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NJ drone sightings could be a 'classified exercise': former CIA officer

Anders Hagstrom
Fox News
Sun, 15 Dec 2024 12:28 UTC
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© Brian Glenn/TMX via APMultiple drones are seen over Bernardsville, N.J., Dec. 5, 2024
Former CIA operations officer Laura Ballman told "Fox News Live" the mysterious drone sightings are "extremely unsettling" as the public seeks answers.

Drones sightings across New Jersey have unsettled residents for weeks with no official explanations being offered. Ballman argued that circumstances around the drone sightings suggest it may be a U.S. operation.

"Deducing the statements from [National Security spokesman] John Kirby that these drones are not operating illegally, coupled with several op-eds that have been out there in the last 24 hours about the need to look at our detection systems, makes me think perhaps this is actually a classified exercise to test either evasion technology or detection technology in urban areas," Ballman said.
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Bad Guys

Best of the Web: NJ drone sightings: "Nuclear sniffers" or cynical political maneuver?

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Mon, 16 Dec 2024 12:29 UTC
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© Fox NewsMap showing some of the places where mystery drones have been spotted in Northeastern USA in December 2024.
The founder of an aerospace company specializing in military-grade drones published a video on the Chinese social media platform TikTok, sharing his thoughts on the mystery drone sightings in New Jersey. His expert opinion is alarming, leaving many wishing that Paul Krugman's theory about an alien invasion was true instead.

"I spoke to a gentleman a few months ago, who was trying to raise the alarm to the highest levels of our government ... about this one particular nuclear warhead that he physically put his hands on ... that was left over from Ukraine ... and he knew this thing was headed towards the United States," Saxon Aerospace's John Ferguson stated in the video.

He continued: "Everyone knows that this administration is pushing to get into war with Russia."
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Explosion

'Stupid' of Biden to allow long-range strikes on Russia - Trump


RT
Tue, 17 Dec 2024 17:38 UTC
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© Andrew Harnik/Getty ImagesUS President-elect Donald Trump
The US president-elect has said that he may reverse the decision once he takes office next month.

US President Joe Biden did "a very stupid thing" by allowing the Ukrainian military to use American missiles for strikes deep behind Russia's borders, President-elect Donald Trump has said.

Biden gave Ukraine permission to use American-provided ATACMS missiles to attack targets in internationally-recognized Russian territory last month, knowing the incoming president would oppose such a move. Kiev's forces have since carried out multiple strikes using the missiles, bombarding a military airfield near the southern city of Taganrog last week. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, two of six missiles fired by Kiev's forces were intercepted by air defense, while the remainder were diverted using electronic warfare.

Trump told reporters during a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate on Monday:
"I don't think they should have allowed missiles to be shot 200 miles into Russia. I don't think that should have been allowed. Not when there's a possibility... and certainly not just weeks before I take over, why would they do that without asking me what I thought? I thought it was a very stupid thing to do."
Trump added that he "might" rescind the authorization once he takes office next month.

Comment: The Russia-Ukraine situation might prove 'more difficult'. Biden is making it so.
US President-elect Donald Trump's statement regarding Ukraine's use of Western long-range missiles to strike deep into Russia is completely in line with Moscow's stance on the matter, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday.
"The statement itself completely coincides with our position. In this case we have the same vision of the reasons for the escalation. Trump's thinking on the matter 'appeals' to Russia. It is obvious that Trump understands what exactly is escalating the situation around the conflict."
At the same time, the Russian presidential spokesman warned against "jumping ahead of ourselves" and predicting the actions of the incoming US administration. He advised:
"Let's wait until the moment when the president-elect takes his post in the Oval Office."
In an interview with Time magazine, which named him the 2024 Person of the Year, Trump stated:
"I disagree very vehemently with sending missiles hundreds of miles into Russia. Why are we doing that? Missile strikes deep into Russia's internationally recognized territory are just escalating this war and making it worse, such attacks are a 'very big mistake'."


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Take 2

Best of the Web: Scandal deepens around CNN's Clarissa Ward staging Syria prison scene

Wyatt Reed
The Grayzone
Mon, 16 Dec 2024 00:00 UTC
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© UnknownJournalist Clarissa Ward and 'victim'
Footage showing CNN's regime change-crazed correspondent supposedly freeing a forgotten prisoner from a Syrian jail has been exposed a scandalous fraud, yet the network continues to re-air it, while defending its correspondent.
"In nearly twenty years as a journalist, this was one of the most extraordinary moments I have witnessed."
That's how veteran CNN journalist Clarissa Ward described her foray into a Syrian prison on December 12, where she promptly claimed to have rescued a forgotten inmate after three months in jail. But there was just one problem with the "extraordinary moment": a review of a dramatic story depicted by CNN reveals a number of glaring inconsistencies, the greatest of which is that the man stands accused of being an impostor.

After countless social media users shredded CNN's story, a fact-checking organization with ties to the US government has exposed the prisoner seemingly liberated in Ward's theatrical performance turns out to have been a low level Syrian intelligence official jailed for corruption and abuse charges.

CNN finally addressed the deepening scandal on December 15, declaring that it would investigate the subject of Ward's piece. However, the network continues to protect the correspondent responsible for the journalistic flim-flam, while rebroadcasting the staged report for its views day after day. With Ward still stationed in jihadist-held Damascus, it appears that her bosses are refusing to allow any editorial standards or professional ethics get in the way of a successful Western-backed regime change operation.

Comment: From Zero Hedge:
On Monday, CNN posted a report -- written by Tim Lister and Eyad Kourdi but not Ward -- revealing the network had been duped. Unsurprisingly, the rolling ratings disaster that is CNN stopped short of taking responsibility for its failure.

CNN did credit Verify-Sy for first reporting the man's apparent real identity, which CNN corroborated with its own canvassing of residents in the Bayada neighborhood of Homs. Considering the crimes Salama is accused of, the CNN follow-up article ends on a darkly amusing note: "Salama's current whereabouts are unknown."

Yes, Ward yearned to bask in the glory of saving a regime victim, only to be exposed as aiding and abetting the escape of an apparent regime criminal.


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Russian Flag

Assassinated Russian general Igor Kirillov worked 'fearlessly' to expose Western crimes


RT
Wed, 18 Dec 2024 17:30 UTC
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Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, head of the Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Protection Troops of the Russian Armed Forces
The commander of the Russian Radiological, Chemical, and Biological Defense Forces, Igor Kirillov, was allegedly murdered on Kiev's orders

Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, the commander of the Russian Radiological, Chemical, and Biological Defense Forces who was assassinated in Moscow on Tuesday, had for years systematically exposed Western crimes involving chemical weapons and did so fearlessly, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said.

Kirillov was killed along with his aide in an explosion in southeastern Moscow in the early morning.

A number of media outlets have since reported that the murder was carried out on the orders of Ukraine's Security Service (SBU), which had labeled Kirillov as an "absolutely legitimate target" for assassination.

Comment: Kirillov never pulled his punches when calling out the West for its crimes.

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Bizarro Earth

Syria's destruction continues: Turkiye masses troops on Syria border, invasion 'imminent'


The Cradle
Tue, 17 Dec 2024 15:16 UTC
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© Aris Messinis, AFPA Turkish soldier sits in an armoured vehicle across the border from the Syrian town of Kobane on October 11, 2014. Annexing northern Syria has been a long-term goal for Turkiye
US officials warn that a 'cross border operation is imminent' as Turkiye amasses its troops on its southern border

The Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) announced the start of an operation against the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the northern Syrian town of Kobani (Ayn al-Arab) on 17 December.

The announcement came in the midst of a build-up of Turkish troops on the Syrian border in preparation for a possible invasion alongside its proxies in the SNA.

Al Mayadeen's correspondent stated that "Turkiye wants a security belt 30 kilometers wide on the border with Syria," stressing that it "is close to achieving its goal."

The Turkish military has built a concrete barrier between Kobani and the Turkiye border, while Turkish warplanes can be seen flying above the city.
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Attention

Macron and Rutte, the most dangerous European lackeys

Finian Cunningham
Strategic Culture Foundation
Wed, 18 Dec 2024 16:31 UTC
Rutte & Marcon
© Public Domain
President-elect Donald Trump seems willing to find a peaceful resolution to the three-year war in Ukraine. The horrible irony, however, is that the conflict may be entering its most dangerous phase with only weeks before Trump moves into the White House.

The danger is heightened because of European lackeys. Tragically, it is weak and unscrupulous European politicians bending over backward to please Trump, who could ignite the proxy war against Russia into a full-blown conflagration.

Step up French President Emmanuel Macron and former Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte as Europe's two most abject - and treacherous - politicians.

Both are posturing as "Trump whisperers" - that is, as the European figures that will work best with the new American president. Or, in other words, the two European politicians who will be most toadying and obsequious in trying to win Trump's favor.

We saw this when Macron invited Trump to join other world leaders to attend the reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris last week. The French leader posed with Trump and Ukraine's Vladimir Zelensky in a separate parley - as if Macron was speaking for the whole of Europe. It seems Macron is pandering to Trump by offering European troops to bolster his peace initiative.

Days later, Macron was in Warsaw to push his idea of sending European troops as "peacekeepers" to Ukraine - if Trump manages to negotiate a much-touted peace deal between Moscow and Kiev. Macron says that Europe must be part of any settlement and not just leave it to Washington. This is aimed at ingratiating with Trump, who is always trying to transact cost savings for America.
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2 + 2 = 4

Trump faces a quagmire of economic math no matter what he does

Greg Hunter
USA Watchdog
Sat, 14 Dec 2024 00:00 UTC
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Financial writer and precious metals broker Bill Holter has been warning of a slowing economy since the September Fed .5% rate cut. If the economy was so strong, why cut rates? Joe Biden is saying his Administration is leaving office with the "strongest economy in modern history." A recent FOX News poll says a big majority of voters think just the opposite about the economy with a whopping "77%" giving Biden "negative ratings" on the economy. Huge unpayable debt and insolvency problems keep stacking up that are pointing to the much talked about "economic reset."

The latest big warning sign comes from the Bank of England. Holter explains, "For the Bank of England to say starting January 1 of 2025 that whenever they bail out an institution, they are not going to tell the public that that institution was bailed out. That tells me that 2025 is the year of the 'reset.' Why would they say starting January 1st they are not going to tell you who they are bailing out? Wait a minute. Why would you need to bail anybody out? Markets are at all-time highs. You are telling us everything is great. The financial markets are great. The economy is great. Apparently, that's bullshit, it's not so great, and you feel the need to start bailing out institutions starting in 2025."
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Bullseye

Which Western politician will bail out of their sinking ship next?


RT
Wed, 18 Dec 2024 00:56 UTC
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© Global Look Press / Thomas Koehler/ photothek.de viaOlaf Scholz and Chrystia Freeland
The German chancellor and the Canadian finance minister have taken the emergency exits. Will Prime Minister Trudeau follow?

I have a confession to make. I really suck at cooking. I have no idea what I'm doing in the kitchen. And my best efforts usually end with a trip to the ready-made meal section of the local grocery store. But that said, I know my limits. You won't catch me trying to get a job at in Parisian fine dining, for example, or even at a local diner.

But the people currently cooking up the Western establishment's shared agenda? They'll just burn down the whole kitchen, and then eject out. Or at least some of them will do the latter. Not nearly enough of them yet. But it seems to be a promising new trend in the absence of their inability to just stay out to begin with.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called for a no-confidence vote against himself on Monday, officially asking the parliamentarians of the Bundestag whether they might wish to do him the honor of taking a foot to his arsch. It's basically a case of political suicide-by-cop. Scholz wanted them to put his current mandate out of its misery because he's totally impotent, politically speaking. Why? Because the yellow light centrists of his traffic light coalition bailed on him and he no longer has the majority needed to ram things through parliament.
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Hourglass

Trump will be a nightmare for the EU in more ways than one

Tarik Cyril Amar
RT
Wed, 18 Dec 2024 00:21 UTC
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© Imago
With its submissiveness to the US and contempt for its president-elect, the bloc's set itself up for a perfect storm of punishment

For a man his age, incoming US president Donald Trump has a knack for cultivating a bad-boy image. Refreshingly direct to the point of rude honesty, or dishonesty, as the case may be, he has no time for polite circumlocution. His threats are harsh, his demands unvarnished, including toward Washington's so-called allies in Europe, which really are, at best, clients, and, more realistically, just vassals. In that spirit of candid, no-frills domination, Trump already has a long record of threatening NATO, which he sees - plausibly - as a scam in which European members fleece the US to free-ride on its insane (but that's a different story...) military spending.

Or, in the genteel English still cultivated at The Economist, "through NATO, America is the guarantor of the continent's security." Yeah, right, by firing missiles at Russia... The problem with Trump is that he is uncouth enough to know the real relationship is much more like Don Corleone "protecting" your funeral parlor. And he behaves accordingly: Even during his first term in the White House between 2017 and 2021, he started scaring other NATO members into higher military spending, while never allowing them to feel safe about his commitment. Art of the tough deal: Keep 'em guessing, keep 'em on their toes. And it worked, too: the European spongers began to pay more. So, there will be more of that, rest assured. If, that is, there will be a NATO to speak of.
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