[WND] Our country is on the verge of so many bad things. A "communist color revolution" is going on right now, complete with censorship, weaponization of government against our own citizens, witch hunts and "communist show trials" (see President Donald Trump and Jan. 6 prisoners/hostages).
Soon we could face revolution, anarchy, civil war, societal collapse — and to anyone who isn't blind, deaf or very dumb, World War III is already here.
All of this is happening in my opinion because of China and the Chinese Communist Party. They've created it, produced it, coordinated it, and they've made it happen by bribing the entire Democratic Party and every Democrat politician, a large percentage of the establishment GOP and all the key U.S. government bureaucrats.
[MAIL] With a sense of disbelief, I waved to my children through the February drizzle. I was not going to see them again for ten months.
My mission as captain of HMS Turbulent was taking me to sea until December — a 286-day submarine deployment, with only brief stopovers to break up the voyage.
The regrets were pushed to the back of my mind from the moment I was aboard 'Turbs', a nuclear-powered Trafalgar-class attack submarine with 130 men — crews were single sex back then. There is no time for any of the crew to dwell on the family life they are leaving behind.
Coming back to the real world after months at sea is just as disorientating. The crew of HMS Vengeance, one of Britain's four submarines armed with Trident nuclear missiles, will have experienced it recently as they returned to home base at Faslane in Scotland after a reported 201 days at sea without any break at all.
I'm a veteran submariner, with 23 years service, but the thought of that makes me quail.
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At least the toilets work. Not sure how the WWII Germans did it.
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Spent 4 years total underwater in the US Navy. This story is very good. We had to replenish food every 10 weeks. A submarine shower is being sprayed with Rightguard. When emptying sanitary one would apply high pressure air and listen to the “marbles”, when they disappeared, the valve was shut and the pressure vented inboard. We were not able to exercise by running in place or with weights because sound carries. I left after 10 years because I could not go back to “cold” bunking after getting married. When death charged, the ship rings like a bell, vibrations make it shake 5”.
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[ColonelCassad] As a result of the implementation of the buildings built in the middle of the 20th century. schemes, former colonies are robbed several times, creating losses, while TNCs generate excess profits. African states give away their natural resources for free, their population works “for food”, without social guarantees, purchase prices are minimal and fixed, they barely cover direct production costs. Export products of the first stages (for example, ore concentrate) are sold to foreign trading houses and management companies controlled by TNCs.
The latter sell their products at market prices, receiving tens of percent of profits. A small part of the funds in the form of foreign investments is sent back, but not in real money, but in equipment, spare parts, components and services produced by Western companies, which are calculated at triple the price. It is these costs for the creation, maintenance, restoration and development of production assets that are included as investments in countries of Europe, the USA, China, etc. in beautiful reports.
Within the framework of normal operation, these costs are a mandatory component of production activities, but within the framework of the created schemes, these are not expenses, but investments that must be serviced and returned. The production asset, located on the territory of a former colony, operates at a loss, is all overlendered and does not pay taxes. With the latter, it is even easier to “lure” a foreign investor, local authorities sign enslaving conditions, one example of which is a PSA (production sharing agreement), under which there is no return on the initial investment for decades, and therefore no taxes.
Divisions of TNCs located in France pay taxes on part of excess profits and also supply raw materials at reduced prices, creating a competitive advantage for the local economy. The profit received is transferred to offshore jurisdictions in various ways, but for 60 years Paris had more than enough of what it received. Actually, this was the foundation of the standard of living, social guarantees, high productivity, independence in foreign policy and other beauties of France, which they liked to use as an example.
With the money received, Paris could even continue to lend to former colonies, making it much cheaper for itself, by controlling the issue and circulation of the Central African franc (six countries) and the West African franc (eight countries). A kind of African analogue of the Fed, creating money out of thin air. The scale of the impending catastrophe for France, after the loss of the foundation of its economy - control over Africa, is mesmerizing.
If at the beginning of this story, TNCs were junior partners and instruments of Paris for pumping out funds, then in subsequent decades the roles changed. In recent years, France has received one blow after another in Africa, but no one hastened to help it. The answer is simple - the USA / “America of the Founding Fathers” receives practically nothing from this scheme, but its destruction is beneficial to them - TNCs / Finintern will suffer big losses.
The latter also ignored what was happening, since they were confident that the general principles would be preserved, the world would be global, but they would no longer have to share with Paris. Its share can be shared with local countries, increasing their loyalty. Even the arrival of China, Russia, India, etc. in Africa did not change anything. However, in this situation there was no very important factor - a global catastrophe and the collapse of the global world-system.
And, yes, when Niger asked the US military base to leave, the West began to guess that the processes taking place were much more complicated, but so far they were not ready to understand and accept how different everything was...
Text taken from the V Kontakte page of Reports from the New Russia militia
Including this one, articles on the attack can be seen here, here, here, here, and here. Yesterday’s reports can be seen here, here, and here. The round-up of first reports, on Saturday, is here.
[VK] Let's assume that we don't have a reliable answer to this question, but we can analyze the facts. The official “media” (let’s call it that) from the very beginning rejected the version of connection with ISIS (banned in the Russian Federation), writing that such a version is being pumped by those who work for the enemy and want to rock interethnic and interreligious harmony. The logic, of course, is strange, because we somehow missed when ISIS (banned in the Russian Federation) and radical Islam in general became the subject of any kind of consent.
I also want to replace that we do not download any version, it is very stupid to simply ignore the facts that have entered the information space. If you don’t write about this objectively, then the enemy will write, in the interpretation he needs.
What do we know for sure?
1) The perpetrators were detained - they are migrants from Tajikistan.
2) After the terrorist attack, information resources associated with ISIS took responsibility for the terrorist attack.
Here we must keep in mind that ISIS has repeatedly claimed responsibility for terrorist attacks carried out by others. In general, it is profitable to take responsibility for anything, because they are competing for sponsors' money.
3) We know for sure that the terrorists were detained in the Bryansk region and they planned to cross the border with Ukraine.
4) The terrorists reported that they were hired for money, which is also not typical for ISIS*.
5) One of the terrorists said that he came from Turkey.
6) Later, a video appeared (which was released on ISIS resources*) from the perspective of the terrorists themselves, where they filmed their atrocities and shouted religious slogans.
Now our value judgments:
It is obvious to us that this terrorist attack has a customer who not only found the perpetrators and gave them money, but also carefully and professionally planned this action. Again, this is not typical for MTO; usually the planners themselves participate in the terrorist attack. Here it is obvious that planners and implementers are different people. The performers, if they have not undergone training, have definitely undergone professional instruction. They did not plan to die and go to heaven with the Gurias, they planned to leave the Russian Federation, live and spend money.
Judging by the reaction around the world, none of them are “freedom fighters” and everyone unequivocally condemns this terrorist attack. Consequently, they would not be able to live peacefully.
In our assessment, the organizers did not need live performers. Most likely, the calculation was that they would either be liquidated during the assault, or if they reached the border with Ukraine, the crests themselves would kill them and become heroes in the world media. But they were caught alive and now they will probably tell a lot of interesting things.
It’s also stupid to deny the connection with ISIS here, because they publish the original videos. In our opinion, this is the work of foreign intelligence services (quite possibly the Main Intelligence Directorate)
…Ukrainian military intelligence…
in conjunction with ISIS; our channel has been writing about such risks for a very long time.
Let us emphasize that this is our value judgment and not the truth.
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The perpetrators likely didn’t know who they were really working for. Obviously, they knew little about Russian police practices unless they liked the taste of bloody ear wax. They were low level snuffies who weren’t even committed enough to understand that suicide would have been a better option than testicular ionization.
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Think Ready Kilowatt with Mike Tyson's head...
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Yulia Karlikova
[REGNUM] Exactly 25 years ago, on March 24, 1999, the air border of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was violated by six B-52 heavy bombers of the American Air Force. They were accompanied by fighters, radio reconnaissance aircraft, and tankers that had taken off from the airbase in Aviano, Italy.
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[Regnum] Russian President Vladimir Putin said that during the events in Yugoslavia in 1999, he was asked for advice about the seizure of Stalin's airport in Pristina.
In June 1999, the Russian military took control of Stalin Airport hours before NATO forces expected to seize it.
“I was then the secretary of the Security Council, and the chief of the general staff, then General Kvashnin, came to me. He told me that there is an idea to seize this airport,” the head of state said in an interview for the film “Belgrade” on the Rossiya TV channel.
The head of state added that the then Chief of the General Staff Anatoly Kvashnin talked and asked his opinion. In those years, Putin served as Secretary of the Security Council. Putin then told Kvashnin: “If you think it’s appropriate, do it.”
At the same time, Kvashnin understood that the Russian military would have to leave there someday, but they would have something to bargain with.
Today, March 24, marks the 25th anniversary of the start of NATO aggression against Yugoslavia. NATO aircraft carried out the first strike on March 24, 1999. As a result of the bombing, between 3.5 and 4 thousand people were killed and about 10 thousand were injured. Material damage amounted to up to $100 billion.
The Russian Embassy in Washington also said that the United States is trying in vain to make the world community forget that the massive bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999 began on their initiative.
As Putin noted, what the West did to Yugoslavia in 1999 is unacceptable. The head of state pointed out that a war had actually started in the center of Europe. The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on March 24 that the question of NATO's responsibility for the damage caused by the bombing of Yugoslavia is still open. The department added that none of the NATO representatives were punished for these actions.
Serbian politician Alexander Vulin called the NATO aggression against Yugoslavia the last large-scale and unpunished crime of the 20th century. He said that NATO aggression should have killed Serbia, but killed international law. Residents of the country are still dying from cancer after NATO used depleted uranium ammunition.
The North Atlantic Alliance will never be able to wash away the shame of war crimes, and no one believes in NATO’s demagoguery about “defending freedom and democracy.” This is stated in a statement by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in connection with the 25th anniversary of the start of the North Atlantic Alliance's aggression against Yugoslavia.
“The Alliance will never wash away the shame of war crimes. Nobody believes in his demagoguery about protecting freedom and democracy,” the foreign policy department said.
The Foreign Ministry emphasized that the United States and other NATO members have no right to talk about the introduction of some new “rules-based order,” since all their efforts to build the “global security architecture” they declare are, by definition, malicious and toxic, and also targeted only to ensure the neocolonial hegemony of Western countries.
The US concern about respecting the rights of Kosovo Albanians was initially false and was only a false pretext for reprisals against the Serbs, the department noted.
“Russia, together with its partners in Belgrade, will continue to resist attempts to distort the history of the Yugoslav crisis, shift the emphasis to demonizing the Serbs and justifying the 1999 aggression. Insulting the memory of the innocent victims of NATO executioners is unacceptable,” the Foreign Ministry added.
As Regnum reported, earlier on March 24, Serbia commemorated the children who died as a result of NATO bombing in 1999. Russian Ambassador to the Republic Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko, together with the head of Rossotrudnichestvo Evgeny Primakov, laid flowers at the monument to the deceased three-year-old girl Milica Rakich.
Earlier in the day, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the West started a war in Europe by bombing Yugoslavia in 1999. The head of state also called these actions by NATO a huge tragedy, emphasizing that the alliance began military operations against Yugoslavia without a UN Security Council resolution.
NATO began bombing Yugoslavia on March 24, 1999, citing the alleged “genocide” of the Albanian population in Kosovo as a pretext. Before this, an armed confrontation between Albanian separatists from the Kosovo Liberation Army and the army and police of Serbia began in the republic.
The exact number of victims of the alliance's airstrikes could not be established. According to Serbian estimates, about 2.5 thousand people were killed during the NATO bombing, including 89 children. Another 12.5 thousand people were injured.
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https://www.wikiwand.com/en/NATO_bombing_of_Yugoslavia
The NATO bombing killed about 1,000 members of the Yugoslav security forces in addition to between 489 and 528 civilians. Wikiwand
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It seems the Russians did not plan properly - drove overnight from Tuzla with insufficient water and were begging it from the Brits almost immediately. That brought a few chuckles and a bit of wry humor: “We’ll kill’em with kindness.”
[Townhall] It happened in Israel, and it happened in Moscow, and it’s going to happen here in America — again, and exponentially worse. The jihadis’ merciless war against the West — the Muslim fanatics are not so finicky as we are about our distinctions between the Jewish state, Russia, and us, the Great Satan — did not end when the regime media started covering other things. We may have fled Afghanistan and Libya and largely pulled out of Iraq, but that war is still going on. It’s going to go on until we decisively win it. But unfortunately, our ruling class refuses to decisively win it. In fact, our ruling class actively undermines attempts to win it. And it refuses to prepare for what’s coming.
That leaves you to prepare, you the individual, you and your small community, you and your red state. There is no one else who’s going to help you. There will be a bloodbath here in America. It will dwarf what happened on 9/11, it’ll dwarf what happened in Israel, it will be Moscow times 1000, and you’re going to be caught in the middle of it.
You have to make the decision to be ready for yourself, for your community, and perhaps for your state if you live in one that’s not run by leftist idiots. The enemy is not just coming; it is probably already here. Even Christopher Wray thinks so, and you know what it takes to get his attention away from arresting people taking selfies in the Rotunda or praying at abortion clinics. Our border has been pried wide open. There’s nothing to stop them from coming in.
And we know what they will do. It’s just hard to accept. Some of us see Muslim terrorists as insane because our minds don’t work like theirs. We don’t want our minds to work like theirs. How they think and how they act is completely alien to us. That’s because, as a culture, we’re narcissists, self-absorbed and utterly unable to imagine that other people not only are not like us but that they have no desire to be like us.
They desire to rape and murder us. How do we know this? Because of their track record of raping and murdering us.
Our ruling class refuses to acknowledge this and refuses to act. Instead, it actively subverts attempts to stop the jihad. It won’t shut our border. It opposes Israel’s plan to go in to the last infestation of Hamas and blow up its tunnel complexes. It won’t work effectively with the Russians to fight jihadis even though we share that enemy despite our other conflicts. Instead, it Norm McDonalds the situation, fearing that the most horrible consequence of thousands of Americans being murdered by Muslim fanatics is that people might start not liking Muslims.
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...After it became clear just how bad our intelligence failures on 9/11 were, I said then - and still say - that the next one will be so bad that there will be no round-the-clock coverage, no scrolling chyron, no comforting messages from the leadership.
Just a single line on TV, radio, your phones, and the net:
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Given its election year and the anti-USA LS&D's types will swing, if and when, Trump gets back into office.
I can even see some far left DC Swampers helping to plan it behind the scenes. Or have a _ _ _ Agency, or thier media running a false flag idea for deflective reasons of some kind.
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I can see it happening in a big blue city and, unlike last time, the rest of the country shrugs and says "tough titty."
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Hard to balance terror vs. maximum impact.
Easter, Memorial Day, 4th, 'on any Sunday', ... , Nov 2, Xmas, NYE-D, Jan 6th. and 120k+ immigration get-aways.
I'm gonna hold out for the political disaster when all of the government, past and future, are gathered in DC.
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Now if we had a Swiss system rather than a permanent expeditionary force for national defense and solid borders, we wouldn't really worry that much.
[AmericanThinker] In Israel, a land that prays for peace even as it’s forced into war, the concept of Iron Sheep—peaceable, productive creatives made strong through their collective history, culture, and efforts—has become an important part of Israel’s strength during the current war.
In America, the word "iron" is used in many contexts. There are "tough as (iron) nails," "iron will," "Iron Man," etc. The strong metal is a metaphor for human strength and stamina. In Israel, "iron" has a similar connotation of strength, as seen in the name for the Gaza conflict: "Swords of Iron." Then, there is the "Iron Dome," referring to the missile defense shield for intercepting short-range projectiles. Recently, we were introduced to the "Iron String," which is a guided mortar shell that limits collateral damage. And, at some point soon, Israel will introduce the "Iron Beam" that concentrates energy into a beam to be used against incoming missiles.
Recently, though, I was introduced to an Israeli concept known as "Iron Sheep" ("tzōn barzel" or "Iron Flock"). Sheep are peaceable animals that gather together, one presumes, to offer comfort and strength to each member of the herd. The metaphor here is of a grouping of events, movements, moments, people, and ideas that are gathered together, forming the continuous history of the Jewish people. In other words, formative cultural assets.
Before October 7, it seems that tzōn barzel, Iron Sheep, was to be an organized exhibition for artistic endeavors. However, the Israeli-Gazan war pushed off the cultural event scheduled to take place at various locations around Jerusalem. The Gazan barbarians caused a delay and, at the same time, gave new impetus to its organizers. Tzōn barzel is now taking place, though. The Jerusalem Biennale website will give the reader a view of these Jewish assets.
It would have been far too prescient to expect the curators of this exhibit to have included references to the Iron Sheep that have now become part of Israeli parlance. The Iron Dome prevented the mass destruction of what the Jews have built in their homeland. The Iron Swords War has been the well-organized response of the Jews to the banal evil of mass slaughter that would otherwise have ended with myriad homeless and dead Israeli citizens. The Iron Sting mortar shell has made it possible for Israeli soldiers to avoid being the mass murderers that the world’s antisemites nevertheless insist they are. And the future use of the Iron Beam will hopefully make war far less inviting for everyone worldwide.
All these Iron developments are truly tzōn barzel, cultural assets. They have preserved the Jewish state so art, craft, scholarship, literature, and music can continue to be rooted in a Jewish historical context. However, these new iron tools of both war and peace would not have been developed without the spiritual nature of Israel’s denizens who, now more than ever, realize the importance, indeed necessity, of an independent Jewish state. There are many among us who wish them to be strengthened in their endeavor.
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In America, post-9/11 we talk about a pack, not a herd. But that’s something very different.
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
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