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'Anti-white' Scottish First Minister quits after disastrous 'hate crime law'

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Mon, 29 Apr 2024 15:16 UTC
Humza Yousaf
© Reuters/Russell CheyneHumza Yousaf speaks at the Scottish National Party (SNP) conference in Glasgow, Scotland, October 10, 2017.
Scotland's leader Humza Yousaf resigned on Monday, quitting as head of the pro-independence Scottish National Party (SNP) after scrapping a coalition agreement with Scotland's Greens. He then failed to secure enough support to survive votes of no confidence against him expected later this week.

Yousaf, born to Pakistani immigrants in Glasgow, built an infamous reputation as a woke activist politician going into the 2023 elections. His rabid pro-immigration stance and consistent arguments in favor of DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) should have been a red flag to the Scottish public; however, with an increasingly progressive voting population Yousaf narrowly scored a victory. Here is Humza in 2020, giving a speech admonishing the "whiteness" of the Scottish government.

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Broom

US Navy withdraws largest assets from Red Sea


Almasirah
Tue, 30 Apr 2024 14:10 UTC
US Navy warship
The US Navy claimed that the aircraft carrier "USS Dwight D. Eisenhower" and the destroyer "USS Gravely" withdrew from the Red Sea to the eastern Mediterranean and the withdrawal announcement did not include the destroyers "USS Mason" and "USS Philippine Sea" in the Red Sea.

It indicated that the aircraft carrier "USS Dwight D. Eisenhower" and the destroyer "USS Gravely" crossed the Suez Canal today, Friday, to the eastern Mediterranean, after leaving the Red Sea.

The "USNI News" website, affiliated with the US Navy, said that the departure of the aircraft carrier "USS Dwight D. Eisenhower" from the Red Sea leaves the US Central Command area without a strike carrier group or a ready amphibious group for the first time since last October.

Comment: The US Naval Institute reports:
It is unclear how long the two ships will remain in the Med.

[...]

The release did not include the locations of USS Mason (DDG-87) and USS Philippine Sea (CG-58), the other destroyer and cruiser that make up the Ike CSG. Like Gravely, Mason has shot down a number of Houthi missiles and drones as part of the U.S. response in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. The last time Ike made a port call it was four months ago in Bahrain ahead of its shift to the Red Sea in late December.

Ike is expected to be replaced by the Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group, which was in the Western Atlantic conducting an exercise, as of Monday, according to USNI News Fleet and Marine Tracker.

The Houthis appeared to slow their Red Sea attacks with a gap between April 16 and April 24. The Yemen-based group has fired anti-ballistic missiles and drones over the Gulf of Aden on April 24 and 25, according to Central Command releases.

It is not clear what led to the pause. Pentagon Press Secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder referred reporters to the Houthis.


Around April 15th Israel was warning of it's retaliation against Iran, and there was also the proposed Rafah genocide.


"Well, again, in terms of the Houthi mindset, in terms of why they opted to not conduct attacks for a couple of weeks, that's really something best left for them to address," Ryder said during a Thursday press conference. "I would say that regardless, our focus hasn't shifted, which is working with our international partners to ensure the freedom of navigation through the Red Sea."

Houthi leader Abdul-Malik Badruldeen al-Houthi took to Telegram Thursday to highlight the movement of American ships out of the Red Sea.

"The American naval presence has shrunk, and many of its warships have disappeared and have spread to the outskirts of the Red Sea," according to a translation of the Telegram post.
Whilst Western militaries have been humiliated, yet again, and some analysts have commented that missions such as these do necessitate a rest period, could it also be that they're preparing for an escalation of another kind?

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Best of the Web: What comes first, a Rafah invasion or a Netanyahu ousting?

Khalil Harb
The Cradle
Mon, 29 Apr 2024 12:09 UTC
Netanyahu
© The CradleFacing domestic and international pressure for Israel's US-backed Gaza assault, the Biden administration appears poised to throw Netanyahu under the proverbial bus.
In Gaza, a metaphorical "hostage" scenario has emerged, centered on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose political future is being bartered at a steep political price.

Although not physically detained, Netanyahu has been shackled by a complex situation since the 7 October Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, when Palestinian resistance groups took hundreds of soldiers and civilians captive as a bargaining chip.

That operation and Israel's subsequent brutal assault on Gaza has ensnared Netanyahu in a political and strategic quagmire, complicating his position daily and undermining his war objectives.

Internationally, Israel's carefully constructed image has entered pariah status, as accusations of "genocide," "war crimes," and "apartheid" fly liberally around global capital buildings and in mass street protests. This is a language that signals a strategic defeat for Tel Aviv - not at all the 'military victory' Netanyahu had promised his constituents and allies.

Comment: See also: Rafah operation threatens to be a 'disaster for Israel' - Former IDF Major General

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Snakes in Suits

EU leaders 'fooling' people with horror stories about Russia - Kremlin


RT
Mon, 29 Apr 2024 10:51 UTC
Kreml, Moscow
© Sputnik / Natalia Seliverstova
Western rhetoric painting Moscow as a threat is a way of distracting citizens from problems at home, Dmitry Peskov says

Warnings from some EU leaders that Russia could attack other European countries if it prevails in the Ukraine conflict are "horror stories" made up to distract people from domestic problems in their own countries, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.

Comment: Since the US has much autonomy at the bases they occupy in various European countries, and have weapon systems that can carry nuclear weapons, denials from officials like the Polish FM Radoslaw Sikorsky and Jens Stoltenberg are of little merit.

1) For the US Government and aligned people, it is of advantage to maintain high tensions in Europe. Besides turning attention away from internal issues, as Peskov suggests, increased defence spendings amounts to more US produced weapons being added to the European shopping carts, and money going away from the EU economies, thus supporting the US economy cannibalizing the European.
2) The EU and NATO have invested much in Ukraine, some countries so much that their identity is becoming fused with the need to keep the fight going.
3) Comparing the Wikis for Enlargement of NATO with Generalplan Ost reveals a few similarities, of which depopulating parts of Eastern Europe is a common result. And would not some of the architects of Operation Barbarossa have applauded the high number of dead descendants of the Soviets?

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Ukraine running out of troops for US to train - WaPo


RT
Mon, 29 Apr 2024 07:06 UTC
Ukrainian Soldier
© Florida Army National GuardA Ukrainian Soldier watches the horizon during an exercise at the Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, May 3, 2022
The last American-trained brigade left Germany in January or February, a US official told the newspaper.

The number and frequency of Ukrainian soldiers receiving training in US bases in Western Europe has dropped to almost zero in the last months, suggesting that Kiev is running out of men to fight Russian forces, US officials have told the Washington Post.

American instructors began training Ukrainian troops in April 2022, with drills taking place at the Grafenwoehr Training Area in Germany. Some 3,100 Ukrainian soldiers had received US training by the end of 2022. The program was expanded in January 2023 to train 12 brigades in the run-up to Kiev's disastrous summer counteroffensive.

In addition to these 12 brigades, three brigades were trained by other European nations, while American instructors taught combined arms tactics to a tank battalion and two national guard battalions.

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Attention

The travesties of the Trump trials

Victor Davis Hanson
American Greatness
Mon, 29 Apr 2024 06:48 UTC
donald trump on trial
Do not believe the White House/mainstream media-concocted narrative that the four criminal court cases — prosecuted by Alvin Bragg, Letitia James, Jack Smith, and Fani Willis — were not in part coordinated, synchronized, and timed to reach their courtroom psychodramatic finales right during the 2024 campaign season.

These local, state, and federal Lilliputian agendas were designed to tie down, gag, confine, bankrupt, and destroy Trump psychologically and physically. They are the final lawfare denouement to years of extra-legal efforts to emasculate him.

Indeed, the nation is by now worn out by these serial assaults on constitutional norms: the Hillary-funded Steele dossier subterfuge; the pre-election Russian laptop disinformation campaign; the two impeachments without special counsel reports; the impeachment Senate trial of a private citizen; the effort to remove Trump's name from state ballots; the ongoing attempt to emasculate the Electoral College; or the radical opportune changes in state election laws to ensure massive mail-in balloting.

Recently, Andrew McCarthy has reviewed in depth this coordination between White House personnel and prosecutors, long known and long denied by the left. Biden, for example, had complained to aides about Attorney General Merrick Garland's tardiness in getting special federal prosecutor Smith appointed — and thus apparently ensuring Trump was convicted before the election.

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Tucker Carlson interviews Russian philosopher Aleksandr Dugin


RT
Mon, 29 Apr 2024 06:54 UTC
Aleksandr Dugin
© Tucker Carlson / YouTube
They discussed 'new liberalism' and its role in the fate of Western civilization.

American journalist Tucker Carlson has released a 20-minute interview with high-profile Russian philosopher and political commentator Aleksandr Dugin. The conversation was published on Carlson's YouTube channel on Monday.

The Western media has described Dugin as 'Putin's brain' due to his supposed influence on President Vladimir Putin and the Russian elite.

A fervent critic of the West and foreign policy hawk, Dugin passionately supports Russia's military operation against Kiev, and has stated that an independent Ukrainian state "should not exist."

In 2022, his daughter Darya was killed in a car bombing, which the Russian authorities claim was orchestrated by Ukrainian agents. Several media outlets subsequently cited unnamed US intelligence officials as saying Washington believes that the Ukrainian authorities were indeed involved in the assassination.

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Attention

Divide and Conquer: The government's propaganda of fear and fake news

John & Nisha Whitehead
The Rutherford Institute
Tue, 23 Apr 2024 20:42 UTC
Fake News & Propanganda
© agovernmentofwolves.com
"It is the function of mass agitation to exploit all the grievances, hopes, aspirations, prejudices, fears, and ideals of all the special groups that make up our society, social, religious, economic, racial, political. Stir them up. Set one against the other. Divide and conquer. That's the way to soften up a democracy."― J. Edgar Hoover, Masters of Deceit
"Nothing is real," observed John Lennon, and that's especially true of politics.

Much like the fabricated universe in Peter Weir's 1998 film The Truman Show, in which a man's life is the basis for an elaborately staged television show aimed at selling products and procuring ratings, the political scene in the United States has devolved over the years into a carefully calibrated exercise in how to manipulate, polarize, propagandize and control a population.

Take the media circus that is the Donald Trump hush money trial, which panders to the public's voracious appetite for titillating, soap opera drama, keeping the citizenry distracted, diverted and divided.

This is the magic of the reality TV programming that passes for politics today.

Everything becomes entertainment fodder.

As long as we are distracted, entertained, occasionally outraged, always polarized but largely uninvolved and content to remain in the viewer's seat, we'll never manage to present a unified front against tyranny (or government corruption and ineptitude) in any form.

Studies suggest that the more reality TV people watch — and I would posit that it's all reality TV, entertainment news included — the more difficult it becomes to distinguish between what is real and what is carefully crafted farce.

"We the people" are watching a lot of TV.
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Israel 'undoubtedly' committing genocide says Israeli Holocaust scholar


Middle East Eye
Mon, 29 Apr 2024 19:17 UTC
Amos Goldberg
Holocaust scholar Amos Goldberg
A professor of Holocaust history at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Amos Goldberg, has said that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

In an opinion piece published by The Palestine Project, he argued that the scale of killing and destruction inflicted by Israel on Gaza, constitutes a "deliberate crushing of Palestinian existence in Gaza".

"It's so difficult and painful to admit it, but despite all that... we can no longer avoid this conclusion. Jewish history will be henceforth stained," Goldberg said.

Comment: By this point the few institutions and figureheads denying the genocide, are the ones facilitating it, or directly responsible for it: UN special rapporteur: Israel is deliberately starving Palestinians and it should be held accountable for genocide

Notably, Goldberg is also known for saying that the 'the Working Definition of Antisemitism "has become a tool to silence any criticism of Israeli politics, it has become a tool to silence free speech".

A statement which, a number of years ago, was also highlighted by former Israel MP Shulamit Aloni, who pointed out that accusations of antisemitism are "a trick we use" to suppress criticism of Israel coming from within the United States, while for criticism coming from Europe "we bring up the Holocaust."

See also: Israel's red heifers and the looming sacrifice at Al-Aqsa mosque to bring about the 'messiah and end times' - CBS

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Footprints

We need an exodus from Zionism - Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein
The Guardian
Wed, 24 Apr 2024 09:27 UTC
NYC protest
© abc7ny.comProtest in Grand Central Park, New York City
This Passover, we don't need or want the false idol of Zionism. We want freedom from the project that commits genocide in our name.

I've been thinking about Moses, and his rage when he came down from the mount to find the Israelites worshipping a golden calf. The ecofeminist in me was always uneasy about this story: what kind of God is jealous of animals? What kind of God wants to hoard all the sacredness of the Earth for himself?

But there is a less literal way of understanding this story. It is about false idols. About the human tendency to worship the profane and shiny, to look to the small and material rather than the large and transcendent.

What I want to say to you tonight at this revolutionary and historic Seder in the Streets is that too many of our people are worshipping a false idol once again. They are enraptured by it. Drunk on it. Profaned by it.

That false idol is called Zionism.

Comment: Klein: Brilliant distinctions and a fair share of common sense.

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