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Trump says he'd consider Tucker Carlson as running mate

Dominick Mastrangelo
The Hill
Thu, 09 Nov 2023 11:26 UTC
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© Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/KJNFormer US President Donald Trump • Tucker Carlson
Former President Trump says he'd consider Tucker Carlson as a potential running mate in 2024.

"I like Tucker a lot; I guess I would," Trump said during an appearance on The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show this week.
"I think I'd say I would, because he's got great common sense. You know, when they say that you guys are conservative, or I'm conservative — it's not that we're conservative, we have common sense. We want to have safe borders. We want to have a wall, because walls work."
Carlson was fired by Fox News in April just days after it agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems $787 million to settle claims of defamation out of court. The host has since launched a video series on the X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, and remains under contract with Fox.

On the night of the first Republican presidential primary debate, in August, Carlson hosted a wide-ranging interview with Trump on his X program.

The former president has grown increasingly critical of Fox and its corporate ownership in recent months, and was reportedly upset by its decision to pull Carlson off the air earlier this year.

Comment: A better choice than his last VP!

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No American money left for Ukraine - USAID


RT
Wed, 08 Nov 2023 17:29 UTC
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© Bill Clark/Getty ImagesUSAID Asst. Administrato Erin McKee
Kiev faces economic collapse if new funding isn't approved, an official has warned US lawmakers...

The US government agency overseeing Washington's humanitarian relief program for Ukraine has warned lawmakers that funding has run out, putting Kiev at risk of economic ruin if more money isn't allocated amid the former Soviet republic's conflict with Russia.

Erin McKee, an assistant administrator for the US Agency for International Development (USAID), testified on Wednesday to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in Washington:
"We have no more direct budget support. The last tranche was disbursed at the end of the fiscal year. This jeopardizes, particularly over the coming months, Ukraine's ability to maintain its economic stability while it continues to fight the war. It's urgent."
The US government's latest fiscal year ended on September 30. Ukraine has relied on Washington not only as its biggest provider of weaponry, but also for money to meet its non-military expenses. President Joe Biden has proposed a $106 billion emergency spending bill that combines aid to help Ukraine fight Russia and Israel fight Hamas. It also includes $9.2 billion in humanitarian aid tied to both conflicts.

Comment: Time to tighten the leaky money faucet.

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Best of the Web: Guess who's back?! 'ISIS' reappears in desert, renews attacks against Syrian forces


The Cradle.co
Wed, 08 Nov 2023 00:00 UTC

Comment: Just as Israel and the US are also attacking Syrian state forces. What a stunning coincidence!


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© IRNASyrian tank and crew
Over 500 Syrian soldiers have died this year in ISIS attacks, as the extremist group has seen a resurgence in areas close to US occupation bases...

Local reports say at least 30 Syrian army personnel were killed during an ISIS attack on 8 November after gunmen opened fire on the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and allies in the National Defense Force in the Homs-Hama-Raqqa triangle.

Local sources told Al-Mayadeen:
"Several militants attacked at dawn today, Wednesday, simultaneously, points of the Syrian army and the auxiliary forces on the area of Al-Koum and the Taybeya Sukhna axis in the eastern desert of Homs, which led to the death of 21 elements and the injury of 9 others, with the killing and injury of several attacking militants."
The attack on the Syrian soldiers happened within a 55km distance from a US occupation base in central Syria, which the source claims is part of a plan to be turned "into centers to support terrorism and provide military and intelligence support."
"The US occupation is trying to avenge the legitimate attacks of the resistance by facilitating attacks by ISIS terrorists on areas controlled by the army and allied forces in the desert [...] military reinforcements were sent to comb the area that was attacked and to pursue and eliminate the terrorists who carried out the attack."
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) says this morning's attack raised the death toll in military operations to 514.
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Weaponizing your enemy's children: Dehumanization of Palestinians has gone mainstream

Tarik Cyril Amar
RT
Thu, 09 Nov 2023 20:54 UTC
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© Times of GazaMore than 50 Palestinians killed, including children, in an lsraeli airstrike targeting a house in al-Maghazi refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, November 5, 2023.
A cynical explanation for why so many minors are dying in Israeli strikes on Gaza has been offered by a respected Western outlet

The Economist has published a piece pretending to answer why Israel is killing so many Palestinian children, or, as the British journal puts it, why "children are a very high proportion of the victims of war in Gaza." The authors note that "in Ukraine, a conflict between two much bigger powers, children account for fewer than 550 of roughly 9,800 civilian fatalities over a much longer period." Hence, they venture, "Gaza's enormous child death toll reflects, among other things, its especially youthful demography."

Brazenly, the article removes the actual killers from the picture (the children fall victim to "the war," not to the Israelis), gives just enough room to US President Joe Biden's mendacious doubting of Palestinian victim figures (in reality certain to be under-counts) to make the reader wonder, and never mentions the true answer: so many children are getting killed because Israel commits one war crime after another against civilians, in pursuit of a strategy of collective punishment that amounts to genocide and ethnic cleansing (though these definitions, as is often the case with Israel's actions, are being debated at various official levels). And also, because it can, due to the West's complicity. In sum, an ordinary example of much Western mainstream coverage.

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Gaza reporters share their harrowing stories with RT: 'Israel targets journalists intentionally'

Elizabeth Blade
RT
Thu, 09 Nov 2023 19:16 UTC
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© RT
Local journalists say Israel's war is 'unprecedented' but it won't stop them from doing their work

Reporters in Gaza are struggling to do their jobs with severely limited internet access, and a fuel shortage which prevents them from moving around. They are working in constant danger from airstrikes, which have claimed more than 10,000 lives so far.

It's been more than a month since Hamas militants infiltrated Israel in the deadliest attack on the Jewish state since its inception in 1948.

More than 1,400 Israelis were brutally murdered on October 7, and over 7,000 were wounded. In retaliation, Israel waged war on Hamas, vowing to kill all those responsible for the massacre. It also promised to uproot the Islamic movement, which has been ruling Gaza since 2007.

For the past five weeks, Israel has been pounding Gaza, home to 2.3 million of people, with thousands of bombs. The death toll in the Palestinian coastal enclave has exceeded 10,000. Thousands are still under the rubble and unaccounted for. Among those killed are Palestinian journalists. According to the latest data, at least 40 have lost their lives in the current wave of violence. RT spoke with two men reporting from Gaza to gauge their opinions on the conflict and what it's like to work under fire. One of them, Rami Almughari, is a veteran in the field. The other, Mansour Shouman, is a newcomer to the profession, but both described the fear and constant smell of death that accompany their work.

Comment: Social media abounds with reports of the deliberate targeting of Palestinian reporters in Gaza (and their families when possible), a protected group under international law. Israel is unequivocally committing war crimes.




A reminder these brave journalists are still human:




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Russian political elites on their U.S. counterparts: card cheats!

Gilbert Doctorow
gilbertdoctorow.com
Thu, 09 Nov 2023 17:47 UTC
US Political Elites
© medium.com
The 19th century American showman P.T. Barnum is best known for his aphorism "There's a sucker born every minute." This is precisely the kind of cynical card cheat who epitomizes America's political establishment today in the view of Russian expert observers and legislators appearing on the widely watched talk show Evening with Vladimir Solovyov. They have in their crosshairs not just what they call "the Collective Biden," meaning the senile, disoriented fool who has his finger on the red button plus the Deep State that writes his speeches and steers him to and from his speaking engagements. It also takes in scoundrels in the U.S. Senate like Chuck Schumer, my classmate (Harvard '67) Mike Blumenthal and the ever notorious Lindsey Graham. Their sound bites are very frequently put up on the screen for the audience to better understand what Russia's erstwhile "partners" abroad are saying.

Those of you who had experience watching RT (Russia Today) have never been exposed to this kind of trenchant analysis and utter contempt for the American political classes. This goes much farther than what you might imagine when Western mainstream media concede that 'there is little trust between the sides.'

If we dig a bit deeper, the contempt of the Russian political commentators, many of whom hold advanced academic degrees, is built on their conviction that American politicians, like their European Union counterparts today, are poorly educated if not simply ignoramuses. By a curious irony of fate, the Americans appear to Russian sophisticates to be the conniving rubes that Americans once saw in the Soviet leaders of Khrushchev's time in power.
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Best of the Web: The Kingdom of Heaven: Why a 'No-State Solution' is the Only Viable Option for the Holy Lands

Alexander Wolfheze
Geopolitika.ru
Tue, 07 Nov 2023 21:15 UTC
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Palestine, November 6. 2023
Unfashionable observations on the October crisis

'Eyeless in Gaza'
Promise was that I
Should Israel from Philistian yoke deliver
Ask for this great deliverer now and find him
Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves

— John Milton, Samson Agonistes
Recently, what Aleksandr Dugin termed the 'Last War of the World Island', went into a new phase. After establishing undisputed totalitarian control over the West during the 2020-21 'Covid'+'BLM'+'Biden'+'J16'+'mRNA' 'Great Reset' sequence, the globalist elite's re-directed its multi-dimensional warfare campaign from West to East.[1] In the final analysis, 2022 'Ukraine' offensive, most directly aimed at eliminating Russia as Christian Europe's 'Last Katechon' and sovereign guardian of the World Island's Heartland, simply marks the start of the globalist West's switch from the domestic to the international part of the Great Reset: an all-out attempt to impose its will on the anti-globalist Rest.

Formally, the outbreak of open hostilities on the Don and Dnieper, facilitated by the globalist puppets in charge of their 'Ukraine' vassal-state, represents the start of the Last War of the World Island as a classic, kinetic clash of arms, albeit still limited to a single theatre and confined within tight constraints.
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White House warns Israel against Gaza 'reoccupation'


RT
Wed, 08 Nov 2023 21:14 UTC
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© AP / Jose Luis MaganaAnti-war activists protest outside of the White House in Washington, November 4, 2023
West Jerusalem has suggested it could keep troops in the Palestinian enclave for an "indefinite period"

The White House has expressed alarm over the possible "reoccupation" of Gaza, after Israel's prime minister indicated that his country's forces would have "overall security responsibility" in the area following the conflict with Hamas.

Asked to weigh in on the long-term plans for Gaza during an interview with CNN on Tuesday, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby urged Israel to reconsider a lengthy military deployment.

"The president still believes that a reoccupation of Gaza by Israeli forces is not good. It's not good for Israel; not good for the Israeli people," Kirby said without elaborating.
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Flashback BNP founder Nick Griffin: 'We were offered big money by Zionists in 2007 under two conditions: That we attack Islam, and never criticize the banking system'


Liveleak.com
Fri, 22 Mar 2019 22:24 UTC
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Here's how the Zionists bought the Right's silence on Israel.

Zionist Neocons offered Nick Griffin's BNP much-needed funding in 2007, but in return he was asked to focus on the evils of Islam and never criticize the banking system.

Where they couldn't buy off established parties, they created their own, hence giving rise to pro-Israel groups like the EDL, Britain First and Pegida.

When Tommy Robinson created the EDL, it was started with its own Jewish section run by Jewish extremist Roberta Moore, who now runs the Jewish Defence League.

This is why there were always Israeli flags flying at EDL rallies.

This is why all 'new right' parties are ardent supporters of Israel.

This is why it's highly doubtful that anything will change for the better with them in power.


Comment: Since his refusal, Griffin has been castigated in UK media as a 'Nazi' (long before that tactic became commonplace).

Assuming the gist of his claim in the above video is accurate, what does this say for the other 'new right' parties across the Western world who have enjoyed meteoric rises in recent years?

Griffin has since been kicked out by his own party, and has tried restarting with another, the British Unity Party. At a time when it's fashionable to pillory Muslims as terrorists, Griffin is - like his fellow 'Nazi' leading the Labour Party - showing his support for Hezbollah...

Which one is 'nationalist', and which one is 'socialist'?

Also, compare and contrast:



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Why are US weapons transfers to Israel shrouded in secrecy — but not Ukraine?

Ken Klippenstein
The Intercept
Tue, 07 Nov 2023 19:58 UTC
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© U.S. Air ForceU.S. Air Force personnel unload a KC-135 Stratotanker at an undisclosed location, designated by the military as within the U.S. Central Command “area of responsibility,” on Oct. 23, 2023.
The Biden administration put out a three-page list of arms for Ukraine, but information on weapons sent to Israel could fit in one sentence.

One month since Hamas's surprise attack, little is known about the weapons the U.S. has provided to Israel. Whereas the Biden administration released a three-page itemized list of weapons provided to Ukraine, down to the exact number of rounds, the information released about weapons sent to Israel could fit in a single sentence.

National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby acknowledged the secrecy in an October 23 press briefing, saying that while U.S. security assistance "on a near-daily basis," he continued, "We're being careful not to quantify or get into too much detail about what they're getting — for their own operational security purposes, of course."

The argument that transparency would imperil Israel's operational security — somehow not a concern with Ukraine — is misleading, experts told The Intercept.
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