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Trump: ‘I Condemn all White Supremacists’ ‘I Condemn the
Proud Boys’
IAN HANCHETT 1 Oct 2020
On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” President Donald Trump stated “I condemn the KKK. I condemn all white supremacists. I condemn the Proud Boys.” And called on 2020 Democratic presidential nominee former Vice President Joe Biden to condemn Antifa.
Trump said, “I’ve said it many times, and let me be clear again, I condemn the KKK. I condemn all white supremacists. I condemn the Proud Boys. I don’t know much about the Proud Boys, almost nothing, but I condemn that. But he should condemn, also, Antifa. Antifa is a horrible group of people. They kill people. They — what they do to people — and they’re causing insurrection. They’re causing riots. He doesn’t want to do that, but the press doesn’t go after him. And that’s a really bad group of people. But I condemn them.”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/10/01/trump-i-condemn-all-white-supremacists-i-condemn-the-proud-boys/
Europe Key to Middle East Peace Process After
Abraham Accord, Pompeo Says
By Reuters, Wire Service Content Oct. 2, 2020, at 2:07 a.m.
ROME (REUTERS) - European countries have a fundamental role in supporting the Middle East peace process after the signing of the so-called Abraham Accord, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in an interview on Friday.
"I believe that European leaders have a strategic role…(also in) stemming and rejecting the Islamic Republic of Iran, which still is the greatest force of destabilisation in the entire Middle Eastern region," Pompeo told Italian daily La Repubblica.
He added that he hoped Palestinians would join the United States, committing to serious negotiations with Israel.
"(The Palestinians) must commit to dialogue," Pompeo said, when asked what was needed to do so, given that the Palestinian Authority considered the agreements void.
(Reporting by Giulia Segreti; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2020-10-02/europe-key-to-middle-east-peace-process-after-abraham-accord-pompeo-says
QAnon is deeper in Texas politics than you think
The temptation is too great on the right.
By Rudolph Bush - DALLAS NEWS
1:30 AM on Oct 2, 2020 CDT
The hope is fading now that we could just ignore the whole QAnon phenomenon while it fermented and evaporated away in the social media swill mill.
If anything, here in Texas, it’s becoming ever more apparent that it isn’t going away, and that Q-friendly folks are popping up all over the state in surprisingly public ways. Sussing this out will be important but difficult.
Important because it’s hard to imagine that rational adults would entertain even the thinnest association with a dangerous web of conspiracy theories that culminate in the belief that a secretive band of child-abusing, blood-drinking illuminati are working in the highest echelons of society and government and that President Donald Trump is secretly fighting them.
Difficult because it is never quite clear just how deeply those who dabble in Q really believe, or at what point they lose track of where the actual problem of sex trafficking ends and derail into the darkness that brought us Pizzagate and threatens even greater violence.
What we can say is that a time-to-worry level of Q-craziness is upon us in Texas. Up from the bowels of Reddit chat rooms and the Twitter sewer, here it surfaces in the office of the state attorney general. As my colleague Lauren McGaughy reported last month, Assistant Attorney General Nick Moutos was fired after sending both bigoted tweets and tweets in support of the conspiracy.
“My support for [The First Amendment] & against #Censorship & #Purging of Q followers & supporters was used as a reason to terminate my employment,” Moutos tweeted.
That statement should represent an awakening moment about something that had before seemed possible to ignore. This wasn’t some internet crackpot or professional Twitter troll putting more garbage on the garbage fire. It was a staff attorney for the state, publicly embracing a theory that threatens to unify a movement for — what exactly? If Q is a promise for anything, it is a promise to undermine trust in reality itself. What comes from the chaos that would sow is anyone’s guess.
Moutos' firing might be the most worrisome indication of Q influence in state politics, but it is hardly the only one.
We are seeing a handful of politicians and far right media figures (enter Alex Jones, et al) embrace Q as a way to juice their following on social media and in the real world.
Over the summer, Texas Monthly’s Ciara O’Rourke detailed Q-friendly political statements around Texas. Most people she talked to were coy about Q, what they understood about it, why they liked or otherwise engaged Q posts online. That’s common. Dabbling in Q can pay off on social media and helps align candidates in a squirrely way with the sort of Deep State nonsense that Trump sometimes promotes.
This runs from national to state to local office. Earlier this year, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s Bud Kennedy wrote that Colleyville Mayor Pro Tem Bobby Lindamood had posted a Q symbol to his Facebook page on a post about sex trafficking. Lindamood told me he thought that was what the Q symbol meant — stop sex trafficking. That might be where the conspiracies start, but just about everyone now understands that Q takes the real problem of trafficking and twists it into an insane narrative of conspiracy.
Lindamood said he’s no conspiracy theorist, but he cited Jeffrey Epstein and his “Lolita Island” as an indication there is more afoot than we know.
“But do I know of names being spread around as accomplices are true? No. I wait for facts and I hope anyone and everyone who ‘might’ be involved will be punished to the highest extent,” Lindamood wrote.
Lindamood said he would take the Q post down if people were offended, but he’s left it up so people could see his response to the attention — a hope that Trump would help stop child sex trafficking.
It was notable that in all of our messages over the course of a day, Lindamood never quite got to a cold and clear statement that Q conspiracies are crazy fabrications.
MORE AT LINK:
https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2020/10/02/qanon-is-deeper-in-texas-politics-than-you-think/
CONT:
This is the problem with dabbling in Q. It isn’t clear where fact ends and belief begins. And the symbol incorporates a great deal more than the honest focus on stopping sex trafficking. In fact, Q can actually divert law enforcement from its job as we saw at Stonebriar Mall in Frisco this summer.
So why is QAnon getting roots down among public and government officials in this state?
One thing we know from history is that terrible and false narratives can be powerful organizing and motivating tools for people seeking power. The truth doesn’t matter if the conspiracy can stoke anger and division that feeds the us-vs.-them narrative.
Is that what’s happening with Q in Texas? Or do people believe this madness? In either case, beware.
Facebook's Latest QAnon Crackdown Scraps Ads, Pushes
'Credible' Info on #SavetheChildren Searches
Alyse Stanley Yesterday 8:06PM
In its ongoing crusade to keep QAnon stans from congealing on its platform, this week Facebook announced new restrictions aimed at limiting the conspiracy movement’s spread online.
Facebook will reject ads that “praise, support or represent militarized social movements” including QAnon, anarchist groups, and self-proclaimed militias (like the violent mob that swarmed Kenosha, Wisconsin, in August following a call to arms on Facebook). Pages and groups that have been restricted but not removed will also have their content pushed down further in their followers’ news feeds. In August, the company reduced the visibility of nearly 2,000 Facebook groups and more than 10,000 Instagram accounts linked to QAnon pending review.
Facebook is also taking additional steps to point users toward credible sources when looking up hashtags related to child safety like #savethechildren, which supporters of QAnon employ as part of their recruitment effort.
“Starting today, we will direct people to credible child safety resources when they search for certain child safety hashtags. In addition, content about QAnon and child safety is eligible for fact checking through our third-party fact-checking program,” the company said in a blog post on Wednesday.
Facebook’s also labeling and down-ranking content that’s been debunked by its third-party fact-checkers, as well as filtering that content out from Facebook’s Explore feed and hashtag search results on Instagram.
For the uninitiated, QAnon is a crackpot group of far-right conspiracy theorists who somehow got it in their heads that a covert network of Hollywood actors, liberal elites, and government operatives are out to get President Donald Trump and his supporters. Adherents allege that this so-called “deep state” worships Satan and operates a child sex ring, hence the co-opting of child safety hashtags. The movement metastasized from posts on 4chan, 8chan, and 8kun from a mysterious figure(s) named “Q” who claimed to possess high-level government intel.
Despite how absolutely ridiculous it sounds, QAnon-related groups on Facebook and Instagram gained an estimated 4.5 million followers over the past two years before Facebook began its crackdown in August. More than a dozen QAnon adherents have run for office, some of which have been endorsed by Trump, who’s also repeatedly pushed the conspiracy theory without evidence.
MORE AT LINK:
https://gizmodo.com/facebooks-latest-qanon-crackdown-scraps-ads-pushes-cre-1845247003
>>10882039 Breitbart says POTUS condemns Proud Boys? He did not say that did he? Breitbart finally showing their true colors?
>>10882305 Proud Boys Founder Suing Biden, CNN +
^^^^
I think they are Patriots albeit pissed off Patriots who do not know the plan. They are getting trashed in the Media so maybe we can show them some love?
Here is another one - compare and contrast this to the Breitbart article.
Trump's Proud Boys debate shoutout energized the entire far
right. The damage is done.
The words of elected officials matter. From the perspective of the far right, Trump's debate admonition to 'stand by' was a clear call to action.
Cynthia Miller-Idriss Opinion contributor
4 A.M. OCT 02 2020
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/10/02/trump-proud-boys-shoutout-energizes-far-right-column/5878614002/
Breitbart suddenly becomes highly suspect.
US opposes China's attempts to advance territorial claims in
Arunachal: State Dept
WION Web Team New Delhi, Delhi, India Oct 02, 2020, 01.18 PM(IST)
Arunachal Pradesh is Indian territory and the United States strongly opposes unilateral attempts to advance territorial claims in Arunachal Pradesh by incursions, be it military or civilian, across the Line of Actual Control (LAC), US State Department official said.
"We have our position on some parts of the border for sure is explicitly clear. For nearly six decades, the US has recognised that Arunachal Pradesh is Indian territory. We strongly oppose any unilateral attempts to advance territorial claims by incursions, by military or civilian incursions across the established LAC," the state department official said, during a Foreign Press Centre briefing on Thursday, amid the India-China border face-off.
Giving an update on the India-US bilateral relations, the senior official said, "At a time when India is facing substantial security challenges, the growth in our defense partnership is exceptionally important. This partnership includes defense sales, particularly our offers of advanced US weapon systems, as a demonstration of our commitment to India's security and sovereignty."
"Interoperability between our military services has reached unprecedented levels, as demonstrated by the Tiger Triumph exercise last year and the Indian Navy's recent passage exercise with the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group in the Indian Ocean."
The official also said that the US is looking forward to the 2+2 ministerial later this year.
Over the upcoming Quad meet in Tokyo next month, the official said, "One final highlight on the multilateral front is our increasingly strong Quad partnership with Australia, India, and Japan. We look forward to the upcoming meeting of Quad foreign ministers on October 6th and we welcome additional opportunities for engagement such as having Australia join the Malabar naval exercise."
The official also spoke about China's growing military aggression. He said that one just has to "open the internet browser to see various areas where China has engaged in aggressive, hostile, or bullying behaviour against its neighbours or against its own citizens."
https://www.wionews.com/india-news/us-opposes-chinas-attempts-to-advance-territorial-claims-in-arunachal-state-dept-331926
USS Ronald Reagan changes commanders while on patrol in
Philippine Sea
By CAITLIN DOORNBOS | STARS AND STRIPES
Published: October 2, 2020
Capt. Fred Goldhammer took the helm of the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan from Capt. Pat Hannifin on Thursday during a scaled-down change-of-command ceremony in the Philippine Sea, according to a Navy statement.
Due to coronavirus precautions, the ceremony took place in the ship’s pilot house, broadcast over the public address system, in lieu of a traditional in-person event, according to the Thursday statement. Photos of the event show Hannifin, Goldhammer and others wearing masks. Pre-pandemic change-of-command ceremonies were often all-hands events, gathering large groups of sailors to see a departing commander off and welcome a new one.
The aircraft carrier, home-ported at Yokosuka, has been patrolling the Indo-Pacific region since June. Command changes while a warship is underway are not unusual.
“Reagan is and will always remain poised to fight and win in combat,” Hannifin said during the ceremony, according to the statement. “Every year and every age has challenges – we have certainly had ours here – but this team wins.”
Since taking command in September 2018, Hannifin has led the ship through numerous multinational exercises, including Talisman Saber and Keen Sword, in the Indo-Pacific region.
The carrier in July also took part in two dual-carrier exercises with the USS Nimitz in the South China Sea, the first time in eight years that two U.S. aircraft carriers had worked together in the contentious region.
“To the crew and the full team that’s onboard Reagan: I appreciate your service. It is the honor of my life to have served among you,” Hannifin said, according to the statement.
Goldhammer, of New York City, comes to the Reagan after commanding the amphibious transport dock USS Mesa Verde, home-ported in Norfolk, Va., according to the statement.
After graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1993, Goldhammer began his career as a naval aviator flying E-2C Hawkeyes, according to his biography on the Reagan’s website. He later worked in the Pentagon in several assignments, including as executive assistant to the director of Navy staff.
Hannifin’s next assignment will be at the Navy’s Air Warfare Division in Washington, D.C., according to the statement, which did not say in what role he would serve.
https://www.stripes.com/news/pacific/uss-ronald-reagan-changes-commanders-while-on-patrol-in-philippine-sea-1.647193
America Locked in Cold War With China
Former Navy Secretary Says
Virginia Allen / @Virginia_Allen5 / October 02, 2020
Former Navy Secretary J. William Middendorf says America has entered a new cold war with China.
Middendorf, author of the new book “The Great Nightfall: How We Win the New Cold War,” joins the show to explain the threat that China poses to America’s interests. Middendorf, a member of The Heritage Foundation’s Board of Trustees since 1989, also outlines what the U.S. military must do to be prepared to stand against our adversaries.
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Virginia Allen: I am joined by the former secretary of the Navy, William Middendorf. Sir, thank you so much for being here today. We really appreciate it.
J. William Middendorf: Well, thank you very much.
Allen: Your bio is incredibly impressive. You served as the United States ambassador to the Netherlands before becoming the secretary of the Navy in the mid-1970s.
You also headed the CIA transition team for then-incoming President Ronald Reagan. And you served as the U.S. representative to the European Economic Community, now known as the European Union. We could go on and on about all of the various roles that you’ve served in.
You’ve also authored a number of books, including your latest, “The Great Nightfall: How We Win the New Cold War.” And you were serving in the Navy and positions of leadership in the American government, really all throughout the Cold War. Do you mind just taking a few minutes to tell us a little bit about what that was like to be serving on the front lines during the Cold War?
Middendorf: I was mainly in the shipbuilding side of that. Of course, the secretary of the Navy’s job is to provide the material and weapons and recruit the men and women for the Navy. So during the Cold War, I sponsored long lead time ships and planes that were needed to win the Cold War. Long lead time is about 10 years.
So, to build any weapon system, we began production on a Trident submarine, which is the Ohio-class submarine, which carries the CBM nuclear warhead, long-range nuclear warhead. It was the final shield of America, 70% of our entire nuclear arsenal was deployed on them.
We also started the Aegis Missile program, building a fleet of 60 ships, the early work class cruisers with advanced radar that could detect advanced weapon systems from the Soviet Union and shoot them down.
And then finally, we built the F-18 advanced aerial attack fighter. Ten years later, they were front and center at the apagoge of the Cold War and [with them], along with advanced weapons developed by the Air Force and Army, we were able to win the Cold War. The Soviets had to stand down.
Based on that experience, I wrote the book “The Great Nightfall: How We Win the New Cold War,” which is basically against China. China … is building some very advanced weapons systems and they pose a threat today that’s exponentially greater than the threat we faced at the end of the first Cold War.
Allen: Can you tell us a little bit more specifically about that threat? Because I think many Americans, we view China as a threat, certainly economically, certainly technology-wise. But specifically, how is China a threat to America militarily?
Middendorf: Several ways, both conventional and unconventional warfare. Their Navy now exceeds ours. They have built 350 ships and ours is 293. Most people are not aware of that. And they’re building their certain force carriers and they’re proposing a fifth carrier, which will be nuclear.
The missile capabilities they have are very advanced. They and the Russians have developed hypersonic cruise missiles, 4,000 mile. And we have no defense. As [former] Secretary [of Defense James] Mattis said, “We have no defense against these.” This could be a checkmate in a serious altercation. They built some very competent advanced submarines and anti-submarine warfare capabilities.
In addition to that, they’ve gone heavily into nonconventional warfare systems, the EMP threat, the electromagnetic pulse threat to America is vital because we lay naked, so to speak, as they set off a nuclear blast a couple of 100 miles over Omaha.
It would incapacitate most of our electrical grid for many months. And the Defense Department a few years ago said that we would lose 80% of the population in six or eight months before that could be fully repaired. We’re working hard to correct that imbalance, but we’re not there yet.
MORE AT LINK - TO BE CONTINUED:
https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/10/02/america-locked-in-cold-war-with-china-former-navy-secretary-says/
CONT PART 1:
In addition to that, if you consider warfare, a new form of warfare, cyber warfare is just as important, in that it downloads our intelligence and then our top secrets.
Two years ago in a very drastic action, the Chinese downloaded our top secrets, our nuclear submarine top secrets from a submarine facility in Newport, Rhode Island. This was 600 gigabytes, I think, something like that. It was a devastating loss to us. That’s an act of war if there ever was one in a nonconventional warfare capability.
So, we are well into the second Cold War by that very act. Plus, the fact that they’ve stolen everything else we have that’s sitting around on the computers.
Their new attack airplane looks remarkably like our F-35 and probably has almost as many capabilities, probably because he downloaded our top secrets.
In addition to that, they’ve developed a tremendously capable anti-satellite capability in space where they can damage our entire GPS systems. So we would be traveling by, and if we had to fire our missiles and what have you … The Russians are with them on that. And they both have those capabilities.
We’re setting up a Space Force and we’re trying to catch up in that area, but we have a long way to go. It’s not only kinetic warfare—that’s still World War II, heavy weapons system against heavy weapons systems warfare—but the nonconventional where we face our greatest threats.
Allen: We are talking with former Secretary of the Navy William Middendorf about his latest book, “The Great Nightfall: How We Win the New Cold War.” And secretary, you’ve just laid out so clearly why China is such a threat to America today. What is America doing about this? How are we preparing to be able to meet the strength of China?
Middendorf: Well, unfortunately, if a football field was laid out, we would be on the minus 10 yard line starting a couple of years ago, because for eight to 10 years, two previous administrations had what they call a sequester, which reduced our military spending, especially for advanced weapons systems. And they took $800 billion out of our military budget and diverted it to other programs.
So we ended up in 2017 and ’18 behind the eight ball, really behind the eight ball, or should we say behind the goal line? And now we’ve added a couple hundred million dollars each year to the budget, but we have a long way to go.
And one of the advanced weapons systems … are really the Virginia-class submarines, which are very silent and have the Tomahawk and Harpoon missiles. We have to accelerate the development of those from two to three a year.
We have to build the Columbia-class submarine, which we can start production on that to take the place of the 45-year-old Trident submarine program. First one should start coming online in 2031 and we’d complete that program in the early 2040s. Then we could replace the Trident submarine, which would then be 56 years old. That’s the only choice we have.
And aboard that Columbia will be subject to 80% of our entire nuclear arsenal. And that’s of course, the great peacemaker. It’s an extremely silent submarine. It’s 6,000-plus miles range and these terrifically powerful nuclear warheads, which should neutralize any potential adversary.
Allen: At this point in time, is America on track? Have we recognized the true threat that China poses? You mentioned all of these actions that are sort of in the works, are we moving swiftly on these things or does America really need to pick up the pace in order to truly beat China in this Cold War?
https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/10/02/america-locked-in-cold-war-with-china-former-navy-secretary-says/
CONT PART II:
Middendorf: As I said, we have to move much faster if we want to maintain power against China, and Russia, and Iran, and North Korea.
Also, remember this, there are 50,000 nuclear warheads, probably eight, 10 countries that have those capabilities. And there are a lot of flashpoints that I talk about in my book where nuclear warheads have been used—like India, China, Pakistan, and India.
The problem with nuclear warheads being used is that once it starts, it proliferates very fast. It wouldn’t be any time at all before retaliation occurs out of control. And in war time, all of morality sort of disappears pretty fast.
My father and uncle both served in World War I and they were told, we were all told that gas warfare would not occur. It was too devastating, but it was used instantly. Both sides were using it to devastating effect willy-nilly and it had … heavy, heavy, heavy casualties everywhere.
The same thing would be true once the nuclear war has started to be used and they will be used by some of these rogue countries, possibly, which will proliferate to the larger countries. Many of the big cities, for example, Beijing, or New York, or Los Angeles, could be reduced very quickly to ice skating rinks.
Allen: Well, sir, it’s incredible, I think, that you have chosen to take the time just with your perspective and the leadership roles that you’ve served in to write this book and to weigh in on this really pressing issue. Why do you feel so compelled to write this book?
Middendorf: I had my 96th birthday three days ago.
Allen: Happy birthday.
Middendorf: Oh, thank you. So I’m obviously about to drop dead, but I just wanted to make sure that all the experience, since I served in World War II and served in a number of other roles in public service, I wanted to make sure that I got the message out as a final thing. And I do feel that if we’re resolute and wise we can win with the new cold war.
Allen: Well, secretary, we thank you so much for your continued service throughout your entire life to this country, for your dedication to America. And we encourage all of our listeners to please visit thegreatnightfall.com to order your copy of “The Great Nightfall: How We Win the New Cold War.”
Secretary Middendorf, Thank you so much for your time today.
Middendorf: Thank you so much
Amid India-China Tensions, A US Navy P8 Submarine-Hunting
Aircraft Landed At Andaman And Nicobar Islands Last Week.
Here’s Why
by Swarajya Staff-Oct 2, 2020 01:25 AM
Amid tensions between India and China in eastern Ladakh, long-range anti-submarine warfare and maritime surveillance aircraft of the US Navy, Boeing-built P-8 Poseidon, landed at the Andaman and Nicobar Islands last week.
From a picture posted by Livefist, observers said, the aircraft appears to have landed at the Veer Savarkar International Airport in Port Blair.
The US Navy aircraft, the defence blog says in a tweet, landed at the strategically located island chain in the Indian Ocean for refueling.
Experts said the aircraft may have been refueled under the Logistics Exchange Memorandum of Agreement (LEMOA), a pact signed between the US and India in 2016. LEMOA gives both countries access to designated military facilities on either side for the purpose of refueling and replenishment.
Under the same agreement, Indian Navy warship INS Talwar, on a mission-based deployment in the northern Arabian Sea, undertook refueling with US Navy fleet tanker USNS Yukon last on 14 September.
India has signed similar logistics exchange agreements with other ‘Quad’ countries — Japan, Australia, and France, a close strategic partner.
These agreements provide a framework under which the Indian Navy can visit bases operated by these countries for refueling and replenishment. While France has bases in the western Indian Ocean, Australia can provide support in the south-eastern part of the water body.
Similarly, Indian warships deployed in the South China Sea or transiting through the area can receive support from the Japanese Navy.
The landing of a US Navy P8 aircraft at the Andaman and Nicobar Islands amid tensions between India and China could also be a message to the Chinese Navy and its submarines in the Indian Ocean, China watchers in India said, adding that the presence of the People’s Liberation Army Navy submarines in the Indian Ocean Region has grown significantly since 2008.
The Indian Navy also operates P8 aircraft. The Navy currently has at least 12 of these submarine-hunting aircraft and many more are on order.
The P8 aircraft in service with the Indian Navy are armed with Harpoon anti-ship missile and the Mk 54 air-launched lightweight torpedo.
MORE AT LINK:
https://swarajyamag.com/news-brief/amid-india-china-tensions-a-us-navy-p8-submarine-hunting-aircraft-landed-at-andaman-and-nicobar-islands-last-week-heres-why
>>>POTUS condemned White Supremacy, the KKK, and Proud Boys on Hannity last night.
Well that explains it. ThanQ Fren.
Although still waiting for Breitbart to Flip.
I hope the Proud Boys understand, stand by.
I think it is all Optics for Insulation although I also know how hard it is to stay at 40k. Correct, it seems POTUS said that he was on HCQ several times already. I love this part of the Movie!