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Ukraine war a 'good investment' for US - Trump rival


RT
Fri, 17 Nov 2023 19:00 UTC
Chris Christie
© Win McNamee / Getty Images / AFPRepublican presidential candidate and former Governor of New Jersey Chris Christie speaks at the Hudson Institute November 15, 2023 in Washington, DC.
Former New Jersey governor and aspiring Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie has condemned "isolationism" and urged Americans to double down on funding the Ukrainian war effort, describing it as a good "return on investment."

Speaking at the Hudson Institute in Washington on Wednesday, Christie argued he was the only "serious" Republican presidential candidate showing "moral clarity" to the world, often praising US President Joe Biden while taking potshots at GOP frontrunner Donald Trump.

"Our strategy in Ukraine is driven by a principled commitment to support Ukrainians fighting and dying for their country," Christie said at one point. He added that he would have provided "more weapons, and sooner" than Biden, and wouldn't have tried to "blackmail" Kiev for "dirt" on Biden, as he - and the Democrats - claimed Trump had done.

Christie pointed out that he has visited Kiev and met with President Vladimir Zelensky, who told him that "without American help, Ukraine would now be occupied by Russia." Zelensky also said that Ukraine did not need any American soldiers, only weapons to win the war by itself, Christie added.

"We've done that, but with less than 4% of one year's military budget. And with that, the Ukrainian army has degraded 50% of the Russian military capability without one drop of American blood. Seems to me that's a pretty good return on investment for us, and one we should double down on," the former governor concluded.

Comment: Everything said by this blubbery tub of worthlessness is demonstrably untrue, and his abysmal polling numbers show Americans aren't buying his slop.

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Supreme Court denies DeSantis in legal battle over drag queen ban

Brianna Herlihy
Fox News
Thu, 16 Nov 2023 18:46 UTC
U.S. Supreme Court
© AP Photo / J. Scott Applewhite / FileThe U.S. Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Tuesday denied Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' appeal to lift a lower court order preventing the state from enforcing a new law that bans bars from "knowingly" hosting drag queen performances with minors in the audience.

At issue is a lawsuit challenging a Florida law passed in April that prevents children from exposure to sexually explicit "adult live performances" at restaurants and bars and mandates that establishments that allow such performances with minors in the audience could get alcohol or operating licenses revoked.

Hamburger Mary's, a restaurant and bar in Orlando, argued the law was written so broadly as to have a "chilling effect" on free-speech rights.

A district judge agreed, finding the plaintiff was likely to succeed at trial on First Amendment grounds and granted a preliminary injunction to stop the law from taking effect while the case moves through the courts.

Comment: While the law may be too broad, the spirit of it is on point:

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Russian authorities want to outlaw 'LGBT'


RT
Fri, 17 Nov 2023 18:37 UTC
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The Russian Justice Ministry said Friday it has filed a lawsuit with the Supreme Court to label the "international LGBT public movement" as extremist and to outlaw its operations in the country.

In a statement posted on its website, the ministry argued that "the LGBT movement" has been engaged in various activities that qualify it as an "extremist group." Specifically, it has been sowing "social and religious discord," the ministry stated.

It was not immediately clear exactly which groups the potential ban would affect and whether the 'extremist' designation would have any consequences for LGBT ideology itself, becoming the basis to take action against various public organizations.

Comment: Another step in the right direction of protecting Russian society from the dangers of Western ideological rot.

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Leaving Blobtopia

James Kunstler
kunstler.com
Fri, 17 Nov 2023 17:17 UTC
"The vibe shift being witnessed is nothing more then a managerial class losing the mandate of heaven as they squander the inheritance of empire." — Jim Sharp
Broken Liberty
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A nation can only take so much corruption, crime, and unreality. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality," said Karl Rove, veteran blobster and advisor to George W. Bush, when he uttered those fateful words. Even political junkies forget the rest of what he said:
And while you're studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."
Old Karl was being too polite, you understand. What he meant to say is: We're gonna lay trip after trip on you, all of you smart-asses watching the political scene until your over-mis-educated Ivy League brains turn into something that resembles a patty-melt so that you're lost in a fog of incoherent blabbery, parroting whatever nonsense we proffer as we asset-strip what's left of Western Civ.

What they call "the cognitive infrastructure" of we-the-people has been twisted, crinkled, folded, looped, and twiddled until it's nearer a state of criticality than the ten-thousand rusted-out bridges on our county roads. This week, the FCC board voted to adopt new rules to "prevent and eliminate digital discrimination." Sounds great, huh? Reality check: I do not think that the words mean what you think they mean. They are, rather, an invitation to the rest of the US government — any malicious blob-driven agency — to meddle with the Internet, block content that they don't like, and conduct mind-fuckery operations to their heart's delight. Uh-oh, I think they just destroyed the Internet.

Empire is a cruel business, especially as it unwinds. But the sore-beset people of this land may be tiring of alternate realities as the absurdities mount and the immense friction of official bad faith heats up to the point of ignition. For instance, the "news" leaked late Thursday that Special Counsel Robert Hur expects to not charge anyone in connection with the "Joe Biden" documents case. How come? Reasons. Whew, that was swift justice, compared to the Chinese fire drill instigated by that same DOJ against Mr. Trump in the Mar-a-Lago document case.
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The empire sails into a hurricane of consequences in the Middle East

Alex Krainer
Alex Krainer's TrendCompass
Fri, 17 Nov 2023 16:26 UTC
The Arab nations didn't take the Israel bait. Now US is getting kicked out of the region.
Troops in Gaza
The Neocon faction that's been firmly embedded in US foreign policy establishment for more than three decades now had predicted how World War III might erupt. Frank Gaffney, whom I mentioned in this report earlier this week, predicted that US defense of Israel against an alliance of Muslim powers would trigger World War III which would not be confined to the Middle East and which could involve the use of nuclear weapons (see: Gaffney: Rise of Sharia Rule Will Bring War to the Middle East, NewsMax, October 24, 2011).

Was the WWIII outbreak war-gamed and planned?

The very fact that such a prediction was even articulated suggests that the scenario has been war-gamed and probably even planned. It should therefore not be a stretch to consider whether what had happened in Israel last month wasn't an attempt to detonate that scenario. There are a number of dots to connect in relation to these events that suggest this.

In the immediate aftermath of Hamas attack on Israel, US, Britain and other NATO member states began amassing their fleets and military aircraft in the eastern Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf. Such a large concentration of forces would be a massive overkill if their objective was simply to help Israel against a terrorist group holed up in the tiny Gaza strip. Preparation for a wider regional war would better explain such large and speedy mobilization.
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Rev. Stephen Cliffgard Lee, co-defendant with Trump, refuses to accept plea deal in bogus Fulton County DA Fani Willis' case

Jim Hoft
Gateway Pundit
Wed, 15 Nov 2023 15:28 UTC
Donald Trump, Trump, Stephen Cliffgard Lee
Reverend ​Stephen Cliffgard Lee, one of the co-defendants charged alongside Trump, has openly rejected the prospect of a plea deal in the junk Trump-Geogia RICO case.

During a charity event for the ​Families of Faith Ministries last week, Lee stated, "I am not going to plead out to a lie. I'm not going to cooperate with evil. This is bigger than me."

"We have to, each one of us, take up the fight," Lee, 71, added.

Chicago Tribune reported:
Shestokas, [a former Cook County assistant state's attorney, is working on the case with Georgia-brd lawyer David Oles], contends many of the alleged criminal acts Lee is accused of are actions protected by the First Amendment, including freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and freedom of religion.

The fundraiser's programs had the title "Weaponization of Government Against Religion," and supporters of Lee portray the indictment as an attack on the Constitution and freedom of religion. Programs provided information about donating to Lee's defense fund.

Shestokas said what his client is being subjected to is extortion, and "he doesn't deserve it."

"What's at stake here is not just Pastor Lee," Shestokas said. "It's an attack on all the rights in the First Amendment of our Constitution."
Trump, Lee, and 17 others have been accused by Marxist Fulton County District Attorney ​Fani Willis of attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

Comment: This case isn't about revealing the truth and seeking justice. It's about ruining the lives of everyone who dared to challenge the power of the Deep State behemoth:

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Top UK SAS general hid evidence his troops were executing handcuffed civilians in Afghanistan


BBC
Fri, 17 Nov 2023 14:54 UTC
Gen Gwyn Jenkins
Gen Gwyn Jenkins, right, pictured with the former Defence Secretary Ben Wallace, received warnings about SAS raids.
One of the UK's most senior generals was warned in writing in 2011 that SAS soldiers were claiming to have executed handcuffed detainees in Afghanistan.

BBC Panorama can reveal that Gen Gwyn Jenkins, who is now the second most senior officer in the British armed forces, received accounts of conversations in which members of the SAS described extrajudicial killings.


Comment: Which perhaps provide a clue as to just how corrupt the UK's military is.


But instead of referring the evidence to military police, Gen Jenkins placed it in a classified dossier and locked it in a safe.

The failure to refer the evidence to military police has previously been disclosed in court, but the identities of the officers involved were withheld from the public by the Ministry of Defence.


Comment: That's not a 'failure', that's a crime with intent.


Comment: Is it any wonder many in Afghanistan were relieved to kick the West out and have the Taliban back in power?

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US-based NGO confirms running Russian opposition troll farm


RT
Thu, 16 Nov 2023 07:59 UTC
Hacker
© Getty Images / SanderStock
The organization, however, denies links to Alexey Navalny's FBK and that it used network to target rival Russian opposition groups.

The Free Russia Foundation (FRF), a Washington-based NGO, has confirmed running a network of paid online commenters focused on influencing Russian current affairs and the Ukrainian crisis.

The pro-opposition troll farm was exposed in an explosive report published on Wednesday by SVTV, an online outlet created by Russian libertarian activist Mikhail Svetov. The report claimed, citing a trove of documents received from ex-employees of the network, that the FRF-payrolled troll farm has collaborated with FBK (Anti-Corruption Foundation), founded by jailed Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny, and has also routinely targeted critics of FBK and the government alike.

The FRF's board of directors is chaired by David Kramer, senior fellow at the McCain Institute and a former US State Department assistant secretary, and Paige Alexander, a former assistant administrator at USAID, the government agency responsible for allocating American money abroad. Other personnel include Michael Weiss and Tom Firestone, a former legal officer at the US embassy in Moscow who was expelled from Russia in 2013.

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US-based network manages pro-Navalny troll farm - investigation

Laptop
© Getty Images / Lincoln Beddoe
The group reportedly employs paid commenters online

An NGO founded by jailed Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny has been operating a vast network of paid online trolls to attack the government in Moscow and its political opponents alike, according to a media investigation published on Wednesday.

The bombshell report about the troll network allegedly linked to the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) was published by SVTV, an online outlet founded by Russian libertarian blogger and activist Mikhail Svetov.

The investigation, based on a large trove of documents provided by a former employee, claims that FBK has been running the paid troll scheme for at least two years. The group moved its operations overseas in 2021, after a Moscow court declared it an extremist organization and ordered its dissolution.

According to the report, the pro-FBK troll network has been bankrolled by the Free Russia Foundation (FRF), a Washington-based NGO active since 2014 that receives tax-free donations from US sponsors of "civil society and democratic development in Russia." It also has an office in Ukraine.

The FRF's board of directors is chaired by David Kramer, senior fellow at the McCain Institute and former State Department assistant secretary. Among its board members is Paige Alexander, a former assistant administrator at USAID, the government agency responsible for allocating American money abroad.

The report says that the FRF contracted the troll work out to Reforum, a Lithuania-based non-profit. Officially, Reforum is paying contractors to perform "social media management consultations."

According to SVTV, the Reforum network has had some 200 paid online commentators, working from multiple offices in Vilnius, Lithuania and Tbilisi, Georgia. According to screenshots posted by SVTV, the trolls were instructed to use photos of real people who previously lost access to their accounts and insert random names when creating their fake profiles.

Commenters receive €10 ($10) per hour on average, making around €1,200-1,800 ($1,300-1,950) a month, depending on their performance. They have also taken to calling themselves "elves" who fight the "Russian trolls" and "orcs."

The pro-Navalny "elf" network has primarily focused on the conflict between Moscow and Kiev. The contractors were reportedly supplied with links to posts they should comment on, as well as lists of pre-approved talking points. This frequently led to nearly identical remarks appearing under the same posts, the report noted.

In addition to the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the network focused on other incidents and news from Russia, attempting to portray the authorities in a negative light. The "elves" have also gone after FBK's opponents and other opposition figures who have had disagreements with Navalny, while leaving positive comments under content released by FBK.

FBK Director Ivan Zhdanov has said that the claims that the fund is relying on trolls are "completely false."
"This network has absolutely nothing to do with the Anti-Corruption Foundation or me personally," he wrote on X (formerly Twitter). "I am prepared to prove it in court."
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VP Biden followed advice Hunter sent to his 'Champ4' burner email

Jordan Boyd
The Federalist
Thu, 16 Nov 2023 21:14 UTC
biden
© White House/Flickr
President Joe Biden used one of his earliest email aliases to discuss official White House business with his son and may have used it to covertly advance the Biden family business.

Biden previously issued repeated denials of ever discussing business with his son, but mounting evidence shows he met and spoke with Hunter's foreign business partners numerous times, and also corresponded with Hunter via pseudonyms. The Biden White House has refused to explain why Joe used non-government emails to clue Hunter Biden in on official vice president business.

One email alias of Biden's that hasn't received much attention is his "champ4" burner address. The correspondence associated with champ4@att.blackberry.net that was discovered on Hunter's laptop shows the then-vice president updating his son on activity at the Obama White House, and at one point, Joe appears to rely on Hunter's direction to make a public appearance and promote one of his VP policy topics.

A March 15 email shows Hunter, using his Rosemont Seneca Partners investment firm email, urging "Dad" to show up and show out at the women's college basketball tournament.

"You and Mom should" the subject line begins. The email's body copy suggests "Go to NCAA Final Four WOMEN'S Championship in San Antonio- with Maisy."
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Flashback Best of the Web: Full text: Osama bin Laden's letter to America

Osama Bin Laden
The Guardian
Sun, 24 Nov 2002 20:39 UTC

Comment: The Guardian yesterday deleted its copy of this document from their website. The outlet gave no reason, but it's clearly because discussion about it has 'gone viral' on TikTok, where many are currently sharing and discussing it, finding that the rationale given by the notorious 'terror leader' actually makes sense given the West's brutal wars for empire.

Ultimately, the Saudi caveman's rationalization of violent resistance can only hold true for an oppressed and militarily occupied people, which his wealthy Saudi brethren certainly are not. Furthermore, his most looney act was probably accepting responsibility for 9/11, which was clearly way above Al Qaeda's pay-grade.

With those caveats in mind, read OBL's letter for yourselves and judge whether he had a valid point or two...
guadian bin laden

osama bin laden
OBL, the OG
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful,"Permission to fight (against disbelievers) is given to those (believers) who are fought against, because they have been wronged and surely, Allah is Able to give them (believers) victory" [Quran 22:39]

"Those who believe, fight in the Cause of Allah, and those who disbelieve, fight in the cause of Taghut (anything worshipped other than Allah e.g. Satan). So fight you against the friends of Satan; ever feeble is indeed the plot of Satan."[Quran 4:76]

Some American writers have published articles under the title 'On what basis are we fighting?' These articles have generated a number of responses, some of which adhered to the truth and were based on Islamic Law, and others which have not. Here we wanted to outline the truth - as an explanation and warning - hoping for Allah's reward, seeking success and support from Him.

While seeking Allah's help, we form our reply based on two questions directed at the Americans:

(Q1) Why are we fighting and opposing you?

Q2) What are we calling you to, and what do we want from you?

As for the first question: Why are we fighting and opposing you? The answer is very simple:
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