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Has America finally had it with Joe Biden?

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© UnknownUS President Joe Biden: A glass most empty
Joe Biden's personal approval rating is at historic lows; almost all his policies do not poll fifty percent. He is behind Trump in almost all the swing states. And now he lies serially even to sympathetic interviewers. In short, finally Biden has been exposed for what he always was and represented.
Senator and Vice President Joe Biden was always sort of a buffoon. He is by nature a grandstander who handsomely profited from his office while posing as good ole Joe from Scranton.

He is a blowhard meddler, one who proverbially has been "wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades (Robert Gates)," from dissenting on the Bin Laden raid to his trisection of Iraq scheme.

He is a fabulist who believes that the more animated he misleads and slurs ("semi-fascists" "fat", "lying dog-faced pony soldier", "chumps", "dregs of society", etc), the more likely he is to get away with it. He is a confessed plagiarist. And he has also invented much of his biography, from would be star, college-scholarship athlete and brilliant law student to semi-truck driver and jailed civil rights activist. His uncle, we are instructed, was eaten by cannibals. Joe assures us that he was the first in his family to go to college.

Comment: 'Success' for Biden: When all believe all lies are true.


Explosion

Let Ukraine freely strike Russia with Western arms - NATO chief

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© Stringer/NurPhoto/Getty ImagesNATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg • Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky
Moscow has dismissed claims that Kiev's sponsors somehow restrict its use of weaponry.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has argued that members of the US-led military bloc should let Ukraine freely use their weapons to launch strikes deeper into Russian territory.

In an interview with The Economist, Stoltenberg said:
"The time has come for allies to consider whether they should lift some of the restrictions they have put on the use of weapons they have donated to Ukraine.

"Especially now when a lot of the fighting is going on in Kharkov, close to the border, to deny Ukraine the possibility of using these weapons against legitimate military targets on Russian territory makes it very hard for them to defend themselves."
Stoltenberg noted that some NATO members have already lifted restrictions on using their weapons to attack targets in Russian territory.

Comment: Desperate times? Despicable measures!


Cruise Missle

No long-range missiles for Ukraine - Scholz

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© Ralf Hirschberger/AFPGerman Chancellor Olaf Scholz • Chanvellery and Reichstag building • Berlin, Germany • May 24, 2024
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said that the very nature of long-range Taurus missiles, which Ukraine has been requesting for months now, precludes Berlin from supplying them. He has claimed that use of the weapons, which boast a range of 500 kilometers (310 miles), would risk triggering a direct confrontation between NATO and Russia.

While Germany has generously supplied Ukraine with military hardware, Scholz has staunchly refused to follow France and Britain in providing long-range missiles.

Russia has repeatedly warned that by giving Ukraine ever more sophisticated weaponry, the West is inching closer to becoming directly involved in the hostilities, with potentially dire consequences.

During a Q&A session in Berlin on Friday, a young Ukrainian refugee asked the chancellor why he was still unwilling to provide Kiev with Taurus missiles despite renewed Russian activity in Kharkov Region.

Scholz replied:
"Every single decision must be thoroughly weighed up. It is my responsibility to prevent a scenario where it comes to an escalation of the war, to a war between Russia and NATO. As for Taurus missiles specifically, it would only be tenable to deliver [this weapon] if we determine and define the targets ourselves, and that is again not possible if you don't want to be part of this conflict."

Comment: Cue false flag.


Evil Rays

WaPo reports Russian jamming technology is rendering much US-supplied weaponry 'ineffective'

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A Russian electronic jamming array
Kiev has had to stop using some American arms due to Moscow's electronic warfare capabilities, Ukrainian officials have said

Many US-made munitions that rely on satellite guidance have failed to withstand Russia's jamming technology after being supplied to Kiev, the Washington Post reported on Friday.

The Ukrainian armed forces have had to stop using some of those armaments altogether because of Russia's extensive electronic warfare capabilities, the paper said.

The affected munitions include Excalibur GPS-guided artillery shells, rockets for HIMARS multiple rocket launch systems and JDAM aircraft-dropped bombs, the report read.

Comment: Just to add to the fun, Engadget reports:
Russia has reportedly found new, more effective ways to knock out Ukraine's Starlink service. The New York Times said on Friday that the increased interference has disrupted communications at critical moments and is posing "a major threat to Ukraine," putting the country further on its heels more than two years into the war. How Russia is jamming Elon Musk's satellite internet terminals is unclear.

The New York Times said Russia's ability to jam communications has thrown off Ukraine's ability to communicate, gather intelligence and conduct drone strikes. Ukrainian soldiers told the paper that jammed Starlink service stunts their ability to communicate quickly, leaving them scrambling to send text messages (often extremely slowly) to share intel about incoming or ongoing Russian maneuvers or attacks.

The jamming was reportedly repeated across Ukraine's northern front line, often coinciding with Russian advances. The new outages are the first time Russia has jammed Starlink reception that widely and frequently. If it continues, it could "mark a tactical shift in the conflict," highlighting Ukraine's dependence on SpaceX's internet technology. Without competing choices of similar quality, Volodymyr Zelenskyy's democratic nation is left without many options that could work at the scale Ukraine needs.



Bullseye

Gaza is a 'real genocide' - Spain's defense minister

Gaza Ruins
© Substack
Spanish Defense Minister Margarita Robles has called a "real genocide" Israel's war on the Gaza Strip, as the occupying regime continues its brutal aggression against the besieged territory.

Robles made the remarks in an interview with TVE state television on Saturday after Spain decided to formally recognize a Palestinian state, worsening relations between Madrid and Tel Aviv.

"We cannot ignore what is happening in Gaza, which is a real genocide," she said, adding that Madrid's recognition of Palestine was not a move against Israel, but rather it was designed to help "end violence" in the blockaded territory.

MIB

US aid-pier 'collapses' in Gaza, FOUR military vessels 'break free' from moorings and wash ashore

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FILE: The US pier that was supposed to float on the coast of the Gaza Strip: Thursday, May 25 2024
CENTCOM says the army vessels broke free from their moorings, leaving two vessels docked in Gaza and two others washed off to Israeli-occupied Askalan.

Four US Army vessels, part of the support for a temporary pier built to deliver aid to Gaza, have run aground amid heavy seas, with "Israel" assisting in the recovery effort, according to a statement from the US Central Command (CENTCOM) on Saturday.

"The vessels broke free from their moorings and two vessels are now anchored on the beach near the pier. The third and fourth vessels are beached on the coast of Israel near Ashkelon," before further claiming that "no US personnel will enter Gaza. No injuries have been reported and the pier remains fully functional."

Additionally, the statement noted that Israeli occupation forces are also assisting the US Navy in recovering the vessels.

Comment: Despite the endless embarrassing mishaps Western militaries have experienced in the past year, it's reasonable to suspect that this curious combination of incidents is likely due to sabotage. Note that it follows a recent admission by the Pentagon that the pier had failed to deliver ANY aid to Gazans: US Gaza pier is 'not working', NO aid has been delivered and is instead being stored in warehouse - Pentagon


Bad Guys

Trump: Biden admin authorized 'deadly use of force' in Mar-a-Lago raid

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© Associated PressArmed Secret Service agents stand outside an entrance to former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, late Monday, August 8 in Palm Beach, Florida
FBI said it followed standard protocol in its August 2022 raid on Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida

The Biden administration authorized the use of deadly force during the FBI's raid on former President Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida in August 2022 as part of its investigation into classified records, court documents revealed.

The jarring language accompanying the unprecedented raid drew harsh responses from the Trump campaign, but Fox News learned that the same language also accompanied a search warrant for President Biden's Delaware home. Both searches were for classified documents.

"The FBI followed standard protocol in this search as we do for all search warrants, which includes a standard policy statement limiting the use of deadly force. No one ordered additional steps to be taken and there was no departure from the norm in this matter," the FBI told Fox News in a statement. "The standard deadly force policy statement included in the operations order for the search of the former president's residence was also included in the operations order for the search of the sitting president's residence in Delaware, as is standard practice for all FBI operations orders."

Comment: Compare with the kid glove treatment Biden received over his stash of classified materials. The raid was meant as pure intimidation.


Chess

Ukraine attacked key element of Russia's nuclear umbrella — Russian senator

FILE PHOTO. The operations control room of the Voronezh radar, a Russian over-the-horizon early warning highly-prefabricated radar station.
© SputnikFILE PHOTO. The operations control room of the Voronezh radar, a Russian over-the-horizon early warning highly-prefabricated radar station.
The US is so deeply involved in the conflict that it likely knew about Kiev's plans, Senator Dmitry Rogozin says

The US is directly responsible for a Ukrainian strike on a key element of Russia's nuclear umbrella, Senator Dmitry Rogozin has said, warning that such attacks could lead to the collapse of the entire global nuclear security architecture.

In a statement on Telegram on Saturday, Rogozin, a senator who previously headed up the Russian space agency Roscosmos and is now in charge of a military technical center called Tsar's Wolves, said that the attack targeted a nuclear early warning system in the southern Krasnodar Region. The Russian Defense Ministry has yet to comment on the matter, while the extent of the damage remains unclear.

Comment: Are NATO and Russia on a course that no one can win?
See also:
Best of the Web: Ukraine's strike on Russia's strategic early warning radar site is a big deal
Stoltenberg urges alliance to allow Ukraine to use NATO weapons for attacks inside Russia
Blinken lobbying for strikes on Russia - NYT
NATO 'preparing for war' with Russia - Orban
Russia reacts to UK MPs applauding Ukrainian neo-Nazis Includes in comments a clip with former UK PM, Boris Johnson who argues similarly to Blinken and Stoltenberg.
NATO state's PM calls for breakup of Russia
NATO countries already training troops in Ukraine - Estonian PM
Russia begins 'non-strategic' nuclear weapons drills


Bad Guys

Exposing the CIA's secret effort to seize control of social media

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© ZeroHedgeTed Schlein, Pieter "Mudge" Zatko and Nina Jankowicz
While the CIA is strictly prohibited from spying on or running clandestine operations against American citizens on US soil, a bombshell new "Twitter Files" report reveals that a member of the Board of Trustees of InQtel - the CIA's mission-driving venture capital firm, along with "former" intelligence community (IC) and CIA analysts, were involved in a massive effort in 2021-2022 to take over Twitter's content management system, as Michael Shellenberger, Matt Taibbi and Alex Gutentag report over at Shellenberger's Public (subscribers can check out the extensive 6,800 word report here).

According to "thousands of pages of Twitter Files and documents," these efforts were part of a broader strategy to manage how information is disseminated and consumed on social media under the guise of combating 'misinformation' and foreign propaganda efforts - as this complex of government-linked individuals and organizations has gone to great lengths to suggest that narrative control is a national security issue.

Attention

Russia and China have had enough

SCO Members
© Public Domain
Something very important happened earlier this week in Astana during the meeting of the Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi went straight to the point: he called for SCO members to "maintain their strategic autonomy", and "never allow external forces" to turn Eurasia into a "geopolitical arena."

Wang Yi detailed how "a few countries are pursuing hegemony and power, forming small cliques, establishing hidden rules, engaging in interference and suppression, 'decoupling and cutting off ties,' and even assisting the 'three forces' in the region", thus attempting to suppress the strategic autonomy of the Global South.

The "three forces" is Chinese code for terrorism, separatism and religious extremism - actually the three main reasons for the foundation of the SCO way back in 2001, a short while before 9/11.

The straightforward translation of Wang's message points to Beijing being very much aware of the Hegemon's myriad Hybrid War tactics now deployed all across the Heartland. Still, Beijing excels in politeness, calling for "common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable" security cooperation and to work with the "international community".

The problem is the "international community" is a hostage of the "rules-based international order".