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Trump Responds to Main ‘Hush Money’ Trial Witness’s Claims (ET)
Immunity for Me but Not for Thee (Woodruff)
Justices Signal a Desire to Avoid Both Cliffs on Presidential Immunity (Turley)
Emergency-O-Rama (Kunstler)
Trump Plans To Sanction Countries For Refusing To Use Dollar – Bloomberg (RT)
The Impotence of Antony Blinken (Patrick Lawrence)
Blinken Threatens China Over Russia Ties (RT)
Here’s What Makes Blinken’s Job In China So Difficult (Blankenship)
Facade of Diplomacy Masks US Efforts to ‘Smear, Isolate, Suppress’ China (Sp.)
Russia Must Fear NATO – Poland (RT)
Congress Panics Over Ukraine as Russian Drones Kill Abrams Battle Tanks (Sp.)
Ukraine’s Deep Manpower Shortage Overshadows Arms Deliveries (Sp.)
Pelosi Insulting Americans – Zakharova (RT)
US Congress Probing 13 Banks For January 6 ‘Collusion’ (RT)
Biden: White Americans Are the Threat (Paul Craig Roberts)

 

 

 

 

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“..the former president “had no idea what [he] was talking about” when he asked about reimbursing Mr. Cohen.”

Trump Responds to Main ‘Hush Money’ Trial Witness’s Claims (ET)

Former President Donald Trump praised the first witness in his New York City “hush money” trial, former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker, as he is scheduled to deliver more testimony in the case on Friday. “He’s been very nice. David’s been very nice. He’s a nice guy,” President Trump said on Thursday, responding to a question about Mr. Pecker’s testimony over the past week or so. During cross-examinations Thursday, Mr. Pecker detailed how he obtained potentially damaging stories about the candidate and paid out tens of thousands of dollars to keep them from the public eye. But when it came to the seamy claims by adult performer Stormy Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, the former National Enquirer publisher said he put his foot down.

“I am not paying for this story,” he told jurors Thursday at President Trump’s trial, recounting his version of a conversation with President Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen about attempts to suppress allegations that prosecutors claim amounted to election interference in the 2016 campaign. Mr. Pecker said that he remembers saying he “didn’t want to be involved in this.” President Trump has maintained he is not guilty of any of the charges, and says the stories that were bought and squelched were false. “There is no case here. This is just a political witch hunt,” he said before court in brief comments to reporters on Thursday. Ms. Daniels was eventually paid by Mr. Cohen to not speak about her claim of a 2006 sexual encounter with President Trump. The ex-president denies it happened, while his lawyers have said that she is using the claims to make money and bolster her fame.

Although he did not buy her story, Mr. Pecker told Mr. Cohen that someone should make a move to suppress the claims from going public. “I said to Michael, ‘My suggestion to you is that you should buy the story, and you should take it off the market because if you don’t and it gets out, I believe the boss will be very angry with you,’” he said. Later, Trump defense attorney Emil Bove opened his cross-examination by asking Mr. Pecker about his recollection of specific dates and meanings. He appeared to be laying further groundwork for the defense’s argument that any dealings President Trump had with the National Enquirer publisher were intended to protect himself, his reputation, and his family, not his campaign.

At one point on Thursday, Mr. Pecker said that when he spoke to President Trump about the former president reimbursing Mr. Cohen for paying Ms. Clifford, the former president told him that he had no idea what Mr. Pecker was referring to. He specifically testified that the former president “had no idea what [he] was talking about” when he asked about reimbursing Mr. Cohen. He also said that he purchased the rights to former model Karen McDougal’s story as well but he stipulated that President Trump never told him to purchase that story—only that he and Mr. Cohen were concerned about the McDougal story from emerging.

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Hot potato.

Immunity for Me but Not for Thee (Woodruff)

“Whether and if so to what extent does a former President enjoy presidential immunity from criminal prosecution for conduct alleged to involve official acts during his tenure in office?” That is the question the Supreme Court will answer when it hears oral argument in Trump v. U.S. on April 25, 2024. Legacy media and the ladies of “The View” nearly lost their collective minds when the Court agreed to hear Trump’s appeal of the D.C. Circuit’s decision denying him immunity for his actions surrounding the events of Jan. 6, 2021. However, even Jack Smith, the Special Counsel prosecuting the case, argued that it was of “imperative public importance” that the Court resolve the immunity question before trial. But forget about Trump for the moment. The issue is bigger than Trump and his legal woes. As the partisan divide between the left and the right grows larger, there is a real risk that the criminalization of policy differences could raise our current state of “lawfare” to a new level.

Several retired four-star generals and admirals, as well as former cabinet officials, have filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court arguing that granting immunity to former presidents for actions within the outer perimeter of their official duties would raise questions about the ability of the United States to peacefully transfer power from one administration to another, and thereby pose a grave risk to national security. The retired officials’ brief also argues that granting immunity would undermine civilian control of the military and undermine trust and confidence in the military as an institution. The “parade of horribles” in the retired officials’ brief assumes that a future president would instruct subordinate military officers to carry out illegal orders for which they, but not the president, would be criminally liable. The brief also suggests that an unrestrained incumbent would use the military to retain power and, thus, destabilize America’s diplomatic and military standing among nations. Of course, none of the hypotheticals feared by the brief writers occurred in the case pending before the Court. Apparently, they are afraid not of Donald Trump but of some unidentified future president. To analyze the pros and cons of immunity, however, there is no need to speculate about what some future president might do. We need only look at actual events from our recent history.

Situation #1. President Obama ordered a drone strike in Yemen to kill Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen and Islamic Imam critical of American foreign policy in the Middle East. Before releasing the drones that killed al-Awlaki and two others, the White House sought and received a Memorandum from the Department of Justice providing legal justification for the attack. Several questions come to mind. Should the memo from DoJ authorizing the killing of an American citizen abroad without judicial due process immunize President Obama for violating the federal criminal statute that imposes criminal penalties for the extra territorial killing of an American citizen? Could a subsequent President, a member of the opposing political party, direct a new Attorney General to investigate whether the killing of the U.S. citizen by drone attack in Yemen violated federal criminal law? If an indictment is returned against the now former President for that killing, should President Obama be allowed to claim immunity or be forced to stand trial?

Situation #2. President Biden revoked many of President Trump’s Executive Orders addressing border security when he took office. He also halted construction of physical barriers intended to secure the southern border and stem the flow of illegal border crossings and the smuggling of dangerous drugs. The number of illegal border crossings skyrocketed. Instead of remaining in Mexico until asylum claims were adjudicated, migrants were “paroled” into the interior of the United States and given a court date for their asylum claim years into the future. The quantity of illegal drugs, and the deaths of American citizens from accidental drug overdoses smuggled across the southern border, escalated astronomically. Federal law imposes criminal penalties on those who enter the United States illegally. It also punishes conspiracies to violate federal law. So, if the White House switches parties when President Biden leaves, should the new president’s Attorney General seek an indictment against Biden for conspiring with the Secretary of Homeland Security to violate U.S. immigration laws by facilitating the illegal entry of millions of migrants into the United States? Or should those policy choices be protected by a cloak of immunity?

Situation #3. Eager to deliver on a campaign promise, President Biden announced a policy to “forgive” billions of dollars in student loan debt. The Supreme Court struck down the President’s plan and held that Congress had not authorized the Executive to unilaterally forgive student loan debt. Instead of seeking legislative authority, President Biden reworked his plan to rely upon a different statute for authority. Assume the courts dismissed lawsuits challenging Biden’s “Plan B” because the plaintiffs lacked standing to sue. “Plan B” went forward and billions of dollars in federal student loans became “grants” instead of loans that had to be repaid. The federal Anti-deficiency Act imposes criminal penalties on anyone who authorizes the expenditure of federal funds without a valid congressional appropriation. When President Biden leaves office, can he be indicted and tried because his “Plan B” loan scheme violated federal law?

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“..Alvin Bragg is the very personification of the danger immunity is meant to avoid..”

Justices Signal a Desire to Avoid Both Cliffs on Presidential Immunity (Turley)

Writer Ray Bradbury once said, “Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.” In Thursday’s case before the Supreme Court on the immunity of former President Donald Trump, nine justices appear to be feverishly working with feathers and glue on a plunge into a constitutional abyss. It has been almost 50 years since the high court ruled presidents have absolute immunity from civil lawsuits in Nixon v. Fitzgerald. The court held ex-President Richard Nixon had such immunity for acts taken “within the ‘outer perimeter’ of his official responsibility.” Yet in 1974’s United States v. Nixon, the court ruled a president is not immune from a criminal subpoena. Nixon was forced to comply with a subpoena for his White House tapes in the Watergate scandal from special counsel Leon Jaworski. Since then, the court has avoided any significant ruling on the extension of immunity to a criminal case — until now.

There are cliffs on both sides of this case. If the court were to embrace special counsel Jack Smith’s arguments, a president would have no immunity from criminal charges, even for official acts taken in his presidency. It would leave a president without protection from endless charges from politically motivated prosecutors. If the court were to embrace Trump counsel’s arguments, a president would have complete immunity. It would leave a president largely unaccountable under the criminal code for any criminal acts. The first cliff is made obvious by the lower-court opinion. While the media have largely focused on extreme examples of president-ordered assassinations and coups, the justices are clearly as concerned with the sweeping implications of the DC Circuit opinion. Chief Justice John Roberts noted the DC Circuit failed to make any “focused” analysis of the underlying acts, instead offering little more than a judicial shrug.

Roberts read its statement that “a former president can be prosecuted for his official acts because the fact of the prosecution means that the former president has acted in defiance of the laws” and noted it sounds like “a former president can be prosecuted because he is being prosecuted.” The other cliff is more than obvious from the other proceedings occuring as these arguments were made. Trump’s best attorney proved to be Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. If the justices want insight into the implications of denying any immunity, they just need to look north to New York City. The ongoing prosecution of Trump is legally absurd but has resulted in the leading presidential candidate not only being gagged but prevented from campaigning.

Alvin Bragg is the very personification of the danger immunity is meant to avoid. With cliffs to the left and the right, the justices are looking at a free-fall dive into the scope of constitutional and criminal law as they apply to presidential conduct. They may be looking not for a foothold as much as a shorter drop. Some of the justices are likely to be seeking a third option where a president has some immunity under a more limited and less tautological standard than the one the DC Circuit offered. The problem for the court is presidential privilege and immunity decisions are meant to give presidents breathing room by laying out bright lines within which they can operate. Ambiguity defeats the purpose of such immunity. So does a test that turns on the motivation of an official act.

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“Whichever way the verdict goes in the Alvin Bragg case, epic looting and rioting will commence..”

Emergency-O-Rama (Kunstler)

So far, the spring rioting has mostly been fun for the rioters. Unlike the J-6-21 “paraders,” locked up in the putrid DC jail for years pending trial, the Hamas frolickers are at near-zilch risk of any serious consequences. Few will even be suspended from school. They are doing exactly what the schools trained them up for: destroying Western Civ, one acanthus leaf at a time. According to the shadowy stage-managers behind “Joe Biden,” this will save our democracy.

That and stuffing Donald Trump in jail for the rest of his natural life. Alas, the lawfare cases cooked up toward that end appear defective to a spectacular degree. It really says something about the true authors of these beauties brought by Alvin Bragg, Letitia James, Fani Willis, and Jack Smith. I speak of the behind-the-scene blob lawfare ninjas Norm Eisen, Andrew Weissmann, Matt Colangelo, and Mary McCord, who wrote the scripts for all four of this year’s big elephant trap cases against the former president. You have to wonder how that bunch made it through their law boards. The current extravaganza in Manhattan that centers on alleged book-keeping errors in furtherance of an unstated federal offense is due to go on a few more weeks. The howling errors of both the prosecution and Judge Juan Merchan are so extravagant that the proceeding looks like it was cribbed from the pages of Lewis Carroll.

Yet, there is near unanimous sentiment that the Trump-deranged New Yawk jury will convict, no matter how much more idiotic the case turns out to be. By then, we will be verging on summer. The college campuses will be shuttered and the youth-in-revolt action will necessarily move to the regular streets. Whichever way the verdict goes in the Alvin Bragg case, epic looting and rioting will commence. Sometime this summer, I predict, the Mar-a-Lago documents case will get tossed on something like malicious prosecution. Jack Smith’s DC case, kneecapped by SCOTUS, won’t start before the November election (or maybe ever) and ditto the Fani Willis fiasco in Atlanta. George and Alex Soros will pour millions into box lunches for the kids burning down what’s left of the cities and the demure gals of the Ivy League Left will find plenty of love in the ruins.

The two major party conventions in July (Republican) and August (Democrat) are sure to out-do the 1968 lollapalooza in Chicago (I was there) in mayhem and property damage. “Joe Biden” — really the blob behind him — will ache to declare a national emergency, perhaps even a second emergency after the recently unveiled “climate emergency” supposedly pending any day. The USA will be in an historic horror movie you could call Emergency-O-Rama. If you think the financial system, and the US economy that has become the tail on the finance dog, can survive all this, you will be disappointed. The army may have to step in and put an end to these shenanigans. Don’t think it can’t happen.

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“I would not allow countries to go off the dollar because when we lose that standard, that will be like losing a revolutionary war..”
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Sorry, but that train has sailed.

Trump Plans To Sanction Countries For Refusing To Use Dollar – Bloomberg (RT)

Economic aides to former US President Donald Trump are looking for options to stop countries from shifting away from the US dollar as it faces a growing challenge from emerging markets, including BRICS nations, Bloomberg reported on Friday. The presumptive Republican nominee for the November presidential election and his team are discussing penalties against both allies and adversaries who seek to divert their trade from the greenback to other currencies. The options could include export controls, currency manipulation charges, and tariffs, the outlet said, citing people familiar with the matter. The global trend toward using national currencies in trade instead of the dollar gained significant momentum after Russia was cut off from the Western financial system and had its foreign reserves frozen in 2022, as part of Ukraine-related sanctions.

A bill with provisions authorizing the US to confiscate frozen Russian assets, which Biden signed on Wednesday, could further spur de-dollarization, financial experts have warned. The so-called REPO Act, which was incorporated in the $61 billion military aid package for Kiev, authorized the US president to seize Russian state assets held in American banks. As quoted by Bloomberg, Trump warned on Thursday that with US President Joe Biden, “you’re going to lose the dollar as the standard. That’ll be like losing the biggest war we’ve ever lost.” According to the news agency, Trump’s economic advisers and his campaign team have specifically considered curbing de-dollarization efforts by BRICS countries.

The group – which recently expanded and now comprises Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Ethiopia, Iran, Egypt – is boosting the use of national currencies in mutual trade. It has even signaled the possibility of introducing a new single currency in the coming years. Trump has repeatedly said that he wants the dollar to remain the world’s reserve currency. “I hate when countries go off the dollar,” Trump told CNBC in March. “I would not allow countries to go off the dollar because when we lose that standard, that will be like losing a revolutionary war,” he said, adding that it would be a “hit” for the US.

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“..there’s no mileage in predicting success when Blinken boards a plane for the great “out there.”

The Impotence of Antony Blinken (Patrick Lawrence)

Antony Blinken is now in China for his second such journey as secretary of state and his third encounter with senior Chinese officials: This is our news as April marches toward May. I have to say, it is a stranger state of affairs than I can figure when the State Department and the media that clerk for it tell us in advance that America’s top diplomat is going to fail to get anything done as he sets out for the People’s Republic. “I want to make clear that we are realistic and clear-eyed about the prospects of breakthroughs on any of these issues,” an unnamed State Department official said when briefing reporters last week on Blinken’s agenda. This is how State warns in advance that the secretary will be wasting his time and our money during his encounters in Shanghai and Beijing. What is this if not an admission of our secretary of state’s diplomatic impotence? Or do I mean incompetence? Or both?

This is the man, after all, who arrived in Israel five days after the events of last Oct. 7 to announce, “I come before you as a Jew.” Does this guy understand diplomacy or what? The media followed the State Department’ lead, naturally, in advising us of the pointlessness of Blinken’s sojourn in China—this at both ends of the Pacific. CNBC: “Washington is realistic about its expectations on Blinken’s visit in resolving key issues.” Japan Times: “While crucial for keeping lines of communication open, the visit is unlikely to yield major breakthroughs.” Matt Lee, the very able diplomatic correspondent at The Associated Press, got it righter than anyone in his April 22 report: The point of Blinken’s three days of talks with top Chinese officials, he reported, is to have three days of talks with top Chinese officials. “The mere fact that Blinken is making the trip might be seen by some as encouraging,” Lee wrote, “but ties between Washington and Beijing are tense and the rifts are growing wider.”

This is our Tony. As the record makes pitifully clear, there’s no mileage in predicting success when Blinken boards a plane for the great “out there.” This is unequivocally so in his dealings with the western end of the Pacific. There is a long list of the topics Blinken was set to raise with Chinese officials, notable among these Foreign Minister Wang Yi. Taiwan and the South China Sea, military-to-military contacts, artificial intelligence applications, illicit drug traffic, human rights, trade: These are standards on the American menu when a U.S. official addresses Chinese counterparts. The last is especially contentious just now, given the Biden regime’s disgraceful determination to subvert those Chinese industries with which the U.S. cannot compete. With plans to block imports of Chinese-made electric vehicles already afoot, last week President Biden announced new tariffs on imports of Chinese steel. And it is now “investigating” China’s shipping and shipbuilding industries, which sounds to me like prelude to yet more measures to undermine China’s admirable economic advances.

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Imagine you’re mini-me and the CEO of China is persuaded to receive you. What do you do then? Well, you insult him, of course…

Blinken Threatens China Over Russia Ties (RT)

Washington is ready to introduce more sanctions against China over its alleged transfer of dual-use goods and components, which it claims can be used by the Russia, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday. Speaking at a press conference in Beijing following a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, the US official recalled that Washington has already imposed sanctions against more than 100 Chinese entities and is “fully prepared to act” and “take additional measures.” Blinken claimed that China’s alleged support for the Russian defense industry raises concerns not only about the situation in Ukraine, but also about a “medium to long-term threat that many Europeans feel viscerally that Russia poses to them.” Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal also reported that the US was drafting sanctions that could cut off some Chinese banks from the global financial system unless Beijing severs its economic ties with Russia.

The outlet claimed that US officials believe trade with China has allowed Russia to rebuild its military industrial capacity and could help it defeat Ukraine in a war of attrition. Beijing, in turn, has accused the US of hypocrisy for providing billions of dollars in assistance to Ukraine while “unreasonably criticizing the normal trade and economic relations between Russia and China.” “This is a very hypocritical and irresponsible approach,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin told reporters on Friday in response to Blinken’s concerns about Beijing’s support of Moscow. China has also vehemently rejected accusations leveled by NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg of “fueling” the Ukraine conflict. Beijing has instead blamed NATO for instigating the crisis by continuing its expansion in Europe and refusing to respect Russian national security concerns. Following his meeting with Blinken, Xi suggested that the US and China “should be partners, not rivals” and should strive towards achieving “mutual success and not harm each other.”

“I proposed three major principles: mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, and win-win cooperation. They are not only a summary of past experience, but also a guide to the future,” the Chinese leader was quoted as saying. Beijing has maintained a policy of neutrality on the Ukraine conflict, with Chinese officials repeatedly stating that the country is not selling weapons to either Russia or Ukraine. Earlier this month, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Ning insisted that China “regulates the export of dual-use articles in accordance with laws and regulations,” urging “relevant countries” not to “smear or attack the normal relations between China and Russia.” In December last year, US President Joe Biden issued a decree which enabled sanctions on foreign financial institutions that continue to deal with Russia. It targeted lenders outside US and EU jurisdictions that help Russia source sensitive items, which reportedly include semiconductors, machine tools, chemical precursors, ball bearings, and optical systems.

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TikTok.

Here’s What Makes Blinken’s Job In China So Difficult (Blankenship)

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in China on Wednesday to kick off a three-day trip. It is reported that he will speak with his Chinese counterpart and potentially with President Xi Jinping. As the New York Times reported, quoting officials privy to the visit, one of the main topics will be China’s alleged support of Russia, which includes the supposed sale of weapon components and dual-use products. It also comes at a time of increased tensions. Relations have shown a flicker of warmth since US President Joe Biden and Xi’s encounter at the 30th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco last year. However, this visit comes sandwiched between significant moves by the Biden administration. On the one hand, Biden recently signed off on a hefty military aid package for Ukraine, Taiwan, and Israel, coupled with a divest-or-ban provision for the Chinese social media juggernaut, TikTok.

On the other, a historic trilateral summit involving the US, Japan, and the Philippines hints at potential formal military collaborations down the road, with the US deploying medium-range missiles in the Philippines, a move with unmistakable implications for China. Blinken’s trip also follows closely on the heels of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s recent visit to China, which coincided with US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s presence in the country. Lavrov’s visit underscored the enduring bond between Russia and China, while Yellen’s seemed to foreshadow potential trade tensions over what Beijing perceives as baseless accusations of “overcapacity.” Behind the diplomatic niceties lies a deeper agenda: the concerted effort by the US and some of its allies to curb China’s economic and technological ascent. This was laid bare when EU officials on Tuesday executed unannounced raids on the offices of a Chinese company in Poland and Denmark.

The European Commission said that its “unannounced inspections” are based on “indications that the inspected company may have received foreign subsidies that could distort the internal market pursuant to the Foreign Subsidies Regulation.” Despite this explanation, it appears the EU is mirroring Washington’s growing scrutiny of and hostility against Chinese firms. The EU’s alignment with the US on trade policy, particularly regarding China, signals a loose front aimed at constraining China’s global economic reach. The issue of Russia is also another excuse to limit China. The bilateral partnership has been extraordinarily beneficial for both sides: their trade reached a record $240.1 billion in 2023, and Russia’s economy grew by 3.6% the same year despite Western sanctions. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicts Russia’s economy will grow faster than all advanced economies in 2024.

This is due in no small part to trade with China, the world’s second-largest economy, but it’s also due to the fact that many other large countries, such as Brazil and India, have not joined Western sanctions on Russia – they just aren’t trading in strategic sectors of the economy like China is. But even in those sectors, the US and its allies have never revealed evidence that Beijing is directly helping Russia’s war effort in Ukraine.

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“Imagine them [China] looking at Elon Musk and saying that you need to sell Tesla or else,” suggested Thomas. “It’s just astonishing stuff.”

Facade of Diplomacy Masks US Efforts to ‘Smear, Isolate, Suppress’ China (Sp.)

Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s second visit to China in less than a year this week signifies the importance the Biden administration places on Sino-US relations in addressing various global challenges, according to Chinese commentator Anna Ge. “The United States aims to sustain dialogue with China and collaborate on addressing some of the world’s most pressing issues and also domestic issues,” said the CGTN Radio host, who frequently discusses China-related issues in mainstream media in South Africa, India, and Central Asia. But the US maintains its own motives in such discussions, according to Ge, frequently using China as a scapegoat for its own geopolitical and economic difficulties. The political commentator joined Sputnik’s Fault Lines program Friday to discuss the issue. “It is interesting to see how China-US relations develop today,” said Ge as host Jamarl Thomas noted the often chaotic nature of diplomacy between the two countries in recent years.

US President Joe Biden referred to Chinese President Xi Jinping as a “dictator” the last time the two met in the United States, a gaffe judged to have damaged relations between the two countries. “We are left with a contradiction [between] messages and reality,” she said. “On the one hand, we hear relations are more stable with the personal diplomacy of [Janet] Yellen and Blinken in attending cultural events, etcetera. in line with the increase of flights and other types of people-to-people exchanges. These were impossible last year when the weather balloon lies and provocation in Taiwan and the South China Sea were edging towards a military confrontation.” “On the other hand we have become accustomed to anticipating negative developments shortly after high level US officials depart, often leading to any positive outreach being subsequently retracted or modified by the American side… Washington has been testing China’s limits unilaterally,” the commentator highlighted.

Biden signed a bill likely banning the Chinese-owned social media app TikTok shortly after Blinken arrived in Shanghai this week, an unprecedented measure. TikTok CEO Shou Chew, a Singaporean businessman, has vowed to oppose pressure to sell the social media platform to an American owner, which would result in the application being banned unless the company succeeds in launching a judicial challenge. US politicians have cast TikTok as a threat to US security and Americans’ privacy, but a raft of concessions won by former US President Donald Trump resulted in all data associated with the platform being hosted in the United States, with periodic auditing from US-based companies. Critics have claimed the strongarm tactic is merely a strategy to undermine competition from a successful Chinese competitor, as when the United States pressured European allies to ban 5G technology from the Shenzhen-based Huawei. “Imagine them [China] looking at Elon Musk and saying that you need to sell Tesla or else,” suggested Thomas. “It’s just astonishing stuff.”

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They do not.

Russia Must Fear NATO – Poland (RT)

Russia should fear clashing with NATO because such a war would end in “inevitable defeat” for Moscow, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said in parliament on Thursday, claiming that the US-led military bloc has several times more troops and resources. Sikorski’s comments come as a number of European leaders have raised concerns that Russia may attack an EU member state if it is allowed to defeat Ukraine on the battlefield. “It is not we, the West, who should fear a clash with Putin, but the other way around,” he insisted, adding that “it is worth reminding [people] about this” to show that an attack by Russia on any NATO member would end in Moscow’s defeat. “Putin’s only hope is our lack of determination,” he stated. The minister said the US-led military bloc remains a “defensive pact,” but nevertheless boasted that it has three times as many military personnel, three times the aerial resources, and four times as many ships as Russia.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk had previously also warned that Europe is in a “pre-war era,” while President Andrzej Duda has expressed the country’s readiness to host US nuclear weapons under NATO’s nuclear-sharing program. The move would place the bloc’s nuclear arsenal on the border of Belarus – a key Russian ally. Moscow has responded by stating that its military would take “all necessary countermeasures” to ensure its security if US nuclear weapons were deployed to Poland. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has also slammed Warsaw’s statements as a “provocation” and an attempt to “snuggle up” to Washington with its “deeply hostile policy towards Russia.” Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly stated that Moscow has no plans to attack any US “satellites” in Eastern Europe, and insists that claims of a potential Russian invasion are merely government propaganda aimed at scaring citizens “to extract additional expenses from people, to make them bear this burden [of funding Ukraine] on their shoulders.”

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So-so tanks.

Congress Panics Over Ukraine as Russian Drones Kill Abrams Battle Tanks (Sp.)

The rush to fast-track $6 billion in military aid to Ukraine on Friday reflects the panic felt by the Biden administration and in Congress that the Zelensky regime’s forces are collapsing, veteran UK diplomat, former ambassador and political commentator Peter Ford told Sputnik. Reports that Russia’s unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are now proving successful at targeting and destroying US-supplied Abrams Main Battle Tanks causes a lot of concerns among the Biden administration and Congress, according to Ford. “The haste to release billions of dollars of funds for Ukraine betrays US alarm at the dire situation facing its client state on the battlefront,” he said on Friday. On Tuesday, the US Senate passed a $95 billion bill containing approximately $61 billion in Ukraine-related funding, including via a loan. US President Joe Biden signed the bill into law on Wednesday.

The US Department of Defense later unveiled a $1 billion military aid package for Kiev, including cluster munitions and air defense supplies. In addition, the Pentagon announced on Friday its largest-ever $6 billion military aid package that will include interceptors for Ukraine’s Patriot and NASAMS systems, more counter-drone systems, significant amounts of artillery ammunition, and air-to-ground munitions. However, the move came amid reports that the Ukrainian armed forces moved Abrams tanks from the frontlines due to threats from Russian drones. Ford observed that the rush to send so many more advanced weapons systems to Ukraine came hard on the heels of these reports. “The announcement coincides with reports that the Ukrainians are withdrawing US Abrams tanks from the front because they have shown themselves to be vulnerable to drone attack,” the analyst highlighted.

However, the main US defense contractors were oblivious to the multiple failures of their weapons systems on the battlefields of Ukraine and were only interested in further expanding their already enormous profit margins, the ex-diplomat emphasized. “Never mind, the main aims are being achieved. Not to help Ukraine – how naive! – but to stuff billions of taxpayer dollars down the gullet of the arms manufacturers,” Ford clarified. The other purpose of the otherwise futile and too late new arms package was to give Biden domestic credibility before his re-election campaign against former President Donald Trump this fall, he explained. The $6 billion arms package was therefore meant “to make Biden look resolute and consistent as he positions himself for the presidential election campaign,” the analyst said. The people of Ukraine once again had become the victims of cynical and ruthless US political manipulations and intrigues, Ford stressed.

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“..the former Ukrainian lawmaker estimates that about 1.5 million men of military age are currently on the run across Ukraine.”

Ukraine’s Deep Manpower Shortage Overshadows Arms Deliveries (Sp.)

New arms deliveries from the US cannot compensate for Ukraine’s deep manpower shortage and exhaustion, Volodymyr Oleynyk, a Ukrainian politician and former member of the Verkhovna Rada, told Sputnik.
Although the lack of ammunition has been alleviated to some extent by foreign aid, Ukraine’s main weakness is an acute shortage of soldiers, the Western press acknowledges. Since the beginning of the special military operation, the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) have lost nearly 500,000 servicemen, according to the Russian Defense Ministry. To make matters worse, Ukraine has been “plagued by draft dodging,” with young men evading conscription and failing to register as required, Politico reported in March. “Many [Ukrainian] commanders say that their combat units suffer from a 30-40% deficit in manpower,” Volodymyr Oleynyk told Sputnik.

“Entire brigades break the law, violate orders and arbitrarily leave combat positions. Some of them are elite brigades. One of them was disbanded – the one that included the Right Sector*, which is considered very ‘patriotic’.” In recent months, there has been a significant increase in the number of Ukrainian troops using the special “Volga” 149.200 radio frequency to communicate their desire to disarm, according to Sputnik’s sources. The frequency was set up by Russian forces for Ukrainian troops wishing to surrender. Oleynyk quoted the head of the Ivano-Frankovsk regional military commissar as saying last month that some 30,000 potential conscripts were in hiding in the region. By 2020, Frankovshchyna will have a population of only 1.3 million. Doing the math, the former Ukrainian lawmaker estimates that about 1.5 million men of military age are currently on the run across Ukraine.

In addition, Ukrainian military personnel are increasingly deserting, Oleynyk added. “I’ve analyzed the situation for the first quarter of this year: about 20,000 criminal cases related to desertion have been opened over the past three months,” he said. “In general, it is believed that about 100,000 deserters are on the run. How many cases have been sent to court? Over these three months only 80 criminal cases were sent to court. This shows that even the judicial system does not want to consider these cases, because officials are afraid of later revenge by those convicted.”

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“..trying to blame Moscow for a wave of pro-Palestinian protests across the country..“

Pelosi Insulting Americans – Zakharova (RT)

Former US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is insulting American voters by trying to blame Moscow for a wave of pro-Palestinian protests across the country, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Friday. The senior Democrat has linked pro-Palestinian protests in the US with alleged foreign influence on multiple occasions, most recently in an interview with Irish public broadcaster Raidio Teilifis Eireann (RTE) this week. Pelosi also took issue with the ‘Genocide Joe’ nickname that US President Joe Biden has been branded with over his failure to pressure Israel into showing more restraint in its military campaign in Gaza. Pelosi acknowledged that pro-Palestinian sentiment could impact Biden’s support during the US presidential vote in November, and claimed that Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted the presumptive Republican candidate, Donald Trump, to be elected.

“It’s in Putin’s interest for – what’s his name? – to win. And therefore I see some encouragement on the part of the Russians of some of what is going on,” she alleged of the demonstrations. Pro-Palestinian activists are genuine in their feelings, she conceded, but “some of it has a Russian tinge to it.” Responding to Pelosi’s remarks in a social media post, Zakharova said they “can only be taken as an insult to the Americans and a disregard for democracy.”

In January, the former House speaker called on the FBI to investigate the financing of pro-Palestinian groups, claiming that their demands for a ceasefire in Gaza were “Putin’s message.” Pelosi was also caught on camera lashing out at hecklers outside her home, telling them to “go back to China,” supposedly where their “headquarters” were located. Biden’s approval ratings have taken a hit among Democratic voters over his pro-Israeli stance, although Pelosi insisted that the president has been “the biggest advocate for humanitarian assistance to Palestinians” amid the conflict in Gaza. “The groups outside with their protest lay some blame at his doorstep, when he is the only one advocating at that level,” she added.

This week, local authorities across the US used force to disperse pro-Palestinian rallies at university campuses, with mass arrests reported in some cases. Protesters were targeted at Yale, Harvard, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Southern California, and other institutions. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has welcomed the US crackdown, branding the activists “anti-Semitic mobs” and comparing them to Nazi sympathizers in the 1930s. Putin has publicly stated that he would be more comfortable with “predictable” and “old-school” Biden than Trump as the next US president.

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Your bank spies on you…

US Congress Probing 13 Banks For January 6 ‘Collusion’ (RT)

Republicans in the House of Representatives have sent letters to 13 financial institutions they suspect of colluding with the FBI and the Treasury Department to spy on Americans without a warrant in relation to the 2021 Capitol riot. Supporters of then-President Donald Trump had stormed the legislature just as Republican lawmakers were starting to register objections to certifying the 2020 election in favor of Joe Biden. Democrats labeled the unrest as an “insurrection” and sought to arrest over 1,000 people involved in any way. Some of these people were apparently targeted by financial institutions working with the FBI and Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), according to the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, led by the Judiciary Committee chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio).

“The Committee and Select Subcommittee remain concerned about how and to what extent federal law enforcement and financial institutions continue to spy on Americans by weaponizing backdoor information sharing and casting sprawling classes of transactions, purchase behavior, and protected political or religious expression as potentially ‘suspicious’ or indicative of ‘extremism’,” said a letter from Jordan, which the Daily Mail obtained exclusively on Thursday. Jordan has pointed to evidence that the FBI and FinCEN instructed banks to look for purchases of Bibles or search terms such as “Trump” or “MAGA,” the acronym for the 45th president’s campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again.” Congress was already investigating Bank of America, Chase, US Bank, Wells Fargo, Citi Bank and Truist. Thursday’s letter was sent to Charles Schwab, HSBC, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, PayPal, Santander, Standard Chartered and Western Union. That makes 13 banks or financial institutions potentially involved in the dragnet.

Bank of America alone sent data on 211 individuals to the FBI and FinCen by January 17, 2021. However, its Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) was sent after the federal agencies asked banks to look for “extremist” purchases. Four of the 211 were tagged for a follow-up and visited by FBI agents. None of them ended up being charged with anything. “This kind of warrantless financial surveillance raises serious concerns about the federal government’s respect for Americans’ privacy and fundamental civil liberties,” Jordan wrote in a separate letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, also obtained by the Daily Mail. Since 2021, the FBI has targeted “radical-traditionalist Catholics” as well as parents who spoke up at school board meetings – on issues such as mask mandates or critical race theory – as potential domestic terrorists. Both programs were officially denounced after being revealed by whistleblowers.

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” What future can such a collection of morons have?”

Biden: White Americans Are the Threat (Paul Craig Roberts)

The Main Goal of the Biden Regime Is to Sell-out the Majority White American Population and to declare them as a menace. Tucker Carlson points out that president Biden, illegitimately in office due to the theft of the 2020 election, has as president of the United States defined America’s majority white population as the major cause of racism and a threat to national unity. Note: it is the majority that is the threat. Yet, tens of millions of dumbshit white Americans designated as America’s worst threat by Biden vote for him. What future can such a collection of morons have?

A white heterosexual who votes for Biden is expressing a death wish. It is the US whose Democrat Government is alienated from its own white majority population that intends to fight wars against Russia, Iran, and China. This is insanity. Who is going to fight these wars for Biden? The answer is Europeans and the immigrant-invaders into America thanks to Biden’s open border policy. Like Rome in its own self-inflicted decay, the US will be dependent on troops from the immigrant-invaders overrunning its own borders to fight its wars abroad in defense of the borders of foreign countries.

There is no discussion of this whatsoever.

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    Herri met de Bles c1510-after 1555 Saint Jerome medidating   • Trump Responds to Main ‘Hush Money’ Trial Witness’s Claims (ET) • Immunity for Me
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle April 27 2024]

    #157894
    tboc
    Participant

    caucasian citizens of the United States complaining about systemic racism against caucasian citizens of the United States
    Darwin Award winners
    or as Orwell put it
    “Ignorance is Strength”

    but such BS has proved to be useful in gathering votes

    #157895
    Dr. D
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    “New Eight Year Old evidence shows that the CIA set up the entire Russia Hoax.”

    Ya don’t say…

    Larger scale: WHY do we have elections if whoever is elected can’t change anything? Can’t fire anyone, that’s a given, even for not doing your job. Can’t pass Executive orders, or undo them. Can’t pick his team. Can’t change war policy. If he gives orders, no one follows them. And right now, previous administrations pass laws that prevent the new officeholder from making actions and decisions. So: you can do what the Permanent Managerial class Group-Thinks into being, that being the definition of the “Derp State.” And nothing else. It’s like those kid’s shopping carts with the race car wheel seat. And they hope by 4 years you will only barely catch on that nothing you’ve said is being done. The entire government is going its own way: the way of AGAINST The People. In war. In Law. In Economics. In Taxes. In every possible way.

    Next question: if it’s definitively and visibly Against The People, who is it all FOR? Government would still get their 6-figures whether they are For or Against The People. So wouldn’t it be easier to be FOR The People and Democracy? Wouldn’t that save a lot of hassle? And you wonder why people think there’s a small cadre at the top directing them.

    “any dealings President Trump had with the National Enquirer publisher were intended to protect himself, his reputation, and his family, not his campaign.”

    That seems easy to prove: Did he do this going back 5-10 more years, long before he was a candidate? A: Who Cares? We made the whole thing up extra-legally anyway. “Proof” has nothing to do with it. We are #AntiLogical. You HAVE to get #Logic right out of your head. It has no place here. Tell them the Plants love Brawndo.

    “• Immunity for Me but Not for Thee (Woodruff)

    Get #Logic right out of your head. I want an Oompa Loompa, and I want it NOW! I don’t care how. I made it up because I WANT it – Fascist “Force of Will” – and I want it a LOT. Ipso Facto, That means it’s true.

    “• Justices Signal a Desire to Avoid Both Cliffs on Presidential Immunity (Turley)

    This is the same everywhere. “Why can’t it read???” Am I missing something? NO ONE IS IMMUNE. From Anything. Presidents must be IMPEACHED. That is, he is indicted and put on trial by Congress alone. Why is this so f’ing hard? They can hold that trial in about a week. Problem solved. If you don’t want someone serially breaking the law in Office, don’t elect him. I can’t f’ing save you from yourself, it’s not my job. If you’re too dumb and corrupt to run a country, you lose it. Unicorns won’t save you.

    “• Trump Plans To Sanction Countries For Refusing To Use Dollar – Bloomberg (RT)

    Haha. You’re hilarious. Thanks! No one is dumping the US$ faster than you. YOU cut off and saved China, Russia, world banking systems from the trainwreck of the dollar collapse. You’re saving THEM, not yourself. Now is that self-aware or the biggest coincidence this decade? The Plan was to have no alternative this time, no US gold dollar or coin in Berlin when Wiemar falls. So TINA, no choices. You do what the Euro world oligarchs tell you and install world communism with a CBDC. Oops! Not if half the world is on a functioning parallel system!

    ““Whichever way the verdict goes in the Alvin Bragg case, epic looting and rioting will commence..”

    Meh. I look at the movie “Civil War”. It’s interesting, not the signaling crap I expected at all. Examples: One, these reporters are crossing “Civil War” territory to interview the President (why???). They have snipers and get out with some guys who are shooting. They’re like “Who do you work for? Who authorized you?” The gunman, “Soldier” there looks at the reporter incredulously: “Oh, I understand: you’re MORON.” The other reporter jumps in. “THEY (up there) are SHOOTING at us. WE (down here) are SHOOTING back.” The End. That’s the whole war, Civil War. Who are they? Don’t care, couldn’t give a f—.

    IF someone shoots at you, YOU SHOOT BACK. That’s self-defense for the last 100,000 years. Problem solved. Nobody “Authorizes” it you dips—t. Oh mother-may-I save my life with a carefully-worded letter to the sheriff and Homeland Security”?

    This is with yesterday’s Luongo interview, which I’d skip. But they ask, “Why do you need a 30-round clip to defend yourself?” He asks “If someone is invading my house to touch my wife, I get a MILLION bullets. INFINITY bullets. That’s how many I legally get.” I get to keep shooting until he stops if I have to go to the bullet factory with a bullet truck. Understand? THAT is why I need a 10-round, 30-round, 100-round clip. Because I have that RIGHT, so to speak, to save my and my family’s life. But you see: IT’S NOT YOUR LIFE. You didn’t make that. It’s the GOVERNMENT’S life: you are THEIR property, the property of the STATE, and you need to ask and they will decide if you can save your own life or not. (Spoiler: the answer is “No.”)

    Civil War vignette, as it was made of script subtleties and implications, vignettes. They stop to get gas, and aside from the price ($300 is now the price of a SANDWICH) they have to convince the gas station owner to TAKE their money at all, as good people with a worthy cause, rather than save the gas for his own people and friends. Around the back, they have two men hung up, dead or nearly dead, tortured to death. The photographer is curious, which obviously will go bad for everyone. I mean, they killed two, why not a few more, take the car, all that? As they diffuse the situation by NOT JUDGING (That’s what makes this a complete fantasy: A reporter not judging others? I can believe a time-traveling civil war with space lasers and tentacled aliens, but not THAT) they eventually ask, “Um, what’s with the guys?”
    “Oh these guys? Should we shoot them? Do you want them dead?”
    “Er, um, I don’t know, what did they DO?” They’re on the “Other side”.

    “Aw s—t no. They were just two guys come down to rob us. That’s what we do to (armed) robbers.” …When there is no police. Sides? What sides? IDGAF about “Sides”. Don’t shoot at me. Don’t rob me. What did I say last week about “You better hope the police catch you and not us?” The police protect THE CRIMINALS, not the victims. They allow it to be brought to a judge so you can have ACCURATE justice, not quick, perhaps overzealous justice. On record so the whole town can know what happened. Who’s who. If not, the victim is going to go over and burn their house down anyway, on their own time, perhaps with the dogs and kids inside.

    That is why YOU want justice. I want justice. THEY want justice. We can all agree upon.

    Back to today: ““Whichever way the verdict goes in the Alvin Bragg case, epic looting and rioting will commence..”

    Oh will it now?
    Those immigrants will do that when all the EBT cards are shut off? And like NYC only this month – already – somebody played knockout game with some woman and NYC pedestrians beat the s—t out of him on camera, gratis? Less than a year after Penny was jailed (indicted) for doing the same? Sounds like they Ain’t Skeered. Immigrants may think this is a hoot with softies who won’t fight back. …Until the victims get sick of it and do. Then the beaches of Venezuela sound real nice.

    Oh WILL we riot now? Is THAT what we’re going to do? Do tell. Oh I’m sure there will be riots somewhere, perhaps everywhere. But will YOUR family be in them? Or will they decide to rally ‘round and fortify? What’s the support and tolerance of the Central Powers when that happens? (A: States are already deporting illegals in defiance of the Federal Government and we haven’t even started yet) Devolution. States are taking the Central tasks, as the Central is about to collapse. We can do that here in the ‘States, because of how we think about things and how we’re constructed.

    “• Blinken Threatens China Over Russia Ties (RT)

    The Duran were agog with how idiotic and undiplomatic this is. Like this is the level that in the 19th century would have caused a declaration of war. (Of course that’s the point and waterboy what’s-is-name knows it.)

    “Chinese cyber groups have posted about American racial politics, drug issues and immigration”

    How dare they state facts. Like everybody else. “Influencing” is not illegal. If I have to state it again. Arguing your case, promoting your cause and views, is what everybody does, every minute of life. …Until you meet a narcissistic sociopath who says you have no right to disagree or he’ll kill you. That’s considered a committable mental illness. So let’s go get the wagon and the butterfly nets.

    “Imagine them [China] looking at Elon Musk and saying that you need to sell Tesla or else,”

    China DID do this, and do it anew each day. However, that was part of VOLUNTARILY offshoring to give up all patent rights and be completely helpless. They do it a lot less after, ‘cause: they already own everything, why not?

    “• Facade of Diplomacy Masks US Efforts to ‘Smear, Isolate, Suppress’ China (Sp.)

    As far as I can tell no one can figure this out. The U.S. is definitely starting a war with China, which was “The Plan”. However, we will lose in 30 days when China does nothing. At all. We will ring-fence and sanction China as part of that “war” (the one China won’t notice) and we’ll run out of car parts a few days later. Then we’ll surrender.

    I know we were supposed to lose, but the “Losing” was part of a larger situation we have already failed at. We don’t own the food, nor the oil. There are still too many people, having failed to kill the 6 billion they said.

    Other part: Blinken and Yellen’s complaint about “Chinese Overcapacity”. THERE IS NEVER OVERCAPACITY. That means “China is selling us great stuff cheap.” How dare they? Gosh, this low prices saving the poor and middle classes must be stopped! I can’t even understand that using the demented and invariably-wrong Keynesianism.

    Top view: It must be crashed, and it can’t be the Banker’s fault. They blew every part of the overall strategy because they are glue-sniffing inbreds, but this part is still true. That and “The Plan”. They always follow “The Plan” because there is no Plan B. Like Cortez we burn the ships so no one gets cold feet.

    “Russia should fear clashing with NATO … the US-led military bloc has several times more troops and resources.”

    Still haven’t figured it out. THE U.S. IS NOT COMING. You morons. You’ve been double crossed. You feckless idiots. Do I have to send you a notarized letter of intent? Poland is still like “Oh yeah, well my big brother the U.S. will…”

    Will what? We have no missiles, tanks, guns. No ships. No steel mills. We probably have no operational nukes.* We’re going to send all 5,000 “men” of our tranny army? And chase the Russians with lipstick and pronouns?

    (*Nuclear warheads – and their missile launch – decay rapidly and require constant and expensive care. We haven’t launched an operational missile in ages and UK nearly sank their own sub trying last month)

    All “we” have to do to “You”, Europe, is wait. You will collapse MORE than we do FASTER, and the Western capital flows will come here. Then we default on our bonds and Lo! Discover a bunch of oil and gold mines. We ain’t paying because $36 Trillion can’t be paid, and everybody knows since 1980. So we will default. Or “Restart”. Restructure. And if you’re all dead when that happens? Too bad, so sad should have been more careful and had an army like NATO and Trump told you.

    “Supporters of then-President Donald Trump had stormed the legislature”

    Did they? Were they? Thanks NPR writers at RT, tirelessly doing the enemy’s work for them. We know 1,000 FBI agents were there, are you sure WHO “Stormed” the capital, as 6 policemen and 20 camera crews slowly and methodically crept up to the rotunda in full escort? Wow, that’s a new version of “Storming” I never heard about! Then Chansley thanked them at length, they shook hands, and he walked home. You know: like in any war or violent crime. It’s like a rape where you cuddle all night and stay for breakfast.

    “just as Republican lawmakers were starting to register objections to certifying the 2020 election”

    Oh, a little more to the point. The PROCESS was never followed. It was interrupted. By NOT-riot. By six policemen slowly and peacefully walking through the building with reporters. — You know, the sort of thing that happens daily.

    “None of them ended up being charged with anything. “This kind of warrantless financial surveillance raises serious concerns”

    It doesn’t “Raise concerns”; it’s a top-level human rights violation, on the same list as genocides. That is to say, it’s ILLEGAL. Under every law, the 4th law ever passed. …But it’s the law, we don’t enforce that, we enforce NOT Law, like the WHO which is NOT a treaty. NOT passed by the Senate.

    “the FBI has targeted “radical-traditionalist Catholics”

    What does this mean? A: “Anyone who is different from me.” Anyone who doesn’t have the atheistic, humanist, materialist Progressive trans-religion. The State Religion! (1A) “Catholic” is not a crime. “Robbed bank” is a crime. “Assault” is a crime. “Thought something in his head about the Sacraments” is not a crime. …As if I have to spell it out for you.

    “A white heterosexual who votes for Biden is expressing a death wish.”

    PCR is getting to lose his mind. I love it. But then I always like crazy people.

    JB:
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/drizzle-drizzle-soft-guy-era-parody-trend-sheds-light-feminist-hypocrisy
    “Yes, it’s bewildering, but this is the nature of Cultural Marxism – The goal of activists is to break down the target population until they are slaves to collectivist whim.  No matter what you do, no matter how you accommodate them, it’s never good enough because the true purpose is control.  In the case of feminism, being a man is the same as original sin and every man must pay the price for that sin for as long as they live.  Meaning if men want access to women they can’t just treat them equally, they also have to pay.”

    From EMP/Grids yesterday:
    “FBI Director Christopher Wray said Wednesday that China’s hackers are targeting American critical infrastructure, including water treatment plants, pipelines and the power grid, to be able to “wreak havoc” in the U.S. if Beijing ever decides to do so.”

    Yes, and as I understand it, the FBI REQUIRES the electric grids to be online. REQUIRES. As this is all old, legacy stuff, used to be that substation last-touched-in-the-60s was OFFLINE, and you had to have a guy get in a truck with a keychain to go mess with it. Um, that sounds both 1) Hacker-proof 2) far more EMP-Proof. We OUTLAWED it. At huge expense.

    Now somebody want to tell me why? Since it costs billions of dollars to make it worse while experts go before Congress for 25 years explaining the perfect and instant death effects of an EMP/Carrington? I’ll wait.

    My solution: get it BACK offline, get it BACK to giant, ugly fuses as big as your wrist you need to EMPLOY a human service worker in a truck to go mess with. If you want web cameras, web, monitoring, fine: you’re a retard, that stuff will cost more than it’s worth too. But zero web control of remote devices. Hands only. Make Spetznaz need 200,000 men to attack our 2,000,000 substations.

    America: “I Left a trail of $100 Bills all down Harlem through the South Bronx that leads to my house and people are stealing them!” A: Don’t do that.

    Jesus. Christ.

    So the meta-meta reality of all this? TINA: “There Is No Alternative.” Everything MUST be computerized. If I want to cook an egg, I can’t do that either until we figure out how to do it with a robot and 10 computers consuming 11,000 watts, which can be hacked from Lithuania while everyone in town starves. ‘Cause: our God. Is it #AntiEmployment? Or is it really #AntiLife?

    STOP. DIGGING.

    #157896
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Phoenix: you had the exact same outlook as some of my friends here. That is, as a living being you are assigned a baseline level of respect. Any additional respect is earned. I agree, but it’s too much trouble to write up the distinction all the time. I just take it as assumed you don’t attack others and treat them as non-objects because you can assume I’m a rational and moral being. It’s pretty offensive not to assume that. So the baseline is a given, and I thought of describing it but didn’t for rhetorical reasons as I write too much anyway.

    #157897
    Red
    Participant

    “We have proof China is trying to influence US elections,’ says Blinken after warnings Beijing will use AI to sow chaos”
    You mean the same way Russia did in the last election?

    ” In the case of feminism, being a man is the same as original sin and every man must pay the price for that sin for as long as they live. Meaning if men want access to women they can’t just treat them equally, they also have to pay.””
    If you want to take the bible literally wasn’t it the woman that ate the apple? Isn’t that the original sin?

    From EMP/Grids yesterday:
    “FBI Director Christopher Wray said Wednesday that China’s hackers are targeting American critical infrastructure, including water treatment plants, pipelines and the power grid, to be able to “wreak havoc” in the U.S. if Beijing ever decides to do so.”
    Not to worry it’s all cued up ready to go, this is just projection by those that will be the actual ones carrying out the deed. Just now they’re busy setting up the blame game.

    #157898
    tboc
    Participant

    raw nerve this morning – mea culpa

    “A race that is solely dependent upon another for economic existence sooner or later dies. As we have in the past been living upon the mercies shown by others, and by the chances obtainable, and have suffered there from, so we will in the future suffer if an effort is not made now to adjust our own affairs.” ~ Marcus Garvey

    Thurmond, Wallace and the whole of the Dixiecrats are having some sense of success from their abode in Hell. One who is incapable of seeing the target of union busting was poor white persons knows no history. There is no need to have a degree in demographics to understand that all anti-labor movements in the United States affected more poor white persons than persons of color. The match most often used to ignite the economic class war in the United States has been the cry “racism”. There has always been systemic racism against white people among the white people on the North American continent. Just exactly what is the skin tone of those we are assured almost daily have a plot to depopulate the world. What societies are the main targets? Keep having faith it is racism – wasn’t it the school boy who said “Faith is believing what you know ain’t so”.Pudd’nhead

    every time someone says to me people of color are ignorant i ask them if they know any white people

    once again i have a few suggestions for Mr. Paul Craig Roberts but will defer to discreteness

    Trump would sanction nations for not using the dollar – hand someone a knife and tell them where to stab you. I don’t think that is quite what Becket had in mind with the phrase “fail again”. Worstward Ho

    Tucker Carlson knowing that the open corruption was fueling every type of degeneracy went along to get along and is now portraying himself as noble. Well i truly hope he loves the intellectully challenged otherwise he would hate himself. The man said the other day “i bought into the whole narative”. How did that dimwit get to have a nice house in a nice neighborhood among the connected?

    #157899
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Hate to bother with irrelevant moron plants, but Ben Shapiro is finally being activated (as we know) and discrediting himself. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6PBSvcEUurs

    Since it’s so obvious, and most of what he says is wrong – and dangerously wrong, like NPR, trying to be close to the truth while still being an oligarch lie – mouthed in Conservative words, like a raw bloody skin suit — that I don’t bother watching him or crediting anything out of his shop. But here we are, wow! Shocked very. Muchly surprise! Shapiro never took any hits as a Conservative and has demonstrated infinity money because like Fox News he does exactly what he’s told as Goldberg in The Narrative™. You mean he was never really real? As you can tell by him having no establishment enemies? Yawn. Okay, well that’s come to a head as he is Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo offensive in supporting an open, on-camera genocide and supporting Israel ABOVE the United States (as does Congress, and Ukraine, and Taiwan, and…) that it’s finally becoming obvious to everyone.

    But Ben Shapiro doesn’t have viewers. You TRUSTED THEM??? Hahahahaha! “They said it, therefore it was a lie.” In good YouTube fashion, he PAYS for viewers, and the algos FORCE viewers, and they LIST viewers, same as for CNN, and Leftist stuff. Do you know anyone as a Conservative who watches him? I don’t. He’s not even mentined as existing, Oh-did-you-hear-what-Ben-said-yesterday like Bannon is sometimes. He exists only in the money-fantasy world of their fevered delusional minds. And while I’m sure he’s bigger than CNN, maybe than the Young Turks, that means he has the viewership of the Des Moines Register. I mean, I’m not saying he’s fake, but…

    Remember videos with 10,000 likes but 20 views? Uh, yeah. I’m totally sure there’s a lively debate about the video because no one watched the video, Sir. He’s the same but reverse of that. A million views and 100 comments. So hopefully it will pull of the mask of his…reality, I guess, and put him in the proper place of irrelevant non-conservatives they’ve tirelessly pushed on us all for … well, since Jefferson/Adams, but certainly since 1960 and Goldwater. Bye Bye. I mean, you were never really here, but Bye anyway.

    Takes time. They put a lot of effort into funding him so they can destroy and detonate him. Same as Disney, Budweiser, etc… When money is free why WOULDN’T you print money, capture companies, then drive them around crashing into things and killing people? Isn’t that the very NEXT thing you would do? When money’s free? So they are now in the “Detonation” phase of the free money, and trying to take out as many Conservatives on command as they can, then pay the other side to point and say “See, I told you” on command as well.

    Oh but it’s all “Capitalism.” Everyone’s acting for the almighty dollar.

    #157900
    poppie
    Participant

    DrD I read your stuff in Gilbert Gottfrieds voice.

    #157901
    oxymoron
    Participant

    Kunstler doing the old mind trick of conflating all Palestinian peoples with Hamas. The students get arrested beaten and finally stand up for something ( where were their human rights during Covid?) and now they’re ‘mucking around’. I guess he is by default shitting all over Vietnam student protests and just loves war. Or maybe like intellectual pussies with chubby hips who tap tap at the keyboard all day feel threatened deep down by David and place their bets on Goliath with his billions and billions in war machines and funding against a few native brownies without European ancestry on their side.
    Loser.

    #157902
    Celticbiker
    Participant

    Check out C J Bjerknes on Odysee, Cave Jews, explains a lot, the destruction of the natural world via fire and chemtrails, WW3, the trillions poured into underground bases, etc.

    #157903
    zerosum
    Participant

    Control
    Secrets require lying.
    Control requires getting rid of TAE.
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    the implications of denying or having any presidential immunity.
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    peaceful transfer of power
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    approved demonstration
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    declaration of emergencies, (terrorist, health, climate, civil unrest, war, thinking, the financial system, and the US economy )
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    impose sanctions
    confiscate frozen Russian assets
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    There is a long list of the topics Blinken was set to raise with Chinese officials, notable among these Foreign Minister Wang Yi. Taiwan and the South China Sea, military-to-military contacts, artificial intelligence applications, illicit drug traffic, human rights, trade, more measures to undermine China’s admirable economic advances.
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    control
    YOU
    Tik-Tok, a threat to US security and Americans’ privacy
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    three major principles: mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, and win-win cooperation. They are not only a summary of past experience, but also a guide to the future,” the Chinese leader was quoted as saying.
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    Sino-US relations, ‘Smear, Isolate, Suppress’, a contradiction [between] messages and reality,
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    NATO
    Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly stated that Moscow has no plans to attack any US “satellites” in Eastern Europe, and insists that claims of a potential Russian invasion are merely government propaganda aimed at scaring citizens “to extract additional expenses from people, to make them bear this burden [of funding Ukraine] on their shoulders.”
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    control
    The people of Ukraine once again had become the victims of cynical and ruthless US political manipulations and intrigues, Ford stressed.
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    This week, local authorities across the US used force to disperse pro-Palestinian rallies at university campuses, with mass arrests reported in some cases. Protesters were targeted at Yale, Harvard, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Southern California, and other institutions. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has welcomed the US crackdown, branding the activists “anti-Semitic mobs” and comparing them to Nazi sympathizers in the 1930s. Putin has publicly stated that he would be more comfortable with “predictable” and “old-school” Biden than Trump as the next US president.
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    control
    . “This kind of warrantless financial surveillance raises serious concerns about the federal government’s respect for Americans’ privacy and fundamental civil liberties,” Jordan wrote in a separate letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, also obtained by the Daily Mail. Since 2021, the FBI has targeted “radical-traditionalist Catholics” as well as parents who spoke up at school board meetings – on issues such as mask mandates or critical race theory – as potential domestic terrorists. Both programs were officially denounced after being revealed by whistleblowers.
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    control
    wars against Russia, Iran, and China. This is insanity. Who is going to fight these wars for Biden? The answer is Europeans and the immigrant-invaders into America thanks to Biden’s open border policy. Like Rome in its own self-inflicted decay, the US will be dependent on troops from the immigrant-invaders overrunning its own borders to fight its wars abroad in defense of the borders of foreign countries.
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    control
    Japan (Nissan) gets $ 5 Billian for promise of 1,000 jobs in EV plant
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    #157904
    Mister Roboto
    Participant

    I didn’t bother to read Kunstler’s Friday blog on account of an excess of verbal diarrhea in that post.

    #157906
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    I find the Kunstler piece included today to be in poor taste. Perhaps it is because the caricature is of college students when my own children are so close to that age. It frustrates me that my own children would be lumped in. One son, who has struggled mightily with the rules and demands of school, has purple and blue fading out of his hair, but has nearly finished graduation requirements. I now acknowledge that his challenges probably fit under mild “autism,” and they are probably the result of vaccine injury. My other son will be in college in four months, and I am observing the hoops that he has to jump through just to avoid living on campus. Someone designed this system to funnel all of the young college entrants into on-campus housing, where indoctrination is easier to accomplish. From my daughter I have insight into the minds of the caricatured collegiate women, from two years younger. Her friends have been indoctrinated by their own parents from infancy to believe that it is a mortal sin to utter the “n-slur” or “r-slur.” They believe that if Trump becomes president again that he will dismantle the three branches of government. They are vaxxed to the max. The sins of the parents will be visited upon the children. Sure, the college kids are adults and responsible for their actions, and yet, they lack the life experience to even begin to understand that they have been molded to be someone else’s tools. Now they go to college and instead of expanding their minds, the more blinders are placed upon them. Scorn doesn’t seem appropriate for them — I feel scorn for the collegiate administrators and professors.

    Scorn—pity—sympathy—empathy—unity. To overcome the problems arrayed before us, unity is our best bet. Unity often cannot be achieved…but perhaps we can take a step away from scorn and start feeling pity?

    #157907
    Noirette
    Participant

    On 8th of May, 6,000 (six thousand) forces (troops, personnel..) will be deployed in Marseille (on the Med Coast), France.

    The forces include an anti-drone contingent, *démineurs* (who incapacitate explosive mines), Police from the RAID (link) and much more (Army..) Link 2 is F MSM to show I am not making this up, see + other links at that article.

    Maybe Macron, a notorious coward, will be there for a big speech? Is there to be a big Int’l meet and some leaders of foreign cos. demand to be protected?

    No.

    No important meetings EVER occur outside of Paris. Macron never visits the Provinces officially (though I can recall one occasion, other story.)

    It will be the arrival of the Olympic Flame!

    A boat, ‘Belem’ will be docking in Marseille and the various athletes and personalities (etc.) will hand over the Flame.

    The announced threats to the transfer of the Flame, after all merely symbolism for a Sports Meet, are: Islamic terrorism, Right Wing Extremism, Left Wing Extremism.

    Authoritarian (fascist, centrists) type crack-down is moving forward fast in France. I am sure this ‘deployment’ is an exercise to practice ‘coordination.’ Or, more alarmingly, that a ‘terrorist’ attack has been planned.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID_(French_police_unit)

    https://tinyurl.com/34sdjzh7

    #157908
    zerosum
    Participant

    Control tools
    instigators/agitators/infiltrators….as with virtually every major US protest movement.

    #157909
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Yeah Daily Wire seems to be going down the same self-destructive path that Gillette or Lucasfilm went down. Blasting their own foot with a shotgun, screaming in shock and agony at the bloody pulp that was their foot, then racking a round and aiming at the other foot…

    The whole “ha ha we’ve got your BRAND. You love this BRAND so there’s nothing you can do about it…” uh, WHOSE brand. Is this the first instance of this brand-kidnapping-meatsuiting where the fans and brand loyalty are fake too???

    Only thing I can ever remember being re-broadcast organically from Daily Wire were the “Ben Shapiro pwns Collage Leftist” videos.

    Never paid much attention to them but did recently – who doesn’t find this sort of self-destruction a bit fascinating? – and they keep putting up reasoning identical to wokeists. And they have been decidedly anti-redpill, which is weird.

    Jordan Peterson joined them just about the time he said he was Christian while switching to apparent restrained irateness and ineloquence. He was a way better explainer of Christianity in previous years as a classic liberal atheist. Then he says he went Christian, joins the daily wire, and his approach changes quite a bit.

    Not sure what to make of it. He’s had a few instances in which he took horribly wrong stands – Kavenaugh should back down in the face of malicious vague rumor accusations from a political activist – who claimed she was so psychologically traumatized that she had to have 2 front doors in her house (one of which she blocked off to herself by making it a rented-out office)

    Never paid Daily Wire much mind, but taking a look now, they look kind of weird and wrong somehow. Give me a slightly queasy gut feeling. Maybe they always felt a bit off to me. And yeah, they got pushed into my youtube feed incessantly.

    I made reference to the band Helmet in a youtube comment, so now there’s a million videos about helmets pushing into my feed. Also a plague of videos about baritone guitars. I am not, never have been, and never will be interested in baritone guitars. I don’t know what I said, clicked on, or hovered over to be afflicted by this neverending plague. Or rug cleaning videos. Why, youtube. why?

    Started a long form youtube yesterday from 2 guys I’d never heard of. Came up in my feed. Lots of views, lots of complimentary comments. Subject matter was the philosophical quasi manosphere type I sometimes like… pulled me in with the first 15 minutes of talk by being kinda interesting while promising lots of interesting stuff coming up later in the video…. only to go into a weird wokeist confession of faith of certain things they deny and certain things they absolutely believe that are totally incompatible with redpill, basic reason, and anyone who isn’t up for joining the wokeist bandwagon.

    Could they maybe resurrect all the old code and stuff, make a Youtube 2011 we could opt for? The “related” videos were excellent, fun. Now they are an oppressive drag. Shit I never asked for and incessant “nudging” attempts. Maybe this is the year I really switch to substack and odysee for good.

    #157910
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    FYI: The noose is tightening for those who use cash

    This may be the last year that I get a fat tax refund thanks to the refundable portion of the child tax credit and the EITC. I’ve been needing to declare bankruptcy for a few years now, due to debts stemming from a family court costs that I was obliged to shoulder, and so I am essentially “unbanked.” My tax refund comes in the form of a check. It is too large to cash at a grocery store, too large to cash at Walmart. Tax refunds cannot be direct deposited into an account that doesn’t include the name of the person on the refund. Since the 2008 crash, banks must deposit checks into an account prior to dispensing the cash. My (common law) spouse’s credit union’s policies do not allow it to be endorsed it over to him. The US Government no longer has accounts at Bank of America held in such a way that they will cash government checks. For the past two years, I have gone with my father to his current bank, Wells Fargo, shown my ID, and endorsed my check to him. A week later my father pulled out all of the check funds in cash and gave them to me. Two days ago we went to do this again. No go. The bank manager explained to us that she does not know what was done in the past and does not know the reason why, but they do not accept endorsed deposits of government checks. WTF? I am now looking for the most economical check cashing place, so that I lose the least amount of this check, and my dad is checking with his broker. In the envelope with the check was a little flyer from the government, encouraging me to get a bank account….. Soft coercion. I weary of this.

    #157911
    zerosum
    Participant

    Seizing Russian asset held in US banks would be shooting the banks and banking system the foot.

    #157912
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    @ phoenixvoice

    You can reportedly cash an IRS refund check at some local IRS offices (after calling to schedule an appointment). ICYMI, WalMart’s limit is raised to $7.500 during Jan-April.

    I’m a fan of the off-campus housing option not far from campus. Might be officially prohibited for freshmen, but screw them, how would the authorities find out. Maybe starting after a semester of commuting, after meeting some like-minded classmates who can be roommates. More independence and more realistic life lessons than living in dorms, and for less money than paying the U for room and board.

    #157913
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    @zerosum says:

    “Seizing Russian asset held in US banks would be shooting the banks and banking system the foot.”

    Banking system like Donald Trump will be fine.
    Didn’t you know Banking System has, had and will forever have carte blanche to print money carte blanche. Repetition and Redundancy are intended.
    By printing money I mean adding 1, 2, 3 or 4 ZEROS to the end of your ledger. “How’s that connected individual!”

    What happened to inflation?
    Quantitative Easing 1,2,3,4,5,6……???
    Overnight Repo Operations 75 to 85 billion per iteration…..or equal to Ukraine-level largesse????
    Stock issuance for insiders, redemptions for insiders AND all to repatriate profits for them not for you? Shareholder value úber ællles!
    Loan forgiveness and zero-interest vehicles for Musk but not for….

    So which banks areN’T permitted the luxury to print money at least for their insiders? Name one.

    Which banks do it anyhow, you know, perform their own local form of Quantitative Easing or Overnight Repo float the sweetheart loan for a sweetheart that exceeds federal asset to debt ratios blah blah blah?
    Or just another form of very local yokel Nominal GDP Targeting, Obama-style?

    Perhaps the resident economists and devoted capitalists can opine as the terms are so confusing

    #157914
    zerosum
    Participant

    Dr D Rich
    Thanks for pointing out that we live in a double/separate universe/reality.
    The foot being shot is ours.

    #157915
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    Separate and equal.
    Dominated by sociopaths psychopaths and their fellow-traveling Apaths….the apathetic.

    Banker’s War Redux started anew Sept 2019 with Overnight Repo Operations and all we got was a War on China and War on the People (((white men))) by December 2019 manifested by Quant Easing 4th and COVID/mRNA…..but the Jews and Israelis still feel Aggrieved as a priority because mean words make their college-aged, draft-age children feel “skeared”.

    Well alright

    #157916
    WES
    Participant

    Heads Up!
    Biden will declare a climate emergency.
    An “emergency ” is required to use mail in voter fraud in this November 2024 elections!

    #157917
    zerosum
    Participant

    Appearances that mail in votes are a problem.
    That is easy to fix.
    Don’t do it.
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    #157918
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Not sure exactly where it is coming from, but I am seeing rumors/discussion on the internet about the Ukraine/NATO decision to cut off support for expats abroad who fled the war and enlistment.

    The suggestion that is being floated – which I think is potentially a brilliant one – offer those 650,000+ abroad Russian citizenship – offer them support via any Russian embassy or consulate. Set them up with Russian passports. Get them passage to Russia with the same deal people got who fled across the border.

    #157919
    zerosum
    Participant

    Is a university education in your future?
    Get informed

    https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-279-columbia-universitys?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR2X8_hNHPhiL8-yBIO6DYM5Ro_i6fBF9kBuZhbebEjDr5Ce0lNfHZvgJj4_aem_AdZ7f-ofpDpbF0TeHQg7p8NWQ6c7-HCCoq_G6EvYArJHwoX2MwfPm0fq9s9ja3wZdY_2kYcccpIdW6uPJ0xR1sBt

    Chartbook 279: Columbia University’s “crisis” – a political economy sketch map.

    ADAM TOOZE
    APR 26, 2024
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    #157920
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    Deebz asked: “What kind?”

    Me: not this Bruce Meneley-kind, jackass. This pedophile has all in common with ex-Con Scott Ritter….and frauds like Dave Tam, Randy Morey and Kev Amick.

    Navy, USMC, DoD, VA, Nursing lost their way a long long time ago. These behaviors which ensued and now brought to light were entirely predictable from the acts carried out on the orders of G.BushII at GITMO, Bagram and Abu Ghraib …..continued by Obama against U.S. Citizens Nawar 8yo, Abdulrahman 16yo, and Anwar al Awlaki in Barack Tuesday Morning Summary Execution Selection Board Coffee Klatch

    At GITMO under Bruce Meneley’s command:
    The court documents describe other clashes involving Zuhair. One day in June, he “became aggressive and tried to break free” from guards, the military said.

    Navy Capt. Bruce Meneley, the doctor in charge of prisoner care, said wounds on Zuhair’s head and face were stitched up after “scuffles” with guards in April 2003 and January 2007

    Abusing prisoners is never a good sign regarding future behavior

    #157921
    zerosum
    Participant

    News media reports
    https://depts.washington.edu/moves/antiwar_map_protests.shtml
    Vietnam-era Antiwar Protests (Map)
    by Amanda Miller
    The Vietnam-era antiwar movement may count as the largest sustained protest movement in the history of the United States. Opposition to US military involvement in Southeast Asia began in the 1950s and started to attract media attention in 1963 as the Kennedy Administration pushed combat troops into Vietnam. Campus protests date from 1965, the year SDS organized several large demonstrations. From then on, the movement grew exponentially and silent vigils turned into massive marches and angry confrontations. In May 1970, news of Nixon’s Cambodia invasion and the killings at Kent State triggered the May 1970 student strikes, the largest student protest in US History, involving more than 900 colleges, universities, and high schools.
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    Search …anti war protests 2024
    News media is silent , in conspiracy

    #157922
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Re: Celticbiker #157902

    Cave Jews and Underground Synagogues a Masterclass on the World to Come and Neo-Noah’s Ark

    #157923
    Celticbiker
    Participant

    Thanks Micheal, I have no clue how to do that. Have no phone, have’nt watched TV in a decade, other than going to an American Legion or some dive, does’nt matter they all have multiple talmudvisions. The further you get from it, the more bizarre and insane it seems. Thanks for trying, but honestly if the word jew is in it , most people won’t look. They’ll watch fuckin porn but not fertilizer for braincells. God bless ya, brother.

    #157924
    poppie
    Participant

    apaths. yes. Thanks to all of you maybe this will be the next pathology I exit.

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