing data reveals.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Since
Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, Kirby has been a mainstay at briefings
alongside Jean-Pierre to answer reporters’ questions about the foreign
conflict. Though Americans have indicated the war is not their top
concern, Kirby has remained at the briefings — only missing three since
the start of the year through Oct. 7. Of the briefings he has attended
in 2024, 19 out of the 22 total held, Kirby has fielded questions for
almost the exact same amount of time as Jean-Pierre.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As of Feb. 27, Jean-Pierre has spent about 11 hours and 31 minutes at
the White House press briefing podium this year across 22 briefings.
Kirby has answered questions for just under nine hours and two minutes
in 19 briefings. In those 19 briefings when Kirby and Jean-Pierre were
together, the press secretary spoke for just shy of nine hours and 11
minutes — almost a perfect fifty-fifty split with her counterpart.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“There
is no precedent for this. Press secretaries always bring guests, right.
It’s like, ‘Hey, we’re gonna have the OMB [the Office of Management and
Budget] guys brief you on the budget and talk to you about that.’
That’s normal,” Sean Spicer, one-time press secretary for former
President Donald Trump, told the Daily Caller. “That’s as old as the
job. But this idea that you have a co-press secretary is unprecedented.”</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Some
other names have made appearances at briefings and gaggles, either
alongside Jean-Pierre or Kirby: deputy press secretary Olivia Dalton,
National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, White House spokesman for
oversight and investigations Ian Sams and a few other policy-specific
officials from the administration.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">But none have appeared nearly as often as Kirby, who Jean-Pierre was <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2024/01/05/karine-jean-pierre-john-kirby-joe-biden-rivalry-press-secretary-briefing-room/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">reportedly concerned</a>
might usurp her as press secretary when she first got the job. Biden
“awkwardly” added that Kirby would be joining Jean-Pierre’s team when
the president gave her the press secretary position in 2022, leaving her
“upset and confused,” according to Axios.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Jean-Pierre’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/16/karine-jean-pierre-biden-administration" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">appointment was lauded</a>
as historic and powerful when she got the job — she’s the first black
press secretary, and is also a lesbian woman of immigrant parents. From
the beginning, things have reportedly been rocky, though — Biden also
allegedly said that Jean-Pierre didn’t need to worry because she’d “have
an admiral looking over your shoulder,” a comment that <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2024/02/13/joe-biden-karine-jean-pierre-comment-john-kirby-white-house-podium/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">was not received well</a> by the new press secretary.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Amid the tension between Kirby and Jean-Pierre, the latter’s top deputy, Dalton, is <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2024-02-26/long-time-biden-aide-olivia-dalton-to-leave-for-apple-sources-say" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">reportedly ditching</a> the White House for a gig at Apple.</span></p><div class="piano-newsletter" id="piano-newsletter" style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">That
leaves a clear path to the top job for Kirby. He has told some around
the White House he’s interested in the position, according to Axios, but
other White House officials denied those accounts.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When it comes
to gaggles, Kirby has appeared at more as of late, speaking at seven of
them between the start of the year and Feb. 16 for a total of more than
an hour and seven minutes. The pair has attended four gaggles together,
with Jean-Pierre answering questions for more than 41 minutes.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“I
don’t think the dynamic is awkward to begin with. I think they did it
under the presence, under the guise of national security and foreign
affairs. But the reality is, Kirby has really taken over a lot more, for
obvious reasons,” Spicer said. “The press secretary should be able to
handle all of the issues and it’s pretty obvious that there’s a level of
competence that just doesn’t exist.”</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><div data-google-query-id="CP_h64Ok1IQDFcfb9QId558MKQ" id="dailycaller_incontent_2" style="text-align: justify;"><div id="google_ads_iframe_/10519169/dailycaller_incontent_6_0__container__" style="border: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-74934719141284286792024-03-01T00:03:00.016-06:002024-03-01T00:03:00.131-06:00The Times Article Was Authorized By The CIA<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="585" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pDcpj5lXKC0?si=YJI2X7eaG4Oby3of" title="YouTube video player" width="900"></iframe></div>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://scheerpost.com/2024/02/29/cia-in-ukraine/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">scheerpost |</a> The New York Times on February 25 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/25/world/europe/cia-ukraine-intelligence-russia-war.html">published an explosive story</a> of
what purports to be the history of the CIA in Ukraine from the Maidan
coup of 2014 to the present. The story, “The Spy War: How the CIA
Secretly Helps Ukraine Fight Putin,” is one of initial bilateral
distrust, but a mutual fear and hatred of Russia, that progresses to a
relationship so intimate that Ukraine is now one of the CIA’s closest
intelligence partners in the world. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">At the same time, the Times’ publication of the piece, which
reporters claimed relied on more than 200 interviews in Ukraine, the US,
and “several European countries,” raises multiple questions: Why did
the CIA not object to the article’s publication, especially with it
being in one of the Agency’s preferred outlets? When the CIA approaches
a newspaper to complain about the classified information it contains,
the piece is almost always killed or severely edited. Newspaper
publishers are patriots, after all. Right? </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Was the article published because the CIA wanted the news out there?
Perhaps more important was the point of the article to influence the
Congressional budget deliberations on aid to Ukraine? After all, was
the article really just meant to brag about how great the CIA is? Or
was it to warn Congressional appropriators, “Look how much we’ve
accomplished to confront the Russian bear. You wouldn’t really let it
all go to waste, would you?”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Times’ article has all the hallmarks of a deep, inside look at a
sensitive—possibly classified—subject. It goes into depth on one of the
intelligence community’s Holy of Holies, an intelligence liaison
relationship, something that no intelligence officer is ever supposed to
discuss. But in the end, it really isn’t so sensitive. It doesn’t
tell us anything that every American hasn’t already assumed. Maybe we
hadn’t had it spelled out in print before, but we all believed that the
CIA was helping Ukraine fight the Russians. We had already seen
reporting that the CIA had “<a href="https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2023/07/15/newsweek-the-cia-and-the-ukrainian-case/">boots on the ground</a>” in Ukraine and that the U.S. government was training Ukrainian <a href="https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/3347269/dod-official-says-training-for-ukrainians-is-ongoing/">special forces</a> and Ukrainian <a href="https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2023/10/26/ukrainian-pilots-begin-f-16-training-in-arizona/">pilots</a>, so there’s nothing new there. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The article goes a little further in detail, although, again, without
providing anything that might endanger sources and methods. For
example, it tells us that:</span></p>
<ul style="text-align: justify;"><li><span style="font-size: medium;">There is a CIA listening post in the forest along the Russian
border, one of 12 “secret” bases the US maintains there. One or more of
these posts helped to prove Russia’s involvement in the 2014 downing of
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. That’s great. But the revelation exposes
no secrets and tells us nothing new.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">Ukrainian intelligence officials helped the Americans “go after” the
Russian operatives “who meddled in the 2016 US presidential election.”
I have a news flash for the New York Times: The <a href="https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2023/10/26/ukrainian-pilots-begin-f-16-training-in-arizona/">Mueller report</a> found that there was no meaningful Russian meddling in the 2016 election. And what does “go after” mean?</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">Beginning in 2016, the CIA trained an “elite Ukrainian commando
force known as Unit 2245, which captured Russian drones and
communications gear so that CIA technicians could reverse-engineer them
and crack Moscow’s encryption systems.” This is exactly what the CIA is
supposed to do. Honestly, if the CIA hadn’t been doing this, I would
have suggested a class action lawsuit for the American people to get
their tax money back. Besides, the CIA has been <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1990/05/06/ceausescu-family-sold-soviet-military-secrets-to-us/e73c4f2f-a09c-4770-9e98-e451b6e36e43/">doing things like this for decades</a>. The CIA was able to obtain important components of Soviet tactical weapons from ostensibly pro-Soviet Romania in the 1970s.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">Ukraine has turned into an intelligence-gathering hub that has
intercepted more Russian communications than the CIA station in Kiev
could initially handle. Again, I would expect nothing less. After all,
that’s where the war is. So of course, communications will be
intercepted there. As to the CIA station being overwhelmed, the Times
never tells us if that is because the station was a one-man operation at
the time or whether it had thousands of employees and was still
overwhelmed. It’s all about scale.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">And lest you think that the CIA and the U.S. government were on the
offensive in Ukraine, the article makes clear that, “Mr. Putin and his
advisers misread a critical dynamic. The CIA didn’t push its way into
Ukraine. U.S. officials were often reluctant to fully engage, fearing
that Ukrainian officials could not be trusted, and worrying about
provoking the Kremlin.”</span></li></ul>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It’s at this point in the article that the Times reveals what I
believe to be the buried lead: “Now these intelligence networks are more
important than ever, as Russia is on the offensive and Ukraine is more
dependent on sabotage and long-range missile strikes that require spies
far behind enemy lines. And they are increasingly at risk: “<i>If Republicans in Congress end military funding to Kiev, the CIA may have to scale back.</i>” (Emphasis mine.)</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-41680832787137314272024-03-01T00:02:00.018-06:002024-03-01T00:02:00.131-06:00Why Did The NYTimes Report On CIA Operations In Ukraine?<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="585" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VwxhcTvXnDk?si=debt92cfu9YfxfFn" title="YouTube video player" width="900"></iframe></div>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://scheerpost.com/2024/02/29/patrick-lawrence-the-cia-in-ukraine-the-ny-times-gets-a-guided-tour/" target="_blank">scheerpost |</a> We can start, logically enough, with that desperation evident among
those dedicated to prolonging the war. The outcome of the war, in my
read and in the view of various military analysts, does not depend on
the $61 billion in aid that now hangs in the balance. But the Biden
regime seems to think it does, or pretends to think it does. The Times’s
most immediate intent, so far as one can make out from the piece, is to
add what degree of urgency it can to this question.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Entous and Schwirtz report that the people running Ukrainian
intelligence are nervous that without a House vote releasing new funds
“the CIA will abandon them.” Good enough that it boosts the case to cite
nervous Ukrainians, but we should recognize that this is a
misapprehension. The CIA has a very large budget entirely independent of
what Congress votes one way or another. William Burns, the CIA
director, traveled to Kyiv two weeks ago to reassure his counterparts
that “the U.S. commitment will continue,” as Entous and Schwirtz quote
him saying. This is perfectly true, assuming Burns referred to the
agency’s commitment.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">More broadly, The Times piece appears amid flagging enthusiasm for
the Ukraine project. And it is in this circumstance that Entous and
Schwirtz went long on the benefits accruing to the CIA in consequence of
its presence on the ground in Ukraine. But read these two reporters
carefully: They, or whoever put their piece in its final shape, make it
clear that the agency’s operations on Ukrainian soil count first and
most as a contribution to Washington’s long campaign to undermine the
Russian Federation. This is not about Ukrainian democracy, that figment
of neoliberal propagandists. It is about Cold War II, plain and simple.
It is time to reinvigorate the old Russophobia, thus—and hence all the
baloney about Russians corrupting elections and so on. It is all there
for a reason. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">To gather these thoughts and summarize, This piece is not journalism
and should not be read as such. Neither do Entous and Schwirtz serve as
journalists. They are clerks of the governing class pretending to be
journalists while they post notices on a bulletin board that pretends to
be a newspaper.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">■</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Let’s dolly out to put this piece in its historical context and
consider the implications of its appearance in the once-but-fallen
newspaper of record. Let’s think about the early 1970s, when it first
began to emerge that the CIA had compromised the American media and
broadcasters.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Jack Anderson, the admirably iconoclastic columnist, lifted the lid
on the agency’s infiltration of the media by way of a passing mention of
a corrupted correspondent in 1973. A year later a former Los Angeles
Times correspondent named Stuart Loory published the first extensive
exploration of relations between the CIA and the media in the Columbia
Journalism Review. Then, in 1976, the Church Committee opened its famous
hearings in the Senate. It took up all sorts of agency
malfeasance—assassinations, coups, illegal covert ops. Its intent was
also to disrupt the agency’s misuse of American media and restore the
latter to their independence and integrity.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Church Committee is still widely remembered for getting its job
done. But it never did. A year after Church produced its six-volume
report, Rolling Stone published “<a href="https://www.carlbernstein.com/the-cia-and-the-media-rolling-stone-10-20-1977">The CIA and the Media</a>,”
Carl Bernstein’s well-known piece. Bernstein went considerably beyond
the Church Committee, demonstrating that it pulled its punches rather
than pull the plug on the CIA’s intrusions in the media. Faced with the
prospect of forcing the CIA to sever all covert ties with the media, a
senator Bernstein did not name remarked, “We just weren’t ready to take
that step.”</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We should read The Times’s piece on the righteousness of the CIA’s
activities in Ukraine—bearing in mind the self-evident cooperation
between the agency and the newspaper—with this history in mind.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">America was just emerging from the disgraces of the McCarthyist
period when Stuart Loory opened the door on this question, the Church
Committee convened, and Carl Bernstein filled in the blanks. In and out
of the profession there was disgust at the covert relationship between
media and the spooks. Now look. What was then viewed as top-to-bottom
objectionable is now routinized. It is “as usual.” In my read this is
one consequence among many of the Russiagate years: They again plunged
Americans and their mainstream media into the same paranoia that
produced the corruptions of the 1950s and 1960s.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Alas, the scars of the swoon we call Russiagate are many and run deep</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-68512098856669349032024-02-29T00:02:00.008-06:002024-02-29T00:02:00.127-06:00Schumer Making Threats Again "Fund Ukraine Or You'll Be Sorry!"<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" height="588" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" mozallowfullscreen="true" scrolling="no" src="https://video-api.wsj.com/api-video/player/v3/iframe.html?guid=1DBACC61-C6BF-4811-BC1F-A20C3967EF96" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="900"></iframe></div>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/shutdown-deadline-tests-house-speaker-mike-johnson-f622dd65" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">WSJ |</a> Democratic and Republican congressional leaders struck an optimistic tone that they would avert a <a data-type="link" href="https://archive.is/o/vkUfw/https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/government-shutdown-2024-what-to-know-4a57d232" rel="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0274b6; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-color: rgb(2, 116, 182); text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration: underline rgb(2, 116, 182);" target="_blank">government shutdown this weekend</a>
after a White House meeting in which lawmakers also stepped up pressure
on House Speaker Mike Johnson (R., La.) to allow a long-stalled vote on
Ukraine aid to go forward. </span></p><div data-type="paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Exchange, Georgia, serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 27px; margin-block-end: 17px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-block: 0px 17px; margin-bottom: 17px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Johnson
is expected to put forward legislation in coming days that would keep
the government fully open, but the details remained uncertain. The
Congress has until Saturday at 12:01 a.m. to fund the departments of
Veterans Affairs, Transportation, Agriculture, Energy and several other
agencies that have been operating on temporary extensions since Sept.
30. The funding for the rest of the federal government expires after
March 8.</span></div><div data-type="paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Exchange, Georgia, serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 27px; margin-block-end: 17px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-block: 0px 17px; margin-bottom: 17px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
main holdup has been in the Republican-led House, where Johnson is
managing a rowdy GOP conference that has taken a hard line on spending
and is increasingly skeptical of foreign aid, even as the
Democratic-controlled Senate has been ready for months to move forward.</span></div><div data-type="paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Exchange, Georgia, serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 27px; margin-block-end: 17px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-block: 0px 17px; margin-bottom: 17px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Emerging
from the meeting, Johnson said he was “very optimistic” about
government- funding talks. Leaders think “we can get to agreement on
these issues and prevent a government shutdown,” he said. He didn’t take
questions. </span></div><div data-type="paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Exchange, Georgia, serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 27px; margin-block-end: 17px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-block: 0px 17px; margin-bottom: 17px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
other congressional leaders at the sit-down—Senate Majority Leader
Chuck Schumer, (D., N.Y.), Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) and
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D., N.Y.)—also sounded upbeat
about avoiding a shutdown. </span></div><div data-type="paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Exchange, Georgia, serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 27px; margin-block-end: 17px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-block: 0px 17px; margin-bottom: 17px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“We
are making good progress,” said Schumer, adding there was some “back
and forth on some issues that different people want.” But he said, “I
don’t think those are insurmountable.” He indicated that the most likely
path was a short-term spending patch to give negotiators more time to
complete the full fiscal-year bills. </span></div><div data-type="paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Exchange, Georgia, serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 27px; margin-block-end: 17px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-block: 0px 17px; margin-bottom: 17px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">McConnell
said everyone was on the same page regarding the need to keep the
government funded. “I think we can stop that drama right now before it
emerges,” he said.</span></div><div data-type="paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Exchange, Georgia, serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 27px; margin-block-end: 17px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-block: 0px 17px; margin-bottom: 17px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
leaders sat down in the Oval Office, with Biden and Vice President
Kamala Harris positioned in armchairs near a crackling fire.
Congressional leaders sat on sofas arranged around a coffee table.</span></div><div data-type="paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Exchange, Georgia, serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 27px; margin-block-end: 17px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-block: 0px 17px; margin-bottom: 17px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Those gathered for the meeting, including McConnell, pressed Johnson to allow a House vote on <a data-type="link" href="https://archive.is/o/vkUfw/https://www.wsj.com/world/ukraines-30-billion-problem-how-to-keep-fighting-without-foreign-aid-86c9865b" rel="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0274b6; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-color: rgb(2, 116, 182); text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration: underline rgb(2, 116, 182);" target="_blank">a Ukraine aid package</a>.
Central Intelligence Agency Director William J. Burns gave a
presentation laying out the difficult conditions for Ukrainian soldiers
on the battlefield, with troops running out of munitions. </span></div><div data-type="paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Exchange, Georgia, serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 27px; margin-block-end: 17px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-block: 0px 17px; margin-bottom: 17px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
Senate passed a $95.3 billion package this month that contained a fresh
round of aid for Ukraine and funds for Israel and Taiwan. Johnson has
declined to put it on the House floor. House Republicans are divided on
Ukraine aid, with a little more than half on the record opposing it in
the past, including Johnson before he became speaker. The Senate bill
would need significant Democratic support to pass.</span></div><div data-type="paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Exchange, Georgia, serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 27px; margin-block-end: 17px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-block: 0px 17px; margin-bottom: 17px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Schumer
said the discussion on Ukraine was “the most intense I have ever
encountered in my many meetings in the Oval Office.” He said he told
Johnson he would “regret it for the rest of his life” <a data-type="link" href="https://archive.is/o/vkUfw/https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/mike-johnsons-chaotic-house-searches-for-path-on-ukraine-9b84cd7a" rel="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0274b6; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-color: rgb(2, 116, 182); text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration: underline rgb(2, 116, 182);" target="_blank">if he blocked assistance for Kyiv</a>. </span></div><div data-type="paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Exchange, Georgia, serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 27px; margin-block-end: 17px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-block: 0px 17px; margin-bottom: 17px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Johnson “said he wanted to get Ukraine done, and he had to figure out the best way to do it,” Schumer recalled.</span></div><div data-type="paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Exchange, Georgia, serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 27px; margin-block-end: 17px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-block: 0px 17px; margin-bottom: 17px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In
the meeting, McConnell, a strong advocate for Kyiv, told Johnson the
House’s best path forward on Ukraine is to pass the Senate bill, because
making any changes would further delay the aid. “We have a time problem
here,” he told reporters. </span></div><div data-type="paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Exchange, Georgia, serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 27px; margin-block-end: 17px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-block: 0px 17px; margin-bottom: 17px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Johnson
said he continued to insist on steps to secure the southern U.S. border
before passing any foreign-aid package. The House “is actively pursuing
and investigating all the various options” on the Ukraine package, he
said, but “the first priority of the country is our border.” Earlier
this year, Republicans blocked a bipartisan Senate deal linking aid to
Ukraine with changes at the border, saying it wasn’t tough enough.</span></div><div data-layout="inline" data-type="image" style="-webkit-background-clip: border-box; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: /*x=*/0% /*y=*/0%; background-repeat: repeat repeat; background-size: auto; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; display: block; margin-bottom: 22px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 32px; margin-top: 32px; margin: 32px 0px 22px 32px; text-align: justify; width: 100%;"><figure style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-block: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><picture style="border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: 413.328px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; width: 100%;"><img alt="" height="466" src="https://archive.is/vkUfw/d9d54be03c5434463e3c5fdb80891b1c4043cb98.jpg" style="aspect-ratio: auto 700 / 466; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: 413.328px; margin-bottom: 8px; max-width: 100%; min-height: 413.328px; min-width: 620px; opacity: 1; position: static; width: 100%;" width="700" /></picture></span></figure><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; display: block; font-family: Retina, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 300;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.33333; margin-bottom: 4px;">House
Speaker Mike Johnson (R., La.), speaking with reporters after meeting
with President Biden and other congressional leaders, said he thought a
government shutdown could be averted. </span><span style="font-size: medium;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; line-height: 1.33333; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Photo: </span>Evan Vucci/Associated Press</span></span></figcaption></div><div data-type="paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Exchange, Georgia, serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 27px; margin-block-end: 17px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-block: 0px 17px; margin-bottom: 17px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
White House meeting started shortly before noon and lasted about an
hour. Johnson briefly spoke one-on-one with the president after the
meeting ended. White House officials declined to say what the two men
discussed, other than explaining that the conversation wasn’t scheduled
in advance. </span></div><div data-type="paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Exchange, Georgia, serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 27px; margin-block-end: 17px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-block: 0px 17px; margin-bottom: 17px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Afterward,
Biden told reporters a “bipartisan solution” was needed to fund the
government. Regarding Ukraine, he said “the need is urgent” for
additional funds. “I think the consequences of inaction in Ukraine are
dire,” Biden said.</span></div><div data-type="paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Exchange, Georgia, serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 27px; margin-block-end: 17px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-block: 0px 17px; margin-bottom: 17px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Such
White House summits are high-profile opportunities for both sides to
show they are fighting for their parties’ priorities, rather than
nitty-gritty policy negotiations. But the moment was particularly
challenging for Johnson, a formerly little-known conservative who
leapfrogged from the lower ranks of House Republican leadership to
assume the speakership in October, after a group of GOP dissidents <a data-type="link" href="https://archive.is/o/vkUfw/https://www.wsj.com/politics/house-democrats-could-decide-kevin-mccarthys-fate-74de00ad" rel="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0274b6; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-color: rgb(2, 116, 182); text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration: underline rgb(2, 116, 182);" target="_blank">ousted his predecessor</a>, former Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.).</span></div><div data-type="paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Exchange, Georgia, serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 27px; margin-block-end: 17px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-block: 0px 17px; margin-bottom: 17px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Unlike other senior leaders on Capitol Hill, Johnson has almost no pre-existing relationship with Biden.</span></div><div data-type="paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Exchange, Georgia, serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 27px; margin-block-end: 17px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-block: 0px 17px; margin-bottom: 17px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">For
months, the Republican House and Democratic Senate have deferred on
Congress’s responsibility to set new spending levels and priorities for
the federal government for fiscal year 2024, instead passing a series of
stopgap measures by repeatedly extending spending levels set back in
December 2022.</span></div><div data-type="paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Exchange, Georgia, serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 27px; margin-block-end: 17px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-block: 0px 17px; margin-bottom: 17px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Johnson has <a data-type="link" href="https://archive.is/o/vkUfw/https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/government-shutdown-2024-what-to-know-4a57d232" rel="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0274b6; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-color: rgb(2, 116, 182); text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration: underline rgb(2, 116, 182);" target="_blank">a number of options</a>.
none of which will satisfy all House Republicans. He could seal a deal
with congressional Democrats and try to pass fresh full-year spending
legislation at a two-thirds threshold, bypassing Republican holdouts.
Johnson could put it off a few days or weeks with a short-term
patch—again with Democrats’ help. Or he could try to rely on his narrow
Republican majority to pass another stopgap bill through September,
triggering automatic across-the-board spending cuts; such a move would
be almost certain to lead to a shutdown because any such measure would
be dead on arrival in the Senate.</span></div><div data-type="paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Exchange, Georgia, serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 27px; margin-block-end: 17px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-block: 0px 17px; margin-bottom: 17px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Beneath <a data-type="link" href="https://archive.is/o/vkUfw/https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/with-ukraine-aid-stuck-in-congress-supporters-push-fallback-plans-82f0c06f" rel="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0274b6; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-color: rgb(2, 116, 182); text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration: underline rgb(2, 116, 182);" target="_blank">the surface of the spending fight</a>,
a tug of war is playing out inside the House Republican conference
between military hawks and conservatives opposed to further spending,
with Johnson caught in the middle. The military hawks want to avoid the
defense cuts that would be triggered if Congress fails to enact new
full-year spending measures by April 30. The critics of more spending
benefit from congressional inaction, because it brings them closer to
the date when across-the-board cuts would be activated under a provision
in last year’s Fiscal Responsibility Act.</span></div><div data-type="paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Exchange, Georgia, serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 27px; margin-block-end: 17px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-block: 0px 17px; margin-bottom: 17px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Some
GOP lawmakers have said in recent days they wouldn’t mind a shutdown,
while other figures including McConnell have warned that shutdowns are
bad policy—and bad politics.</span></div><div data-layout="wrap" data-type="inset" style="-webkit-background-clip: border-box; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: white; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: /*x=*/0% /*y=*/0%; background-repeat: repeat repeat; background-size: auto; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 32px; margin-top: 16px; margin: 16px 0px 16px 32px; text-align: justify; width: 300px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; max-height: 600px; position: relative; width: 100%;"><div style="-webkit-box-align: center; -webkit-box-pack: center; align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; justify-content: center; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; overflow: hidden; width: 100%;"><div style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(218, 218, 218); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(218, 218, 218); box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; display: block; padding-bottom: 20px; width: 100%;"><h4 style="border-bottom-color: rgb(218, 218, 218); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(218, 218, 218); border-top-color: rgb(218, 218, 218); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; border-top: 1px solid rgb(218, 218, 218); box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Retina, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.8px; line-height: 1.23077; margin-block-end: 10px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-block: 0px 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px; padding: 10px 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="font-size: medium;">SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS</span></h4><div style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: Retina, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.6; margin-block-end: 15px; margin-block-start: 15px; margin-block: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i data-type="emphasis" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;">Is Congress doing enough to avoid a partial government shutdown? Join the conversation below.</i></span></div></div></div></div></div><div data-type="paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Exchange, Georgia, serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 27px; margin-block-end: 17px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-block: 0px 17px; margin-bottom: 17px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">People
familiar with the negotiations between Johnson and Democrats said that a
key sticking point is how much money to appropriate for the Special
Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children.
Democrats are asking for $7.03 billion, more than the $6.3 billion
previously sought by the Senate and requested in Biden’s budget. But the
GOP-led House passed a measure including $6 billion for the program,
which provides food and health assistance.</span></div><div data-type="paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Exchange, Georgia, serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 27px; margin-block-end: 17px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-block: 0px 17px; margin-bottom: 17px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Another
obstacle, these people said, is a provision to block the VA from
reporting the names of veterans who need help managing their benefits to
a national background-check system used to screen gun purchases.
Democrats want the language to be stripped out.</span></div><div data-type="paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Exchange, Georgia, serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 27px; margin-block-end: 17px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-block: 0px 17px; margin-bottom: 17px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Even
if those issues get resolved, Johnson must sell the deal to his
factious conference after House lawmakers return Wednesday to
Washington. A House Republican meeting is scheduled for Thursday.</span></div><div data-type="paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Exchange, Georgia, serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 27px; margin-block-end: 17px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-block: 0px 17px; margin-bottom: 17px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A
Friday conference call for GOP lawmakers did little to assuage raw
feelings as Johnson sought for an hour to manage the expectations of his
conference, fielding more than a dozen questions. The speaker told
lawmakers not to expect a home run or grand slams in the spending bills,
but instead singles or doubles, according to people on the call.
Johnson said such expectations reflected the reality of divided
government, and that some Republicans’ willingness to block routine
procedural votes—essentially paralyzing the floor—had hurt Republicans’
leverage in talks with Democrats.</span></div><div data-type="paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Exchange, Georgia, serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 27px; margin-block-end: 17px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-block: 0px 17px; margin-bottom: 17px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Some
Republicans complained that he had offered little information about the
substance of any of the spending bills, raising fears that Johnson was
setting the stage for another episode in which he would rely on
Democratic votes to clear must-pass legislation through the House.</span></div><div data-type="paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Exchange, Georgia, serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 27px; margin-block-end: 17px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-block: 0px 17px; margin-bottom: 17px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">So
far, Johnson has passed five major bills at a two-thirds threshold with
the help of Democrats: two previous stopgap spending bills; <a data-type="link" href="https://archive.is/o/vkUfw/https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/ndaa-defense-bill-fisa-passes-house-b6206424" rel="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0274b6; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-color: rgb(2, 116, 182); text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration: underline rgb(2, 116, 182);" target="_blank">the annual defense-policy bill</a>; a temporary reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration; and a bipartisan tax bill.</span></div><div data-type="paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Exchange, Georgia, serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 27px; margin-block-end: 17px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-block: 0px 17px; margin-bottom: 17px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">McCarthy’s
willingness to pass a stopgap bill with Democratic votes in September
triggered the rebellion that led to his removal. The same fate could
await Johnson if at least three House Republicans were willing to vote
with all Democrats to fire him from the speakership, given the narrow
majority in the House.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0