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America is entering End Times

Paul Craig Roberts
paulcraigroberts.org
Mon, 12 Aug 2024 00:00 UTC
lincoln
© Gary Henderson
Does anyone remember the 2020 presidential campaign? Trump campaigned widely and had massive audiences. Enthusiasm was everywhere. Biden ventured out of the basement a few times and no one attended his campaign rallies. Trump got more votes in the 2020 election than he got in the 2016 election, but Biden got more votes than any president in history. Somehow the people elected an invisible candidate.

In the swing states vote counting was stopped in the middle of the night while truck loads of boxes arrived, some from out of state, in Democrat controlled vote counting centers. The votes were almost entirely for Biden, and when counting resumed, Trump's lead disappeared.

The same thing is going to happen this November. Trump supporters, clearly a majority of legitimate voters, think Trump is going to win. Trump voters are energized and enthusiasm is high. Has anyone seen a Trump-sized turnout for Kamala? Trump will again win as he did in 2020, but Democrats count swing state votes, and Kamala will "win."

As I have reported, the presstitutes are busy at work building Kamala into a formidable candidate who is in the lead, especially in the swing states. Fake polls are being reported that Kamala is the favorite.
No one has explained why American voters want open borders, war with Russia and Iran, LGBT+ celebrated and normalized, white school children taught that they and their parents are racists, and that they could be born into the wrong body.
As the Democrats have made completely clear, this is what Americans are voting for if they vote for Kamala. Unless the American people are further gone that I think, a majority are not voting for Kamala.

She will win anyway.
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Yoda

Mali leads Africa in rejecting the West's wars

Lorenzo Maria Pacini
Strategic Culture Foundation
Sun, 11 Aug 2024 00:00 UTC
Mali sign
© Amadou Keita/ReutersPhotograph of coup leader Colonel Assimi Goita, and Russia's flag • pro-Malian Armed Forces (FAMA) demonstration • Bamako in 2021
On the African continent as in any other part of the world belonging to the global majority - the real one - the rules of the West no longer apply.

Who would have thought it: in 2024, even Africa and its countries are beginning to have their say on what happens in the West.

The first opinion is that of Mali, a small and economically powerful African state, a former British colony that has emancipated itself from the imperialist yoke and is pursuing its own path of self-determination with the help of Russia and China, in increasingly strong and constant cooperation with the other revolutionary African countries.

Mali distrusts Ukraine

The fact is this: Mali has severed diplomatic relations with the Kiev regime. The Malian authorities announced the severing of diplomatic relations with the Ukrainian regime, associating it with international terrorism. This followed the latter's confirmed involvement in supporting terrorist groups operating in northern Mali. The confirmation came not only from representatives of the Kiev regime, but also from Kiev's diplomatic envoy to Senegal. This action prompted the Senegalese Ministry of African Integration and Foreign Affairs to summon the Ukrainian ambassador.

This well-founded decision once again confirms the unequivocal stance in favor of Pan-Africanism and the international multipolar order taken by Mali and the other nations belonging to the Alliance of Sahel States, and demonstrates, once again, that in the face of terrorism promoted by an extreme global minority, answers will not be long in coming.

Comment: Required: New energy to rebuild and reframe a crumbling world order.

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USA

What's behind regime change in Bangladesh

Brian Berletic
New Eastern Outlook
Sun, 11 Aug 2024 00:00 UTC
prostest
© Nur Photo/ReutersBangladesh protesters block road • Dhaka • 4 Aug, 2024
Violent regime change in the South Asian country of Bangladesh unfolded rapidly and mostly by stealth as the rest of the world focused on the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, growing tensions in the Middle East and a simmering confrontation between the US and China in the Asia-Pacific region. The implications of the successful putsch, carried out by US-backed opposition groups, stands to impact South and Southeast Asia, as well as create instability along the peripheries of the two most populous nations on Earth, China and India. Because of Russia's close relations with both China and India, Russia itself stands to be affected as well.

Who Was Protesting and Who Was Behind Them?

It was US government-funded media, Voice of America, in a 2023 article admitting the role the US ambassador to Bangladesh himself played in backing opposition in the South Asian country. The article would admit in a photo caption that US Ambassador Peter Haas, "is popular in Bangladesh among pro-democracy and rights activists and critics of the Sheikh Hasina regime." The same article would admit to steps the US had already taken to pressure Bangladesh to conduct future elections in such a manner as to produce the desired outcome Washington sought, noting:
The U.S. government announced that it had started "taking steps to impose visa restrictions" on Bangladeshi individuals who are found complicit in "undermining the democratic electoral process" in Bangladesh.
The article admits that the Awami League (AL) party, which had ruled in Bangladesh up until the recent, violent protests, had accused US Ambassador Haas of interfering in Bangladesh's internal political affairs and specifically of supporting the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) as well as street violence on its behalf.

Comment: Saving the 'best' for last? It's not just the 'implications' of regime change that matter, it is also process and result. In essence, the US has regime-changed itself - the implications of which a vast number of Americans remain clueless.

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Explosion

Poland probably involved in Nord Stream blasts - ex-German spymaster


RT
Thu, 15 Aug 2024 16:47 UTC
Hanning
© Michael Kappeler/Getty ImagesFormer president of Germany’s foreign intelligence agency, August Hanning
August Hanning has claimed that there appears to have been a secret arrangement between Kiev and Warsaw.

Poland was likely involved in the underwater explosions that ruptured the Nord Stream underwater gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea in September 2022, the former president of Germany's foreign intelligence agency has claimed. August Hanning also alleged that Warsaw has intentionally obstructed Berlin's investigation into the incident.

No one has so far claimed responsibility for the blasts, which brought an end to the supply of Russian gas to Germany via Nord Stream 1 and damaged the parallel Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which had never entered operation due to EU bureaucratic setbacks.

In an interview with Die Welt on Thursday, Hanning said:
"The way it seems is that it was a Ukrainian team that, as per the findings of the investigation, operated there. This was of course only possible with support from the land.

"When we look at the map... pretty evidently, the Polish agencies were engaged here, and I think not only agencies ...I think that this was an arrangement between [people] at the top level in Ukraine and in Poland."

Comment: Until there is proof, add this one to the stack of theories on the destruction of the pipeline.

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Bad Guys

Musk to shut X in Brazil 'effective immediately' over judge's 'secret orders that would break international law'

Vikrant Singh
WION
Sat, 17 Aug 2024 17:28 UTC
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Earlier this year, Moraes ordered X to take down accounts accused of posting fake news and spreading hatred during the regime of former President Jair Bolsonaro.


Comment: Note that, by this point, Bolsanaro was no longer in power.


Social media platform X said Saturday (Aug 17) it was shutting down its operations in Brazil "effective immediately" following "censorship orders" from Brazilian judge Alexandre de Moraes.

The firm, owned by US billionaire Elon Musk, claimed its representative in the South American country was threatened by the Supreme Court judge with legal action if it did not comply with legal orders to take down some content.


Comment: Bear in mind that when Musk took over X he immediately took action against the lingering issue of child abuse footage, so he's clearly not averse to reasonable requests.


"Moraes has chosen to threaten our staff in Brazil rather than respect the law or due process," X's Global Government Affairs account posted.

Comment: Is this perhaps another sign of where President Lula's allegiances lie?

It's also notable that this coercion reappears amidst a seeming, relatively sudden, crackdown by the US on alternative media operations, and analysts, with warnings made against Judge Napolitano; the harassment of Scott Ritter who has, just in the past few months, been refused leave of the country, and more recently had his home raided; whilst over in the UK there's be an alleged exodus of UK politicians from X, amidst government threats to 'regulate' free speech:




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Star of David

Israel expects US and other allies to help bomb Iran


RT
Sat, 17 Aug 2024 14:12 UTC
David Lammy, Stephane Sejourne, Israel Katz
© AP / Ohad ZwigenbergUK Foreign Secretary David Lammy (L) and French FM Stephane Sejourne (R) are welcomed by Israeli FM Israel Katz in Jerusalem on August 16, 2024
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz has said his country expects not only the United States but also its allies, including Britain and France, to assist in offensive operations against Iran, in the event of a direct conflict.

Katz made the comments during a meeting with British Foreign Secretary David Lammy and French Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourne in Jerusalem on Friday, according to a Hebrew-language statement from his office.

"Israel expects France and Britain to publicly clarify to Iran that it is unacceptable for it to attack Israel, and that if Iran attacks, the US-led coalition will join Israel not only in defense but also in an attack against significant targets in Iran," the statement said, as cited by the Times of Israel.

Katz reiterated in a post on X (formerly Twitter) that he made it "clear" to his colleagues that they should publicly declare that their countries "will stand with Israel not only in defense but also in striking targets in Iran."

Comment: Israel is intent on moving forward but the West realizes that they can't just nuke Iran without serious consequences. This may end up being Israel's undoing. They go in full steam ahead thinking everyone's got their backs only to find out they're all alone and screwed.

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Star of David

Trump pledges support for Israel's 'war on terror'


RT
Fri, 16 Aug 2024 14:06 UTC
Israeli tanks
© Getty Images / Anadolu / ContributorFILE PHOTO
US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has said he will support the Israeli government in its war against the Palestinian militant group Hamas if he reclaims the White House in November.

The former president, who was speaking at a press conference on Thursday at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, lashed out at his Democratic opponent, Kamala Harris, for "always demanding ceasefire."

"When I'm back in the Oval Office, I will support Israel's right to win its war on terror. They have to have a right to win the war," he said.

If Harris wins the election "the radical left flag burners and Hamas sympathizers will not just be causing chaos on our streets. They'll be running US foreign policy in the White House, and Israel will be gone," Trump argued.

He went on to say he would "give Israel the support that it needs to win" but that he wants them to "win fast."

Asked by reporters when he had last spoken to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump said they haven't talked since they met last month at Trump's Florida golf resort.

Comment: Trump realizes that he has to support Israel and so he is. But his comment about the war needing to come to a quick end suggests he's trying to play the pragmatist in a room full of war hawks.

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Nuke

Russia vows harsh response if Ukraine attacks Kursk nuclear plant


RT
Sat, 17 Aug 2024 14:00 UTC
Kursk nuclear power plant, Kurchatov, Kursk region, Russia
© Sputnik / Ilya PitalevFILE PHOTO: A general view shows the Kursk nuclear power plant in the town of Kurchatov, Kursk region, Russia.
The Russian military will unleash a swift retaliation if Ukraine launches an attack on the Kursk nuclear power plant, located not far from the frontline following Kiev's cross-border incursion, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has warned.

In a statement on Saturday, the ministry said it was taking very seriously reports of Kiev's plans to attack the Kursk NPP, located about 90 km from the Ukraine-Russia border, which has become the scene of fierce fighting in recent days.

According to the military, the purpose of such a "provocation" would be to accuse Russia of attacking the plant.

"If the Kiev regime begins to realize its criminal plans aimed at creating a man-made disaster in the European part of the continent that would infer the radioactive contamination of vast territories, tough military and military-technical countermeasures will be taken immediately".
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Bad Guys

West knew about Ukraine's Kursk incursion plan - Zelensky aide


RT
Thu, 15 Aug 2024 13:48 UTC
Mikhail Podoliak
© Emin Sansar / Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesFILE PHOTO: Mikhail Podoliak in 2022.
Kiev discussed its plan to launch a cross-border attack into Russia with its Western backers, a top adviser to Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has admitted.

Western officials have said they supported last week's incursion into Kursk Region, but have denied any prior knowledge of the operation.

However, Zelensky aide Mikhail Podoliak has told The Independent that these disclaimers were not accurate, the British online newspaper reported on Thursday.

"There are certain things that have to be done with the element of surprise, and that have to happen on a local level," he was quoted as saying. "But there were discussions between partner forces, just not on the public level."

The Ukrainian official reiterated the explanations of the motives behind the operation that he previously offered on national television, stating that Kiev's objective is to use military "coercion" against the Russian public.

Comment: Ukraine taking the fight to Russian territory destroy's the Ukrainian narrative that this war was unprovoked and for the Ukrainians is purely defensive. These actions and the actions of the Ukrainian soldiers in Russia have laid bare the lies the Ukies and the collective West have been shilling in order to get money and weapons by the hundreds of billions.

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Kiev appears to bomb its own civilians as they escape to Russian-held territory


RT
Fri, 16 Aug 2024 12:58 UTC
Ukrainian refugee
Ukrainian troops have allegedly bombed two of their own citizens, a pair of local residents being guided to safety by a Russian drone in Kharkov Region.

The incident, described on Thursday by the news outlet MASH, reportedly occurred in Volchansk, a small town in the region that is contested by Russian troops. Two local residents were apparently stranded between the clashing forces, after one of them was injured. They hid in a half-destroyed house and displayed a note reading "SOS. Medical emergency. Where to go?" in large letters that could be seen from the air.

A Russian reconnaissance unit spotted the plea and dropped some supplies and a message, instructing the pair to follow a drone. But after the civilians started moving towards Russian positions in the company of a dog, the Ukrainians intercepted them, the report claimed. They used drones carrying improvised bombs to strike the fleeing men.


MASH released drone footage supporting the story, including the moment the purported Ukrainian bomb landed meters from the refugees, who were wearing civilian clothes and carried no military gear.

Comment: What a sick bunch of psychopaths.

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