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Original Guardian Noem article
Trump VP contender Kristi Noem writes of killing dog – and goat – in new book 1/2
South Dakota governor includes bloody tale in campaign volume – and admits ‘a better politician … wouldn’t tell the story here’
Martin Pengelly
In 1952, as a Republican candidate for vice-president, Richard Nixon stirred criticism by admitting receiving a dog, Checkers, as a political gift.
In 2012, as the Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney was pilloried for tying a dog, Seamus, to the roof of the family car for a cross-country trip.
But in 2024 Kristi Noem, a strong contender to be named running mate to Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, has managed to go one further – by admitting killing a dog of her own.
“Cricket was a wirehair pointer, about 14 months old,” the South Dakota governor writes in a new book, adding that the dog, a female, had an “aggressive personality” and needed to be trained to be used for hunting pheasant.
What unfolds over the next few pages shows how that effort went very wrong indeed – and, remarkably, how Cricket was not the only domestic animal Noem chose to kill one day in hunting season.
Noem’s book – No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward – will be published in the US next month. The Guardian obtained a copy.
Like other aspirants to be Trump’s second vice-president who have ventured into print, Noem offers readers a mixture of autobiography, policy prescriptions and political invective aimed at Democrats and other enemies, all of it raw material for speeches on the campaign stump.
She includes her story about the ill-fated Cricket, she says, to illustrate her willingness, in politics as well as in South Dakota life, to do anything “difficult, messy and ugly” if it simply needs to be done.
By taking Cricket on a pheasant hunt with older dogs, Noem says, she hoped to calm the young dog down and begin to teach her how to behave. Unfortunately, Cricket ruined the hunt, going “out of her mind with excitement, chasing all those birds and having the time of her life”.
Noem describes calling Cricket, then using an electronic collar to attempt to bring her under control. Nothing worked. Then, on the way home after the hunt, as Noem stopped to talk to a local family, Cricket escaped Noem’s truck and attacked the family’s chickens, “grabb[ing] one chicken at a time, crunching it to death with one bite, then dropping it to attack another”.
Cricket the untrainable dog, Noem writes, behaved like “a trained assassin”.
When Noem finally grabbed Cricket, she says, the dog “whipped around to bite me”. Then, as the chickens’ owner wept, Noem repeatedly apologised, wrote the shocked family a check “for the price they asked, and helped them dispose of the carcasses littering the scene of the crime”.
Through it all, Noem says, Cricket was “the picture of pure joy”.
“I hated that dog,” Noem writes, adding that Cricket had proved herself “untrainable”, “dangerous to anyone she came in contact with” and “less than worthless … as a hunting dog”.
“At that moment,” Noem says, “I realised I had to put her down.”
Noem, who also represented her state in Congress for eight years, got her gun, then led Cricket to a gravel pit.
“It was not a pleasant job,” she writes, “but it had to be done. And after it was over, I realised another unpleasant job needed to be done.”
Incredibly, Noem’s tale of slaughter is not finished..
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/26/trump-kristi-noem-shot-dog-and-goat-book
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Her family, she writes, also owned a male goat that was “nasty and mean”, because it had not been castrated. Furthermore, the goat smelled “disgusting, musky, rancid” and “loved to chase” Noem’s children, knocking them down and ruining their clothes.
Noem decided to kill the unnamed goat the same way she had just killed Cricket the dog. But though she “dragged him to a gravel pit”, the goat jumped as she shot and therefore survived the wound. Noem says she went back to her truck, retrieved another shell, then “hurried back to the gravel pit and put him down”.
At that point, Noem writes, she realised a construction crew had watched her kill both animals. The startled workers swiftly got back to work, she writes, only for a school bus to arrive and drop off Noem’s children.
“Kennedy looked around confused,” Noem writes of her daughter, who asked: “Hey, where’s Cricket?”
On Friday, reaction to news of Noem’s description of killing her dog and her goat included satire, the Barack Obama adviser turned podcaster Tommy Vietor calling the governor “Jeffrey Dahmer with veneers”, a reference to a famous serial killer and a recent scandal over Noem’s cosmetic dentistry treatment.
But most responses, particularly from dog lovers and people who hunt with dogs, simply expressed disgust.
Rick Wilson, of the anti-Trump Lincoln Project, called Noem “deliberately cruel” and “trash”. Ryan Busse, the Democratic candidate for governor of Montana, said: “Anyone who has ever owned a birddog knows how disgusting, lazy and evil this is. Damn.”
Noem herself posted a screengrab of the Guardian report – and an admission that she recently “put down three horses”.
“We love animals,” she said, “but tough decisions like this happen all the time on a farm. Sadly, we just had to put down three horses a few weeks ago that had been in our family for 25 years.”
The governor also said her book contained “more real, honest and politically incorrect stories that’ll have the media gasping”.
In the book, however, she sums up her story about Cricket the dog and the unnamed, un-castrated goat with what may prove a contender for the greatest understatement of election year:“I guess if I were a better politician I wouldn’t tell the story here.”
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/26/trump-kristi-noem-shot-dog-and-goat-book
The Guardian should write an article on all the German shepherds of Joe Bidan’s in the WH that attacked, bit, ran after and terrorized SS and Staff and how one had to be put down and the other two or three were sent away or disappeared, while there. They should dig into why those dogs were so vicious to others, did Joe and Jill beat them or abuse them in other ways
I think you may miss the point that this makes her look so bad, she could have used other metaphors if she was sending signals.
Why document it in the book? Just strange.Not saying there may not be a justified reason, but she is a popular governor, I wouldn’t want to be remembered for this
Guys why does Guardian say uncastrated goat. Are they less mean when castrated? If so why not castrate it earlier or before shooting it.
28 Apr, 2024 11:22
Zelensky downplayed true scale of Kiev’s losses – WaPo
The Ukrainian president does not want to disrupt an already-struggling mobilization drive, a local MP told the paper
Ukrainian President VladimirZelensky has knowingly deceived the public about the true extent of his country's military lossesin its conflict with Russia, the Washington Post reported on Saturday, citing sources. Zelensky did so to offset panic amid a struggling mobilization campaign, the paper claimed.
In February, after months of silence on Ukrainian casualties, Zelensky claimed that 31,000 troops had been killed in the two years since the start of the conflict, without disclosing the numbers of those wounded.
Russia, on the other hand, claims that Kiev has suffered devastating losses during the conflict. Defense Minister SergeyShoigu has estimated Ukraine's losses at nearly half a million troops.
An unnamed Ukrainian lawmaker said in an interview with the Post thatZelensky had “vastly downplayed the war’s true toll.”He argued that it “had to be presented as lower to avoid disrupting an already-struggling recruitment and mobilization drive.”
Kiev embarked on a flurry of legislative activity late last year in a bid to boost mobilization. After weeks of parliamentary debate, Zelensky signed two bills earlier this month, one of which lowers the age of conscription for men from 27 to 25, while another significantly tightens the mobilization rules.
In late December, Zelensky said the Ukrainian military asked him to mobilize an additional 500,000 troops – a claim later denied by then-commander-in-chief Valery Zaluzhny. The disagreement was widely seen as one of the reasons for the conflict between the two which led to Zaluzhny’s dismissal in February.
The Ukrainian lawmaker, however, told the paper that whileKiev was indeed suffering from a shortage of troops, the situation has not yet reached a “red line.”(not enough dead yet)
Meanwhile, after the US approved a long-stalled $61 billion aid package for Ukraine, officials in Washington have now turned their attention to Kiev’s other challenges,including the manpower deficit. James O’Brien, the US assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, urged Kiev this week “to make sure it has the people necessary to fight.”
One US official told the Post that while the issue is worrying, Washington does not want to nag Kiev about it. “Who are we to say, ‘You just need to draft more men to fight.’ But at the same time, it is a real concern,” he said, adding that while the new laws will help to fill in the gaps in the military, Kiev needs to “find a way to inspire more Ukrainian men to come to the front lines.” (When the US is paying for it, why not tell them what to do? Idiots in DC.)
Russian President Vladimir Putin said last year that the West is prepared to fight Russia to “the last Ukrainian.”
https://www.rt.com/russia/596717-zelensky-downplayed-ukraine-losses/
(Now we’ve had Politico and WAPO both used by WH messaging and CNN messaging for CIA, admitting Kiev and Zelensky know they’ve lost the war but had to get the last $61 million. The WH and CIA have already told them its over, but Joe wants to drag it out till Nov so this total waste of money and killing of 500,000 Ukraine soldiers, is not attributed to him during the election. Maybe they changed the plan and will blame it on Zelensky, they are signaling the want Z out.)
And Then There Was One
28 Apr, 2024 11:57
Moscow responds to EU diplomat’s Crimean Bridge threat
US “lapdogs will whine” when the “judgment day” comes, Russia’s deputy UN envoy has warned
Lithuanian ambassador to Sweden Linas Linkevicius and other “US lapdogs” will regret their “gaffes,” Russia’s deputy representative to the UN, Dmitry Polyansky, has said in response to aveiled threat against the Crimean Bridge made by Linkeviciuson social media on Saturday.
Linkevicius published a message on X (formerly Twitter), which featured three images: one of Russia’s Crimean Bridge, another captured the launch of what appeared to be a US-made ATACMS missile, and the third showing Russian President Vladimir Putin in a reflective mood. The caption under the images reads: “If someone hasn’t had a chance to take a photo at the Kerch bridge, it’s still time.”
The message by theambassadorof the Baltic nation – which is a member of NATO and the EU – came just days after White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan confirmed that the US had secretly delivered a “significant” number of ATACMS missiles, which have a range of up to 300km, to Ukraine. With his post, Linkevicius appears to imply that the long-range munitions could be used to attack the 19-kilometer-long Crimean Bridge.
Polyansky replied to the Lithuanian diplomat on X on Saturday, saying that“servile Baltic US lapdogs… rabidly bark now but they will pathetically whine later when the judgment day arrives.”
Linkevicius and others like him will eventually regret “all such gaffes,” he warned.
The Crimean Bridge, which was built between 2016 and 2018, used to be the only road and railway link between the peninsula and mainland Russia. However, the addition of Kherson and Zaporozhye regions and the Donetsk People’s Republic to Russia after referendums in the fall of 2022 opened a vast land bridge to Crimea. The Lugansk People’s Republic also joined after a referendum held at the same time.
Since the outbreak of the conflict in February 2022,Kiev has on several occasions targeted the bridge, although nearly all of the attacks have been repelled. However, in October 2022, an explosives-laden truck blow up on the bridge, killing three people and causing damage that took months to repair. In July last year, a naval drone exploded under one of the segments of the structure, killing two civilians and orphaning a 14-year-old girl.
In an interview with German media earlier in April, Ukrainian President VladimirZelensky was asked if Kiev was going to try to destroy the Crimean Bridge this year. “We want it very much,” he replied.
Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said the fact thatUkrainian officials openlyspeak about their “aggressive terrorist plans”against Russian infrastructure againproves that the decision to launch a military operation against Kiev was correct.
(There’s something very sick about an “ambassador” threatening Russia with a sick joke.)
https://www.rt.com/russia/596718-crimea-bridge-lithuania-atacms/
28 Apr, 2024 13:46
West trying to prod Russia for weaknesses – Kremlin
Moscow’s aim is to make sure that none are found and carry on with its goals in the Ukraine campaign, spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said
The West is actively trying to induce Russia to show weakness in the Ukraine conflict, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said, adding that policymakers in Kiev increasingly feel that they are losing control of the situation on the battlefield.
In an interview with Russian journalist Pavel Zarubin released on Sunday,Peskov was asked to comment on Western missile deliveries to Ukraineand whether the West understood that by continuing those shipments itwould eventually cross Russia’s red lines.
Peskov said he was certain the “other side”would test Russia for weakness. “The main thing here is to never show this weakness,” he pointed out.
The Kremlin spokesman also said that the availabledata indicate a grim mood in Kievas the Ukrainian authorities observe the increasingly dire situation on the front.
He cited the manyRussianswho have witnessed the fighting or taken part in the hostilities and shared their views with their loved ones. “This is first-hand information. There is a growing panic on the other side. It is very important for us to maintain this dynamic and not to stop [the campaign against Ukraine],” he said.
Peskov’s comments came after on Friday General Aleksandr Syrsky, the commander-in-chief of Kiev’s armed forces, admitted that Ukraine had found itselfin a “difficult operational and strategic situation, which has a tendency to get worse.”
In recent weeks, Russian troops have been gradually pushing back Kiev’s forces, capturing several settlements and towns in Donbass. Ukrainian and Western officials, meanwhile, have beencomplaining about Moscow having a significant firepower advantage over Kiev. Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu gave his assessment earlier this month that Moscow’s forces had seized the initiative in the conflict.
The head of Ukraine’s military intelligence,Kirill Budanov, predicted that Ukraine would face serious “problems” both on the frontand within the country by mid-May and early June. In his remarks, he echoed Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky’s warning that Kiev was not ready to repel another major Russian offensive.
While the US has recently approved a long-awaited $61 billion aid package for Ukraine, officials in Kiev told the Financial Times this month that it would only “help to slow down the Russian advance, but not stop it.” Moscow has said that the new weapons deliveries would not succeed in turning the tide of the conflict.
https://www.rt.com/russia/596722-west-prod-russia-weakness-peskov/
Pretty cool to watch
28 Apr, 2024 11:25
WATCH Crowd finish Russian anthem without music at European sports event
A technical glitch interrupted the ceremony at a boxing championship in Serbia
Athletes and fans attending the amateur European Boxing Championship in Belgrade, Serbiafinished singing the Russian national anthem a cappellaafter the music unexpectedly cut out.
The incident took place on Saturday, at the award ceremony that followed the women’s finals.Team Russia won three gold medalsat the event: Yulia Chumgalakova took first place in the super lightweight category, becoming a two-time European champion; Darima Sandakova took gold in light heavyweight and Elena Gapeshina in heavyweight.
While Chumgalakova was receiving her award, the recording of the Russian national anthem abruptly stopped. According to footage posted online, the crowd picked up the verses, completing the anthem.
In the videos, Chumgalakova can be seen singing the anthem along with other members of the Russian Boxing Federation (RBF). Eyewitnesses told the outlet Sport Express thatat least half of the audience joined in to finish the piece.
According to RBF representative Tatyana Kiriyenko, the incident was unintentional, and the music was cut off due to a technical problem.
“It was unpleasant, but there was no malicious intent. We received an official apology… We objectively understand that this is a technical glitch. Actually, there was a brief power outage in the beginning of the ceremony. There were a number of such troubles in the organizational aspects,” she stated.
In addition to the three gold medals,Russian women won seven silver medals at the championship. The tournament will end later on Sunday with the men’s finals. Nine Russian boxers are taking part.
Thechampionship in Serbia is among the few sports events where Russian athletes have been allowed to compete under their national flags. Following the escalation of the Russia-Ukraine conflict in 2022, Russian and Belarusian athletes have been barred from competing in a number of international events except as neutrals.
Russian athletes will take part in the upcoming Olympic Games in Paris, but only under a neutral flag and in limited numbers. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced last month that the maximum number of Russians who can qualify is 55, and they will be restricted to individual competitions. The IOC has also previously ruled that Russians who have publicly supported Moscow’s military operation against Kiev or are found to be linked to state security agencies or the military will be banned from participating. It has formed a special commission tasked with checking Russian qualifiers for compliance with the criteria.
Moscow has repeatedly objected to restrictions placed on Russian athletes taking part in international competitions, with PresidentVladimir Putin slamming them as “ethnic discrimination.”Commenting on the IOC’s latest decision, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said it was “absolutely contrary to the entire ideology of the Olympic movement” and an “infringement of the interests of athletes.”
(The display by the Olympics preventing athletes to compete because of the war, is quite sickening. Have they ever done this before.)
https://www.rt.com/russia/596714-russian-anthem-crowd-singing/
https://youtu.be/ltr6CZ6TMaY
27 Apr, 2024 20:14
Hamas releases new hostage video
The footage was released as the militants consider an Israeli ceasefire proposal
Hamas has released a proof-of-life video of two Israeli hostages, including a US dual citizen. In the footage, the captives urge Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to strike a ceasefire deal with the Palestinian militants.
Published on Saturday,the undated video depicts Omri Miran, an Israeli, and Kieth Siegel, an Israeli-American dual citizen, speaking to a camera against a nondescript background. Miran says that he has been held for 202 days, indicating that the video was filmed on Friday.
Miran describes “living in extremely tough conditions due to the intense bombardment,”while Siegel encourages Netanyahu to “be more flexible in negotiations to reach an exchange deal soon.”
“It’s about time to reach a deal that would bring us back home safe and alive,” Miran adds.
The video concludes with a message to the Israeli public from Hamas: “Your Nazi leaders don’t care about the fate of your imprisoned sons and their feelings. Realize this before it’s too late.”
While Miran and Siegel likely read their statements under duress, their sentiment is shared by organizations representing the roughly 130 hostages thought to remain in Hamas captivity in Gaza. These groups have organized weekly protests in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem demanding that Netanyahu reach a deal with Hamas to release their loved ones.
At a rally in Tel Aviv on Saturday,Miran’s father called on Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar to “show some humanity” to his son, and implored Netanyahu to approve “any feasible deal” to bring him home.
Saturday’s video was released three days after a similar clip showing injured Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin. “While you sit and have holiday meals with your families, think of us, the hostages, who are still here in hell,” Goldberg-Polin tells Netanyahu in the video, referring to this weekend’s Jewish holiday of Passover.
Netanyahu has vowed to continue waging war in Gaza until Israel achieves “total victory” over Hamas, and has thus far refused to consider the group’s demand that any ceasefire deal be permanent and include an Israeli withdrawal from the enclave.
In a statement on Saturday, Hamas said that it was studying an Israeli ceasefire proposal delivered via Egyptian and Qatari mediators earlier this month. West Jerusalem anticipates an answer from Hamas within the next 48 hours, Israel’s Channel 12 news outlet reported later in the afternoon.
Israel and Hamas agreed to a week-long truce in November, during which 80 Israeli hostages were exchanged for 240 Palestinians held in Israeli jails.
As Israel’s military campaign in Gaza approaches the eight-month mark, the UN warned on Friday that “famine thresholds in Gaza will be breached within the next six weeks” unless Israel allows “massive and consistent” deliveries of food to the besieged enclave. According to the latest data from Gaza’s health ministry, at least 34,388 people have been killed since the Israeli campaign began, most of them women and children.
https://x.com/ShaykhSulaiman/status/1784262242277486701
https://www.rt.com/news/596701-hamas-israeli-hostage-video/
Trump said at a Rally. Something like “they are wiretapping me any way” I might as well say it. I remember distinctly he said they can hear everything I say. Julie Kelly said since he’s charged with serious charges of “classified documents” they would be tracking everything he does and says.
I wonder if Obama and Bidan were tracked under Trump, when they were out of office since Q said they meeting secretly in some hotel rooms with a number of people.
Was their whole plan known all that time?
Mark Paoletta On Democrats’ Bogus Presidential Immunity Case: “They Weaponize The Law” The left is afraid of the truth, they know the constitution, they want to destroy it bringing the case to the SC. That’s why they are melting down that the SC is taking it seriouslyall their arguments are being revealed as BS.
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https://rumble.com/embed/v4p8hwb/?pub=4
Mark Paoletta On Congress’ Lack Of Accountability: “Members Of Congress Are Above The Law” Raskin, has plans and he will never give up to destroy Trump, just like father, he’s a Communist.Raskin never disclosed his wife has a million dollars investment. All in Congress must disclose their holdings, butCongress doesn’t even have Conflict of interest laws on them, they are the only branch that doesn’t have that. The Judicial and Executive branch does but Congress doesn’t. Why? Because they make the laws!
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Doesn’t the Constitution ban marxist and Communists and treasonous people, in Congress and why aren’t the radicals, that admit who they are get kicked out and banned?
https://rumble.com/embed/v4p8ifo/?pub=4
==Chairman Jordan Expands Financial Surveillance Investigation to Other Major Companies
April 25, 2024==
Press Release
WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) sent letters to the Chief Executive Officers of Standard Chartered Bank USA, Truist, U.S. Bank, Wells Fargo, Western Union, Charles Schwab, Bank of America, Citibank, HSBC Bank, JPMorgan Chase, MUFG Bank, PayPal, and Santander Bank requesting documents and communications related to the Committee's investigation of financial surveillance of American citizens, including the disclosure of private financial records to federal authorities without legal process.
Documents obtained by the Committee and Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government show that the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) circulated specific materials to these banks, and the Committee believes that these banking institutions possess information necessary for the investigation. The Committee previously sent letters to Bank of America, Chase, U.S. Bank, Wells Fargo, Citibank, and Truist for its probe into how the FBI worked together with banks to spy on Americans following the events of January 6, 2021, without a warrant.
The Committee also sent a letter to U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen demanding all Bank Secrecy Act filings, including Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs), that included the tag created to group all SARs related to the events following January 6, 2021.
Excerpts of the letter to Charles Schwab:
"After receiving documents and information from several entities, the Committee and Select Subcommittee learned that thefinancial surveillance occurring in the United States is much broader than the FBI simply requesting, without any legal process, a list of customers' transactions from Bank of America. On March 6, 2024, the Committee and Select Subcommittee released an interim staff report detailing its findings to date on how federal law enforcement is using private banks to pry into the private transactions of American customers. That report highlighted how, following January 6, 2021, federal law enforcement commandeered financial institutions' databases, sought to treat sweeping classes of otherwise lawful transactions as potentially 'suspicious,' and profiled Americans using Merchant Category Codes (MCCs), 'typologies,' and 'indicators' that treated protected political and religious expression as indicative of domestic violent extremism.
“The Committee and Select Subcommittee remain concerned about how and to what extent federal law enforcement and financial institutions continue to spy on Americans by weaponizing backdoor information sharing and casting sprawling classes of transactions, purchase behavior, and protected political or religious expression as potentially 'suspicious' or indicative of 'extremism.'"
Read the full letter to Treasury Secretary Yellen here.
Read the full letter to Standard Chartered Bank USA here.
Read the full letter to Truist here.
Read the full letter to U.S. Bank here.
Read the full letter to Wells Fargo here.
Read the full letter to Western Union here.
Read the full letter to Charles Schwab here.
Read the full letter to Bank of America here.
Read the full letter to Citibank here.
Read the full letter to HSBC Bank here.
Read the full letter to JPMorgan Chase here.
Read the full letter to MUFG Bank here.
Read the full letter to PayPal here.
Read the full letter to Santander Bank here.
https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/chairman-jordan-expands-financial-surveillance-investigation-other-major
Download the letters here