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bearing false witness should be a very expensive and painful act.
Yep. If found to have made false claims the claimant should get the same amount of fines and jailtime the accused would have gotten if found guilty. Automatically.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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Prov. 19. [5] A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape. [9] A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish.
[FoxNews] Several California police unions have come out against a recent WalletHub study that concluded the state was the best place to be a police officer, with critics citing low morale among the rank and file because of law enforcement staffing issues and soft-on-crime polices.
The report released by the personal finance website based its findings largely on compensation, training and job hazards and protection. However, it didn't survey officers or sheriff's deputies, said Tom Saggau, who represents several California police unions.
"Some of the things that they weighed in our opinion are just bananas," Saggau told Fox News Digital. "It's certainly not what we're hearing when we do a survey of the rank and file."
[Ron Paul Institute] The ink was barely dry on President Biden’s signature transferring another $61 billion to the black hole called Ukraine, when the mainstream media broke the news that this was not the parting shot in a failed US policy. The elites have no intention of shutting down this gravy train, which transports wealth from the middle and working class to the wealthy and connected class.
Reuters wrote right after the aid bill was passed that, "Ukraine’s $61 billion lifeline is not enough." Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell went on the Sunday shows after the bill was passed to say that $61 billion is "not a whole lot of money for us..." Well, that’s easy for him to say — after all it’s always easier to spend someone else’s money!
Ukraine’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, was far from grateful for the $170 billion we have shipped thus far to his country. In an interview with Foreign Policy magazine as the aid package was passed, Kuleba had the nerve to criticize the US for not producing weapons fast enough. "If you cannot produce enough interceptors to help Ukraine win the war against the country that wants to destroy the world order, then how are you going to win in the war against perhaps an enemy who is stronger than Russia?"
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"If you cannot produce enough interceptors to help Ukraine win the war against the country that wants to destroy the world order, then how are you going to win in the war against perhaps an enemy who is stronger than Russia?"
Well, he does have kind of a point there.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
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Although I can report the marines on Camp Pendleton have been practicing hard and heavy with their artillery for the past few days. It's no secret. You can hear it all over northern San Diego County and most likely in southern Orange County too. So, somehow they got their hands on some spare ammunition.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
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[Newsweek] The primary reason for continuing to flow billions of dollars in cash and weaponry to Ukraine for what is clearly becoming another Afghanistan, is that if we don't, Putin will march through Europe, invading a NATO country such as Poland or the Baltics. In this case, the U.S. would have to deploy armed forces to fight off the Russians to defend the Europeans. These are the talking points that the Washington Establishment politicians and their fellow commentariat members in the media have been using to convince the American people to continue parting with their hard-earned money. In fact, even Speaker Mike Johnson, who as a rank-and-file Right-wing Congressman opposed the funding of Ukraine's war effort, recently signed off on another massive foreign aid package, $95 billion worth, the bulk of which is designated for Kyiv.
"I think that Vladimir Putin would continue to march through Europe if he were allowed," said Johnson, justifying the spending of another $61 billion on a what serious analysts assess as a unwinnable war. "I think he might go to the Baltics next. I think he might have a showdown with Poland or one of our NATO allies," asserted Johnson.
But is it true?
Evidence indicates that this justification for depleting U.S. treasury and weapons arsenal represents a lack of understanding of Putin's thinking and Russia's security strategy—and the incompetence of our national security apparatus. At worst, it is a lie fed to the American people for some other reason.
Here's why Putin is highly unlikely to invade a NATO nation:
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....lack of understanding of Putin's thinking and Russia's security strategy—and the incompetence of our national security apparatus. At worst, it is a lie fed to the American people for some other reason.
Lies, incompetence, and deception are beltway hallmarks. Other than France sending in a contingent of Legion, what is everyone else in Europe doing ?
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As a former Defense Intelligence Agency officer and one of top three analysts on Russian Doctrine & Strategy who worked with the CIA's National Clandestine Service, I had access to the most sensitive intelligence—including Top Secret intelligence, with code word sub-compartments and red stripes indicating for President's Eyes Only.
Too bad you didn't supplement all the above sh*t with a course on Russian history, missy. Ivan the Terrible didn't try (and fail) to take the Baltics on a whim. Neither did Piotr I who, eventually, did. Access to Baltic sea is a matter of life & death for Russia.
The other side of the issue that USA can't do nothing about it - unless it's willing to go nuclear = suicide.
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Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Albania and Croatia all had their fill of being 'befriended' by Russia (both Soviet and 'Free') and therefor joined NATO.
Finland and Sweden, after seeing how the current Russian state treats their neighbors property, decided to join too.
That's just it, Grom. It's always someone else's fault. When they don't get their own way with someone, everyone is a (nuclear) target.
Posted by: Mullah Richard ||
05/08/2024 7:20 Comments ||
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Yea, so? Compare USA at founding with USA today.
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In fact, I just had an idea. Could be that USG* prolongs the current conflict in Ukraine to make Americans sick of Eastern Europe. So there's no public demand to protect the Baltics when the time comes?
*There gotta be some grown up & half-way intelligent people making decisions somewhere in USG.
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All my life I've been hearing that the Russians are coming and they haven't made it yet.
Historically, Russians have only invaded Western Europe is response to Western European nations invading Russia.
Putin is well aware that Russia's birth rate is perilously low. It doesn't make since that he wants to lose his boys in needless wars. He thinks he needs Ukraine because he's afraid of what NATO will do there.
I believe the other theory which is the war in Ukraine is a gravy train for defense contractors and corrupt Western politicians. It's all about money and power. It's no good at all for the little people who have to pay and die no matter which flag is draped over their coffin. I mean, how believable is it when a guy like Joe Biden says he's fighting for democracy?
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
05/08/2024 13:01 Comments ||
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...On the other hand, even the Japanese admitted that attacking the Allies would not work, that they would 'run wild' for six months and then it would be downhill.
And yet, we still have memorial services at Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima.
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When Georgia acted up in 2008, Russia gave all the land back once they settled down (minus russia majority S.Ossetia).
I recall one of the high level Duma guys mockingly asked, why would russia want to rule East Europe. I think there was a joke about emasculated males. Dont know what else was lost in translation.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Anton Belikov
[REGNUM] I remember a Louis Vuitton suitcase standing on Red Square. This suitcase stood on the very same paving stones along which the Moscow militia went straight from the parade into battle. Somewhere among them, my great-grandfather was lost forever near Yelnya.
Here, in this square, Peter the Great cut off the heads of the disobedient archers. Here, in this wall, lies Gagarin.
The suitcase was huge. It was a statement in itself. A boorish trader entered the house built by our fathers. Without taking off his shoes or saying hello, he casually threw a suitcase with money on the floor.
“I’ll buy everything, I’ll sort everything out,” said the suitcase.
It seemed that in the invisible battle of the department store and the ancient Kremlin walls, the store won completely and irrevocably. On the one hand, the Historical Museum witnessed this victory, and on the other, St. Basil's Cathedral.
The place of execution seemed nearby to be some strange, archaic absurdity unnecessary to this world. Minin and Pozharsky got wet in the rain. In the corner of the square, the Nikolskaya Tower, the youngest of the Kremlin towers, once blown up by Napoleonic soldiers, pierced the gloomy Moscow sky with cosmic neo-Gothic architecture.
When I first came to Red Square as a child, it was empty, scary, cold. The Kremlin itself was the same. I remember my grandmother telling me how in one of the buildings at night you could see a light in one of the rooms: the country was sleeping, and Stalin was working.
We Russians, from here, from the Kremlin, began our great deeds - and here we finished them. So it was and so it will be.
This place is filled with symbols, it oozes with the memory of a nation. These ancient walls are not just brick and stone. They have their own will, which they breathe, and this is the will of the people - along their entire historical path: the will of those who live now, the will of our long-dead ancestors and the will of those who have not yet been born.
What a dwarf, comical word - “democracy”. Today Putin has not uttered it even once. Why? Yes, because democracy today means the rejection of memory and history in the name of a suitcase, and also the sacrifice of one’s own children to the same suitcase.
Unconsciousness.
Snow. It started snowing in Moscow today. This doesn't happen by accident. This snow fell the same for everyone: for the Kremlin regiment, for deputies, for Muscovites, for the president. This snow is a sign that the comfortable time is over, over for everyone. This snow was needed to make the ghost of the Louis Vuitton suitcase disappear from the square forever.
The Putin of this term is not a president or a hired manager, as the liberals dreamed of. This is a man who has the historical mission to take us across the dark waters into a new world. He is already on a par with Ivan the Terrible, Dmitry Donskoy, Peter the Great, Dmitry Pozharsky.
In ancient times, the political intention and “long will” of the people were recorded in the official title of the ruler:
—The standard designation for the Holy Roman Emperor was “August Emperor of the Romans.”
- The official title of the Pope is: “Bishop of Rome, Vicar of Christ, Successor of the Prince of the Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Pontifex Maximus, Primate of Italy, Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman Province, Sovereign of the Vatican City State, Servant of the Servants of God.”
— The title of the last emperor of Byzantium: “Constantine Palaiologos, in Christ the true emperor and autocrat of the Romans.”
— In the canonical version of the letter of Sultan Mehmed IV to the Zaporozhye Cossacks, the following title is used: “I, Sultan and ruler of the Sublime Porte, son of Muhammad, brother of the Sun and Moon, viceroy of God on earth, ruler of the kingdoms of Macedon, Babylon, Jerusalem, Great and Lesser Egypt, king over kings, ruler over rulers, incomparable knight, invincible warrior, owner of the tree of life, persistent guardian of the tomb of Jesus Christ, hope and comforter of Muslims, intimidator and great protector of Christians, I command (...).”
- “Great Sovereign, by the grace of God the Tsar and Grand Duke of All Rus', Vladimir, Moscow, Novgorod, Pskov, Ryazan, Tver, Yugorsk, Perm, Vyatsky, Bulgarian and others, the Tsar of Kazan, the Tsar of Astrakhan, the Tsar of Siberia,” “and all the Northern ruler of the country,” read the full title adopted on the day of coronation by Ivan IV the Terrible.
... master of the entire Northern Side. Snow. It was snowing in the Kremlin today. The time has come for the world to shudder from the cold. The world is waiting for the breath of the ancient north wind: from the city of London to the beaches of California, from the Cote d'Azur to Jerusalem.
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I thought this must be hail but I looked at some weather sites and Moscow did actually have some light snow today (8 May). Yesterday (7 May) the max temp was 38F. Normal max for 7 May is 60F.
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I'm not sure about the snow; but that sure was a lot of hot wind!
[NYPOST] The left and its media allies want you to believe the protests roiling college campuses are spontaneous uprisings of morally fervent students worried about Gazoo
Islamic Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response. In October of 2023 Gazooks belonging to Hamas invaded Israel, killed over a thousand people, raped a bunch of women. Then they bitched and moaned about genocide when their butts handed to them in the entirely justified retaliation. war victims. Don’t fall for that claim.
These protesters don’t represent most students or the American public.
Yet Monday, Columbia University canceled graduation ceremonies, kowtowing to the radical fringe with whom school leaders largely agree.
Students and their families be damned.
Here are the facts: Just a miniscule 2% of people ages 18 to 29 polled by Harvard’s Kennedy School named the Israel-Hamas ...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... conflict as their top political concern, compared with double digits worried about inflation and other economic issues.
Students could care less about this issue.
Claims that today’s campus riots are reminiscent of 1968 when students closed down campuses to protest the Vietnam War are nonsense.
Back then, Gallup found 46% of respondents in that age group considered the Vietnam War the nation’s biggest problem. Not 2%.
Ray Kelly, former NYPD commissioner, nailed it Sunday when he said the nationwide turmoil "looks like a conspiracy."
He added, "the federal government should be investigating."
Organized outside groups are behind much of the campus violence.
Hours before the storming of Columbia’s Hamilton Hall, an outside organization — The People’s Forum, known for its anti-Israel activities and links to the Chinese Communist Party — started gearing up for its Hamilton Hall invasion.
In a meeting, TPF’s leader spewed invectives against Columbia.
Hours later, protesters smashed the glass doors of Hamilton Hall, vandalizing and seizing the building.
When Columbia President Minouche Shafik finally called in police late on Tuesday, 13 of the 44 arrested in the building had no affiliation with the university.
Reflecting on the incidents at Columbia and other New York campuses, Mayor Adams said, "Individuals unaffiliated with these schools had entered these different campuses and, in some cases, were even training students in unlawful protest tactics."
New York University Board Vice Chairman Bill Berkley says these occupations appear to have been orchestrated by external groups. He wants the FBI to investigate
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Subpoena their bank records and RICO the folks organizing and paying them.
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After a few plead guilty to trespassing, etc. and some funding sources are positively identified, civil law suits, e.g., conspiracy to deprive civil rights, inflicting emotional damage, etc. can begin.
But first some convictions, positive identification of protest supporting orgs.
Posted by: Lord Garth ||
05/08/2024 14:43 Comments ||
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As soon as the Donks figure its hurting them for November, they will move to shut it down. However, somethings get a life of their own. One can hope.
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I think the idea is to bring Palestinian "intellectual" who'll spread hate verbally - and, eventually, end up in US universities - influencing DEI policies.
[City Journal] Is the integrity of the encrypted-messaging application compromised by its chairman of the board?
The encrypted-messaging service Signal is the application of choice for dissenters around the world. The app has been downloaded by more than 100 million users and boasts high-profile endorsements from NSA leaker Edward Snowden and serial entrepreneur Elon Musk. Signal has created the perception that its users, including political dissidents, can communicate with one another without fear of government interception or persecution.
But the insider history of Signal raises questions about the app’s origins and its relationship with government—in particular, with the American intelligence apparatus. Such a relationship would be troubling, given how much we have learned, in recent years, about extensive efforts to control and censor information undertaken by technology companies, sometimes in tandem with American government officials.
First, the origin story. The technology behind Signal, which operates as a nonprofit foundation, was initially funded, in part, through a $3 million grant from the government-sponsored Open Technology Fund (OTF), which was spun off from Radio Free Asia, originally established as an anti-Communist information service during the Cold War. OTF funded Signal to provide "encrypted mobile communication tools" to "Internet freedom defenders globally."
Some insiders have argued that the connection between OTF and U.S. intelligence is deeper than it appears. One person who has worked extensively with OTF but asked to remain anonymous told me that, over time, it became increasingly clear "that the project was actually a State Department-connected initiative that planned to wield open source Internet projects made by hacker communities as tools for American foreign policy goals"—including by empowering "activists [and] parties opposed to governments that the USA doesn’t like." Whatever the merits of such efforts, the claim—if true—suggests a government involvement with Signal that deserves more scrutiny.
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.
...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
