[X] Fear, uncertainty, and doubt — in this case they lead to politeness and a calm family Christmas. But how the idiot thinks his little message to his friends will be invisible to the inimical MAGA forces that are about to surround him is beyond me.
Leftist shares his plan if Trump wins this election. This is a whole new level of delusion… pic.twitter.com/BYYqVAL8T9
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After four years of FBI raids, un-banking of businesses and individuals, J6ers held without speedy trial and access to exculpatory evidence (and wrongfully convicted per SCOTUS), hyper cancelling culture, etc, maybe people like these should have remembered what used to be taught in school - do on to others as you would have others do on to you. It's just Freudian projecting what they intend and have done to you.
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#1 That was never taught in public schools, at least not in the 60s/70s where I was-they were already bringing in young hippies to teach us all about "ecology" and they even had this spiffy flag they would carry around. If we only knew then...
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The sad thing is they truly believe this. The propaganda from our medias abuses have made a generation of people delusional.
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^People will believe whatever is convenient. This dork can believe either:
(a) I'm rendered worthless by industrial progress.
(b) I'm a revolutionary saving USA, indeed the whole World, from evil incarnate.
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The hurricane may not have been a thousand year storm, but could easily generate local rainfall events which match the theoretical probability of once in a thousand years.
I stood in a valley in suburban Kansas City where they had two one-hundred year storms, back to back. Might have been equivalent to one 500-year event. Probability and statistics. Meteorology. Hydrology. Science.
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A "thousand year event" (flood,storm, etc.) doesn't mean that if it occurs, you are safe for another thousand years. It means that there is a 0.1% chance of it occurring. So if it occurs, it could happen next year or the year after.If it does, they will probably reassess the probability.
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How silly of me. I forgot man-made, elite-controllable, Climate Change science.
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#3 - Spot on. Journalists are unable to grasp statistics.
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Simply tell them on Monday that "Work from Home" is over and to report back to their offices for duty or face termination. 85% might resign or retire immediately.
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As an Israeli I would like to add one minor request: no Jewish-American negotiators in ME. In fact, why don't you establish an American consulate in Birobidzhan - and staff it by Jewish USDOS employees?
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I don't see why we'd need negotiators in the ME anyway. I think Israel can keep any land it takes and anyone stupid enough to pick a fight gets what they deserve.
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I'm fine with that. I'd also stipulate that all "union" membership be terminated, that no union activity would be allowed at any federal government organization, and anyone caught engaged in such activity be summarily and immediately terminated with loss of all benefits. If the UN or the ILO objects, NUKE EM!
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You got my voice OP.
"They're like a broken shotgun. Ii won't work and you can't fire it."
[CatherineHerridgeReports] "The system is blinking red," a former special operator said. "No one wants to be in the room when the Afghanistan grenade goes off."
The new reporting underscores concern that terrorist groups, including Al Qaeda, are strengthening their foothold in Afghanistan.
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Vice President and now Presidential candidate Kamala Harris once boasted that when President Biden made the final call to pull US troops from Afghanistan she was the last person in the room.
Three years later, a recent UN report left no doubt Al Qaeda is building out its infrastructure in Afghanistan.
The UN monitoring team found, "Al-Qaida cells are operating in multiple Afghan provinces, mainly in the south-east of the country." And "While the Taliban have done much to constrain the activities of Al-Qaida and their affiliates...its reorganization and training activities, as well as new travel into Afghanistan, indicate that the group still uses Afghanistan as a permissive haven under the Taliban, raising questions about Al-Qaida’s intent."
Credible sources now describe footage that suggests small terrorist cells, primarily Al Qaeda, training with ultralights and paragliders in Afghanistan. The sources describe the terrorists as "taking a page from the October 7 playbook" by mirroring the tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) of the 2023 Hamas attack which killed more than 1200 people in Israel.
The raw intelligence and reports also describe operatives trained to build light aircraft and drones from "off the shelf" materials available in large home improvement stores. As described, the idea is not to export equipment from Afghanistan, but to build it once an operative is inserted near the target. These small cells apparently have cooperation from the Taliban who, in some cases, monitor training sessions.
The reporting comes through credible sources and I draw no conclusions about potential contact between al Qaeda and Hamas. As described, the most innocuous analysis is the footage was designed to boost morale among fighters and for fundraising.
Another intelligence stream details that in recent months an Al Qaeda operative traveled from Afghanistan to Saudi Arabia for financing, tasked with developing a weaponized drone capability for use against the US or its interests overseas.
That said, I understand the reporting has been shared at senior levels of the Defense Department, Homeland Security and likely CIA. They have the ability to investigate, to assess the credibility of the reports, and most importantly, they have a duty to warn.
My contacts say there is a sense of urgency among field agents and officers who are aware of the raw intelligence, but there is a "head in the sand" attitude at more senior levels. Multiple sources explained, "No one wants to turn over the Afghanistan rock."
The presence of these camps, and the threats they pose are amplified by the American military hardware that the Biden administration abandoned in Afghanistan. In 2021, reporters were told and the public was reassured that the equipment would fall into disrepair.
This has proven false. Images shared with our team from multiple sectors in Afghanistan suggest every level of the armed forces from police to military are leveraging our ballistic helmets, gloves, boots, optics, body armor and weapons.
By summer, as I pulled the threads on the Afghanistan story, the warnings became more alarming. NGOs and other groups who work with the US-based Afghan community voiced some of the deepest concerns. They were, understandably, reluctant to go on the record, fearing retaliation from the administration.
Intelligence is like a mosaic. Slowly the pieces fall into place. It is a partial picture at best, but it suggests a landscape that is beginning to mirror pre-9/11 Afghanistan. Twenty-three years ago, the safe haven in Afghanistan afforded al Qaeda the freedom to train, to recruit and to raise money for the 2001 terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 Americans.
On Saturday, seeking comment, our team emailed the media contact for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which has oversight for the US intelligence community. When there was no response, and with the Sunday afternoon deadline approaching, we re-upped our questions adding the Defense Department, Homeland Security and CIA.
The DoD duty officer and a CIA spokesperson responded. Both said they could look into our query Monday. Our questions focus on intelligence community efforts to determine credibility of the intel, risk to national security and briefings to congressional committees with oversight, including armed services and intelligence.
One of the most famous chapters in the 9/11 Commission Report is called, "The System was Blinking Red." It contains the painful chronology and missed opportunities to disrupt the 9/11 hijackers in the summer of 2001.
"As (CIA Director) Tenet told us, ’The system was blinking red in the Summer of 2001.’ Officials were alerted across the world. Many were doing everything they possibly could to respond to the threats. Yet no one working on these late leads in the Summer of 2001 connected the case in his or her in-box to the threat reports agitating senior officials and being briefed to the President.."
Twenty-three years later, the warnings are there. Political sensitivities should not hinder efforts to acknowledge and disrupt emerging threats in Afghanistan.
The article below, published in 8am (Hasht-e Subh Daily), has been sitting, half-edited, for a while because I’ve been too busy with life to finish the job — and at roughly 3000 words it was easy to push off to later. But it relates to Joe of the Jungle’s submission so it’s time to share under his headline, even without doing all the work I intended. The acquisition was triggered by a Media Line piece linked by Grom the Reflective in September in comments:
Herewith the opening of the piece — the rest can be read at the link.
The Taliban Host Terrorist Groups: Four New Settlements Built for Al-Qaeda and TTP
30.June 2024
The Hasht-e Subh Daily has obtained information indicating that the Taliban are constructing a well-equipped base with residential houses for the al-Qaeda network in the Malekuddin area of Nawa district, Ghazni province. Additionally, they are building three settlements for the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in the Dasht-e Bagh-e Attar area of Qarabagh district, Dasht-e Kabuli area of Waghaz district, and Kotal-e Rouza on the outskirts of Ghazni city. These settlements, in addition to residential houses, also include large religious schools and equipped dormitories, with some nearing completion.
Simultaneously, TTP members have chosen specific areas in Ghazni for relocating their families, with plans to move there soon. One of the TTP factions relocating to Ghazni is led by Hafiz Gul Bahadur, a TTP commander who has carried out extensive attacks against the Pakistani military. Furthermore, the findings of this report indicate that Haji Furqan (Uighur), a commander of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) and a senior member of al-Qaeda, is residing in a guesthouse of Sirajuddin Haqqani in the Sherpur area of Kabul.
The findings from the Hasht-e Subh Daily in Ghazni province show that the Taliban are engaged in constructing four residential settlements with large religious schools and other security measures for the relocation of al-Qaeda and TTP members. According to the report, the construction of some of these settlements and religious schools in Ghazni is nearing completion. Information suggests that a settlement with a Madrasa in the Nawa district of Ghazni is being built for al-Qaeda, while the other three settlements are exclusively for TTP members and will soon be operational. The report also indicates that alongside the residential settlements, the Taliban have constructed large religious school buildings with all amenities, funded by the Haqqani network.
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[ZeroHedge] Today's journalists, much like trial lawyers, have a habit of cross-examining their subjects with the intent to find weaknesses rather than find the actual truth of a matter. They also often ask questions already knowing what kind of answer they're going to get. It's not about getting the answer, it's about planting seeds.
For example, every time the media presents a "question" regarding alleged collusion between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin the goal is not to get an honest answer, but to repeat the conspiracy theory as often as possible so that the accusation remains embedded in the collective consciousness.
This was once again the case at the recent BRICS Summit held in Kazan, Russia. Asking tough questions is one thing - but presenting accusations without any evidence to back them is another.
The far-left media have been debunked at every turn when it comes to the Russiagate narrative. Both Trump and Putin have denied any relationship and all the "evidence" that supposedly ties Trump to Putin has been exposed as fabricated. After nearly a decade of intense scrutiny if there was any legitimate collusion between Trump and Russia it would have been found by now.
Putin quickly pointed out that inquiries by US officials have found no collusion involving Trump and that the claims are nonsense. That should be the end of it, but again, the western media is not interested in facts, they're interested in narratives.
The establishment has also aimed its crosshairs at Elon Musk this week, with the Associated Press claiming an "anonymous source" confirmed to them that Musk has had regular phone calls with Vladimir Putin since 2022. Again, none of this is supported by concrete evidence and the goal of the media is simply to plant the idea out there in the minds of the public as if it means something nefarious is afoot.
Musk is a private citizen, not a government official, and he has the right to talk to whoever he pleases. It's not surprising for an international businessman to have contact with world leaders for any number of reasons. Not to mention, the US is not at war with Russia (officially), but the media is acting as if this is the case.
Putin talked extensively on the reasons for the Russian invasion of Ukraine, arguing that it was NATO involvement in sparking the Maidan Revolution in 2014 that led to Russia's decision to go to war. He also asserted that foreign military elements from NATO countries are heavily involved in Ukraine's defensive efforts on the ground, stating that "we are aware" what's really going on.
The Russian leader seems to be suggesting here that if Ukraine can invite foreign assets into the war, then so can Russia.
As for the presence of North Korean troops in Russia, Putin doesn't deny it. Satellite images and some leaked video seem to show North Korean soldiers in training areas near the eastern coast of Russia, but this is thousands of miles away from the Ukrainian front. There is no evidence that North Koreans are currently fighting in Ukraine. If this ends up being the intent, then yes, it would be considered an escalation by NATO, but not necessarily a rationale for NATO troops to enter the war.
Such a move would immediately trigger a world war; an outcome which the Ukrainians are certainly desperate for as their defensive lines collapse, but not an outcome which the majority of Americans and Europeans are willing to accept.
[LettersFromAustralia] Australia’s peak “civil liberties defender” voted to reject freedom of speech as an important civil liberty at its annual general meeting on Wednesday.
The NSW Council for Civil Liberties meeting began with a speech by NSW Surveillance Devices Commissioner Don McKenzie on the procedural technicalities of how police get warrants to spy on you.
The meeting then proceeded until the opportunity arose for motions without notice.
I requested the following motion:
“That the NSW Council for Civil Liberties recognises freedom of speech as one of the most important civil liberties we have, and that it’s under attack right now - the worst attack we’ve seen in a generation - and that the NSW Council for Civil Liberties will do its best to try to support freedom of speech.”
Censorship laws now before the Parliament directly threaten everything you can hear, see, share or say on the internet, especially independent media such as Letters From Australia on Substack.
Take a minute now, before you go to crazy town, to watch the most entertaining defense of free speech ever made, below.
Twenty-minute video from 2006 of the wonderful Christopher Hitchens on free speech can be watched at the link.
You would not think this motion was controversial at a Council for Civil Liberties - but you would be wrong.
Eyes widened, heads wobbled, the elderly awoke: it was on like Donkey Kong.
A group of Council members, led in opposition by Treasurer Stephen Blanks and his former intern Josh Pallas (a former Council President), voted it down, 18 to 12.
It’s ironic that Stephen Blanks was the most vocal opponent to free speech, speaking the longest against it, because his executive bio on the Council’s website says it is his special interest, having once defended a publisher bullied by a NSW Government agency.
The agency was writing to major booksellers, telling them not to sell the publisher’s book, his bio says.
Here is a Bill that seeks to censor the entire internet - the largest book fair the world has ever seen - through social media platforms (akin to his booksellers), and now he loves it.
Stephen Blanks said he is favour of censoring the internet as long as that power is shared by ACMA with the courts, based on a European model. Individuals could claim to be harmed by “misinformation” (being wrong) and apply to the courts for even more censorship than is now on the table. He calls this “democratisation” of the censorship.
Note that “democratisation” here means “sharing power with other institutions” not “giving power to the public as expressed by vote”. It would mean rich people, institutions and political gangs would game the court system to erase your dissent.
Here he is on October 17 telling the Senate Committee how important it is to censor “misinformation” (being wrong) on a European model.
His former protégé Josh Pallas is a University of Wollongong law graduate studying a PhD in “preventive detention and supervision laws” at the University of Sydney. He was put in the Council by the University of Wollongong Law School as an intern under Stephen Blanks, his bio says.
Josh Pallas opposed free speech, on the grounds that the Council are “unashamedly not free speech absolutists” and have had a “carefully considered approach since 1963” which is “nuanced”.
Translated for normal people, that means: “we’re the experts, shut up.”
A spirited defence was mounted by long-time council member Billy Field who said free speech is the only protection against despots and tyrants, and that the very purpose of the council’s existance is to stand up for these important rights.
Journalist David Southwell spoke powerfully, reminding the room that governments lie regularly and that to submit to any arbiter of truth is to abandon free speech and its defence.
What follows is an unofficial transcript of the entire episode. At bottom are links to the Council’s new submission on the censorship bill so you can read for yourself how they support expanding this new 2024 assault on free speech, and how they reference a weak and bogus academic study riddled with errors.
As this censorship bill legally formalises what the government was already doing during covid, I have also uploaded a copy of vaccine-injured support group Coverse’s submission at bottom so you can read precisely how it will devastate medical science and punch down on those already injured by the mandated gene-vaccines.
Read on for how a simple support for free speech was obfuscated, dismantled, and defeated by Australia’s peak “civil rights” body.
[RT] The prime minister sees interference from abroad everywhere, except right under his own nose – or rather, at his back
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ...hereditary prime minister of the Great White North... sees foreign interference everywhere, even where Canadian officials say it doesn’t exist. But he can’t for the life of him find the systemic foreign meddling that’s right under his nose, and of personal and political benefit.
During seemingly endless Canadian parliamentary foreign interference inquiries that started in September 2023, Trudeau has just testified (in French) that Russia is everywhere, accusing Moscow of “amplifying” Canada’s problems, like when a bunch of honking Freedom Convoy truckers descended on Ottawa to demand equal treatment for all Canadians regardless of Covid jab status.
Like it was Russia that blocked protesters’ bank accounts at the behest of Team Trudeau, in a move that went globally viral because it confirmed people’s worst fears about a dystopian slide into authoritarianism and social credit-style mass control. Go against the establishment and just try to even survive without access to your own money.
Trudeau was specifically shown and asked about RT headlines criticizing his government’s actions around the Convoy, generally shrugging them off as propaganda and disinformation, even though it turns out that they were really just prescient. Because in January 2024, even the Canadian Federal Court ruled that Team Trudeau’s invocation of the Emergencies Act, which is normally reserved for incidents like war and terrorism, and the extraordinary measures taken under it, banking and otherwise, violated the constitutional rights of Canadians. So, is Canadian Federal Court Justice Richard Mosley a Kremlin agent, too?
As for any evidence that the Freedom Convoy was foreign funded? Nonsense, said Canada’s intelligence services at a formal inquiry in 2022.
Trudeau then suggested that RT sowed Covid jab “antivax” disinformation, which is really just another way of saying that the outlet didn’t participate in the kind of overt censorship and narrative control that prevented an open and democratic discussion and debate in the spirit of scientific inquiry related to a novel vaccine and virus, the impact and effects of which were constantly shifting along with government mandates and directives.
I personally contributed a piece to RT during the Covid fiasco in August 2021 about how, as an unjabbed Canadian citizen arriving in Canada from Paris with a French lab blood test certificate quantifying natural antibodies and immunity from Covid as a result of infection, border officials offered me the choice of either spending days locked in a federal facility for the unjabbed returning to Canada, or else getting straight back on a plane to France.
I chose the latter. And now it’s widely accepted that natural immunity ultimately is what has reduced Covid to an epiphenomenon around the world. Finally, the rest of the world, including Trudeau’s own health authorities, have caught up to getting on board with the kind of “disinformation” that RT was leading the way in platforming, all while Western governments were demanding censorship of debate across social media platforms. The Canadian military was also caught deploying military-grade information warfare during Covid, using techniques honed on the battlefield in Afghanistan, in support of the government’s narrative, as the Ottawa Citizen reported in September 2021.
“Immunity acquired from a Covid infection provides strong, lasting protection against the most severe outcomes of the illness,” NBC News reported in 2023, citing research published in The Lancet. Oh no, looks like the prestigious Lancet medical journal and NBC News have both fallen to Russia now, too.
Trudeau claimed at the foreign interference hearing that RT was financing “very well-known names” on the right, “like Jordan Peterson or Tucker Carlson, to amply messages that destabilize democracy.” Because literally everyone who disagrees with Western propaganda is a Russian agent now, apparently. Got any actual receipts for your claims against former Fox News host Carlson and globally renowned Canadian clinical psychologist Peterson, champ? Because I smell a potential lawsuit or two.
Trudeau has been playing similarly fast and loose with the “evidence” of Indian “foreign interference” lately, too. He explicitly accused Indian diplomats, including the Indian high commissioner in Canada, of being involved in homicide and extortion of “Canadians” and violating Canadian sovereignty. More like Justin violated Canada’s sovereignty by importing every global conflict imaginable into Canada by turning it into a flophouse. And now that fights are breaking out between all these “Canadians,” it’s time to find a scapegoat.
No actual names were given of the targeted “Canadians” or suspects during a police press conference this week, but Hardeep Singh Nijjar was gunned down near Vancouver last year. That particular “Canadian” had come into Canada fraudulently and eventually scored refugee status by whining about being persecuted in India, which literally considered him a terrorist looking to carve up India to create a state just for Kalastani Sikhs. Yet the Canadian government went, “Poor guy, come on in, bud! And please bring all your issues with you. Because diversity is our strength!”
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police confirmed that the targets are Kalistani “Canadians.” Sikh separatists are considered a terrorist group in India, although who’s to say that non-Khalistanis can’t get caught in the crossfire, as seems to be the case with the increasing amount of gangland-style gun play taking place.
These “Canadians” have been routinely rallied by an American Khalistani group to hold referendums in favor of an independent Khalistani state from Canada. We’re talking about the same kind of separatism that Trudeau explicitly denounces when practiced by francophone separatists in Quebec. His father, former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, even declared martial law amid separatist violence, kidnapping and murder in Quebec back in 1970.
So just imagine if New Delhi had given Quebec separatists refuge and allowed them to hold referendums from India on carving up Canada like Team Trudeau is doing now with Khalistanis while blaming Indian officials for the fact that they’re being picked off rather than blaming himself and his predecessors for the fact that they’re even in Canada in the first place.
Canadian police claim to have cases of Indian diplomats hiring criminals to shoot these Khalistani “Canadians,” but can’t actually cite any actual names or specifics.
Much more glaring, however, is Trudeau sitting there at a foreign interference inquiry while the guy literally propping up his minority government, left-wing New Democratic Party leader, Jagmeet Singh, is a vocal pro-Khalistani advocate himself, who just announced that he wants to put forward “severe sanctions” on Indian diplomats, adding that Narendra Modi’s government “has to be held to account.” Big mystery where the foreign interference is when Trudeau’s political career is done the moment this guy pulls his support.
Meanwhile, a Sikh separatist activist from a group in the US helping to organize the Kalistani independence referendums in Canada, Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, has told Canadian state media about his access to Trudeau’s office, saying that he told them who to go after in Canada on India’s side. And now he’s tweeting that his US-based group, Sikhs for Justice, is offering a “budget” – which is a nice way of saying “bounty” – of $500,000 to track down the expelled Indian high commissioner. He also said they want Canada to investigate a Canadian MP, Chandra Arya, who was born in India, and whom he calls Modi’s mouthpeace, probably because he’s routinely condemning Khalistani extremism. The guys with whom Trudeau is overtly siding against the Indian government are literally offering bounties, yet Trudeau needs a whole endless dog-and-pony show to find the foreign interference in Canada.
Canadian politicians pandering to ethnic blocs for votes and their own political self-interest isn’t the kind of foreign meddling they’re looking for, I guess. Kind of like what they all do with the influential Ukrainian expat lobby in Canada – the point of greenlighting their suggestion that a World War II-era Nazi, Yaroslav Hunka, be celebrated in the Canadian parliament during Zelensky’s visit.
Team Trudeau had to backtrack upon realizing that smoking Russians back in the day put this guy on the same side as Hitler. But the policies pandering to the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada for votes and damaging Russia-Canada relations remain. And now it looks like Team Trudeau’s pandering to Indian separatists for personal and political gain is tanking Canada’s relations with India, too.
But by all means, Justin, please show us, with your whopping 30% popularity, exactly where on the map Jordan Peterson, Tucker Carlson, India, Russia, Freedom Convoy truckers, anti-vaxxers, and RT touched Canada.
[Breitbart] Author and journalist Lee Smith discussed his new book, Disappearing the President: Trump, Truth Social, and the Fight for the Republic, during an exclusive interview on Sirius XM’s Breitbart News Saturday, in which he revealed former President Barack Obama’s “shadow network” and the role it has played during the last eight years in trying to destroy the America First movement and prolong his influence.
In fact, Smith said, Obama placed Harris in the vice presidency — against President Joe Biden’s wishes — and her candidacy is “another four-year term on the line” for him.
Smith told host Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle about this shadow network:
There are powerful political interests and corporate interests, and there are donors and there are lawyers who are part of this shadow network. And at the top of this pyramid of the shadow network is Donald Trump’s predecessor, the 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama. A lot of people have recognized this. Unfortunately, though, we have not turned our attention to this sufficiently, right? People will sort of mention on social media or the word of that, yeah, it’s all about Obama. Well, what I’ve done here is I’ve put together all of the documentation. I’ve shown how all these different strands of the anti-Trump campaign, whether it’s surveillance, censorship, political violence, interfering elections, the origin point for all of these campaigns is all at the same place. It’s Barack Obama.
Smith explained that referring to this network as the “deep state” makes the fight against it “unwinnable”:
The thing to do is to pick the leadership and to go after the leadership. This is what prosecutors do, and they’re going after organized crime. And of course, this is what Joe Biden’s Department of Justice has done with the America First movement…when they targeted Michael Flynn, when they targeted Roger Stone, when they targeted other Trump aides and Trump supporters. The idea was they wanted it to lead to destroying Donald Trump. Then they went after Donald Trump himself.
“My case is to understand what’s happened the last eight years. We must understand the political powers and the rationale for this, why Donald Trump was targeted, and who did the targeting?” Smith said.
Smith said a Trump win would be the “end to Barack Obama’s immensely destructive influence and campaign against not only our political system, but also against American society and our culture as well our culture, traditions and history and after the election.”
“The important thing is how we go after this and how we dismantle it again. It’s not about an amorphous entity like the deep state. It’s about a select group of people, at the top of which is Barack Obama, lawyers, donors. The names are all well known, but what I’ve done is I put them all together in the same room so that everyone sees how this actual operation has been going since 2016,” he said.
Smith said Obama has even gone public with his shadow network after Democrats moved out Biden and emplaced Harris.
“Obama aides were regularly leaking, talking about this openly. ‘Well, Obama wants this. Well, Barack says that.’ If they’re doing it, and Barack Obama continually is raising his hand, waving his hand, saying, ‘Hey, it’s me,’ it’s okay for the opposition to say, ‘You know, it’s Barack Obama who’s running the show,'” Smith said.
“If they keep saying it, it makes no sense for us, at least, to acknowledge what’s really happening,” he said, adding:
That’s who’s running the Kamala Harris campaign. That’s who chose Kamala Harris, right. That’s who chose Kamala Harris for the vice president slot in 2020. Remember how furious Joe Biden was that Harris, Harris wound up in the number two slot after she had called Joe Biden a racist, right? Obama had picked Kamala Harris to be his top candidate for 2020. He was directing money. He was directing the media all toward Kamala Harris and she bombed. What did he do? Then he moved her into place as the number two pick behind Biden. What we’re seeing now was always going to happen. He was always going to push Harris into the number one slot, and that’s where we are right now. It’s another four-year term on the line for Barack Obama’s shadow presidency.
Smith said he also discusses how Obama “absorbed big tech,” and orchestrated the censorship of Trump supporters.
“Barack Obama pulls aside Mark Zuckerberg at a conference in Lima, Peru, 10 days after the 2016 election, and reams him out. Why? Because Donald Trump was given an opportunity to use what these people have been promoting as free speech platforms, and that’s when the censorship campaign kicks in,” he said.
“That’s when Obama starts going around threatening, threatening Big Tech people saying, ‘you have to keep Trump, and you have to keep these MAGA people, the America First people, off of the internet.’ So it actually starts with Barack Obama,” he said.
“The COVID piece is very important, because that’s when it became really, really obvious, right? When they were throwing people off, they were throwing people off the social media, and they were worried not just about COVID, when they were complaining, not just about the COVID regulations or mandates, but also when people were criticizing the COVID related new voting procedures designed to facilitate ballot fraud, right? So they were throwing people off, and that was a crucial moment, because that really showed everyone how insidious the censorship campaign was,” he added.
“But it really begins again, and this is what the book does, repeatedly, tying things back, showing how this all starts with different Obama initiatives. It starts in 2016 when he’s talking to Mark Zuckerberg, and he reams him out for letting Trump get his message across on Facebook,” he said. “That’s a really important part of the book.”
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[Ynet] UAVs have become Hezbollah's effective attack weapon in the war, causing deaths, injuries, heavy damage, and quite a bit of a headache for the Israeli Air Force; How did these simple drones manage to evade Israel’s sophisticated air defense systems? And how did Israel overlook this threat all these years?
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"And how did Israel overlook this threat all these years?"
Hubris. Explains everything that was wrong with Israel's intelligence on the Oct 7th carnage, also.
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[AmericanGreatness] After the October 7 massacres, the obituaries of the long political career of Benjamin Netanyahu, published both in Israel and in the West, became orthodox. He was considered as politically inert as Donald Trump once was after January 6, 2021.
The conventional wisdom speculated not if, but only when he would be forced out of office.
Western leaders and the Israeli left, and indeed even the Israeli non-left, as well as American and European pundits, claimed that the laxity of the Netanyahu government was entirely to blame for the grotesque massacre of October 7. Actually, it was 70 years of trying to make peace with Allanbeasts. Not to mention the tendency of a large part of Israeli society to see Western "Elites" as our moral superiors - instead of as nihilistic degenerates, sociopaths gleefully engaged in genocide against their own People.
Indeed, last fall, there arose almost a competition of critics to assert all the ways in which Netanyahu was played by Hamas.
Accordingly, Netanyahu’s sweeping Supreme Court reforms had supposedly needlessly split the country, demoralizing the military and eroding Israeli deterrence in the eyes of Palestinian terrorists. Or his purported strategy of playing off the more lethal and toxic Hamas against the Palestinian Authority was supposedly proof of his reckless naivete.
Still, other opponents argued that his 16 years as Israel’s longest-serving prime minister and his age of 75 made him a Joe Biden-like relic of the past, simply too old and too familiar to be any longer effective. He was told it was well past time to step down and let a new generation break out of the old toxic Middle East mindsets.
And indeed, after October 7, Netanyahu faced a bleak regional and global landscape—analogous to what a 65-year-old Churchill faced in June 1940 when all of Western Europe was in the hands of the Nazis and a lonely Britain was without a single wartime ally—with a sympathetic America still hesitant to commit to ensuring its existence.
Massive immigration from the Middle East into Europe and the United States—spiked by hundreds of thousands of oil-subsidized foreign students in Western universities, coupled with the post-George Floyd woke/DEI hysterias—had made European and American political parties unapologetically not just anti-Israel but now increasingly anti-Semitic as well.
Western governments at times seemed far more terrified of their own Muslim citizens, foreign residents, radicalized students, and left-wing activists of their political parties than they were of any terrorist threats emanating from Iran and its surrogates.
So, a shared sense of resignation, if not despair, had swept the West and, in part, Israel too. Armchair strategists and retired generals opined nonstop how it would be virtually impossible to root out Hamas from its vast subterranean labyrinths—given its armories and headquarters were buried deep below Gazan hospitals, schools, and mosques.
The West all but accepted Hamas propaganda that it was more immoral to root out Hamas murderers hiding beneath hospitals than it was for them to murder and then flee beneath them.
Hamas’s own leaders were in no mood to negotiate a return of the hostages. They felt the more collateral damage their own fellow Gazans suffered, the more CNN-fed propaganda about Israeli "atrocities" and "genocide" would neuter the Netanyahu government. Hamas sensed Palestinians were to be the media’s new Ukrainians—fellow underdogs deserving Western support.
The old friendship days of Donald Trump—the Abraham Accords, the move of the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, the institutionalization of an Israeli Golan Heights, the withdrawal from the Iran Deal, the crippling oil sanctions on Tehran, and the terrorist designation of the Houthis—were long gone.
In their place emerged the most anti-Israeli American government in memory. Biden-Harris soon put arms holds on Israel, hectored it to be proportionate in responding to some 500 projectiles launched by Iran against the Jewish homeland, and all but resonated the slurs of the left that Israel had become "genocidal."
By spring 2024, we were further told that Israel could not finally defeat Hamas or remove its leadership from their tunnels. Moreover, Israel also faced 100,000, 125,000, or perhaps even 150,000 Hezbollah ballistic missiles and rockets—along with the full arsenal of Iranian rockets, missiles, and drones—that were ready at last to swarm and destroy Israeli defenses.
So, Israel was hopelessly trapped, we were told, in a brilliantly devilish Iranian "ring of fire." Accordingly, Iranian appendages in the West Bank and Gaza, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon would wage an on-off again war of attrition against Israel.
Meanwhile, Iran would finalize the production of five or six nuclear bombs. Israel’s civilian and military manpower would be worn down and worn out on multiple fronts and its tourist trade would be destroyed.
The economy would be bled out, as its citizens were ostracized abroad and at home called up to military service. And its only patron, the once reliable U.S., now under the Biden-Harris administration, considered the Jewish state a near embarrassing election-year liability.
Such were the burdens that would supposedly crush Netanyahu as he was forced from office. These challenges would soon lead to a more "realistic" and compliant Israeli government that would stop the ground wars, not retaliate disproportionally against Hezbollah or Iran ("You got a win. Take the win" in the words of Joe Biden), and use the Biden administration as a neutral interlocutor to legitimize Hamas and thereby perhaps ransom the hostages for billions of dollars.
The more Israel knocked down incoming missiles, the more Biden urged them not to respond proportionally, as if to punish Israel for its competence and reward Iran for its ineptitude.
Indeed, not since the infamous days of the 1950s, when the CIA overthrew Latin American regimes, had America so brazenly interfered in the internal politics of a foreign nation as it now overtly sought to replace or undermine the Netanyahu government—by strategic leaks of shared classified information, slow-walking and suspending arms, threats of holding back financial aid, opening back-channel relations with its political opponents, and by nonstop loud jawboning.
TRIUMPH
Yet here we are in autumn 2024, a year after October 7, with Hamas’s leadership virtually liquidated. Its terrorist brigades are decimated and increasingly scattered, and its own battered constituencies now angry that they are suffering the consequences of a self-interested—and, worst of all, losing—Hamas elite.
Hezbollah has launched some 9,000 rockets since October 7. It has made the Lebanese-Israeli border a no-man’s land. Some 80,000 Israelis were forced from their homes. Hezbollah violated all the UN peace accords and used UN deployments as virtual shields. Middle East experts assumed that Hamas were amateur killers compared to Nasrallah’s dreaded Hezbollah—the SS of Middle Eastern terrorist brigades.
Supposedly, its hardened killers, some 100,000 strong, could at any time trump the wickedness and medieval savagery of Hamas by sending at will far deadlier hit teams into northern Israel to repeat the massacres of October 7.
And what of Iran itself, the hub to the spokes of such terrorism?
We were told that it would soon become nuclear and might strike against the proverbial "one-bomb" state. In the mullahs’ eyes, poor Israel was a divine gift to the theocracy of assembling half the world’s Jewry into one easy target.
Did not Iran export deadly drones and missiles to new staunch allies like Russia and China and develop missiles nearly comparable to any in the West?
And yet somehow an embattled Netanyahu, shunned by the Biden administration, demonized by the European Union, and smeared and slandered by the UN, saw opportunity where all others saw only doom.
He understood that the sheer depravity of October 7 gave Israel, at least for a brief window, the moral authority to wage all-out war on its enemies, terrorists whose reputations he sensed were exaggerated, and their leaders’ bloodcurdling threats thus mostly empty.
So, Israel systematically neutered Hamas, eliminating its leadership, destroying its tunnels, and warning civilians this time around to vacate buildings that served as armories, storehouses, and safe houses and thus would be leveled. And so they were.
As if out of some science fiction novel, years ago Israel booby trapped thousands of Hezbollah pagers and walkie-talkies. And when they now finally exploded, they wounded or killed in a few seconds many of its ruling echelon while identifying the terrorists among the Lebanese population and revealing their strategic locations at the moments of their demise.
Netanyahu was told that reentering the Lebanese border was to revisit the graveyard of past failed Israeli incursions. And yet he did just that, though in measure, and thus half of the Hezbollah missile force is now reportedly gone. And with that, he pivoted to Iran.
Iran had sent 500 rockets, drones, and missiles into Israel, Israel heretofore launching a mere handful of missiles in response—until last week when the Israelis had apparently taken out much of the Iranian missile inventory and launch sites, as well as its anti-aircraft batteries.
So Israel without loss
…with relatively little loss, anyway — beyond the 1200 or so viciously murdered during the first few days of the Hamas 10/7 incursion, Israel has only lost a few hundred soldiers and a few dozen civilian, plus however many of the kidnapped will have been murdered before Hamas is forced to give them up…
has finally retaliated against Iran in force, but in a geostrategically brilliant fashion that for now has taken few lives, avoided a regional war, and again put Iran in a nearly impossible strategic position—and all without further alienating an often hostile Biden administration.
If Iran does not match its murderous eliminationist rhetoric with a third strike, it will continue to lose face abroad and perhaps eventually even its governance at home. And yet Tehran realizes such humiliating quietude is the better of two bad choices, since Israel also gave it a way out, by killing few Iranians and sparing its oil and nuclear facilities.
On the other hand, if Iran foolishly chooses to send more ballistic missiles into Israel, there is a good chance that again few—if any—will get through. And such a third strike will both justify and indeed this time ensure that an unbound (and unstoppable) Israeli retaliation will destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities and its oil infrastructure, rendering it destitute, defenseless, and humiliated—to the delight of the Arab world, the U.S. and even Europe, and the indifference of its supposed allies China and Russia.
Moreover, Netanyahu struck before the election. That sent a message that even if Harris were to be elected, neither she nor Biden in the next few months will veto Israeli strategic options. (And the strike also reminded American voters that the current administration turned a calm Middle East into an inferno). All that said, Israel responded again with restraint, which the Biden-Harris will eagerly claim was due to their own humanitarian pressure.
In sum, Netanyahu has changed the very image of his multifarious enemies—and indeed of the Middle East terrorist himself. The myth of a deadly and inviolate Iran is now shattered, replaced by a neurotic theocracy, its terrorist limbs amputated, its homeland defenseless, and its ultimate fate in the hands of a righteously angry Israel—with the specter of a possible President Donald Trump on the horizon who would end the dangerous American strategic nonsense of promoting a theocratic, anti-Western, Persian/Shiite/underdog as a foil to the moderate Arabs and Israel.
Likewise, exploding pagers and walkie-talkies not only decimated Hezbollah, but it also humiliated it—and made it the butt of macabre global jest.
Targeted assassinations changed the image of the fiery terrorist Iranian, Hezbollah, or Hamas leader, shaking his fist and shouting death to Israel and the West to assembled thousands, into a caricature of a craven and quivering bully—screaming from a reinforced bunker about the unfairness of being on the receiving end of what it has so boastfully for decades dished out.
Western media weekly posts wanted poster-like charts of Iranian, Hezbollah, and Hamas leadership, with x’s over the faces of the deceased. Now no sooner does a Hamas, Hezbollah, or Iranian terrorist implode than there are hushed assumptions that no one wishes to publicly identify as his replacement—and thus join him in eternity
The surreal aspect of the Netanyahu retaliatory tour is that he has done more to neutralize European and American enemies—with decades of Western blood on their hands—than NATO, the CIA, the FBI, and Interpol combined, and yet more often received rebuke rather than gratitude. If the dear Western Elites think Bibi's bad, wait until they've to deal with the quartet: Bennett, Liberman, Smotrich, and Ben Gvir.
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The surreal aspect of the Netanyahu retaliatory tour is that he has done more to neutralize European and American enemies—with decades of Western blood on their hands—than NATO, the CIA, the FBI, and Interpol combined, and yet more often received rebuke rather than gratitude.
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