[Babylon Bee] Jussie Smollett was sentenced on Thursday to a grueling 150 days in prison, 30 months of probation, and a $120,000 fine because he orchestrated a fake hate crime against himself. The former "Empire" actor has condemned the judge's sentence, saying he only received such a harsh sentence because he "created a hoax and tried to start a race war."
"Will the injustice never end?" Smollett asked at his hearing. "Your honor, I respect you and I respect the jury, but you're all stupid. This sentence shows a clear bias against people who stage hoaxes and try to start deadly race wars! You are just prejudiced against me because I wasted the time of the police and the rest of the country as well as millions of taxpayer dollars. I also inflamed riots around the country that led to billions in damage and dozens of lives lost. And people who do those things deserve light sentences just like those who don't do those things!"
Jussie Smollett has been transferred to Cook County Jail where he's already busy staging a fake suicide.
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Looks like Smelly's getting chubby. Is that how they like their bitches in the Big House?
[LoneStarParson}Religious leaders around the world, like Justsin Welby, Pope Francis and Foley improbably named Beach have condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Quite right too, we hate war, but consider. Imagine you were Head of State, a veritable Vladimir Putin.
Imagine, and then consider your borders. Would you put up with, if you had a choice, a hostile power financing and controlling bioweapons labs in a neighboring state and threatening to join a military alliance against you?
It sounds weird and preposterous, but that's exactly what we've been doing. Gay Pride Ukraine and big woke Trannie Corp's gonna take down monster Putin and turn Russia into a rainbow utopia.
A utopia in which you will WEF own nothing and be happy because your bathrooms are multisexual. That would be the West and the Zelensky Ukraine we're all cheering for. The Moscow Patriarchate says no, and so do Russia's MLRS which are pounding Karkov tonight with furious abandon.
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Imagine, and then consider your borders. Would you put up with, if you had a choice, a hostile power financing and controlling bioweapons labs in a neighboring state and threatening to join a military alliance against you?
Or drugs? Or dumping millions of aliens upon you?
We're there already.
[Tablet] The purpose of the Biden team’s anti-Israel smear campaign is not just to make the Israelis look like they sympathize with a tyrant while offering to hide the blood money of their Russian co-religionists. That part is just ugly propaganda. The strategic purpose of the administration’s campaign is to force Jerusalem into an error that would give Putin reason to move against Israel, and thereby further limit its ability to strike Iran or its allies. As with Obama, Biden’s moves against Israel are keyed to the Iran deal.
Despite some occasional public vows of affection for Israel, Obama’s performative progressives, who staff nearly every important position in the Biden administration, do not see it as an ally. Insofar as Israel jeopardizes the Iran deal, it is a U.S. adversary. Russia, on the other hand, is an important partner in getting the deal across the finish line.
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Subtitled: The president and his people try to seal a new Iran deal by hanging their appeasement of Putin on Israel
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But these "deals" are not treaties, so the senate's approval is not needed. Like his boss, Joe will sell us out with his phone and pen.
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I don't get it. Russia attacks Ukraine, so Russia's evil and must be punished at any cost to us. But Russia helps Iran, so Russia's our friend and has to be appeased at any cost...Can someone explain what's going on here?
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Jack, I must have missed the part where they were actually doing anything to defend Ukraine from Russia. All they're doing is finding someone to blame.
[TheDiplomad] Russia's invasion of the nation of Ukraine grinds on.
It most certainly does not look like the blitzkrieg most of the world expected. Whether this is due to Ukrainian resistance, Russia incompetence, or just a slow deliberate methodical approach to the invasion, none of us outside of Putin's inner circle knows.
From my vantage point, and with the scant knowledge I have, it strikes me as though Putin's plans might have changed at the last minute. It appeared that his forces were building up to launch an invasion of eastern Ukraine, protecting the "independent" republics in that part of the country, and, perhaps, firming up the Russian position around Crimea. It SEEMS--those more knowledgeable, please join the discussion--that the plan got expanded at the last minute, and a multi-prong invasion of Ukraine was undertaken. This new plan, it SEEMS (there's that word), was neither fully developed nor properly resourced; it had not counted on the resistance APPARENTLY shown by the Ukrainians, or the reported incompetence of the Russian logistical system. If this proves so, Russia risks becoming a puppet, a colony of the PRC. The reports coming out that indicate Russia seeks Chinese military equipment and economic assistance seem--that word--to bear this out. That process is underway, it SEEMS.
I really don't know, and my speculation proves almost worth the price of admission to this blog.
What makes it even harder to figure out what's happening is the almost total shut-down of information from Russia, not by the autocrats and yacht-set oligarchs in Moscow, but by the autocrats and tech oligarchs of the "Free" World. If one expresses an interest in hearing the other side of the story, one risks getting labelled a traitor, and getting de-platformed or otherwise shutdown. We see Senator Mitt Romney, for example, calling former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard a traitor because she's asking questions about the bio-lab issue. What? A "traitor"? A death penalty offense? The USA is not a belligerent in this conflict; it is between two foreign nations, neither an ally of the USA. How is questioning the official line "treason"? Is dissent now treason? We have to accept the government line or we are traitors? Just as with COVID, we see our masters using a crisis to stifle democracy and independence of thought at home. What happened to the slogan from just a few months ago that dissent is the highest form of patriotism? Boy, that shifted quickly. They have to make all this noise because they're the ones who empowered Putin to wage this war and desperately need no-one to notice.
Ending the assault on freedom at home is issue number one.
We also see that these new found "patriots" calling on us to rally around the president and the flag do nothing to protect the long-term interests of the USA--a country many of them openly hate. In fact, they actively work to undermine the position of the US in the world and destroy freedom and prosperity at home.
I have said this before, sorry, but will say it again. The USA can only have security by restoring not just our energy independence, but our technical and industrial independence, as well. This is actually not that hard to do. On energy it's obvious: remove the absurd "green-powered" restrictions on oil, gas, coal, and nuclear development. On industry, takes a little longer, but we need to start. A combination of tax, regulatory, and tariff policies can go far in bringing industry home, stopping the hemorrhaging of our jobs and technical know-how. Sorry, but all those PRC-citizen students in our universities studying science and engineering, need to leave. This is not racist; this is common sense.
We are fools to allow the PRC to mine our technical institutes and companies. The gravy train should end for those American tech moguls who get rich outsourcing key industries. It is absurd, for example, that we have become nearly 100% dependent on China and India for antibiotics, and becoming increasingly likewise dependent on China for microchips and other key components for civilian and military applications.
Reestablishing our energy independence and industrial base is issue number two.
I wish the Ukrainians good luck; I hate what is happening there. My overwhelming concern, however, is for the United States. No more foolish wars or endless expansion of our commitments, and so-called interests abroad. No more flag-draped caskets coming home.
Isolationism? That maligned word? Yes, maybe.You might call it that. I, however, find the word less and less odious, and ever more endearing.
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With the development of a narco-anarchy on our southern border and a Marxist tyranny on the northern border, we need our military to defend ourselves.
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The totalitarian impulse to shut down debate strongly underlines the weakness of the argument being protected. Senator Romney should be ashamed of himself.
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If America ever actually got serious about its borders, that would just make the rest of the world want in even more.
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She's taking flak, and therefor is over the target.
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#1 for that to happen you'll need to decapitate the top levels of the services who forgot that their primary mission is to protect the homeland first.
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Strong stuff. I didn’t realize the education piece — I saw the impact a generation of brilliant Russian-Jewish immigrant mathematicians and scientists had on Israel, and assume that those left at home were more of the same.
[Winteroak.org.uk] Welcome to the second phase of the Great Reset: War.
While the pandemic acclimatised the world to lockdowns, normalised the acceptance of experimental medications, precipitated the greatest transfer of wealth to corporations by decimating SMEs and adjusted the muscle memory of workforce operations in preparation for a cybernetic future, an additional vector was required to accelerate the economic collapse before nations can ’Build Back Better.’
I present below several ways in which the current conflict between Russia and Ukraine is the next catalyst for the World Economic Forum’s Great Reset agenda, facilitated by an interconnected web of global stakeholders and a diffuse network of public-private partnerships.
Points brought forward sans full narrative:
1. The war between Russia and Ukraine is already causing unprecedented disruption to global supply chains, exacerbating fuel shortages and inducing chronic levels of inflation.
2. The war’s economic fallout will lead to a dramatic downsizing of the global workforce.
3. The war has significantly reduced Europe’s reliance on the Russian energy sector and reinforced the centrality of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and ‘net zero‘ emissions which lies at the heart of the Great Reset.
4. Food shortages created by the war will offer a major boon to the synthetic biology industry as the convergence of digital technologies with materials science and biology will radically transform the agricultural sector and encourage the adoption of plant-based and lab-grown alternatives on a global scale.
5. Russia’s exclusion from SWIFT (The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) foreshadows an economic reset which will generate precisely the kind of blowback necessary for corralling large swathes of the global population into a technocratic control grid.
6. This war marks a major inflection point in the globalist aspiration for a new international rules based order anchored in Eurasia.
7. With speculation mounting over the war’s long term impact on bilateral trade flows between China and Europe, the Russia-Ukraine conflict will catapult Israel – a leading advocate of the Great Reset – to even greater international prominence.
8. It is now common knowledge that Digital IDs are a central plank in the World Economic Forum’s Great Reset agenda and are to be streamlined across industries, supply chains and markets as a way of advancing the UN 2030 SDGs and delivering individualised and integrated services in future smart cities.
9. Europe is directly in the line of fire once a hybrid war between NATO and the Sino-Russia axis is underway.
10. The economic implications of this war will be so disastrous that governments and the public sector will require a significant injection of private capital to address the financing shortfall.
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Last week Russia's exclusion from SWIFT spelled the end of globalism; now it's an essential step.
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Do people not really understand that there are all different kinds of points of view out there and that they're going to have different interpretations of events? Are people really that simple-minded?
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The economic implications of this war will be so disastrous that governments and the public sector will require a significant injection of private capital to address the financing shortfall
Well of course. How to Destroy A Democratic Republic in Five Easy Steps
1. Spin up Russia Hoax, Steal election (operation Anti-Orange Revolution), Grab Power
2. Spin up Plague Hoax, Grab More Power, Crush Main Street
3. Use recession to justify $5T in new spending, 90% of it needless by its own standards, and set off Hyperinflation
4. Along with #3, Stoke even more Inflation by choking off new O&G production, and Pummel the US middle class
5. Encourage Ruritanian jokers to poke the Bear and provoke a war that's none of our business, then impose the Mother of All Sanctions on the world's biggest wheat and precious metals exporter so as to destroy what's left of the American middle class
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Thanks to Putin's foolishness, American farmers look to have a very profitable year with exports in big demand. Only hope they planted more wheat and less soy for Chinese pigs.
As for metals, live with a few less stainless steel clad appliances for a few years. The style is worn out and out of fashion.
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^ I don't think that gaslighting will work much. Most Americans interest in the Ukraine mess stops at "we don't want to be involved," (as it should.) They don't look at it in the depth that's going on here.
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/\ Exactly correct. Something akin to getting the snooty French waiter the third time in a row.
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I just re-read and Anti-Orange Revolution line and realized it probably meant against the Orange-revolution in Ukraine, but I read it as anti-Trump revolution.
[American Conservative] Propaganda riven with sympathy for the plucky defenders has dominated the early days of the Ukraine war. This purposefully created a false sense of Russian setbacks and a misunderstanding of Russian strategy. The Russians are executing a standard mechanized warfare maneuver in line with their goals, attacking south from Belarus to link up with forces attacking northward from Crimea. When they link up south of Kiev, Ukraine will be split into two. Kiev may be bypassed, or it may be destroyed, but that is secondary to the larger strategic maneuver. Another Russian thrust from east to west seeks to cut the nation into quarters so Ukrainian forces cannot reinforce one another.
Forget all the silliness about the Russians running out of gas; their supply lines are short (many Russian forces are within 70 miles of their own border), protected, and over decent roads. This is what is happening on the ground and Ukrainian forces are in no position to do anything but delay it. Watching war through a smartphone from a peaceful country may help you believe the Russian assault is going poorly, but that is at odds with the facts.
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Right. Sp all those photos and battdame assessment by @Oyrx and OSNIT Twitter all fake.? Right?
And how"s the Blitzkrieg working out? O right again, Russian armour is scrap metal.
And finally let's not about logistics. No siree. Trust the plan!
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I see three likely endings, the order is random, not in likelyhood or preference of outcome:
(1) Russians run out of material and retrench back to the independent areas and Crimea (with or without a peace treaty). Those areas become parts of Russia.
(2) Afghan option. Russia occupies all of Ukraine and the people fight for a decade with support from the west. Eventually after a long time, perhaps a decade, the Russians pull back but keep those same independent areas and Crimea.
(3) Putin is removed and Russian troops are brought back to Russia. Status of the independent areas and Crimea may be returned to Ukraine in hopes of rejoining the world community. Then again they may not be. Putin could possibly be removed by someone worse than him, no way to tell at this point.
[FOXNEWS] Bombing a maternity hospital, They did that in Chechnya too. Look how they rounded up the perps...
shelling residential buildings, firing on fleeing refugees, and destroying any infrastructure that supports the lives of innocent civilians ... are all war crimes under international law. Whoever is involved in the chain of command that gave the orders — all the way up to the head of state — can and should be charged. This means Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... must be indicted for war crimes.
There is no question about who issued the orders. The invasion of Ukraine and the cruel bombing campaign cannot be blamed on a rogue Russian general. It was organized and directed by Putin himself. He admitted as much in his maniacal vows to destroy his perceived enemies in neighboring Ukraine.
Historically, the gathering of incriminating evidence has been both difficult and time-consuming. Perpetrators cover up their crimes and witnesses are reluctant to speak out in fear for their own lives. But the atrocities in Ukraine are different.
On a daily basis, the world has watched in real time many of the war crimes committed by the military forces that Putin controls. Thanks to modern technology, the evidence has been collected by news hounds with cameras, as well as Ukrainians on their cellphones or other devices. Satellite images confirm the death and destruction.
The compilation and authentication of the damning evidence is no longer an obstacle as it once was. It has already been communicated electronically throughout the world and stored. We have watched it unfold with our own eyes.
The appalling video of the bombings as they happened, photographs of mangled bodies of women and kiddies, pictures of mass graves, and the personal accounts of the carnage by those who watched in horror constitute self-evident proof.
In the city of Mariupol alone, some 1,200 civilians were slaughtered. That number seems to rise by the hour. The names of the victims and how they were massacred by Putin’s heavily armed troops have been meticulously recorded.
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How many regiments does the world court have to take Putin captive and bring him to trial?
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Obama dropped 200,000 bombs killing and maiming tens of thousands of women and children, bombed a Doctors Without Borders hospital and sent gunners in to kill the fleeing nurses and patients.
> The attacks took place despite the fact that MSF had provided the GPS coordinates of the trauma hospital to the US Department of Defense, Afghan Ministry of Interior and Defense and US Army in Kabul as recently as Tuesday, 29 September. The attack continued for more than 30 minutes after we first informed Resolute Support and US military officials in Kabul and Washington that it was a hospital being hit.
Is this one of those things where it's OK when Democrats commit war crimes but not OK when anyone else does it?
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^ It's not about only Democrats. Americans can commit, support and fund any attrocity on the globe as long the media provides the right vibes. And they can call it a sad but necessary action, one event in a long journey of America's evolution as the world's gunslinging cowboy.
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^ Quick quiz: How did Libya go from a functioning socialist country where everyone got enough from the government to live to civil war and literal slave markets?
Khadaffy wasn't a good guy, but Jesus. Imagine for just a minute and put your own feet in the shoes of Libyans, Iraqis, Afghans, Yemenis, and Syrians. Each time you hear the name America, would you not feel badly physically existentially threatened?
The deep state in charge of the wars are horribly bad, evil people who need to be removed and replaced with a government that represents the interests of the American people. Obama and Bush need to be turned over to the ICC for trial at The Hague for war crimes.
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Never going to happen. If it was, Obama would be there, Bush would be there, etc...
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How did Libya go from a functioning socialist country
The Al Qaeda-linked jihadis Libya produced in those years spawned ISIS-pledged jihadis in their children, who went on to blow up the children of the countries they fled to, while colonel Moammar Khadaffy trained and supported an endless list of primarily but not exclusively socialist/communist terrorist groups: a variety of Palestinians, the Black Panthers and Nation of Islam, Sandinistas, ANC, Provos, Red Brigades and Red Army Faction, Moros, etc.
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Bringing the leader of a Permanent member of the Security Council up on war crimes is not get anywhere.
Also Russia has pact with China so even if Russia couldn't vote on this thing they are protected, and even without the pact China would be a fool as this would open them up to all sorts of crimes regarding their Muslim slave/organ donor population.
Lastly, if it went through, the leaders of the west would bring themselves up for real or imagined actions. None of them are gonna risk that kind of harassments.
This is stupid. If anything go after the General that got the order to ensure the next General given such orders might reconsider...
[ConservativeTreehouse] Fox News correspondent Steve Harrigan returns from Ukraine with a somber message about the situation and likely future. Harrigan notes that Russian victory in Ukraine is a foregone conclusion — Ukraine will be flattened if needed. However, that outcome comes at a serious cost.
The war inside Ukraine will wage on for years as an insurgency against Vladimir Putin. The western alliance will spend trillions if needed. NATO will kill as many Ukrainians and mercenary units as needed in order to battle Vladimir Putin in a proxy war. The industrial war machine will gleefully churn out the material needed for the DC based political war machine to purchase.
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The industrial war machine will gleefully churn out the material needed for the DC based political war machine to purchase.
Schwinn bicycles, the Delta-88, and the Selectric-III are gone. War is now our business, and business appears to be good.
Yes Leonard, there is a very good reason Donald Trump is no longer the president.
“The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia, but to keep the very structure of society intact”.
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The problem with this statement is that Russia doesn't have the industrial base to keep up with the level of war expenditures. A war sucks up all your ammo, supplies and fuel faster than anything and at greater levels than planned. And Russia is almost out of all those things, especially with 70-75% of its total military now deployed into the Ukraine.
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Anything we can afford to wait out, we should wait out. This, of course, is the one approach that the frantic media and our frantic politicians are completely averse to.
"Do something! Now!" is the only course they know.
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Read the second paragraph of the original post. Who is cast as the aggressor? NATO. NATO didn't invade the Ukraine; Putin's Russia did.
Putin can end the war in a couple of days and Russia will continue to exist; the Ukrainians can only end the war by surrendering. Given the Holodomor, why should they?
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this war has already sucked up nearly all of Russia's best combat battalions.
that's why they are working to get mercenaries from Syria, train war capable criminals, transfer units from Siberia, etc.
I don't know for sure how bad their finances are they are likely also pretty dicey now and getting worse by the day.
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Interesting that he accuses NATO, not Putin, of killing Ukranians. I wonder if he accuses the French of killing American revolutionaries.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[Babylon Bee] Jussie Smollett was sentenced on Thursday to a grueling 150 days in prison, 30 months of probation, and a $120,000 fine because he orchestrated a fake hate crime against himself. The former "Empire" actor has condemned the judge's sentence, saying he only received such a harsh sentence because he "created a hoax and tried to start a race war."
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
