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Duterte is in The Hague

Declan Hayes
Strategic Culture
Sat, 15 Mar 2025 00:00 UTC
Duterte protest
© Unknown
The arrest and lightning extradition of former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte to The Hague should be a wake-up call not only for Russia but for the Rip van Winkles of China as well. No sooner had Duterte landed at Manila's Ninoy Aquino Airport (named after a former presidential contender, who was assassinated for political reasons by Duterte's persecutors at that airport) but Duterte was bundled onto another plane and whisked off to NATO's International Criminal Court to get their own form of kangaroo court justice.

Duterte's crime, if such it is, is that he launched a wide scale cull of small time drug dealers, thousands of whom were summarily executed by Duterte's death squads, off duty police officers topping up their meager salaries by drive-by executions.

Although Duterte did not play by the Queensbury rules, he did clean up the mean streets, most particularly in his home town of Davao, which I could visit often, thanks in no small measure to the work of his death squads. Not only that but I used to hang out next door to the motorcycle club which boasted Duterte as a valued member.
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Welcome to FAFO-Land

James Howard Kunstler
kunstler.com
Mon, 17 Mar 2025 00:00 UTC
judge
© Pacific PunditJudge James Boasberg
"Well, now the other shoe drops"
— Auron MacIntyre
It's as simple as this: the orgy of judicial lawfare put on by blob-adjacent Democratic Party seditionists trying to make the USA ungovernable is looking to get swatted. Hubris is a harsh mistress, but Nemesis is more like the gods' re-po man, and he comes to the door with attitude, meaning bidness. Blob judges will get flushed out of their humid conclaves naked and find themselves, astoundingly, in the FO zone of FAFO-land.

Do you think AG Bondi is playing tiddlywinks in Main Justice or that Kash Patel is just sitting there buffing his nails over at 935 Pennsylvania Avenue NW? Where did we get the idea that federal judges can just act with impunity, jerking around the public interest like some show-off with a yoyo?

Case in point: Judge James Boasberg, head honcho of the DC federal district court stepped into the FAFO waiting room over the weekend when he ordered two planeloads of deported toxic human trash known as Tren de Aragua, bound for jail in El Salvador, to return to the USA. Mr. Trump's White House refused, saying the planes were already over international waters, outside the judge's jurisdiction. Dem-blob lawyer Mark Zaid made the predictable next move, claiming that the matter will be grounds for Impeachment No. 3 against Mr. Trump post the 2026 midterm election. But, of course: strategery!
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Bullseye

Trump axes taxpayer-funded Secret Service detail for Ashley, Hunter Biden

Elizabeth Weibel
Breitbart
Mon, 17 Mar 2025 19:03 UTC
hunter biden vacation south africa
© Lara LoomerThe former first son went on his South Africa trip with Secret Service protection after claiming he was too broke to continue suing former Trump staffer Garrett Ziegler.
President Donald Trump announced that Hunter Biden, the son of former President Joe Biden, who is currently vacationing in South Africa, would no longer receive Secret Service protection.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump also announced that Ashley Biden, the daughter for Joe Biden and former first lady Jill Biden, would no longer receive Secret Service protection. Trump revealed there were "as many as 18 people" on Hunter Biden's detail, while Ashley Biden had "13 agents" on her security detail.

"Hunter Biden has had Secret Service protection for an extended period of time, all paid for by the United States Taxpayer," Trump wrote. "There are as many as 18 people on this Detail, which is ridiculous! He is currently vacationing in, of all places, South Africa, where the Human Rights of people has been strenuously questioned. Because of this, South Africa has been taken off our list of Countries receiving Economic and Financial Assistance."

Comment: Trump needs to pull Hunter's fleet of tax-payer-funded vehicles too.

Full text:

US STATE DEPARTMENT HAS BEEN PROVIDING VEHICLES TO HUNTER BIDEN FOR HIS PERSONAL USE WHILE HE'S VACATIONING IN CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA WITH 18 US SECRET SERVICE AGENTS TO DODGE A DEPOSITION‼️

Not only has the @SecretServicebeen providing a US tax payer funded 18 agent total (6 agents on back up) and 12 agent per day Secret Service detail to @HunterBiden and his wife Melissa Cohen while they are vacationing in Cape Town, South Africa for 3 months, but I have also discovered and can confirm with photographic evidence I gathered that the US State Department, via the US EMBASSY IN PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA @USEmbassySA has been providing the TAX PAYER FUNDED VEHICLES that Hunter Biden and his wife are using when they go shopping and dining in Cape Town. The vehicles are parked outside their luxury villa and guarded by Security when they are not being driven.

Over the weekend, while monitoring Hunter Biden in Cape Town, @LoomerUnleashed captured photos of the 2 vehicles we spotted Hunter and his wife getting in and out of while they were parked on the street near a shopping center.

I ran the license plates for both vehicles (which I blurred in the water marked photos below) and the plates traced back to AND ARE BOTH REGISTERED TO THE US EMBASSY IN SOUTH AFRICA. I confirmed the address on the registration for both vehicles is the same address as the EMBASSY OF AMERICA, as seen below in the South African vehicle registration database . 👇🏻

One of the vehicles is a Ford SUV, and the other is a Volvo SUV.

🚨See Receipts and EXCLUSIVE photos below🚨

This means that if Hunter Biden or his wife were to get a ticket in the vehicles, the ticket would be sent to the US Embassy in South Africa, and likely paid for by US TAXPAYERS!

To remind everyone: the South African Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool was ordered by Secretary of State Marco Rubio to leave the US last week. He has been ordered to LEAVE the US within 72 hours (by Friday)!

President Trump has also cut off foreign aid to South Africa, which is conducting a White genocide against their own farmers.

Why are our US tax dollars paying for the US Embassy in South Africa to be a rental car agency for Hunter Biden while he dodges a subpoena in his Laptop lawsuit?

@marcorubio, @SecRubio, can you please direct ALL US State Department @StateDept assets to IMMEDIATELY CEASE THE SUBSIDIZING OF HUNTER BIDEN'S LUXURY VACATIONS ABROAD while he's telling the Federal Court in Los Angeles that he is "BROKE"?

Cc: @realDonaldTrump

RECEIPTS 👇🏻
hunter state department cars south africa vacation
© Laura Loomer/XPhotos of State Department vehicles used by Hunter Biden while vacationing in South Africa


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Cult

German media told to conceal Nazi symbols in Ukraine - Moscow


RT
Mon, 17 Mar 2025 12:47 UTC
The flag of Ukraine’s nationalist Azov Battalion.
© Aleksandr Gusev / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty ImagesThe flag of Ukraine’s nationalist Azov Battalion.
Berlin has forbidden journalists from showing banned images in their coverage, according to Russian intelligence.

The German government has ordered national media outlets not to show Nazi symbols in Ukraine, according to the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR). Journalists have been warned that they may face legal repercussions for broadcasting any such imagery, the agency reported on Monday.

The guidelines advise reporters to "politely" ask Ukrainian soldiers displaying the swastika or other Nazi-associated symbols to remove the "agitation elements" and avoid "unwelcome actions," such as performing the Nazi salute, according to the SVR.

The agency emphasized that the prevalence of Nazi iconography and ideology in contemporary Ukraine is well-documented. The recommendation to exclude evidence from broadcasts suggests an effort to mislead the German public about the situation, the SVR claimed.
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Star of David

Internal Israeli power struggle deepens as Netanyahu seeks to oust Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar

Melanie Lidman
Associated Press
Mon, 17 Mar 2025 20:57 UTC
ronan bar shin bet chief israel
© Gil Cohen-Magen/Pool photo via AP, FileRonen Bar, chief of Israel’s domestic Shin Bet security agency, attends a ceremony marking Memorial Day for fallen soldiers of Israel’s wars and victims of attacks at Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl military cemetery, May 13, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he will seek to dismiss the head of the internal security service this week, deepening a power struggle focused largely on who bears responsibility for the Hamas attack that sparked the war in Gaza.

Netanyahu's effort to remove Ronen Bar as director of the Shin Bet comes as the security service investigates close aides of the prime minister. Netanyahu said he has had "ongoing distrust" with Bar, and "this distrust has grown over time."

Bar responded by saying he planned to continue in the post for the near future, citing "personal obligations" to finish "sensitive investigations," free the remaining hostages in Gaza and prepare potential successors.

Bar also criticized Netanyahu's expectation of a personal loyalty that contradicts the public interest. But he emphasized that he would respect any legal decision regarding his tenure.

Comment: Shin Bet is the Israeli equivalent of the CIA. Their hands are equally, if not more dirty:

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Trump declares Biden's autopen-signed pardons "void"

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Mon, 17 Mar 2025 19:51 UTC
Biden autopen comparison signature
© Dr. Naomi Wolf/X
Ten days or so after the Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project disclosed that nearly every document bearing former President Biden's signature during his first term had been signed by an autopen — except for one — questions arose over whether executive orders and pardons could be deemed invalid, as we noted that Biden's staff likely leveraged his rapid cognitive deterioration to sign those documents via autopen.

Overnight, President Trump declared that the 11th-hour pardons, including those given to members of Congress who investigated the January 6 insurrection, were "void, vacant, and of no further force or effect, because of the fact that they were done by autopen." Some of those last-minute pardons include Deep Staters, such as former Representative Liz Cheney, retired General Mark Milley, and government scientist Anthony Fauci.

Comment: Seems pretty shady from here.

Nearly all of Biden's official signatures were created with autopens

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Bad Guys

Former spy chief told Boris Johnson COVID-19 was "engineered in Wuhan"

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Sun, 16 Mar 2025 14:22 UTC
wuhan institute virology
Last week we noted reporting by journalist Alex Berensen, who cited two large German newspapers in revealing that Germany's Federal Intelligence Service (BND) has long had evidence that the Covid-19 virus originally came from a US-funded lab in Wuhan, China.

According to these reports, at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic in Europe in 2020, the German government commissioned a secret intelligence operation under the codename of Saaremaa to investigate the origins of the Covid-19 virus, also known as SARS-CoV-2. When they concluded that a lab leak was most likely, the German Chancellery ordered that the results were to be kept hidden from the public.

Comment: Also see:

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Kiev rejects Putin's offer of mercy for troops in Kursk


RT
Sun, 16 Mar 2025 13:33 UTC
Sibiga
© Kirill Chubotin/Global Look PressUkraine FM Andrey Sibiga
Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered Ukraine's encircled troops in the area the chance to surrender and thus preserve their lives.

Ukraine's forces in Russia's Kursk Region will continue their operations, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrey Sibiga stated in an interview on Saturday, despite the troops being largely encircled, according to both Moscow and Washington.

Speaking with Japan's NHK, Sibiga claimed that Kiev had achieved its main objectives in the offensive but sees having a continued presence on Russian territory as providing leverage in future peace negotiations.

Ukraine launched its incursion across the internationally recognized Russian border into Kursk Region last August, capturing the town of Sudzha and numerous villages. However, the Russian military quickly halted the advance and has since been reclaiming lost ground. Russian General Staff Chief Valery Gerasimov said on Wednesday that 86% of the land previously occupied by Ukrainian forces had been retaken, leaving the remaining troops "encircled" and "isolated."

Comment: Two realities? At least one of these is in denial.

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Attention

America's Zombie Armies

Julian MacFarlane
News Forensics
Mon, 17 Mar 2025 18:39 UTC
Trump the Peacemaker?

There are still people who believe that canard, unfortunately.

The opposite is the case, as we saw with the recent attack on Yemen, which killed a lot of civilians.

Keep in mind that Yemen has not launched any new strikes on shipping in the Red Sea-- only said they would target Israeli vessels, if Israel continued to renege on its ceasefire deal - the one the US was supposed to guarantee.

As I said in when the ceasefire was being formulated, the Israelis had no intention of honoring a real ceasefire beyond the release of hostages in the Phase 1 — and that they would not let the deal go to Phase 2.

And that is what happened.

Everybody Lies
© News Forensics
Not "everybody". Just the US and Israel.

Yemen has shown good faith by stopping its attacks in the Red Sea, so their recent announcement was a demand for Israel - and the US-- to keep their side of the bargain.

Trump responded with a pre-emptive strike — and also threats against Iran,
Dead Yemenis
© News Forensics
What does that mean?

It means that the ceasefire agreement died a lot of innocent Yemenis.
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Big Bomb

Houthis threaten attacks on US warships


RT
Mon, 17 Mar 2025 00:34 UTC
airstrike
© X/CENTCOM
The de facto Yemeni authorities have vowed retaliation for the ongoing deadly bombing campaign.

The US has reportedly launched new airstrikes targeting the Yemeni port city of Hodeidah after the leader of the Houthi movement, Sayyed Abdul Malik al-Houthi, delivered a fiery speech condemning the attacks and threatening direct military action against American naval forces.

US President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon to carry out a "decisive and powerful military action" on Saturday, aiming to dismantle the Houthi ability to disrupt vital shipping lanes in the region. The first round of US strikes overnight killed at least 53 people and left nearly 100 injured, according to Yemen's Houthi-run health ministry.

In his speech on Sunday, al-Houthi urged the Yemeni people to mobilize in their millions to confront the American "escalation with escalation," insisting that Yemen would not be pressured into submission. He declared:
"The American aircraft carrier and warships will be our target, and the decision to ban navigation will include the US as long as it continues its aggression."

Comment: Retaliating escalates. Resources dwindle. The only winners are those who refuse 'the trap'.
Weighing in is Iran:
Tehran has condemned the deadly US strikes on Yemen, describing the latest attack as a major threat to both regional and global peace. Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei described them as a blatant violation of the UN Charter and urging the UN Security Council to take action. The attack constituted a major threat to both regional and international peace and security, he said in a statement on Sunday.

The extent of the damage inflicted on the group itself, however, was not immediately clear. Trump's national security adviser Mike Waltz claimed the strikes "hit multiple Houthi leaders and took them out."

Waltz threatened more strikes on Yemen and said that various targets "will be on the table." These include Iranian ships operating off the country's coast and believed to be providing intelligence to the Houthis, alleged Iranian military advisers, and "other things they have put in to help the Houthis attack the global economy."

Tehran, however, has consistently denied its involvement in the Houthis' activities. The head of Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps reiterated this stance on Sunday, stating the country "plays no role in setting the national or operational policies" of the Yemeni-based group.

The US, UK, and Israel have repeatedly bombed alleged Houthi-linked military sites and infrastructure in Yemen, yet the attacks have continued. The Houthis' campaign was put on hold in January after Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas reached a fragile ceasefire.

The latest US airstrikes come days after the Houthis said they would resume attacks on what they believe to be Israeli-linked vessels sailing through the Red and Arabian seas, the Bab al-Mandab Strait, and the Gulf of Aden. The group announced the resumption of attacks on ships on Tuesday after the deadline it had set for Israel to allow aid flow into Gaza passed.


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