[YouTube - Perun] Russian government. The fighting would be done not by a fully mobilized Russian force, but by regular units, mercenaries, and Donbass conscripts - Russia's own conscripts would stay at home.
But after seven months the result of that complacency was a crushing shortage of manpower to feed Russian frontline units. Ukrainian mobilization had made good manpower losses and allowed the formation of entirely new units - while the Russian regular army, still undoubtedly a powerful force, found itself overstretched and forced to trust sections of the front to proxies or Rosgvardia.
The results of that policy were obvious during the Kharkiv offensive.
Now, Russia has decided to double down and recommit to war. Announcing mobilization, enacting stop-loss, and 'annexing' parts of Ukraine.
In this video, I explore why, how it's going, and what the implication may be.
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Thank you for posting this YouTube video DarthVader. Very informative, and contains explanations about what is going in in Russia's mobilization not found in the general media.
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Good resource. Indeed hard to quantify
with a balance on this subject but balanced presentation. General Western news is quite untrustworthy. Journalism as in past times.
[19FortyFive] When Russia took Lysychansk on July 3, it was the third major Ukrainian city to fall in as many months, and by all appearances the Russians would continue their methodical march through the Donbas. Instead, Ukraine stiffened its defenses and limited Russia’s eastward advances to a slow crawl, and then earlier this month Zelensky unleashed twin offensives that have thrown Russia’s entire operation on the defensive — casting Putin fully into crisis mode.
It is clear that the Russian leadership has, from the outset, underestimated the Ukrainian capacity to resist and overestimated the ability of the Russian army to prevail. It was seen in the initial strategy of splitting a relatively small force of less than 200,000 into four axes, making it easier for Ukraine to defeat the initial thrusts, observed in tactical blunders in the early phases, and in Russia’s failure to recognize or prepare for Ukraine’s offensive in the Kharkiv region. It appears, however, Zelensky now has Putin’s full attention.
Russia’s strategy in the second phase of the war had been to focus on the Donbas and relegate the Kharkiv and Kherson fronts to secondary status. That may have made sense early, but over time Russia’s generals failed to make any changes to their plans — and more critically — failed to recognize Ukraine had been building capacity in the north.
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Another Forever War. The old world grudges and hates that have fueled wars for millenniums.
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Dunno if this article's writer knows any more than any of the rest of them but it is beginning to look like all of Europe is in for a long, cold winter. I'm still hoping to stay warm, comfortable and well-fed here in sunny southern California even if I have to pay more for gasoline. Since I'm retired I don't have to drive that much anyway. Just hope Vlad doesn't get pushed too far.
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I am hoping that Putin's successor isn't crazier than he is
“….can be counted on to escalate the war on his terms. He may also expand the target list beyond the current frontlines to western Ukraine, and significantly ramp up his destruction of Ukrainian power stations, rail junctions, more dams, bridges, and other infrastructure that would seriously hamper Ukraine’s ability to move its troops around.”
Despite all the bullshit, the truth is that Russia hasn’t brought to bear more than a tiny fraction of the firepower available to it.
Putin’s Russian critics are demanding he do an American-style Shock and Awe manoeuver: do what we did to Baghdad and take out Kiev’s infrastructure in short order. Maybe do as we did not do, and show a bit more regard for the civilian population … maybe distribute chlorine pills…
Agree with the poster who noted that there are worse options for us than Putin. Even the liberal pro-western Russian leaders are all-in for escalation at this point. No Russian leader will ever give up Crimea.
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the truth is that Russia hasn’t brought to bear more than a tiny fraction of the firepower available to it.
Maybe because most of it is theoretical on paper not in practical operational terms. Yes, they have nukes but the application of such basically releases the genie from the bottle. You are not going to get it back. And everyone and his brother will want their own nukes ASAP with or without the consent of others.
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Maybe because most of it is theoretical on paper not in practical operational terms.
The Russians seem to have been bit by the Transformation Bug™ as well -- "We don't need no steenking rifleman because we have drones and rockets and e-lec-tronic cyber stuff..." The problem is they started out with a much smaller budget and their endemic corruption wasted most of that. Pity really because the basic Russian soldier is as brave as you would need.
[DW] Pro-Russian social media users claim that a US Sikorsky MH-60 Sea Hawk helicopter is responsible for the sabotage
Gas is bubbling from four leaks from the Baltic Sea pipelines Nord Stream 1 and 2 that run from Russia to Germany and experts and politicians have been talking about only one conceivable cause: sabotage.
"These incidents are not a coincidence and affect us all. All available information indicates those leaks are the result of a deliberate act," EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on behalf of the 27 EU member states. Which begs the question: who sabotaged the pipelines?
While many experts point more or less clearly to Russia, numerous social media users claim that the United States is responsible for the alleged sabotage. The discussion was fueled by Poland's former Defense and Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski, who tweeted a photo of one of the gas leaks and wrote: "Thank you, USA." Sikorski later deleted his tweet, but it is archived here. The presence of American naval units in the Baltic Sea before the incident is mentioned as evidence by some users, including politicians from Germany's far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD). Some of the claims have gone viral in recent days.
You'll notice all the familiar signs - anyone who contradicts the deep state's version is a Russian agent.
Either that, or Nazis like AfD. But don't forget the Ukraine Nazis, those are the good guys.
Deliberately fogging the discussion with "a US Sikorsky MH-60 Sea Hawk helicopter is responsible for the sabotage" when it was clearly a submersible that committed this act of state-sponsored terrorism.
Biden threatens the pipeline. Says we have ways of shutting it down. Poland's man says "Thank you USA" when the event was clearly a surprise to him and he hadn't been briefed as to how to react. Then just as winter approaches, the pipeline is blown up and Russian leverage is removed, along with Germany's ability to beg Russia to turn the gas back on.
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If opposition is going to be characterized as Nazi's, I for one would prefer to be one of the Brothers of Italy. It's reminiscent of the 'Sons of the Desert'.
[Alt-Market] I have noted in the past that criminals tend to brag about their criminality when they believe there’s nothing anyone can do about it. Frankly, in their narcissism many of them can’t help but revel in the moment and let everyone know how "superior" they are to the rest of us. We witnessed many moments like this from elitists within globalists institutions the past couple of years at the height of the pandemic pandemonium.
There were people like the globalist academics at MIT proclaiming that we were "never going back to normal" and that we were going to have to accept the loss of many of our freedoms for the rest of our lives in order to combat the spread of covid. There were people like Klaus Schwab declaring the beginning of the "Great Reset" and the launch of what the Davos crowd calls the "4th Industrial Revolution." There have also been MANY political leaders like Joe Biden that strut around on the media stage accusing ideological opponents (conservatives mostly) of being "enemies of democracy."
If their vision of "democracy" is medical tyranny and the forced expansion of cultural Marxism, or if their idea of democracy is government cooperation with corporate monopoly and the erasure of our country’s founding principles, then yes, I suppose I am indeed an enemy of "democracy."
The globalists were really basking in the glow of their assumed victory. They thought they had us peasants by the scruff of the neck and that their agenda was all but assured. But as I have been arguing since last year, the money elites may have celebrated a little too early.
The covid agenda utterly failed if the goal was to implement longstanding mandates and restrictions across North America and Europe. If you want to know what success for the globalists would have looked like, just examine China with its endless lockdown cycles and digital vaccine passports. The elites wanted that outcome for the west and they didn’t get it. They came close, but millions of Americans, Canadians and Europeans stood their ground and the cost to force us into compliance would have been too great.
Even Joe Biden has openly admitted that the pandemic is over. They dropped the mandates because they knew if it came to war, they would lose.
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The covid agenda utterly failed if the goal was to implement longstanding mandates and restrictions across North America and Europe.
This is what happens when mortality rates exceed expectations.
The "Covid agenda" was simply too successful. People begin to think for themselves, question the gov't controlled media, then Ghawd forbid, ask questions. First thing you know, the bullshi* falls apart.
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I've long felt that low level sullen resistance is the way to go. All Dr. Fauxi's virus and the surrounding hysteria / theater / kabuki did was help people decide if they were willing slaves or free men.
Now, apply that healthy and warranted skepticism of masks / distancing / EUA "vaccines" / "statistics" to all other gummint activities around you.
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[Sunny's Journal] New York is not following California, they are ready to push the Green New Deal and ban all gas powered vehicles by 2035. The corrupt politicians always provide a way to make money illegally while convincing the public they are not. The world is changing, bills are being introduced to change the economic structure.
The world is not getting darker, the curtain is being pulled back so people see the truth. This is what has been in the shadows, Trump just brought out into the open so people can see the reality of it all. The [DS] is panicking, they are losing the information war and now they are going to push everything they have, but as they do this it will fail because it exposes their true agenda. The grass is not greener on the other side when it is fake.
This is the Apocalypse... the unveiling of the dark agenda that we are now witnessing. The darkness has always been there, but hidden from the public’s eyes; it isn’t any more.
Darkness is ignorance. Light is information and intelligence. The light is exposing and transmuting the dark. Our world will be transformed forever.
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The light is exposing and transmuting the dark. Our world will be transformed
Rubbish. A steel bat is coming for your face. And a Wakandan or a sicko of some kind is holding it. If you resist, there's a gestapo SWAT posse outside your house with a battering ram.
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If somehow the Republicans can win, and make sure that steel bat has MAGA stamped on it, then yes, that could benefit 'the people'. There are people that matter and people that don't. You can't benefit all people and expect it to work. If the Right should continue its blind constitutional worship, the result will be a uniparty and fascist rule actuated by a crazed law machine which will overrule all your beloved amendments with ambiguous nonsense to be interpreted arbitrarily by bureaucracy.
The only kind of republic that'll survive in the future is a totalitarian leadership catering to the majority and calling it democracy. The contest is going to be simple. It's not about who is more committed to grand old laws written down by dead men. It'll be about who disenfranchises the other first.
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Even if the Republicans win in November, the deep state has ways of altering outcomes in its favor. Suddenly they'll all be declared domestic terrorists, and a (temporary, they promise!) state of emergency will take place to eliminate the results.
If they're smart they'll do it like Egypt who operated under a state of emergency for decades.
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/\ Crazy talk GW. An extensive 'Police State' must first be established. Media restrictions, thought police, and correct pronouns.... those sorts of things.
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An extensive 'Police State' must first be established.
An awful lot harder to do when they can’t get enough people willing to be police even now... and those willing to be Gestapo think much too highly of themselves to get the requisite college degree in law enforcement.
[Naked Capitalism] Germany’s swift demise reminds me of the German intelligence agent Bachmann in "A Most Wanted Man." He’s led to believe he’s operating on an equal level with CIA and British intelligence only to realize too late he was being played the whole time.
Hudson gets to the bottom of what Germany’s downfall will mean for the euro and what the options are for Global South and Eurasian countries as they try to stand up to US hegemony.
By Michael Hudson, a research professor of Economics at University of Missouri, Kansas City, and a research associate at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College. His latest book is The Destiny of Civilization.
The reaction to the sabotage of three of the four Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines in four places on Monday, September 26, has focused on speculations about who did it and whether NATO will make a serious attempt to discover the answer. Yet instead of panic, there has been a great sigh of diplomatic relief, even calm. Disabling these pipelines ends the uncertainty and worries on the part of US/NATO diplomats that nearly reached a crisis proportion the previous week, when large demonstrations took place in Germany calling for the sanctions to end and to commission Nord Stream 2 to resolve energy shortage.
The German public was coming to understand what it meant that their steel companies, fertilizer companies, glass companies and toilet-paper companies were shutting down. These companies were forecasting that they would have to go out of business entirely — or shift operations to the United States — if Germany did not withdraw from the trade and currency sanctions against Russia and permit gas and oil imports to resume, and presumably to fall back from their astronomical eight to tenfold increase.
Yet State Department hawk Victoria Nuland already had stated in January that "one way or another Nord Stream 2 will not move forward" if Russia responded to NATO/Ukrainian accelerated military attacks on the Russian-speaking eastern oblasts. President Biden backed up U.S. insistence on February 7, promising that "there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it. ... I promise you, we will be able to do it."
Most observers simply assumed that these statements reflected the obvious fact that German politicians were fully in the US/NATO pocket. They held fast in refusing to authorize Nord Stream 2, and Canada soon seized the Siemens dynamos needed to send gas through Nord Stream 1. That seemed to settle matters until German industry — and a rising number of voters — finally began to calculate just what blocking Russian gas would mean for Germany’s industrial firm.
Germany’s willingness to self-impose an economic depression was wavering — although not its politicians or the EU bureaucracy. If German policymakers were to put German business interests and living standards first, NATO’s common sanctions and New Cold War front would be broken. Italy and France might follow suit. That nightmare of European diplomatic independence made it urgent to take the anti-Russian sanctions out of the hands of democratic politics and settle matters by sabotaging the two pipelines. Despite being an act of violence, it has restored calm to international diplomatic relations between U.S. and German politicians.
There is no more uncertainty about whether or not Europe will break away from U.S. New Cold War aims by restoring mutual trade and investment with Russia. That option is now out. The threat of Europe beaking away from the US/NATO trade and financial sanctions against Russia has been solved, seemingly for the foreseeable future, as Russia has announced that as the gas pressure falls in three of the four pipelines, the infusion of salt water will irreversibly corrode the pipes. (Tagesspiegel, September 28.)
WHERE DO THE EURO AND DOLLAR GO FROM HERE?
Looking at how this trade "solution" will reshape the relationship between the U.S. dollar and the euro, one can understand why the seemingly obvious consequences of Germany, Italy and other European economies severing trade ties with Russia have not been discussed openly. The "sanctions debate" has been solved by a German and indeed Europe-wide economic crash. To Europe, the next decade will be a disaster. There may be recriminations against the price paid for letting its trade diplomacy be dictated by NATO, but there is nothing that it can do about it. Nobody (yet) expects it to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. What is expected is for its living standards to plunge.
Germany’s industrial exports were the major factor supporting the euro’s exchange rate. The great attraction to Germany in moving from the deutsche mark to the euro would avoid its export surplus from pushing up the D-mark’s exchange rate to a point where German products would be priced out of world markets. Expanding the currency to include Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain and other countries running balance-of-payments deficit would prevent the currency from soaring. And that would protect the competitiveness of German industry.
After its introduction in 1999 at $1.12, the euro did indeed sink to $0.85 by July 2001, but recovered and indeed rose to $1.58 in April 2008. It has been drifting down steadily since then, and since February of this year the sanctions have driven the euro’s exchange rate below parity with the dollar to $0.97 this week. The major factor has been rising prices for imported gas and oil, and products such as aluminum and fertilizer requiring heavy energy inputs for their production. And as the euro’s exchange rate declines against the dollar, the cost of carrying its US-dollar debt — the normal condition for affiliates of U.S. multinationals — will rise, squeezing their profits.
This is not the kind of depression that "automatic stabilizers" can work "the magic of the marketplace" to restore economic balance. Energy dependency is structural. And the eurozone’s own economic rules limit its budget deficits to just 3% of GDP. This prevents its national governments supporting the economic by deficit spending. Higher energy and food prices — and dollar-debt service — will leave much less income to be spent on goods and services.
It seems curious that the U.S. stock market soared — 500 points for the Dow Jones Industrial Average on Wednesday. Maybe it was simply the Plunge Protection Team intervening to try and reassure the world that everything was going to be all right. But economic reality raised its ugly head on Thursday, and the stock market gave back its phantom gains.
It is true that the end of German industrial competition with United States is ended on trade account. But on capital account, depreciation of the euro will reduce the value of U.S. investments in Europe and the dollar-value of any profits that these investments may still earn as the European economy shrinks. So reported earnings by U.S. multinationals will fall.
As a final kicker, Pepe Escobar pointed out on September 28 that "Germany is contractually obligated to purchase at least 40 billion cubic meters of Russian gas a year until 2030. ... Gazprom is legally entitled to get paid even without shipping gas. That’s the spirit of a long-term contract. ... Berlin does not get all the gas it needs but still needs to pay." It looks like a long court battle before money will change hands — but Germany’s ability to pay will be steadily weakening.
For that matter, the ability of many countries’ ability to pay already is reaching the breaking point.
THE EFFECT OF U.S. SANCTIONS AND NEW COLD WAR OUTSIDE OF EUROPE
International raw materials are still priced mainly in dollars, so the dollar’s rising exchange rate will raise import prices proportionally for most countries. This exchange-rate problem is intensified by the US/NATO sanctions forcing up world prices for gas, oil and grain. Many European and Global South countries already have reached the limit of their ability to service their dollar-denominated debts, and are still coping with the Covid pandemic. They cannot afford to import the energy and food that they need to live if they have to pay their foreign debts. The world economy is now exceeding its debt limits, so something has to give.
On Tuesday, September 27 when news of the Nord Stream gas attacks became known, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken shed crocodile tears and said that attacking Russian pipelines was "in no one’s interest." But if that really were the case, no one would have attacked the gas lines.
I have no doubt that U.S. strategists have a game plan for how to proceed from here, and to do so that indeed is in what the neocons claim to be in the U.S. interest — that of maintaining a unipolar neoliberalized and financialized global economy for as long as they can.
They have long had a plan for countries that are unable to their foreign debts. The IMF will lend them the money, conditional upon the debtor country raising the foreign exchange to repay the (increasingly expensive) dollar loans by privatizing what remains of their public domain, natural-resource patrimony and other assets, mainly to U.S. financial investors and their allies.
Will it work? Or will debtor countries band together and work out ways to restore the seemingly lost world of affordable oil and gas prices, fertilizer prices, grain and other food prices, and metals or raw materials supplied by Russia, China and their allied Eurasian neighbors?
That is the next great worry for U.S. global strategists. It seems less easy to solve than was done by the sabotage of Nord Stream 1 and 2. But the solution seems to be the usual U.S. approach: something military in nature, new color revolutions. The aim is to gain the same power over Global South and Eurasian countries that American diplomacy wielded over Germany and other European countries via NATO.
Unless an institutional alternative is created to the IMF, World Bank, International Court, World Trade Organization and the numerous UN agencies now biased by U.S. diplomats and their proxies, the coming decades will see the U.S. economic strategy of financial and military dominance unfold as Washington has planned.
The problem is that its plans for how the Ukraine war and anti-Russian sanctions have worked out so far have been just the reverse of what was announced. That may give some hope for the world’s future. The opposition and even contempt by U.S. diplomats to other countries acting in their own economic interest and social values is so strong that they are unwilling to think through just how these countries might develop their own alternative to the U.S. world plan.
The question is thus how successfully these other countries may develop their alternative new economic order, and how they can protect themselves from the fate that Europe has just imposed upon itself for the next decade.
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^ That’s not his point. You stopped reading too soon.
Michael Hudson: The problem is that its plans for how the Ukraine war and anti-Russian sanctions have worked out so far have been just the reverse of what was announced.
This is correct:
That may give some hope for the world’s future. The opposition and even contempt by U.S. diplomats to other countries acting in their own economic interest and social values is so strong that they are unwilling to think through just how these countries might develop their own alternative to the U.S. world plan.
The question is thus how successfully these other countries may develop their alternative new economic order, and how they can protect themselves from the fate that Europe has just imposed upon itself for the next decade.
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Michael Hudson is one of the few westerners who understands the view of countries like India who are sick and tired of being bullied and lectured to by arrogant Americans.
“develop their alternative new economic order, and how they can protect themselves from the fate that Europe has just imposed upon itself”
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countries like India who are sick and tired of being bullied and lectured to by arrogant Americans.
That’s ok, Glamp Whomorong7514. You do us the honour of speaking plainly, so I shall honour you equally.
We are just as sick and tired of being lectured and condescended to by countries that demand we do their bidding in their interest and against ours, because they don’t want to do the work and spend the money to be able to do it themselves. We’re just politer about it.
One recalls the famous photo from 2017 of all the European leaders at the conference looming threateningly over the table where President Trump sat, not slapping them all as they deserved. And we haven’t slapped y’all since, even as current events show how very right President Trump was. How much of a threat would shutting down Nord Stream 1 & 2 be if Europe had contracted with the US as a second natural gas supplier, where both Russia and America would provide secure supply should the other suddenly misbehave? If the European countries had not unilaterally shut down their nuclear and coal-fired power plants? If European governments had not put the people who voted them into office absolutely last on their list of priorities?
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So many… words. Is there a thought buried in there? And such ridiculous fake courtesy sprinkled on top of so much spleen — especially like the faux-aristocratic non-American spelling variant for honor.
It’s a delicious irony that American attempts to bully us into joining their retarded sanctions have only had the effect of enriching thousands of Indian oil traders and shareholders, reducing our energy costs while they are literally bankrupting thousands of European small business proprietors and causing the deindustrialization of America’s European allies.
[RedState] Court Delivers Big Decision in FOIA Case Against the FBI Pertaining to Seth Rich.
People have been using FOIA requests for several years now, going back to 2017, to pursue whatever information that the FBI might have regarding Seth Rich, the young DNC staffer who was murdered in 2016.
But for years, the FBI fought those requests.
Now, the FOIA efforts may just have yielded some success, as the lawyer who writes the Techno Fog Substack explained, in a decision delivered in the Eastern District of Texas in the case of Huddleston v. FBI that discussed two different FOIA matters.
In one case, they claimed there were no responsive requests–until it was discovered in another case, asking for basically the same information, that there were, indeed, 1,596 responsive documents. But even then, the FBI tried to withhold 1,469 pages, claiming that various exemptions should apply to the pages so that they wouldn’t have to turn them over–including such things as privacy and national security reasons.
National security reasons? Do tell.
They also said it was “to protect intelligence methods utilized by the FBI for gathering intelligence data,” and that it could cause “serious or exceptionally grave damage” to the national security of the United States for the following reasons:
[D]isclosure would allow hostile entities to discover the current intelligence gathering methods used by the FBI; (2) disclosure would reveal current specific targets of the FBI’s national security investigations; and (3) disclosure would reveal the determination of the criteria used and priorities assigned to current intelligence and counterintelligence investigations” (Fourth Seidel Declaration ¶ 83).
“Unfortunately, the court won’t require the production of this information,” Technofog noted.
But although the Court held for the FBI in most of the issues raised, the Court did find against the FBI when it came to the matter of Seth Rich’s laptop, which the FBI was also fighting not to turn over.
The FBI also withheld the contents of Seth Rich’s personal laptop, which it possesses, in its entirety, alleging the privacy of Rich’s family in “preventing the public release of this information” outweighs the public interest in disclosure.
The court rejected that argument, stating “the FBI has not satisfied its burden of showing more than a de minimis privacy interest that would justify withholding information from Seth Rich’s laptop.”
The Court ordered the FBI to turn over the contents of Rich’s laptop within two weeks.
Now, the FBI will doubtless appeal this order and drag this out a bit further. But why would they give a darn about Rich’s laptop and fight to keep it from being turned over? I don’t know what’s on the laptop, but add this to one more thing that the FBI refuses to be transparent about.
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There was NEVER a "hack", the DNC EMAILS were turned over by SETH RICH, the PODESTA EMAILS were Phish'd over (Podesta turned over his password), NEITHER ARE CLASSIFIED AS HACKING...
If I was gunned down in the street in a "botched robbery", I reaalllllyyy doubt the FBI would be conducting a forensic analysis of my laptop within hours of my death.
You know why the FBI didn't seize the DNC servers? Because they weren't hacked and they knew from the start that Seth Rich was the source.
Botched robbery? They left his wallet, phone, watch. But they DID take all the shell casings. What thief takes the time to police his brass but doesn't take the time to kneel down and take what he came for? WHO KILLED SETH RICH?
Even if the court say, along with ALL FILES,
(1,596 + documents) and data found on the ORIGINAL Hard Drive, at time of confiscation. Does anyone believe it will be the real original UNSANITIZED data and HD?
Or has the Statute of limitations run out for certain other Criminal issues besides the Political Murder of Mr. Rich?
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I like it!
A post-death confessional!
Of course the crap sits on somebody's server.
Need a encrypted PGP pairing sent out first, then the payload. So that cuts the free list to 2.
So I suppose Rantburg, then Twitter(#Musk) for the widest distribution.
What if I'm just hospitalized and can't(coma) get to a machine? Or in my dementia forget to post the 'stand-by'?
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.
Russian government. The fighting would be done not by a fully mobilized Russian force, but by regular units, mercenaries, and Donbass conscripts - Russia's own conscripts would stay at home. 
[Alt-Market] I have noted in the past that criminals tend to brag about their criminality when they believe there’s nothing anyone can do about it. Frankly, in their narcissism many of them can’t help but revel in the moment and let everyone know how "superior" they are to the rest of us. We witnessed many moments like this from elitists within globalists institutions the past couple of years at the height of the pandemic pandemonium.
[Naked Capitalism] Germany’s swift demise reminds me of the German intelligence agent Bachmann in "A Most Wanted Man." He’s led to believe he’s operating on an equal level with CIA and British intelligence only to realize too late he was being played the whole time.
[RedState] Court Delivers Big Decision in FOIA Case Against the FBI Pertaining to Seth Rich.
