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Trump collects most votes in history of New Hampshire primary

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© APPresident Donald Trump waves to supporters as he arrives at a campaign stop in Londonderry, NH, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024.
Former President Donald Trump made history Tuesday night, receiving the highest raw vote total in the history of New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation primary.

Trump had more than 172,000 votes with 95% of the estimated ballots counted as of Wednesday afternoon, beating former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley by more than 35,000 votes.

The previous raw vote record was held by socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who received 152,193 votes in defeating Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Democratic primary — triggering a months-long race that ran until early June.

Comment: You simply cannot stop the Trump train (legitimately)!

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Justin Trudeau is a narcissistic tyrant. A Canadian high court just proved it

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© Gints Ivuskans/AFP/GettyCanada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau addresses a joint press conference with the Latvian Prime Minister (not in picture) at the Adazi military base in Riga, Latvia, where they visited the Canada-led multinational NATO enhanced Forward Presence Battle Group, on July 10, 2023.
In a classic example of better late than never, a Federal Court in Canada ruled on Tuesday that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's invocation of The Emergencies Act in 2022, used to crush the largest and most peaceful protest in Canadian history, was "unreasonable," "unjustified," and "violated the fundamental freedoms" set out in Canada's constitution.

The case was brought to the court by a number of individual applicants as well as several Canadian civil liberties groups, including the Canadian Constitution Foundation and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. And in the decision, Federal Court Justice Richard Mosley expressed what every trucker and other participant in the trucker's Freedom Convoy knew to be true: There was no justification for granting the government powers that amounted to near martial law over a protest that was 100 percent peaceful, with no violence or property damage committed — that is, until the Emergencies Act was passed, and the police trampled grandmothers under horses, fired tear gas canisters at journalists within point blank range, beat protesters down and smashed the windows of the truckers rigs, and generally deployed the type of violence that the government had knowingly falsely accused the truckers of engaging in.

Comment: Amen to that! Most Canadians still seem to be held under the sway of this Tyrant, but more are waking up.

Here's a talk Tucker Carlson gave recently at the Oilers arena in Edmonton, Alberta. He gives a poignant analysis of Canada and the threat these tyrannical leaders pose:




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Best of the Web: Escobar: How Yemen's 'asabiyya' is reshaping geopolitics

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© The CradleThe Arabic word Asabiyya, or 'moral strength,' is a soundbite in the west, but taken very seriously by the globe's new contenders China, Russia, and Iran. It is Yemen, however, that is mainstreaming the idea, by sacrificing everything for the world's collective morality in a bid to end the genocide in Gaza.
When there is a general change of conditions,

It is as if the entire creation had changed

and the whole world been altered,

as if it were a new and repeated creation,

a world brought into existence anew.
— Ibn Khaldun

Yemen's Ansarallah resistance forces have made it very clear, right from the start, that they set up a blockade in the Bab el-Mandeb and the southern Red Sea only against Israeli-owned or destined shipping vessels. Their single objective was and remains to stop the Gaza genocide perpetrated by the Israeli biblical psychopathy.

As a response to a morally-based call to end a human genocide, the United States, masters of the Global War Of Terror (italics mine), predictably re-designated Yemen's Houthis as a "terrorist organization," launched a serial bombardment of underground Ansarallah military installations (assuming US intel know where they are), and cobbled together a mini-coalition of the willing that includes its UK, Canadian, Australian, Dutch, and Bahraini vassals.

Comment: See also: US asks China for help with Houthis & Red Sea blockade, China reminds journalists 'Gaza conflict' to blame


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'No chance': Hamas spurns hostage deal as Netanyahu rejects conditions

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© InternetHaberIsraeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu wants it all
The possibility of a deal to release the remaining hostages held by Hamas seemed to recede on Sunday, as a Hamas official said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's rejection of their conditions meant there was "no chance" of their return.

Netanyahu had earlier rejected conditions presented by Hamas to end the war and release hostages that would include Israel's complete withdrawal and leaving Hamas in power in Gaza.

A Hamas official, Sami Abu Zuhri, told Reuters the Israeli prime minister's refusal to end the military offensive in Gaza "means there is no chance for the return of the [Israeli] captives", which are estimated to be 130 in number.

Netanyahu is facing mounting pressure to secure the release of the hostages, but said in a statement that the Hamas demands included "the withdrawal of our forces from Gaza, the release of all the murderers and rapists ... and leaving Hamas intact."

Under a deal brokered in late November by the United States, Qatar and Egypt, more than 100 of the estimated 240 hostages taken captive to Gaza during an attack by Hamas militants on Oct. 7 were freed in exchange for the release of 240 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons.

Since then, Netanyahu has faced mounting pressure to secure the release the 136 hostages who remain in captivity.

Comment: In an 'all or nothing' showdown, nothing remains.


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Hamas leader rules out two-state solution

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© Omar Shagaleh/Anadolu Agency/Getty ImagesHamas co-founder Khaled Mashaal speaks at an October 2018 forum in Istanbul.
Khaled Mashaal has insisted that Palestinians won't recognize Israel and that their nation will extend "from the river to the sea"...

Senior Hamas official Khaled Mashaal has rejected calls for the negotiation of a two-state peace deal with Israel to end the war in Gaza, proclaiming that the Palestinian people will never legitimize the "Zionist entity" in West Jerusalem by accepting its existence.

In an interview posted on Tuesday by Kuwaiti podcaster Ammar Taqi, Mashaal said:
"We have nothing to do with the two-state solution. We reject this notion because it means you would get a promise for a state, yet you are required to recognize the legitimacy of the other state, which is the Zionist entity. This is unacceptable."
The Middle East Media Research Institute provided an English translation of the interview, in which Mashaal argued that the Hamas attacks on October 7, which triggered the latest war in Gaza, have revitalized the Palestinian dream of wiping out Israel. He insisted that the independent Palestinian nation must extend from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea and from the Lebanese border to the Gulf of Aqaba.

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Rishi Sunak disagrees with Army chief who says UK must be ready to fight Russia

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Downing Street has dismissed a warning from the head of the British army that the UK public must be prepared to take up arms in a war against Vladimir Putin's Russia because today's professional military is too small.

Rishi Sunak's spokesperson said the prime minister did not agree with comments made by Gen Sir Patrick Sanders in a speech on Wednesday, and was forced to insist there would be no return to national service, which was abolished in 1960.

"Hypothetical scenarios" involving possible future wars was "not helpful", the No 10 spokesperson added, as the row opened up a rift between the Conservatives and the military at a time when cuts mean the army is at its smallest for more than 300 years.

Comment: Sunak is treading carefully due to the upcoming election, when the parties release their election manifestos, all bets are off.

See also: Public face call-up if we go to war, military chief warns


Star of David

British PM quizzed over shocking Gaza video

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© ITV News
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been questioned over an ITV News video which shows a civilian being shot dead while waving a white flag in Gaza. The shocking images have sparked war crime accusations, and Sunak was challenged to give his reaction on Wednesday.

The video taken the previous day by Mohammed Abu Safia, an ITV News cameraman, showed a group of civilians in the enclave holding a white flag. An English-speaking man says they are trying to go back to an area under fire to rescue relatives. Moments later, one of the men is fatally shot in the chest.

The Israel Defense Forces dismissed the video in a statement to ITV News, calling it a "despicable accusation" that "can only be deemed as an extension of Hamas' propaganda effort to defame the IDF."

Comment: That's not really an answer is it Mr. Sunak. See also:


Brick Wall

Abbott doubles down on border 'invasion' declaration after Supreme Court blow

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© AP Photo/Eric GayTexas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks after signing one of several Public Safety bills at the Texas Capitol in Austin, Texas, Tuesday, June 6, 2023.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) on Wednesday accused the federal government of breaking the compact with the states following a Supreme Court ruling on Monday that cleared the way for the Border Patrol to remove razor wire installed by Texas along the U.S.-Mexico border.

In a statement, Abbott said, "President Biden has refused to enforce [immigration] laws and has even violated them."

It's the latest escalation in a legal and political standoff between Texas and the federal government, though Abbott stopped short of announcing any specific measures.

Comment: Things are heating up!
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Attention

Is Putin's decency inviting a world war?

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Four years ago, I published an article in which I roundly criticized Vladimir Putin for being too gentlemanly, too civilized for his and our good, so that his every effort to avoid aggravating the stand-off between Russia and the United States was perversely enhancing the likelihood of a nuclear war.

See https://original.antiwar.com/gilbert_doctorow/2019/02/01/vladimir-putin-to-the-west-we-will-bury-you/

The position I set out in this piece ran against 'group think' among Putin and Russia cheerleaders on the one hand and Putin and Russia detractors, on the other hand. But it was obviously a position largely shared by the contrarian thinker Paul Craig Roberts. Over the years since 2019, Roberts has occasionally directed his large web readership to my articles, for which I am grateful. He has also published his own essays in which he makes similar points about the risks inherent in Putin's throwing pearls to swine. The swine in question are, of course, the leaders of the United States and its European allies.

I offer today some thoughts on Roberts' latest essay in this vein published online two days ago:

WILL WAR RESULT FROM THE EVER HESITANT PUTIN?

For those unfamiliar with Roberts, you will find most everything you need to know in his Wikipedia entry. His university degrees were earned in economics and this was the realm of his government service. Under Ronald Reagan, Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy. His academic career before and after serving in the federal government was also made in this discipline.

As you see, Paul Craig Roberts is not a professional Russia expert. However, I contend that his understanding of Russian society is more profound than most academics and journalists who are considered to be experts, including, if I may shock politically correct critics of America's Russia policies, my once friend and admired comrade in arms on the peace front, Professor Steve Cohen (RIP).

I will expand on the last point in a moment, but first things first.

Bad Guys

US reconsidering its gas exports, threatening critical deliveries to LNG dependent Europe - CNN

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© Martha IrvineA small vehicle drives past a network of piping tat Cameron LNG export facility in Hackberry, Louisiana, on March 31, 2022.
Biden administration considers overhaul of natural gas export approval process, throwing major Gulf projects into question

The Biden administration is contemplating an overhaul of the way federal agencies approve massive natural gas export projects to allow for consideration what the climate impact of those facilities would be, according to an environmental advocacy source familiar with the plans.

The overhaul would effectively pause the federal approval process for a massive and controversial gas export project known as CP2, the source said - a facility that is being proposed for the southwest Louisiana coast, as well as other natural gas projects that are pending federal approval.