[JOHNKASSNEWS] After it destroyed its own credibility by twisting the truth to protect Joe Biden and hide his senility, can American corporate legacy news media hope for rebirth?
No.
It’s dead. Journalism killed itself covering up Joe Biden’s senility so Democrats could maintain power. Humpty Dumpty can’t be put back together again. The media is a feast for crows.
CNN’s Fake Jake Tapper and the rest of them can shriek and pull out their hair, protesting wildly that they are true journalists interested in "speaking truth to power."
That too, is a lie.
They are not journalists, they are political propagandists. They’re paid whores.
This latest episode of mainstream media corruption brings to mind an apocryphal story often wrongly attributed to Churchill or George Bernard Shaw, "Madam, we’ve already established what you are. All we’re doing now is discussing the price."
”That’s not the Chicago Way," he said. "The Chicago Way is they pull out shotguns, shoot all the cows and make a barbecue. And then they ride off looking for more cows to kill."
The disgraced legacy news media is a one-eyed jack, a knave without honor, caught covering up for the Democrat Party lie, installing and maintaining the senile old man who had the nuclear codes. And the mainstream media, from the dying papers to CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS and NBC banded together vilifying any colleague who demanded answers.
The boss whore of this despicable gang is Tapper, who is now cashing in, selling his book, telling the tale he loudly condemned others for approaching . And all of his posse who profit after keeping their mouths shut for so long, after putting the nation through hell, deserve contempt. Tapper’s newfound "humility" is but another means to whitewash this shameful scandal.
In this they are much like the prostitute going through pockets after the client has been bludgeoned. But Jake the Fake is not alone. They told us he was "sharp as a tack" but was he? No.
Just who was running the country? And why should we trust anything the Democrats and their media coms shop tell us going forward?
Democrats worked in concert to cover up Biden’s senility. And so did the mainstream media played along because their hatred and fear of Donald Trump compelled them. We saw it all as it happened, so there’s no spinning their way out of it. But they’re trying desperately, beseeching America to eat their waste. And all we really need are the treasonous actors who used the presidential autopen without the people’s permission.
"We are in the midst of this staggering presidential scandal from the Biden administration. Whether you’re talking about the mental decline or the physical decline, there was a conspiracy to keep the American people from knowing who was actually operating as president," said Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway during a Fox News interview. "It really makes all other presidential scandals throughout history seem to somewhat pale in comparison."
It would take volumes to list all the White House scandals, from US Grant, Warren Harding, Woodrow Wilson and his manipulative wife Edith; Bill and Hillary Clinton and the 30,000 vanished emails; Barack Obama of the Fast and Furious scandal and the thousands of guns Obama had passed through to Mexican narco-gangs, the murders of the Americans at Bengazi and the political partisan abuses of the IRS.
There is a media myth about Obama’s administration perpetuated by the New York Times, that Obama’s administration was scandal free. No, it was not.
And of course, Richard Nixon of Watergate infamy.
But this one about Biden is much worse than the Watergate break-in. In that one the White House covered up the lawbreaking and the media uncovered it. The establishment media, led by the Washington Post hounded Nixon from office.
But in this one Biden and the legacy media covered up his senility, installed him, and publicly ridiculed any of us who dared point out they were protecting a presidential meat puppet at the expense of the American people.
Americans need news that they can trust to make important decisions about their vote and who would govern them. But they can’t trust this sort of garbage.
And the American people are being told to take it and eat it.
We’re told to eat the garbage they throw at us through the video screens and over the internet, to smile and applaud the corporate legacy media for "protecting" our republic from authoritarianism.
But as we say in Chicago whenever they put their lips together and blow: It’s all bullshit.
I take all this personally.
I spent 40 years working in the mainstream media as a reporter, political writer, columnist, and editorial board member of the Chicago Tribune. I loved working there, loved the readers and the paper and the work we accomplished, the detailed reporting we pursued. I just loved it. We were on a mission, in a politically corrupt city, as the tribunes for the people.
The Trib was once the voice of midwestern conservatism. It was about as mainstream as you could get. No longer. Once the leftist Jacobins took over newsroom, the knives came out and I had to go.
But it wasn’t the ideology that attracted me, it was that we could do real reporting and journalism there. The problem with the Jacobins is they pursued a course that moved away from seeking the truth, they were doctrinaire and lost any pretense of curiosity. They helped turn corporate journalism into what it is today.
Years ago, an associate of the Chicago Outfit and I were having lunch and talking about the mob. Specifically, about the economic lessons to be learned from the Chicago Outfit.
"Citizens see a couple, three cows on the side of a hill and think about putting them together and make more cows, make a herd. And sell the beef.
What’s wrong with that?
"Nothing but that’s not the Chicago Way," he said. "The Chicago Way is they pull out shotguns, shoot all the cows and make a barbecue. And then they ride off looking for more cows to kill."
I found the photo of the hyenas to illustrate that point, because hyenas aren’t interested in thinking about the future. And neither was the media, so intent it was on protecting Democrats from the people. And so, the news media devoured its own credibility with Biden, and now wonders where they might find the next feast.
Biden was not fit for office even before his inauguration.
As the great Miranda Devine wrote long ago, Joe Biden has been president-in-name-only since he was inaugurated
Jake the Fake and MSNBC and the New York Times and the rest of the pack of hyenas must now admit there is no feast without customers.
Who would pay for what passes for corporate legacy journalism now?
Only fools. Only chumbolones.
A few are still paying for garbage to eat as Fake Jake squeeze the chumbolones, as the New York Times looks down its nose at the American middle class.
But many others turn away from garbage journalism and reach out to independent journalism every day.
You’re always welcome here at https://johnkassnews.com/
Where did it start?
You might argue that American journalism fell apart with the rise of Al Gore’s internet that killed news advertising. Then the newspapers relied on subscriptions, and if subscribers were rabid Jacobins, they demanded offending heads be lopped.
But I’d argue, yeah, sure, OK but don’t forget the hopium smokers in the Washington press corps when Barry Obama became president.
I remember writing about the depressing Washington Press Corps addiction to hopium as they offered Obama as their Marxist demi-god. All the newsrooms were besotted.
"Obama hopium was so powerful, that that first rush of it, well, it sent a tingle up my leg. Or down my leg. Then up. So now, when I read newspaper stories about Obama’s political history, like a recent gooey, puffy profile in the Washington Post and it didn’t mention Obama as a willing member of Chicago’s Daley machine, well, I didn’t get angry.
"Not anymore.
"Why? Because I’m a hope-head.
"Now, I don’t get upset when foreign and national journalists fail to mention Tony Rezko, or the Daley boys, or how the Chicago machine plans to staff the Department of Justice, and the new Department of Homeland Casinos.
"Who cares? I’m numb with hopium."
But that was then.
I’m much better now.
I asked for a Congressional investigation days ago. And for the identity of who controlled the autopen. There seems to be no other way if we’re to keep the republic. The names must be known.
According to The Hill, the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform will be investigating Biden’s use of an "autopen" to sign documents such as the pardons issued just before he left office.
The Hill reported that "Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) said in a statement he plans to subpoena former Biden aides Annie Tomasini, Anthony Bernal and Ashley Williams, who he claims "ran interference" for Biden and may have overseen the use of the autopen.
"Meanwhile, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) is demanding the upper chamber hold hearings on Biden’s health and competence, and rightly so. He wants to interview people who were close to the former president. As he told Axios, "We have to. I mean, who was running the government?"
Years ago, in his first news conference since taking office, taxpayer-funded PBS White House reporter Yamiche Alcindor asked President Joe Biden whether migrants are crossing the southern border because he’s so "moral" and "decent."
She embarrassed herself without a smidgen of humility.
"You’ve said over and over again that immigrants shouldn’t come to this country right now, this isn’t the time to come. That message is not being received," Alcindor said as the nation faces a crisis of illegal immigration not seen in decades. "Instead, the perception of you, that got you elected as a moral, decent man, is the reason why a lot of immigrants are coming to this country and trusting you with unaccompanied minors."
Biden, a moral man? A decent man?
Yamiche, go sit on Jake’s lap and maybe he’ll tell you bedtime stories of the girl who saved journalism. Better yet Yamiche, just cancel yourself.
Last week on the Chicago Way podcast, co-host Jeff Carlin and I interviewed our friend Tom Bevan, co-founder and president of Real Clear Politics.
We talked about Biden, the media, Deep State operative James Comey and more. You might want to listen here.
I asked him about whether the media can survive this.
No, he said.
"The media’s broken," Bevan said. "There is no putting it back together. It is Humpty Dumpty for sure."
And all the king’s horses, and all the king’s men...
Don’t forget that Monday is Memorial Day, for all those who died for this country.
It is not a day to commemorate steaks and hotdogs and beer and chips. It is not the day to raise our glasses to our gluttony. Monday is the day we say a prayer and remember all those who gave their lives for the American republic.
A republic, said Dr. Franklin, if you can keep it.
Can we keep it?
That’s up to you. But they died trying to keep it. In all the cemeteries of American war dead across the world, among the white markers and crosses across the landscape, row after row here, in France, everywhere, it is held in a language unspoken by the political class, but perhaps you can feel it all the same:
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But this one about Biden is much worse than the Watergate break-in. In that one the White House covered up the lawbreaking and the media uncovered it. The establishment media, led by the Washington Post hounded Nixon from office.
The establishment media hated Nixon as much as they hate Trump. They were lying to us back then, they've been lying to us all along.
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Journalists have never been neutral since the beginning of the country. A much higher percentage of them have been evil and/or treasonous since 1950. What has changed is that they they lost their stranglehold on information.
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Newspapers originally were broadsheets for political purposes. It's when the owners discovered they could 'sell' news that it became a business. It was the classical master, journeyman, apprentice career till academia needed to get more cash with pseudo accreditation of skills. That's when it took a leap off the cliff.
[American Thinker] If I were a recent arrival from another planet, and I wanted to learn the value system of Earth’s inhabitants, how would I begin my search? Suppose I had landed in the United States and decided to check out how humans communicated with each other each day. Since my research of these beings indicated that they turned to television news to be informed of significant events, I’d turn it on to get an idea of how they think. I’d see a man at the podium, who, I’d soon realize was the chosen leader of the country, talking about his vision to make the country better.
He was saying that he is fulfilling the promises he made when he was elected by a majority of the voters who live in the country. This leader, who I learned is called "President Trump," was illustrating that he stopped the illegal invasion at the border, which was causing death and destruction to hundreds of thousands of innocent people in the country that elected him. Additionally, this man was actively taking part in ending wars that were taking the lives of millions in other countries. As I listened more closely, I heard him say that, as the elected Chief Executive, he has authorized his appointed emissaries to seek out and identify massive government corruption in the form of waste, fraud and abuse in numerous agencies.
Moreover, this newly elected leader has designated someone to determine why so many inhabitants of the nation are suffering from numerous ailments, most of which are being worsened by the use of chemicals being sold to them as cures or temporary relief from pain. The designee will also investigate why so many people are physically unfit, morbidly obese, and addicted to harmful lifestyles. He intends to educate the public about the numerous food additives that contain toxic substances, which are processed, glamorized in television and magazine commercials, and marketed to unwary consumers. The goal is to improve the health and vitality of the entire population. The person in charge of this enormous challenge is a man whose personal fitness demonstrates the commitment he hopes will serve as an inspiration to others.
As for the future prosperity of this land I arrived on, the new leader was securing trillions of dollars of investment from some of the wealthiest areas of the planet. Furthermore, he was tirelessly working to lower the burden of monetary payments, which they call "taxes," that industrious inhabitants are forced to render to the governing authority. During his address, he talked about the price reductions in many of the goods and services that have already taken place since he took office. While watching and listening to the proposals of the leader to make the country stronger, healthier, and more economically sound, I felt certain that this country was in the capable hands of a wise leader.
Eager to learn more about this world I’m visiting, I touched a button on the remote device and began watching another news program. Suddenly, everything I had just learned was being contradicted by those who appeared to be enemies of the new leader. Their words were hateful and abusive toward the man named "Trump," and they were calling on people to violently resist everything he was doing. I saw videos of angry demonstrators, screaming hysterically as they denounced the changes being made in their country. They called Trump a dictator for halting the criminal invasion of their own country. To my utter confusion, they demanded that he stop arresting and deporting those who had endangered innocent people by smuggling children, women, and drugs across the border to be sold for profit.
I continued to be astonished when I saw other elected representatives, in sections of the country, referring to its leader as a racist, even as some of the most prominent black and brown leaders fully endorse him. I began to wonder why an otherwise civilized and intelligent species could be so contrary about the relevant issues affecting their future and the future of their progeny. Their reasoning process was especially strange when I considered that they are residents of the most affluent and powerful combination of beings on their planet. What I learned caused me to wonder about the stability of their country, when many of them are apparently so deranged that they struggle viciously against a leader who is bringing more abundance to their lives.
If this is how the greatest country on their planet uses its intellect, I can only imagine how primitive the rest of the species behave in their respective territories. Having been sent here from another galaxy, to determine if our advanced civilization could further the goals of the only rotating orb with a form of life in the Milky Way, I must inform my leaders to pass by the third rock from the sun. Evidently, they have not evolved enough to appreciate anyone or anything that would improve their existence.
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The question assumes they are dumb enough to even land here, or the Planet hasn't been designation toxic and Off Limits by the United Universe Security Council
In 1932, Australia sent soldiers with machine guns to battle 20,000 wild emus—and lost. Discover the bizarre true story of the Emu War, where nature outmaneuvered the military and turned a national crisis into a historic embarrassment. From failed missions to guerrilla bird tactics.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Dmitry Gubin
[REGNUM] Forty years ago, in May 1985, the recently elected General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev arrived in Leningrad. Judging by the Central Television reports that we watched on black-and-white and color "boxes", the trip to the cradle of the revolution began routinely. At Pulkovo Airport, Comrade Gorbachev was met by pioneers, as well as party and economic activists led by the First Secretary of the Leningrad Regional Committee, Comrade Zaikov... And then something unexpected happened.
Having arrived in the city, the General Secretary began "communicating with the people" on the streets. The demonstrative democracy of the new leader and his ability to speak without a crib sheet were no longer a sensation. But many remembered this episode - his appearance in front of the people on Vosstaniya Square.
Then the impression arose that Gorbachev was not speaking with the “best people” specially selected by the Leningrad Regional Committee and the KGB Directorate for the city and region, but rather with genuinely random passers-by.
“We are now doing very serious work to develop a clear program and raise the pace of economic development in such a way as to accelerate the movement of the entire country, not just for the next five years, but for the remaining 15 years until the year 2000,” Gorbachev said, announcing the party’s recently adopted slogans of “acceleration” (the leading comrades would talk about perestroika and glasnost a little later).
"Stay close to the people, we will never let you down," a female voice rang out from the crowd. "You couldn't get any closer!" Gorbachev immediately responded. And everyone present laughed quite sincerely.
This caused, perhaps, no less of a shock than the anti-alcohol campaign that had begun a week earlier.
It was from this moment, shown on TV, that many counted the beginning of irreversible changes. No one knew what awaited the country in some five or six years, not to mention the year 2000.
"THE MAIN THING IS TO START!"
Forty years ago, in the spring of 1985, the author of these lines had just turned 18. When a new General Secretary was elected in Moscow, he had to be distracted from his studies and more interesting activities, whether he wanted to or not, and conduct political information sessions (and more than one) for his classmates at the Kharkov Polytechnic.
At that time, two events were on everyone's lips: the recent Central Committee plenum and the upcoming celebration of the 40th anniversary of Victory. The anniversary was, of course, more exciting. Everyone was waiting for the broadcast of the troops marching across Red Square, a very rare event. After all, the previous Victory Parade had been held in 1965, for the 30th anniversary. Post-war generations were preparing to honor veterans (the youngest of them were entering retirement age at that time).
The appearance of a new first person at the head of the party and the state was, of course, important news, but not "number one". People had already become accustomed to the fact that power in Moscow had changed once again during the previous "five years of lavish funerals", when Leonid Brezhnev, then Yuri Andropov and finally Konstantin Chernenko were sent off from the post of General Secretary and simultaneously from life.
And so, in March 1985, comrades from the Politburo, on the initiative of “Mr. No” Andrei Gromyko, put forward a new first person - against the background of the previous leaders, the very young (54 years old) and energetic Mikhail Sergeyevich.
What exactly Gorbachev talked about at what was commonly called the historic April plenum of the Central Committee and what I had to convey to my classmates, I now have to recall.
But it was clearly imprinted in my memory: it is not known what was a greater shock - the "fight against drunkenness and alcoholism" announced in May, or the General Secretary among the people, saying: "the main thing is to start!" with the emphasis on the first "a". And so it began, or, as he liked to repeat, "the process has begun!" - and it began with acceleration.
This term from a school physics course (even inveterate humanities students remembered the “acceleration of free fall”) migrated into everyday life, which really did feel like it was accelerating.
GUIDING AND DIRECTING EMPIRICISTS
But, by the way, it was not Mikhail Sergeyevich who came up with the idea of “accelerating development,” but Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov, whose protégé Gorbachev was considered. On November 22, 1982, Andropov said at the same historic plenum, the first after his election to the post of General Secretary: “It is planned to accelerate the pace of economic development, to increase the absolute size of the growth of national income… ”
Chernenko, who replaced him briefly, also reported on the “intensification of the economy,” but this was somehow uncertain. Like everything else in the final year of stagnation, about which there was a joke: “After a long and protracted illness, without regaining consciousness, Comrade Chernenko began to perform the duties of General Secretary…”.
Those leaders of the "guiding and directing force of Soviet society" who still retained a clear mind understood that "somehow" and "something" had to be changed. The phrase attributed to Andropov has remained in the collective memory: "We still do not know the country in which we live." In fact, the head of the KGB, who became General Secretary, expressed himself (in 1983) even more curiously:
"To be honest, we still haven't studied the society in which we live and work to the proper extent, haven't fully uncovered its inherent laws, especially economic ones. That's why sometimes the party and the state are forced to act, so to speak, empirically, by a very irrational trial and error method." That's exactly how the leadership of the party and government headed by Gorbachev began to act - by trial and error. And we, those of that time, soon felt it.
In the same school physics course, we studied not only mechanics with its acceleration of free fall, but also optics with its law of refraction of light. And translated into layman's terms, it said: if those at the top decide to accelerate something, then expect consequences.
And the experience of Andropov's short rule made one recall the campaign to fight for labor discipline, when vigilantes and district police officers went to bathhouses and movie theaters during the day and asked everyone: "Why aren't you at work?" True, the raids then included a "bonus" in the form of vodka at 4.70 (under the late Brezhnev, the cheapest was 5.30). Everyone was impatiently waiting to see what, as Saltykov-Shchedrin said, "good nonsense" would happen this time.
OVERTAKE AGAIN
If we put aside memories and turn to dusty "historical decisions" - everything looked good on paper. There was no talk of political reforms (or they were not openly declared). But there was talk of accelerating progress along the socialist path based on the effective use of scientific and technological progress, activating the human factor and changing the planning procedure.
Gorbachev defined the intensification of the planned economy and the acceleration of scientific and technological progress as his main task.
First of all, it was about increasing the growth rate of industrial production and its renewal. The luminaries of economic science, headed by Academician Abel Aganbegyan (head of the Commission for the Study of Productive Forces and Natural Resources created in 1985 at the USSR Academy of Sciences) counted and counted: growth of 4% per year is what is needed. And at the same time, the introduction of new models corresponding to the world level. That is, not a leap forward, but a race on the heels of capitalist countries. Those who lived through Khrushchev's time immediately recalled the slogan "Catch up and overtake America!" and noticed that then there was Nikita Sergeevich, and now Mikhail is also Sergeevich.
OBJECTIVE REASONS
But what people did not expect was that not factories and plants would speed up, but prices for alcohol (more than one and a half times), queues for vodka would intensify - the sales time would be from 2:00 PM to 7:00 PM. There was a ditty about this: "At six in the morning the rooster crows, at eight - Pugacheva. The store is closed until two, the key is with Gorbachev!"
As an anti-bonus, the age for selling alcohol will be raised from 18 to 21.
The author of these lines was directly affected by this measure and had to celebrate his alcoholic majority twice. So it turned out that you had to join the army, you could get married, but you couldn't dare join the wine and vodka industry.
And the Soviet people learned a lot more on May 7, 1985, when the Central Committee issued a decree “On measures to overcome drunkenness and alcoholism” and the accompanying document from the government No. 410 “On measures to overcome drunkenness and alcoholism, and eradicate moonshining.”
But to be fair, this fight against the green serpent was not a manifestation of voluntarism in its purest form. There were objective reasons. The annual mortality rate in the Union by 1984 had increased to 1 million 650 thousand, with 1 million 525 thousand deaths in 1980. By the end of the 1970s, alcohol consumption had grown to a record level in Soviet history of 10.5 liters of pure alcohol per person, or one hundred bottles of vodka per average Soviet citizen. As they used to say then, the issue was pressing. But they began to solve it using the usual command-and-control methods.
And if it all came down to only tough measures like increasing disciplinary and administrative liability for drunkenness at work and on the streets... The fact that fruit and berry wines disappeared from sale upset, of course, many alcoholics, but rather removed the lowest-quality goods from retail sale, but the destruction of winemaking (30% of vineyards were destroyed) and a sharp reduction in vodka production (halved in three years) is a blow not to the liver, but to the state budget.
Of course, such drastic steps led to people using surrogates (from dichlorvos to denatured alcohol) or various kinds of medicine instead of cheap alcohol. And besides discontent, there was also popular humor. Gorbachev himself recalled that he was called the "mineral secretary" and the lines for vodka were called "Mishkin's tails". They also laughed at alcohol-free weddings, where vodka was hidden under the table, and at the temperance society, whose leadership included famous drinkers.
The people's favorite verse was a parody of the megahit of that time, "Komarovo": For a week until the second, We'll bury Gorbachev, Dig up Brezhnev - We'll start drinking as before.
As they used to say back then, "but there is good news too." The number of deaths in the first year of prohibition had already decreased by 12%, mainly due to able-bodied men. The birth rate after the required 9 months had increased by 8%. And overall, in 1986-1989, the USSR experienced a demographic mini-surge, and not only in the southern republics - by 10.4 million people in four years. Compared to the monstrous collapse of the 1990s, this is a more than optimistic result. But the clumsy (literally, if we recall the mass cutting of grape vines) fight against drunkenness obscured all the benefits of this fight and remained in the collective memory as another example of the despotism of the authorities.
"LIKE A FAIRY TALE"
But even the news of the destruction of vineyards from Moldavian Cricova to Krasnodar Anapa (Crimean Massandra was miraculously saved - saved by the personal intercession of the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Ukrainian SSR Vladimir Shcherbitsky ) - even this then almost did not undermine the optimistic mood that we spoke about at the beginning of the article.
The 290-million country from Tallinn to Kushka and from Uzhgorod to Vladivostok seriously expected something from the new (“he walks himself! he talks himself!”) Secretary General.
Workers want higher production standards, engineers want faster implementation of their inventions and rationalization proposals in production, enterprise managers want replacement of outdated equipment, collective farmers want more “chiefs” from the city to harvest, and the creative intelligentsia want shorter distances between manuscript and book, workshop and exhibition.
Almost everything that comes to mind about that time happened later. And films - new and taken off the shelves (the first of them was "Agony" by Elem Klimov ), and magazine publications, and man-made disasters, and interethnic tensions that shook the "Unbreakable Union". And the vacillations back and forth from the "fight against unearned income" to "individual labor activity" and cooperation. In general, the acceleration of not the economy, but the entire surrounding reality occurred - there were more events around, and they turned out to be, let's say, diverse. As the popular saying went (and got into perestroika cinema ): "We live like in a fairy tale - the further, the scarier."
Text taken from a post in the Russian/Soviet history site istmat.org
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] Document signed by Zhukov on violations on the line of contact with the Allied troops in Germany. The other side of the "spirit of the Elbe".
ORDER OF THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE GROUP OF SOVIET OCCUPATION FORCES IN GERMANY.
AUGUST 29, 1945 No. 090 POTSDAM
On the facts of violations of the regime on the line of contact with the Allied troops and the unworthy behavior of a number of officers in the performance of their official duties.
Recently, numerous cases of violation of military discipline and border regulations on the line of contact with the Allied forces have reached threatening proportions.
Servicemen and especially officers cross the border without permission, meet and establish contact with English and American soldiers and officers on Allied territory. They organize joint drinks with them, take photographs, conduct official conversations, and also travel around the cities of Western Germany and France, visit theaters, museums, brothels, and as a result of laxness and chatter, divulge military secrets.
On July 22 of this year, the assistant chief of the intelligence department of the 27th Guards Division headquarters, Captain Ivanov, together with the commander of the 3rd battalion of the 76th Guards Regiment, Major Chernousov, while checking the security service, entered into a conversation with an American sentry and demanded that he call American officers for negotiations.
Captain Ivanov, together with a sentry, went to the American outpost, brought back four officers and 20 liters of wine and organized a drinking party with the Americans right at the border. The head of the medical service of the 27th Guards Rifle Division, Major of the Medical Service Katalkin, the senior doctor of the 76th Guards Rifle Regiment, Captain Satanovsky and Major Chernousov also took part in the drinking party.
Having drunk the brought wine, the drunken company went to continue drinking in a restaurant.
In the evening, a film was shown to the American officers at the location of the 7th Rifle Division of the 76th Guards Rifle Regiment.
During the drinking party, the officers held conversations regarding the numbering and deployment areas of the units. Captain Ivanov willingly answered the questions of the American officers.
On July 23 of this year, Captain Ivanov and Major of the Medical Service Katalkin with the driver Butovsky traveled in a passenger car to the side of the American troops, where they again met with American officers. Subsequently, the driver Butovsky deserted from his unit.
The commander of the 1st battalion of the 712th Rifle Regiment of the 139th Rifle Division (47th army), Major Slepnikov, and his deputy for political affairs, Captain Lagutsky, repeatedly sent their orderlies to the side of the allied forces for alcoholic beverages.
On July 5 and 7 of this year, the outpost chief of the 1281st Rifle Regiment of the 60th rifle division (47th army), Lieutenant Atayev, and on July 29, the deputy battalion commander of the 316th Guards Rifle Regiment of the 102nd Guards Rifle Division (2nd Infantry Division), Lieutenant Yankovchuk, went without permission to the British side, from where they brought alcoholic beverages and other things.
Privates Moguyev (286th Rifle Regiment of the 90th Rifle Division), Kolobanov, Zaikov (316th Guards Rifle Regiment of the 102nd Guards Rifle Division), trying to desert, went over to the side of the British troops, changed into civilian clothes and drank for several days. The deserters were detained. Officers and privates of the allied armies are also going over to our side, taking advantage of the assistance of our military personnel.
On July 14 of this year, four American soldiers detained at the border presented a pass for the right to cross the line of contact, issued by the deputy commander of the 3rd battalion of the 712th Regiment, Captain Lushin.
These American soldiers were in our unit, where they drank alcoholic beverages together with Captain Lushin and Lieutenant Kapustinsky. On July 16, the aforementioned soldiers, already in a Willis, heading "to visit" Captain Lushin, were again detained at the border. Captain Lushin, who arrived at the place of detention, ordered the release of the detainees at gunpoint. As it turned out, Lushin received two cans of gasoline from the American soldiers, 20 liters each.
On July 23, an American car with three unknown persons detained at the border was released by the senior officer of the post, Junior Sergeant Andreyev (712th Rifle Regiment of the 47th Army), and Andreyev received a bottle of vodka for this.
Individual servicemen of our troops, sent by the command to the zone of occupation of the allied forces with special assignments, without any need for it, travel around the cities of other foreign countries, where they meet, talk and take pictures with servicemen of these countries.
On July 13 of this year, officers of the intelligence department of the headquarters of the 8th Guards Army - Major Simonyan and translator Altaeva, sent to the city of MUNICH to accompany pilots of the 14th Squadron of the 9th Air Fleet of the American army, organized a meeting with American officers and "traveled" with them for a long time in the zone of their occupation.
On July 28, Simonyan, Altaeva and driver Pavlov were again sent on an assignment to the city of FRANKFURT am MAIN, and the deputy. chief of the intelligence department of the headquarters of the 8th Guards Army - Lieutenant Colonel Matusov to the area of the city of MUNICH.
On July 29, Matusov traveled from MUNICH to FRANKFURT am MAIN without permission, where he met with Simonyan. That same day, all of the above-mentioned individuals, on their own initiative, left for PARIS, and also visited many other cities in France and Germany, where they visited theaters, museums, brothels, and interacted with foreign servicemen. While in PARIS, Matusov and Simonyan exchanged occupation marks for francs at banks, for which they purchased various items for personal use.
A number of servicemen, while guarding the western border of the Soviet occupation zone, illegally allowed Germans to cross to our side, as well as to the side of the allied forces.
On July 28, at the 2nd battalion of the 951st Rifle Regiment of the 265th Rifle Division (3rd Infantry Division), sentry sergeant Mamedov allowed 15 Germans to cross the contact line, having received from them a bribe of 5 watches.
On August 5 and 8, the commander of the 2nd battalion of the 151st Guards Regiment of the 52nd Guards Division (3rd Infantry Division) — Lieutenant Kulakov and the sergeant major of the same company Arshinov allowed 4 Germans to cross to the Allied side and back.
Lieutenant Kulakov and sergeant major Arshinov were tried by the Military Tribunal. Sergeant Mamedov was sentenced to 2.5 years in a labor camp.
The listed facts testify to the lack of discipline on the border of the Soviet occupation zone and are the result of low demands and weak control of superiors over subordinates and direct violation of official duty on the part of a number of military personnel and officers, mainly.
I ORDER:
1. Army commanders, commanders of formations and units to establish a strict border regime and categorically prohibit unauthorized meetings and communications of military personnel of all categories with military personnel of the allied armies, both on the territory of our zone and on the territory of the allied occupation zone.
2. Official meetings to resolve official issues, as well as business trips with special assignments to the territory of the allies, are to be carried out only with the permission of the Military Council of the Group.
3. Servicemen of all categories shall be removed from their posts and brought to trial by a Military Tribunal for dissoluteness, unauthorized crossing into territory occupied by the allies, communication with servicemen of the allied armies, illegal issuance of passes for crossing into our territory and into the territory of the allies, and violation of their official duties while guarding the border.
4. For violation of their official duties and unworthy behavior in the performance of their official duties, the assistant chief of the intelligence department of the headquarters of the 27th Guards Rifle Division, Captain Ivanov, shall be removed from his post and brought to trial by a Military Tribunal.
Privates of the 286th Rifle Regiment of the 90th Rifle Division, the 316th Guards Rifle Regiment of the 102nd Guards Rifle Division, shall be brought to trial by a Military Tribunal as deserters.
To remove from office - the commander of the 3rd battalion of the 76th Guards Rifle Regiment, Major Chernousov,
The head of the medical service of the 27th Guards Rifle Division, and
The commander of the 102nd Guards Rifle Division, Major Ivanov.
Major Katalkin, deputy. commander of the 3rd rifle battalion of the 712th Rifle Regiment,
Captain Lushin, head of the 2nd section of the reconnaissance department of the 8th Guards.
Major Simonyan, senior doctor of the 76th Guards Rifle Regiment -
Captain Satanovsky, company commander of the 1281st Rifle Regiment -
Lieutenant Atayev, deputy. battalion commander of the 316th Guards Rifle Regiment
Lieutenant Yankovchuk and appoint all with a demotion of 1 - 2 categories.
Junior sergeant Andreev (712th Rifle Regiment 47th Army) - demote to private. Ouch!
Commander of the 1st rifle battalion of the 712th Rifle Regiment - Major Slepkov, deputy, commander of the 1st rifle battalion of the 712th Rifle Regiment
Captain Lagutsky, commander of the medium 712th Rifle Regiment -
Lieutenant Kapustinsky and an interpreter of the reconnaissance department of the headquarters of the 8th Guards. A - To Altayev, the army commanders, to punish by their authority and report to me.
The order is to be announced in front of the formation to the entire officer corps up to and including the platoon commander. The sergeants and privates are to explain the essence of the order.
Commander-in-Chief of the Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany Marshal of the Soviet Union G. Zhukov
Member of the Military Council of the Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany Lieutenant General Telegin
Chief of Staff of the Group Colonel General Malinin
Archives of the Central Archives of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. F. 1227. Op. 1. D. 41. L. 415-416ob
And so, along with the wine fumes, the notorious "spirit of the Elbe" gradually evaporated.
By the way, I found something interesting here It turns out that they punished not only for rape, but even for the simple fact of cohabitation with German women in the territory controlled by Germany.
Guards Senior Lieutenant Stepanov was dismissed from the ranks of the Red Army for the revealed facts of cohabitation with German women, drunkenness and looting as morally corrupt. And several other officers along with him.
The order on them was read out in all units of the Red Army group in Germany.
There's a poetic kind of justice when a dictatorship's propaganda parade ends as soggy scrap metal. North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... , the Hermit Kingdom so fond of choreographed triumphs and goose-stepping grandeur, recently tried launching a 5,000-ton ''stealth'' destroyer, only to have it tip sideways into the sea like a child's bathtub toy.
This wasn't just a mishap. It was a symbolic faceplant: the world's most belligerent pariah state, fresh off a backroom weapons-for-bodies deal with Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... , found its supposed symbol of strength literally sideways and broken. Karma, it seems, sometimes comes in the shape of a capsized hull.
TECH FOR BLOOD
Let's be clear: this was no ordinary ship launch. The Choe Hyon-class destroyer, which paraded in front of Supreme Leader Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... with all the spectacle of a coronation, was meant to showcase Pyongyang's leap in naval capability. And thanks to its recent transactional alliance with Russia, troops in exchange for military tech, it had every reason to expect smooth sailing.
According to multiple intelligence agencies, North Korea has been sending tens of thousands of troops, laborers, and munitions to Russia for the Ukrainian meat grinder. In return, Russia has reportedly handed over satellite surveillance systems, hypersonic missile guidance data, and advanced naval designs. Kim finally had a playbook from a major power, and this warship was to be Exhibit A.
Instead, the ship's stern slid prematurely into the water during its launch at the Chongjin Shipyard while the bow stuck on the slipway, sending the vessel lurching sideways like a drunk man leaving a bar.
The result: a crippled destroyer and a furious dictator who, after inspecting the wreck, reportedly arrested bigwigs and ordered an emergency internal investigation. There are whispers that the lead engineers may never see daylight again.
[AmericanThinker] I doubt that President Trump has a specific animus toward Harvard. Instead, he understands that Harvard is the most famous academic institution in America. If academia as a whole is behaving badly, and you successfully make an example of Harvard, you’ve won.
In this case, after having witnessed 18 months of America’s campuses lapsing into Nazi-style cesspools of open antisemitism, Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... targeted Harvard, and he did so with an old maxim in mind: "He who pays the piper calls the tune." Barring a very few colleges (Hillsdale springs to mind), America’s institutions stay afloat thanks to two financial sources: taxpayers (via grants and guaranteed loans) and foreign students.
Neither is a right. The money from taxpayers is contingent on the institutions abiding by the law; the money from foreign students is contingent on the institutions ensuring that the overseas students abide by the law, including laws connected to their visa status. Both are privileges that can be withdrawn.
Across America, when colleges and universities allow physical and verbal attacks on Jewish students, blatantly violating the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and when they allow foreign students to take a central role in these attacks, they are violating federal law. Through a series of initiatives, Trump has said that (a) taxpayer money will not flow to lawless institutions and (b) these institutions have lost the privilege of sucking up vast wealth from overseas students. (Per Grok’s analysis, more than 25% of Harvard’s current student body consists of overseas students.)
Currently, Harvard and other institutions have found compliant judges holding that the law doesn’t apply to them. In Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, a judge issued a nationwide injunction holding that Trump cannot terminate the visas of foreign students accused of violating the terms of those visas. In Massachusetts, when Kristi Noem informed Harvard that it’s consistently violating Jewish students’ rights—and its refusal to provide information to DHS about those violations—meant that the government was revoking its privilege of hosting foreign students, Harvard instantly found a judge to stay that mandate.
Leftists, of course, are squealing that Trump is violating Harvard’s "rights." But Harvard’s only right is to offer an education, no matter how bad, to American students willing to pay. The other thing—the federal money and the foreign students—aren’t rights, and the New York Times
...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... has figured that out.
Now, the New York Times has problems with its reporting. As we’ve written here (and you can see the details here), the New York Times wrote a story that effectively says that American Thinker lied about a photograph. Despite having had almost 24 hours to correct the story, the Times has not. I expect no more from a leftist outlet that, all of its protests to the contrary, is not a newspaper but is, instead, a propaganda arm of the Democrat party.
But it’s that very fealty to the Democrat party that means the Times is probably correct—and shaking in its shoes—when it writes "Why Harvard Has No Way Out: Even against one of the nation’s oldest institutions, the Trump administration holds the levers of power — and it’s using them aggressively."
The essay, which sees Jess Bidgood interview Michael S. Schmidt, explains that, despite Harvard’s valiant efforts to defend itself (that is, to keep the antisemitism alive), "the administration holds the levers of power, and is methodically and creatively using them in a take-no-prisoners assault on the school."
The real insult is that the White House, in shutting down those oh-so-valuable foreign students, "turned to an obscure tactic it usually uses to shut down shoddy diploma mills." The emphasis, applied smugly, is mine because much of what Harvard does is a shoddy diploma mill, given that many of its students are manifestly indoctrinated and minimally educated.
According to Schmidt, one of the things that Trump’s move against international students did was make Harvard less attractive to those students, while the issue ping-pongs in and out of the courts:
If you’re an international student at Harvard, are you going to be like, "OK, cool, I’ll just go to school in the fall, and I’ll be checking the federal docket to see if the restraining order is still in place"?
Moreover, Schmidt says, Harvard can no longer rely on federal funding, despite judges willing to dive in on its behalf:
Let’s say a judge gives back all of that money for this year. Half of the university’s research budget comes from the federal government. Where is Harvard going to get the money in the year after that, and the year after that? If you’re a researcher, do you want to be doing research at a school where your funding is in question? (Emphasis mine.)
With that kind of pressure, says Schmidt, "Harvard officials have privately determined they are in a major, major, major crisis with very few, if any, good off ramps [sic]." The courts can’t save Harvard because Trump has created an unstable situation (there’s that Trump habit of creating leverage) that will see foreign students and research projects going elsewhere.
And here’s the real beauty of that leverage. Harvard, a despicable institution that has fed Marxism in all its forms (economic, racial, antisemitic, sexual, etc.) for decades, in large part thanks to huge influxes of taxpayer dollars, feels it has no options:
Harvard’s board, as far as we know, won’t let the university go back to the table. The board members don’t trust that you can negotiate with Trump. And the things that Trump keeps hitting Harvard with are so destructive. How could you go back to the table?
And because the best dessert always has a cherry on top, Harvard’s vaunted $53.2 billion endowment might not save it. Thanks to a possible inflated valuation driven by illiquid assets and debt, some contend that the real value might be closer to $29 billion.
That’s still a huge pile of money (especially if you get rid of all the leftist "studies" programs to cut costs), but that fact, if true, increases the pressure on Harvard to abide by American law.
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[American Thinker] Before he joined Kash Patel at the FBI, Dan Bongino had a popular podcast and radio show. He would report on the latest Democrat scandal, calling it "the biggest scandal of our time." Sadly, this became a regular theme. One scandal followed another, each seemingly as great as or greater than the ones that came before.
In my debates with Democrats, I like to ask them for their Top Ten List of things their party has done to make America safer, stronger, more prosperous, and more united. Only one person has ever listed ten, most list a few and then change the subject. But even the items they list turn out to have been ultimately harmful or ineffective. Obamacare is high on the list, as are the COVID "vaccines," public schools and welfare.
When I look at that party’s history I see a consistent and frightening pattern. Southern Democrats owned the slaves, started the Civil War, formed the KKK, opposed passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, and passed Jim Crow laws and the Great Society legislation that decimated the nuclear family. They currently promote the losing side of every 90/10 issue facing America, such as championing MS-13 gang-bangers and Islamic terrorists and placing graphic pornography in K-12 schools.
How likely is it that a party would consistently choose actions that are harmful to those they claim to serve? "Once is happenstance, twice is a coincidence, three times is enemy action." -- Ian Fleming
Promoting evil for personal gain is as old as humankind and people have always looked for the source.
Scripture warns us that we "...do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places."
In the Old Testament, Ba’al was a supernatural entity who demanded child sacrifice in exchange for prosperity. By contrast, Jezebel wielded a seductive charisma, bending loyalty to her will. The Left, particularly the Democrat (they're not democratic) Party utilizes sacrifice and deception, forfeiting the well-being of society for control (Ba’al) while at the same time masking its motives with charismatic manipulation (Jezebel).
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Muslim Americans, African-American men, Latino citizens, union members, unions (!!), Native Americans — all the traditionally locked-in Democratic voters except college-educated women are now either divided or breaking for President Trump. It’s been fascinating to watch.
[Townhall] In one of the most politically significant—but underreported—developments of the 2024 election cycle, a new survey reveals that Moslem Americans are no longer a reliable voting bloc for the Democratic Party. This shift reflects not only political disillusionment but a deeper cultural and ideological rift that is quietly reshaping the American electoral map.
According to a nationally representative poll conducted by J.L. Partners in collaboration with the Moslem American Leadership Alliance (MALA), the Moslem-American vote is now evenly split: 34 percent of respondents identify as Democrats ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... , 34 percent as independents, and 33 percent as Republicans. Just four years ago, President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem machine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family... secured 69 percent of this demographic. In 2024, Kamala Harris former senatrix from California, 2020 Dem presidential hopeful and ultimately Joe Biden's intended successor , then the Democratic nominee, garnered only 20.3 percent of the Moslem vote—while Green Party candidate Jill Stein captured a stunning 53 percent.
This political earthquake signals more than dissatisfaction with a particular candidate or administration. It reflects a growing realization among Moslem Americans that the Democratic Party has drifted away from the traditional, family-centered values that define their communities.
The numbers speak volumes. While 52 percent of Moslem Americans still view the Democratic Party favorably, a sizable segment supports policies typically associated with the Republican platform. The MALA poll found that 43 percent back the deportation of illegal immigrants colonists, 44 percent support increased domestic oil drilling, and 62 percent favor eliminating taxes on tipped income. These are not fringe positions—they are mainstream conservative policies gaining ground with Moslem voters.
Cultural concerns are just as pivotal. Many Moslem Americans have voiced unease with the Democratic Party’s promotion of gender ideology and LGBTQ+ content in schools, especially where it intersects with young children. These concerns are not rooted in intolerance—they stem from a clash between progressive dogma and deeply held religious and moral values.
Moslem communities in the U.S. prioritize modesty, family cohesion, spiritual tradition, and the protection of children. These values increasingly conflict with the Democratic Party’s progressive agenda on sexuality, gender identity, and parental rights in education.
Layered on top of this cultural divergence is a deepening sense of betrayal—particularly on foreign policy. From Israel and Gazoo
...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 a rusty 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... to Russia, Ukraine and Afghanistan, the Democratic Party’s foreign interventions have deeply affected Moslem-majority regions and undermined the moral credibility of U.S. leadership in the eyes of many Moslem voters.
Matt Duss, executive vice president at the Center for International Policy and former foreign policy advisor to Senator Bernie Sanders
...The only first openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords. He ran for the 2016 nomination for president, to be cheated out of it by Hillary Clinton, then went back to being an Independent socialist, waiting for 2020 to roll around... , argued in a January 2025 Guardian article that Democrats have become the party of militarism, ceding the anti-war mantle to Republicans. He warned that the party’s embrace of hawkish foreign policy has alienated voters who oppose U.S. interventionism—particularly in the Middle East.
This assessment tracks closely with electoral trends from 2024. In Michigan—home to one of the largest Moslem populations in the U.S.—exit polls showed that 59 percent of Moslem voters backed Jill Stein, while just 14 percent supported Kamala Harris. Duss’s critique underscores the electoral cost of a Democratic foreign policy increasingly at odds with its base.
Importantly, this realignment is not about blind allegiance to the GOP. It represents a pragmatic reassessment of leadership—especially regarding war, peace, and international justice.
Though Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... remains a divisive ...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled... figure, a plurality of Moslem voters (52 percent) now believe he is better suited than Joe Biden to broker peace in the Middle East. On the Israel-Gaza conflict, 29 percent of Moslem respondents expressed support for Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... (granted, this is a troubling find), just 14 percent backed Israel, and 44 percent supported neither side—indicating a nuanced, issue-by-issue approach rather than rigid ideological alignment. It also reflects deep fatigue with the endless wars associated with Democratic leadership.
This is not a story of mass conversion to conservatism—it is a recalibration based on policy, values, and a demand for representation. Moslem Americans are asserting their political independence. No longer content to be treated as a monolithic voting bloc, they are making it clear: their loyalty depends on substance, not slogans.
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Something at work here is the bizarre international legal regime of today, which makes it basically impossible for Western countries to win wars.
At any other point in history, including some as civilizationally advanced as our own era, Israel would simply have said: "An ancient enemy unprovokedly attacked us, and rape-murdered 1,200 people. We are going to strike back and annihilate their country. Not everyone will die, but the whole people will be broken and forced into unconditional surrender, or moved far away from our borders."
This is, frankly, a natural way to feel and a logical policy to implement. But, today, openly explaining it would leave a state open to claims of "ethnic cleansing," etc. Non-Western countries - China, the now-Jewless Arab countries - basically just laugh at these allegations. But, Western ones obsessively try to avoid them.
This context creates the weird pattern where Israeli leftists and centrists obsessively worry about "the commission of some war crimes" - while fighting an enemy that literally entrenches under grade schools and uses kids as human shields, and while at some level obviously hoping that the universally hostile Gazan population can be...persuaded to move.
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Non-Western countries - China, the now-Jewless Arab countries - basically just laugh at these allegations.
Cartels, Russians, North Koreans, Haitians, Jamaicans, Spanish Mexicans vs. Indian Mexicans, Californians ... wherever a privileged class is in power and defending their reign.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A retired Air Force general has warned that China is mining a rare and powerful element from the moon that could give them the upper hand in the new space race.
China confirmed its plans to build a nuclear plant on the moon to power the research station it's 'dreaming up' with Russia during an April presentation.
The country aims to become a major space power and land astronauts on the moon by 2030. Its planned Chang'e-8 mission for 2028 would lay the groundwork for constructing a permanent, manned lunar base.
However, Steven Kwast, a retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General and the CEO of SpaceBilt, claimed China has already started mining helium-3 from the moon.
Helium-3 is a rare form of the gas helium on Earth, but NASA estimates that a million tons of it is on the moon.
Scientists believe helium-3 could provide nuclear energy in a fusion reactor, but since it is not radioactive, it would not produce dangerous waste.
Kwast warned during a recent episode of the Shawn Ryan Show that if China monopolizes the element, they could have enough power to crack any computer code.
'If we were to mine the moon for helium-3, at the current level of electricity use... we could power the energy needs of the human race for thousands of years based on the helium-3 that's on the moon right now,' Kwast said.
'Let's take the scenario where China now has enough helium-3 as they're mining it on the moon and bringing it back to Earth to be able to power the entire world for thousands of years.
'They are the ones that can actually operationalize quantum because they can cool it down to the temperature it needs to actually operate.'
Kwast explained that helium-3 can be used to control the quantum cooling needed for advance technology, and whoever controls it will be able to break any code on the planet.
'When you start combining those three quantum capabilities - sensing, computing, communication - and you can affordably cool it down to the levels where it can be operationalized, now you've broken every code that ever was. I don't care how good your encryption is. They see every secret, every code, everything,' Kwast said.
'So there's an example of why not being in space with logistics and infrastructure to be able to move to see and to operate can make you vulnerable.
'Space is the place where if America does not change our strategy and how we're investing in space, we will become victims to others that use space as a way of dominating the energy market but also the information market.'
While there is no proof that China is actively mining helium-3 on the moon, they have expressed interest in lunar resource extraction.
In June 2024, China became the first country to land on the moon's far side. The Chang'e 6 spacecraft returned with 4.4 pounds of lunar rock samples.
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Quick, the US & the M.I.C. needs to bridge this gap.
We need to build Space freighter mining ships to be sent to the Moon to maintain Moon Mineral parity.
Even though the ships will be assembled in space by the Space Workers of American, under the direction of AI and out of sight of the general-public.
The Women's Astronaut League will inspect the Moon operations every 2 years. The proper paperwork and donations will be sent to congress every election season also.
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Gen Kwast is making a "please fund my company" pitch.
The logistics for this are a challenge that is probably even more challenging than the refining technology. There is only about one gram of He3 for every 100 tons of moon rock (and that's nearly a best case guess), so you need to get a whole mining operation transported to the moon before you can even start the refining.
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The return on investment just may not be there.
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Why is there so much He3 on the moon but not on Earth? Theoretically, the Earth birthed the moon.
Inquiring minds want to know. Ahhh.....
Helium-3 is thought to be more abundant on the Moon than on Earth, having been deposited in the upper layer of regolith by the solar wind over billions of years,[5] though still lower in abundance than in the Solar System's gas giants.
Because -
Helium-3 occurs as a primordial nuclide, escaping from Earth's crust into its atmosphere and into outer space over millions of years. Wikipedia
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Commentary by Russian military journalist Bris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] Declassified CIA documents from July 1951 reveal a familiar picture of American diplomacy. The story centers on Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh’s nationalization of Iranian oil, but the real drama was unfolding behind the scenes in Washington, where American strategists were playing the big geopolitical game.
The document shows a classic fork in American foreign policy: on the one hand, allied obligations to Britain, on the other, a paranoid fear of Soviet influence. The Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC) was not just a source of income for Iran, but a symbol of the colonial domination that Mossadegh rightly rebelled against. But the Americans were not concerned with principles of justice, but with the cold calculations of geopolitics.
CIA analysts openly acknowledged the dilemma: if Iranian oil could not flow to the West, Iran would either "be forced to turn to the USSR for help" or "suffer economic collapse.
"In either case, the country would "likely fall under Communist domination within months."
The British, in their imperial hubris, were prepared to "close AIOC's facilities in Iran, recall all British personnel, and boycott Iranian oil" rather than agree to reasonable terms.
This is where the key difference between the American and British approaches comes into play. While the British thought in 19th-century terms - "I won't give up the colony for anything" - the Americans demonstrated pragmatic flexibility. They understood that a controlled concession was better than losing the entire region to the USSR.
The questions American strategists asked themselves sound cynical:
"Can we let the British leave Iran?" and "How long can we let Mossadegh stew in his own juices?"
There is a cold calculation behind these formulations: the US was already preparing to replace Britain as the main external player in the region.
Today's US pressure on Iran has the same root cause - to prevent Tehran from getting closer to Moscow. Threats of an Israeli attack, sanctions, diplomatic isolation - all these are tools of one strategy: to force Iran to accept American conditions and reduce the number of Russian allies as much as possible.
This is especially indicative against the background of the real military preparations of the US. The construction of the largest military base in Europe in Romania, the accession of Sweden and Finland to NATO, the trillion-dollar military budget of the Pentagon - all this does not fit well with Trump's peace-loving rhetoric. Peace initiatives are just a smokescreen for serious military preparations.
It is worth adding that 1.5 years after this document was written, Iranian Prime Minister Mossadegh was overthrown and imprisoned. He was under arrest for the rest of his life. Some of Mossadegh's supporters were killed or imprisoned.
The coup was organized by the CIA. The Shah's regime completely fell under the US. It was overthrown only as a result of the Islamic Revolution of 1978, when Iran, after decades of vassal dependence, was able to free itself from US rule.
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
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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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche...
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
