EU President Likens Free Speech To Infectious Disease
Ursula von der Leyen advocates "pre-bunking" in the public forum to "vaccinate" people against "disinformation"…
https://twitter.com/i/status/1848695995833684082
Victoria Nuland’s husband quits WaPo after Bezos decision
Robert Kagan was furious the paper would not endorse Kamala Harris for US president
Kagan is the husband of Victoria Nuland, the former senior State Department official who was directly involved in the 2014 US-backed coup in Ukraine. A self-described neoconservative, Kagan went from being a foreign policy adviser to Republican presidential candidate John McCain in 2008 to joining the Democrats in 2016 and endorsing Hillary Clinton.
On Friday, he confirmed to NPR and Fox News that he'd quit the Post because the paper refused to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democrats’ presidential nominee, in her race against Republican candidate and former president Donald Trump.
According to NPR, the text of the Harris endorsement had been drafted earlier this month, but the paper’s management scrapped it after a review by Bezos, who has owned the Post since 2013. In its response, the editorial board expressed that it was “shocked” and was overwhelmingly negative, the public broadcaster claimed.
While Kagan’s has been the only resignation so far, WaPo came under a torrent of criticism for Bezos’ decision. Susan Rice, a former senior adviser to President Barack Obama, denounced the move as “the most hypocritical, chicken sh*t move from a publication that is supposed to hold people in power to account.”
“This is cowardice, a moment of darkness that will leave democracy as a casualty,” Marty Baron, the Post’s executive editor during the Trump presidency, told NPR in a statement, calling the non-endorsement of Harris “a disturbing chapter of spinelessness at an institution famed for courage.”
Under Baron, the Post won several Pulitzer prizes for stories about the ‘Russiagate’ conspiracy theory and blaming Trump for the 2021 election-related riot at the US Capitol.
https://www.rt.com/news/606450-washington-post-harris-endorsement/
“At least six yellowish-orange orbs were captured on camera flickering and hovering near Kokomo, just south of the Grissom Joint Air Reserve Base — before vanishing into thin air on Oct. 7, according to footage and reports.
https://youtu.be/yEoNsZlZ8E0
OMG: James O’Keefe Releases Undercover Tape of Maricopa Election Trainers Admit Poll Workers Cannot Stop Third-Party Ballot Harvesting – ‘It’s Not Our Job to Police That’
https://twitter.com/i/status/1849917650673049670
mossad is all in for trump
The Political Theology That Maintains State Power
Politics, beyond being the insufferable ideology which placates the need to defer accountability of ones life to an absurd hierarchical construct, is in fact more akin to a religion with its doctrines and rituals firmly instilled in its devotees to whom the state is God.
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/the-state/the-political-theology-that-maintains-state-power
Meet The State Department Official Bringing DEI To Foreign Policy
The Biden-Harris administration has made no secret of its effort to push diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the United States. But it is also working to push the leftwing racial ideology around the world.
In 2022, the administration named Desiree Cormier Smith the State Department’s first Special Representative for Racial Equity and Justice. She is officially charged with advancing “the human rights of members of marginalized racial, ethnic, and Indigenous communities,” and building “global partnerships to combat systemic racism, discrimination, and xenophobia.”
In her own words, that amounts to fighting “structural racism, discrimination, and xenophobia,” which she says “are global scourges that require global solutions.”
Smith’s role is perhaps the biggest example of the Biden-Harris administration’s commitment to pushing DEI. It is also a likely target for elimination should former President Donald Trump win re-election in November. Trump has indicated that he will fire leftwing bureaucrats who may otherwise obstruct his policy agenda.
Smith — who says her role exists “because the Biden-Harris administration acknowledges the global nature of systemic racism” — acknowledged as much during an appearance on a Harvard University podcast.
“If we get a Republican president or any other president in the future … then the whole-of-government approach might be a very different one and might not include this position any longer,” the interviewer said.
“That is a possibility,” Smith responded.
The Biden-Harris administration has pushed the DEI agenda throughout the national security establishment. The National Security Agency created a DEI glossary including terms like “white fragility,” “settler colonialism,” and “transmisogyny,” openly referencing the work of Critical Race Theorists, The Daily Wire revealed in an exclusive investigation.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence also advanced the far-left DEI agenda, celebrating one intelligence agent who said that cross-dressing made him a better intelligence official and telling agents to avoid using “problematic phrases” when discussing Islamic terrorism.
The military has embraced the same ideologies, with the Air Force hosting the CEO of an organization that encourages child sex changes as a speaker at an LGBT pride event, and the Department of Defense requesting nearly $270 million over two years for its DEI agenda.
A State Department spokesman told The Daily Wire that Smith’s appointment “underscores the Department’s clear commitment to combating systemic racism, discrimination, and xenophobia globally.”
“The State Department’s first-ever Special Representative for Racial Equity and Justice was established to advance the human rights of members of marginalized racial, ethnic, and Indigenous communities,” the spokesman said, sidestepping The Daily Wire’s inquiry as to whether or not the State Department believes that the United States is a systemically racist country.
“Structural racism, discrimination, and xenophobia are global scourges that require global solutions,” Smith said in an interview with the Center For Strategic & International Studies. She also claimed that white supremacy is a “global threat” that requires solutions across “continents and national borders.”
“So when we look at racially and ethnically motivated violent extremism, white supremacy is at the top of that,” Smith stated. “And so those who engage in violent White supremacy, again, they know no borders.”
FBI data indicate that white people are underrepresented among hate crime offenders in the United States relative to their share of the population over the last five years.
https://www.stationgossip.com/2024/10/meet-state-department-official-bringing.html
Rescuers Say Israel Strikes Kill 12 In North Gaza Aid Queue
Gaza's civil defence agency said 12 people were killed Friday by Israeli drone strikes that hit a group of Palestinians waiting to receive aid in the territory's north.
The drones struck near the Shati refugee camp in western Gaza City, said agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal.
"Civil defence teams retrieved 12 martyrs and several injured individuals after Israeli drone strikes targeted a group of citizens and a vehicle waiting for aid," he said.
There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military.
A witness to the strike, Mustafa Abu Aita, said a crowd had been waiting for aid to arrive.
"They struck a small white bus with a missile, and another missile hit the people standing on the road, resulting in martyrs and injuries," Aita told AFP.
"People fled the area, and ambulances came to transport the martyrs and the injured."
https://www.barrons.com/news/gaza-rescuers-say-israel-strikes-kill-12-palestinians-waiting-for-aid-21d1f8e0
Israeli strikes on Iran apparently failed to cause any significant damage, but Israeli propaganda is desperate to sell the attack as a huge success. This pathetic display is how they’re trying to save face after getting wrecked in Lebanon this week. https://m.jpost.com/opinion/article-826128
https://x.com/dancohen3000/status/1850011029742264791
https://x.com/AryJeay/status/1849972352848671034
Israel's secret trips to British cyber warfare base exposed | IDF leak latest
Britain secretly advised the Israeli military on psychological warfare techniques, Declassified has found.
Leaked documents reveal how the British army’s 77th brigade discussed strategy and tactics with the Israel Defence Forces (IDF).
The 77th brigade uses psychological operations and social media to help fight wars “in the information age”.
https://youtu.be/mrTAa9HkAxc