23 Jun, 2023 05:48

Biden dashes UK minister’s hopes for NATO top job – Telegraph

The US president’s snub of the British defense secretary’s candidacy could sour bilateral relations, according to the paper’s sources

The British government is frustrated by US President Joe Biden’s decision not to endorse the candidacy of UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace to become the next NATO secretary-general, the Daily Telegraph reported on Thursday, citing sources.

According to unnamed senior British officials interviewed by the paper, London felt “badly let down” by Biden’s apparent refusal, suggesting that it could throw a wrench into the‘special relationship’ between the two Western states. “We’re supposed to be their closest ally. And this is what we get. It is what it is… but it is bad for UK-US relations,” one source said.

He also went on to complain that Washington has done the UK “a bad turn” byfavoring a “Danish lady,” an apparent reference to Mette Frederiksen, the prime minister of Denmark, who has been rumored to have good chances of becoming the next NATO chief.

However, according to the report, while Biden initially wanted Frederiksen to succeed Jens Stoltenberg, the current secretary-general of the US-led military bloc,he cooled on her candidacyafter she failed to impress him during a recent meeting in Washington.

Wallace, who emerged as a staunch anti-Russia hawk amid the Ukraine conflict, is said to have been a popular choice among numerous NATO members. However, his candidacy was met with opposition from several European leaders, whopushed for the next NATO bossto come from anEU nation, the report says. One Telegraph source accused France and Germany of “scrabbling about” to prevent Wallace from taking the job.

Against this backdrop, Washington has reportedly convinced several of its European allies to put off the replacement decision while trying topersuade Stoltenberg, who has held the post for nine years, to agree to stay on foranother 12 months.

Earlier this month, Biden publicly said that the UK defense secretary would make a “very qualified” leader of the bloc, though he stopped short of throwing his weight behind his candidacy.

In an interview with The Economist on Wednesday, Wallace, who had previously spoken in length about his vision for the bloc’s future should he become its next leader, signaled that he now has no plans to contend for this job.

https://www.rt.com/news/578494-biden-wallace-nato-chief-ambitions/

23 Jun, 2023 09:35

Smugglers of radioactive isotope busted – FSB

A group allegedly offered $3.5 million for a kilogram of Cesium-137, which the buyers wanted to use to later frame Russia in Ukraine

The Russian Security Service (FSB) has reported arresting a group of would-be smugglers of the radioactive isotope Cesium-137. It claimed that if the operation had been successful, the dangerous material would have been used for a provocation against Russia in the Ukraine conflict zone.

Five individuals were caught red-handed by FSB agents with support from Interior Ministry officers, the statement reported. The group wasacting “with coordination by a Ukrainian citizen” and was willing topay $3.5 millionfor one kilogram of the product, it said.

Footage released by the service showed the scene of the purported exchange. The buyers were presented with a heavy container that required four men to carry and put inside a car trunk. Officers subsequently went in to make arrests. Parts of the video were blurred to hide the faces of those involved.

The foreign party that sought to procure Cesium-137 in Russia intended to use it “to conduct aninformation-propaganda campaignto discredit the country internationally by staging scenes of the use of weapons of mass destruction,” the statement claimed.

Cesium-137 is only produced in nuclear fission reactions, including in reactors and nuclear explosions. Its anthropogenic nature combined with its ability to easily spread across large distances is used by scientists to accurately date pre-atomic-era objects by checking them for traces of the element and products of its radioactive decay. It is also used for radiotherapy and to calibrate gamma radiation sensors.

The isotope has a relatively long half-life of 30 years and its salts are easily soluble in water, which makes it a serious contamination risk.

https://www.rt.com/russia/578503-fsb-cesium-smugglers-ukraine/

23 Jun, 2023 08:43

Israel warns of Ukraine weapons spillover

Anti-tank arms destined for Kiev have found their way to the Middle East, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed

Israel is not supplying weapons to Ukraine partly due to concerns that they could end up in the wrong hands, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an interview released on Thursday by the Jerusalem Post.

When asked to comment on government policy regarding support for Kiev amid the conflict with Moscow, Netanyahu argued that Israel is “in a peculiar situation” compared to Western countries that have sent billions of dollars in military aid to Ukraine.

“First of all, we have a close military border with Russia. Our pilots are flying right next to Russian pilots over the skies of Syria,” the Israeli premier noted.

He also stressed the importance of maintaining “freedom of action” against Iran, stating that “anysystems that we give to Ukraine could be used against usbecause they could fall into Iranian hands.”

“That’s not a theoretical possibility.It actually happenedwith the Western anti-tank weapons that we now find at our borders. So we have to be very careful here,” the Israeli prime minister claimed.

Unlike many Western countries, Israel has been reluctant to supply weapons to Ukraine since the conflict with Russia began more than a year ago. However, it has sent humanitarian aid and early warning systems to Kiev.

Media reports have also indicated that Israel has approved several licenses allowing electronic warfare systems capable of jamming drones to be exported to Ukraine.

Netanyahu’s fears echo repeated warnings from Russian officials, who have cautioned that arms sent to Kiev could find their way onto the black market and into the hands of terrorists or organized crime gangs.

A Newsweek report earlier in June further fueled concerns that not all of the Western arms intended for Ukraine had arrived at their destination. Citing an Israeli defense official, the magazine claimed that West Jerusalem had “seen signs” that the weapons in question, includingJavelin anti-tank missiles, were being smuggled from Ukraine toIran.

https://www.rt.com/news/578504-israel-ukraine-weapons-spillover/

23 Jun, 2023 07:06

Russia blasts ‘crazy’ US resolution on nuclear weapons

Ambassador Antonov responded to a proposal in the Senate to regard any use of tactical nukes by Moscow as an attack on NATO

The speculation of US policymakers that Russia could resort to using tactical nuclear weapons is “absurd” and only adds fuel to the stand-off between Moscow and the West, Anatoly Antonov, Russia’s ambassador in Washington, said on Thursday.

In a statement on Telegram, the envoy weighed in on a bipartisan resolutionintroduced by US Senators Lindsey Graham and Richard Blumenthalon Thursday suggesting that Washington should consider the use of tactical nuclear weapons by Russia or its allies as an attack on NATO.

Antonov described the resolution “as yet another manifestation of blind hatred for our country,” claiming that its sponsors seek to drag Washington even deeper into the Ukraine conflict.

“This is not just another crazy initiative by Russophobe US senators,” Antonov stated, saying it shows who is reallypursuing a course towards a direct global conflict between Russia and NATO.

The proposed resolution also seeks to impose on the global community a “provocative point of view that Russia intends to launch a nuclear strike on the territory of Ukraine,” Antonov said, suggesting that the document could also be laying the groundwork for accusing Moscow of staging a nuclear incident at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant, which was captured by Russian troops in the early days of the Ukraine conflict.

The ambassador said that Russia has always been “a responsible nuclear power,” and has not changed its nuclear doctrine, which stipulates that Moscow can only use nuclear weapons if the very existence of the state is being threatened.

By using such cheap rhetoric, the localelite demonstrates its absolute incompetence in strategic matters. The provocative and short-sighted remarks of the US lawmakers only serve to escalate tensions and increase the risk of the situation sliding to an even more dangerous point.

Antonov also pushed back against another clause of the Graham-Blumenthal resolution calling for the deployment of Russian tactical nuclearweapons in Belarus to be recognized as a threat to Ukraine and NATO.

“We have not violated a single international obligation. We did exactly what the Americans have been doing for decades by fielding nuclear bombs on the territories of their European allies,” the envoy said.

The move was announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin in late March in response to the UK’s decision to provide Kiev with depleted uranium munitions. Later, he clarified that the nuclear weapons would start arriving in the neighboring country in early July once all preparations have been completed.

(NATO needs to be dissolved or at the very least the US withdraws 100% from it. Why are paying for NATO when they provide no protection for the US. The EU and countries involved, are welfare vassal states of the US. Reestablish The Monroe doctrine of not participating in foreign wars, not in our interest or protection.)

https://www.rt.com/russia/578495-russia-tactical-nukes-resolution-crazy/

22 Jun, 2023 13:59

Putin honors victims of Nazi invasion

Russia is marking the 82nd anniversary of Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union

Russian President Vladimir Putin has laid a wreath of flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, one of the nation’smost revered military memorials. He has also visited the Museum of Victory, which is dedicated to the role the Soviet Union played in defeating Nazi Germany.

The solemn ceremony at the Kremlin wall and the follow-up museum tour on Thursday – during which the president lit a candle for World War II victims – were in commemoration of the 82nd anniversary of the Nazi invasion of the USSR.

After failing to convince European nations to form a coalition against Adolf Hitler’sregime, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin sought rapprochement with Nazi Germany. In August 1939, Moscow signed a nonaggression pact with Berlin, similar to what other contemporary powers were doing at the time. TheNazi attack on Polandshortly afterwards is considered thestarting pointof World War II.

The space secured by the treaty didn’t last long. OnJune 22, 1941, Hitler launched an invasion of the USSR. Despite initial successes that brought Hitler's forces to the edge of Moscow, the Nazis were pushed back, leading to the regime's downfall.

Turning the tide came at a great cost to the Soviet people, wholost an estimated 27 million troops and civiliansto the war effort, along with atrocities by the occupiers and collaborators, and other hardships. Modern Russia considers the ultimate triumph in the face of Nazi peril a key milestone in its national history.

https://www.rt.com/russia/578462-putin-flowers-unknown-soldier/

I was talking to a black repair man in my home, and we talked about how crazy this world is. I said, I don’t remember so much racism accusations, it was practically solved in the 60s, he agreed. I said where did this whole “yelling racism” all the time come from?

He said “Obama did it! He blew it up. He did it intentionally!”

Thats where all this violence came from, Obama and the forces behind him.

https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1672084752310861825?s=20

>>19057189

Good catch anon!

President Trump Gives His Opinion on John Durham Testimony

June 23, 2023 | Sundance |

President Trump calls in to Sebastian Gorka for an interview on current political events. {Direct Rumble Link} Within the interview Mr. Gorka asks some great questions, including asking President Trump why he would want to put himself and his family through this targeting again.

President Trump talks about China, the John Durham testimony, Adam Schiff censure, Hunter Biden’s IRS deal, Joe Biden’s bribery problems, Ron DeSantis and the 2024 election and much more. WATCH:

23:47 minutes

Seb told Bannon yesterday that Trump said there were interesting hidden nuggets in Durham’s interview and/or report

https://rumble.com/embed/v2t82cs/?pub=4

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/06/23/president-trump-gives-his-opinion-on-john-durham-testimony/

Everyone Is Going to Think I’m Nuts, But I’m Not Nuts…

June 22, 2023 | Sundance

==Good but very long read…

This is a totally freehand writing for CTH readers, not written with any intent other than our conversation.

For a long time, I have written various forms of an article and deleted it – crumpled it up and thrown it away… because it’s just so hard to write about.

However, an insightful comment by Dutchman today has just pushed me to write it. Unlike most writing, this is no notes, few citations, just thoughts.

You guys are having a discussion about Larry Hogan’s commentary to CBS News.

In the middle of the discussion, someone writes the familiar and common sentiment about Ron DeSantis, a reasonably decent and good governor, doing his big politically stupid run for 2024. Dutchman responds:

DUTCHMAN – […] “IMHO, you and others who express your sentiment, don’t REALLY “get it”;

The WHOLE reason DeSantis was the most popular Governor throughout his first term, was a CON;EVERY action he took as Governor, was a political calculation planned and intended to create the image of “the free State of Florida” and RDS as “Trump lite”.

It wasn’t that “he changed” after getting the $millions, he was ALWAYS terrible at connecting with voters, a terrible campaigner, and he was NEVER MAGA; it was all a “PR.” or advertising campaign to create a totally artificial, and unconnected from reality IMAGE.

And it is that IMAGE that people “fell in love with” and it never existed.

This is important because if people don’t understand this, recognize they were “conned” and understand HOW they were manipulated, they will keep falling for it, every time.

However, once you understand your own vulnerability to being manipulated, accept you need to CHANGE how you view things, THEN you won’t need someone else (like Sundance) to point it out to you, again.

5 minutes of OBJECTIVELY looking at a candidate, will be about 4 1/2 minutes more than necessary, to spot the phonies.” (link)

Perhaps, let me take you back to the spring of 2022 in my thoughts, and show you just how subtle, weird and difficult it is to really understand the nature of this political world we are in right now. A political world where nothing is what it seems. I have been inside this research rabbit hole for over a decade, so bear with me.

[SIDEBAR – Y’all know how I dug, and dug, and dug, and dug into the GOPe after the 2012 election to figure out just how the powers that be are able to construct the illusion of choice. From that research I was able to drill down into the raw material, the stuff they actually did, that outlined the concept of the “splitter strategy”, which I then held in my notes until 2015 while watching for the replay. The work back in 2012 helped me to foresee what would happen in 2016, and like clockwork, it rolled out exactly as expected.]

In the winter of 2021 and spring of 2022, every Spidey-sense within me said Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is setting himself up for a 2024 run for the GOP nomination. Every data point that I was looking at aligned with it happening, and that included the part that no one was paying attention to in 2016.

♦BACKGROUND – In 2015, when Marco Rubio filed to run as a candidate for the 2016 GOP nomination for President, then little known one-term congressman Ron DeSantis filed to run for Rubio’s Senate seat. WTF? DeSantis’ only real qualification to run for that Florida Senate seat was a big donor assist from the Club 4 Growth. CfG supported DeSantis in Congress, big time – and CfG was the financial mechanism behind DeSantis in 2016 to take the Rubio Senate seat if he won the GOP nomination. Just keep this in mind….

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/06/22/everyone-is-going-to-think-im-nuts-but-im-not-nuts/

You guys won’t believe this BlackRock shares are going up this amorange chart yesterday, green today

>>19057643

2nd part DeSantis2/3

In the latter part of 2021 and early 2022, all of the obscure stuff in the background of DeSantis looked like he was being positioned to run in 2024.

It was January 6, 2022, when someone (Pushaw) organized that influencer confab at the governor’s office. However, and this is where my own intellectual bias comes into play at times defeating my cynicism, Ikept telling myself there’s no way DeSantis could be so stupid.

No way, regardless of all the mechanics that were paving this path, that Ron DeSantis would be stupid enough to run against a likely reelection bid by Donald Trump. For over six months, I kept putting the human factor at the forefront and forcing myself to ignore all of the datapoints that indicated DeSantis was being managed to do this. After all, c’mon, he’s not a stupid guy…. I kept telling myself.

Even in July 2022, every time the thought crossed my mind to revisit this issue, I kept making the mistake of denying the data, denying what was visible, simply because the alternative to stupidity was almost unthinkable in scale.

♦The Alternative – If DeSantis wasn’t stupid, and if DeSantis was indeed going to run for 2024, the alternative to stupidity was a long-term plan… A plan that would have been laid out essentially before his first campaign in 2018…. A plan that times to the exact same moments when Paul Ryan and the other GOPe member of congress announced they were not seeking midterm reelection for Trump’s midterm race…. A plan that coincided with buckets of former CIA operatives running for congress in both the Democrat and Republican races in that 2018 midterm…. A plan that had Eric Holder working in California to trigger the first ballot harvesting test run….

If DeSantis wasn’t stupid, the alternative was that he was part of a larger operation being carried out by the real power brokers who control U.S. elections, the billionaire donors and control agents, ie. “The Big Club.”

Now, stay with me… Under this scenario, if DeSantis wasn’t stupid, then he was always a controlled ‘political’ operative waiting to be triggered and have his career boosted by the Big Club crowd who funded him. Names like Bush, Clinton, Cheney, McCain, Romney and McConnell all circle this controlled orbit.

The odd, and seemingly impossible, DeSantis registration to run for the Florida Senate seat of Marco Rubio aligned with this almost conspiratorial outlook; except it wasn’t based on conspiracy theory, it was just a big datapoint, sitting there – staring back.

All of the data aligned that way, but I kept telling myself to ignore it – because at a certain point human reason has to be placed into the analysis, and there’s no way that DeSantis would be so stupid. Surely, regardless of how much he was controlled and influenced, he -the person- would have the ability to say, “No, this is just silly.”

That said, throughout the spring and summer of 2022, 80% of the objective data, and even more when considered in historic context, indicated DeSantis was going to enter the 2024 election at the behest of the people who control the Republican National Committee, the Republican Governors Association and the various political fundraising committees in both the House and Senate along with PAC’s and Superpacs.

In essence, if DeSantis was indeed planning a 2024 White House run, then all of the datapoints reconciled. If he wasn’t going to run, then there was just a lot of coincidental questions that didn’t make sense in the activity.

When faced with that scenario, you apply the scientific method and try to prove the opposite of the thesis.

Could I prove: DeSantis was not going to run and was not under the control of the Big Club (Sea Island et al)? The answer was no.

Now it’s July 2022. The headlines were all about Donald Trump and the conflicts with the NARA over documents and presidential records. Something was coming.

I told myself to put away all of the DeSantis questions until that moment with Trump was triggered; then wait and see how he responds.

If DeSantis is abhorred by the outcome of the DOJ/FBI targeting of Florida resident Trump, then he likely was not part of the plan to use him. However, if DeSantis was not abhorred by whatever was being cooked up, well, that would tell a big story….

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/06/22/everyone-is-going-to-think-im-nuts-but-im-not-nuts/

>>19057724

3/3

On August 8th, 2022, when the FBI raided the home of Donald Trump, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis sent out one short twitter comment from his “personal” page and then went fully silent and invisible.

Despite his extremely high Florida visibility, literally almost every single day of the year holding press conferences and media events, DeSantis went fully into a bunker after the raid, and for five days was completely silent and missing from the public. There was no opportunity to question DeSantis about his feelings on the raid.

Instead, the people managing the governor broadcast two pre-recorded video messages about innocuous subjects and never made a public appearance.

Simultaneously, the people around the governor restructured a newly branded national campaign, and launched a national tour outside the State of Florida immediately after the five days in the bunker. These tours are planned long in advance, so someone knew something.

Mid-August 2022, the national tour, the book, the media use, the change in tone and personality, the new branding message, the people visited for fundraising, all of it… carefully scripted, long planned and being executed on cue. All prior polling showed a double-digit lead in Florida. Democrats had pulled out of financing; the Democrat Governors Association didn’t put in a dime to support Charlie Crist, and yet DeSantis was banging a big tin cup raking in tens-of-millions.

Immediately, I said that’s it… that’s enough. The evidence is overwhelming… It’s August 2022, and its crystal-clear; DeSantis is running for 2024, and I was confident outlining every step in the customary sequence that would take place including the timing of his announcement to May 2023. It was all obvious.

But back to the scenario…. Back to the discussion y’all are having…. Back to my original thoughts in 2021….

….If DeSantis isn’t stupid, that means?

It means exactly what Dutchman has just said. “This is important because if people don’t understand this, recognize they were “conned” and understand HOW they were manipulated, they will keep falling for it, every time.”

It means Ron DeSantis was a Big Club operation put into play in 2018.

Start there, review the timeline, review the events and everything makes sense.Republicans are very good at creating the illusion of choice. They are doing it again, only this time they are failing.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/06/22/everyone-is-going-to-think-im-nuts-but-im-not-nuts/

2024

June 20, 2023 | Sundance |

We are inside every facility, every institution, every meeting, every moment of their existence – and we notice everything. We are there when they do not expect,and we melt away before they notice our appearance. We see what they hide, we hear what they whisper, we decipher their codes, and we understand the complexity they create in their effort to conceal.Quit worrying.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/06/20/2024/

>>19057757

That wasn’t the point of the article.

Christ never had a chance. DeSantis being Governor, doesn’t qualify him to be president. And his run for president proves he’s not capable. He should have stayed as governor and finished his second term. At this point its doubtful even citizens of FL if he runs in 2028.