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Lula pays the piper revealing Kamala as his choice for the next US president

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Brazil's president has said that, for the sake of democracy, the Democratic candidate's win in the US election would be better

Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has said his personal preference for an outcome in the US election is for Democratic candidate Kamala Harris to become the next US president.

The endorsement from the leader of the BRICS member state comes just days before the election on Tuesday.

"I love democracy. I think it is the best system of government that society has ever built in the world," Lula wrote in a post on X on Friday.

This system allows political opponents, "who are antagonistic, to have a civilized debate of ideas, without violence," he added.

"I think that if Kamala wins the election, it is much safer to strengthen democracy in the US," the Brazilian leader said.

The post followed Lula's interview with French broadcaster TF1 earlier in the day, during which he voiced a similar position, saying: "It would be nice to have Kamala Harris in power."

Comment: Lula has shown his face of being a subservient vassal of the Deep State, which helped him become the president of Brasil. Lula's non-show at the BRICS summit as well as his rejection of Venezuela as a BRICS partner country made it clear that he is fully on the side of the hegemon. Backing Kamala only confirms it.

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Airplane Paper

Zelensky is clearly fighting a fantasy war, not the real one

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© Anadolu Agency/Getty ImagesVladimir Zelensky
The Kiev regime seems stuck between the manic and the delusional in its attempts to keep evading the facts.

What do you do when you are losing a war against Russia? In particular, if that war could have been avoided or stopped very quickly and on advantageous terms, but instead you - listening to very false friends - decided to fight on until your country was devastated. And you are also realizing that you have been gambling with your own future as well. That is the key question in Vladimir Zelensky's life now, whether he can admit it to himself or not.

In such a grim scenario, there are three basic options:

Number one, the sane option: you can face reality and start negotiations to end the war, knowing that you will have to largely accept the terms of your opponent (because remember, you are losing, and also Russian President Vladimir Putin has just reiterated in an interview with the primetime '60 Minutes' program that Moscow will only accept an "outcome in its favor" and based "on the realities" that over two years of fighting have produced).

Or option two, the manic one: you can choose reality denial and keep fighting as if you could still win, thereby damaging your country even more and making sure that, in the end, it will still lose but on even worse terms.

Or, finally, option three, the delusional one: you can do what most weak characters do most of the time and try to square the circle by pretending there is a way to have it both ways, that is, to stave off defeat while somehow magically ending the war, or at least slowing it down.

Dominoes

The US is almost done playing with Ukraine

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© Getty ImagesVice President Harris in press conference with Vladimir Zelensky • White House
Kiev will eventually be defeated and its current leaders don't care, they can simply leave the country.

Since the beginning of the first military phase of the Ukrainian crisis in 2014, Kiev has been actively supported by the United States and its allies. The West's strategy in the structural confrontation with Russia is aimed at inflicting a defeat on our country without getting directly involved in the conflict. The scenario of hybrid confrontation is not new for Washington. In the Middle East it uses hybrid tools against Iran; to oppose China it utilizes Taiwan and its other partners in the region - the Philippines, South Korea, Japan. In confronting Moscow, the US and its allies in Western Europe have also found a convenient instrument - Ukraine, a large state in close proximity to Russia with a large army. Western countries supply this instrument with arms and intelligence and send military advisers and trainers.

The 'Ukrainian instrument' will be used for several adventures and then, when its resources are exhausted, it will be abandoned as it will become useless. Such a scenario calls into question the state of Ukraine's own future. However, this issue does not seem to be on the Kiev government's radar. Dependent on Western support, it has effectively abandoned its real national interests. For this reason, the authorities in Kiev are unwilling or unable to take steps towards a real settlement. They believe that as long as the front holds, the crisis can continue - and they see the advantage of privileged relations with the US. The downside is that the United States sees Ukraine as an expendable resource for its own interests.

Comment: The Russian perspective is realism on real time. For NATO it's 'the bogeyman'.


USA

Actually, the Democratic Party is Hitler

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"The Blue Team is protected by the sheer audacity of their betrayal of Americans. For most, their approach is literally beyond belief."
— Bret Weinstein
Along about now, you're probably wondering what sort of mayhem the Party of Chaos is set to unleash on our democracy after their mighty ballot fraud operation fails to overcome the yet more powerful instinct of the voters to expel them from the seats of power they seized by fraud in 2020 and 2022. You can be sure they've gamed-out a playbook aimed at paralyzing the nation one way or another if the effort to install Kamala Harris in the White House face-plants, as it appears to be doing in these final days before the reckoning.

Rioting, arson, and looting in the cities? Not so much. Probably some, but only because it's an excuse for 100-percent-off sale "shopping," plus the need for hordes of dopamine-deprived youth to seek a little dangerous excitement — in a society that gives them nothing meaningful or purposeful to do. It'd surely reflect poorly on the regime clinging to power in the months before January 20. Anyway, "Joe Biden," Kamala, and company would be blamed for letting the cities get wrecked again, and then double-blamed by their own partisans if they try to stop it with the national guard. It's a no-win deal for them.

Comment: Takeaway from last election: Voters don't matter. It's 'the count' that counts.


Sherlock

Ursula von der Leyen advised to create 'EU CIA'

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© Economou/Getty ImagesUrsula von der Leyen • press conference • European Union • Brussels, Belgium • October 17, 2024
A new report has called on Brussels to coordinate the intelligence gathering activities of member states.

An EU report has called on European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to create a "fully fledged" intelligence agency to coordinate the clandestine activity of member states. However, even proponents of the idea admit it would be costly and unpopular.

Penned by former Finnish President Sauli Niinisto and published on Wednesday, the report outlines the EU's readiness for war, and makes a multitude of vague recommendations. Officials in Brussels are advised, for example, to cultivate a "preparedness culture," and to "strengthen civil-military coordination frameworks."

One of the more concrete recommendations is that the EU create "a fully-fledged intelligence cooperation service, serving all EU institutions and member states." The agency, the report states, would collect intelligence from national-level agencies in order to "serve both strategic and operational needs of EU-level policy-planning and decision-making."

Arrow Up

IMF upgrades Russia to world's fourth-largest economy

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The country is outperforming Japan in terms of purchasing power parity, according to the Washington-based organization.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has ranked Russia as the world's fourth-largest economy based on purchasing power parity (PPP). PPP compares economic productivity and standards of living between countries by adjusting for differences in the cost of goods and services. In its World Economic Outlook published on Tuesday, the IMF said Russia's gross domestic product (GDP) in 2024 amounts to 3.55% of global GDP in terms of PPP, outperforming Japan, which has 3.38%.

According to the report, Russia ranks fourth in terms of PPP after China (18.8%), the US (15%), and India (7.9%).

The latest figures show that the world's leading economies by PPP now include three BRICS countries - China, India, and Russia - the report authors noted, pointing out that Russia's upgrade has been driven by Western sanctions.

Black Cat

Best of the Web: Facebook execs suppressed Hunter Biden laptop scandal to suck up to Biden-Harris admin: bombshell report

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Hunter Biden photo recovered from his laptop
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The FBI warned major US tech companies ahead of The Post's first reports on Hunter Biden's laptop in October 2020 that Russian agents were preparing a strikingly similar document dump — and once the scoop materialized, Facebook executives discussed calibrating censorship decisions to please what they assumed would be an incoming Biden-Harris administration, a congressional investigation found.

The new details — contained in an interim report by the House Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on the weaponization of government — are emerging as former President Donald Trump leads in polls ahead of the Nov. 5 election and as his allies urge a house-cleaning at the FBI and possible new regulations or antitrust actions to punish and restrain platforms like Facebook.

"FBI tipped us all off last week that this Burisma story was likely to emerge," an unidentified Microsoft employee wrote on Oct. 14, 2020, the day The Post published the first in a series of bombshell stories on the Biden family's foreign dealings, according to the congressional report.

Comment: The effort at covering up the smoking gun pointing to the Bidens' decades long corruption was prodigious.


Whistle

Whistleblower: Obama FBI ran off-the-books 'honeypot' op on Trump campaign in 2015

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Former President Barack Obama and former FBI Director James Comey
A whistleblower has told the House Judiciary Committee that the Obama FBI launched an off-the-books operation targeting Donald Trump and his campaign as soon as he announced his bid for the White House in 2015.

The operation, ordered by then-FBI Director James B. Comey, predicated the Crossfire Hurricane operation. According to an FBI agent involved in the clandestine criminal investigation, Comey sent two female FBI undercover agents to infiltrate Trumps 2016 campaign at high levels, who were directed to act as "honeypots" while traveling with Trump and his campaign staff on the trail, the Washington Times reports.
According to the disclosure, which The Washington Times reviewed, the investigation differed from the later Crossfire Hurricane counterintelligence operation targeting Russian collusion. It said the early off-the-books probe was a criminal investigation targeting Mr. Trump and his 2016 presidential campaign staff.

The agent "personally knew" that Mr. Comey ordered an FBI investigation against Mr. Trump and that Mr. Comey "personally directed it," according to the disclosure.

Pistol

Israel kills the journalists. Western media kills the truth of genocide in Gaza

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Western publics are being subjected to a campaign of psychological warfare, where genocide is classed as 'self-defence' and opposition to it 'terrorism'.
- Middle East Eye - 25 October 2024
Israel knew that, if it could stop foreign correspondents from reporting directly from Gaza, those journalists would end up covering events in ways far more to its liking. They would hedge every report of a new Israeli atrocity - if they covered them at all - with a "Hamas claims" or "Gaza family members allege". Everything would be presented in terms of conflicting narratives rather than witnessed facts. Audiences would feel uncertain, hesitant, detached.

Israel could shroud its slaughter in a fog of confusion and disputation. The natural revulsion evoked by a genocide would be tempered and attenuated.

For a year, the networks' most experienced war reporters have stayed put in their hotels in Israel, watching Gaza from afar. Their human-interest stories, always at the heart of war reporting, have focused on the far more limited suffering of Israelis than the vast catastrophe unfolding for Palestinians.

That is why western audiences have been forced to relive a single day of horror for Israel, on October 7, 2023, as intensely as they have a year of greater horrors in Gaza - in what the World Court has judged to be a "plausible" genocide by Israel.

That is why the media have immersed their audiences in the agonies of the families of some 250 Israelis - civilians taken hostage and soldiers taken captive - as much as they have the agonies of 2.3 million Palestinians bombed and starved to death week after week, month after month.

Stop

Trump told Netanyahu to end war - Israeli media

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© Amos Ben-Gershom/Getty ImagesFormer US President Donald Trump • Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu • Mar a Lago, Florida
The former US president reportedly wants Israel's war with Hamas over by inauguration day.

Former US President Donald Trump told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he wants the war in Gaza over before he takes office in January, assuming he wins next week's presidential election, the Times of Israel reported on Wednesday.

Trump made the demand to Netanyahu when the pair met at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida in July, the Israeli news site reported, citing "a former Trump administration official and an Israeli official."

Four months before the meeting, Trump told the Israel Hayom news outlet that "you have to finish up your war," calling the destruction of civilian homes in Gaza "a very bad picture for the world." Trump, who often touts his close relationship with Netanyahu and his support for Israel, said a week before the meeting that Israel should end the war "fast... because they are getting decimated with this [negative] publicity."

In his public statements, Trump has never set a timeline for Netanyahu to cease military operations.

Comment: Trump said: "Israel should end the war 'fast... because they are getting decimated with this [negative] publicity."' Israel should end the war for 2.3 million more important reasons.