[Conservative Treehouse] Tucker Carlson interviews Bret Weinstein who traveled to the Darien Gap to understand who’s behind the invasion of our country. His conclusion: "it’s not a friendly migration." He sits down with Tucker Carlson for an in-depth review and analysis.
Weinstein is perplexed, albeit with various theories about the origination and motives behind the mass invasion, however, if you have followed the issue closely since the first rendition during the Obama era in January 2011, the entire "crisis" is nothing more than one growing continuum of the fundamental change. {Go Deep on Timeline} Obama originated the UAC Central American migration. The additional arrivals are a confluence of natural opportunists facilitated by various leftist orgs and countries.
The interview itself is very interesting, including how the Chinese saw the opportunity created by the Obama effort and started taking advantage of it.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Yuri Zavizion
Chairman of the Council of Veterans of the 6th Guards Red Banner Tank Army, Lieutenant General of the Reserve
[RedStar] It has been 80 years since the formation of the 6th Guards Red Banner Tank Army of the Armed Forces of the USSR.
The year 1944 was marked by new victories for the Red Army, which wrested the strategic initiative from the enemy and conducted active offensive operations on all fronts. It was necessary to strengthen the armored fist of our armored and mechanized troops. For this purpose, in January 1944, it was decided to form another tank army, the sixth. Subsequently, more than once its military personnel demonstrated courage and bravery on the battlefields with Germany and Japan, certainly achieving success in carrying out combat missions.
The core of the newly formed association was the 5th Guards Stalingrad Tank Corps. In addition, the army included the 5th Mechanized Corps and a number of formations and units of army subordination. Hero of the Soviet Union, Lieutenant General of Tank Forces Andrei Grigorievich Kravchenko was appointed its commander.
The newly formed 6th Tank Army of General Kravchenko in January 1944 had yet to make itself known. She deservedly received her baptism of fire as part of the 1st Ukrainian Front, showing herself brilliantly in the Korsun-Shevchenko operation, during which the army defeated up to two enemy tank and one infantry divisions, destroyed and captured 379 tanks and self-propelled guns, 62 armored personnel carriers, 207 artillery guns.
On February 22, 1944, the 6th Tank Army was transferred to the 2nd Ukrainian Front and in March–April took part in the Uman-Botoshan operation, in which it, in cooperation with the 2nd and 5th Tank Armies, acted as part of strike group to develop the success of the front. The task was completed.
The 6th Tank Army played an important role in the Iasi-Kishinev offensive operation of 1944 and subsequent military operations in the central part of Romania. The tank army introduced into the breakthrough in the 27th Army zone in the Iasi area successfully developed an offensive in the general direction of Bucharest. The operation was carried out at a record high pace, which required rapid unification of efforts in decisive areas and flexibility in command and control. On August 1, 1944, army troops victoriously entered Bucharest.
At the beginning of September, the 6th Tank Army changed the direction of its offensive: it was sharply turned to the west. And now, having overcome the Transylvanian Alps, the army developed an offensive against the city of Cluj.
For the exemplary performance of combat missions, heroism, bravery and courage shown by personnel in battles with the Nazi invaders, on September 12, 1944, the 6th Tank Army was transformed into the 6th Guards Tank Army, and its 5th Mechanized Corps - to the 9th Guards Mechanized Corps. This raised the morale of the tank crews.
For military exploits during the war, 39,344 soldiers of the 6th Guards Tank Army were awarded orders and medals. 12 people became full holders of the Order of Glory of three degrees, 78 were awarded the high title of Hero of the Soviet Union
In October 1944, the 6th Guards Tank Army took part in the Debrecen offensive operation. In December 1944 - January 1945 - in the Budapest strategic offensive operation. The results were, as always, the highest.
The battle lasted ten days and went down in the history of the Great Patriotic War as the Balaton defensive operation. The enemy's counter-offensive was met by a well-prepared, strong defense. It is symbolic that the 6th Guards Tank Army under the command of Guard Colonel General of Tank Forces A.G. Kravchenko acted against the 6th German Panzer Army under the command of Colonel General of the SS Panzer Forces Sepp Dietrich.
The 6th Guards Tank Army played a very important role in the implementation of the operational-strategic plans of the commanders of the fronts, in which it carried out tasks, being under operational subordination. Thus, in mid-March 1945, the army was transferred to the 3rd Ukrainian Front under operational subordination and, as part of it, took part in the Vienna strategic offensive operation, where it finally defeated the SS tank army under the command of Dietrich.
At the final stage of the Vienna strategic offensive operation, Sepp Dietrich uttered words of bitter recognition of his defeat: “My tank army is called the 6th because there are six tanks left in it...”
In mid-April 1945, the 6th Guards Tank Army was again reassigned to the 2nd mu Ukrainian Front under the command of Marshal of the Soviet Union R.Ya. Malinovsky. As part of it, she actively participated in the battles for the cities of Brno, Olomouc and in the final defeat of enemy troops during the Prague strategic offensive operation.
The Khingan-Mukden frontal offensive operation, which ended in the complete defeat of the Kwantung Army and the withdrawal of Japan from the war, was a victorious triumph for the 6th Tank Army. The rapid actions of the 6th Guards Tank Army literally stunned and paralyzed the enemy, which forced him to stop military operations on the Chinese mainland and forced him to complete and unconditional surrender.
In a word, the 6th Guards Tank Army was born and tempered in battles with the enemies of our Motherland - Hitler's Germany and imperialist Japan. Its combat route is 5,050 kilometers, covered under its own power, excluding transportation by rail. Of these, the army fought 2,655 kilometers. The results are impressive: during the fighting, the tank army captured and destroyed 2,543 tanks and a large number of other military equipment. 34 infantry, 11 tank, and four cavalry divisions were defeated. 750 settlements in Ukraine and almost 1,500 in the countries of South-Eastern Europe and Manchuria were liberated.
The soldiers of the army covered themselves with unfading glory. During the fighting, the Supreme Commander-in-Chief announced 24 thanks to the tank crews of the 6th Guards Tank Army. For military exploits during the war, 39,344 army soldiers were awarded orders and medals. 12 people became full holders of the Order of Glory of three degrees, 78 were awarded the high title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
Most units and formations of the army were awarded orders twice, and some three times. Almost all of them became guardsmen. The combat banners of these units and formations are decorated with 52 orders, 20 of them were given 27 honorary titles of Kiev, Smolensk, Uman, Dniester, Rymnik, Foksha, Budapest, Vienna, Prague, Khingan, Mukden, Port Arthur and others.
From September 1945 to April 1957, the 6th Guards Tank Army was part of the troops of the Trans-Baikal Military District, and then was redeployed to the troops of the Red Banner Kyiv Military District in the Dnepropetrovsk region.
From the ranks of the famous tank army came a whole galaxy of wonderful military leaders, famous generals. Many unit and unit commanders subsequently graduated from military academies and held high command and responsible leadership positions.
In January 1974, by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, the army was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for its services in battles against the Nazi invaders and high performance in combat training. In 1993, the 6th Guards Tank Army was reorganized into the 6th Guards Red Banner Army Corps.
In Moscow, a museum of military glory of the famous 6th Guards Red Banner Tank Army was created and now operates, which is located in secondary school No. 433 named after Hero of the Soviet Union Guard Captain I. Yakushkin.
The winners of that war will forever remain in the memory of grateful descendants. And let the guideline for this be the sacred commandment of the great front-line poet Konstantin Simonov, left for the edification of the younger generation: “To take care and remember those who ensured our Victory is the sacred duty of all living!”
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Peter Trenin-Strausov
[REGNUM] One of the “shameful desires” of part of the Russian elite in relation to the West is its return to normality: restoring relations with Russia, avoiding excesses in values and moral guidelines in public life, following economic interests (and not ideologies and political maxims), building a European independent and mutually beneficial relations with other regions of the world without regard to Washington. The US itself is expected to bring to power a conservative republican force that will sweep away all the liberal globalist “scum and nonsense” and return to a strict understanding of its own benefit. This may be good for Western countries, but will it be good for us?
Hardly. The strong and “healthy” toothy West has always seen in Russia not so much a partner as a competitor, an adversary, a threat, and sometimes - when Russia was in its most weakened state - an object. Russia’s relations with the West are a thousand years old—enough to derive current patterns and follow them. They will not change, because neither nature, nor history, nor the geographical location and spirit of civilizations will change.
The current cooldown to hostility is the best moment to re-evaluate the cultural and civilizational landscape in public terms. There used to be a hill at the center of our worldview called “Western Civilization” that we tried to emulate. The hill was visible from all sides and in all disputes it was always good form to point to it. The hill blocked a significant part of our view. The hill interfered with normal movement from one point to another - routes were not laid directly, but took into account and went around it. Now the hill was crumbling and crumbling. There’s just a little bit left to bury in our heads in order to clear the horizon and directly establish the movement of thought within our world.
ABOUT THE WEST - ONLY IN NUMBERS
First, we are not included in the moral circuit of the Western world. We haven't and we won't. Any thoughts about morality, correctness, principles sounding from there are dangerous to listen to and take seriously - these are the voices of sirens. It is necessary to talk about the West and the benefits from relations with it in Russia only in units of account - trade turnover, currency, etc. It is so simple and clear to determine whether these relations are beneficial to Russia or not. We need to stop talking about relations with the West and about the West in abstract terms, so as not to fall for speculation - this is our civilizational defense. For everything that we have received from the West over all centuries, we have paid for everything in full. Nothing was given to us just like charity and from the bottom of our hearts. Everything we received is rightfully ours.
THE ONLY EXCEPTION IS SERBIA
Secondly, in deep respect to Russia and in strategic terms, the West is united. From Estonia to Portugal and from Norway to Greece. Moreover, opposition to Russia is now seen as a “natural” and “objective” factor that governments will use to introduce restrictive and mobilization measures. Short-term warmings in relations with individual countries or, rather, their leaders are possible, however, the rule still applies - Russia has no friends in the united West and never will. The palette of relations towards Russia can be very different from country to country, but the general solidarity of the West (achieved, including through force) is much stronger than any of the warmest relations with Russia. The main countries of the West, which determine the general vector of development, do not see Russia as either an ally or part of a common civilization.
That is why Russia was not accepted into NATO. That is why everyone in Europe who is not already in NATO is accepted into NATO. This is why Ukraine is so needed. Everyone who joins NATO and the EU is subject to a common policy towards Russia.
STRONGER RUSSIA, MORE CONSTRUCTIVE WEST
Thirdly, the stronger the West, the less ready it is to speak with Russia on an equal footing and take our interests into account. The worst combination is a strong West and a weak Russia: this is the 1990s with deceived promises and the ecstatic self-destruction of the Soviet legacy, together with the Americans. It could have been worse - Troubles, intervention, a foreign king on the throne. The normal combination is a strong West and a strong Russia. Then cooperation, alliances, and Russia’s participation in all-Western showdowns are possible. Then it becomes more important on whose side Russia’s resources are, and Russia sometimes managed to achieve benefits for itself. A weak West and a strong Russia is the best combination, however, this has not happened in the foreseeable past. We will get stronger, perhaps we will see this in the future.
STRATEGY: THEY WILL BLINK FIRST, YOU HAVE TO WAIT
Fourth, for a long time, the strategic initiative in relations between Russia and the West was in most cases on the side of the West. The West was stronger economically and technologically, and from the beginning of the 18th century, cultural self-abasement before the West began to take hold in Russia in an effort to more fully adopt foreign ways of life and thoughts. All this time, self-restraint in attachment to the West did not work, and any government efforts to limit this attachment acted on the contrary - they increased the craving for the forbidden. Today a unique and very beneficial situation has arisen for us - the West has independently cut the threads by which it could pull us.
The smokescreen of Western “values”, rights and principles has fallen away - all these are not universal values, but at best local and work only in favor of the West and against Russia. Now that everything has become transparent, we need to keep an eye on how, when and which Western countries will contact Russia and what they will need from us. They will inevitably “open up.”
AND THEN...
Then it will become ridiculously obvious that what we need from them, we can buy and have been buying for a millennium. Technologies. Technique. Premium and luxury goods. Fashion. Entertainment. Real estate. Works of art. The work of specialists. Trips. Excursions. Food and drinks. Education. Club membership. Playing golf. In general - consumerism, everyday life and philistinism.
What they need from us (and other regions of the world) is not so easy to buy (you have to pay a fair price) or impossible, so they traditionally take it by force and cunning. Resources. Sales Influence and power. In general - subjugate.
There is no good West for Russia. There is and will be - complex, hostile, skillful and very cunning. The longer the West remains weak, the better for Russia. The weakness will not last so long, and after that he will get stronger and be reborn - he will win back.
While there is a head start, we need to have time to develop and crystallize a consumerist (instead of a civilization-dependent and “subordinate-cultural”) attitude towards the West. This will be much more productive, calmer and more effective than deceiving the enemy or, conversely, reducing him to insignificance.
We have recovered geopolitically in thirty years practically from scratch. This is a significant achievement. We - one country - are comparable in strength to the entire West, and they recognize this. Hence the accusations of “revanchism”, “imperialism”, “resentment” and calls to prepare for war with Russia. Yes, Russia is a power, and the West doesn’t like it, and while it doesn’t like it, everything is going right for us...
But as soon as we hear praise from the West, it will mean that he is ready for expansion in our direction.
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Russians are a lot like Jews in some ways.
Some Jews will do anything to be liked - or, at least, not to be actively hated by Gentiles (c.f. Jews for Palestine).
Some Russians, will to anything to be respected by "The West".
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They might find a way to trust us again but they shouldn't. Joe Biden sitting in the White House is but one of many facts that prove we are not trustworthy.
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[FoxNews] 'China is not a pacing threat, it is the threat being chased,' according to the report
Jen Easterly, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, warned about China's hacking threats Wednesday before the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party.
Association members of the U.S. Naval Institute, belief that the military branch is trailing behind China’s advances in cyberspace operations, and if action is not taken, the branch will have "a very bad day" at the start of a cyberwar in 2026, according to reports.
In a piece written for the February 2024 issue of Proceedings, a publication for the U.S. Naval Institute, Retired Vice Adm. T.J. White, Retired Rear Adm. Danelle Barrett, U.S. Navy, and Cmdr. Jake Bebber, wrote that the Navy was not ready for the information war as it had not "adequately planned" for a time when the cyber and maritime domains of war intersect.
"The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel underscore that operational planners need to prepare for information attacks by state actors as well as non-state organizations and civilians," the authors wrote, heeding a warning that the U.S. is not prepared for any cyberwar sparked, hypothetically, in 2026.
The reason, they explain, is that the Navy has not "fully embraced" the benefits of space operations supporting maritime operations, nor has it embraced that it has access advantages to support both cyber and space operations, adding that leaders will need to embrace these things to defeat cognitive warfare campaigns.
"The Navy lacks an agreed to strategic, operational, and tactical view of what it believes war in the maritime domain will look like over the next five to ten years, when advanced capabilities brought on by accelerating technologies such as hypersonic weapons, artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, quantum computing, and free space optics complicate an already challenging environment," the authors wrote. "China, on the other hand, has been planning and conducting a global campaign in the information domain since the mid-1990s.
"Today, China can employ its growing control over the cyberspace technology ecosystem — from submarine cable systems to satellite constellations — along with its control over software platforms and information supply chains and growing dominance in algorithm-driven consumer and media platforms to change the character of war decidedly in its favor."
The writers based their information on the War of 2026 scenario published in December 2023, which suggested could go either badly or very badly for the U.S.
Under the "very bad" scenario, the Navy never committed fully to participating in an information "cold war" that had been going on for years, therefore, it was not prepared.
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If all of our computers are Made in China the assumption must be that we are woefully unprepared for a cyber war. Then you add the fact that America's Internet is open to the Chinese. It's enough to make you wonder whose side our leaders are on.
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Navy leaders say military branch is not ‘adequately' prepared for a cyberwar
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Sergey Leskov
[REGNUM] On January 30, a large-scale Internet outage occurred in Russia. Several dozen popular sites and services have become unavailable. Business activity was paralyzed. Banking and financial platforms, as well as marketplaces, froze. Experts say that this is the largest disruption in the Russian segment of the Internet.
The Domain Coordination Center reported that the unavailability of sites in the ru domain zone. is related to problems with the DNSSEC protocol suite, which ensures user security and is used to prevent cyber attacks. The analogy is simple - you installed an anti-theft system on your car, it hit a false note, and when you started the engine, the security service took you under the thumbs.
Fortunately, there were no shocks. Roskomnadzor announced that on the morning of January 31, the system returned to normal. Can we breathe a sigh of relief? Let computer scientists understand the defects, and sensible minds cannot help but wonder about dependence on the latest technologies, which were invented to make our existence easier, but in reality make people completely dependent on them.
Mysteriously, the Internet outage coincided with International Internet Day, which is celebrated on the last Sunday of January. Conspiracy theorists can come up with their own versions, but it must be recalled that the Day Without the Internet was not conceived to fight it, but for the humane purpose of reminding people that in addition to the delights of the virtual world, there are many simple values. It may seem strange to some, but life is richer than the most beautiful computer. In addition to social networks, the luxury of live communication remains, which in modern times seems anachronistic. There are sports, theater, nature, excursions and intimate conversations. Have you forgotten what it is yet?
However, on that cloudy day when we lost the Internet, many panic-prone citizens plunged into the abyss of technophobia and were reminded that dependence on the latest technology can take a dangerous turn. Our life in the real world becomes scarce and transits into the virtual world. In a modern city, it is impossible to refuse the Internet for a thousand reasons. You will wander around helplessly, like old man Hottabych in industrial Moscow. Shopping, news, salaries, webinars and seminars, loans and fines, work and tickets, payment of utilities, training, books and movies, even reports on children’s education - everything is online.
It must be admitted that in the 21st century, a city dweller is a serf. A person has become enslaved to the Internet and social networks. A day without the Internet is a day erased from life. In Shakespeare's tragedy, King Richard exclaims: “Horse! Half a kingdom for a horse!” Nowadays, if King Charles III goes for a walk from Buckingham Palace without a phone, he will have to shout: “iPhone! Half a kingdom for an iPhone!” I don’t know a single person who, having forgotten his phone at home, would not turn around his route.
But there is no need to sprinkle ashes on your head. The current era is no exception. Man has always been dependent on many things and circumstances. If you don’t have a dog, your neighbor won’t poison it, if you don’t have an aunt, and so on. Life is an endless chain of our dependencies and burdens. Is there any reason to believe that the onslaught of information technology has increased our vulnerability?
In 1910, newspapers wrote about Leo Tolstoy’s escape from Yasnaya Polyana: “ The Count’s nerves were worn out by cinematography, cyclists and airplanes.” In the era of the frontal advance of machines, society was inclined to be tempted to explain the collapse of patriarchal foundations by the invasion of technology. In England, the threat of a drop in milk production from cows due to locomotive whistles was discussed. In the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, hatred of machines was expressed in the Luddite movement, which destroyed looms. More troops took part in the suppression of the Luddite uprising in 1811 than in the Napoleonic War. 17 Luddites (more than Decembrists!) were hanged for damaging equipment, hundreds were exiled to Australia.
Fear of the new and unknown is characteristic of every living creature. However, the fear of progress at the dawn of the scientific and technological revolution and outwardly the same fear in our time are fundamentally different. The difference is that previously, poorly educated people trembled before the onslaught of machines. Now this feeling has infused the souls of the enlightened strata. In my opinion, common misconceptions of this century include fear of GMOs, radiophobia, and the anthropogenic factor in global warming. New phobias include the fear that the Internet is encroaching on human nature itself and threatens to destroy our universe. Accidents and failures happen in all technical systems, but it cannot be denied that they are improving and becoming more reliable. Cursing the Internet because of a technical glitch is like lashing a stumbling mare with a whip.
In my opinion, in the field of information and computer technologies, the real danger lies in artificial intelligence, which politicians are talking about excitedly. There is an authoritative opinion that the one who first creates real and full-fledged artificial intelligence will become the ruler of the world. Authoritative futurist Michio Kaku, who recently spoke at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum, considers the inevitable all-out offensive of robots and the displacement of humans from their centuries-old homes. In the coming years, 5 percent of traditional professions will be occupied by robots. 800 professions will be digitized and automated. According to forecasts, the profession of journalist falls into this sad row. But for now these lines are written by a person, although it is becoming increasingly difficult to prove this.
Deep down, we believe that there will be areas where artificial intelligence cannot penetrate. But the computer is already tearing apart chess champions like a hot water bottle, although Botvinnik believed that the ceiling for a robot was the first category. The great prophet Arthur C. Clarke predicted that by 2025 all feelings and emotions will be digitized. Stephen Hawking had no doubt that robots would learn to believe in God. Michio Kaku believes that a turning point in the relationship between man and robot will certainly come, and the robot will want to take power. Therefore, a person must still have access to the secret switch, that is, to the last microchip.
What naivety! Deceiving artificial intelligence is the same utopia as catching up with Savransky. The father of cybernetics, Norbert Wiener, warned his descendants: “The logic of a robot is to eliminate everything that interferes with its expansion. ” Simply put, the robot will try to eliminate its creator as soon as it notices that he is about to pull the plug out of the socket.
Personally, I do not rule out the possibility that teenagers who play with computers today and complain about glitches on the Internet will be the last people on Earth. After them, artificial intelligence will take power. And he won’t have any failures.
[Federalist] A secret Obama-era executive action may have authorized former President Donald Trump to keep presidential records at Mar-a-Lago. My organization, America First Legal, filed a Freedom of Information Act request last week to find out.
In October 2014, Russian hackers breached the Executive Office of the President’s (EOP) network. Months later, President Barack Obama created, via executive action, the Presidential Information Technology Committee (PITC), purportedly to protect EOP information by moving systems onto Department of Defense (DOD) servers.
The PITC executive order and documents obtained from litigation reveal how President Obama asserted an aggressive position on presidential control over information. Under PITC, if the president accessed data, it was presumptively his. America First Legal has argued this aggressive position is constitutional. A little imperial, eh? When Bill accessed Monica, was she his? Data has lives of its own.
Given no public evidence that the PITC order was rescinded, Obama’s position has legal consequences for former President Trump and his various indictments concerning records originating from the government. First, PITC creates a presumption that the president controls virtually all of the data he receives. The PITC memo established the president’s "exclusive control" over information resources and systems provided to him. The memo created the presumption that information contained on information systems and resources was "EOP information." Because the memo relied upon the Federal Records Act’s definition of "information system" as resources organized for the "use" and "disposition" of "information," the memo purports to give the president exclusive control over the information he receives.
That’s why America First Legal is investigating PITC — to determine whether DOD actually retains copies of data accessed by the president.
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“They copied all they could follow, but they couldn't copy my mind,
And I left 'em sweating and stealing a year and a half behind. “ Kipling’s The Mary Gloster.
They will not get Trump. He is the Toadrunner.
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[Bee] GAZA — Amidst an ongoing conflict between Hamas and Israel, residents of Gaza banded together Thursday to vote for a ceasefire in Chicago, a city they say is an absolute war zone.
"We are appalled by the endless violence in Chicago. How can anyone live there?" declared Gaza resident Ahmed Al-Astal Abu Al-Najjar. "We must add our voice to the growing number of people demanding peace in this war-torn American city."
According to reports, there were 2,450 shootings in The Windy City in 2023 alone. "You'd be crazy to live in Chicago," Al-Najjar reiterated, shaking his head. "I don't care how good they say their pizza is."
"All of these deaths could have been prevented if only the Chicago government would get their act together," Gaza resident Muhammad Mahmoud Muhammad Musa said as he voted in support of the resolution calling for a Chicago ceasefire.
The text of the resolution calls for a permanent ceasefire in Chicago, humanitarian assistance, and for its citizens to immediately convert to Islam or die.
At publishing time, the Chicago city council had attempted to sign a resolution calling for ceasefire in Gaza, but the vote was interrupted by a drive-by shooting.
The real life thing the Babylon Bee is responding to:
[IsraelTimes] Democrat Brandon Johnson ...Hizzonner da Mare of Chicago. He was elected in April 2023 to replace the disastrous Lori Lightfoot and immediately set about out-Richtering her. A member of the Democratic Party (naturally), Johnson previously worked as a social studies teacher in the city's stellar public schools system. He helped organize the 2012 teachers strike. Prior to becoming Da Mare, he served on the Cook County Board of Boodlng Commissioners from 2018 to 2023... splits with party leader Biden, making reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... the largest US city to pass symbolic measure that also calls for hostages’ release but doesn’t condemn Hamas ...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... The nearly four-hour debate on the resolution was heated, with several hundred pro-Paleostinian activists — many wearing keffiyeh scarves — sitting in the audience and shouting down speakers against the resolution, leading Johnson to clear the ground-floor gallery mid-way through. Several dozen activists were allowed to remain in the glass-covered, upper-level gallery for the remainder of the hearing, and they erupted in cheers after Johnson cast his tie-breaking vote.
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by David Narmania
[RIA] According to The Guardian, Iran, through intermediaries, conveyed to the United States a message that it would retaliate against American bases in the Middle East if Washington decided to attack the country's territory.
Tehran's permanent representative to the UN, Amir Said Iravani, formally denied this report - they say that there were no contacts between the two states after the attack on the American base. True, he later added that any attack on Iran will not go unpunished. And this is clearly not a refutation after which the White House can breathe easy.
How did Washington find itself at the incredibly thin line separating it from the next conflict? The formal reason was an attack on an American base in the Middle East, which resulted in the death of three American soldiers. Such attacks have become a common occurrence in the region—over the past months, there have been one and a half hundred similar cases, with more than a hundred Americans injured. However, until last Sunday there were no casualties.
But as blood was shed, many politicians in Washington demanded revenge, ranging from showdown strikes to a full-scale invasion. And in the White House they hesitated, forcing press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre to take the rap, who managed to squeeze out something in the spirit of “condolences to the families of those who fought for our administration,” which provoked another scandal.
Then another outstanding master of words, Joseph Biden himself, had to make excuses. And the US President quite transparently hinted to all the “hawks” that their aspirations were in vain. "I don't think we need a large-scale war in the Middle East. That's not what I'm looking for." But he promised to get even with the attackers.
The reasons for the reticence are understandable. Firstly, there are still questions about which US base was attacked: Washington insists that we are talking about “Tower 22” located in Jordan, and in Jordan itself they claim that the attack fell on the one located very close - but already on Syrian territory - the al-Tanf base.
And here, of course, there is a fundamental difference: in Jordan, American facilities are located within the framework of a bilateral treaty, therefore, from the point of view of international law, the United States has every right to defend itself. The Americans are in Syria at their own whim, so it is problematic to present attacks from any side (Tehran claims that it was not involved in what happened) as aggression.
And this is just the tip of the iceberg. Washington is afraid to admit that it is not ready for war with Iran.
Over the past 80 years, the United States has not had a direct military adversary of this level: a country of 90 million, which, during 45 years of being under sanctions, managed to develop its own weapons production in the most advanced areas (for example, UAVs and hypersonics), cultivated a developed proxy network in the entire region and a powerful army - this is truly an opponent to be feared. Neither Afghanistan nor Iraq had such potential, but even in these countries things did not turn out as rosy for the United States as the White House had planned.
The general situation in the Middle East adds additional trouble to the Americans: in addition to almost daily attacks on military targets, merchant ships and warships in the Red Sea are under threat - this time from the Yemeni Houthis." Ansar Allah", despite the ongoing shelling of Yemen, continues to demand an end to the war in the Gaza Strip. It is significant that the United States, which is shelling this same Yemen, also demands an end to the war in the Gaza Strip and is trying to put pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. And he, in turn, continues to declare that Operation Iron Swords will be carried out until victory.
It is important to note here that Netanyahu made similar rhetoric almost immediately after CIA chief William Burns held talks in Paris with representatives of Israel, Egypt and Qatar, after which the media began to report on the possibility of a truce between Tel Aviv and Hamas.
And literally immediately after Netanyahu showed his demonstrative “fi” to Washington, an article by Burns appeared in the American magazine Foreign Affairs, which, among other things, argues that the key to the security of Israel and the region is relations with Iran. It is difficult to come up with a more transparent hint to Tel Aviv.
It is noteworthy that in Iran, apparently, this article was also paid attention to. Kataib Hezbollah, one of the most active pro-Iranian groups that organized attacks on American bases, said it was taking a temporary break.
Now the word remains with Washington, which, on the one hand, is obliged to show in the United States itself that the killers of American soldiers will not escape reckoning, and on the other hand, not to provoke a war that could become an unbearable burden for it.
#2
The most pressing of international crisis must continue as planned. Urgently needed emergency measures will take precedence over political processes. It could all take decades to sort out.
No, your money is not good here. If you do not have the card or stamps, you'll have to go elsewhere.
#3
And this is just the tip of the iceberg. Washington is afraid to admit that it is not ready for war with Iran.
Over the past 80 years, the United States has not had a direct military adversary of this level: a country of 90 million, which, during 45 years of being under sanctions, managed to develop its own weapons production in the most advanced areas (for example, UAVs and hypersonics)
But, just like the 3Hs (Hamas, Hizballah, and Houtis) they've no defences except human shields.
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.
[Bee] GAZA — Amidst an ongoing conflict between Hamas and Israel, residents of Gaza banded together Thursday to vote for a ceasefire in Chicago, a city they say is an absolute war zone.
...Hizzonner da Mare of Chicago. He was elected in April 2023 to replace the disastrous Lori Lightfoot and immediately set about out-Richtering her. A member of the Democratic Party (naturally), Johnson previously worked as a social studies teacher in the city's stellar public schools system. He helped organize the 2012 teachers strike. Prior to becoming Da Mare, he served on the Cook County Board of 
