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Bullseye

Michigan court hands Trump major victory over attempted ballot ban

Katelynn Richardson
The Daily Caller
Wed, 27 Dec 2023 21:19 UTC
El candidato presidencial republicano, el expresidente Donald Trump
© Scott Olson/Getty ImagesRepublican presidential candidate, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at the Hyatt Hotel in Coralville, Iowa, Dec. 13, 2023.
The Michigan Supreme Court declined Wednesday to remove former President Donald Trump from the state's 2024 ballot.

The court wrote that it was "not persuaded that the questions presented should be reviewed by this Court," according to a brief order. Last week, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Trump was ineligible to appear on the state's ballot under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which disqualifies officials who take an oath to the Constitution and then "engaged in insurrection" from holding office.

Colorado halted enforcement of its decision until Jan. 4 to provide Trump time to appeal to the Supreme Court.

Comment: Constitutional lawyer Jonathan Turley on the perilous Colorado decision:





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Egypt unveils ambitious plan for new Palestinian regime aimed at ending Israel-Hamas conflict

Loma
GWN
Mon, 25 Dec 2023 00:00 UTC
gaza
© UnknownGaza Strip
Egypt has presented a first ambitious proposal aimed at ending the war between Israel and Hamas through a ceasefire, a gradual release of hostages and the creation of a Palestinian government.

The executive would include a group of experts tasked with administering the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank, a senior Egyptian official and a European diplomat said Monday.

The proposed plan falls far short of Israel's stated goal of completely crushing Hamas and does not appear to address Israel's insistence on maintaining military control over Gaza for an extended period after the war.

Israel's war cabinet, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, will meet later Monday to discuss the hostage situation, among other issues, an Israeli official said, but did not say whether it would discuss the Egyptian proposal.

Comment: Bet a shekel it's not Bibi's cup of tea.

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Ambulance

US service member in critical condition, others wounded after assault by Iran-backed group


Truth Press
Tue, 26 Dec 2023 00:00 UTC
Austin
© unknownUS Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III
Three American military personnel were injured during an attack by Kataib Hezbollah terrorists in Iraq on Christmas Day, including one U.S. servicemember who was critically wounded.

The announcement was made in a statement by Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III.

The official explained that the U.S. military quickly retaliated against the fighters after the attack:
"Today, at President Biden's direction, U.S. military forces conducted necessary and proportionate strikes on three facilities used by Kataib Hezbollah and affiliated groups in Iraq.

"These precision strikes are a response to a series of attacks against U.S. personnel in Iraq and Syria by Iranian-sponsored militias, including an attack by Iran-affiliated Kataib Hezbollah and affiliated groups on Erbil Air Base earlier today, and intended to disrupt and degrade capabilities of the Iran-aligned militia groups directly responsible.

"Today's attack led to three injuries to U.S. personnel, leaving one service member in critical condition. My prayers are with the brave Americans who were injured."

Comment: Mission accomplished. Austin had to connect Hezbollah with Iran. Cue indignation and trigger the response.

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Quenelle

MSC shipping vessel ablaze in Red Sea after Houthi attack, despite it calling for help from 'coalition warship'

Yannick Guerry
Trade Winds News
Tue, 26 Dec 2023 21:09 UTC
MSC Shipping
MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company has confirmed that one of its container ships was attacked on Tuesday while transiting the southern Red Sea.

A statement from the group confirmed earlier claims made by Yemen's Houthi rebels that they had attacked 8,204-teu MSC United VIII (built 2006) at approximately 12:25 UTC.

MSC said the ship notified a nearby coalition task force warship of the attack and engaged in 'evasive manoeuvres'.

The Liberia-flagged ship was en route from King Abdullah Port, Saudi Arabia to Karachi, Pakistan.

Comment: See also: Iran warns it could cut off Mediterranean Sea as France, Spain and Italy pull out of Red Sea Op - Israeli vessel hit off India's coast

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Arrow Up

Estonia has found a pretext to stop feeding Ukrainians


RT.com
Wed, 27 Dec 2023 16:58 UTC
Tallinn is eager to hand over fighting-age men to Kiev to cut costs, the Russian Foreign Ministry claimed.
Maria Zakharova.
© Sputnik/Stanislav KrasilnikovRussian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.
Estonia plans to reduce spending on support for Ukrainian men who fled to the country by sending them back to Kiev for military enlistment, according to Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. During a press briefing on Wednesday, Zakharova claimed that Tallinn was using Kiev's request for more troops as an excuse to decrease support for refugees.

She was referring to comments made by Lauri Laanemets, Estonia's interior minister, who suggested repatriating approximately 7,000 military-aged Ukrainian men. On Monday, a proposed law was submitted to the Ukrainian parliament aimed at boosting conscription numbers and imposing strict penalties on draft dodgers.

Zakharova suggested that Tallinn was guided by self-interest in its supposed intention to assist Kiev.
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Arrow Up

Ukraine confirms retreat from key Donbass town


RT
Tue, 26 Dec 2023 16:42 UTC
Maryinka, Donetsk Oblast
© Diego Herrera/Getty ImagesUkrainian soldiers walk in front of a destroyed building in Maryinka, Donetsk Oblast.
Ukrainian commander-in-chief Valery Zaluzhny has confirmed the retreat of his troops to the outskirts of Maryinka, a key Donbass town, where Russian forces claimed victory on Monday after months of fierce fighting for the stronghold.

Speaking at a press briefing on Tuesday, Zaluzhny acknowledged the pullback of Ukrainian troops from Maryinka, located to the west of Donetsk. He likened the heavy fighting for the town in recent months to Ukraine's loss earlier this year of Artyomovsk (known as Bakhmut in Ukrainian).

"This is exactly the same as it was in Bakhmut - street by street, block by block, and our soldiers were being targeted - and the result is what it is," Zaluzhny said. "This is a war, so the fact that we have now retreated to the outskirts of Maryinka and set up positions behind Maryinka in some areas is nothing that can cause any public outcry. Sadly, this is what war is like."
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Bullseye

Russia is aware of West's plans to freeze conflict in Ukraine and to declare victory - Lavrov


TASS
Wed, 27 Dec 2023 12:29 UTC
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov
© ReutersThe Russian foreign minister refused to comment on the showdown in Kiev between various branches of power and US military commanders
Russia is aware of Western plans to freeze the conflict in Ukraine by declaring it a winner, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a news conference following talks with his Indian counterpart Subrahmanyam Jaishankar.

"As regards leaks about the West's intention to freeze the conflict in Ukraine and present it as a winning country, we are aware of how the West, and primarily the United States, can proclaim 'victories', and we know how they 'won' in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq," he noted.

"Look at the Middle East, at what is taking place in the Gaza Strip in the context of Washington blocking for years any efforts to establish a Palestinian state in line with United Nations Security Council decisions," Lavrov continued.

Comment: Footage of Lavrov's comment, followed by further commentary on India:

Lavrov: [...]

Nowhere in the countries that have been used by the United States to advance its interests far from its shores has gotten better. Therefore, in general, this is not the first time that the Americans have declared victories, I think they will formulate it somehow.

India's G20 a Glorious Triumph, Delhi's Respect an Example for the World - Russian FM to RT Sergey Lavrov has called India's foreign policy an example not just for Russia, but the whole world. The top diplomat commended the respect India shows for other nations and the UN Charter.


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Boat

Iran rejects US claims it is 'deeply involved' in Houthi attacks in Red Sea


Al Jazeera
Sat, 23 Dec 2023 08:42 UTC
Yemen's Houthi rebels have attacked and seized vessels off the country's Red Sea coast for years
© Houthi Media Office/Handout via ReutersYemen's Houthi rebels have attacked and seized vessels off the country's Red Sea coast for years
Tehran responds to US allegations it is providing the Yemeni rebel group with weapons and tactical intelligence.

Tehran has denied claims by the United States that it is "deeply involved" in attacks by Houthi rebels on commercial ships in the Red Sea, amid reports of another Israel-affiliated merchant vessel being struck.

Iran's deputy foreign minister on Saturday dismissed the accusations, saying the Houthis were acting on their own.

The Houthis, who control large parts of Yemen including the capital Sanaa, have launched more than 100 drone and missile attacks, targeting 10 merchant vessels in the Red Sea, according to the Pentagon. The group has described the attacks as a show of support for Palestinians facing Israeli bombardment in Gaza.

Tehran's support for the Yemeni rebel group includes both weapons and tactical intelligence, the White House said on Friday as it presented newly declassified intelligence purporting to show Iranian involvement in the attacks.

Comment: See also:

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Star of David

The West agonises over an 'atrocity upsurge' while backing Israel's genocide in Gaza

Jonathan Cook
Swiss Standpoint
Thu, 21 Dec 2023 00:00 UTC
The problem isn't 'global inaction'. It's intense US and UK support

gaza refugee children rafah safe zone IDF bombing
© REUTERS/Mohammed SalemA Palestinian boy carrying a baby stands at a site of Israeli strikes, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, December 4, 2023.
(21 December 2023) How do politicians, diplomats, the media and even the human rights community keep us politically ignorant, docile and passive - a collective mindset that prevents us from challenging their power as well as the status quo they benefit from?

The answer: By constantly misrepresenting reality to us and their own role in shaping it. And they do it so successfully because, at the same time, they gaslight us by flaunting the pretence that they crave to make the world a better place - a better place where, in truth, the unspoken danger is that, were it to be realised, their own power would be severely diminished.

A perfect illustration of how this grand deception works was provided in a report at the weekend in the supposedly progressive Guardian newspaper, headlined1 "World faces 'heightened risk' of mass atrocities due to global inaction".

The opening paragraph reports that human rights activists fear the "international community has given up on intervention efforts to stop mass atrocities, leading to fears that such occurrences may become the norm around the world".

In practice, this "failure", according to the report, has manifested in an abandonment by western states of the principle of R2P - or "responsibility to protect". This principle and related "humanitarian" pretexts were used to justify the US and its allies meddling since the 1990s variously in Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria, with disastrous consequences.

Millions were killed as a result of R2P-type interventions and tens of millions displaced, leading to mass movements of people that are seen today by western states in terms of an "illegal immigration threat".
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Bad Guys

Poland's parliamentary speaker signals country's new globalist stance to illegal migrants

Andrew Korybko
korybko.substack
Sun, 24 Dec 2023 23:34 UTC
poland
Polish parliamentary speaker Szymon Holownia provoked harsh criticism from the public after posing with a group of illegal immigrants during the Sejm's first-ever Christmas party for homeless people, migrants, and others in need. One of the people was described by a Soros-funded NGO as having previously been pushed back across the Belarusian border three times before finally entering Poland. This makes her a bonafide illegal immigrant even though she was billed by the media as a "refugee".

Prior to October's elections bringing German-backed Donald Tusk and his fellow liberal-globalists back to power, Poland was ruled by the comparatively more conservative-nationalist "Law & Justice" (PiS) party. They're far from perfect and closely resemble the US' Republican Party in all the worst ways possible, but at least they rejected the EU's migrant quotas and other "demographic engineering" projects. The opposition-led coalition, however, is expected to enthusiastically embrace these same policies.
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