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X reveals Brazil Supreme Court judge de Moraes banned opposition politician from criticizing his abuse of power
“He can block this platform in Brazil, but he can’t stop the whole world from knowing his illegal, shameful & hypocritical deeds,” Musk wrote.
Kremlin Spokesman Suggests Moscow Prefers Kamala Harris Over Donald Trump
Kremlin Spokesman Suggests Moscow Prefers Kamala Harris Over Donald Trump
Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via modernity.news,
After Vladimir Putin said he preferred Biden over Trump, the Kremlin now appears to favor Kamala Harris, saying that, “The Democrats are more predictable.”
Before Biden was forced out of the race, Putin indicated that he had a preference for Biden over Trump, noting that the president was an experienced “old school” type of politician.
With Biden having disappeared from the ticket, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was asked by pro-Russia TV reporter Pavel Zarubin, “Then who is our candidate now?”
“We have no candidate. But, of course, the Democrats are more predictable. And what Putin said about Biden’s predictability applies to almost all Democrats, including Ms. Harris,” responded Peskov.
The Kremlin spokesman was also dismissive towards Trump’s claim that he could end the war with Ukraine within 24 hours.
🚨🇷🇺RUSSIA: KAMALA IS MORE PREDICTABLE THAN TRUMP
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated that Russia views Kamala as more predictable than Trump, though it expects no improvement in U.S.-Russia relations regardless of the election outcome.
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— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) September 1, 2024
Peskov said there was no “magic wand” to immediately resolve the issue and that if Trump announced he was cutting all aid and demanding peace talks, it would still be “fantasy” to believe this would change mindsets in Kyiv.
The fact that Moscow has now twice indicated that if anyone, they’d prefer the Democrats to win, confounds the relentless legacy media narrative that Russia is attempting to meddle in the election to help Trump win.
As we highlighted earlier, one of the primary reasons as to why Robert Reich is calling for global regulators to threaten to “arrest” Elon Musk is to prevent Russia from meddling in the US election.
However, the primary example of election meddling before the 2020 election was on behalf of Democrats when they pressured social media companies to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story.
This was based on claims that the story was a ‘Russian disinformation’ operation which turned out to be completely incorrect.
Last month, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg apologized for censoring the story and promised not to allow it to happen again.
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Tyler Durden
Tue, 09/03/2024 – 05:00
Kamala Harris Is But A Cog In The Democrats’ Machine
Kamala Harris Is But A Cog In The Democrats’ Machine
Authored by J. Peder Zane via RealClearPolitics,
Our fixation on what Kamala Harris knows and believes is rather quaint.
It reflects a traditional view of leadership that Democrats have largely rejected. Instead of decisive figures who guide the nation, the party is driven by untold numbers of elected officials and unelected bureaucrats, academics, and media voices who share a leftwing ideology. Harking back to its earlier history, the party is once again a machine. Its candidates are not visionaries but apparatchiks committed to the program.
The name on the ballot is largely irrelevant. No one is really voting for Harris, but for the party she represents. Still, politics needs a face, so when President Biden’s turned too craggy, she was tapped as a more youthful, attractive spokesmodel. Like Biden, her vacuity is her appeal; she is another empty vessel that Democrat marketing whizzes can fill with blithe slogans – Joy! Freedom!! Goldilocks!!!
Also, like Biden, her lack of insight and conviction is a plus as she is unlikely to offer any pushback to the plan. I’ll stand where you want, say what you want, just please compare me to Lincoln.
If that sounds unfair, note that it is precisely what we have lived through during the stage-managed Biden presidency. As if to underscore the point, the president has been largely MIA since he was selflessly forced, kicking and screaming, to withdraw from the race. Who’s running the government? The machine.
Ironically, Harris’ largely ceremonial role adds a splash of truth to her party’s efforts to hide her. She doesn’t need to grant many interviews or hold press conferences because her own thoughts are largely irrelevant. It doesn’t matter what she knows about the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, the intentions of China and Iran, or about the economy, health care, and education. Those decisions will be made by the machine. All she can do is jam the gears with word salads and gaffes.
Where Republicans argue her positions are unclear, we know exactly what she is offering: more of the same. A Harris presidency will continue to ramp up the leftwing policies that have marked Biden’s term. The Democrats will continue their push to transform America into a woke, quasi-socialist republic like those that dominate the broke and feckless nations of Western Europe. They will give us higher taxes, expanded regulation, mounting national debt, and – perhaps most troubling of all – the ever more strident effort to censor and punish dissenting views.
She is not feeding information into the machine, she is mouthing what it spits out.
Hence, the focus on her life and career, the causes and policies she has embraced, many of which she is now renouncing, are a distraction. What she thinks and feels doesn’t matter. The only real threat is if, as president, she tried to rise above her station and insist on consequential actions during a crisis. Lord, help us.
The problem for Democrats is that many Americans are not happy with the machine’s output. They are disappointed with its policies on the border, the spending that has fueled inflation, the growing divisions along the lines of race and gender, the fearsome global conflicts. Where a visionary leader can adapt to new circumstances, turning, if not on a dime, then a quarter, the machine grinds on. What you’ve seen is what you’re going to get. Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer admitted the obvious last week when he said that if Democrats win control of the government this November, they would likely end the filibuster to pass many of the bills that stalled during the Biden years.
Still, there are elections to win. So Democrats are trying to put lipstick on a pig by selling the same old same old as a new way forward. Chutzpah or genius? Time will tell.
All of this shows the folly of the Trump campaign, which seems to believe it is running against Harris. His schoolyard insults of the vice president raise her stature, casting her as a potential world leader instead of a mouthpiece. It gives hope to Americans who are disappointed with the Biden administration – maybe she will be different. It obscures the fact that Trump’s real opponent is a vast machine, a mighty ship of state that may have no captain at the helm but is irrevocably steering the nation on a dangerous course.
J. Peder Zane is an editor for RealClearInvestigations and a columnist for RealClearPolitics. Follow him on X (formerly Twitter) @jpederzane.
Tyler Durden
Mon, 09/02/2024 – 23:20
Irish teacher jailed for third time after refusing to use students’ preferred pronouns
A judge in Ireland sent evangelical Christian teacher Enoch Burke to jail for the third time because he refused to comply with a court order that prevents him from trespassing at Wilson’s Hospital School, where he has protested gender ideology policies.
Ukraine seeks to sell weapons produced by their own defense companies
As the war with Russia overtakes it in terms of both men and material, Ukraine is considering the task of exporting weapons produced by the country’s limited munitions manufacturers.
Turkey Formally Requests To Join BRICS, Citing Frustration In EU Bid
Turkey Formally Requests To Join BRICS, Citing Frustration In EU Bid
Turkey has formally requested to join the BRICS group of emerging economies, Bloomberg cited informed sources as saying on Monday.
Ankara “seeks to bolster its global influence and forge new ties beyond its traditional Western allies,” the sources said. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan believes “that the geopolitical center of gravity is shifting away from developed economies” and that the push to join BRICS “reflects its aspirations to cultivate ties with all sides in a multipolar world, while still fulfilling its obligations as a key member of NATO.”
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said in early June that BRICS serves as a good alternative to the EU. Later that month, he confirmed that dialogue between Ankara and BRICS nations was ongoing – coming as Turkish frustration continued to grow due to stalled efforts to join the EU.
While Turkey has long been a member of NATO, accession talks for EU membership have faced several obstacles since they began in 2005. Turkey had applied to join the EU predecessor organization, the EEC, in 1987.
“Turkey submitted an application to join BRICS some months ago amid frustration over a lack of progress in its decades-old bid to join the EU,” Bloomberg’s sources went on to say.
After Russia became the most sanctioned nation in the world following the start of the war in Ukraine in 2022, the BRICS bloc began seriously pursuing the creation of a common currency to de-dollarize trade and circumvent western sanctions.
A coalition initially made up of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, BRICS at the start of this year expanded for the first time since 2010 to include Egypt, Iran, Ethiopia, and the UAE.
Palestine’s ambassador in Moscow, Abdel Hafeez Nofal, said on August 26 that the Palestinian Authority (PA) is planning to apply to join BRICS.
“The different and beautiful thing about BRICS compared to the EU is that it includes all civilizations and races. If it can become a little more institutional, it will produce serious benefits,” Fidan said in early June.
Fidan confirmed in an interview later that month that his country may apply for an upgraded dialogue partnership with the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN).
Erdogan has also shown interest in joining China’s Shanghai Cooperation Council (SCO). In early, he attended the SCO summit in Kazakhstan.
“We do not have to choose between the EU and the SCO as some people claim. On the contrary, we have to develop our relations with both these and other organizations on a win-win basis,” the Turkish president said over the weekend.
“Turkiye can become a strong, prosperous, prestigious and effective country if it improves its relations with the East and the West simultaneously. Any method other than this will not benefit Turkiye, but will harm it,” he added.
Tyler Durden
Mon, 09/02/2024 – 16:20
BREAKING UPDATE: Brazilian paper unpublishes claim that Supreme Court will no longer enforce fines on Brazilians who access X via VPN
“The STF and Dictator Alexandre de Moraes say they will no longer try to impose a fine of R$50,000.00/day on Brazilians who use VPNs to access X!”
Germany’s right-wing AfD wins ‘historic victory’ in state elections spurring protests from leftists
Germany’s Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is celebrating Monday after its “historic success,” in state elections. The populist, right-wing party won a solid plurality in the eastern state of Thuringia
DEREK YOHE: The pro-life movement must embrace incrementalism or face irrelevance
The stakes are too high to fidget with votes simply because Trump does not pass the puritanical “white glove” test.