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Trump demands DRUG TESTS for presidential debates, says Biden 'higher than a kite' during State of the Union speech

Charlie Spiering
The Daily Mail
Thu, 04 Apr 2024 18:58 UTC
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© Sean Rayford, Mike Segar-Pool/Getty ImagesPresident Joe Biden and candidate Donald Trump
Trump recalled reports of cocaine being found at the White House

Donald Trump claimed Joe Biden was 'higher than a kite' during his State of the Union address in March and demanded his rival be drug tested ahead of the presidential debates.

'I don't know what he's using, but that was not, hey, he was higher than a kite, and by the way it was the worst address I've ever seen,' Trump said.

The former president discussed Biden during an interview with radio broadcaster Hugh Hewitt on Thursday.

Trump recalled the news of cocaine being discovered by Secret Service at the White House last summer.

'I think what happened, you know that white stuff, that they happened to find, which happened to be cocaine at the White House, I don't know, I think something is going on there,' Trump said.

Donald Trump questioned whether Biden was on some kind of drugs during his State of the Union address

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​​​​​​​Iran's support for Palestine as told by the leaders of the resistance

Humaira Ahad
PressTV
Fri, 05 Apr 2024 18:32 UTC
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Imam Khomeini, the charismatic leader and architect of the Islamic Revolution, played a pivotal role in raising awareness about the Palestinian cause globally, designating the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan as the 'Al-Quds Day'.

He introduced Palestine as the axis of Muslim unity and saw it as the most important issue for the Muslim world. The founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran urged Muslims across the world to reaffirm their support and solidarity for the Palestinian cause on the last Friday of Ramadan.

The illustrious legacy of Imam Khomeini was admirably carried forward by his worthy successor, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Sayeed Ali Khamenei, who has been the most vocal champion of the Palestinian cause and resistance.

Comment: Some analysts have commented that Iran's response to Israel's attack on its consulate in Syria, will consist of a direct, symbolic, response, however, more importantly, it will also significantly increase its support for these resistance movements in terms of funding, but also more advanced weaponry. Notably, just prior to Israel's attack, Yemen's Ansra Allah announced they had hypersonic missiles: How do Iranians 'boil a frog'? Slowly and methodically

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UK, German officials are latest in Europe calling for conscription 'in the event of war'


Frontline
Fri, 05 Apr 2024 15:15 UTC
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© File image/AFPFILE: Guard soldiers of the German armed forces Bundeswehr (Wachbataillon). On the 75th anniversary of NATO, Germany's defence minister Boris Pistorius hinted at compulsory military service for the nation, citing the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. This is a growing trend in Europe; many countries such as Norway, Denmark and others have either implemented conscription or considering it.
Is Germany mulling a return to military conscription? The German defence minister Boris Pistorius has hinted at compulsory military service, as the Russia-Ukraine war drags on.

In fact, this isn't the first time that the German minister spoke about reintroducing compulsory military service. Last December too, Pistorius had said that the country was "looking at all options", adding that abolishing it had been a "mistake".


Comment: Meanwhile Germany is repeating previous 'mistakes' in earnest - despite 'never again': US, Germany supplied 99% of Israel weapons in 2023, US accelerated deliveries despite Gaza genocide


With this, it seems that Europe is looking at a rethink of military conscription, with an increasing number of countries mulling or implementing this measure.

Germany rethinks conscription

Comment: The UK's official military website, Forces, reports:
The UK must consider a Swedish-style of conscription in order to boost its numbers, according to the former head of MI6.

Sir Alex Younger also said Britain needed a "wake up call" in relation to the size of its Army.

The British Army today is the smallest it has been for 300 years, and Sir Alex told the BBC the UK should look to Sweden.

General Sir Richard Barrons, a former head of Joint Forces Command, said two years of war in Ukraine had proven that the Armed Forces might need to be considerably bigger if a European war broke out.

But in January, the-then Armed Forces Minister James Heappey said any talk of the UK introducing conscription to the Army if Nato goes to war with Russia was "nonsense".

He said the UK had long had plans readied for mobilising volunteers in the event Britain does enter a new conflict, but stressed "nobody is thinking" about bringing back conscription.

The remarks came after comments made by General Sir Patrick Sanders, the outgoing Chief of the General Staff, were interpreted as suggesting that conscription could be required in any potential future battle with Russia due to the British Army being too small.

Number 10 ruled out any suggestion that conscription was under consideration, saying there were no plans to change the British military's "proud tradition of being a voluntary force".
It seems that it's less difficult finding recruits in country with a virtuous leadership, and with a righteous cause: Russia to increase troop number to 1.5 million in response 'external threats' - Shoigu

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Mexico suspends diplomatic relations with Ecuador after embassy stormed


RT
Sat, 06 Apr 2024 06:40 UTC
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Ecuadorian police forcefully entered Mexico's embassy in Quito and arrested former Vice President Jorge Glas

Mexico has suspended diplomatic relations with Ecuador after the South American country's police stormed its embassy in Quito to arrest Ecuador's former vice president, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has said.

The development comes after Mexico granted political asylum on Friday to former Vice President Jorge David Glas Espinel, who had been convicted twice on corruption charges in his home country and has been staying in the embassy since late last year. Ecuador had asked Mexico's permission to arrest the politician, but to no avail. Glas insists that he has been subjected to political persecution.

While offering refuge to the former VP, Mexico's Foreign Ministry urged Quito to grant safe passage to Glas so he could leave the country. Ecuador, however, ruled out the possibility, saying "it is not legal to grant asylum to people convicted or prosecuted for common crimes."

On Friday evening, Ecuadorian police stormed the embassy, with videos from the scene showing a heavy law enforcement presence in the area. The government of Ecuador claimed that the raid was conducted to defend its national sovereignty.

Comment: Israel set the precedent of destroying the sanctity which the embassies and consulat services have under international law, by bombing the Iranian consulate in Syria. Ecuador is aligned with the US and thus is unlikely to suffer consequences from the US which operates under its own 'rules based order'. It signals a further breakdown of the international order and more chaos and violations are likely to happen in the times ahead.

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NATO 75 years on... A war machine long past its sell-by date


Strategic Culture
Fri, 05 Apr 2024 04:05 UTC
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This week marks the 75th anniversary of NATO's founding in April 1949. The organization has become a global danger to peace and security and should have been disbanded more than 30 years ago when the Cold War supposedly ended. That the alliance was not disbanded attests that its real purpose was always to serve as a weapon for U.S.-led Western imperialism.

Barely four years after the end of World War Two - the greatest calamity in world history - and amid the ruins of a devastated Europe and Asia, Western imperialism was once again reinventing its nefarious internal forces.

Nearly 30 million citizens of the Soviet Union had died at the hands of Nazi Germany. And yet despite the horror and evil of war, the Western powers were busy reconfiguring their military forces to confront again the Soviet Union. With the defeat of the Nazi war machine largely by the Soviet Red Army, the Western imperialists innovated a new instrument in the form of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

The betrayal and treachery were not just to the Soviet people. All of humanity was once again subjected to the warmongering designs and necessities of a global elite under Western imperialism.

NATO's declared purpose was to defend Europe from Soviet aggression. The same pretense exists today in the claim that the alliance is defending Ukraine from Russian belligerence.

The proof of NATO's real function is demonstrated by the fact that the organization did not disband in 1991 when the Soviet Union was dissolved. Over the ensuing 33 years, the military bloc has doubled its membership to 31 nations. Russia has replaced the Soviet Union as the Western-designated security threat to Europe. But such rationale turns reality on its head. NATO has always existed as a tool of aggression for Western imperialism. Where Nazi Germany failed to do the job of conquering the Soviet Union, NATO tacitly took over the task, and when the Soviet Union disappeared, the new enemy of convenience became the Russian Federation.
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Vectoring Dangerously

James Howard Kunstler
jameshowardkunstler.substack.com
Fri, 05 Apr 2024 21:38 UTC
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If your situational awareness is well-tuned, you can put together a political weather report from the swirl of events that otherwise seem to confound the degenerate simps who pretend to report the news. Events are tending in the direction of self-reinforcing, ramifying chaos, and the people running the show are obviously insane as they do everything possible to hurry chaos along.

Case in point: Antony Blinken, our Secretary of State, who announced yesterday that Ukraine will get rushed into NATO ASAP. Do you understand that would mean a direct, automatic, peremptory declaration of war against Russia, requiring all of NATO — that is, their combined militaries — to go kinetic inside Ukraine and theoretically inside Russia, too, (a move that has not worked out well for anyone in all of history), because Article Five of the NATO charter states that an armed attack against one is an attack against all, and must be answered with counter-attack? Thus, you see, Mr. Blinken just announced World War Three.
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The Hamas 'human shields' lie has been conclusively, irrefutably debunked

Caitlin Johnstone
Caitlin's Newsletter
Fri, 05 Apr 2024 21:29 UTC
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One aspect of the recent revelations about the IDF's Lavender AI system that's not getting enough consideration is the fact that it is completely devastating to the narrative that Israel has been killing so many civilians in Gaza because Hamas uses "human shields".

If you missed this story, a major report from +972 revealed that Israel has been using an AI system called Lavender to compile kill lists of suspected members of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad which have been carried out with hardly any human verification. One automated system, psychopathically named "Where's Daddy?", tracks suspects to their homes so that they can be killed along with their entire families. The IDF has been knowingly killing 15 to 20 civilians at a time to kill one junior Hamas operative, and up to 100 civilians at a time to take out a senior official.
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Moscow: NATO is an US tool to confront Russia in Europe


RT
Fri, 05 Apr 2024 21:20 UTC
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© Getty Images / naphtalina
The bloc's expansion and its involvement in the Ukraine conflict have put Europe's security in jeopardy, Dmitry Peskov has said

The current state of relations between Russia and NATO can be described as a "direct confrontation," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. He claimed that the US-led military bloc has been a destabilizing force in Europe rather than ensuring the continent's security.

He made his comment on Thursday, as the bloc marked 75 years since the signing of its founding document, the North Atlantic Treaty.

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Best of the Web: Death of empires: History tells us what will follow the collapse of US hegemony


RT
Fri, 05 Apr 2024 20:13 UTC
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© Getty Images / Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library
The turn away from expansion, production and trade toward lending and speculation has precipitated decline for centuries

One of the curious features of the American landscape is the fact that these days the financialization of the economy is widely condemned as unhealthy, yet little is being done to reverse it. There was a time, back in the 1980s and '90s, when finance-driven capitalism was supposed to usher in a time of better capital allocation and a more dynamic economy. This is not a view one hears often anymore.

So, if such a phenomenon is overwhelmingly viewed negatively but isn't being amended, then perhaps it's not merely a failure of policymaking but rather something deeper - something more endemic to the very fabric of the capitalist economy. It is of course possible to lay the blame for this state of affairs at the feet of the current crop of cynical and power-hungry elites and to stop one's analysis there. But an examination of history reveals recurrent instances of financialization that bear remarkable similarities, which invites the conclusion that perhaps the predicament in the American economy in recent decades is not unique and that the ever-rising power of Wall Street was in a sense preordained.
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Politico: Ukraine 'embraces' exiled Russian neo-Nazi


RT
Fri, 05 Apr 2024 19:53 UTC
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© Sergey Bobok/AFPThe founder of the Russian Volunteer Corps, Denis (C), known as 'White Rex', flanked by fighters in camouflage attend a presentation for the media in northern Ukraine, not far from the Russian border, on May 24, 2023.
Denis Kapustin leads an anti-Kremlin volunteer militia which is responsible for multiple attacks on villages

Exiled Russian neo-Nazi Denis Kapustin - the leader of the Ukraine-based Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK) paramilitary group - admitted that he wants to be a "Hollywood-style bad guy," in an interview with Politico published on Wednesday.

The RDK has claimed responsibility for numerous cross-border attacks and incursions into Russian settlements, which have often resulted in the deaths of civilians. The group has been designated as a terrorist organization by Moscow.

As noted by the outlet, despite being recognized by Germany as "one of the most influential neo-Nazi activists" on the European continent, Ukraine has "embraced" Kapustin's "form of bad guy," seeing him and his group as allies against Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Comment: More on this low-rent "bad guy" and his group:

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