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Slovakian PM accuses world of ignoring Ukraine's 'Nazi troops'


RT
Tue, 10 Sep 2024 18:54 UTC
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© Sergii Kharchenko / NurPhoto via Getty Images
People eager to condemn the atrocities committed by the Third Reich are at the same time turning a blind eye to Ukrainian troops wearing Nazi symbols today, Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico has lamented.

The head of the government gave a speech at the holocaust museum located at the former site of the Sered concentration camp on Monday in western Slovakia, in which he highlighted the need to educate new generations about the crimes committed by Nazis during World War II before bringing up the Ukraine conflict.

"We all talk about fascism, Nazism, while silently tolerating units moving across Ukraine that have a very clear label and are connected to movements that we consider dangerous and forbidden today. Since it is a geopolitical fight, nobody cares," Fico said.

"I want to pay tribute to the victims, not with pathetic speech, but I want to call for action," he added. "The international community should recognize that troops using Nazi insignia, who often appear to act as such, cannot fight in Ukraine."
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Warning

Best of the Web: Bombshell whistleblower report exposes major security failures in first Trump assassination attempt

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 10:45 UTC
Trump SS
© unknownTrump assassination attempt • Butler, Pennsylvania
With Donald Trump now the target of two assassination attempts in two months, a new whistleblower report released by Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) has unveiled a series of alarming security lapses by the U.S. Secret Service (USSS) and other federal agencies during the attempt at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024.

The report, based on information provided by multiple whistleblowers, highlights a pattern of incompetence, mismanagement, and inadequate preparation by the agencies responsible for safeguarding one of the most high-profile figures in American politics.

The report reveals that systemic failures, poor decision-making, and a lack of proper resource allocation within the Secret Service contributed to what is being described as a near-catastrophic breach of presidential security. These findings have sparked a call for urgent oversight and reform of the agency, raising serious questions about its ability to protect national leaders.

Gaps in Security Protocols and Poor Decision-Making

Among the most critical allegations in the whistleblower report is the Secret Service's decision not to conduct a standard evaluation of the rally site. The Counter Surveillance Division, tasked with identifying potential threats, was notably absent during the event. This failure was compounded by the fact that the Secret Service reportedly declined multiple offers from local law enforcement to employ drone surveillance technology at the rally. The decision was particularly consequential, given that the would-be assassin himself used a drone to conduct surveillance of the rally site hours before launching his attack.

Comment: "If truth be told". It almost never is.

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Fact check: Harris campaign social media account has repeatedly deceived with misleading edits and captions

Daniel Dale
CNN
Sat, 14 Sep 2024 02:57 UTC
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© UnknownA glimpse inside the Kamala Harris campaign - one chair less than a full dozen? Seems fitting, don'tcha think?
A social media account run by Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign has been repeatedly deceptive.

The @KamalaHQ account, which has more than 1.3 million followers on the X social media platform formerly known as Twitter, has made a habit of misleadingly clipping and inaccurately captioning video clips to attack former President Donald Trump.

The Harris campaign deploys @KamalaHQ as a kind of irreverent attack dog, using jocular posts to draw attention to controversial, incorrect, or dubious comments by Trump and his allies. But the account, which the Harris campaign calls its "official rapid response page," has itself made inaccurate comments on multiple occasions.

Below are eight examples of false or misleading video posts from the account since mid-August, including three from the latter part of this week. All of them have previously been highlighted by an anonymous rebuttal account called @KamalaHQLies, which itself has more than 268,000 followers.

Comment: Revisionism is all they have. The truth lies on the cutting room floor.

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Bad Guys

Debate 'was rigged' - Trump


RT
Wed, 11 Sep 2024 13:59 UTC
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© Getty Images / Chip SomodevillaDonald Trump talks to journalists after debating Kamala Harris in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 10, 2024
Former US President Donald Trump has criticized the "dishonest" moderation of his debate with Vice President Kamala Harris by ABC News, saying he would only consider a rematch if it were hosted by "a fair network."

Speaking to Fox's Sean Hannity immediately after Tuesday night's debate, Trump claimed that he emerged from the encounter as the victor. Informed by Hannity that Harris reportedly wants a second debate, Trump seemed dismissive of the idea.

"She wants it because she lost," Trump told Hannity. "You know what happens when you're a prizefighter and you lose, you immediately want a new fight... maybe if it was on a fair network I would do that."

Comment: See also: ABC debate moderators spark public's fury for aggressive fact-checking of Trump, easy treatment of Harris

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Desperation - Attacks on RT reveal the sad truth about the West

Tarik Cyril Amar
RT
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 09:42 UTC
Tony Blinken
© Drew AngererU.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
With their crusade against their own dissidents, the US and its allies betray the desperation of their collective propaganda machine.

The US and its ever-loyal followers Canada and Great Britain have launched a fresh information war offensive. If "fresh" is the word: In a new season of the long-running, apparently never-ever ending Russia Rage show (aka "Russiagate") that at least the American "elites" simply cannot get enough of, it is again - drum roll - RT that is the target. This time, it stands accused not "merely" of spreading "disinformation" (that is, any information Western governments do not like) but of intelligence work as well.

And then some. Such as trying to influence the American elections (yaaawn) and somehow being linked to collecting volunteer contributions for Russia's war effort in Ukraine - a form of outreach, by the way, which is exactly the same as what Ukrainian organizations do. There also is an even more terrifying revelation. It has dawned on some troglodytes in the US State Department that RT is not relying on mechanical typewriters and the telegraph but has a "cyber" capability!

Comment: See also:

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Meta bans RT


RT
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 07:53 UTC
META
© Nikolas Kokovlis / NurPhoto via Getty Images
The Facebook owner has announced the move after Washington claimed Russian outlets are espionage offshoots.

US tech giant Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, has banned several Russian news networks, including RT. Since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022, Meta has been cooperating with a ban on RT imposed by numerous Western nations, particularly EU members.

In a statement on Monday, the company said the deplatforming of the media outlets from its apps is due to "foreign interference activity" and would be implemented globally over the next several days.

The US government sanctioned RT last week, with Secretary of State Antony Blinken claiming that the outlet is "functioning as a de facto arm of [Russian] intelligence."

Comment: See also:

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Bullseye

Lavrov: Even Orwell couldn't have imagined totalitarianism like that of the rules based world order


SABA
Mon, 16 Sep 2024 00:22 UTC
El ministro de Asuntos Exteriores de Rusia, Serguéi Lavrov.
Speaking at a press conference with his Egyptian counterpart Badr Ahmed Abdel Ati, the Russian minister said that despite Orwell's fertile imagination and historical insight, he could not have imagined what a totalitarian state would look like.

Lavrov said: "Orwell described some of the features of such a state, but he could not reach the depth of totalitarianism that we see now in the framework of the so-called rule-based system," Lavrov said.

Comment: Footage:

Indeed. Whilst the rules-based-reality may not be quite as fantastical as 1984 - although it has its moments - its sinister reach is certainly all pervasive, and the cruelty and death that lie in its wake are near unfathomable:

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Nuke

Nuclear war off the board

Julian MacFarlane
News Forensics
Mon, 16 Sep 2024 22:06 UTC
As I wrote last time, Vladimir Putin is not playing chess with the Americans - but Wei Chi, what the Japanese call Go.

The Americans make one move at a time, trying to take Russian pieces off the board, as in chess or maybe checkers.

In Wei Chi, stones are not taken off the board - they must be "captured" by being surrounded so they cannot move. That takes a lot of strategic thinking. You win when your opponent can no longer move — since you have deprived him of options by occupying the squares around him. The goal is to render him powerless.
GO Piecies
© News Forensics
Recently, NATO, specifically the Brits. enabled Ukraine's incursion into Kursk.

To carry out this attack, the Ukrainians had to deplete their forces in Donetsk. As a result now the key logistics hubs of Provosk, Chasov Yar, and Ugledar are surrounded.

When they fall, the UAF will find it difficult to supply its forces, much less move or maneuver in occupied Donetsk, Kharkov, and Kherson — just as a Wei Chi player finds himself with limited or no freedom or movement when his opponent has him hemmed in on at least three sides. Look again at the photo above.

The West predictably responded by attacking what they thought were key pieces on the Russian "board" - threatening to supply Ukraine with weapons, operators and targeting, for long range strikes into Russia.

On the Wei Chi board, however, there are no "key pieces" — no pawns or rooks or bishops or queens or whatever - it's all about strategy. And position.
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AK47

Best of the Web: Would-Be Trump Assassin Palled Around With Neo-Nazi Azov Brigade In Ukraine: What Did The Government Know?

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:01 UTC
ryan routh trump assassin azov brigade ukraine
© LinkedIn/XRyan Routh with members of Ukraine's military
Perhaps the most interesting angle to attempted Trump assassin Ryan Routh's recent history in his Ukraine connection. We documented that when he went to Ukraine to recruit for its International Legion in 2022 he was a Western mainstream media darling for a time, having been quoted on behalf of the cause to get more foreign fighters thrown into the battle against Russia by a who's who of major media sources from FT to Newsweek to the NY Times.

But when he arrived in Ukraine, according to these media reports, the 58-year old Routh himself was considered too old to fight alongside the Ukrainian army. "So plan B," Routh described to one outlet, "was to come to Kiev and promote the idea of many others coming to join the International Legion. We need thousands of people here to fight alongside Ukrainians."

"There are about 190 countries on our planet, and if the governments are not officially sending soldiers here, then we civilians should pick up this torch and make it happen," he described. He had told Newsweek in a video interview from Ukraine that the war with Russia was as simple as "good vs. evil" and essentially the same as good guys and bad guys in the Hollywood movies Americans grew up with. It was not a gray conflict, he described, but "black and white".

Comment: Russia has a theory. Ukraine seems to have a lot to lose from a Trump presidency.



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Bizarro Earth

Genocide in the foreground, world war looming in the background


The Free Thought Project
Mon, 16 Sep 2024 00:00 UTC
putinrockets
© thefreethoughtproject.comRussian President Vladimir Putin
"If I were to describe our present geopolitical situation in ten words or less it would be "Genocide in the foreground, world war looming in the background."
- Caitlin Johnstone
While attention is justifiably focused on the present horrors in Gaza and the imminent possibility that it could spark another war in the middle east, the world's power structures are once again dividing themselves up into two increasingly intimate alliance groups with an increasingly hostile and militaristic posture toward each other.

As Ukraine loses more and more territory and soldiers to Russia, both Washington and Kyiv are demonstrating an openness to ramping up attacks on a nuclear superpower in ways that would have been unthinkable a few years ago. Meanwhile, Russia and China are growing more and more intimate in preparation for future aggressions from the US power alliance.

Antiwar's Dave Decamp has a few articles out right now which highlight this disturbing trend simmering in the background amid the waking nightmare in the foreground, on top of all the other dangerous escalations we've been discussing in this space.
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