18 Sep, 2023 08:01

Zelensky rules out land concessions to Russia

The Ukrainian leader vowed to press on with Kiev’s offensive despite losing tens of thousands of troops, according to Moscow

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has ruled out any territorial concessions to Russia as part of a potential peace deal, insisting that Kiev must press onward with its faltering offensive, regardless of the weather.

In an interview with CBS News released on Sunday, when asked whether Ukraine would cede any land to Moscow for peace, Zelensky said: “No. This is our territory.”

He would not, however, say whether this applies to Crimea, which overwhelmingly voted to join Russia in a referendum in 2014 following the Western-backed Maidan coup in Kiev. Neither Ukraine nor its Western backers have recognized the results of the vote.

Zelensky also acknowledged that Kiev’s much-hyped counteroffensive, which has been underway for more than three months, “is not very fast.” Nevertheless, he said Ukraine would continue on regardless of the weather.

“We need to liberate our territory as much as possible and move forward, even if it’s less than [half a mile or] a hundred [yards]… We can’t lose time. Forget about the weather, and the like,” he stated, adding that even if the ground troops are unable to move, Ukraine will double down on drone attacks.

Zelensky’s comments come on the heels of a Wall Street Journal report saying Ukraine’s troops are about to face not only Russian troops in well-fortified defenses, but also rain and freezing cold which can undermine logistics, overall maneuverability, and eliminate any chances for a breakthrough.

Ukraine kicked off its offensive in early summer but has since struggled to gain any substantial ground. According to Russian President Vladimir Putin, since the start of the push, Ukraine has lost more than 71,000 troops, 543 tanks, and nearly 18,000 armored vehicles of various types.

Ukrainian officials have repeatedly rejected any territorial concessions to Russia to end the conflict. Last autumn, after four former Ukrainian territories voted to join Moscow in referendums, Zelensky signed a decree banning any negotiations with the current Russian leadership. Moscow has repeatedly said that it has not closed the door on negotiations with Kiev.

(Since everything that Zelensky pronounced has failed, thus shall all his threats fail. It’s obvious the West is losing interest in helping Kiev. It’s seemingly biblical what is happening to Ukraine.)

https://www.rt.com/russia/583120-zelensky-no-land-concessions-russia/

Sunday Talks – Senator Mark Warner Says SSCI Bill to Block All Presidents from Fourth Branch Classified Intelligence Close to Completion

September 17, 2023 | Sundance

The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) created the systems that permit intelligence weaponization. The SSCI is the organizational institution that supports the Fourth Branch of Government, the intelligence branch. Keep in mind, the SSCI previously created a bipartisan “Restrict Act,” to deal with what they deemed dangerous information on the internet (under auspices of TikTok ban). SSCI Chairman Mark Warner is the current enabler of the continued weaponized intel operations.

In this video segment below, notice how Chairman Warner leads off his remarks. Two flares triggered. First, you can tell by his response, thatPresident Trump’s “classified documents” were exactly what we thought they were; evidence against those who constructed the Trump-Russia claims from inside govt.Second, notice how Warner now wants to block any President from controlling intelligence as defined by the Fourth Branch. This stuff is getting brutally obvious. WATCH:

“I’ve got bipartisan legislation that would reform the whole classification process. We way overclassify.We, frankly, should have a process in place so that no president or vice president ever takes documents after they leave office.” 👀

Panic in DC

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https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/09/17/sunday-talks-senator-mark-warner-says-ssci-bill-to-block-all-presidents-from-fourth-branch-classified-intelligence-close-to-completion/

https://youtu.be/x0KGYeGd3hk

Sunday Talks – Senator Mark Warner

The most important part of Warner and the SSCI said, their plans for Trump!They All Know Trump Will Win And They Be Mightily Scared

MARGARET BRENNAN: I have to pick up where your Republican colleague just left off. Are the Trump and Biden classified documents that were in their personal possession, and not in controlled areas, equally egregious?

MARK WARNER: Well, Margaret, three things quickly. One, the administration took way too long to get us these documents. Two, while Mike and I have a great working relationship, I believe, based on the documents I’ve seen,that there is a difference in terms of the potential abuse that came from the Trump documents. And, third, it’s one of the reasons why I’ve got bipartisan legislation that would reform the whole classification process. We way overclassify. We, frankly, should have a process in place so that no president or vice president ever takes documents after they leave office. That is kind of the lowest common fruit.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Yes.

Tony Buzbee Discusses Background of Sham Impeachment Effort Against AG Ken Paxton

September 17, 2023 | Sundance |

Do not let it escape your notice thatnot a single professional Republican entity has stood up to show their support for Texas AG Ken Paxton or congratulate himon the clear and decisive impeachment victory against the corrupt UniParty system in the Lone Star state. Not a word from The Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA), or any other professional Republican group.

Instead, only President Donald Trump and the overwhelming majority of the MAGA base have stood strong with Paxton – before, during and after the smear campaign to remove him. Keep this BIG UGLY data point in mind. On the federal side, with Obama-Biden flooding the border with illegal aliens, Ken Paxton was considered a threat from both the White House and the Texas Governor, Greg Abbott.

This weekend, Ken Paxton’s awesome attorney, Tony Buzbee, appeared for a Fox News interview, after the impeachment trial, to discuss the background motives and issues that led to the ridiculous effort. WATCH:

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/09/17/tony-buzbee-discusses-background-of-sham-impeachment-effort-against-ag-ken-paxton/

https://youtu.be/FP1nCn8JDXw

Schumer’s First AI Conference Sets Goal of 2024 Election, With Big Tech Embracing Govt Regulation

September 17, 2023 | Sundance.1/2

According to a recent media report, Senator Chuck Schumer led an AI insight forum that included tech industry leaders: Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Tesla, X and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, NVIDIA President Jensen Huang, Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, technologist and Google alum Eric Schmidt, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.

Additionally, representatives from labor and civil rights advocacy groups which included: AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler, Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights President and CEO Maya Wiley, and AI accountability researcher Deb Raji. The group was joined by a list of prominent AI executives, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.

Notably absent from the Sept 13th forum was anyone with any real-world experience that is not a beneficiary of government spending. This is not accidental. Technocracy advances regardless of the citizen impact. Technocrats advance their common interests, not the interests of the ordinary citizen.

That meeting comes after DHS established independent guidelines we previously discussed {GO DEEP}.

DHS’ AI task force is coordinating with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on how the department can partner with critical infrastructure organizations “on safeguarding their uses of AI and strengthening their cybersecurity practices writ large to defend against evolving threats.”

Remember, in addition to these groups assembling, the Dept of Defense (DoD) will now conduct online monitoring operations, using enhanced AI to protect the U.S. internet from “disinformation” under the auspices of national security. {link}

So, the question becomes, what was Chuck Schumer’s primary reference for this forum?

(FED NEWS) […] Schumer said that tackling issues around AI-generated content that is fake or deceptive that can lead to widespread misinformation and disinformation was the most time-sensitive problem to solve due to the upcoming 2024 presidential election.

[…] The top Democrat in the Senate said there was much discussion during the meeting about the creation of a new AI agency and that there was also debate about how to use some of the existing federal agencies to regulate AI.

South Dakota Sen. Mike Rounds, Schumer’s Republican counterpart in leading the bipartisan AI forums, said: “We’ve got to have the ability to provide good information to regulators. And it doesn’t mean that every single agency has to have all of the top-end, high-quality of professionals but we need that group of professionals who can be shared across the different agencies when it comes to AI.”

Although there were no significant voluntary commitments made during the first AI insight forum, tech leaders who participated in the forum said there was much debate around how open and transparent AI developers and those using AI in the federal government will be required to be. (read more)….

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/09/17/schumers-first-ai-conference-sets-goal-of-2024-election-with-big-tech-embracing-govt-regulation/

>>19571093

2/2

There isn’t anything that is going to stop the rapid deployment of AI in the tech space. However, for the interests of the larger American population, the group unrepresented in the forum, is the use of AI to identify, control, and impede information distribution that is against the interests of the government and the public-private partnership the technocrats are assembling.

The words “disinformation” and “deep fakes” are as disingenuous as the term “Patriot Act.”The definitions of disinformation and deep fakes are where the government regulations step in, using their portals into Big Tech, to identify content on platforms that is deemed in violation.

It doesn’t take a deep political thinker to predict that memes and video segments against the interests of the state will be defined for removal.

This battlespace is only just now getting prepped, and I can guarantee you that few websites and alternative media outlets have any idea what is likely to happen – let alone the foresight toprepare their infrastructure to withstand the outcomes of the government determinations.

Remember, throughout this process the coordination is filled with plausible deniability, where outcomes from the tech space are justified by saying the platform control agents didn’t have any choice. Worse still, most of the advanced AI will be fully automated, providing even more plausible deniability and legal issue avoidance.

The corporations like Vanguard and Blackrock will ultimately be in the background, shaping the guidance of government policy to their own interests. The flow of information, and the ability of information consumers to locate it, is likely to be determined within this public-private network of aligned interests.

Watch carefully how this rolls out, and look for the tell-tale signs of content control.

If you didn’t understand why we needed Godzilla Trump before, you will soon…

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/09/17/schumers-first-ai-conference-sets-goal-of-2024-election-with-big-tech-embracing-govt-regulation/

>>19571093

2/2

There isn’t anything that is going to stop the rapid deployment of AI in the tech space. However, for the interests of the larger American population, the group unrepresented in the forum, is the use of AI to identify, control, and impede information distribution that is against the interests of the government and the public-private partnership the technocrats are assembling.

The words “disinformation” and “deep fakes” are as disingenuous as the term “Patriot Act.”The definitions of disinformation and deep fakes are where the government regulations step in, using their portals into Big Tech, to identify content on platforms that is deemed in violation.

It doesn’t take a deep political thinker to predict that memes and video segments against the interests of the state will be defined for removal.

This battlespace is only just now getting prepped, and I can guarantee you that few websites and alternative media outlets have any idea what is likely to happen – let alone the foresight toprepare their infrastructure to withstand the outcomes of the government determinations.

Remember, throughout this process the coordination is filled with plausible deniability, where outcomes from the tech space are justified by saying the platform control agents didn’t have any choice. Worse still, most of the advanced AI will be fully automated, providing even more plausible deniability and legal issue avoidance.

The corporations like Vanguard and Blackrock will ultimately be in the background, shaping the guidance of government policy to their own interests. The flow of information, and the ability of information consumers to locate it, is likely to be determined within this public-private network of aligned interests.

Watch carefully how this rolls out, and look for the tell-tale signs of content control.

If you didn’t understand why we needed Godzilla Trump before, you will soon…

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/09/17/schumers-first-ai-conference-sets-goal-of-2024-election-with-big-tech-embracing-govt-regulation/

Sunday Talks – Full Interview Between President Trump and NBC Narrative Engineer Kristen Welker

September 17, 2023 | Sundance

Chuck Todd was removed and replaced as the anchor of NBC’s Meet The Press. Todd was replaced by the culturally correctKristen Welker, a fellow traveler from the tribe of Valerie Jarrett whose daughter Laura Jarrett is Welker’s sidekick.

If you followed the 2020 Super-Tuesday deal between Barack Obama (the Chicago Network that includes Oprah, and host of the ’24 Democrat National Convention), James Clyburn from South Carolina (now the #1 primary state for Democrats in 2024) and the Joe Biden family, then you will clearly see how the datapoints and roadmap aligns for 2024. {Go Deep}The NBC shift (Jarrett et al) was part of their corporate move in preparation for the 2024 election.

Welker kicks off her first day in the anchor chair with an interview with President Donald Trump. The full interview is available in the video below.The transcript of the segment that was edited and broadcast today is below the full video; there is a big difference. WATCH:

(Any Anons have the ability to transcribe the video and post it here?Since they edited it anon thinks it important to get before they edit the video itself.)

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/09/17/sunday-talks-full-interview-between-president-trump-and-nbc-narrative-engineer-kristen-welker/

https://youtu.be/JOCRo97NoJ8

A DC Cornerstone Issue That Must Be Understood – This Isn’t What You Learned on Schoolhouse Rock

September 17, 2023 | Sundance |

I’m going to build out on this in the next several days and weeks. The reason is simple, this is the cornerstone of DC Business; it has nothing to do with legislation, lawmaking, or the other reference points we retain in the illusion of modern politics. It’s going to get ugly!

CTH often describes the background DC motives with the phrase: “There are Trillions at Stake.” Here we take a look at what that really means, and how DC politics is not quite based on the ideas that frame many reference points.

With people taking notice of DC politics for the first time, and with people not as familiar with the purpose of DC politics, we end up within two different references. Perhaps it is valuable to reset the larger frames of reference and provide clarity.

I’ve been talking about this for well over a decade, and we have had this conversation on these pages for just as long. However, in this video Bill Gurley brings some modern receipts. WATCH:

Most people think when they vote for a federal politician -a House or Senate representative- they are voting for a person who will go to Washington DC and write or enact legislation. This is the old-fashioned “schoolhouse rock” perspective based on decades past. There is not a single person in Congress writing legislation or laws.

In modern politics, not a single member of the House of Representatives or Senator writes a law, or puts pen to paper to write out a legislative construct. This simply doesn’t happen.

Over the past several decades a system of constructing legislation has taken over Washington DC that more resembles a business operation than a legislative body.

Here’s how it works right now.

Outside groups, often called “special interest groups”, are entities that represent their interests in legislative constructs. These groups are often representing foreign governments, Wall Street multinational corporations, banks, financial groups or businesses, or smaller groups of people with a similar connection who come together and form a larger group under an umbrella of interest specific to their affiliation.

Sometimes the groups are social interest groups, activists, climate groups, environmental interests etc. The social interest groups are usually non-profit constructs who depend on the expenditures of government to sustain their cause or need.

The for-profit groups (mostly business) have a purpose in Washington DC to shape policy, legislation and laws favorable to their interests. They have fully staffed offices just like any business would – only their ‘business‘ is getting legislation for their unique interests.

These groups are filled with highly paid lawyers who represent the interests of the entity and actually write laws and legislation briefs.

In the modern era, this is actually the origination of the laws that we eventually see passed by Congress. Within the walls of these buildings, within Washington DC, is where the ‘sausage’ is actually made.

Again, no elected official is usually part of this law origination process.

Almost all legislation created is not ‘high profile’; they are obscure changes to current laws, regulations or policies that no-one pays attention to. The passage of the general bills within legislation is not covered in media.Ninety-nine percent of legislative activity happens without anyone outside the system even paying any attention to it….

(Anons important to read the entire article, very long but it explains the full story of what Congress is about, Trillions of dollars at stake for them alone)

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/09/17/a-dc-cornerstone-issue-that-must-be-understood-this-isnt-what-you-learned-on-schoolhouse-rock/

https://youtu.be/F9cO3-MLHOM

>>19571219

part 2

Once the corporation or representative organizational entity has written the law they want to see passed, they hand it off to the lobbyists.

The lobbyists are people who have deep contacts within the political bodies of the legislative branch, usually former House/Senate staff or former House/Senate politicians themselves.

The lobbyist takes the written brief, the legislative construct, and it’s their job to go to Congress and sell it.

“Selling it” means finding politicians who will accept the brief, sponsor their bill and eventually get it to a vote and passage.

The lobbyist does this by visiting the politician in their office, or, most currently familiar, by inviting the politician to an event they are hosting. The event is called a junket when it involves travel.

Often the lobbying “event” might be a weekend trip to a ski resort, or a “conference” that takes place at a resort. The actual sales pitch for the bill is usually not too long and the majority of the time is just like a mini vacation etc.

The size of the indulgence within the event, the amount of money the lobbyist is spending, is customarily related to the scale of benefit within the bill the sponsoring business entity is pushing. If the sponsoring business or interest group can gain a lot of financial benefit from the legislation, they spend a lot on the indulgences.

lobbyist-1.jpgRecap: Corporations (special interest group) write the legislation. Lobbyists take the law and go find politician(s) to support it. Politicians get support from their peers using tenure and status etc. Eventually, if things go according to norm, the legislation gets a vote.

Within every step of the process there are expense account lunches, dinners, trips, venue tickets and a host of other customary financial waypoints to generate/leverage a successful outcome. The amount of money spent is proportional to the benefit derived from the outcome.

The important part to remember is that the origination of the entire process is EXTERNALto Congress.

Congress does not write laws or legislation, special interest groups do. Lobbyists are paid, some very well paid, to get politicians to go along with the need of the legislative group.

When you are voting for a Congressional Rep or a U.S. Senator, you are not voting for a person who will write laws. Your rep only votes on legislation to approve or disapprove of constructs that are written by outside groups and sold to them through lobbyists who work for those outside groups.

While all of this is happening, the same outside groups who write the laws are providing money for the campaigns of the politicians they need to pass them. This construct sets up the quid-pro-quo of influence, although much of it is fraught with plausible deniability.

This is the way legislation is created.…

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/09/17/a-dc-cornerstone-issue-that-must-be-understood-this-isnt-what-you-learned-on-schoolhouse-rock/

Cal Berkeley Law EXPOSED: Class Credit to Aid the Revolution

J. Christian Adams

Over a decade ago, Hans von Spakovsky and I published the “Every Single One” series here at PJ Media. It took a federal lawsuit by PJ Media to obtain the resumes of all the new Eric Holder-hired lawyers in the Civil Rights Division. We documented the radical progressive backgrounds of every single one of Holder’s new lawyers in the so-called neutral “civil service.”

The series exposed the “swamp” before the term swamp was fashionable. We had seen the problem up close when we both worked inside the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division. Eventually, even the DOJ Inspector General urged the Obama administration to change course and hire a more ideologically diverse attorney pool.

Of course, the Obama administration ignored the suggestion because there was a fundamental transformation to complete. Now, we find ourselves in 2023, and the problem has only gotten worse.

A radicalized civil service is downstream from radicalized elite law schools. For the last six months, Hans and I have turned to what is happening in the nation’s top 10 law schools, asking, “Do They Teach Law Anymore?”

I covered the top-ranked law school—Yale, then Chicago, Harvard, and NYU. Hans covered number two, Stanford, and also Columbia, Penn, and UVA. (If you missed any of the madness catalog, click a link.)

Radicalization of law curricula is a serious and underexamined threat to the rule of law. The danger has moved beyond mere “liberal” professors from a decade ago. Law schools now teach classes designed to deconstruct the very foundations of our American system. From PJ Media:

The tactics that are stamping out speech arise from teachings that are increasingly revolutionary. Law school courses now commonly reject American norms such as free speech, fact-based decision-making, individualism, and Anglo-American legal principles that created the most benign and beneficial form of government in human history. Mob tactics combined with intellectual groundings in authoritarianism are a dangerous and incendiary mix. They threaten freedom in a way our nation has not previously encountered.

I have arrived at number nine, my final installment in the series—the University of California at Berkeley.

What stands out about Berkeley is that the more radical and useless the class, the more people who tend to take it.

Berkeley publishes the number of students enrolled in each class. Let’s start at the low end of the spectrum: Business Law.

In keeping with the larger trends Hans and I discovered, elite law schools no longer emphasize law classes that teach future lawyers how to practice law. Instead of evidence, they focus more on revolution. But Berkeley, to their credit, has a useful course in business law for start-ups. Students in Advanced New Business will learn practical tools such as:

…business regulation, risk management, contracts, intellectual property, and taxation. Areas of business management will include financing, marketing, business planning, and evaluating financials. Mixed areas of law and business management will be examined, including entity formation, capital formation, and tax planning.

This will be useful information for the singleBerkeley law student who signed up for the class. That’s right—enrollment, according to the Berkeley Law School page, is just one single student….

…Radicals are graduating from elite law schools. They are boring into every American power node. Today, these revolutionary radicals are law students at the schools we have exposed or are judicial clerks, Justice Department lawyers, Hill staffers, or Big Law associates. They are fueled and consumed with the deconstructive crackpottery they have learned at Harvard, Yale, and Berkeley that we have documented.

Tomorrow they will be judges, attorneys general, senators, and Big Law partners with fat donation portfolios. In the not-distant future, the entire swath of America’s elite institutions may be governed by a majority, at least, of these deconstructive authoritarians.

Because we did not have the firewalls in place to stop it when stopping it could have been a benign affair, we will have to stop them when they are far more dangerous and powerful and when our maneuverability to stop them is more limited.It may be the fight when the American Dream hangs in the balance.

Very long article

https://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/2023/09/17/cal-berkeley-law-exposed-student-credit-to-aid-leftist-agenda-n1727815

The Morning Briefing: Biden's Border Blow-Up Is the Mess That Just Gets Messier

Stephen Kruiser

There are just so many things falling apart in the United States whilst it is being presided over by a pudding-brained puppet that it’s difficult to keep up with them, even for those of us who pay attention to this stuff for a living.

It’s been about two-and-a-half weeks since we last discussed the Joe Biden border fiasco here at the Briefing. That one was titled, “However Bad You Think the Border Mess Is—It’s Worse.” I would have preferred to have waited at least a few more weeks before revisiting the subject, the subject didn’t feel like waiting. As I was perusing the news on the Mothership sites while gathering the links, there was just too much border stuff to ignore.

We have had more than our share of fun mocking the fact that Democrat-run sanctuary cities have been struggling to exercise their benevolence, and they deserve to have derision heaped upon them. Seeing leftists forced to confront the fruits of their insane labors does have some entertainment value, even if it’s a result of one of our more pressing problems.

As Kevin writes, there’s trouble in DemLand thanks to all of the illegal immigrant hubbub:

Tempers flared, middle fingers flew, and people were jostled aggressively in New York City today. No, it wasn’t a morning rush-hour subway ride; it was New York Democrats staging a press event at the illegal immigrant intake center at the iconic Roosevelt Hotel

Jerry “Nadless” Nadler, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and various city Democrats got more than a Bronx Cheer when they spoke in favor of the tens of thousands of illegal immigrants dragging the city into a financial disaster, as the global Marxists have long planned.

Eric Adams was not-so-suspiciously absent.

Kevin then provides a video of America’s Dumbest Bartender being shouted down by Big Apple residents who are none too amused by their new undocumented neighbors. Squeaky is angry with New York Mayor Eric Adams, and the Dem-on-Dem anger is proof that these people have never really thought the open borders fever dream through.

They can blame Republican governors all they want, but Joe Biden brought this problem to their doorsteps.

My colleague Sarah Arnold writes at Townhallof a recent illegal immigrant horror story from New York:

President Joe Biden should take note of this article the next time he refuses to address the crisis he created at the southern border.

An illegal alien stands accused of killing a man after being let out of jail due to a paperwork error for previously stabbing someone on a separate occasion.

Earlier this month, Carlos Corrales-Ramirez was arrested and arraigned in a Rensselaer County, New York court for the fatal stabbing of 28-year-old Jario J. Hernandez-Sanchez.

I’ve been reading and writing about these entirely avoidable tragedies for too many years. The Democrats have blood on their hands because of their untenable border policies.

The Border Patrol is not only overwhelmed but is also dealing with an administration that doesn’t want to help them. This is from something Catherine wrote:

Illegal aliens are being released onto the streets of our cities every day, and apparently, the federal government isn’t even trying to keep track of where they go.

The Biden border crisis continues to escalate, with the Border Patrol reportedly encountering 9,100 illegal aliens in just one day this week. And it seems that the Biden administration isn’t even making a pretense of keeping track of and controlling the massive number of illegal migrants anymore.

The numbers we hear about coming over here illegally are getting to be like the federal spending numbers from the last couple of decades: they’re so big and so frequent that the news has a numbing effect after a while. One might say that is part of the Democrats’ plan but, again, I can’t attribute that much competence to them, especially when it comes to the border.

In the vast catalog of Biden administration failures, the border situation has always been near the top, and it’s been there from Day One.

The original border mess was almost certainly deliberate, but it blew up on them immediately. Everything since then has been so much flailing, which is something Team Biden does a lot. It’s not just the crazy old man who flails, but all of the people controlling him are lost too.

But… no mean tweets.

https://pjmedia.com/columns/stephen-kruiser/2023/09/18/the-morning-briefing-bidens-border-blow-up-is-the-mess-that-just-gets-messier-n1727792

The Marines Need Help Finding a Lost Stealth Fighter and Nobody Can Stop Laughing

Stephen Green September 18, 2023

Those F-35 stealth fighters must be even closer to invisible than I thought because the Marines lost one on Sunday and nobody can find it.

A Marine piloting the special vertical takeoff and landing version, the F-35B, suffered some kind of “mishap” and was forced to eject over South Carolina. He ejected safely. He’s fine. We can go on and laugh. The plane, however, was nowhere to be found. Weighing in at over 32,000 pounds even when it isn’t filled with jet fuel, you’d think the missing jet would be easy to find, but no.

There was genuine concern that the autopilot might have been on, meaning that there was an $80 million fighter jet gently cruising around over South Carolina with no pilot and no canopy. Sunday drivers, amirite?

So whoever runs the social media for Joint Base Charleston took to Twitter to ask for help finding the super-invisible stealth fighter.

Actually, the mishaps have only just begun.

An early report from NBC noted that “The jet was left in autopilot mode so there’s a possibility it could still be airborne somewhere over South Carolina.” That was early Sunday evening. Surely, it’s run out of fuel by now. (Yes, and don’t call me Shirley.)

But no one seems to have seen or heard the thing crash.

This, of course, is when Twitter lept into action as only Twitter can.

PJ Media’s own Paula Bolyard said that she “spotted it being towed by a chi-com balloon over the Smoky Mountains,” and I almost believe her. If you have a better theory, I’d love to hear it.

This next one was, of course, inevitable.

Some folks tried their best to be helpful:

Others know an easy buck when they see one.

I usually avoid Twitter on the weekends, but I couldn’t resist asking, “When you ask Twitter if anyone has seen your missing fighter jet, are you expecting anything other than snarky answers?”

Maybe somewhere on Twitter, there’s one really earnest guy, walking around his backyard, looking for an F-35, just in case.

He gave it his best shot. Even looked in the shed, just in case. But then he had to tweet back to @TeamCharleston, “Sorry, no. What color was it?”

Florida State Board of Education member Ryan Petty quipped, “Joe Biden said we need an F-15 to protect our Constitutional rights, so maybe we’ll just keep this one. We paid for it.”

And I think that’s the last word on that — at least until the missing jet turns up on blocks in front of a small home just outside of Pamplico…

https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2023/09/18/the-marines-need-help-finding-a-lost-stealth-fighter-and-nobody-can-stop-laughing-n1727856

18 Sep, 2023 12:13

No ‘victory parade’ in Moscow or Kiev – Ukraine’s spy chief (whines and complains for more arms)

The West has more arms to spare for the cause, Kirill Budanov told The Economist

As long as Ukraine receives Western arms, it will not be defeated by Russia – but neither side will be able to achieve a full victory, the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of the Ukrainian military has said.

In an interview with The Economist released on Sunday, Kirill Budanov dismissed the notion that Western military assistance to Kiev will be forced to a halt.

“Warehouses in the West are not completely empty. No matter what anyone says. We can see this vefry clearly as an intelligence agency,”Budanov stated.

Unlike Russia, Ukraine relies heavily on foreign support, he acknowledged, while claiming that Moscow’s resources are already dwindling. The Russian economy can only hold out until 2025, while the flow of weapons to the frontline will end by the following year, he predicted, urging for the flow of aid to continue.

“We understand we will not end the war with a victory parade in Moscow. But neither should Moscow ever hope to hold one in Kiev,” he said.

The spy chief claimed that there were “zero”civilian casualties in Russia from “his forces”thanks to a deliberate decision made by Kiev.

Russian officials have reported multiple attacks by the Ukrainian military in border regions, some of them resulting in civilians being injured or killed.

Budanov’s agency was likely responsible for last year’s bombing attack on the Crimean Bridge, according to Russian investigators and Western media reports.

The plot involved a disguised explosive device, which detonated as it was being transported across the Kerch Strait by a truck, whose driver was unaware of what he was carrying. He was killed in the blast alongside a married couple driving nearby.

Ukraine launched its counteroffensive in the early summer. Ukrainian officials have dismissed Western criticism of its slow pace and Kiev’s choice of priorities. The country has lost 71,500 troops in the push, according to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Moscow perceives the hostilities with Kiev as part of a Western proxy war against Russia. The sponsors of the conflict are using Ukrainians as “cannon fodder” and will not allow their government to sue for peace as long as they can inflict more damage, Russian officials have said.

(They are crazy and 1,000s of soldiers have died due to their hubris)

https://www.rt.com/russia/583144-budanov-aid-victory-parade/

18 Sep, 2023 11:59

Sweden’s NATO membership in the balance – top Hungarian MP

Budapest does not need an ally that accuses it of democratic failings, the parliamentary speaker has said

A leading Hungarian MP has questioned whether his country should ratify NATO membership for Sweden,after Stockholm accused the Eastern European nation of a crackdown on democracy.

In an interview with the HiR TV broadcaster on Friday, Hungarian parliamentary speaker Laszlo Kover rebuked Stockholm over a film released by the Swedish Educational Broadcasting Company (UR) in 2019, which criticized what it described as the poor state of democracy in Hungary.

“It is not certain that we have to vote on this [membership ratification for Sweden]. I think that we don’t need an ally that has the same opinion about us and our patriotism as this little film reflects,” Kover stated.

The ten-minute video also prompted a backlash from Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto. The diplomat last week wrote to his Swedish counterpart, Tobias Billstrom, expressing outrage at what he called “serious accusations” and misinformation being spread among Swedish students.

“You urge our parliamentarians to ratify your accession to NATO, while you continue to accuse them as if they had destructed democracy in Hungary,” Szijjarto said. He claimed that these efforts contradict each other and “definitely [do not] help” in paving the way for Sweden’s eventual membership in the US-led military bloc.

The UR responded to the accusations by insisting that the film is “more important than ever,” while the broadcaster’s CEO, Kalle Sandhammar, said the company should not be afraid of criticism. He argued it is “very easy to defend [the film],” claiming it is based on “credible and clearly reported sources.”

Sweden and Nordic neighbor Finland applied to join NATO in May 2022, following the start of the Ukraine conflict. While Finland became a full-fledged member of the bloc in April, Sweden’s accession has yet to be ratified by Hungary and Türkiye.

Ankara has long demanded that Stockholm crack down on groups it considers to be terrorist as a prerequisite for ratification. Meanwhile, Budapest has repeatedly denounced what it calls “blatant lies”disseminated by Sweden about the state of Hungarian democracy. As a result, Hungarian MPs have been reluctant to hold a ratification vote for more than a year.

(Democracy is weaponized by the left to virtue signal and is used as a bludgeon to those who are independent of the group think of totalitarian thought and deeds. Maybe Sweden doesn’t want to join NATO after all.)

https://www.rt.com/news/583145-hungary-unsure-sweden-nato/

18 Sep, 2023 11:47

African nation denies claims of coup attempt

Authorities in Congo dismissed reports of the overthrow of Congolese President Denis Sassou Nguesso as “fake news”

The government of the Republic of the Congo has denied reports of an attempted military coup against President Denis Sassou Nguesso, who has been in power for almost four decades.

“Fanciful information suggests serious events taking place in Brazzaville. The Government denies this fake news. We reassure public opinion about the calm that reigns and invite people to calmly go about their activities,” the government said in a statement on Sunday.

Rumors of a military takeover in the Central African country began circulating on social media on Sunday, while Nguesso was in New York for the United Nations General Assembly.

These claims suggested that military forces began seizing critical facilities and government installations in the nation’s capital, Brazzaville.

Last month, soldiers in neighboring Gabon, a former French colony, overthrew the Central African country’s president, Ali Bongo, who had served in office for 14 years. This followed the July coup in Niger, which deposed President Mohamed Bazoum, causing tensions between the putschists and the French government, the West African country’s former colonial ruler.

Nguesso, 79, assumed the presidency of the Republic of Congo, another former French colony, in 1979 and held office until 1992. The Congolese leader, ranking as Africa’s third-longest-serving president after Teodoro Obiang of Equatorial Guinea and Paul Biya of Cameroon, returned to power following a civil war in 1997 after initially losing Congo’s inaugural multi-party elections in 1992.

In 2015, an amendment to the constitution in the oil-rich nation eliminated age restrictions for presidential candidates above 70 and removed the two-term limit, enabling Nguesso to seek reelection. He secured his fourth presidential term in the 2021 elections, receiving another five years in office.

(No wonder so many countries dislike the US and the West, they try to destroy any country that does not comply to SerEyeAye or MI6)

https://www.rt.com/africa/583143-congo-coup-attempt-claims/

18 Sep, 2023 11:47

African nation denies claims of coup attempt

Authorities in Congo dismissed reports of the overthrow of Congolese President Denis Sassou Nguesso as “fake news”

The government of the Republic of the Congo has denied reports of an attempted military coup against President Denis Sassou Nguesso, who has been in power for almost four decades.

“Fanciful information suggests serious events taking place in Brazzaville. The Government denies this fake news. We reassure public opinion about the calm that reigns and invite people to calmly go about their activities,” the government said in a statement on Sunday.

Rumors of a military takeover in the Central African country began circulating on social media on Sunday, while Nguesso was in New York for the United Nations General Assembly.

These claims suggested that military forces began seizing critical facilities and government installations in the nation’s capital, Brazzaville.

Last month, soldiers in neighboring Gabon, a former French colony, overthrew the Central African country’s president, Ali Bongo, who had served in office for 14 years. This followed the July coup in Niger, which deposed President Mohamed Bazoum, causing tensions between the putschists and the French government, the West African country’s former colonial ruler.

Nguesso, 79, assumed the presidency of the Republic of Congo, another former French colony, in 1979 and held office until 1992. The Congolese leader, ranking as Africa’s third-longest-serving president after Teodoro Obiang of Equatorial Guinea and Paul Biya of Cameroon, returned to power following a civil war in 1997 after initially losing Congo’s inaugural multi-party elections in 1992.

In 2015, an amendment to the constitution in the oil-rich nation eliminated age restrictions for presidential candidates above 70 and removed the two-term limit, enabling Nguesso to seek reelection. He secured his fourth presidential term in the 2021 elections, receiving another five years in office.

(No wonder so many countries dislike the US and the West, they try to destroy any country that does not comply to SerEyeAye or MI6)

https://www.rt.com/africa/583143-congo-coup-attempt-claims/

18 Sep, 2023 12:31

Ukraine’s ‘zombie’ economy dependent on Western money – ex-PM

Kiev lacks funds to pay its military due to the “catastrophic” state of its finances, Nikolay Azarov has claimed

The Ukrainian economy has turned into a “zombie” that only shows signs of life with Western financing, former Prime Minister Nikolay Azarov claimed on Monday.

Writing on Telegram, the former politician argued that the national economy is “falling apart,” and that Ukraine is faced with minimal GDP growth and a looming devaluation of the hryvna “under pressure from the International Monetary Fund.”

Meanwhile, public debt is surging and the budget deficit is widening despite Western aid, according to Azarov.

“The best illustration of the catastrophic state of affairs is that the budget of the country at war lacks more than $6 billion to pay the Ukrainian military alone,” he said.

Azarov claimed that the families of Polish mercenaries killed during the conflict had not received any compensation despite promises from Kiev.

“As a result, the Ukrainian economy increasingly resembles a ‘zombie’ –it shows signs of life only with foreign financial assistance, which it requires more and more,”the former prime minister argued.

According to Azarov, Ukraine’s “closest analogues” in terms of economic woes are Afghanistan and Haiti, which are faced with similar problems. He added that the “most daring” forecasts show thatUkraine will need more than 30 years to catchup with the current economic level of Romania or Poland.

(Ukraine has created a new term and strategy called the “Kiev Guilt Complex”, to shame the world for financial success)

https://www.rt.com/business/583146-ukraine-zombie-economy/

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