The U.S. military must start making preparations for another "insurrection" after the 2024 election, according to a trio of retired military generals.

An op-ed published by the Washington Post on Friday called for action amid growing concern among former senior officials about the "potential for lethal chaos inside our military" in a flash of violence that could eclipse the Capitol riot on Jan. 6.

Multiple courses of action were advised by Paul Eaton, a retired U.S. Army major general and a senior adviser to VoteVets, Antonio Taguba, a retired Army major general with 34 years of active duty service, and Steven Anderson, a retired brigadier general who served in the Army for 31 years. They warned of the possibility of "civil war" resulting from a "military breakdown" due to splits in loyalty. They wrote:

"First, everything must be done to prevent another insurrection. Not a single leader who inspired it has been held to account. Our elected officials and those who enforce the law — including the Justice Department, the House select committee and the whole of Congress — must show more urgency."

The op-ed notes more than 1 in 10 of those charged in the attack on the Capitol nearly a year ago had a service record. They also said a group of 124 retired military officials, under the name "Flag Officers 4 America," released a letter echoing former President Donald Trump's "false attacks on the legitimacy of our elections."

That screeching noise you hear is not just the sound of Democrats wailing over their collapsing popular support. It is also the squeal of their tires as they race away from their anti-law-and-order policies in hope of avoiding an electoral smash against reality. They've suddenly realized that — surprise! — there aren't as many voters for murder and industrial-scale smash-and-grab thievery as there are for combating those increasingly prevalent crimes. The Washington Examiner's Sarah Westwood has reported that liberals are starting to embrace gun ownership and are backing measures to combat crime.

In an astonishing reversal, San Francisco's mayor, London Breed, launched emergency police intervention in the city's crime-wrecked Tenderloin district . This is the woman who cut police and sheriff budgets by $120 million to pander to 2020's Black Lives Matter rioters. The decision brought a rain of ruin down on her metropolis, and now even its left-liberal residents have had enough. Breed's rhetoric has, if anything, changed even more dramatically than her policies. Announcing a 180-degree turnaround, she said,

"It's time to rein in criminals who are destroying our city. ... And it comes to an end when we take the steps to be more aggressive with law enforcement, more aggressive with the changes in our policies, and less tolerant of all the bulls*** that has destroyed our city."

Can other Democrats do the same and salvage the next election? Not likely. Even if a Democratic mayor here or there can perform such a volte-face, that option is not available to the party on a national level.

Poland's parliament passed a media bill that detractors say aims to silence a news channel critical of the government, in an unexpected move that will stoke concern over media freedom and reopen a diplomatic dispute with the US.


Critics say the legislation will affect the ability of news channel TVN24, owned by US media company Discovery Inc, to operate because it tightens the rules around foreign ownership of media in Poland.

The vote sours relations with the US, Poland's most powerful ally, at a time of heightened tension in eastern Europe over an increasingly assertive Russia.

In response to Senator Elizabeth Warren's accusation of "freeloading," Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk argued that he will pay more taxes than "any American in history" this year.

"Let's change the rigged tax code so The Person of the Year will actually pay taxes and stop freeloading off everyone else," tweeted Warren in response to the announcement that Musk is Time's Person of the Year.

"And if you opened your eyes for 2 seconds, you would realize I will pay more taxes than any American in history this year," responded Musk.

Germany's new Foreign Minister, Annalena Baerbock came into office on December 8th without her knowing that America's stationing missiles in Ukraine on Russia's border, and only a 7-minute flying distance away from Moscow, would be even more unacceptable to Moscow than, in 1962, would have been, to Washington, the Soviet Union's stationing missiles in Cuba, fifteen minutes of flying-time away from Washington, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. She's evidently so much of a neoconservative (supporter of U.S. imperialism) that Baerbock had been ignoring this crucial and simple fact of international relations throughout her entire prior 17-year career in politics, before becoming appointed as Germany's Foreign Minister.

She had ignored it so much so that Russia's Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, during his introductory phone-conversation with her on December 14th, found in the course of the conversation with her, that he had to explain it to her. This is rather shocking.

She didn't even know why Germany's leader, during 2005-2021, Angela Merkel, had — along with France's leader Francois Hollande — established in the Minsk agreements for settling the Ukrainian war the "Normandy Format" for negotiations between Ukraine (on Russia's border) and its 2014 breakaway Donbass region, in order to establish, at Minsk, a truce-agreement between those two sides (Ukraine and its breakaway region) and agree to negotiate between themselves a permanent peace-settlement, by which Donbass would again be a part of Ukraine and voting in Ukrainian Presidential elections, but would be granted, by Ukraine, some degree of internal autonomy (and guaranteed peace). It would peacefully settle the Ukrainian war. Baerbock hasn't yet committed herself on whether to honor or even respect the armistice treaty that Merkel, Hollande, and Putin, had jointly achieved between Ukraine and Donbass, at Minsk. However, she has committed herself clearly on all other issues as supporting the same views that the U.S. Government has endorsed. The U.S. Government did not participate, in any way, in the Minsk agreements, and so she could come out rejecting them — or else endorsing only the Minsk provisions that the Ukrainian side had favored, and rejecting the provisions that the Donbass side had favored. In other words: she could come out seeking to replace the Minsk agreements, or even as outright endorsing a resumption of Ukraine's 2014-2015 effort to conquer Donbass militarily and treating all residents there as being "terrorists" until those residents become conquered.

The Guardian thinks China is building a global empire and that American imperialism is somehow over. Yet, with the latter stationing its military in more than 80 countries around the globe, the facts state otherwise.

Another cartoonishly ridiculous anti-China propaganda piece has been published in the Western mass media, this time by The Guardian, which, at this point. could arguably be labeled the single most destructive promulgator of empire propaganda in the Western world. It is authored by Simon Tisdall, who could most certainly be labeled the single most destructive promulgator of empire propaganda at The Guardian.

The article is headlined "In China's new age of imperialism, Xi Jinping gives thumbs down to democracy" and has the subhead "Beijing is aiming for global ascendancy - but its leader's vision of world dominion is centralised, oppressive and totalitarian." None of these claims are substantiated in the text that follows.

Ukrainian Ambassador to Israel Yevgen Korniychuk said in a speech Thursday that his country recognises Jerusalem as Israel's "one and only capital", and is preparing to open a branch of its embassy in the city next year.

The Eastern European country's top diplomat made the comments at an event marking 30 years of Israel-Ukraine ties.


Jerusalem Affairs Minister Ze'ev Elkin, who grew up in Ukraine, said he hoped the country would open a branch in the contested city.

According to the Times of Israel, Elkin presented Korniychuk with a 2,700-year-old artefact bearing the word "Jerusalem" in Hebrew at Thursday's event, after which the Ukrainian diplomat made the unprepared remarks.

A bribery case in southern Russia indicates the country had troops stationed in eastern Ukraine, contradicting a long-held Kremlin position that it has never been a party to the conflict in the region.

The verdict in the case against V.H. Zaboluyev, the deputy manager of a food supplier in Rostov-on-Don, a city near eastern Ukraine, states that he oversaw the procurement and delivery of food to "Russian military personnel located in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and Luhansk People's Republic (LPR)."

DPR and LPR refer to parts of two regions in eastern Ukraine controlled by Kremlin-backed separatists since war broke out in early 2014 following the toppling of pro-Russian Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.


The deliveries in question were made in 2018 and 2019, according to the verdict, which was published on the court's website last month. However, media only recently discovered the text.

Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin spent an hour and 14 minutes in a video conversation on Wednesday. Geopolitically, paving the way for 2022, this is the one that really matters - much more than Putin-Biden a week ago. Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov, who generally carefully measures his words, had previously hinted that this exchange would be "extremely important."

It was obvious the two leaders would not only exchange information about the natural gas pipeline Power of Siberia 2. Peskov was referring to prime time geopolitics: how Russia-China would be coordinating their countercoups against the hybrid war/Cold War 2.0 combo deployed by the US and its allies.

While no substantial leaks were expected from the 37th meeting between Xi and Putin since 2013 (they will meet again in person in February 2022, at the start of the Beijing Winter Olympics), Assistant to the President for Foreign Policy Yuri Ushakov did manage to succinctly deliver at least two serious bits of information.

Internal Revenue Service disclosure filings from the Center for Tech and Civic Life, a left-wing election takeover organization, confirm that the nonprofit used millions of dollars from Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to manipulate the 2020 election in favor of President Joe Biden.

According to reporting from the Capital Research Center, CTCL used tens of millions of funds funneled from Zuckerberg's community foundations, other leftist"dark money empires," and even federal dollars designated for personal protective equipment, to monetarily urge secretaries of state to adopt sloppy election practices such as mass mail-in balloting and unmonitored dropboxes in the name of protecting voters against COVID-19.

CTCL claims that the complete modification of safe election practices in cities across the United States resulted in "the most secure election in U.S. history," but reporting from multiple sources including The Federalist's Mollie Hemingway, who wrote "Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections," suggests the opposite.

These drastic, last-minute election changes pushed by CTCL didn't make elections safer. Instead, their privatized influence had a pre-planned, massive effect on certain swing states and counties around the country. As noted in the report, despite insistence from some that the "nonpartisan" CTCL gave more grants to areas dominated by former President Donald Trump, counties that Biden won in states such as Pennsylvania and Arizona raked in far more CTCL money.