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...that would be found in the Declaration of Independence.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
#3
Quickly scanning the nice graphics, one might assume both sides have wackos. Also the wackos have similar experience with protests, military experience, and guns.
Ergo, Rantburg is not a threat!
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I'm expecting the next shoe to drop to be a false flag of a right wing effort, possibly against Joey B. (Hey, they're through with him, right?)
It would tie the package together nicely.
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"A source tells me the leak of Trump's whereabouts is coming from Homeland Security, not USSS. Homeland Security is leaking location details to FBI, and FBI is running the assassins. The entire top leadership of the FBI is desperately trying to figure out how to eliminate Trump, while the loyal elements of US Secret Service are trying to stop it. Homeland Security and US State Dept are full-on treasonous criminal ops at this point. If Homeland can't eliminate Trump soon, State Dept will make sure a war begins with Russia. If they fail, hundreds of top people within FBI and Homeland are going to either flee the country or be criminally prosecuted under a Trump presidency. This is what's at stake."
Text taken from the V Kontakte page of GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR
[VK] Message from the NKVD Directorate for the Stalingrad Region to the NKVD of the USSR about the breakthrough of German troops in the city of Stalingrad and the situation in the city.
The enemy has broken through into the city from the western side. In the center of the city, the enemy has approached the Volga River. The city has been cut into two parts. They are coming stubborn fighting on the bank of the Volga River in the area of the Astrakhan Bridge, the NKVD buildings and the oil depot.
The enemy has occupied a commanding height in the northern part of the city - Mamayev Kurgan and is conducting an offensive in the direction of the Krasny Oktyabr and Barrikady factories. The enemy has controlled a commanding height in the southern part of the city - Dar-Gora, from which an offensive is being conducted in the direction of Beketovka.
The city has been destroyed. The enemy is conducting continuous bombardment, artillery and mortar shelling of factories, crossings and populated areas located on the left bank of the Volga River. The NKVD operational staff is at the factories in the city, conducting reconnaissance, helping Red Army units to locate and destroy groups of machine gunners entrenched in buildings on the bank of the Volga River.
There have been no anti-Soviet manifestations on the part of the population. Most of the city's population has been evacuated in an organized manner across the Volga.
Head of the NKVD Directorate for the Stalingrad Region Voronin
Central Archives of the FSB of Russia
On October 15, the enemy reached the Volga River in a narrow section near the tractor plant, and on November 11, south of the Barrikady plant. Units of the 62nd and 64th armies heroically held positions in the city along the Volga bank and part of the commanding heights of Mamayev Kurgan.
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"INTENSE BATTLES IN STALINGRAD"
Active Army, September 16. (By telegraph from our corr.).
In recent days, the fighting near Stalingrad has become even more intense. Enemy attacks are becoming more frequent, and the onslaught of his tanks and infantry, supported by a huge number of aircraft, is becoming ever stronger in certain areas. Particularly fierce battles are taking place on the northwestern outskirts of the city. Our units are meeting the enemy with staunch resistance everywhere, inflicting heavy losses on them and often counterattacking, sometimes not only stopping but also pushing back enemy hordes.
Our N-th unit received orders to counterattack the enemy in one area. After preliminary reconnaissance, it went into action, trying to recapture a tactically important height from the Germans. On the way to this height, the units of the unit suppressed a number of enemy firing points and advanced to the foot of the height. Here they were met by large German forces, comprising up to 50 tanks and up to a regiment of infantry. Our soldiers lay down. Anti-tank guns and rifles were moved forward. Units on the flanks opened intense fire on the German infantry.
As a result of the ensuing battle, the enemy lost four tanks. The rest of his tanks, separated from their infantry, retreated back to the battle lines of their riflemen and machine gunners, who had already dug in by this time. The commander of our unit decided to continue the attack. With strong artillery support, his soldiers again moved toward the enemy, who could not sit still in the hastily dug trenches. Approaching the Germans, the units brought all their firepower into the battle. Then, in order to repel this pressure, the enemy threw tanks forward a second time.
Believing that our anti-tank weapons were, as before, in the center, the Germans began to act mainly on the flanks, but they achieved nothing here either. Having lost another six tanks, the enemy was forced to retreat.
An interesting incident occurred in one of our units, which was holding a defensive position in another area. In recent days, this unit had been greatly harassed by enemy aircraft. The fighters' positions were well camouflaged, but the German pilots knew that the troops were there and dropped bombs without even finding any obvious targets. It was decided to divert their attention to the side. For this purpose, five tank dummies were built, which were placed in ravines and carelessly camouflaged.
The enemy discovered the "tanks" and began bombing them. When the next group of planes flew away, the dummies were moved. The enemy bombed them again. The dummies were moved again. The last time they were bombed for half an hour by 28 bombers.
Text taken from the V Kontakte page of Russian military correspondent Alexander Kots.
[VK] For some reason, radical American pro-Ukrainians see Trump as a threat to ending the war. The author of the previous assassination attempt, Matthew Crooks, was a homeopathic supporter of the independent state. Avatars, yellow and blue flags, Stand with Ukraine - all that. But he seems to have opened the Pandorenko Box.
The current failed killer is a much more active and hardcore pro-Ukrainian. This is evident from his social networks. Ryan Wesley Root was not just an epistolary supporter of Ukraine. He went to Kiev, starred in commercials and called on Americans to join the Ukrainian army. In fact, he was recruiting. And not only Americans, but also, for example, Afghans.
"Afghan soldiers - Ukraine has some interest in 3,000 soldiers so I need every soldier who has a passport to send me a copy of their passport to send to Ukraine," he wrote in one such post, which was published in English and Pashto. A great occupation for a Hawaiian construction business owner, right? Or is the business just a smokescreen?
In general, it is not the American pro-Ukrainians who fear Trump's arrival most, but the Ukrainians themselves. For some reason, Kiev has the impression that he will side with Moscow. Which, of course, is not true.
But I would not be surprised if during the investigation they find Ruthcorrespondence with some Sberbank security officer of the day before yesterday and an Islamic preacher of yesterday. Who led the American to the idea that killing Trump is the best help for Ukraine.
#5
Bear in mind, if they hire illegals, they're also not paying taxes and Social Security on them.
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I understand a lot of the illegals use fake Social Security numbers and the employers do withhold at least the FICO tax - which since the numbers are fake will never need to be paid out as benefits, perhaps one reason the government doesn't care much about stopping the illegal workers.
#7
True story on the withholding tax wars.
I was working with a mexican (who got US citizenship) who got called in to the IRS office for an audit. They wanted to assess extra tax based on his second job.
Manuel asked them, what second job?
The night job they showed he was working at a Denny's in Oak Park, Il.
"So, you think after working a 10 hour day in Houston, I jump on a plane to go bus tables in Chicago?"
"So you say that's not you?"
"Nope. Why did you come at me about this?"
"Well, we had your address."
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[ZeroHedge] The situation in Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... is getting so bad on so many different levels, the Brussels crowd had to bring in "Super" Mario Draghi to save the day — or at least write a report telling them what to do...
Draghi has spent time at Goldman Sachs, the European Central Bank (ECB) during the sovereign debt crisis, and as unelected prime minister of Italia during the early days of the Covid pandemic and runup to Project Ukraine. Depending on where you sit, he could be an odd choice to chart a path forward; while Draghi knows his way around a crisis control center, he’s also plenty experienced at creating them.
He was one of the chief architects of the EU’s disastrous economic war against Russia and he’s always been a grim reaper for working class citizens of his native country of Italia. No wonder that for months the neoliberal, war-loving spreadsheet crowd in Brussels has eagerly awaited the report as if it is manna from heaven that will help deliver them from the corner they have backed themselves into.
Curiously, his report was delayed by months, which only increased the anticipation, and it finally dropped last week, conveniently timed at another crisis point. Project Ukraine is quickly unraveling and pressure is coming from all directions for Berlin to give the go ahead for joint EU debt in order to make the EU "competitive" again and buy a bunch of weapons to do something (nobody is too sure of what exactly) about Russia. Indeed, Draghi’s report doesn’t say, nor does it ever consider making nice with Moscow.
That’s because the report, "EU Competitiveness: Looking Ahead" is a political document more than economic one intended to not only give cover to the bloc’s disastrous Russia policies, but continue to double down. And it is already being used as more ammunition for those in the Baltics, Poland, the media, US-funded think tanks in Europe, and more who are calling on Germany to support debt for an extended Cold War. Specifically, they wanted Super Mario to tell them how to get out of the predicament of their own making without changing course on Russia and a host of other issues, and Draghi delivered — as long as you don’t let reality get in the way. His answer? More money. Lots of it.
He calls for massive infusions of cash into multiple sectors: green, tech, energy, and of course defense. According to Draghi, the price tag is a minimum of 800 billion euros annually until 2030.
Asked if his message was "implement your report, or die?" he replied that "It’s ’Do this, or it’s a slow agony.’"
The EU certainly needs an economic plan, but Draghi’s report never questions whether ongoing belligerence toward Moscow (and loss of pipeline Russian gas) is in the bloc’s best interest and it never mentions Brussels’ obsession with austerity, which is once again being forced on member countries. From a purely economic standpoint, the report is trash economics that reads like something out of the late-stage USSR, according to economist Philip Pilkington.
But it does plug nicely into the political economy of today’s EU, which is being subsumed under Washington and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... . It is engaged in open economic war and an proxy war in Ukraine against Russia, both of which have hurt working class citizens across the bloc. The austerity-obsessed EU is once again forcing its member states to enact austerity budgets. Draghi’s report was requested by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, who is working to amass more power to her mostly unaccountable throne, and is one of many voices calling for a defense union and militarization and the ability to borrow and potentially levy taxes to pay for those debts.
#1
EU is entrapped. The leadership operates on its own. They no longer represent the people. They will continue to steal from their people with no Ukrainian efforts to repay so chronic depletion of future living standards in EU.
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[REGNUM] From the late 1930s onwards, the Third Reich authorities, through diplomatic channels, urged Japan to attack the USSR and at the same time tried to convince Moscow that Germany had no aggressive plans.
At the same time, Japan itself made plans to invade Eastern Siberia in 1939. This refutes the modern Russophobic narrative: supposedly, in August 1945, the USSR treacherously attacked the Japanese Empire, which so believed in the Molotov-Matsuoka Pact (the 1940 non-aggression treaty).
These conclusions follow from archival materials that were released by the Central Archive of the FSB of Russia on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the end of the fighting at Khalkhin Gol.
BAG WITH A SECRET
At the very beginning of the Soviet-Japanese conflict (and the first battle of the “samurai” with the border troops of the USSR’s ally, Mongolia, took place on May 8, 1939), a certain Friedrich Schildknecht appeared in Tokyo.
To be precise, he left Berlin on May 9, the day after the first shootout "on the distant borderland." Schildknecht arrived by train via Moscow, along the trans-European and then trans-Siberian route.
According to the documents, the German guest was listed as a courier for the Foreign Ministry of the Third Reich, accompanying diplomatic mail.
In fact, he was an officer in the "Foreign Armies - East" department of the OKH (High Command of the German Ground Forces), specializing in the Red Army. On the way to the Far East, he recorded the condition of the Siberian railway and what was moving along it.
“Throughout the entire journey, Schildknecht made notes on sheets of paper, which, as they were filled, he hid through a hole in the sealed courier bag with diplomatic mail,” the FSB publication says.
But the main task awaited the spy in Tokyo.
Our counterintelligence learned about the real background and details of Schildknecht’s mission thanks to the fact that this German officer was captured in Stalingrad – with the rank of colonel of the General Staff of the German army.
Now the valuable prisoner's handwritten testimony has been made public.
"I NOTICED 7-8 TRAINS EN ROUTE"
Arriving in Tokyo on May 23, Schildknecht — by his own admission, with surprise — met his boss, the head of the Foreign Armies East department, Colonel Eberhard Kinzel. He had arrived more urgently, by plane. Kinzel informed his subordinate that he had arrived to participate in negotiations on Japan’s readiness to attack the USSR.
Schildknecht reported to his superior, as well as to the Reich ambassador in Tokyo, General Eugen Ott, and to the staff of the Japanese General Staff, about his “Trans-Siberian” impressions.
The conclusion of the fake diplomatic courier: the USSR is not transferring equipment and soldiers from the Far East to the European part of the country. On the contrary, “I noticed at the Novosibirsk, Irkutsk, Baikal stations, and on the way 7-8 military trains that were heading east,” Schildknecht told Soviet counterintelligence officers.
At a meeting in Tokyo, Axis colleagues compared maps. The Japanese explained to the Western allies that the "Soviets" were holding not 17 divisions at the Manchurian border, as the Germans believed (and even in Berlin this figure was questioned), but 22 divisions.
On the other hand, a German spy shared the data: “ The information provided by Schildknecht about the training of the Red Army officer corps, the list of military educational institutions and information about airborne units was significantly more complete than the Japanese.”
TO VLADIVOSTOK OR TO BAIKAL?
During interrogation, Schildknecht recalled that he had asked Major Etsuo Kootani (an employee of the “Russian department” of the General Staff of the Japanese army, and in the recent past an assistant military attaché in Moscow) whether he considered it possible for Japan to attack the USSR.
Kootani explained that he could not speak officially, but made it clear that there were two groups in the General Staff making plans for attack. One was advocating for a "narrow resolution of the issue" - the capture of Vladivostok and a small part of the coast. But the larger group of General Staff officers believed that the Japanese army should strike from Manchukuo and Mongolia in the direction of Lake Baikal and break through to the eastern part of Siberia.
Kinzel informed his subordinates a little later that the Japanese General Staff was “basically ready” for war with the USSR and could deploy 20 to 25 divisions in it. But on one condition: if Germany attacked the USSR already then, in the spring-summer of 1939, and, consequently, if the Red Army was tied down by fighting in the West.
"I remember General Ott said something like this: 'The Japanese certainly have a great appetite for the Far East, but they are afraid to pull chestnuts out of the fire alone. They want Germany to attack the Soviet Union at the same time as us, that would suit them,'" Schildknecht confessed during interrogation on May 15, 1945.
And even more frankly he added:
“Germany was not interested in starting a war against the USSR at that time, since it wanted to pump more bread and oil out of Russia.”
According to Schildknecht, the Germans believed that the Japanese would be the first to attack our country, which would distract the Red Army's forces to the Far East. And after the Polish campaign, which was then underway, the Reich could strike at the USSR.
It should be recalled that at that time Moscow and Berlin were formally in peaceful relations, which by the end of the summer were sealed by the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.
On June 2, Schildknecht left Tokyo.
At this time, in the Manchurian steppes near the shallow Khalkhin Gol River, battles were just beginning to unfold between the Soviet-Mongolian group of troops and the “battering ram” of the Kwantung Army – units of the Japanese 6th Army under the command of General Michitarō Kamatsubara.
The battle, as Schildknecht recounted, was closely watched by three officers of the German General Staff.
The outcome of the months-long battles (which in Japan were then called and are still dismissively called the “Nomonhan Incident” - after the name of one of the border heights) mixed up all the cards of the Japanese General Staff.
And it was precisely the fruit of General Kamatsubara’s defeat that resulted in the neutrality treaty of April 13, 1940 – the very same Molotov-Matsuoka Pact.
But first things first.
"IT'S HARD TO SAY WHICH HOTBED IS MORE THREATENING"
Even before the clash with the Japanese army at Lake Khasan (1938) and at Khalkhin Gol, the Soviet leadership clearly understood the intentions of the Japanese leadership in the matter of expanding the zone of Japanese influence in East Asia (including at the expense of the USSR).
After Japan captured Manchuria in 1931–1932 and created the puppet state of Manchukuo there, a springboard for further advances into the continent emerged, and the Japanese General Staff began to be dominated by the idea of the USSR as “enemy number one.”
The Japanese army was preparing for war, the secret services were recruiting saboteurs and agents among the White Guard emigration. The Manchukuo troops, reinforced by career officers of the Imperial Army, became a bargaining chip in a series of provocations on the Soviet border.
From 1936 to 1938, 231 incidents were registered on the border with the USSR, including 35 major armed clashes with dozens of people killed. In 1938, the number of incidents increased to 1,247.
In light of this, the Soviet leadership did not remain idle. In order to slow down the advance of Japanese forces on the continent, Soviet military specialists actively participated in combat operations against the Japanese invaders on the side of China.
Moscow provided preferential loans to the Chinese government and supplied military equipment, ammunition and ammunition. In the newspaper Pravda on March 5, 1936, Joseph Stalin, answering a question from the American journalist Roy Howard about where the next war would most likely break out, explained:
"There are, in my opinion, two hotbeds of military danger. The first hotbed is in the Far East, in the Japanese zone. I mean the repeated statements of the Japanese military with threats against other countries. The second hotbed is in the German zone. It is difficult to say which hotbed is the most threatening, but both of them exist and are active."
The future war in the East was not questioned by either side, as confirmed by Schildknecht’s testimony.
And if the clashes of 1938 on the Soviet-Korean border were considered by the Japanese General Staff as an unfortunate failure, then the events at the Khalkhin Gol River were supposed to become a prologue to a full-scale aggression against the USSR.
The "land" faction in the Japanese General Staff, together with Germany, advocated this plan - a narrow or large-scale invasion (Schildknecht reproduced these opinions in his testimony). The admirals held a different position, insisting on the primary occupation of China and a move to the South: to Indochina, Indonesia and the Pacific islands.
The outcome of the “Nomonhan incident” was supposed to be a visible argument in favor of one point of view or another.
WHAT UPSET THE JAPANESE PLANS
Initially, everything went "as it should". After a series of border incidents on May 11, Japanese forces broke through the cordon and penetrated 15 kilometers into the territory of the Mongolian People's Republic. Units of the 57th Corps of the Red Army stationed in the MPR came to the aid of Marshal Choibalsan's troops.
On May 22, Soviet units pushed the Japanese back to the border. But they did not achieve decisive superiority over the invading forces - the Kwantung Army managed to retain the initiative. By mid-summer, the Japanese held bridgeheads on Mongolian territory, on the eastern bank of Khalkhin Gol.
On May 29, 42-year-old division commander Georgy Zhukov (previously the deputy commander of the Belarusian District for cavalry) flew to Mongolia to check the combat readiness of the 57th Corps. Based on Zhukov's reports to Moscow, on June 11, the leadership decided to remove the then "corps commander-57" Nikolai Feklenko and appoint Zhukov in his place, who focused on accelerated training of personnel.
The 57th Special Corps became the main striking force of the Front Group under the overall leadership of Army Commander Grigory Stern, which also included the 1st and 2nd Red Banner Armies and the Transbaikal Military District.
The rotation was carried out in time - on July 2, General Kamatsubara's troops began a large-scale offensive in two directions. The first was a diversionary one, which involved a direct attack on the Soviet-Mongol bridgehead, while the second involved forcing Khalkhin Gol and going into our rear.
But Zhukov decided to launch a quick tank counterattack, which was carried out on the night of July 2-3.
It was then, from July 1939, that the “incident” began to go wrong according to the Japanese plan.
On July 3–5, a decisive battle took place at the height of Bain-Tsagan, occupied by the Japanese. A Soviet tank attack forced General Kamatsubaru to give the order to withdraw Japanese forces to “his” bank of Khalkhin Gol.
The tactical victory at Bain-Tsagan allowed the Soviet-Mongolian forces under the command of Stern, Zhukov, the “chief of aviation” corps commander Yakov Smushkevich and Marshal Choibalsan to prepare for an offensive by mid-August.
Before it began, as of August 19, the advantage was on our side: 35 infantry battalions, 20 cavalry squadrons, 216 field and 286 anti-tank guns, 40 mortars, 2,255 heavy and light machine guns, 498 tanks, 346 armored vehicles, 581 aircraft.
The enemy could field 25 infantry battalions, 17 cavalry squadrons, 135 field and 142 anti-tank guns, 60 mortars and bomb throwers, 1,238 heavy and light machine guns, 120 tanks and armored vehicles, and 450 aircraft.
The commander of the 1st Army Group of Soviet Forces in the Mongolian People's Republic, Corps Commander Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov (second from right) conferring with commanders during the battles at Khalkhin Gol
On August 20, at 9:00 a.m., the Soviet-Mongolian offensive began. The next day, our fighter-interceptors repelled a massive raid by the Japanese Air Force, and bombers carried out a "counter-raid," dropping 96 tons of bombs on Japanese positions. On the ground, the Soviet-Mongolian forces managed to force the enemy into defensive battles. Armored and motorized forces advancing from the northern and southern directions closed pincers around the 6th Japanese Army by August 26.
Kamatsubara's troops lost up to 60,000 people, while Soviet and Mongolian forces lost up to 9,700 fighters.
The Imperial Government, through the Japanese Ambassador to Moscow (let us recall that the USSR and Japan were not de jure in a state of war and maintained diplomatic relations) Shigenori Togo, sent a request to cease hostilities on the border of Mongolia and Manchukuo. On September 15, the USSR and the Mongolian People's Republic on one side and the Japanese Empire on the other signed this agreement, which was ratified on September 16.
"MEMORIES LIVE ON IN THE KWANTUNG ARMY"
Local conflicts like the "Nomonhan incident" became an almost everyday reality around the world in the pre-war years. It is enough to recall the Italian campaign in Ethiopia, the civil war in Spain, or the geographically closer Japanese intervention in Manchuria in 1931, the invasion of "mainland" China in 1937, and, finally, the battles on the Soviet-Japanese border in 1938.
But the background of the "Nomonhan incident" was already quite "hot". The fighting in the Mongolian steppes began when German and Italian diplomats were preparing to sign the "Steel Pact", and ended when the Wehrmacht was crushing the remnants of the Polish Army near Włodawa and on the Bzura River.
The battles at Khalkhin Gol (also known as the "Khalkhin Gol War" in Mongolian historiography) ended, one might say, in favor of the "admiral" faction of the Japanese General Staff. Japan remained a loyal ally of the Reich in the Axis, but only in the war against the USA and Britain. The attack on Pearl Harbor and the capture of Singapore became inevitable, and the campaign to the north against the USSR relegated itself to the realm of hypothetical projects.
In 1941, the German ambassador to Tokyo, General Ott, reported to the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Joachim Ribbentrop : Japan’s decision not to enter the war against the USSR was influenced by “memories of the Nomonhan (Khalkhingol) events, which are still alive in the memory of the Kwantung Army.”
In August 1942, the above-mentioned Mr. Schildknecht accompanied the Japanese ambassador in Berlin, General Hiroshi Oshima, on a trip to the Eastern Front. By presenting the successes of the German forces, including on the Volga, Adolf Hitler hoped to influence Tokyo's position.
But the USSR presented Japan with the second most compelling visual argument after the defeat of the “Kwantungians” at Khalkhin Gol: the defeat of the Nazis and their European allies at Stalingrad.
After the clear turning point in the war, those who advised Mikado Hirohito clearly decided: Japan would faithfully follow the 1940 neutrality treaty, while remaining the same aggressor and enslaver in relation to China, the countries of Indochina and other East Asian territories.
But the plans to build an “East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere” – a Far Eastern analogue of the “thousand-year German Reich” – failed to materialize. The Red Army’s lightning offensive in August 1945, far more successful than the aggression of the Kwantung Army in 1939, put an end to the history of Japanese militarism.
[NYPOST] The Cornell University prof gained notoriety in the immediate aftermath of Oct. 7 by declaring that he found the terror attack ''exhilarating.''
He wasn't specific about what was more exciting to him — the slaughter of hundreds of people at a music festival, including maimed people at point-blank range, the mass hostage-taking, the burning of people alive or the horrific sexual violence.
For the committed anti-Zionist, there must be so many thrilling moments to choose from.
Afterward, Russell Rickford
…activist and associate professor specializing in the Black radical tradition…
apologized for his ''horrible choice of words.''
But his remarks at a pro-Paleostinian rally at the Ithaca Commons on Oct. 15 weren't a matter of mere vocabulary. He didn't say ''exhilarating'' when he meant to use a word that means the opposite, or something less positive.
#4
At this time, we are unable to confirm if the Deep State maintains a stable of nut jobs. We can confirm with some level of confidence, that the FBI appears to be monitoring each one of them.
#5
Hey, if they can have a coup to remove the sitting President from running, why would you think anyone's lives or rights are going to get in the way?
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Yes.
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[Bee] PHILADELPHIA, PA — Americans across the country breathed a sigh of relief this morning following breaking news that Vice President Kamala Harris had survived an attempted interview.
The incident took place late yesterday afternoon during a campaign stop in Pennsylvania when a rogue reporter reportedly approached the vice president and fired off several questions before being tackled to the ground and subdued by Secret Service agents. Harris was quickly evacuated from the area and taken to a secure location.
"Thankfully, Vice President Harris is safe and in stable condition," a campaign spokesperson said. "We all feared the worst when that crazed person emerged from the crowd and attempted to interview the sitting U.S. vice president right there in broad daylight. Someone must be looking out for her, though, because she avoided suffering any damage in the incident."
The FBI arrived at the scene shortly thereafter and discovered that the would-be interviewer was in possession of several notepads, pens, a cellphone, and a camera authorities believed was intended to capture the event for a livestream or video. "Isn't that sick?" said a campaign insider. "This nutjob had this all planned out. He was coming out here for the specific purpose of interviewing Kamala Harris — and he was trying to record himself doing it. This is the type of America we can expect under Donald Trump."
At publishing time, the Secret Service had advised the Harris campaign that it would be best for the Vice President to avoid all public appearances from now through election day.
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[AmericanThinker] As last week’s debate made clear, Kamala Harris’s media enablers have given Harris the green light to lie in the most flagrant ways about the most significant of issues. Even if Donald Trump were adept at giving concise answers, which he is not, he would have had no chance to expose Harris’s mendacity.
In the long run, the most damaging of issues deal with the weaponization of justice. As vice presidential candidate, Sen. J. D. Vance is perfectly positioned to address this phenomenon. He is precise in his language; quick on his feet, and, with a “J.D.” (hmmm!) from Yale, inarguably well credentialed to take on the task at hand: heading up an American Truth and Reconciliation Commission (ATRC).
Based on the model South Africa used with some success to end the Apartheid era bloodlessly, the ATRC would offer amnesty to those willing to tell the truth about the corruption of justice in the past decade. Unlike Trump, Vance has not been a victim of this corruption. He could manage the affair dispassionately and legitimize the conciliatory nature of the ARTC and, by extension, the Trump presidency. Can he work with Musk?
As an executive function, the ATRC would forward amnesty declarations to President Trump, who would have the constitutional power to grant them. To be effective, the commission would limit its scope to those issues that have most directly threatened to undermine our constitutional republic these last several years.
… At the press conference, Vance would concisely lay out the four major areas of inquiry with inarguable and well documented facts. To most Americans, and a shameful number of Republicans, these facts will come as news. Vance could challenge the media to fact-check him as he speaks.
Moving chronologically, Vance would open with Russiagate. … Next stop: Huntergate. … During the debate, Kamala Harris did not shy from repeating the lies about January 6 that, in her case, are both personal and damning. … At the press conference, Vance would do well to zero in on the inarguable fact that Harris has repeatedly deceived the public about her presence at the DNC at the very moment the pipe bomb was discovered and the riot launched — by people who did not attend Trump’s speech. …Politico unwittingly describes the criminal charges leveled against Trump as though it were something other than the open conspiracy known as lawfare.
… There are other scandals that need to be addressed — the near assassination of the former president, the Afghanistan debacle, the COVID lies, the abetting of the illegal alien invasion, the social media suppression, the dementia cover-up, the 2020 election shenanigans, and more, but these are for another day.
Once the ARTC is announced, Vance would do well to focus on the four issues cited above in every speech, every media appearance, and especially in his debate with Tim Walz. America is perilously close to becoming a banana republic, and Americans need to know it.
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As I understand it: Because close to 200,000 Israelis have been living in hotels for the last year, and havent been able to their homes since Oct 7th. These displaced israelis are becoming increasing vocal about their situation.
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That sounds right to me, mossomo. I wonder if the original plan was just to clean out Gaza, but Hezbollah has become a serious problem — and President Biden’s administration appears powerless to effect events, since they insist they knew nothing about today’s excitements in Lebanon and beyond.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
[Bee] PHILADELPHIA, PA — Americans across the country breathed a sigh of relief this morning following breaking news that Vice President Kamala Harris had survived an attempted interview.
