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Bullseye

The Middle East crisis has made one thing clear about the US

Bradley Blankenship
RT
Mon, 22 Apr 2024 21:17 UTC
RwooD
© Angela Weiss/AFPUS Deputy Ambassador to the UN Robert Wood votes against Palestinian UN membership at United Nations • April 18, 2024
The veto on Palestinian statehood and Israeli strikes on Iran are signs of irreversible decline in American soft power.

So-called Western values, especially those touted by the United States, have long revealed themselves to be hollow and contradictory. The country's Declaration of Independence from Great Britain famously stated that "all men are created equal," while instituting brutal chattel slavery on Africans and committing a horrific genocide against the Native people of the Americas.

Yet, it could still be argued - in terms however trite - that the US was somehow on the right side of history at various junctures. Today, recent actions by the administration have shown that this is undeniably no longer the case. On Thursday, the US vetoed a draft UN Security Council resolution that would grant Palestine full UN membership despite Washington's official position being in favor of the two-state solution.

Comment: More evident each day, the US no longer has international, intrinsic nor face value.

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Gavel

Supreme Court to hear arguments in Trump presidential immunity case

Brooke Singman
Fox News
Thu, 25 Apr 2024 04:00 UTC
Trump
© Win McNamee/Getty ImagesRepublican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump • Mar-a-Lago • March 5, 2024 • West Palm Beach, Florida
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Thursday on whether former President Donald Trump is immune from prosecution in Special Counsel Jack Smith's election interference case.

The high court agreed it would review whether Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has immunity from prosecution. Arguments at the Supreme Court are expected to begin at 10 a.m. Thursday, but the former president will not be present for the proceedings.

Instead, Trump will be in New York City for the seventh day of his criminal trial stemming from charges out of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's investigation. Trump has pleaded not guilty to all 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree.

Trump, a criminal defendant, is required to be present for each day of his trial. He requested, though, to attend Supreme Court arguments on presidential immunity, but Judge Juan Merchan, who is presiding over the trial, rejected that request. Requiring the former president to be in his Manhattan courtroom, Merchan said last week:
"Arguing before the Supreme Court is a big deal, and I can certainly appreciate why your client would want to be there, but a trial in New York Supreme Court... is also a big deal."
A ruling from the Supreme Court on the issue of presidential immunity is expected by late June.

Comment: In the national crosshairs: More than 'Trump' is at stake.

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Cruise Missle

US secretly shipped ATACMS missiles to Ukraine - media


RT
Wed, 24 Apr 2024 19:00 UTC
missile
© South Korean Defense Ministry/AFPArmy Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) in action
Washington secretly sent Kiev an unspecified number of longer-range ATACMS missiles last month, multiple US outlets reported on Wednesday, citing an anonymous US government official.

The Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS), with a range up to 300 kilometers, were included in the $300-million package of military aid approved by President Joe Biden on March 12, according to the official, who spoke with Reuters, Politico and the New York Times, among others.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, the source said that Ukraine used the missiles for the first time last Wednesday, targeting a Russian airfield about 165 kilometers (103 miles) from the front line.

On the morning of April 17, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said his forces had attacked the airbase in Dzhankoy, Crimea. The Russian Defense Ministry has not commented on that claim.

Zelensky has long clamored for longer-range missiles. According to the anonymous official cited in Reuters' report, the Pentagon was initially opposed, but changed its mind after Russia used ballistic missiles allegedly supplied by North Korea and began targeting Ukraine's energy infrastructure.

"We warned Russia about those things," the official said. "They renewed their targeting."

Comment: Russia is playing the long game watching all the US touches self-destruct.

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Star of David

Israel failed to prove UN agency was complicit in terrorism


RT
Mon, 22 Apr 2024 21:19 UTC
damaged UNRWA
© AFPDamaged headquarters of UNRWA for Palestinian refugees in Gaza City • February 15, 2024
West Jerusalem's allegations triggered an exodus of Western money from a critical relief agency. It gave no evidence to support its claims that UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) staffers aided Hamas' October 7 attack on the Jewish state, an independent review commissioned by the UN has found.

The Israeli government claimed in January that a dozen UNRWA employees took part in the attack, in which the militant group killed around 1,100 people in Israel and took around 250 hostages to Gaza. West Jerusalem also claimed that 190 UNRWA staffers provided intelligence and logistical support to the attackers, and allowed Hamas to use the agency's facilities as safehouses.

An independent committee led by former French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna found no evidence to support these claims, according to a report published on Monday.

Comment: See also:

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Vader

Humorless Australian PM wants to ban memes of himself


RT
Wed, 24 Apr 2024 17:32 UTC
Anthony Albanese
© Getty ImagesAustralian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has once again lashed out at social media, insisting the platforms should be accountable for the content that its users post.

The PM's remarks come in the wake of a spat with tech billionaire Elon Musk over the reluctance on the part of the Tesla and Space X tycoon to remove footage of the stabbing of a cleric from X (formerly Twitter).


Comment: See: Elon Musk blasts Australia's 'censorship' after court orders X to take down terror attack video


"Social media platforms have a responsibility to make sure that misinformation isn't got out there," Albanese told reporters on Wednesday. "I noticed today, for example, on the way up here, they've removed various sites that were up containing fake images of myself superimposed on other people," the PM stated.

"Social media has a responsibility to do the right thing here," Albanese reiterated.
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Colosseum

Washington has lost touch with reality. If it doesn't adapt, the world will pay

Marco Carnelos
Middle East Eye
Wed, 24 Apr 2024 16:49 UTC
biden
In a failing quest to maintain its 'primacy', the US has cast China, Russia and Iran as global villains
The US intelligence community recently released its annual threat assessment, which focuses on worldwide threats to the country's national security. The document reflects the collective analyses and insights of the Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation and more than a dozen other agencies.

The report's foreword provides a clear sense of this community's dystopian and self-referential thinking: "During the next year, the United States faces an increasingly fragile global order strained by accelerating strategic competition among major powers, more intense and unpredictable transnational challenges, and multiple regional conflicts with far-reaching implications."
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Bad Guys

Cashless society: WEF boasts that 98% of central banks are adopting CBDCs


Zerohedge
Thu, 25 Apr 2024 05:45 UTC
cbdcs
Whatever happened to the WEF? One minute they were everywhere in the media and now they have all but disappeared from public discourse. After the pandemic agenda was defeated and the plan to exploit public fear to create a perpetual medical autocracy was exposed, Klaus Schwab and his merry band of globalists slithered back into the woodwork. To be sure, we'll be seeing them again one day, but for now the WEF has relegated itself away from the spotlight and into the dark recesses of the Davos echo chamber.

Much of their discussions now focus on issues like climate change or DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion), but one vital subject continues to pop up in the white papers of global think tanks and it's a program that was introduced very publicly during covid. Every person that cares about economic freedom should be wary of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) as perhaps the biggest threat to human liberty since the attempted introduction of vaccine passports.
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Windsock

FBI Director Wray again warns of potential terror attack in the US, 'not that different' from concert attack in Russia

Cassandra MacDonald
Gateway Pundit
Wed, 24 Apr 2024 09:45 UTC
Christopher Wray
In a wide-ranging interview with NBC News, FBI Director Christopher Wray warned of a potential terror attack in the United States "which may be not that different from what you saw against the concert hall in Russia a few weeks ago from ISIS-K."


Comment: Sounds like he knows something...


Wray explained that there are "elevated fears about a coordinated terror attack in a public place" due to people being radicalized by the Israel/Gaza war.

"We are increasingly concerned [about] the potential for some kind of coordinated attack here in the homeland, which may be not that different from what you saw against the concert hall in Russia a few weeks ago from ISIS-K," Wray said.

The concert attack left 144 people dead and many more injured.

Regarding protests on American college campuses, Wray said, the FBI is "keenly focused on working with state and local law enforcement, campus law enforcement, others to try to make sure that we stay ahead" of the threat of antisemitic violence" and prevent violence against the Jewish community."


Comment: While there may be an uptick in crimes that are clearly 'antisemitic', the vast majority of protests are specifically targeted towards the criminal and horrific acts of Zionism via the state of Israel. But the Beltway in conflating anti-Zionism with antisemitism would have you think different.


Comment: What Blob creature Wray doesn't mention is that many of those criminal defendants have not received due process "as part of our legal system" and that the events of Jan. 6 were engineered by his ilk precisely so that the Beltway Blob could instill a chilling effect on political dissent in the US.

As for the "predicted" terror attacks, it should be clear by now that - whether engineered or facilitated by Wray's Blob - it has already been figured in to the calculus of a Totalitarian agenda.

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Stock Down

Kremlin: EU will lose more than Russia if it confiscates assets


RT
Thu, 25 Apr 2024 02:20 UTC
Valentina Matvienko
© SputnikChairman of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation Valentina Matvienko.
Russian lawmakers are ready to introduce a bill on retaliatory measures, the country's top senator says

Moscow has drafted a package of retaliatory measures in the event that Western countries seize Russian sovereign assets that have been frozen over the Ukraine conflict, senior senator Valentina Matvienko warned on Tuesday.

In an interview with Russian journalist Dmitry Kiselyov, the chairwoman of the Federation Council said that the EU's potential move to confiscate Russian assets would be "unprecedented," adding that it "would destroy the global economy."

"Of course, it would be absolutely illegal, and everyone in Europe understands that they can't do that," the official stated.

Comment: One needs no further proof of the batsh*t-crazy nature of the EU's leaders than this. Their short-sighted greed could/will bring down the West's whole financial edifice. Anyone with money to invest will be thinking "If they can do it to Russia and Russians, they can do it to me" and look for other opportunities. Like the BRICS countries.

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Yoda

Straight talk: All Ukrainian presidents are thieves - Lukashenko


RT
Wed, 24 Apr 2024 21:32 UTC
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko
© Sputnik / Ilya PitalevBelarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.
A once "prosperous" country has been ruined by its leaders and "oligarchs," the Belarusian president has claimed

Ukraine has devolved into a Western-style oligarchy where all of its leaders are only interested in "plundering" the country and getting rich, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has claimed.

The president made the remarks on Wednesday during an address to the All-Belarusian People's Assembly, a gathering of high-profile officials and public figures. Lukashenko fired a broadside at the neighboring country, accusing its presidents and "oligarchs" of stealing Ukraine's riches.

The process began immediately after Ukraine became an independent state following the collapse of the Soviet Union and has worsened over time, Lukashenko argued.

Comment: Lukashenko isn't wrong. Ukraine is just following the example of its Western masters. And just where have the billions poured into Ukraine since 2014 gone?

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