Puppet MastersS


Road Cone

Pete Buttigieg, inept and incapable, personifies 'Democrat'

Cheryl K. Chumley
The Washington Times
Fri, 30 Dec 2022 00:00 UTC
Buttigieg
© Stefan Jeremiah/APUS Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is fielding some much-needed fire for his epic fail to address the airline crisis keeping good citizens in states of various abandonment at airports around the nation.

But the most interesting critics are those expressing surprise over Buttigieg's fail-to-act.

He is, after all, a Democrat. And what Democrats do best is fail, blame others for their failure, then go on vacation. Just look at the leading failing Democrat, President Joe Biden. Where's he? St. Croix. Hiding from his own epic fails — so hiding, in fact, his staff has to bring presidential paperwork to the island for him to sign. He won't leave. Hidin' Biden.

Buttigieg isn't so lucky — or perhaps the word is powerful. He isn't high enough on the totem pole of power to merit a St. Croix get-away for his epic fails.

He has to stay closer to home. He's forced to face some of the fiery criticisms for his inept handling of transportation — you know, the thing he was hired to deal with and the thing for which taxpayers pay him dearly.

Comment: 'Ouch'! Stating the obvious.

See also:

Read More...
Eye 1

How Democrat Adam Schiff abused his power to demand I be kicked off Twitter simply due to a personal vendetta

Paul Sperry
New York Post
Fri, 13 Jan 2023 19:45 UTC
Paul Sperry
Investigative journalist Paul Sperry
Back from holiday vacation, I found an interesting email waiting for me in my inbox from Matt Taibbi, the independent journo Elon Musk tasked with reviewing and releasing internal Twitter documents about decisions to censor content and ban users from the platform.

"Paul," Taibbi wrote, "just found a crazy email on Twitter — did you know Adam Schiff's staff . . . asked Twitter to have you banned?"

I was gobsmacked. This would explain why Twitter could never give me a reason for suspending my account, even though I had broken none of its rules.

Schiff, the powerful Democratic chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, made his "request" to ban me through his staff in a November 2020 memo to Twitter. Three months later, in early February 2021, I was kicked off the platform.

Comment: Matt Taibbi weighs in on the Twitter Files and Russiagate:



Read More...
Георгиевская ленточка

Ukraine suffered a humiliating defeat in Soledar after a relentless Russian assault: 'The entire town is littered with bodies'


RT
Fri, 13 Jan 2023 18:55 UTC
russian forces soledar
© RT
This marks Russia's first major victory since the withdrawals from Balakleya, Krasny Liman and Kherson

Fighters from the Wagner Group have completely surrounded the Donbass town of Soledar and are now clearing the extensive tunnel network in the town's salt mines, the head of private military company, Evgeny Prigozhin, claimed.

The news came after weeks of intense battles in an area which sources from both sides, but especially those which are pro-Kiev, have described as a "meat grinder." Despite the sustained, albeit slow, Russian advance, the Ukrainian authorities have chosen not to retreat at the cost of tremendous losses.

"I want to repeat that Soledar has been fully liberated and cleared of Ukrainian army units," Prigozhin said in a statement on Wednesday evening. "The Ukrainian troops that refused to surrender have been destroyed."

Comment: The mines may be a big problem for Russia, as there are rumors that all the mines in the area are connected with tunnels at different levels, many big enough for tanks.

The question also arises as to what is potentially hidden in those mines that Ukraine was willing to throw away the lives of entire brigades of men in a futile attempt to hold them? Armaments that are dear to Ukraine, or is there something more sinister?





Read More...
Bad Guys

Ukraine legalizes foreigners in neo-Nazi regiment


RT
Fri, 13 Jan 2023 18:12 UTC
Azov battalion, Ukrainian neo-Nazis
© Getty Images / STR
The Ukrainian parliament on Thursday passed a new law that expands perks offered to foreigners who sign up to serve in the country's military. Sponsors of the bill specifically singled out the controversial Azov regiment as an intended beneficiary of the measure.

Azov originated as a group of far-right volunteers who in 2014 took up arms against Donbass forces with Kiev's blessing. The unit was incorporated into the National Guard, a structure separate from the army, in November of that year.

The new legislation has added the wording "and other military units" to several laws that previously only covered the main Ukrainian armed forces. A formal justification of the bill said that there are many foreign nationals serving in Azov, but that the existing legal framework makes their presence in Ukraine illegal and does not allow them to request Ukrainian citizenship. The new law is meant to change that.

Azov is arguably the best known internationally of the Ukrainian nationalist units. Before the conflict between Moscow and Kiev escalated into open hostilities last February, Western officials and media outlets acknowledged that many of the unit's members espoused problematic ideology and that some were neo-Nazis.
Read More...
Bad Guys

Western-mediated Kosovo and Ukraine deals were lies - Serbia


RT
Fri, 13 Jan 2023 18:00 UTC
Ivica Dacic
© Milos Miskov/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesForeign Minister of Serbia Ivica Dacic.
The 2013 EU-brokered Brussels accord between Belgrade and Kosovo was just as deceptive as the doomed 2014-15 Minsk peace agreements that were designed to end the bloodshed in Ukraine, Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said on Friday. The statement came after a recent escalation over the breakaway region.

Serbian forces left Kosovo in 1999 after NATO bombed the country in support of the Albanian armed insurgency. The bloc's peacekeepers have been stationed in the region ever since. Kosovo declared independence from Belgrade in 2008. Serbia, however, with the support of Russia and China, has resisted US and EU pressure to recognize the independence.

Serbian officials have been accusing the Kosovo authorities of violating the Brussels-mediated deal by deploying heavily armed police units to quell Serbian protests in the northern part of the region. "We were not too happy about the Brussels Agreement. It was a goodwill gesture by Belgrade," Dacic told Serbian Prva TV after a meeting with Derek Chollet, a counselor at the US State Department. "But it later turned out to be a big lie, just like with the Minsk Agreements."

"I told Chollet that there is no one in Serbia who will accept the independence of Kosovo and Metohija," Dacic said, referring to the region by its official name. "The safety of the Serbs must be guaranteed," the minister stated, adding that the West must pressure the Kosovo authorities on the matter.
Read More...
Arrow Up

What is the US "Gas Stove Ban" REALLY about?

Kit Knightly
Off-Guardian
Thu, 12 Jan 2023 17:05 UTC
What sounds like overeach in itself, is actually a cover for something potentially far, far worse.
Gas Stove
© Off-Guardian
The Biden administration is apparently looking to ban gas stoves, calling them a "hidden danger". But while that sounds bad enough, a deeper dive shows - as usual - it's not really about what they say it's about.

Talk of banning gas stoves and "unregulated indoor air quality" could be a Trojan horse designed to get even more "smart" monitoring technology into your home.

Let's jump in.

ARE GAS STOVES DANGEROUS?

Well, according to Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, the New Scientist and million other outlets and pundits who started talking about it in the last two days, yes.

Earlier this week near-identical articles from the National Review, Bloomberg and CNN detail how the US Consumer Product Safety Commission will be opening "public comment on the dangers of gas stoves sometime this winter".

The articles claim:
The emissions have been linked to illness, cardiovascular problems, cancer, and other health conditions. More than 12 percent of current childhood asthma cases are linked to gas stove use, according to peer-reviewed research published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health last month.
Now would be a good time to talk about the phrase "linked to". It's always a good one to look out for in any mainstream publication. Journalists love it because it implies causation without stating it.

Consider, one hundred per cent of serial killers have been linked to the ingestion of water and the wearing of shoes.

If this manipulative use of language were not evidence enough of an agenda, the rather premature deployment of the race card proves it:
Senator Cory Booker (D., N.J.) and Representative Don Beyer (D., Va.) wrote a letter to the agency last month urging the commission to address the issue and calling the harmful emissions a "cumulative burden" on black, Latino and low-income households.
Read More...
NPC

German Justice Minister replaced for being a white male

Paul Joseph Watson
Summit News
Fri, 13 Jan 2023 13:10 UTC
Dirk Adams Doreen Denstädt
© picture alliance via Getty Images
Replaced with unqualified woman of African heritage.

The German Green Party has fired Justice Minister Dirk Adams, ostensibly for no other reason than him being male and white, and replaced him with an unqualified woman of African heritage.

Yes, really.

Comment: See also:

Read More...
NPC

GOP Congressman introduces resolution to place a 'permanent' bust of Zelensky in the US Capitol

Chris Menahan
InformationLiberation
Thu, 12 Jan 2023 00:01 UTC
zelensky
© Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images
Republican Rep Joe Wilson of South Carolina wants the US capitol to have a bust of Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelensky on permanent display.

From The Washington Times, "House Republican proposes putting a bust of Ukraine leader in U.S. Capitol":
Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina filed a resolution earlier this week directing the Fine Arts Board of the U.S. House of Representatives to obtain a bust of Mr. Zelenskyy for display.

The board has authority over all works of art and historical objects displayed on the House wing of the U.S. Capitol and the associated office buildings.

Comment: See also:

Read More...
Cow

Out of our cold, dead hands: Will the European Union ban or tax meat production?

Chadwick Hagan
The Epoch Times
Tue, 10 Jan 2023 00:00 UTC
eu flags half mast
© John Thys/AFP via Getty ImagesEuropean flags fly at half-mast during a meeting of EU energy ministers to find solutions to rising energy prices at the EU headquarters in Brussels, on Sept. 9, 2022, one day after the death of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II.
Will the European Union or certain countries in the EU ban meat production in order to meet emission regulations? In short, the answer is yes. There is a very real possibility in the near future that a member country (probably Sweden, Denmark, or the Netherlands) will impose a tax or an outright ban on meat production.

Why Sweden, Denmark, or the Netherlands? While this sounds absolutely crazy, part of the rationale is to avoid legal issues with the EU. A handful of European countries have legally binding net-zero plans for emissions and climate metrics, and the Netherlands, Sweden, and Denmark are small countries with large agricultural footprints. Small landmass with heavy agriculture industry makes for an easy target.

I wrote about such conflicting issues last month with the Netherlands closing down farms. The Dutch, like the Swedes and the Danes, are very serious about reducing emissions, as well as limiting meat consumption. The problem is they consume and produce lots of meat.

Comment: Live in the pod. Eat the bugs. Own nothing. Be happy.

See also:

Read More...
Syringe

Andrew Bridgen suspended as conservative MP for criticising Covid vaccines

Will Jones
The Daily Sceptic
Wed, 11 Jan 2023 07:50 UTC
MP Andrew Bridgen
MP Andrew Bridgen has had the Conservative whip removed - meaning he is suspended from sitting as a Conservative MP and must sit without party affiliation - pending a "formal investigation" after causing "great offence" with remarks saying the Covid vaccines are "causing serious harms" and the vaccination campaign was "the biggest crime against humanity since the holocaust".

According to Sky News, Tory Chief Whip Simon Hart said:
Andrew Bridgen has crossed a line, causing great offence in the process. As a nation we should be very proud of what has been achieved through the vaccine programme. The vaccine is the best defence against Covid that we have. Misinformation about the vaccine causes harm and costs lives. I am therefore removing the whip from Andrew Bridgen with immediate effect, pending a formal investigation.
His 'offensive' comment came in a tweet (now deleted) on Wednesday morning linking to a write-up by Israeli academic Dr. Josh Guetzkow of the recently released CDC adverse event analysis, where Bridgen approvingly quotes an unnamed "consultant cardiologist" who he said had told him: "This is the biggest crime against humanity since the holocaust."

Comment: See also:

Read More...