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Repost by Permission: Russia Begins Secure Paper Ballot National Election—America Opts For Law Of The Jungle

March 14, 2024

Russia Begins Secure Paper Ballot National Election—America Opts For Law Of The Jungle

By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers

An informative new Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today first notes President Putin telling the Russian peoples during his election eve address this morning: “We need to confirm our consolidation, our determination to go forward together…Each vote counts…That is why I am calling on you to realize your right to vote in the coming three days…Dear friends!…All of us, the multiethnic people of Russia, are a big family…We are worried about our country, take care of it, we want it to be wealthy, strong, free and prosperous, we want living standards and the quality of life to improve…So be it…We will do everything the way we want…So, I an asking you to take part in the voting and express your civil and patriotic position, cast your vote for your candidate, a candidate you have chosen, for the successful future of our beloved Russia…Only you, Russian citizens, can decide about the future of the homeland”.

With Russia being the world’s largest country spanning 11 of its 24 time zones, this report notes, voting will take place over three days on 15-17 March, with four candidates vying for the top office, namely New People party nominee Vladislav Davankov; self-nominated candidate and incumbent President Vladimir PutinLiberal Democratic Party of Russia nominee Leonid Slutsky; and Communist Party of the Russian Federation nominee Nikolay Kharitonov.

In preparation for the three-day Russian national election, this report continues, Chairwoman Ella Pamfilova of the Central Election Commission announced: “A total of 113,574,550 ballot papers have been prepared…Each ballot paper is protected by several security layers…It is impossible to forge ballot papers…All ballot papers have been delivered to polling stations, they are all in place”—because of their unmatched security, “paper ballots are by far the most common form of voting in the world”—American government election experts have previously documented facts like “absentee ballots remain the largest source of potential voter fraud” and “mail-in voting is a throwback to the dark old days of vote-buying and fraud”—and it was also revealed: “The overseeing mission of the Commonwealth of Independent States is made up of 194 people who will observe Russia’s presidential election”.

While Russia begins its secure paper ballot national election to choose a leader, this report details, Supreme Socialist Leader Joe Biden and President Donald Trump just secured their political parties nominations to run against each other to be the leader of the United States, and about which President Trump stated last evening: “Number one, I’m honored to be the one representing the great Republican Party…It’s very important…I thought I would be…I didn’t think it would be this fast…I thought we had some candidates who would be tougher than they were that didn’t do as well as some people thought they would…I think we’re in massive trouble as a country…We have a little more than seven months until the election, and that sounds like a short time, but that’s an eternity for this lunatic to be running this country…If we don’t win…I think that November 5 is the most important day in the history of our country”.

With it literally taking an army of political experts and mental health professionals to comprehend the beyond convoluted and chaotic American national election system used to choose a leader, this report concludes, the Wall Street Journal, in its just released article “The High Price Of Democrats’ Anti-Trump Lawfare”, further observes about this insanity:

Most believe the rule of law is better than the law of the jungle.  That could change.

The newest buzzword in our politics is lawfare, or using the legal system as a weapon against a political opponent.  It sits before us now as a spectacle of political gluttony.  How many lawsuits, court motions and judgments against Donald Trump can the Democratic Party chow down?  More disturbing is the high price the American system may pay for this excess.

Consider the groaning table.

A Manhattan jury awarded author E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million in a defamation suit against Mr. Trump, who posted a $91.6 million bond, including interest.

New York Judge Arthur Engoron has ordered Mr. Trump to pay a total of $450 million in a civil fraud trial over valuations of his net worth.  New York State Attorney General Letitia James says if the massive bond isn’t posted, she’ll seize Mr. Trump’s New York buildings.

In Georgia, notwithstanding the mess Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis made of herself and her case, the fact remains she indicted Mr. Trump and 18 other defendants for violating the state’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act in connection with the 2020 presidential election.  The presiding judge dismissed six of the 41 counts Wednesday.

Colorado, Maine and Illinois took various legal actions to ban Mr. Trump from the 2024 presidential ballot, efforts recently blocked by a unanimous Supreme Court decision.

Special counsel Jack Smith is attempting to bring Mr. Trump to trial on separate sets of federal charges, one over possession of classified documents, another for the former president’s actions the day of the 2021 Capitol riot.  The issue of presidential immunity in the latter case goes before the Supreme Court next month.

And of course a trial will begin March 25 in Manhattan, brought by local prosecutor Alvin Bragg, in which Mr. Trump is accused of disguising hush-money payments during the 2016 presidential campaign to porn star Stormy Daniels.

The argument on behalf of this really quite unprecedented legal offensive boils down to one idea: No one is above the law.  True.  That view is sometimes known as ensuring respect for the law.

My single-sentence reply is that the Democrats’ use of lawfare on this scale makes it likely that respect for the law will decline, and dangerously so, among much of the American public.

If Democrats had limited their legal offensive to Mr. Smith’s two federal initiatives, conservatives would have absorbed it as politics as usual, however degraded that benchmark.  But the American left never knows when to stop, so it is waging the get-Trump legal assault on every imaginable front.

Biden classified-document special counsel Robert Hur, exercising prosecutorial discretion, said the current president isn’t exonerated but won’t be prosecuted, leaving Joe Biden to the court of public opinion, which is where both of 2024’s presidential candidates belong.  Instead, the Republican nominee stands in dock after endless dock.

That the lawsuits have backfired politically, boosting Mr. Trump into an easy victory in the primaries, is incontestable.  The media lately has been writing that the Trump legal team’s strategy of “delay” is working, implying that Mr. Trump was supposed to take it all passively in the neck.

At least half the country is coming to believe that the legal system is being swallowed by rank political partisanship.  Worth it?

It’s been some 400 years since Shakespeare wrote, “The first thing we do is, let’s kill all the lawyers”.  Most people in the centuries since came to believe—and established—that the rule of law was better than the law of the jungle.  But that could change.  Future Republican lawfare is inevitable. In an interview last fall, Mr. Trump said “it could certainly happen in reverse”.

Another new word in our politics is “rigged”.  The excesses of lawfare have contributed to that systemic loss of faith as well.  The 2020 election wasn’t rigged, but a lot else looks like it is, most notably calls by the left to pack the Supreme Court, rigging its decisions.  Eventually, respect for the law starts to look like a mug’s game.

To my knowledge, Shakespeare never wrote, “kill all the scientists”.  Science also spent the past 400 years establishing its credibility with the public.  That’s eroding as science has been enlisted, by scientists no less, to serve political goals.

Appeals to “science” were used during the Covid pandemic to reorder society—with school closings, store shutdowns and social distancing.  Dissenters within the science community were suppressed and ostracized, as has happened for years to scientists who disagree with the climate “consensus”.

Like lawfare, the results of sciencefare were predictable.  Pew Research reported in November that public trust in scientists was in decline.  Nearly 40% of Republicans or Republican-leaning independents have little or no confidence in scientists.  How can that be good?

The hyperpoliticization of these important professions is being carried out by people once known as the best and the brightest.  It reflects a steady moral corruption of crucial institutions.  It normalizes the hypocrisy of standing on the moral high ground to deploy the lowest political means.

The American public needed a presidential election this year on the merits, such as they are.

Instead, legal opportunism may cast the biggest vote.

[Note: Some words and/or phrases appearing in quotes in this report are English language approximations of Russian words/phrases having no exact counterpart.]

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Repost by Permission: Putin Declares “Vampire Ball Is Ending” As Trump Unleashes “Project 2025” Attack On Deep State

March 13, 2024

Putin Declares “Vampire Ball Is Ending” As Trump Unleashes “Project 2025” Attack On Deep State

By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers

A compelling new Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today first noting President Putin gave an over 1 hour 30 minute interview to journalists from the Russia 1 TV channel and RIA Novosti news agency in Moscow this morning, says he first declared about the warmongering socialist Western colonial powers: “The so-called golden billion has grown accustomed to being able to fill their bellies with human flesh and their pockets with money as they have been parasitizing other peoples in Africa, Asia, and Latin America…But they must understand that the vampire ball is ending”, then he warned: “As for the states that talk about having no red lines with regards to Russia, they should then understand that Russia also will not have any red lines towards those states”.

Prior to his interview today, this report notes, President Putin met at the Kremlin yesterday with the winners of the ‘Leaders of Russia’ contest, a government initiative to develop a new generation of leadership, and in responding to a soldier from the Northern Military District who took part in the meeting, most factually revealed: “Our most important weapon is the consolidation of Russian society and the attitude towards the Motherland as demonstrated by you and those with whom you serve…It’s our most important, most powerful weapon…Those people who expected to suppress us with the help of economic sanctions, they did not take this into account; to understand this, you must be a citizen of the Russian Federation, to be part of our culture”.

In contrast to a unified Russia, this report continues, the British government think tank Royal Institute of International Affairs, commonly known as Chatham House, warningly assessed about the United States: “There is a growing divide in US society and politics along old civil war battle lines – and the election could make things worse…An increasingly Balkanized US is likely to be even more inward-looking, preoccupied with internal divisions over immigration, race, inequality, and sexual and gender identity issues…Such self-absorption is already manifesting itself in isolationism and protectionism at the expense of the security and economic alliances that have greatly benefitted the US and the world for decades…Half (54 per cent) of self-described strong Republicans in America now think it is very or somewhat likely there will be a US civil war within the next decade…Four in ten (40 per cent) strong Democrats agree”.

In a bitterly divided America nearing civil war, this report details, the leftist New York Times revealed today: “President Biden and former President Donald J. Trump on Tuesday secured the delegates necessary to clinch their parties’ presidential nominations, according to The Associated Press, cementing a general election rematch in November months in the making”—a revelation joined with the news: “Democrats have been cheering since Biden’s State of the Union address last week, because they believe he showed himself to be mentally competent…They really thought that his angry, yelling style speech was a winner…Voters?…Not so much…A new poll finds that Biden got no boost in his numbers following the speech”—and it was also observed: “New data shows that Democrats longtime advantage with Black, Latino and Asian American voters has shrunk to its lowest point in more than 60 years — creating a massive vulnerability for President Biden and congressional Democrats”.

Along with ABC News revealing today: “The sequel to the 2020 election is officially set as the president and his immediate predecessor secured their parties’ nominations…Biden and Trump have set up a political movie the country has seen before — even if the last version was in black and white….The last presidential rematch came in 1956, when Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower again defeated Adlai Stevenson, the Democratic opponent he had four years prior…Grover Cleveland is the lone president in U.S. history to serve two non-consecutive terms…He successfully pulled off what Trump is now attempting — winning back the White House from the opponent who took it from him”, this report notes, the Wall Street Journal, in its just released article “Trump And Ukraine”, assessed: “Ignore the press…They don’t know what he’d do because they forget how politics works…A Trump presidency would undoubtedly be a different experience and have some different outcomes than a Biden presidency, but it’s actually hard in advance to know how…Everything you hear—every single word—is mostly an attempt to mislead you about this…The really glaring signal on Ukraine is that neither party’s coalition is all that committed to its cause”.

Still not understood by the vast majority of the American peoples, this report concludes, is that President Donald Trump and his forces have created the “Project 2025” master plan to destroy the Deep State once he resumes power—a master plan for the total destruction of the Deep State just unleashed in microcosm on the Republican National Committee after President Trump’s forces took over full control of it this past week, and about which leftist Axios, in its article “Trump’s RNC Makeover Signals His Plans For 2025”, most fearfully assessed:

President Trump’s ousting of a huge chunk of the Republican National Committee’s staff is a preview of what he plans to do with federal agencies if he’s re-elected in November.

Why it matters: The Republican Party is now effectively the Trump Party.  It’s been remade in a way that echoes Trump’s 2025 plan to oust moderates and nonpartisan civil servants from the government, pack federal offices with loyalists and expand presidential powers.

Trump “clearly wants a Republican National Committee that dances to his tune, jumps when he says jump“, said Norman Ornstein, an emeritus scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute.

That is a harbinger of things to come“, Ornstein added. “One thing we know about Trump is that his attitude toward the federal government is clear“.

Driving the news: Trump’s new team atop the RNC — led by new party chair Michael Whatley and Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump — fired 60 staffers on Monday.

The moves decimated the party’s data and political teams, including dozens of regional RNC staffers based in key states across the country, two people familiar with the situation told Axios.

The RNC’s financial and digital teams are being asked to relocate to Palm Beach, Fla., where Trump spends most of his time at his Mar-a-Lago resort, the two sources said.

What they’re saying: Trump die-hards cheered the RNC firings.

You got the RNC that’s now purging the deep state“, conservative activist and MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk said on his podcast.

The RNC right now has to be taken apart brick by brick and rapidly rebuilt“, said Steve Bannon, who’d been calling for former RNC chair Ronna McDaniel to step down for two years before Trump pushed her aside last month.

Zoom out: Such talk is common among Trump’s most loyal supporters, many of whom have seen the RNC as comparable to what they call the “swamp” in Washington — an entrenched power structure that needs replacing.

That’s why many of Trump’s criticisms of more traditional Republicans — like Mitt Romney, George W. Bush and others who’ve blasted Trump’s divisive rhetoric and his assault on U.S. institutions — have echoed how he describes the “deep state” in D.C.

Either the deep state destroys America or we destroy the deep state“, Trump said at a rally in Waco, Texas, last year, essentially challenging the legitimacy of government institutions.

Zoom in: Trump has promised to gut the federal workforce by reintroducing an executive order known as Schedule F if he wins a second term.

As Axios has reported, a consortium of Trump allies are spending tens of millions of dollars to install a pre-vetted, pro-Trump army of up to 54,000 loyalists across government if he’s elected.

The idea would be to rip off the restraints imposed on the previous 46 presidents and empower Trump to wield unprecedented power.

Trump’s plan, as outlined in his policy platform, would involve firing “rogue bureaucrats” and “corrupt actors in our national security and intelligence apparatus“, and moving up to 100,000 government positions out of D.C.

[Note: Some words and/or phrases appearing in quotes in this report are English language approximations of Russian words/phrases having no exact counterpart.]

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Repost by Permission: Biden Smashes Ukraine Out Of $7.3 Trillion 2025 Budget

March 12, 2024

Biden Smashes Ukraine Out Of $7.3 Trillion 2025 Budget

By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers

A foretelling new Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today first noting Supreme Socialist Leader Joe Biden warning this past December like a deranged lunatic: “If Putin takes Ukraine, he won’t stop there…Putin will attack a NATO ally, then we’ll have something that we don’t seek and that we don’t have today: American troops fighting Russian troops”, says in immediate response, President Putin most factually observed: “It is complete nonsense – and I think President Biden understands that…Russia has no reason, no interest – no geopolitical interest, neither economic, political nor military – to fight with NATO countries”—a factual observation now supported by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who yesterday truthfully assessed: “We don’t see any imminent military threat from Russia against any NATO ally”, then he declared: “NATO has no plans to send troops to Ukraine and NATO’s not party to the conflict, nor are NATO allies”.

At the same time NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg was countering Socialist Leader Biden’s deranged lies about Russia attacking NATO, this report notes, the heads of the United States intelligence community were giving testimony before Congress—was a hearing to examine the findings of the Annual Threat Assessment Of The U.S. Intelligence Community, which reflects input from the CIA and 17 other intelligence agencies, released yesterday by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), wherein it accurately assessed: “Russia almost certainly seeks to avoid a direct military conflict with NATO members and will calibrate its geopolitical maneuvering to steer clear of a global war”.

Upon receiving the threat assessments designated by the United States intelligence community, this report continues, Socialist Leader Biden requested yesterday from Congress a total of $7.266 trillion to fund his planned 2025 budget, that includes: $900 billion for national defense, over $4.3 trillion for a range of programs, including Social SecurityMedicaid, and Medicare, and $965 billion to pay the interest on the national debt—the national defense budget includes requests for countering Russia in Africa, countering China in Asia, increasing US nuclear weapons, paying for NASA to go to the moon, but wipes out nearly all funding for Ukraine.

Immediately after Socialist Leader Biden smashed Ukraine out of his 2025 planned budget, this report continues, the United States Department of State released the statement: “The $482 million requested for Ukraine, along with the National Security Supplemental Request, will assist with Ukraine’s economic recovery, bolster Ukraine’s resilience and ability to defend itself against Russia’s full-scale invasion, and ensure progress toward reforms needed for Ukraine’s EU accession…Breakdown of FY 2025 Request for Ukraine ($482 million): $250.0 million for economic and development assistance to support reforms in Ukraine, civil society, rule of law, and election integrity…This also includes programming to bolster economic growth, strengthen energy security, support EU accession, and fortify the resilience of the Ukrainian people by restoring critical public services across the country, particularly in liberated communities….$95 million in security-sector assistance for FMF for immediate and medium-term capabilities to help Ukraine win the war against Russian aggression….$71 million for health programs….$66 million for other security assistance activities such as supporting civilian security, rule of law, and for demining and non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction”.

Prior to learning that Socialist Leader Biden had budgeted a miniscule $95 million (the cost of about four Western tanks) for 2025 “to help Ukraine win the war against Russian aggression”, this report notes, his corrupt puppet leader Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky announced that Kiev’s military is on track to secure over 1,200 miles of defensive positioning aimed to fend off Russian troops, and he told French broadcaster BFM TV: “I can give you this fresh piece of information: The situation is now much better than during these past three months…Our command, our military has stopped the Russian advance in eastern Ukraine”—but whose “fresh piece of information” didn’t include Ukrainian forces continuing to launch suicide missions against Russian villages far from the front lines, about which the Ministry of Defense (MoD) revealed about today’s attacks: “Kiev’s forces lost up to 60 servicemen, five tanks, and one armored combat vehicle in the failed attack on Belgorod Region” and further noted: “Since March 10, Kiev has lost over 100 troops, six tanks, a French Caesar artillery system, and 20 armored vehicles in failed incursion attempts in Belgorod and Kursk regions”.

With Russia’s main goal being the complete demilitarization of Ukraine, to include the obliteration of all of its weapons, fortifications and industrial capabilities, this report concludes, the leftist Washington Post, in its just released article “Russia’s Air Power Roars Back Into The War With Devastating Guided Bombs”, observed: “Russia’s air force has dramatically boosted its effectiveness in the Ukraine war with its increased use of “glide bombs”…The plentiful Soviet-era bombs, which carry up to a half-ton of explosives, have been fitted with wings and guidance systems to fly long distances with some accuracy — allowing the Russian jets that release them to operate away from Ukrainian antiaircraft systems…The bombs heavy iron construction makes them nearly impossible to shoot down, Ukrainian officials have said, because air defense systems are calibrated to detect missiles and rockets that fly with a distinct trajectory, rather than to counter aircraft bombs”—an observation joined by the Russian military article “FAB-1500: The Russian Air-Dropped Bomb ‘Tilting the Balance’ Against Ukraine”, wherein it assessed:

The past three months have seen a series of surprise breakthroughs by Russian forces against heavily reinforced Ukrainian positions in Donbass, with troops cracking fortifications and entrenchments which Ukraine’s NATO-backed army spent a decade creating.

Russia’s secret?  A modernized take on a Soviet-made super-heavy aerial bomb.

The munition, which Ukrainian media had previously characterized as a “monster bomb” “more powerful than the Iskander” missile, is the FAB-1500 – a air-launched, 1,525 kg aerial bomb developed during the Cold War, and designed to blast through hard targets.

FAB – a Russian acronym for “High-Explosive Aviation Bomb” – makes up an entire lineup of Soviet and Russian-made general-purpose aviation bombs, from the 50 kg FAB-50 to the FAB-500, the FAB-2000, FAB-3000, FAB-5000, and the monstrous FAB-9000, which features a conventional explosive charge of about 4,300 kg of TNT – about half the blast yield caused by the W54 – the world’s smallest tactical nuclear bomb.

The FAB-1500 was first introduced into service with the Soviet military in 1954, and comes packed with 675 kg of TNT – enough to level a fortification or bunker and leave a crater up to 20 meters deep, smash through up to three meters of reinforced concrete, and cause destruction across an area up to 500 meters.

While the FAB-1500 is powerful, its status as an unguided, free-fall munition limited its utility against near-peer or peer adversaries, particularly as anti-aircraft air defense became more sophisticated through the second half of the 20th century.

Russia’s military engineers were able to get around this weak spot using a UMPK – Russian acronym for “Unified Planning and Correction Module” – transforming free-falling FAB series bombs into laser and satellite-guided controlled munitions with an extended range. UMPK-equipped FABs feature foldout wing and rudder components and a computer targeting system improving the bombs’ accuracy to within five meters of their target. The closest US analog is the JDAM-ER smart bomb kit.

Equipped with the UMPK, FAB-1500s can reportedly be launched by their carriers distances up to 50 km from the target and up to 10 km up, and be carried both by strategic bombers, like the Tupolev Tu-95 and the Tupolev Tu-160, and by tactical strike jets like the Sukhoi Su-27 and Sukhoi Su-34.

Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Yuriy Ignat warned as far back as the spring of 2023 that Ukraine must “urgently respond to” the “threat” posed by Russian FAB bombs, suggesting only sophisticated Western air defenses like the Patriot missile system could help force Russian jets to stay away from Ukraine’s airspace.

Ignat warned CNN that the upgraded FAB-1500 is a potent threat in part because of its low price – “pennies in comparison with a missile”.  Russia’s “goal” using the munitions, according to the Ukrainian Air Force spokesman, “is not only to hit our frontline positions, but to fly further behind our defenders to hit rear command posts, rear supplies, ammunition, and so on”.

The Russian media has estimated that the FAB-1500’s lower-tier cousin, the FAB-500, has an approximate price tag of as little as 300,000 rubles (US $3,200) apiece, with the addition of the UMPC adding 30 to 50 percent to the cost – a steal compared to Kalibr and Iskander missiles, which can go for the equivalent of $500,000 to $4.3 million each, according to publicly available guesstimates.

[Note: Some words and/or phrases appearing in quotes in this report are English language approximations of Russian words/phrases having no exact counterpart.]

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Romans 10:9 that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart, one believes resulting in righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made resulting in salvation. 11 For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes in him will not be disappointed.” 12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him. 13 For, “Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.”