[Substack] POP QUIZ: How did Julian Assange first become famous?
ANSWER: In 2007, Assange and his new Wikileaks website helped destabilize Kenya. Assange interfered in Kenya’s general election, helping to trigger a bloodbath that killed more than 1,100 Kenyans.
Assange freely admitted his role in the Kenyan color revolution. In 2010, he boasted to The Guardian that Wikileaks had "changed the result" of Kenya's 2007 election. Such operations, said Assange, were part of Wikileaks' "important" "global role."
Of course, Assange was exaggerating, overinflating his own importance. He obviously did not change the result of Kenya’s election singlehandedly. Assange accomplished this only with massive help from a sovereign government. Kenya is a former British colony and its 2007 color revolution appears to have been a British operation. Wittingly or unwittingly, Assange synchronized his efforts with those of the British Foreign Office and George Soros. I have previously written about Soros' ties to the British establishment.
British Cut-Out?
On April 20, 2019, Martin Minns of The Star (Kenya) wrote an in-depth investigative report in which he revealed—among other things—that Wikileaks.org was registered in Nairobi in October 2006. It shared a PO Box with Mars Group Kenya, an NGO partly funded by the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID).
Mars Group Kenya was founded by Mwalimu Mati and his wife Jayne in December 2006. Mati had formerly headed the Kenya office of Transparency International, a Soros-funded "anti-corruption" group based in Berlin.
Mati thus had strong links to the British government and to Soros’s NGO network. He was perfectly placed to act as a go-between—a cut-out—between Assange and the other participants in Kenya’s forthcoming color revolution.
Much evidence suggests that this is exactly the role Mati played in the operation.
The Kroll Report
Assange boasts that he triggered Kenya's 2007 color revolution by releasing a secret report from Kroll Associates UK Limited, a private intelligence firm in London. The report accused former Kenyan president Daniel Arap Moi of massive corruption.
By accusing Moi, the Kroll report cast a shadow on sitting president Mwai Kibaki—who was running for reelection with Moi’s endorsement. Wikileaks published the Kroll report on August 30, 2007. The UK newspaper The Guardian showcased the story the next day.
The Star (Kenya) later quoted Assange saying that he had chosen the release date for "political timing"; that the leaked report "swung the election" by "shifting the vote 10 per cent"; and that Assange believed his actions had "changed the world."
[Daily Caller] In early World War II, on Nov. 30, 1939, a Soviet-Russian army invaded Finland in a surprise massive attack. The Finns were eventually outnumbered nearly three to one. The population of the Soviet Union in 1940 was 50 times larger than that of Finland’s.
Finland’s former anti-Soviet ally, Nazi Germany, had sold it out under the August 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, which made Germany and Russia de facto allies.
Finland’s other allies, particularly France and Britain, were slow in giving aid. Both were unsure whether Finland had any chance of survival. And they were further confused as to whether their archenemy Germany was friendly or hostile to Finland.
Yet for nearly the next four months, the Finns fought ferociously. They were led brilliantly by their iconic general and commander-in-chief, Carl Mannerheim.
By March 1940, however, the brave but exhausted Finns were being slowly ground down. Soon they were facing abject defeat — even after courageously inflicting nearly 500,000 Russian causalities, ten times the number of their own dead, wounded and missing.
Finnish ferocity shocked Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. Eventually, he was willing to abandon his original objective of controlling, if not annexing, Finland — in exchange for stealing nine percent of Finland’s territory.
Mannerheim reluctantly took the deal, stopped the war and saved an autonomous Finland.
The fallout from the Winter War directly influenced World War II.
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[REGNUM] Ukraine has not been living for a long time, but surviving due to the influx of Western money, while due to huge and non-transparent expenses, the country has been repeatedly predicted to go bankrupt. Nevertheless, Western countries keep Kyiv afloat, negotiating new tranches for Ukraine. Ukraine's Western allies have spoken more than once about the current dangerous economic situation for the Kiev regime. As The Economist wrote, the Ukrainian authorities could declare default as early as August if they fail to agree on debt restructuring. Continued on Page 49
Po'boys or pizza, it's food wrapped in dough.
But noshing's the thing when diplomacy's slow.
The shape of the table? We don't care to know.
We'll have Putin and po'boys. And let's call some hoes!
[Ben Sellers, Headline USA] The implosion of President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign has been years in the making and highly anticipated.
Really, the biggest surprise, if any, has been how long the Left was able to milk the absurd notion that their political placeholder was a viable candidate.
As many have since noted, it speaks to the sheer toxicity that infects the corrupt conglomerate of corporations, information gatekeepers and partisan special-interests within the Beltway.
The Biden debate scandal and subsequent fallout effectively proved that not only has lying within the political Establishment become systemic, but it makes no difference if it is even a credible lie.
There is an almost taunting quality to putting forth something utterly implausible and challenging people to question it, knowing they lack the institutional power to hold the liars accountable.
GOING OVERBOARD
Most recognize that the current predicament is just another means to an ends—out with the old and in with the new: a candidate who must be capable of running on short notice with the existing funding sources and infrastructure needed to offset Trump’s advantage, and someone who both has the name recognition needed for a possible write-in campaign along with the perception of being a political outsider.
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There is an almost taunting quality to putting forth something utterly implausible and challenging people to question it, knowing they lack the institutional power to hold the liars accountable.
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There are people who refuse to believe lies, suckers and shills. Most of the suckers have been cleared out of Biden’s support. What is left are folks who know Joe is a puppet but like the policies.
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The way MSM reports on Project 2025 makes me suspect it is a false flag operation.
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[American Thinker] We now have a trend on the left: confusion. Leftists have fallen into an abyss. They are in the middle of full-throated chaos.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer group.
There has been this idea the left never makes mistakes, never falls into the whirlpools of self-destruction. Some on the right had begun to think of leftists as infallible. That’s one reason we are so feckless in countering their nonsense. They make themselves appear smarter and more powerful than they really are.
And here they are, caught. Their timing couldn’t be worse. Even better, they are facing choices that are not just difficult, but each choice will cause more problems.
Look at the confusion since the debate. Many of the party media apparatchiks immediately shared the truth: Joe had been a disaster. They became gloomy, donning sackcloth and groveling. Then Obama came out with his "one bad debate" line. Party bigs began using that same talking point, and all was well...really...
Hillary said she was behind Joe all the way. The campaign said Joe had a cold. Jill scolded America and her Cabinet for believing there was a problem.
Then it changed. Nancy Pelosi asking if this was an episode or a condition. It was reported that Obama was fine with an open convention to pick the nominee. Many other Democrats continue to say Joe may not be up to it after all, and he should step down.
Confusion reigns.
This has no easy fix — mainly because all their choices in this matter have negatives. Each one carries deep, difficult problems.
[IsraelTimes] 2 soldiers have been killed recently by explosive devices buried under roads. Data on IED manufacture shows a fast-growing threat. The fear is that civilians will be targeted next.
In barely a week, the Israel Defense Forces has lost two fighters to powerful roadside kabooms in the West Bank. Cpt. Alon Sacgiu, 22, a sniper team commander in the Kfir Brigade’s Haruv reconnaissance unit, was killed in a kaboom in the Jenin refugee camp on June 27; Sgt. First Class (res.) Yehuda Geto, 22, a combat driver, was killed in a kaboom in the Nur Shams refugee camp on July 1.
Sources at the IDF’s Central Command speak extensively about the deepening threat posed by these improvised bombs (IEDs), and the imperative to tackle the hostile areas where they are being planted in order to preserve the IDF’s freedom of action.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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