Anonymous ID: 7aba07 Nov. 20, 2024, 9:56 a.m. No.22024943   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5100 >>5212 >>5416 >>5641

Former Acting AG Matthew Whitaker Tapped by President Trump as NATO Ambassador

 

“I am pleased to announce that former Acting Attorney General, Matthew G. Whitaker, from the Great State of Iowa, will be the United States Ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

 

Matt is a strong warrior and loyal Patriot, who will ensure the United States’ interests are advanced and defended. Matt will strengthen relationships with our NATO Allies, and stand firm in the face of threats to Peace and Stability – He will put AMERICA FIRST.

 

I have full confidence in Matt’s ability to represent the United States with Strength, Integrity, and unwavering Dedication. I look forward to working closely with him as we continue to promote PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH, Freedom, and Prosperity around the World.

 

Matt is also the former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa, and is a graduate of the University of Iowa with a B.A., MBA and J.D., where he played football, and received the Big Ten Medal of Honor.”

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/former-acting-ag-matthew-whitaker-tapped-president-trump/

Anonymous ID: 7aba07 Nov. 20, 2024, 10 a.m. No.22024968   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4981 >>5100 >>5416 >>5641

Bracing For Retaliation, US Shuts Embassy In Kiev Over Air Attack Risk

 

Washington appears fully aware it has poked the Russian bear, after President Biden greenlighted Ukraine striking Russian territory with long-range missiles.

 

US officials have warned Wednesday that "potential significant air attack" on Kiev is likely coming, and have announced the closure of the US Embassy in the capital "out of an abundance of caution". This follows immediately on the heels of Ukrainian forces having struck an arms depot inside Russia with U.S.-supplied weapons, specifically the Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS), on Tuesday.

 

"Embassy employees are being instructed to shelter in place," a new alert on the embassy website said. "The U.S. Embassy recommends U.S. citizens be prepared to immediately shelter in the event an air alert is announced."

 

Embassy diplomats and all staff are being asked to observe the following precautions:

 

Monitor local media for updates

Identify shelter locations in advance of any air alert

Immediately take shelter if an air alert is announced

Follow the directions of Ukrainian officials and first responders in the event of an emergency

The embassy closure is also happening the day after Putin signed a decree which updates and expands Russia's nuclear doctrine, which effectively lowers the threshold for nuclear weapons use. "As we said earlier this month, we were not surprised by Russia’s announcement that it would update its nuclear doctrine; Russia had been signaling its intent to update its doctrine for several weeks," the White House National Security Council responded in a statement.

 

Other Western embassies have also shuttered their operations amid air raid warnings in Kiev and other regions, including Italy, Spain, and Greece.

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/bracing-retaliation-us-shuts-embassy-kiev-over-air-attack-risk

Anonymous ID: 7aba07 Nov. 20, 2024, 10:02 a.m. No.22024980   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5100 >>5416 >>5641

Israel to annex West Bank – Seymour Hersh

 

The move will be aimed at preventing a two-state solution, according to the US investigative journalist

 

According to Hersh, Israel has been “fortified by bombs and funding” from Washington and is ramping up the expulsion of Palestinians from northern Gaza to the south of the enclave. Meanwhile, the religious parties that “dominate” Netanyahu’s cabinet are demanding full control over both occupied Palestinian territories.

 

“I was told this week by a well-informed Washington official that the Israeli leadership will formally annex the West Bank in the very near future – perhaps in two weeks – in the hope that the decisive step will end, once and for all, any talk of a two-state solution and will convince some in the skeptical Arab world to reconsider financing the planned reconstruction of Gaza,” Hersh wrote in an article on his Substack on Wednesday.

 

If true, the move would coincide with the last few weeks of US President Joe Biden’s administration and create a new “reality on the ground” by the time President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January. During his first term in the White House, Trump recognized Israel’s annexation of the Golan Heights and moved the US embassy to Jerusalem.

 

Israel declared war on Gaza-based Hamas last October, following a series of deadly raids by the Palestinian militants into Israeli territory. Around 1,100 Israelis died in the October 7 assault, while an estimated 250 were taken captive.

 

Almost 44,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the start of the Israeli military operation, while another 104,000 more have been injured, according to local authorities.

 

The Israeli military and police have also cracked down on Palestinians in the West Bank, which is run by Fatah, a Palestinian faction at odds with Hamas.

 

https://www.rt.com/news/607943-israel-west-band-annex-hersh/

Anonymous ID: 7aba07 Nov. 20, 2024, 10:05 a.m. No.22025005   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5100 >>5416 >>5641

12 UK Storm Shadow Missiles Were Fired Into Russia, Local Sources Say

 

Update(1227ET): More details have emerged of Wednesday's Storm Shadow missile attack from Ukraine on Russia. This marks the first authorized known use of the long-range weapon in a cross-border attack. Previously the British government restricted use to within the Ukrainian battlespace, in the Donbass for example.

 

Russian war correspondents have confirmed that "A missile’s flight was heard over Kursk. There’s information about a Storm Shadow attack near Rylsk." While the extent of damage or precise targets is unclear, sources on the ground say that up to a dozen Storm Shadows were fired:

 

Rylsk’s territorial defense forces claimed that 12 Storm Shadow missiles were launched at around 2:50 p.m. Bloomberg, citing an anonymous Western official, also reported that Ukraine had fired Storm Shadow missiles on targets in Russia.

 

Kursk regional Governor Alexei Smirnov announced that two inbound missiles were intercepted by anti-air defenses, but did not specify whether they were the UK-supplied missiles.

 

In a first official acknowledgement and strong hint, Yuriy Ignat, a Ukrainian air force official, wrote on Facebook that "there was a ‘strong storm’ in Kursk region" - according to FT. One of the aims of the US and UK escalating like this appears to be sending a 'strong message' to North Korea as it's deployed thousands of troops to assist Russian forces.

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/stocks-slump-ukraine-fires-uk-storm-shadow-missiles-russia

Anonymous ID: 7aba07 Nov. 20, 2024, 10:08 a.m. No.22025027   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5036 >>5038 >>5100 >>5416 >>5641

Trump Hater Meghan McCain Defends and Endorses Close Friend Tulsi Gabbard for Trump’s DNI, Gabbard is Also Godmother of McCain’s Daughter – Will Gabbard Expose John McCain’s Collusion with Deep State?

 

“I love you, and I’m so f*cking proud of you. America is safer with you in this cabinet. Your love of country and independent spirit is more of what this nation needs. I’m also selfishly so happy you’re going to be back in DC with us,” McCain also said in an Instagram post last week following Trump’s nomination of Gabbard for DNI.

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/hmm-trump-hater-meghan-mccain-defends-endorses-close/

Anonymous ID: 7aba07 Nov. 20, 2024, 10:13 a.m. No.22025063   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Leaked Documents Expose Secret British Military Effort To Prolong Ukraine War

 

Leaked files show top UK military figures conspired to carry out the Kerch bridge bombing, covertly train “Gladio”-style stay-behind forces in Ukraine, and groom the British public for a drop in living standards caused by the proxy war against Russia.

 

Emails and internal documents reviewed by The Grayzone reveal details of a cabal of British military and intelligence veterans which plotted to escalate and prolong the Ukraine proxy war “at all costs.” Convened under the direction of the British Ministry of Defense in the immediate aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the cell referred to itself as Project Alchemy. As British leadership sabotaged peace talks between Kiev and Moscow, the cell put forward an array of plans “to keep Ukraine fighting” by imposing “strategic dilemmas, costs and frictions upon Russia.”

 

The leaks obtained by The Grayzone expose a hidden hand behind Britain’s policy in Ukraine, showing in unusually granular detail how it aimed to engineer a long, grinding war through covert operations that stretched the bounds of legality.

 

Project Alchemy’s proposed schemes spanned every conceivable field of warfare, from cyber attacks to “discreet operations” to outright terrorism. The secret cell even put forward a plan to “aggressively pursue” and “dismantle” independent media outlets – including The Grayzone – through an aggressive campaign of legal harassment and online censorship, so they “would be forced to close.” The incendiary blueprints were fed to the highest levels of the British state and national security structure, where they were apparently well-received.

 

Founded by a senior British Ministry of Defence official, Project Alchemy is composed of veteran military and intelligence operatives united by a desire for all-out war between the West and Russia. Some have trained Ukrainian forces in clandestine sabotage tactics.

 

Members of the national security cabal tacitly acknowledged that their proposed operations stretched the bounds of British law. Thus they suggested that London should be “prepared to creatively use the law” to meet its goals, and even be willing to erase “legal restrictions on UK deniable ops” against Russia.

 

Some of Project Alchemy’s most extreme recommendations have already been implemented, often with calamitous results. These include the cell’s proposal to strike Crimea’s Kerch Bridge, which prompted a Russian escalation that saw punishing attacks on Ukraine’s electricity infrastructure. Alchemy also envisioned the construction of a secret, Gladio-style army of Ukrainian partisan fighters to carry out assassination, sabotage, and terror missions behind enemy lines.

 

It appears the British premier, Keir Starmer, fell under the influence of the Project Alchemy cabal soon after his election in July, when he eagerly embraced the role of “wartime prime minister.” After pledging to support Ukraine “as long as it takes,” however, Starmer is quietly backing away from the maximalist policy. In Kiev, Ukrainians are left to ponder how their “friends” in London got them into this mess, and why they can not, or will not get them out of it.

 

The British spooks who gathered around Project Alchemy reasoned that the longer the proxy war continued, the more Russian president Vladimir Putin’s “credibility at home and abroad drops, and his ability to fight NATO is degraded.” Today, Project Alchemy’s gambit has clearly backfired, as Putin remains popular within Russia, while a crumbling Ukrainian army loses territory by the day despite constant re-arming by the West. But the war planners in London remain staunchly committed to escalation, refusing to shelve their diabolical proposals.

 

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/international-news/leaked-documents-expose-secret-british-military-effort-to-prolong-ukraine-war

Anonymous ID: 7aba07 Nov. 20, 2024, 10:14 a.m. No.22025072   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5100 >>5416 >>5611 >>5641

Ford Slashes 4,000+ Jobs in Europe: Cites Weakened EV Sales, Economic Headwinds

 

The Ford Motor Co. will reduce its workforce by upwards of 4,000 across Europe and the U.K. by the end of 2027, the manufacturer announced Wednesday, citing headwinds generated from the economy, pressure from increased competition and weaker than expected sales of electric vehicles (EVs) for the dim forecast.

 

Most of the job cuts would come in Germany and would be carried out in consultation with employee representatives, AP reports.

 

The company also plans to reduce working time for workers at its Cologne, Germany plant where it makes the Capri and Explorer electric vehicles.

 

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/11/20/ford-slashes-4000-jobs-in-europe-cites-weakened-ev-sales-economic-headwinds/

Anonymous ID: 7aba07 Nov. 20, 2024, 10:20 a.m. No.22025116   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5256 >>5416 >>5641

US Vetoes Gaza Ceasefire Resolution at UN Security Council

 

Every other member of the Security Council voted in favor of a truce

 

The resolution failed in a vote of 14-1 as every other member of the 15-member Security Council, including the UK, supported the call for a ceasefire. The five permanent members — the US, the UK, France, Russia, and China — all have veto power.

 

The resolution demanded “an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire to be respected by all parties, and further” reiterates a “demand for the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages.”

 

https://news.antiwar.com/2024/11/20/us-vetoes-gaza-ceasefire-resolution-at-un-security-council/

Anonymous ID: 7aba07 Nov. 20, 2024, 10:22 a.m. No.22025129   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Israeli Forces Kill 50 Palestinians in Gaza in 24 Hours

 

In central Gaza, Israeli strikes hit the Nuseirat and Bureij refugee camps, killing at least four Palestinians. Al Jazeera reported that Israeli shelling in Nuseirat killed an infant.

 

https://news.antiwar.com/2024/11/19/israeli-forces-kill-50-palestinians-in-gaza-in-24-hours/

Anonymous ID: 7aba07 Nov. 20, 2024, 10:24 a.m. No.22025144   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5152 >>5416 >>5641

Head of Elite DC Preschool Arrested for Soliciting Child Pornography from FBI Agent Posing as Father of Abused 9-Year-Old Boy

 

The director of an elite Washington, D.C., preschool has been arrested for soliciting child pornography from an FBI agent posing as a father abusing his nine-year-old son.

James Stewart Carroll, 55, head of school for the National Child Research Center, has been charged with one count of attempted coercion and enticement of a minor.

 

According to an unsealed criminal complaint, Carroll was interested in “child sexual exploitation, circumcision of teenage boys, [and] urinating on teenage boys and adults.”

 

Carroll was brought to the attention of the FBI in September after Discord reported him to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children for uploading a photo of “two naked prepubescent boys lying on a piece of furniture.” His username was “CircumcisedLondonGay#0.”

 

https://www.yourdestinationnow.com/2024/11/head-of-elite-dc-preschool-arrested-for.html

Anonymous ID: 7aba07 Nov. 20, 2024, 10:28 a.m. No.22025163   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Five Days on a Media Junket in Israel: Lies, Half-Truths, and Conspiracy Nonsense

 

The country's supporters are determined to warp the truth of the ongoing genocide in Gaza

 

In late July, I received a peculiar cold email. It was an invitation from the American Middle East Press Association (AMEPA) for an all-expenses-paid tour of Israel, tailored exclusively to members of the U.S. media. As a journalist in Alabama whose job consists primarily of chasing around lawmakers and writing about committee hearings, the offer was certainly outside my wheelhouse. But as someone who has observed Israel’s war in Gaza closely and the western media’s coverage of the war, I was intrigued, especially since AMEPA’s goal is “to get the truth out there,” according to Kim Kamen, the organization’s chief operating officer. So in September, I took them up on their offer and headed to Israel.

 

During the five-day trip, we were told that nearly every Palestinian in Gaza shared culpability for the October 7 attack by Hamas. Several of the experts and officials AMEPA introduced us to said that rape and brutal killings are inherent to the Islamic faith and that many United Nations aid workers were terrorists. Some even suggested that the countless videos of Palestinians injured or killed by Israeli bombardment were, in fact, often staged film productions.

 

AMEPA’s truth, as I discovered, amounts to a version of pure Israeli propaganda far more extreme than anything I could have expected.

 

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-gaza-amepa-palestine-genocide-iron-dome

Anonymous ID: 7aba07 Nov. 20, 2024, 10:30 a.m. No.22025180   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5184 >>5416 >>5641

Israel strikes residential buildings, industrial zone in Palmyra, Syria, state media says

 

An Israeli airstrike hit residential and industrial areas in Syria's historic Palmyra on Wednesday, killing 36 and wounding over 50.

 

An Israeli attack on Syria's historic city of Palmyra killed 36 people and wounded more than 50 on Wednesday after it hit residential buildings and an industrial zone, the Syrian state news agency SANA reported.

 

The Israeli military declined to comment when asked about the attack.

 

"At approximately 1:30 p.m. today, the Israeli enemy launched an air attack from the direction of the al-Tanf area, targeting a number of buildings in the city of Palmyra in the Syrian desert, which led to the martyrdom of 36 people (and) the injury of more than 50 others," SANA said, quoting a military official.

 

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-829969

Anonymous ID: 7aba07 Nov. 20, 2024, 10:31 a.m. No.22025183   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5187 >>5203 >>5210

Steven Lowy honored for leadership as antisemitism rises and war continues

 

Keren Hayesod awarded Lowy the Ze’ev Jabotinsky prize during unprecedented levels of antisemitism.

 

“The level of antisemitism is unprecedented in our lifetime, but the Jewish People are more united than ever and have shown unbelievable dedication to the State of Israel,” said Steven Lowy, the outgoing chairman of the Board of Trustees of Keren Hayesod United Israel Appeal.

 

He spoke on Wednesday to world leaders of the organization who are in Israel for their annual conference at the tail end of a ceremony at the President’s Residence, at which he was presented with the inaugural Keren Hayesod Ze’ev Jabotinsky Award.

 

The award will also be presented to all Lowy’s future successors at the conclusion of their term.

 

In relation to his remarks about antisemitism, Lowy was pleased that his father, Sir Frank Lowy, a Czech Holocaust survivor who fought in the War of Independence and later migrated to Australia, was present to witness the honor conferred on him.

 

The Lowy family will return to the President’s Residence before the end of the year for a somewhat grander ceremony when President Isaac Herzog will award the President’s Medal of Honor to eight outstanding people, one of whom happens to be Sir Frank Lowy.

 

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-830020

Anonymous ID: 7aba07 Nov. 20, 2024, 10:41 a.m. No.22025267   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Watermelon Index names and shames companies complicit in Israel's war on Gaza

 

Progressive International has launched a tool that allows workers to challenge company support for Israel

 

Among the companies listed are Barclays, shipping firm Maersk, e-commerce giant Amazon, software company Microsoft and holiday rental outfit Airbnb.

 

As well as these multinationals, there are a host of other operations with ties to Israel, in industries including finance, insurance, technology, logistics and energy. Progressive International is focusing its efforts within these sectors.

 

A company’s complicity with Israel’s war on Gaza is measured through “the different kinds of support, including financial, military, diplomatic, cultural, trade and social” it provides, according to Progressive International.

 

https://act.progressive.international/watermelon/

Anonymous ID: 7aba07 Nov. 20, 2024, 10:44 a.m. No.22025283   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5298 >>5320

UN Says Israel Has Totally Blocked All Aid to Gaza

 

People are asking “how could Trump possibly be worse?” Trump is saying he’s going to be worse, but people can’t really fathom it, given that so far, this has been the worst genocide ever.

 

Xinhua:

 

UN humanitarians said on Tuesday attempts for more than 40 days have been denied or impeded to aid people struggling to stay alive while under siege in northern Gaza areas.

 

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said 27 out of 31 planned missions were rejected — and the other four were severely impeded — to support people in Beit Hanoun, Beit Lahiya and parts of Jabalya.

 

“The result is that bakeries and kitchens in North Gaza governorate have shut down, nutrition support has been suspended and the refueling of water and sanitation facilities has been completely blocked,” OCHA said.

 

The UN IPC Famine Review Committee has warned that parts of northern Gaza face an imminent risk of famine and that immediate action is needed in days, not weeks.

 

https://www.unz.com/aanglin/un-says-israel-has-totally-blocked-all-aid-to-gaza/

Anonymous ID: 7aba07 Nov. 20, 2024, 10:49 a.m. No.22025312   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Trump and the Storm of the Century

 

The U.S. is sleepwalking into disaster in the Middle East.

 

The fear in many nations’ capitals is that President Donald Trump’s return to Washington might make Israel feel more confident in attacking Iran. According to Mike Evans, founder of the Friends of Zion Museum in Jerusalem, “There is no world leader Trump respects more than Netanyahu.”

 

The evangelical leader also confides that President Trump would support an Israeli attack before his inauguration on the assumption that the destruction of Iran’s oil production facilities would devastate Iran’s economy, inducing Iran to end the war with Israel before President Trump assumes his office. This thinking by no means excludes an Israeli decision to strike Iran’s nuclear development sites as well.

 

What Trump will or will not do is unknown. When the illusive stillness in the standoff between Tehran and Jerusalem will end is also unknown.

 

One thing is certain: If America joins Israel in its war against Iran, the outcome will be a geopolitical showdown that could dramatically alter the world as we know it. It is the storm of the 21st century and, for the moment, the American ship of state is sailing right into it. At a minimum, Trump should demand answers from his civilian and military advisors to four important questions.

 

Question 1. What is the American purpose in waging war against Iran? Is Washington’s purpose to destroy the Iranian state? To destroy its capability to wage war against Israel? To eliminate Iran’s developing nuclear capability? Or to decapitate the Iranian state in the hope that the Iranian people will overthrow their national government?

 

All these goals demand serious study and analysis. In some cases, they overlap; in others they do not. The answers require identifying resources, manpower, capabilities, and the time needed to achieve these goals.

 

It is obvious that America’s air and naval forces will have to deliver powerful disabling strikes through dense Iranian air and missile defenses while potentially defending themselves and American military bases against attacks by Iranian and allied forces in the region. How long can these forces operate before their stocks of munitions are exhausted and their human and materiel losses are replaced?

 

Based on these answers, the stated objectives may or may not be attainable. National political and military leaders habitually plan and organize to achieve short, decisive outcomes, but wars always last longer than anticipated.

 

Question 2. How will U.S. military power achieve the objectives?

 

What is the right mix of weapon systems and munitions? What targets promise effects that profoundly shape Iran’s ability to fight? In the aftermath of the Second World War, studies of bombing effectiveness revealed that the most important contribution air power made to Germany’s defeat was the destruction of Germany’s fuel production and the transportation network to move it. Its second-most important contribution was to cause German air forces to defend Germany’s cities and industries, thus stripping the German army of its close air support. But thousands of tons of bombs were still dropped on thousands of targets with minimal impact on the German war machine.

 

Can air and missile power alone compel the Iranian State to submit to Israeli and American demands? To date, no amount of precision-strike forces linked to space-based and terrestrial, persistent intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities has delivered victory in war. The Kosovo air campaign inflicted enormous damage on the Serbian economy, but its impact on Serbian ground forces was minimal. Yet once Moscow withdrew its promise of energy and food support to the Serbian people, the destruction of power plants and civilian and commercial infrastructure did induce the Serbian leadership to remove its forces from Kosovo.

 

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/trump-and-the-storm-of-the-century/

Anonymous ID: 7aba07 Nov. 20, 2024, 10:51 a.m. No.22025330   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5416 >>5641

Former Georgia Poll Worker Indicted for Making Bomb Threat to Polling Place

 

https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdga/pr/former-georgia-poll-worker-indicted-making-bomb-threat-polling-place

Anonymous ID: 7aba07 Nov. 20, 2024, 10:54 a.m. No.22025342   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Former Tennessee State Senator Resentenced and an Additional Fine Imposed

 

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdtn/pr/former-tennessee-state-senator-resentenced-and-additional-fine-imposed

Anonymous ID: 7aba07 Nov. 20, 2024, 10:55 a.m. No.22025346   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5356

Former Baton Rouge Pediatrician Pleads Guilty to Possession of Child Pornography

 

https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdla/pr/former-baton-rouge-pediatrician-pleads-guilty-possession-child-pornography

Anonymous ID: 7aba07 Nov. 20, 2024, 11:14 a.m. No.22025454   🗄️.is 🔗kun

The Slippery Slope Begins: SPLC's Doxxing of Journalists Puts Press Freedom at Risk

 

Journalism, the bedrock of any healthy republic, stands as the guardrail against unchecked power, ensuring accountability and transparency. This critical function hinges on the principle that journalists must be protected from targeted retribution for their reporting, no matter how scathing. Yet, this core tenet is under siege. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), that bastion of leftist orthodoxy, has decided that some journalists—those who happen to be conservatives—should be fair game. Their latest target? Writers at Not the Bee, the real-news arm of the Christian satire site The Babylon Bee. Such a deviation not only jeopardizes these individual reporters but sets a dangerous precedent: a slippery slope where retaliation against journalists becomes normalized, a tactic eagerly embraced by political zealots on all sides.

 

The sanctity of a journalist's private life has long been a cornerstone of journalistic ethics. This principle is embedded in the codes of conduct established by professional press organizations in the 19th and 20th centuries, ensuring that those who challenge the powerful are not themselves targeted in turn. It wasn't out of altruism that this understanding was reached—it was an acknowledgment of the profound imbalance of power between individual journalists and the institutions they scrutinize. To preserve the integrity of journalism, there must be a line separating valid public scrutiny of powerful figures from personal retaliation against those who do the reporting.

 

In this regard, organizations like the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) and the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) have been instrumental. Their ethical guidelines emphasize the importance of journalistic independence, free from harassment or threats. Similarly, entities such as the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and Reporters Without Borders have been pivotal in condemning any forms of retaliation aimed at silencing the press. Such retaliation is not just unethical—it is an attack on the public's right to know. Without protections, journalists become silenced, and the truth they labor to bring forward remains buried beneath the interests of those who fear its exposure.

 

The 2014 Uber controversy serves as a stark reminder of why these protections are vital. Uber's then-executive Emil Michael—feeling the sting of critical coverage—suggested that the company could spend a million dollars to dig up dirt on journalist Sarah Lacey. Her crime? Criticizing Uber's questionable culture. The response to Michael's threat was swift and unequivocal. Media outlets, public figures, and consumers condemned the remarks, forcing Uber's CEO, Travis Kalanick, to publicly apologize. The backlash reinforced an unspoken rule: journalists can scrutinize public figures and institutions, but retaliating by delving into a reporter's personal life crosses a dangerous line. This public uproar protected press independence and reminded everyone—especially corporations wielding immense power—that attacks on journalists' personal lives are wholly unacceptable.

 

Now, however, the SPLC appears eager to ignore that ethical boundary. Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon has revealed that the SPLC is actively doxxing Not the Bee's writers, who have chosen pseudonyms precisely so they could express their views without fear of personal retaliation. The SPLC went digging for sensitive information, eventually contacting these writers directly and revealing their identities in a published report. Such tactics aren't about debate or counterargument—they are about silencing voices they disagree with by instilling fear and intimidation.

 

https://politiquerepublic.substack.com/p/the-slippery-slope-begins-splcs-doxxing

Anonymous ID: 7aba07 Nov. 20, 2024, 11:20 a.m. No.22025478   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5485 >>5488 >>5520

Biden Asks Congress To Approve $100 Billion Supplemental For Disaster Relief

 

“With the Congress now back in session, I write to request urgently needed emergency funding to provide for an expeditious and meaningful Federal response to Hurricanes Helene and Milton and other natural disasters,” President Joe Biden said in a letter to Congress addressed to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Nov. 18.

 

The administration on Nov. 18 submitted a funding request that included $40 billion for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), $24 billion for the Department of Agriculture, and $12 billion for the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

 

“The last time Congress passed a comprehensive disaster package was in December of 2022 as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023,” Shalanda Young, director of the Office of Management and Budget, told reporters during a call.

 

“Since then, numerous deadly storms and disasters have struck communities across the country. Those, of course, include hurricanes Milton and Helene.”

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-asks-congress-approve-100-billion-supplemental-disaster-relief

Anonymous ID: 7aba07 Nov. 20, 2024, 11:21 a.m. No.22025482   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5503

In a rare display of spine, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has come out in defense of former Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL), urging other RINOs to abandon the “lynch mob mentality” over unverified allegations as Gaetz seeks confirmation as President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Attorney General.

 

https://twitter.com/i/status/1858977422382878952