[AmericanGreatness] A cynical public now expects any accused prominent leftist to remain unindicted, while any non-leftwing target will be indicted, convicted, and jailed—for the same alleged offenses.
[SteynOnline] So an Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman walk into a pub, and discover that everyone in there is from the Indian sub-continent. Except for the token Welshman. Who's black.
What we used to call the British Isles contain two sovereign states and, setting aside the Isle of Man and the Crown Dependencies, five principal political jurisdictions:
In London, the Prime Minister is a Hindu whose dad is a Punjabi from British East Africa. His opposite number in Dublin, the Taoiseach (a word Joe Biden just about managed to say this weekend), likewise has a Hindu father, who emigrated from Bombay to England.
The First Minister of Scotland also has a Punjabi pa, but this time Muslim. In the next Scottish election, he'll be battling it out with the Leader of the Opposition, who is another Punjabi Muslim.
The largest city in these islands is London, whose mayor is a Muslim with parents from Pakistan.
Celebrate lack of diversity! Is it possible to rise to the top in Anglo-Celtic politics without being from the Indian sub-continent? Why, yes: The new First Minister of Wales was born in Zambia. He is being hailed as the first black leader of a European country.
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Western European countries commiting a national suicide.
Western European politicians trying to drag the whole World - or, at least, the "white" parts of it with them.
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The whole concept of multiple states is to allow for diversity, what works, what doesn't. It's how nature works very slowly (less asteroids) to select successful adaptations.
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Britain has been subject to invasions for thousands of years. Various tribes and nations crossed the channel before the Brits got organized and rode rough shod over the isles...Angles, Saxons, Celts, Romans, Vikings and Normans. Pardon me if I left any out. Hardly anyone still remembers the Druids. When the English finally got organized and learned how to build ships they got better at resisting the invasions. Then they started invading and colonizing other countries. Now some of those chickens are coming home to roost. It's no surprise if some of the reverse colonists integrate better than others.
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Here in America, it's white guilt that is exploited to get all these types installed. In the UK it's colonial guilt. In both cases, it's people who may not even be descendants of anyone who did anything "wrong" who are insisting we all wear a hair shirt.
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Cultural Entropy, sterile and reasonable when viewed from afar, but intimate, tragic and infuriating when viewed from the evening news. More proof of the passing of Western Civilization and its natal epicenter in Europe. The Dark Ages approach, first there, then here!
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Vladimir Kornilov
[RIA] So, the presidential elections in Russia have been recognized as valid, the Russian voter has shown his consciousness and activity. Desperate attempts to disrupt the vote or reduce turnout not only failed, but also had the opposite effect. We saw both armed attacks from our external opponents and minor dirty tricks from various internal provocateurs, but against the backdrop of the overall information picture they looked like mosquito bites.
But this is true if we are talking about the information picture in our country. If you detach yourself from the facts and delve into those conjectures and horror stories that are fed to the Western public, then you will be surprised to learn that real hell was going on here! We can quote for a long time the horrors with which the Western media accompanied their articles and stories about our elections - such a flow of disinformation about Russia has not happened for a very long time. But it is enough to refer to just one illustration from the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph: Russian elderly people are filling out ballots, and armed soldiers are bending over each of them, carefully checking the correctness of the vote. The newspaper did not specify what these soldiers do if they see a “wrong” choice: either they are shot on the spot, or they are first taken out of town.
If anyone thinks that this is just a caricature, the work of an artist that has nothing in common with journalistic articles, then they are mistaken. This is roughly how our elections are described in many Western media. This is especially true for materials about voting in regions that are still commonly called “occupied Ukrainian”. “Elections at gunpoint” is simply the standard of most propaganda materials in the West. Only the lazy one didn’t write that armed militants are going from house to house in “Ukrainian cities” and forcing them to vote “for Putin.”
The main “source” of these amazing tales are, as a rule, representatives of that very Ukraine. For example, the Associated Press agency referred to the story of the “mayor of Mariupol” Vadim Boychenko that “a woman accompanied by two Chechen militants with machine guns” walks around the city’s apartments and forces people to vote. Of course, journalistic standards would require it to be explained to readers that this “mayor” fled from Mariupol in the first hours after the start of the SVO, that is, he has not appeared there for more than two years, and is an absolute champion in spreading refuted fakes. But this is if we are talking about journalism, and not propaganda. Therefore, the AP audience gets the impression that they are giving him a quote from an eyewitness to the events.
But some Western publications are trying to accompany their reports on our elections with “photo evidence.” For example, The Washington Post routinely reports: “Ukrainians in territories occupied by the Russian military are being forced to vote in the Russian presidential election under the watch of heavily armed, masked soldiers who accompany election officials as they go door to door knocking on doors, coercing to participate in elections." And this wild statement is accompanied by a photograph in which a woman actually throws a ballot into a ballot box, and a military man in a helmet and body armor stands nearby. The caption under the photo says that the case is happening “in the Donetsk region on the territory of Ukraine, controlled by Russia.”
It would seem that now you won’t be able to dig into it - here it is, “proof” of the allegations about “voting at gunpoint”! But here, too, the seemingly “respectable” publication has sunk to primitive manipulation. It simply did not indicate to its readers that the picture was taken by a Reuters photojournalist not just in the Donbass, but in front-line Avdiivka, that is, three to four kilometers from the line of active fighting. And of course, members of mobile election commissions move there through the shelled ruins of the city, accompanied by armed guards, since Avdiivka is really under constant gunpoint - under the gunpoint of Ukrainian militants! But admit it, and Western headlines will sound completely different!
At the same time, note that no one interferes with the Reuters photojournalist; it is possible that the military man in the photo is precisely ensuring his personal safety. And if The Washington Post really adhered to the above-mentioned standards of journalism, it would have shown other photographs of the same correspondent, in which he captured the voting process in other cities of the DPR - in Donetsk or in Mariupol, a little more distant from the front. However, then we would have to admit that the people of Donbass went to vote in spite of Ukrainian shelling at polling stations voluntarily, and not “at gunpoint,” lining up there.
But if someone believes that such fakes in the West are spread only about elections in Donbass or Crimea, then he thinks too well of the media there. You can find the wildest stories there, just pulled out of thin air. For example, a number of Western media, including the British state broadcasting corporation BBC, shamelessly spread a story about the arrest in Moscow of a certain voter who scribbled some nasty stuff on a ballot, and a policeman spied it and immediately grabbed him. That is, here is a visual confirmation of the same illustration about armed people checking the correctness of filling out ballots!
At the same time, a basic check of this “sensation” shows that its only source is an unknown Telegram channel created a couple of months ago. Even commentators on this channel openly mocked the “news,” asking for the coordinates of the “arrested” daredevil in order to give him warm clothes. Of course, the request remained unanswered. But, let us repeat, this “news” spread across many Western media. No verification of any nonsense about Russia in the West is now required.
Let us note that the lion's share of outright fakes about our elections was spread by those outside Russia, with links to the oldest news agency called “One Grandma Said.” Moreover, we did not restrict the work of Western journalists. Those who wanted to did so sent their own correspondents to the polling stations and received a more or less objective picture.
Thus, the aforementioned newspaper The Washington Post not only published pseudo-analysis by people far from Russia, but also sent its correspondent to Belgorod to see how voting was taking place in the city now under fire from the Ukrainians. And she immediately became convinced that those who constantly say that the Ukrainian raids caused a backlash were right: various residents of the city told her that they went to the polls to spite this barbarity. That is, there were unexpected exceptions to the general rules of covering events in Russia.
But this is truly an exception. Even having the opportunity to send their own correspondents to the site and make sure that our elections are open, few of the Western media took advantage of it. For what? The task of honest coverage of events in Russia is never there. And now - even more so.
In this regard, the material in the Dutch newspaper NRC looks especially funny. Her employee Eva Zucker, who until last year worked as a correspondent in Moscow, wrote an article (of course, now from the Netherlands) in which she compares today's Russia with “Oceania” from Orwell’s novel “1984.” And he cites, of course, the well-known formula “Peace is war!” Well, yes, hearing this from the lips of a representative of the European Union, who finances the war in Ukraine from the Peace Fund, is really funny! Yes, Orwell could not even imagine this!
In the same spirit, recommendations were drawn up based on the results of all these Western fakes about the elections in Russia. Thus, an editorial in the British The Times, talking about “voting at gunpoint,” comes to the conclusion: “The West’s response to this tyranny should be to redouble its efforts to defend democratic Ukraine.” That is, “tyranny” is in Russia, where elections are held (no matter how they are viewed in the West), and “democracy” is in Ukraine, where elections have been completely canceled as unnecessary! Yes, Orwell was nowhere near the current reality!
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So the Russians have figured out that American mainstream media is mostly manure. But can the Russians do any better?
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I have found dealing with a great variety of people on line and directly that they all have similar opinions and refuse to consider any information contrary to their current beliefs. If Obama ran again or his wife they would vote for them again without a thought. Russia is an evil empire and must be dismantled. Putin is pure evil and must be removed. On and on as if they are the only ones operating with clear thoughts and moral high ground. I grow tired of them as they offer nothing original or substantive.
[Daily Caller] George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley said Monday that the "improvisational" nature of the cases against former President Donald Trump caused damage to the image of the legal system and proved Trump was "right" about being targeted by a "weaponized" justice system.
Trump’s attorneys said Monday the former president was having difficulty posting a $454 million bond to cover the judgment in a civil fraud case issued by New York Judge Arthur Engoron in February. Turley said that the cases brought by Democratic Attorney General Letitia James, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, special counsel Jack Smith and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis proved Trump’s allegations that he was being targeted correct.
[PJMEDIA] It was like old home week for the alphabet agencies at their reunion at the U.S. Capitol riot on January 6, 2021. In addition to all kinds of feds, assets, narcs, PCs, informants, and other characters from the Department of Defense, FBI, Department of Homeland Security, ATF, and the Department of Justice, you can add CIA to the party. What were they doing there? What a fantastic question.
Judicial Watch sued in federal court to uncover January 6 documents relating to "records and communications regarding shots being fired inside the U.S. Capitol, as well as requests for Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Special Response Team assistance on January 6, 2021."
Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch wondered what the agency, which is not allowed to operate domestically, was doing there.
Why didn't the Pelosi January 6 commission, as corrupt as it was, not disclose the CIA involvement? What were they used for? Were they investigating foreign intelligence operations? Were they investigating American citizens? What else have they done related to January 6?
Judicial Watch received ATF documents showing that the CIA had multiple operators there that day.
Were they answering the Mutual Aid request in D.C. or something else?
A CIA bomb team was deployed where "pipe bombs" were found outside the Democratic National Committee headquarters where Kamala Harris had meetings on January 6 and at a club near the Republican National Committee headquarters on Capitol Hill. Multiple dog sniffing teams were put on standby according to the messages.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) records include a series of text messages under the heading “January 7 Intel Chain” in which two separate references to participation by the CIA are made. One states that “two CIA bomb techs” are assisting with “a pipe bomb scene on New Jersey and D ST SE.” Another references “several CIA dog teams on standby.”
The House is investigating why the January 6 Committee destroyed evidence and presented only information that condemned, not exculpated Donald Trump. Maybe they'll have some answers on why there was a feds family reunion planned for January 6, 2021 and that the only ones not sent an invitation were the National Guard.
[Front Page] When LBJ signed the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act into law, JFK had been dead for two years, but it, more than the Cuban missile crisis or the race to the moon, was his real legacy which still impacts us today when there are no more Americans on the moon or nukes in Cuba.
At the signing, LBJ paid tribute to "the vision of the late beloved President John Fitzgerald Kennedy". Little did the 36th president know that the 44th president, born to a radical Kenyan student, was already growing up in this country due to JFK’s personal intervention during his 1960 presidential campaign.
"This bill that we will sign today is not a revolutionary bill," President Johnson argued. "It does not affect the lives of millions. It will not reshape the structure of our daily lives... Yet it is still one of the most important acts of this Congress and of this administration." Only the last was true.
It affected not only millions, but tens of millions, and it reshaped our lives and our country.
At the signing ceremony, LBJ was flanked by the newly minted Senator Ted Kennedy and a grinning RFK to cement the bill which ended national quotas for immigrants as the Kennedy legacy. The bill would be described as Senator Ted Kennedy’s "first legislative victory" which "helped change the face of the country" and "fashioned the modern day immigration system."
"The bill will not flood our cities with immigrants. It will not upset the ethnic mix of our society. It will not relax the standards of admission. It will not cause American workers to lose their jobs," Senator Ted Kennedy had promised in the Senate. All of these promises proved to be false.
The 1965 bill was a sequel to a battle that Rep. John F. Kennedy had narrowly lost to Senator Richard Nixon over the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952. President Truman had vetoed the 1952 bill because it imposed national restrictions on immigration, favoring Western European immigrants and drastically limiting immigration from the rest of the world.
Kennedy had upheld Truman’s veto in the House but Nixon cast a tie-breaking vote and the 1952 bill became law.
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In the social sciences, unintended consequences (sometimes unanticipated consequences or unforeseen consequences, more colloquially called knock-on effects) are outcomes of a purposeful action that are not intended or foreseen.
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^ Should be its own post tomorrow, Skid. The Flaming Hypocrisy enrages
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^ #3
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The finding discussed in the Illinois case is in line with the Breuen decision. In this case, the leftist judge wanted conservatives to be outraged.
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The entire gerbilist project has created a world with more war and potential for out of control nuclear war than ever before.
More "self reliance" and less phoney alliances would be an improvement.
Imagine the decrease in mischief if the US spent the next 50 years paying off the national debt instead of printing money to send to places like Ukraine and Somalia.
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In 1948, the Israeli Declaration of Independence sparked the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, which resulted in the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight and subsequently led to waves of Jewish emigration from other parts of the Middle East.
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.
[Daily Caller] George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley said Monday that the "improvisational" nature of the cases against former President Donald Trump caused damage to the image of the legal system and proved Trump was "right" about being targeted by a "weaponized" justice system.
