14 Nov, 2023 Excellent! The End is Near.

EU’s Ukraine weapons goal ‘unattainable’ – Germany

Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said he had been skeptical of Brussels’ pledge all along, citing inadequate production capacities

The European Union will not be able to make good on its pledge to provide Ukraine with one million artillery rounds by next March, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has admitted. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba has also echoed this assessment.

Brussels made the promise earlier this year, expecting to reach the ambitious target within 12 months by dipping into existing stocks, as well as by procuring shells from arms manufacturers. However, several media outlets have reported that the bloc is falling behind schedule.

Speaking ahead of a meeting by EU defense chiefs in Brussels on Tuesday, Pistorius said that “the one million won’t be achieved. One must proceed on this assumption.” The minister blamed the supposed shortfall on inadequate production capacities in European nations, explaining that even if the economy was switched to a wartime mode, the ammunition output would still not become prolific enough overnight. (The EU never prepared to defend their own countries. The woke just got broke. Plus they never planned to make good on their promises to Ukraine$

Pistorius admitted he had been skeptical about the bloc’s target right from the start when it was set in March, fearing that it could prove unrealistically ambitious.

Commenting on a report by Bloomberg, which suggested last week that Brussels would not be able to fulfill its promise, Kuleba told local media that the report was “unfortunately”true.

“There are questions, and we are, so to speak, ringing the bells a lot and loudly,” the minister stated, adding that the EU is willing to deliver the promised number of shells in principle, but cannot do so due to the “pathetic state of the defense industry.”

According to Kuleba, Brussels is already taking steps to rectify the situation, but Ukraine will still insist that “more and faster is needed.” (Seriously when is this country going to Fuck Off?)

In its report on Saturday, Bloomberg claimed that the European External Action Service – the EU’s foreign policy wing – had informed member states on the lagging progress with respect to the ammunition pledge.

The media outlet alleged that, with less than three months left before the deadline, the bloc hadprovided just 30% of the intended figure.

Russia, for its part, has repeatedly argued that Western nations have already become de facto parties to the conflict by providing arms, intelligence, and training to Kiev’s military. Moscow insists that no amount of Western defense aid will be able to change the course of its military campaign, while unnecessarily increasing the likelihood of a direct clash between NATO and Russia.

https://www.rt.com/news/587258-german-defense-minister-eu-ukraine-shells-target/

14 Nov, 2023 16:57

Hackers claim world’s largest bank paid ransom over cyberattack

A ransomware gang has claimed it received payment from a Chinese banking giant

The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) paid a ransom after it suffered a cyberattack against some of its US-based systems last week, LockBit, the hacking group behind the attack, claimed on Monday, according to media reports.

The breach of the country's largest global lender by total assets, which wasdisclosed on November 9, disrupted some US Treasury market deals from clearing, forcing brokers and traders to reroute transactions.

According to Reuters, a LockBit representative confirmed the payment on Monday but declined to provide further details.

“They paid a ransom, deal closed,” the representative told the outlet via an online messaging app Tox.

The extent of the ICBC cyberattack was so severe that even corporate email systems stopped functioning, prompting employees to use Google mail, according to the outlet.

“The market is mostly back to normal now,”said Zhiwei Ren, a portfolio manager atPenn MutualAsset Management.

Ransomware is a type of cyberattack when hackers take control of systems or information in order to demand a ransom to unlock it. This type of attack has seen a surge in popularity among hackers in recent years.

The Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center, a financial industry cybersecurity group, urged companies to “stay current on all protective measures and patch critical vulnerabilities immediately.”

“Ransomware remains one of the top threat vectors facing the financial sector,” the group’s spokesperson warned.

In recent months,LockBithas attacked some of the world’s largest organizations andhas been particularly disruptive in the US.The cybercriminal group has been stealing information and leaking sensitive data in cases where victims refused to pay.

The ransomware gang has hitmore than 1,700 organizations in the USin numerous sectors ranging from financial services and food to schools, transportation and government departments, according to Reuters.

(Does Lockbit work for the ICA?)

https://www.rt.com/business/587265-china-icbc-cyberattack-ransom-paid/

14 Nov, 2023 16:12

Ukraine arrests Zelensky critic for 'treason'

The lawmaker, who is accused of working for Russian intelligence, has dismissed the charges as politically motivated

A Kiev court has ordered the arrest of Ukrainian journalist andindependent MP Alexander Dubinsky, accused by Ukraine’s successor to the KGB (the SBU) of treason and working for Russia. He was remanded for two months of pre-trial detention on Tuesday, according to posts on Telegram published on the politician’s personal channel.

The lawmaker dismissed the charges against him as politically motivated, calling the whole case “fabricated” and based only on vague witness testimonies and assumptions, rather than solid facts.

“There are assumptions that are not substantiated by any evidence by the prosecution. All these materials are fabricated. This is a political persecution for criticizing the authorities, which I have been doing throughout my entire parliamentary career,”Dubinsky stated.

Dubinsky used to be a member of President Vladimir Zelensky’s ruling party, ‘Servant of the People’, and was elected to parliament in mid-2019. The politician has repeatedly been involved in various scandals, ultimately being ousted from the party in February 2021, yet retaining his mandate as an independent.

He has grown increasingly critical of Zelensky as the conflict between Moscow and Kiev drags on, alleging rampant corruption within the government and condemning policies against the Russian language, as well as Ukraine’s “lawless” conscription drive.

The MP claims the case against him is based solely on the testimony of a convict who entered a plea deal with prosecutors for only five years behind bars. That person is linked to another treason case involving Andrey Derkach, a former Ukrainian lawmaker, Dubinsky said.

Derkach left Ukraine shortly after the conflict between Moscow and Kiev began in February 2022. He is a highly-controversial figure who has been at the center of multiple high-profile scandals. The ex-legislator has faced accusations from US intelligence of interfering in the country's presidential election, and charges from the US Justice Department of money laundering and fraud. Meanwhile, Kiev has leveled allegations of treason and working for Moscow at Derkach. He was stripped of Ukrainian citizenship early this year, and has denied all the aforementioned accusations.

The SBU provided more information on Dubinsky’s case on Monday, with a detailed press release concerning “suspicion of high treason” by an “active lawmaker.” Dubinsky was not explicitly named in the statement, but the agency released lightly blurred photos of a raid on the MP’s residence in which he was still easily recognizable.

According to the SBU, the politician has been working for a “criminal organization” bankrolled by Russian military intelligence and tasked with sowing discord in Ukraine, and spreading “pro-Russian narratives about the top military and political leadership” of the country. Apart from Dubinsky, the purported group involved Derkach and a former employee of the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office, Konstantin Kulik.All of the suspects are now facing up to 15 years behind bars, as well as asset forfeiture.

(So Zelensky is using Bidan tactic arrest your political opponents. Ukraine was a test case for Bidan admin of how many law and citizens right can be taking away, it was so successful Bidan Admin launched a full scale attacks on America)

https://www.rt.com/russia/587252-ukraine-zelensky-critic-arrest/

14 Nov, 2023 15:12

Judge under investigation for AI-authored ruling

Brazilian officials confirmed they are looking into the first known case of an error in judgment caused by artificial intelligence

A Brazilian federal judge in the northern state of Acre has been ordered to explain how he came to publish an error-riddled decision co-authored by AI chatbot ChatGPT in a first-of-its-kind case for the country, authorities confirmed to AFP on Monday.

The National Justice Council (CNJ) has given Judge Jefferson Rodrigues 15 days to explain a decision bristling with incorrect details about previous court cases and legal precedent, including the erroneous attribution of past decisions to the Superior Court of Justice, case records revealed.

Rodrigues admitted in documents filed with the supervisory body that the decision was co-written with a “trusted advisor” – and AI.He brushed off the foul-up as “a mere mistake” made by one of his underlings, blaming “the work overload facing judges” for the errors.

The CNJ claimed the incident was “the first case of its kind” in Brazil, which has no laws prohibiting the use of AI in judicial settings. Indeed, the Supreme Court’s president reportedly plans to commission the creation of a “legal ChatGPT” for use by judges – a project that is said to be already underway in the state of Sao Paulo.

Judges have been using AI chatbots to inform their decisions for almost as long as they have been available to the public, despite their tendency to produce extremely vivid, authoritative-sounding “hallucinations” – responses with no basis in reality.

Colombian Judge Juan Manuel Padilla Garcia of the First Circuit Court in Cartagena proudly credited ChatGPT in a decision he issued in January regarding whether an autistic child should receive insurance coverage for medical treatment, qualifying the unusual research method with a reassurance that its responses were fact-checked and were “in no way [meant] to replace the judge’s decision.”

In June, US federal judge P. Kevin Castel fined two lawyers with the firm Levidow, Levidow & Oberman PC $5,000 after they submitted bogus legal research – including several nonexistent cases – generated by ChatGPT to back an aviation injury claim, then doubled down on the phony citations when questioned by the judge.

(How to destroy the law in every country? Introduce AI!)

https://www.rt.com/news/587261-brazilian-judge-chatgpt-decision-mistakes/

14 Nov, 2023 12:11

Zelensky’s chief of staff rejects former NATO head’s proposal

Kiev will accept no compromise over lands it claims in conflict with Russia, Andrey Yermak has said

The proposal to extend NATO security guarantees to Kiev within territories under its de-facto control may only be considered as a stepping stone to the country re-taking parts of Russia, according to Andrey Yermak, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky’s chief of staff.

The senior official was asked about the idea, which former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen floated last week, during an event hosted on Monday by the Hudson Institute, a Washington DC-based think tank. Kiev seeks membership in the US-led bloc, but its ongoing conflict with Russia is a major obstacle in the eyes of several member states.

“Our principles are very clear, very strong. Any compromise with independence, territorial integrity, sovereignty [is not acceptable],”Yermak declared.

Rasmussen is aware of the position, so the idea was his personal opinion, Yermak said. The Ukrainian government is seeking security guarantees through mechanisms other than NATO’s mutual defense treaty, he added, mentioning the so-called Kiev Security Compact, which the Zelensky government proposed in September 2022. But NATO remains the world’s strongest military alliance, against which Russia has “zero chances,”Yermak asserted, explaining Kiev’s bid to join.

The senior official went on to praise the Ukrainian army, saying that it had shown the world that the Russian military “monster” could be defeated.

“Ukraine absolutely show: not exists this monster. We stopped this monster near of the Kiev,” he told the event participants in English, adding: “Let’s finish this job.”

Russia pulled troops back from the Ukrainian capital last year, after Kiev gave a preliminary agreement to a truce, under which Ukraine would become a neutral, demilitarized nation, with the leading military powers of the world, including Russia, guaranteeing its security.

The Ukrainian government then made a U-turn and declared that victory over Russia with Western help was its only option in the conflict. The US and its allies have pledged to support Kiev for “as long as it takes” to achieve that goal.

The plan apparently hit a wall this summer, however,when Western-armed and trained Ukrainian troops failed to breach Russian defensive positions. Valery Zaluzhny, Ukraine’s top general, has acknowledged that the hostilities had reached a stalemate. Zelensky’s office, however, denied that assessment and claimed the counteroffensive was progressing.

Amid the battlefield attrition, the Republican opposition in the US has become increasingly opposed to providing additional billions of dollars in aid to Ukraine. Skeptical lawmakers have cited a lack of accountability for the funding, corruption scandals in the Ukrainian Defense Ministry and other problems in justifying their refusal to allocate more money at the request of the White House.

(This is what happens when you enable a corrupt Dictator. Why are most Ukrainians ugly?)

https://www.rt.com/news/587240-yermak-limited-nato-membership/

Kash Patel: Congressional Tensions Rising | Kevin McCarthy Elbows Rep. Burchett In The Back

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The Pope's Targeting Traditional Catholics | Westen On Pope Francis Relieving Bishop Stickland

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>>19916601

Did the IBF target traditional Catholics in the US by the Poop’s orders?

Hazony: Muslim Brotherhood Still 15,000 Strong In Gaza, Israel's Fighting The Same Enemy The U.S. Is

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Update on whats going on in Jerusalem

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The Muslim Brotherhood's Infiltration | 400 Biden Regime Officials Sign Pro-Hamas Letter

This is insane, entirely insane!

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Bannon: "Trump will deliver the votes, we need to make sure they're not stolen"

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>>19916851

This is funny, after Bannon says “Trump will deliver the votes,we just need to make the votes are stolen, and No, I’m Not taking about the Italian satellites, I’m talking about the good old fashion way“

>>19916908

Aren’t stolen, damn it!

>>19916851

I love that Bannon and Jones triggers the bots so bad!Sad bots, shills, trolls and spammers.

Watch this: when I mention Juan O Savin the jump.

Makes one wonder if these guys are patriots?

Peru grants constitutional rights to unborn babies with 'rights of the conceived' law

Jessica Barshis. Nov. 14, 2023

Peru’s Congress passed a bill that reinforced the rights of unborn children on November 9th, Catholic News Agency reports. Law 785 or the“Law that Recognizes Rights of the Conceived” was passed in a 72-26 vote.

Congressman Alejandro Muñante who is also one of the spokespersons for the Life and Family caucus in Peru told news outlets that the purpose of the law was “to consolidate the right to life from conception, which is already established in our constitution and in the Civil Code and the Children and Adolescents Code.”

He said that “the need was seen to be able to develop and detail a list of rights that our constitution precisely seeks to protect from conception.”

The three articles in the law recognize an unborn child as a “human person” separate from the mother and his/her rights to life, integrity and identity.

In Peru’s longstanding Civil Code, Article 1 stated “the human person is a subject of law from birth … but not from conception.”

With this law, the Civil Code will now state “Human life begins with conception. The human person is a subject of law from his conception. The Peruvian state recognizes and guarantees respect for the dignity of the conceived child, as well as its right to life, individual identity, mental and physical integrity, as well as to freely develop in the womb [i.e., without external interference].”

Article 5 of the law which acknowledges the mother’s rights says that “the state guarantees the pregnant mother’s access to health, as well as the information required for health care and nutrition of the conceived child during the gestational process.”

Article 6 continues that “in situations of high medical risk, in which the life of the mother and the conceived child is endangered, health professionals are obliged to inform [the patient] of the diagnosis, treatment, and effects of these on the health and development of the pregnant woman and the conceived child.”

“In the event that the treatment endangers the life of any of these,” it states, “it is up to the mother or spouse, cohabiting partner, or relatives up to the second degree of consanguinity and first degree of affinity, to decide regarding the medical actions to be carried out.”

In order for the law to take effect, Congressman Muñante says,“all that is required is for it to be published in the Peruvian Official Gazette and the corresponding amendment of the Civil Code.”

Excellent!

https://humanevents.com/2023/11/14/peru-grants-constitutional-rights-to-unborn-babies-with-rights-of-the-conceived-law

Finnish parliamentarian NOT GUILTY of 'hate speech' after posting Bible verses on X

Jarryd Jaeger

On Tuesday, the Helsinki Court of Appeal dismissed all charges against Päivi Räsänen. The Finnish parliamentarian had been accused by a state prosecutor Anu Mantila of violatingthe country's "hate speech" laws for "agitation against a minority group" on three separate occasions where she expressed her Christian beliefs.

The court unanimously ruled that Räsänen had not broken the law, and ordered the prosecutor to pay for her legal fees, as well as those of Lutheran Bishop Juhana Pohjola, who was also found not guilty in connection with the case.

According to Alliance Defending Freedom, the group that coordinated the pair's legal defence, Mantila argued that while it was not against the law to share Bible verses, Räsänen's "interpretation and opinion about the Bible verses [were] criminal." She added that, "the point isn't whether it is true or not but that it is insulting."

"At the heart of the prosecutor's examination of Räsänen was this: would she recant her beliefs?" lawyer Paul Coleman explained. "The answer was no – she would not deny the teachings of her faith. The cross-examinationbore all the resemblance of a “heresy” trial of the middle ages; it was implied thatRäsänen had 'blasphemed' against the dominant orthodoxies of the day."

Räsänen was hit with three counts, one for a Tweet in which she questioned her church's leadership for sponsoring a Pride event, another for a 2019 radio interview she took part in on the topic, and a third for a pamphlet about sexuality and marriage called "As Man and Woman He Created Them" that she wrote for the church in 2004, which Pohjola distributed.

"I am deeply relieved," Räsänen said following the verdict. "The court has fully endorsed and upheld the decision of the district court, which recognized everyone’s right to free speech.""It isn’t a crime to tweet a Bible verse, or to engage in public discourse with a Christian perspective," the grandmother of 11 added. "The attempts made to prosecute me for expressing my beliefs have resulted in an immensely trying four years, but my hope is that the result will stand as a key precedent to protect the human right to free speech. I sincerely hope other innocent people will be spared the same ordeal for simply voicing their convictions."

(I don’t know how this countries don’t consider themselves Communists!)

https://humanevents.com/2023/11/14/finnish-parliamentarian-not-guilty-of-hate-speech-after-posting-bible-verses-on-x

Israel reveals Hamas hid hostages under childrens hospital in Gaza

Ari Hoffman. Nov. 14, 2023

Evidence of the hostages held by terrorists was found in a Hamas command center under a children’s hospital in Gaza, according to the Israeli Defense Forces.

In a video posted online Monday, IDF Chief Spokesman R.-Adm. Daniel Hagari gave a tour of the Hamas command center under the Rantisi Children's Hospital. There, the IDF found terrorist suicide vests, rocket-propelled grenades, and other weapons.

There was also evidence that some of the 200-plus hostages that Hamas terroristsabducted from Israel had previously been kept in the locationand were taken there shortly after the Oct. 7 attack.

In the video, Hagari showed a basement location that was separate from the rest of the facility which contained explosives and other weapons. He also showed that theHamas terror tunnels came out directly into the hospital.

The facility held improvised toilets as well as chairs with ropes attached to them and a motorcycle with a bullet hole that was connected to one of the abductions.

Baby bottles, diapers, and other supplies were also found on the floor, indicating that one of the babies taken hostage by terrorists was held at the location.

Additionally, a makeshift calendar was found marking the days since the October 7 massacre, possibly indicating when the terrorists left with the hostages. The calendar also appeared to include a guard schedule.

Hagari was unsure if the terrorists used the evacuation of the hospital as cover to escape the underground tunnel network.

Rami Igra, former Mossad chief of hostage rescue, told I-24 news that Hamas holds approximately 150 of the hostages and Islamic Jihad has roughly 30.

The remainder are being held by Palestinians who had crossed the border on Oct 7 and returned home "with a pet Israeli."

The Washington Post, citing an unnamed high-ranking Israeli official, reported on Monday thatIsrael and Hamas are close to reaching a deal to exchange terrorist prisoners for Israeli women and childrenheld hostage by Hamas.

According to the Jerusalem Post, on Monday Hamas told Qatari mediators that the terrorist group would release up to 70 women and children held in Gaza in return for a five-day ceasefire with Israel.

https://humanevents.com/2023/11/14/israel-reveals-hamas-hid-hostages-under-childrens-hospital-in-gaza#google_vignette

Over 100 White House Staffers Turn on President Biden for Spreading ‘Misinformation’

By thepoliticsbrief- November 13, 2023

An internal memo reportedly endorsed by more than one hundred personnel from the United States Agency for International Development and the State Department accuses President Joe Biden of “spreading misinformation” about the Israel-Hamas conflict.

The memorandum, which was compiled by a subordinate State Department diplomat who has expressed strong disapproval of Biden’s pro-Israel position on social media, denounces the President’s speech on October 10. In the address, Biden expressed his support for Israel in the wake of Hamas’s fatal attack.

As documented by Axios, the dissent poses a substantial internal challenge to the Biden administration’s management of the circumstance. While the memo fails to explicitly identify the misinformation, it suggests that Biden’s account of events in the Middle East is distorted.

The memo claims, “Yet we have failed to reassess our posture towards Israel,” continuing, “We doubled down on our unwavering military assistance to the (Israeli government) without clear or actionable redlines.”

“Members of the White House and (the National Security Council) displayed a clear disregard for the lives of Palestinians, a documented unwillingness to de-escalate, and, even prior to October 7, a reckless lack of strategic foresight.”

The memorandum urges a reassessment of the United States government’s stance on Israel and advocates for the liberation of captives being held by both Hamas and Israel. Furthermore, Biden’s skepticism regarding the reported death toll in Gaza was met with criticism, and certain individuals affiliated with the White House and National Security Council were accused of disregarding Palestinian lives and failing to possess a strategic perspective.

Diplomats have the opportunity to express their policy disagreements through a dissent channel, which has been acknowledged by the State Department.

The House of Representatives approved a $14.3 billion federal aid package to Israel by a vote of 226 to 196 on November 2. Two Republicans voted against the measure, while twelve Democrats joined the Republicans in voting in favor.Funding for the package will be reallocated from funds previously designated for the IRSunder Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, in accordance with the Republican-proposed legislation. The legislation, according to Republicans, will enable the United States to support Israel while also honoring a campaign pledge made to GOP voters.

“Israel has every right to defend itself from the brutal attacks we have been witnessing over the past month,” Republican Policy Committee Chairman Gary Palmer told Fox News.

The Biden Administration urged Congress to approve a $100 billion aid package, of which $60 million is designated for Ukraine, thereby tying funding for the two countries together. “It is a prudent investment that will yield long-lasting benefits for the security of the United States,” Biden said in a rare Oval Office address where he unveiled the package.

Prior to allocating further financial resources to Ukraine, House Republicans have demanded heightened oversight and a formalized initiative. Biden has declared that he would veto any standalone funding measure for Israel reach his desk.

(Isn’t this is clear sign Bidan is not the President?Or Obama is desperate to get him out of office.)

https://thepoliticsbrief.com/over-100-white-house-staffers-turn-on-president-biden-for-spreading-misinformation/

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I join your note and prayer