Since @elonmusk published parts of these conversations, I might as well include others. I was under a “blanket search ban” at one point and a lot of my 1.9 million followers still don’t see my content.
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1758230628355485979
Moscow sanctions over 200 Americans for ‘Russophobia’
The entry ban targets US policymakers, business people, journalists and academics
The latest additions to Russia’s “stop list” include US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller, former US ambassador to Russia John Sullivan, former US deputy secretary of state Wendy Sherman, and former US Treasury secretary Larry Summers.
The ban also targets executives from the US defense sector, including Shamala Littlefield, vice president for financial planning at Lockheed Martin (the maker of HIMARS rocket launchers) and Alfred Clarke, founder of the military contractor Blackwater.
“The current expansion of the Russian ‘stop list’ aims, among other things, to consolidate Washington’s reflexive awareness of the simple truth that any aggressive attempts will not go unpunished and will receive a decisive response,” the statement said.
The sanctions list, which now totals 2,078 individuals, also targets academics, including Columbia University professors and journalists from the Washington Post and the New York Times.
https://www.rt.com/russia/594319-russia-bans-us-citizens/
NATO member state’s defense minister resigns
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda will meet with Arvydas Anusauskas on Saturday
Lithuanian Defense Minister Arvydas Anusauskas has handed in his resignation to Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte, the government’s press office said in a statement on Friday. Anusauskas was also scheduled to meet with President Gitanas Nauseda on Saturday, according to the agenda of the head of state.
Journalist Edmundas Jakilaitis launched a wave of speculation on Friday evening, when he wrote on Facebook: “Thanks to Arvydas Anusauskas. We'll see how Laurynas Kasciunas will do.”
Anusauskas jokingly directed all questions to Jakilaicius after the post.
“I promised him to refer all interested parties to him for that message, so go ahead, call, ask,” he said.
Earlier this week, the Lithuanian media predicted that MP Laurynas Kasciunas could succeed Anusauskas as defense chief.
The Lithuanian daily “15 min” reported that the defense minister had requested a meeting urgently, which could signal disagreements between him and Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte. The latter allegedly disapproved of statements he had made in the United States, which he visited this week.
Lithuania’s upcoming parliamentary elections, scheduled for October, could also be a source of political tension. According to the polls, Anusauskas is the most popular member of the conservative Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats party.
According to Lithuanian law, a cabinet minister must submit a resignation statement to the prime minister, and the prime minister must hand it over to the president.
A NATO member state since 2004, Lithuania has been actively supporting Ukraine since the start of its conflict with Russia. The Baltic country has also been beefing up its own defenses over the past two years.
In a post on X (formerly Twitter) last month, Lithuania’s ambassador to Sweden Linas Linkevicius warned that Russia’s western exclave of Kaliningrad would be “neutralized first” if Moscow “dares to challenge NATO.”
Russia has consistently made it clear that it considers NATO’s military buildup close to its Western borders to be a threat to its national security.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has also said that Moscow has no plans to attack NATO, stressing that his country “has no interest… geopolitically, economically or militarily” in doing so.
https://www.rt.com/news/594349-lithuanian-defense-minister-resigns-media/
Macron Again Talks Up NATO Troops For Ukraine: 'We Cannot Allow Russia To Win'
Even after his first round of comments resulted in significant pushback from among European allies, French President Emmanuel Macron has once again declared that NATO should not rule out sending troops to Ukraine, which would set the West on a path of direct nuclear-armed confrontation with Russia.
He said in a Thursday interview on French national television that while the "situation" is perhaps not ripe at the moment to deploy troops there, it remains that "all these options are possible."
But perhaps more importantly, Macron framed Russia's war in Ukraine as an "existential" threat for Europe and said that "if the situation should deteriorate, we would be ready to make sure that Russia never wins that war."
He castigated allies for previously being slow to act: "Two years ago we said we would never send tanks. We did. Two years ago, we said we would never send medium-range missiles. We did," the French leaders said. "Those who say ‘let’s not support Ukraine’ do not make the choice of peace, they make the choice of defeat."
Ironically throughout the first year of the war, Macron was the only Western European leader to hold frequent phone calls with Russia's President Putin in efforts to de-escalate and to get to the negotiating table. But now Macron has clearly moved into the hawkish camp which sees military solutions as the only viable way out:
"We have put too many limits in our vocabulary. We are not escalating. We are not at war with Russia — but we cannot allow it to win," Macron said.
He continued on this theme in the following: "If war was to spread to Europe, it would be Russia’s sole choice and sole responsibility. But for us to decide today to be weak, to decide today that we would not respond, is being defeated already. And I don’t want that," he said.
As for NATO boots on the ground, the reality is that this is already the case to some small degree, given the Discord of last year revealed that 97 NATO special operators were in Ukraine, among them 15 French soldiers. The Kremlin has of late suggested France has already become a party to the conflict given the presence of many French mercenaries and volunteers in the conflict.
The question remains: why Macron's sudden willingness to escalate after he was seen as a dove? As a reminder, days ago the French magazine Marianne obtained leaked French defense documents assessing the situation in Ukraine. The publication issued a bombshell report in French and which remains paywalled, the title of which is machine translated: War in Ukraine: from caution to panic… What Macron’s shift hides.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/macron-again-talks-nato-troops-ukraine-we-cannot-allow-russia-win
Haitian Migrant Boat With Guns, Drugs & Night Vision Intercepted Off Florida As Caribbean Crisis Spreads
Haiti's domestic security has rapidly deteriorated as widespread gang violence and civil unrest plague the failed state. A warning from the US Department of Defense on Tuesday explained that a "mass migration" wave from Haiti to South Florida is imminent.
The 'Caribbean crisis' appears to be in the early stages of spreading to the US. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced Friday that a migrant boat with dozens of Haitians, firearms, and drugs, along with night vision, was recently intercepted by Florida Fish and Wildlife agents just off the Florida coast, according to Fox News.
"Our Florida Fish and Wildlife offices interdicted a vessel that had 25 illegal immigrants, potential illegal immigrants from Haiti in their boat. In their vessel, they had firearms, they had drugs, they had night vision gear, and were boating very recklessly, which would potentially endanger other folks," DeSantis said at a press conference where he signed three pieces of legislation to deter illegal immigration.
"That vessel was interdicted near the Sebastian Inlet and those illegal aliens were turned over to the Coast Guard for deportation," the governor said.
The announcement comes after the New York Post leaked an internal memo from Border Patrol that revealed agents in South Florida are preparing for an influx of Haitian migrants.
"One landing will cripple the station and our ability to respond to other traffic," the memo said.
Meanwhile, Biden administration officials warned last week in a House Armed Services Committee that they're preparing for a surge in Haitian migrants to enter the US.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/haitian-migrant-boat-guns-drugs-night-vision-intercepted-florida-caribbean-crisis
Make no mistake, this piece of legislation is the "Patriot Act on steroids." The RESTRICT Act would seemingly grant the US government total control over all devices connected to the internet, including cars, Ring cameras, refrigerators, Alexa devices, and your phone. It goes beyond the pale, with the end goal being nothing short of a complete invasion of your privacy.
Under the guise of national security, the RESTRICT Act targets not only TikTok but all hardware, software, and mobile apps used by more than one million people. This means that anything from your Google Home device to your smartphone could be subject to government monitoring and control.
Video: Mike Johnson Films Promo TikTok for AIPAC After Voting to Ban the App
Republicans are against TikTok when it's not working for Israel.
GOP Speaker of the House Mike Johnson filmed a promotional TikTok video for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) after voting for uni-party legislation to ban the video-sharing app. Members of Congress and various pressure groups like the ADL are calling for the ban, in large part, because TikTok refuses to censor content unflattering to Israel. Opponents of the bill have slammed it as a Trojan horse, and say that it will allow the federal government to ban ANY app or platform that doesn’t enforce their will.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson says that he will “apply every amount of pressure” possible to the US Senate as the TikTok ban reaches the upper chamber of the national legislature, but in the meantime, he’s flexing the double standards often carved by both sides of the aisle for Israel and the Israel lobby.
“Hi, this is House Speaker Mike Johnson. I’m here at the AIPAC Conference and we want to emphasize, it has never been more important for the US to stand with our friend and ally Israel,” Johnson said in the TikTok video. “This is an important time on the world stage,” he went on.
“We have to project and maintain peace through strength and we’re gonna intend to do that. The House Republicans stand strong with you. God bless.”
2024’s AIPAC Conference was an exercise in war-mongering and reminders of the vast, bi-partisan influence that Israel has over the United States.
AIPAC Conference attendees were treated to a special video address from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who praised Joe Biden and the US government “for standing with Israel at all times,” while beating the war drums in search of support for the Israeli invasion of Rafah, the city in southern Gaza that’s been packed full of civilian refugees with nowhere else to go, and where Israel has been ramping up attacks that have slaughtered civilians.
“To win this war, we must destroy the remaining Hamas battalions in Rafah,” Netanyahu said. “If not, Hamas will regroup, rearm, and reconquer Gaza and then we’re back to square one. And that’s an intolerable threat that we cannot accept.”
https://nationalfile.com/video-mike-johnson-films-promo-tiktok-for-aipac-after-voting-to-ban-the-app/
Memo: Hunter Biden Tried to Help CCP-Linked Company Purchase U.S. Maker of Nuclear Reactors
Hunter Biden tried to help Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-linked entity CEFC China Energy Co. purchase a maker of U.S. nuclear reactors in 2016, a strategy memo and testimony given to the House impeachment inquiry shows.
CEFC is closely linked to the CCP. The chairman of CEFC was Ye Jianming, who paid Hunter a $1 million retainer fee for legal services in 2017. Hunter also received a large diamond from Ye in February 2017 worth an estimated $80,000.
Ye “had direct abiding and deep ties to Chinese intelligence when they were arranging these ideals for the Bidens,” according to Breitbart News senior contributor and Government Accountability Institute president Peter Schweizer.
The memo obtained by lawmakers suggests CEFC’s goal was to exploit Hunter’s proximity to the Obama White House to allow the controversial deal to go through — all while shielding the transaction between CEFC and Westinghouse, the maker of nuclear reactors. Just the News first reported on the information obtained by lawmakers:
Congressional investigators recently obtained new memos and testimony about the nature of the plan to help CEFC gain a larger foothold in the global nuclear energy market by acquiring Westinghouse. One of Hunter Biden’s former business partners, Rob Walker, told Congress the future first son was involved, providing a letter to make the Chinese comfortable with the plan.
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This plan would place the appearance of a layer between CEFC—a China-based company with close connections to the ruling Chinese Communist Party and component of its national energy strategy—and the iconic U.S.-based energy company.
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At the time, Westinghouse was U.S.-based but owned by Japan’s Toshiba and one of the darlings of the nuclear industry with its new AP1000 reactor, a smaller and more advanced power generator. But it privately was suffering financial strife due to cost delays and overruns at a planned nuclear power plant in Georgia that would eventually force the company to file for temporary bankruptcy protection.
Hunter was not the only Biden attempting to help CEFC acquire business in the American energy sector. James Biden, brother of President Joe Biden, confirmed to the FBI in 2023 that his family tried to help CEFC purchase a U.S. liquid natural gas facility in Louisiana. James told investigators that he worked with Louisiana state officials to cut regulatory red tape to benefit the deal. The deal never materialized.
House investigators launched the probe into the Biden family in November 2022. They revealed Joe Biden received money from James and Hunter Biden. They also showed that nine additional Biden family members received payments from the family’s foreign business ventures, including two of Joe Biden’s grandchildren.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/16/memo-hunter-biden-tried-help-ccp-linked-company-purchase-u-s-maker-nuclear-reactors/
Pentagon lists priorities to arm Ukraine, replenish stockpile
The Biden administration has underscored to lawmakers its $6.5 billion in priorities to replenish U.S. arms stockpiles, replacing weapons already sent to Ukraine and allowing for more to be provided, according to a Defense Department document sent to Capitol Hill.
The replenishment, which involves everything from 155mm artillery shells and air-launched anti-radar missiles to night-vision headgear, has become stymied as legislation that would provide assistance to Ukraine in its struggle against Russia’s invasion remains entangled in Congress.
House Speaker Mike Johnson has refused to act on a $95 billion package passed by the Senate that includes aid for Ukraine, Taiwan and Israel in its war against Hamas without tying it to a Republican version of new legislation on U.S. immigration policy.
The document sent to Congress, dated Feb. 24 and entitled “Priority Replenishment Items Based on the Existing Backlog” was obtained by Bloomberg News. Underscoring the potential economic benefits in the home states and districts of many lawmakers, it forms part of the Pentagon’s persuasion campaign for the House to approve the package, which would provide $60 billion in military aid for Ukraine.
https://americanmilitarynews.com/2024/03/pentagon-lists-priorities-to-arm-ukraine-replenish-stockpile/
Today's Israeli bullshit
IDF probe: Palestinian gunmen killed Gazans waiting for aid, army did not fire
Military denies claims by Hamas health authorities that Israeli tanks and helicopters killed 21, wounded 150 others at Gaza City square
(AFP)
The Israel Defense Forces on Friday denied claims by the Hamas terror group that troops had opened fire on crowds of civilians waiting for aid at a square in Gaza City, saying that Israeli soldiers did not shoot at any stage during the incident and that Palestinian gunmen caused the casualties.
The Hamas-run health ministry in the Gaza Strip accused Israeli troops of opening fire from “tanks and helicopters” at the civilians gathered at Kuwait Square late Thursday, killing 21 people and wounding more than 150 others.
The Israeli military said that after conducting an “intensive preliminary review,” it found that “the IDF did not open fire at the aid convoy at Kuwait Square.”
According to the IDF’s probe, a convoy of 31 trucks containing food and other humanitarian aid for civilians made its way to northern Gaza on Thursday night.
An hour before the convoy arrived at an IDF-established corridor, armed Palestinians opened fire while civilians were waiting for the aid trucks, the probe found.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-probe-palestinian-gunmen-killed-gazans-waiting-for-aid-army-did-not-fire/
USAID 'Disinformation Primer' targets gamers, advertisers, memes, 'right not to be disinformed'
State Department component acknowledges the "inherent contradiction between the democratic ideal of free speech and the regulation of online content," and risk of giving authoritarians another excuse to crack down.
Going further than the Treasury Department's tacit support for debanking alleged "hate groups" after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, a State Department component that "strengthen[s] resilient democratic societies" developed a more sweeping plan for financially choking off disfavored narratives a month later.
The U.S. Agency for International Development wrote a "Disinformation Primer" that appears to have been started in "late 2020," judging by a reference to the most up-to-date "social media initiatives" by Facebook and Twitter "to address disinformation and misinformation."
It was still being written at least 10 days into the Biden administration, referring twice to the Jan. 31, 2021 Myanmar military coup, which the primer says "underlined issues of internet freedom and disinformation."
State turned over the 88-page document, dated February 2021 and marked "internal use only," as part of a 102-page production in response to Freedom of Information Act litigation by America First Legal.
The primer was "conceived and developed by Joshua Machleder and Shannon Maguire at USAID, together with" the University of Chicago organization formerly known as the National Opinion Research Center, the introduction says.
It thanks dozens of individuals at universities and government institutions including the National Endowment for Democracy and U.S. Institute for Peace "for sharing their time, opinions, and expertise," and current and former USAID staff for "opinions and feedback."
USAID didn't respond to requests for comment on its view of the primer now.
"Just as human rights advocates have argued that internet access is a human right and that there is a fundamental right to access of information, there is also a right not to be disinformed," the primer says in a section laying out 10 steps for USAID and partners to take in "countering and preventing disinformation."
These include partnering with other governments, supporting "media monitoring and fact-checking initiatives," and "form[ing] synergies" with "civil society, media, social media platforms, internet governance forums, and other donors" to prevent disinformation, especially working with "data scientists, social scientists, and journalists."
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/usaid-disinformation-primer-targets-gamers-advertisers-memes-right-not
🚨THIS IS NOT A COINCIDENCE
Rep. William Keating sold Boeing $BA stock on Feb 28, 2024
The DOJ announced it was investigating Boeing on Feb 29, 2024
He sold ONE DAY before it was reported that the DOJ was investigating Boeing pic.twitter.com/TbIc3hLDgV
https://twitter.com/TrackInsiders_/status/1768436725045404139
AIPAC's MONSTROUS Lobbying Strategies Leaked
https://youtu.be/cjISYqF1A0Q
HEAVY STRIKES HIT ISIS CELLS IN CENTRAL SYRIA AMID REPORTS OF NEAR LARGE-SCALE OPERATION
On March 15, Syrian and Russian warplanes carried out a series of heavy airstrikes against ISIS cells in Syria’s central region.
One of the strikes hit a cave in which several terrorists were taking shelter. Syrian pro-government activists who shared video footage of the strike said that the targeted terrorists had received training at the United States al-Tanf garrison in southeastern Syria.
ISIS cells in the central region, which lies between the eastern Homs countryside and the western countryside of Deir Ezzor, escalated their attacks in recent months.
According to a report released by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights on March 16, the terrorists have carried out ten attacks in the region over the past five days. The London-based monitoring group said that the attacks claimed the lives of a civilian woman and 18 pro-government fighters. Ten other people were wounded in the attacks.
Syria and its allies have already begun taking measures to counter the terrorist group. The elite 4th Division and other formations of the Syrian Arab Army have been amassing a large, heavily-armed force in the central region for the last few weeks.
Everything indicates that government forces are preparing to launch a large-scale operation against ISIS cells.
The government launched dozens of combing operations in the region in recent years. However, this time it appears that a fully-fledged military operation is being prepared.
ISIS cells have been waging an insurgency in central Syria for over six years now. Ending the terrorist group presence there will not be easy. The terrorists receive serious support from their comrades in the northeastern region, which is held by the U.S. and its proxies.
In addition, Syrian and Russian officials have accused U.S. forces in al-Tanf of training and even arming terrorists, including members of ISIS, on several occasions in the past.
https://southfront.press/heavy-strikes-hit-isis-cells-in-central-syria-amid-reports-of-near-large-scale-operation-video/
TikTok Has Become a Very Big Deal for Jews
https://twitter.com/DefundIsraelNow/status/1768289628480770313
https://twitter.com/Megatron_ron/status/1768312035412984192
https://twitter.com/OneWord187/status/1768224115977028046
“New World Order” Pledged to World Jewry in 1940
In 1940, an article appeared in the New York Times, vowing that a postwar “New World Order” would be created. World Jewry would be central to the building of this order, said Arthur Greenwood, who was a member of Churchill’s War Cabinet at the time.
ARTHUR GREENWOOD was a Labour Party leader and member of the House of Commons. He played a crucial role in shifting government momentum toward war with Germany. It was Greenwood that rose in Parliament on 2 September, 1939, after Prime Minister Chamberlain gave a speech that his enemies construed as ambivalent. A Conservative backbencher, Leo Avery, exclaimed, “Speak for England, Arthur!” Greenwood then delivered a speech in favor of following through with a declaration of war against Germany the next day. (ILLUSTRATION: From The New York Times, 6 October 1940; a “New World Order” promised.)
In 1940, Greenwood was appointed Minister without Portfolio in Churchill’s War Cabinet. In 1940, his influence again proved decisive in Britain’s war with Germany. After France had declared war on Germany and was swiftly defeated and occupied by Germany in summer of 1940, Greenwood was the strongest and loudest supporter of continuing the war. Churchill received the slim majority vote that he obtained because of Greenwood’s vote. As such, Hitler’s peace offer was rejected and Britain continued its war on Germany.
Having been arguably the most important figure, next to Churchill, in producing and sustaining a war, it was also Greenwood who openly declared the aims and goals of the war: A postwar “New World Order” in which “Jews everywhere” would “make a distinctive and constructive contribution.” His pledge to world Jewry appeared in The New York Times, on 6 October 1940. In it, he also declared that “the freedom and emancipation for the Jewish people are tied up with the emancipation and freedom for people everywhere.”
This last line is among the most significant in Greenwood’s public pledge to world Jewry: It means the subordination of the sovereignty of nations in the interests of non-Europeans. The “New World Order” promised to Jews is the destruction of national sovereignty the world over, but especially in Europe, and the “constructive contribution” of Jews in forging and maintaining it is the leading role they have to play in flooding European peoples and their countries with non-Europeans and threatening their very future existence.
https://nationalvanguard.org/2015/11/new-world-order-pledged-to-world-jewry-in-1940/
The Jewish Banksters Own Donald Trump
Jewish Daily Forward, January 9, 2017: "How Sheldon Adelson’s Bet on Trump Made Him 2016 Election’s Biggest Winner."
“Meanwhile they tell the media to report that Trump isn’t a part of the “swamp’ and people BELIEVE IT.”
https://youtu.be/qJA3hx2OkRw
https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/03/the-jewish-banksters-own-donald-trump/