Moscow reveals purpose of Oreshnik missile test

The hypersonic missile was a message to Washington, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said

Moscow will use all means at its disposal to defend its national interests, and hopes Washington has understood this after the test launch of the Oreshnik hypersonic missile, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has told US journalist Tucker Carlson.

Carlson, who interviewed President Vladimir Putin earlier this year, returned to Russia to speak with Lavrov after unsuccessful attempts to sit down with Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky.

“We don’t want to aggravate the situation, but since ATACMS and other long-range weapons are being used against mainland Russia as it were, we are sending signals,” Lavrov said. “We hope that the last one, a couple of weeks ago, the signal with the new weapon system called Oreshnik, was taken seriously.”

Russia launched the hypersonic medium-range ballistic missile at a Ukrainian military-industrial facility in Dnepropetrovsk. Videos making rounds on social media showed bolts of light from the sky impacting deep underground, followed by secondary explosions. The site has been off-limits to the press ever since.

Half an hour before the launch of the Oreshnik, Russia sent a message to the US using the nuclear deconfliction line, so “that they don't mistake it for anything bigger and real dangerous,” according to Lavrov. Carlson noted that Oreshnik “sounds very dangerous” on its own.

“The message is that you, I mean the US and the allies of the US, who also provide these long-range weapons to the Kiev regime, they must understand that we would be ready to use any means not to allow them to succeed in what they call strategic defeat of Russia,” Lavrov told Carlson. Moscow is “ready to do anything to defend our legitimate interests,” he added.

Referring to the recent comments of an American admiral about the theoretical acceptability of using atomic weapons, Lavrov said that this kind of rhetoric was “really worrying” and appears to assume that Russia does not have ‘red lines’ or is not willing to enforce them.

READ MORE: US military prepared for nuclear strikes – spokesman

“This is a very serious mistake,” the Russian diplomat said.

Asked whether the US and Russia are at war, Lavrov said that it’s an undeclared, “hybrid war” at the moment and Moscow is letting Washington know that it should not escalate.

Since an actual war with the US “would take a nuclear character,” the veteran diplomat explained, “we would certainly like to avoid any misunderstanding. And since some people in Washington and some people in London, in Brussels, seem to be not very capable [of understanding], we will send additional messages if they don’t draw necessary conclusions.”

https://www.rt.com/news/608792-lavrov-oreshnik-tucker-carlson/

THis would be a good thing…

Ukraine preparing for end to conflict – media

Resistance to increased mobilization calls is part of a political ploy, the outlet Strana has said

Kiev’s public opposition to Western calls that it draft 18-year-olds for military service is part of a strategy for winning an election if the conflict with Moscow ends next spring, the Ukrainian outlet Strana has claimed.

Washington and its allies have publicly demanded the expansion of the draft to mobilize the 18-to-25 demographic, most recently on Wednesday, when US Secretary of State Antony Blinken made the argument in Brussels.

According to sources in the Ukrainian presidency, however, Kiev has opposed this as part of “a strategy to prepare for the scenario of a quick end to the war and the election afterward,” Strana reported on Thursday.

One possibility considered by Vladimir Zelensky is a negotiated end to the hostilities shortly after the inauguration of US President Donald Trump on January 20, the outlet said. The other option is that the talks will fail and the fighting will go on “for a long time.”

Public statements about lowering the mobilization age “are being made in case the war ends soon and there are elections, so that they can talk about how they saved the gene pool of the nation,” Strana’s source in Kiev said.

In case the talks fail and the fighting continues, the mobilization will have to be expanded sooner or later, “and Bankovaya will go for it, finding hundreds of reasons to explain the change in position,” the outlet’s source added, referring to the address of the Ukrainian president’s office.

Speaking to Reuters on Wednesday, Blinken argued that Kiev had “hard decisions” to make about further mobilization. Even if Ukraine got all the money and the ammunition it wanted from the West, Blinken said at a NATO press conference, “there have to be people on the front lines,” he said.

“Getting younger people into the fight, we think, many of us think, is necessary,” the US diplomat told Reuters. “Right now, 18- to 25-year-olds are not in the fight.”

The Russian Defense Ministry has estimated Ukraine’s losses at more than 500,000 since February 2022, though Zelensky has publicly admitted to less than a tenth of that. Kiev has sought to mobilize another 160,000 fighters in the coming months, to replenish depleted frontline units, as Russian forces gain ground.

https://www.rt.com/russia/608810-ukraine-preparing-peace-elections/

kek

Coalition of Black Churches Representing 28 Million Americans Demands MSNBC Fire Al Sharpton, Calls for Investigation into Kamala Harris Payments

A powerful coalition of African American churches is calling for the suspension and investigation of MSNBC host Rev. Al Sharpton, alleging that donations from Kamala Harris’s campaign to Sharpton’s National Action Network have compromised the integrity of the black Church and journalism.

Last week, MSNBC admitted it was “unaware” that Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign had paid $500,000 to Al Sharpton’s National Action Network nonprofit ahead of a favorable interview with the Democratic nominee on October 20, just weeks before the election, according to Fox News.

After Harris’s defeat to President-elect Donald Trump, Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings revealed that the Harris campaign made two $250,000 donations to Sharpton’s National Action Network in early September and October.

Despite the apparent conflict of interest, the MSNBC weekend host did not disclose the donations to viewers or to the network executives about the payments before or after the interview.

According to a report by the Washington Free Beacon, who first broke the story, Harris’s donation was part of a larger $5.4 million spending spree aimed at boosting her favorability among Black and Latino groups — a strategy that, as we know, fell flat.

Now, the National Black Church Initiative (NBCI), representing 27.7 million churchgoers and 150,000 churches across the country, issued a scathing press release demanding transparency about a reported $500,000 payment from Harris’s campaign to Sharpton’s organization.

The NBCI says the payment raises questions about the ethics of both Sharpton and MSNBC, where Sharpton is a prominent host.

Rev. Anthony Evans, President of the NBCI, described the situation as a “moral stain” on the black Church and called on Sharpton to provide full transparency regarding the funds.

Read the full press release:

The National Black Church Initiative (NBCI), a coalition comprising 150,000 African American churches representing over 27.7 million churchgoers, expresses deep concern regarding allegations that a leader may be compromising our voting integrity by engaging with Kamala Harris’s campaign. There arises a critical question: what exactly did VP Kamala Harris receive in exchange for 500,000?

This situation is perceived by many ministers as casting a moral shadow over the integrity of the black Church. It is imperative for The Rev. Al Sharpton to transparently disclose the details of this 500,000 transaction—its rationale, receipt, and intended purpose.

Moreover, it is crucial to ascertain whether Rev. Sharpton personally benefited from any funds, and if so, the specifics of such transactions demand clarification.

Rev. Anthony Evans, President of NBCI, remarks, “Although Rev. Sharpton is held in high regard within our coalition, this does not obscure the significant ethical concerns he now faces—both morally and journalistically—regarding this financial interaction with the National Action Network. We continue to hold him in our prayers.”

Media outlets report that MSNBC was uninformed about this financial dealing. This revelation brings to light concerns regarding Rev. Sharpton’s ethical standing as a host on MSNBC.

Questions are raised about the potential necessity of financial contributions to his organization as a prerequisite for media coverage or favorable portrayal.

The hiring of Rev. Sharpton, who lacks formal journalism qualifications, has been a longstanding issue within the African American community, as it seemingly undermines the professional standing of other black men and women in journalism who may possess greater experience and integrity in the field.

NBCI strongly urges MSNBC to initiate a thorough investigation into the transaction or donation made by the Harris campaign and supports a suspension of Rev. Sharpton pending the outcome of this inquiry.

In discussions concerning threats to our democracy, the crucial role of a free, open, objective, and transparent press as a foundational element in safeguarding democratic integrity often goes unspoken.

more…

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/coalition-black-churches-representing-28-million-americans-demands/

FIREWORKS! Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe Goes Bonkers and Starts a Shouting Match With Rep. Pat Fallon During Hearing on Trump Assassination Attempts After Being Showed a Damning Picture (VIDEO)

An unbelievably explosive exchange erupted in the House of Representatives this morning involving disgraced acting Secret Service director Ronald Rowe and a Texas Republican congressman.

As the New York Post reported, Rep. Pat Fallon read Rowe the riot act during a hearing on the two assassination attempts against Donald Trump.

After slamming Rowe for waiting multiple days before visiting the Butler, Pa., the site where Trump was nearly gunned down by a Democrat donor named Thomas Crooks in July, things then took an even uglier turn when Fallon displayed a picture of Trump and Biden at Ground Zero.

“Do you recognize this photo?” Fallon asked. After Rowe confirmed he did, Fallon inquired who is usually in charge of an event like that.

Rowe answered that the special agent was in charge of the details. When Fallon asked whether Rowe was in charge of the detail, the acting Secret Service director refused to answer. He instead demanded House staffers put up a photo of a circle around him rather than answer the question directly and went crazy.

“Congressman, what you are not seeing is the spec. of the detail out the picture!” he bellowed. “And that is the day where we remember the more than 3000 people that have died on 9/11.

“I actually responded to Ground Zero!” he continued yelling. “I was there going through the ashes of the World Trade Center! I was there.”

“I’m not asking you that!” Fallon screamed back. “Were you the special agent in charge?! You were not!”

Rowe was, in fact, a mere dignitary, which made the photo so damning. It is simply inexcusable for the person in charge of safeguarding the lives of Trump and Biden.

At the Trump assassination hearing, chaos erupts after Rep. Pat Fallon asks Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe about his appearing as a dignitary, rather than for security at a 9/11 memorial event pic.twitter.com/52EX8C46I5

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) December 5, 2024

“Show some respect!” Rowe yelled. “Show some respect for our Secret Service members who died on 9/11!! Do not invoke 9/11 for political purposes!”

“Oh, I am not!” Fallon retorted.

“You are out of line!” Rowe screamed.

After Rowe screams more, Fallon states that he is trying to ask a serious question about why Rowe was there before the acting director starts screaming again.

Fallon and Rowe proceed to scream at each other for nearly 30 seconds before order is restored.

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Trump was nearly killed, and a heroic firefighter lost his life to Secret Service negligence. Had DEI-loving former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle afforded adequate security to Trump at the rally and allowed the agents to guard the roof Crooks shot from, the incident would have never happened.

Moreover, Rowe was PERSONALLY responsible for cutting assets from Trump’s security detail, specifically the security division responsible for threat assessments.

No wonder Rowe is losing his mind. One can only hope Trump selects a Secret Service director who will reward merit and put Trump’s safety above all else.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/fireworks-acting-secret-service-director-ronald-rowe-goes/

>>22115410

kek

Oreshnik fly fast like email, da?

>>22115471

> they just like kinda faggy

I'm with you anon but that is a pic of Hoover with his boyfriend.

He only wore dresses in private

>>22115503

J. Edgar Hoover: Gay or Just a Man Who Has Sex With Men?

(1/2)

Nov. 16, 2011— – J. Edgar Hoover led a deeply repressed sexual life, living with his mother until he was 40, awkwardly rejecting the attention of women and pouring his emotional, and at times, physical attention on his handsome deputy at the FBI, according to the new movie, "J. Edgar," directed by Clint Eastwood.

Filmgoers never see the decades-long romance between the former FBI director, and his number two, Clyde Tolson, consummated, but there's plenty of loving glances, hand-holding and one scene with an aggressive, long, deep kiss.

So was the most powerful man in America, who died in 1972 three years after the Stonewall riots marked the modern gay civil rights movement homosexual?

Eastwood admits the relationship between Hoover, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, and Clyde Tolson, played by Armie Hammer, is ambiguous.

"He was a man of mystery," he told ABC's "Good Morning America" last week. "He might have been [gay]. I am agnostic about it. I don't really know and nobody really knew."

In public, Hoover waged a vendetta against homosexuals and kept "confidential and secret" files on the sex lives of congressmen and presidents. But privately, according to some biographers, he had numerous trysts with men, including a lifelong affair with Tolson.

Dissociation denying homosexuality, but displaying sexual behavior is "not uncommon," according to Dr. Jack Drescher, a New York City psychiatrist who is an expert in gender and sexuality.

Men with strong attractions to other men can have different degrees of acceptance from being fully closeted to being openly gay. And even if they are homosexually self-aware, they can embrace it or reject it publicly.

"We confuse sexual orientation with sexual identity," said Drescher. "Some men do not publicly identify as gay, regardless of their sexual behavior."

Even the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) tracks a group that is not labeled "gay" but "men who have sex with men."

Roy Cohn, the lawyer who served as chief counsel to Sen. Joseph McCarthy in his anti-communist campaign of the 1950s and who successfully convicted Julius and Ethel Rosenberg of espionage, denied he was gay, despite an attraction to men.

Cohn, who died of AIDS in 1986, was a contemporary of Hoover and according to one biography, the two attended sex parties together in New York in the 1950s.

Cohn was characterized in a scene from Tony Kuschner's play, "Angels in America," speaking to his doctor: "…you are hung up on words, on labels, that you believe they mean what they seem to mean. AIDS. Homosexual. Gay. Lesbian. You think these are names that tell you who someone sleeps with, but they don't tell you that … Roy Cohn is a heterosexual man, Henry, who f****s around with guys."

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/edgar-hoover-sex-men-homosexual/story

>>22115588

(2/2)

Hoover's degree of self-awareness may have been the same as Cohn's. Despite his same-sex dalliances, he occasionally sought a "Mrs. Hoover" and even courted albeit uncomfortably actress Ginger Rogers' mother and actress Dorothy Lamour.

Hoover's neuroses were likely rooted in childhood: He was ashamed of his mentally ill father and was dependent on his morally righteous mother, Annie, well into middle age. Until her death in 1938, Hoover had no social life outside the office.

In the film, Annie chastises her powerful son as he wilted before some of his FBI critics, telling him, "I'd rather have a dead son than a daffodil for a son."

In a 2004 biography by Richard Hack, "Puppetmaster," which was culled from the notes of Truman Capote, who had begun interviews on Hoover and Tolson's relationship, the author says Hoover was not gay, but suggests the man was vicariously turned on by the smut he collected on others.

One 200-page secret document was on the extracurricular activities of Capote himself, who was openly gay.

But Anthony Summers, who exposed the secret sex life of Hoover in his 1993 book, "Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover," said there was no ambiguity about the FBI director's sexual proclivities.

"What does Clint Eastwood know about it?" he asked ABCNews.com. Summers collaborated with historians and conducted 800 interviews for the book, including nieces and those who were young enough at the time to have known the man personally.

"We were able to get a close view of the man as an individual and as a human being – as close as anybody who had not been afraid of him since he died," said Summers.

With interest in the Eastwood film, publishers in the U.S. and in Britain are issuing a remake of the book.

One medical expert told Summers that Hoover was "strongly predominant homosexual orientation" and another categorized him as a "bisexual with failed heterosexuality."

Hoover often suppressed his urges, but would break out in lapses that could have destroyed him – alleged orgies in New York City hotels and affairs with teenage boys in a limousine, according to interviews conducted by Summers.

"He was a sadly repressed individual, but most people, even J. Edgar Hoover, let go on occasion," he said.

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/edgar-hoover-sex-men-homosexual/story

>>22115599

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-3blQLENAk

>>22115141

On the ONE MONTH anniversary of our National Election, it looks like the last congressional district in California has finally called it. How is it that after 2 weeks and counting thousands of ballots, they are STILL at 95%?

https://decisiondeskhq.com/results/2024/General/US-House/

>>22115671

finished map

https://decisiondeskhq.com/results/2024/General/US-House/

>>22115745

>>22115751