by AM | Nov 21, 2023 | Aggregate
Many see William Burns as a ‘harbinger of bad news’.
American Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin visited Kiev yesterday (20) and announced 100 million military aid. While the amount is still a lot of money, it’s way less than the 65 billion that President Joe Biden is trying – and failing – to approve in Congress.
But the visit of an US official that interests us here now is the – almost – secret visit made by CIA Director William Burns, who last week, we can now confirm, traveled to Ukraine’s capital to meet President Volodymyr Zelensky.
An experienced former Ambassador, including to Russia, Burns has been engaged in ‘shadow diplomacy’ on behalf of Biden in many parts of the world, and there is a widespread notion that a visit by the CIA head is NOT good news.
But let’s start with an MSM view of the matter, as Reuters reported, based on a US official source:
“‘Director Burns traveled to Kyiv, where he met with Ukrainian intelligence counterparts as well as President Zelensky and reinforced our continued support for Ukraine and its defense against Russian aggression’, the U.S. official, who declined to be identified, said.”
The official heard by Reuters declined to say when the visit took place, but some vehicles, who has broken the story last week – and we will discuss below – have said it took place on November 15th.
But what was the objective of the trip? According to the Reuters source:
“Burns briefed Zelensky on his expectations on Russia’s upcoming military plans, the newspaper said, adding he also acknowledged that at some point U.S. assistance would be harder to come by.
Zelensky and his senior intelligence officials discussed how long Ukraine could expect U.S. and Western assistance to continue after Republicans won a narrow majority in the U.S. House of Representatives in the midterm elections, the Washington Post reported, citing sources.”
So, there is no getting around the point that the slowing down or stopping of the US military aid to Kiev was in the agenda of the visit.
Pro-Russian analyst and news aggregator Simplicius the Thinker, back on the 16th, wrote on his Substack that ‘the obviously logical explanation [is] that the purpose of the urgent visit is to convince Zelensky to freeze the conflict.’
Any suggestion of this kind means asking Zelensky to ‘commit political suicide, because a truce and a freeze mean the complete and final collapse of his career’.
“If the President of Ukraine agrees, there will be a carrot waiting for him: an honorary pension in Europe or the USA. If he refuses, they will use the whip: the Biden administration will turn on the spigot of military and financial assistance.”
However, the ultimate goal is to keep Ukraine as a torn on Russia’s side.
“Any American administration – Biden, Trump or the bald devil – will never give up such a bridgehead on the borders of Russia, which is today’s Ukraine. Its appearance is a great foreign policy success for the US. And Washington will fight to preserve it.”
Asia Times also reported on it back when it happened, saying that November 15th was ‘Z-Day for the War in Ukraine’.
The paper says that the reason for the visit is that ‘Ukraine is imploding’.
“Zelensky is setting the stage to have Ukrainian General Valerii Zaluzhny arrested and purged. He’s likely to prepare the ground by firing three generals tied to Zaluzhny. (Zaluzhny’s top aide has already died in what’s described as an accident.)”
The situation is due to the success of Russia’s ‘attrition war’, that relies on overwhelming firepower to slowly degrade the enemy’s capabilities until they can’t fight anymore.
This strategy had been countered by the massive military aid by US and Europe, but now it’s over.
“Ukraine has gone through three armies, and most of the current army is made up of older men, some women, and boys with no training. They become bodies to fill the foxholes and revetments trying to hold up the Russians. Russia itself is in no particular hurry. The Russian strategy is to bleed-down Ukraine’s armed forces and create a political crisis in Kiev. The Russian effort is ahead of schedule, which has surprised Moscow as much as Washington.”
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General Zaluzhny made clear in his writings that Ukraine’s war needs a ceasefire, but Zelensky opposes any pause in the fighting, wants his army to hold onto key territories – such as Avdiivka – and insists to retake important cities including Bakhmut.
“Meanwhile, Zelensky’s political opponents are well aware of the corruption in Kiev and are saying so. It is anyone’s guess whether that information gets to Congress, but it may.
Burns won’t be suggesting Zelensky talk to the Russians or even change his tune on demanding that Russian forces leave Ukraine. Burns can’t go against Washington’s policy, which is to drag out the Ukraine war until Biden is reelected.”
Read more:
Russian Media: Chastyakov, Assistant and Friend to Kiev’s Military Leader Zaluzhny, Was Killed in a ‘Gift Bomb’ Terrorist Attack by Their Countrymen of the Ukrainian GRU
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by AM | Nov 21, 2023 | Aggregate
Dutch populist politician Thierry Baudet is a former academic. He is anti-immigration and a climate change skeptic.
Political newcomer Thierry Baudet stunned the Dutch political scene in March 2019 with a victory in provincial elections. Thierry had been in politics for less than two years.
Baudet’s FvD party is an anti-EU party that called for limits on immigration. Thierry is the self-described founder of the most energetic anti-globalist movement of our time.
Conservative leader Thierry Baudet was sent to the hospital on Monday night after being attacked by a violent thug with a beer bottle just two days before the Netherlands general election.
Dutch conservative politician Thierry Baudet was attacked with a bottle on the head two days before elections in the Netherlands. pic.twitter.com/jVhw0RcUCu
— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) November 20, 2023
Reactie @thierrybaudet na aanslag een dag voor de verkiezingen. #FVD pic.twitter.com/6dTcUAtZUU
— Forum voor Democratie (@fvdemocratie) November 21, 2023
Thierry Baudet released a video on Twitter-X on Tuesday after the vicious attack.
Thierry Baudet: (translated from Dutch) Dear all, As you have seen, a very nasty incident happened last night in Groningen. I was incredibly lucky. Also the doctors said in the hospital that it could have turned out much worse. I got hit with a beer bottle here on my eye, just above it, thank God, and on the back of my head but just below my fontanelle. So my skull was not damaged and neither was my eye. I slept for a while and looked at how I felt today and yes decided we are going to continue. We have to continue with the campaign. Safety measures adjusted again, tightened up. But we will continue because this is an attack. Not on me personally so much, but an attack on our sound, on our voice, on what we want to say in the Netherlands and which way it should go. And so many Dutch people, as it is also meant to be of course, feel intimidated, feel frightened. That is why this was an act of terror. It is a political attack against thought and we must not bow to it.
Reactie @thierrybaudet na aanslag een dag voor de verkiezingen. #FVD pic.twitter.com/6dTcUAtZUU
— Forum voor Democratie (@fvdemocratie) November 21, 2023
FvD leader Thierry Baudet releases video after a violent attack by a goon with a beer bottle days before the election in The Netherlands.
FYI: Here is the latest ad for FVD – simply beautiful.
Voelen jullie de wind of change al? #FVD ❤️ pic.twitter.com/6eIeqQPIjk
— Thierry Baudet (@thierrybaudet) November 20, 2023
Thierry Baudet spoke with General Mike Flynn recently.
“Get your ass out there and vote for Thierry Baudet!”
Zolang je stemrecht hebt, móét je er gebruik van maken. Dat is de boodschap van General Michael Flynn, voormalig veiligheidsadviseur van Donald Trump, aan alle Nederlanders die de globalistische plannen willen dwarsbomen.… pic.twitter.com/DnpbX3PaQD
— Forum voor Democratie (@fvdemocratie) November 20, 2023
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by AM | Nov 21, 2023 | Aggregate
A young man who is visibly injured is taken hostage by Hamas killers from the Nova concert in Israel.
This article originally appeared on WND.com
Guest by post by David Kupelian
Western hatred of Jews and Israel, love of Hamas torturers have surprising root cause
“In every generation they rise up to destroy us …” – from the Passover Haggadah
Like a bizarre and infinitely improbable nightmare, countless American youths are now praising 9/11 terror mastermind Osama bin Laden and justifying Al-Qaida’s horrendous mass murder of nearly 3,000 Americans in 2001.
Why? Because they read bin Laden’s recently publicized 2002 “Letter to America” – or more likely, they watched and listened to countless “influencers” on TikTok praise the letter and attack America.
And what is the bottom line of bin Laden’s argument, disseminated widely to America’s next generation courtesy of America’s most formidable enemy, the Chinese Communist Party, which controls TikTok? Americans deserved mass murder and mayhem on Sept. 11, 2001, because, after all – drum roll – the U.S. “attacked us in Palestine.”
Now rewind to just a few weeks back, to October 7.
Shortly after Hamas terrorists fired over 5,000 rockets from Gaza into Israel that day, and then proceeded to attack the Jewish state by land, sea and air – torturing, burning, beheading and murdering well over a thousand people, including women, children and infants, and wounding and abducting hundreds more – world reaction was, in its own way, almost equally shocking.
For after the biggest one-day mass slaughter of Jews since the Nazi Holocaust, what followed was an outpouring of celebratory demonstrations, unbridled Jew-hatred, deliriously gleeful support for Hamas and bitter condemnation of the nation of Israel. And not just in the Arab-Muslim world, but throughout the Western world as well, including all across America.
How could this possibly be?
After all, it’s one thing to comprehend the evil motivations and actions of an Islamic death cult – people brainwashed from birth to regard butchering Jews as a glorious religious duty and enthusiastically anticipating their own eventual “martyrdom” in that cause, to be rewarded in Paradise with endless cohabitation with 72 perpetual virgins.
But how does one explain the wildly pro-terrorist, anti-Jewish reaction of Western, non-Muslim people raised in traditionally Judeo-Christian societies like the United States, Great Britain and Western Europe?
Consider that shortly after Hamas’ appalling mass torture-murder spree:
* At New York’s Cornell University, 21-year-old Patrick Dai, posting on social media using the pseudonym “jew jenocide,” threatened to “stab” and “slit the throat” of Jewish males on campus, to rape and throw off a cliff Jewish females, and behead Jewish babies in front of their parents, according to court papers. He also threatened to “bring an assault rifle to campus and shoot all you pig jews.” Meanwhile, also at Cornell, Professor Russell Rickford praised the mass terror attack at a pro-Hamas rally, insisting “It was exhilarating, it was exhilarating, it was energizing.” All while the crowd chanted “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” a popular phrase meaning the total annihilation of Israel.
* Jewish students at New York City’s Cooper Union, a private college, had to lock themselves inside a library to protect themselves from pro-Hamas protesters beating their fists on the doors, screaming and attempting to enter the library. Just south, at Philadelphia’s Drexel University, police investigated a fire set on a Jewish student’s dorm room door a few days after the Hamas terror orgy. At Florida State University, the local Students for a Democratic Society chapter hosted a protest calling for “Palestinian resistance” and for Israel to be “wiped off the map.”
* On the other side of the country, at UC Davis, a “radical transgender professor” of American studies named Jemma Decristo attacked “Zionist journalists” on social media. “[One] group of ppl we have easy access to in the US is all these Zionist journalists who spread propaganda & misinformation,” the professor wrote. “They have houses w addresses, kids in school. They can fear their bosses, but they should fear us more,” Decristo posted. To make the blatantly threatening – and almost certainly illegal – message even more clear, Decristo added emojis of a knife, axe and blood droplets.
* Similarly, Mika Tosca, an associate professor with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and self-proclaimed “radically optimistic transsexual climate scientist,” posted on social media: “Israelis are pigs. Savages. Very very bad people. Irredeemable excrement. May they rot in hell.”
However, it’s not just at the Marxist indoctrination centers known as “colleges and universities” across America that feverish pro-Hamas, anti-Israel, anti-Jewish fervor has exploded. How about the United States government?
* Nejwa Ali, a pro-Hamas radical working for the Biden Department of Homeland Security, posted a series of anti-Israel social media posts, including a “paragliding” Free Palestine graphic celebrating Hamas’ unthinkably savage surprise terror attack on Israeli young people at an outdoor concert Oct. 7. After DHS put Ali on leave, she posted in response on social media, “F— Israel.”
And then there’s “the Squad”:
* Rep. Ilhan Omar, D.-Minn., responded to the Hamas mega-massacre by posting an image of many dead children, each wrapped in white, lying on the floor, and captioned: “CHILD GENOCIDE IN PALESTINE” and “614 Palestinian children murdered by the Israeli IDF Forces.” Except they weren’t. The image was indeed of children who had been killed, but not by the Israel Defense Forces. They were killed in a 2013 sarin nerve gas attack perpetrated by Bashar al-Assad, the Muslim dictator of Syria.
* Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., posted on Instagram about her determination “to fight for a just future” for the Palestinians, beginning with “lifting the blockade, ending the occupation and dismantling the apartheid system that creates the suffocating, dehumanizing conditions that can lead to resistance.” The daughter of Palestinian immigrants, Tlaib, who displays a Palestinian flag in front of her congressional office,refused to answer when Fox News correspondent Hillary Vaughn asked her to condemn the Hamas slaughter and beheading of Israeli babies.
* Shortly after Israel started to fight back following Hamas’ mass terror attack, yet another “Squad” member, Rep. Cori Bush, D.-Mo., accused Israel of committing mass murder, claiming “millions of people with nowhere to go” are “being slaughtered” in Gaza. “We can’t be silent about Israel’s ethnic cleansing campaign,” she wrote on X. “Babies, dead. Pregnant women, dead. Elderly, dead. Generations of families, dead.”
* Just like the pro-Hamas Department of Homeland Security staffer, Black Lives Matter’s Chicago affiliate also glorified the terrorists’ paraglider-assisted slaughter of Jewish civilians, including more than 240 peace concert attendees in southern Israel. The Oct. 10 “@BLMChicago” X-post showed a graphic of a man paragliding with a Palestinian flag, above the words: “I Stand with Palestine.”
* Worse, just days after what many called “Israel’s 9-11,” a Black Lives Matter-affiliated organization called Black Lives Matter at School published a pro-Palestinian toolkit for schoolkids, to teach American children about the virtues of Hamas terrorists and the evils of Israel, the Middle East’s only democracy.
* Even some media companies – including the BBC and the Associated Press, the world’s largest news organization – have instructed their reporters worldwide not to describe Hamas terrorists as “terrorists.” In fact, one AP reporter based in Gaza, named Issam Adwan, has a social media history of blasting Israel as an oppressive apartheid regime, insisting it would be a triumph if Israel were “overthrown,” and comparing the Jewish state to Nazis.
What is behind the widespread outpouring of anti-Israel, anti-Jewish, pro-terror sentiment – even in the United States, where Israel has long been one of America’s closest friends and allies?
Investigative journalist Christopher Rufo sheds some light on this troubling phenomenon. In an article titled “Intersectionality Devolves: Left-wing radicals have long supported the violent ‘decolonization’ of Israel,” Rufo traces the history of Black Lives Matter’s wildly anti-Israel positions, including how the group’s Marxist-lesbian leader says BLM modeled its mission after the Palestinians’ cause. Writes Rufo:
In 2015, BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors led a delegation to the Palestinian territories, so that the group’s activists could learn from the “Palestinian struggle.” She condemned Israel as an “apartheid state,” and the running theme of the trip was revolution, “from Ferguson to Palestine.” The same year, Cullors signed a statement drawing parallels between the Palestinian fight against Israel and the black one against America. During a speech at Harvard Law School, Cullors went further, telling the audience: “If we don’t step up boldly and courageously to end the imperialist project called Israel, we’re doomed.”
“Following the carnage in Gaza,” adds Rufo, “both BLM and the DSA [Democratic Socialists for America] confirmed their support for violence”:
In other words, “woke,” confused, left-leaning young people, including countless Americans indoctrinated continually in the undiluted Marxist paradigm of “oppressors versus oppressed” (and thereby programmed to see all white people, even themselves, as oppressors and all “people of color” as oppressed) reflexively defend baby-torturing terrorists who are, at least, the right color. This helps explains the shockingly perverse worldview of many young Americans brainwashed by “public education,” “higher education” and social media weapons-of-war like TikTok.
‘The enemy of your enemy is your friend’
However, for all too many diversity-obsessed, pathologically entitled, irreligious leftwingers, their love affair with murderous jihadists goes much, much deeper. Let’s take a dive down to the bottom-line reasons for today’s “sympathy for the devil.”
First, remember that what occurred in Israel was so singularly evil, grisly, unthinkable and ISIS-like that even young male Hamas terrorists – raised from birth to lust after their own eventual “martyrdom” in the service of murdering Jews – still had to be fortified with an illicit drug that could extinguish whatever small part of their God-given conscience might still remain in them. As the Jerusalem Post reported, “Hamas terrorists who carried out a surprise attack on October 7 were found to be under the influence of Captagon, a synthetic amphetamine-type stimulant” which Hamas members took “to help them slaughter Israelis.” Indeed, ISIS members have been known to take the same drug, the report explained, enabling terrorists “to commit heinous acts with a sense of calmness and indifference.”
Yet the “woke” left’s response to all this demonic depravity, both worldwide and specifically in America, is to blame Israel and all Jews, while praising Hamas.
Why, exactly, are Muslim radicals and young leftists marching arm in arm on college campuses all over America?
After all, pretty much everything Islamists believe – such as that homosexuals should be executed by being bound, blindfolded and thrown off a tall building, and that women should be virtual slaves of men, and so on – is diametrically opposed to everything leftists believe.
Well, almost everything.
There’s one area of agreement that is so powerful, deep-seated and all-consuming that the rest of the two populations’ vast differences melt away into Kumbaya harmony.
Both camps – demonically possessed jihadists and angry, deluded and entitled leftwing radicals – HATE the “people of the book,” that is, Christians and Jews. Why? Just beneath that hatred of Jews and Christians, both Islamic and Marxist “true believers” are possessed by an all-consuming spiritual revulsion toward the God of the Bible and His sacred laws of life.
“The enemy of your enemy is your friend,” goes the saying. And thus are radical terroristic Muslims and smug, entitled, narcissistic, perpetually enraged and thoroughly brainwashed leftists, the kind that populate America’s elite university campuses both as students and professors, seemingly of one mind with regard to the current war on Israel and hatred of Jews.
In these two groups’ shared rejection of Judeo-Christian values, of biblical truth and Western culture, there is an unlikely brotherhood. Let’s spell it out:
Radical Islam wants to rule the world and is at war with Christians and Jews.
Leftism wants to rule the world and is at war with Christians and Jews.
Both of these religious cults – Islamism and Leftism – encourage lying and deception. After all, they are at war, and “War is deception,” according to Sun Tzu. The Islamic name for strategic lying is taqiyya, which, according to sharia law in the Quran, is not merely permitted but sometimes mandatory. Meanwhile, leftwing politicians from President Biden on down lie continuously, justifying it by demonizing Republicans and conservatives as enemies, i.e., “white supremacists,” “fascists,” “Nazis” and – ironically – “domestic terrorists.”
As bizarre as it seems on the surface, at the deepest level Islamists and Marxists, though superficially opposites, share a common mindset: Although both were created as potential children of God, with an innate knowing of right and wrong – in other words, a conscience (literally, with knowing) – both exist in a state of war with God and Truth, and therefore are on the same side spiritually. In this state, lies are attractive, while truth is mysteriously repellent, foreign and threatening.
Both groups project wildly, accusing their enemies – the innocent and decent – of the very evils they themselves commit. Islamists (echoed by Western leftist journalists) accused Israel of bombing hospitals when they were responsible for the missile strike. In the same way, the left continually accuses Trump, Republicans, conservatives and Christians of all the evil they themselves commit. It’s the same dark nature. Though the specific programming is completely different – one believes in a false god, the other believes in no God but themselves – both equally deny and, indeed, are at war with the One True God.
“In every generation they rise up to destroy us, but the Holy One, Blessed be He, delivers us from their hands.” – from the Passover Haggadah
Copyright 2023 WND News Center
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by AM | Nov 21, 2023 | Aggregate
Credit: Biden Instagram
As Gateway Pundit readers know, Joe Biden celebrated his 81st birthday in embarrassing fashion. But it only ended up getting worse for him.
Biden decided to end his “busy” day by eating some fattening cake that evening. One can appreciate the irony of him attempting to channel Marie Antoinette while the entire country suffers under his reign.
There was only one problem, though: the dessert was literally on fire! Apparently, a staffer had placed so many candles (likely 81) and lit them that the cake ended up turning into a total inferno.
Biden also took the time on social media to announce that he was joining Mark Zuckerberg’s failing new platform Threads.
LOOK:
It’s true over here on the campaign side, too. I’ve joined Threads. Follow me there: https://t.co/vhwuw7j0zu. pic.twitter.com/XTdAcxbgEx
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) November 20, 2023
Not surprisingly, Biden’s conservative critics had some truly brutal replies in store. They joked about Biden’s old age and properly interpreted the burning cake as a metaphor for what he’s doing to America.
There’s a portal to hell on a plate in front of him https://t.co/bES2feQP87
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) November 21, 2023
My guy is literally safely sitting down in a chair and is still gripping the table corners like he’s about to fall over, break a hip and die pic.twitter.com/8XYBZ33H1o
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) November 21, 2023
Joe Biden is so old, his birthday cake is a fire hazard. pic.twitter.com/qV1oY949uO
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) November 21, 2023
Anybody tracking the carbon emissions from Biden’s birthday cake? pic.twitter.com/FO81fr7H1W
— L A R R Y (@LarryOConnor) November 21, 2023
Biden is so old his birthday cake looks like a bonfire pic.twitter.com/hIFAYcWovk
— Shay ✨ (@ShayWoulahan) November 21, 2023
Joe Biden’s birthday cake has so many candles on it that it nearly burned down the White House. pic.twitter.com/hzOQSsknx6
— Christian Heiens (@ChristianHeiens) November 21, 2023
Happy Burn Day, Joe! pic.twitter.com/KshZIWwM3O
— Dumbass Photoshop (@DumbassPhotoshp) November 21, 2023
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— ALX (@alx) November 21, 2023
Well @JoeBiden birthday cake is burning out of control like our country & he is getting ready to run again. Talk about the irony in this photo. It would be funny if it wasn’t such a serious situation. pic.twitter.com/6F0HHZl9tE
— Jennifer Lynn Lawrence (@JenLawrence21) November 21, 2023
While we can all roast Biden about his flaming cake, just remember he will still sleep well at night knowing he is likely secure in his position for the next year. Let’s work to ensure he does not get another four years in office.
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