Day: April 25, 2024

Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi – who was arrested during the Woman, Life, Freedom protests that swept Iran in 2022 – was sentenced to death.https://t.co/KK4lfWlNdV

— The Jerusalem Post (@Jerusalem_Post) April 24, 2024

The #Biden administration had long debated whether to supply #ATACMS to Kyiv. However, Russia’s use of North Korean missiles played a decisive role in changing Washington’s stance.https://t.co/7qqYeCfeC2

— KyivPost (@KyivPost) April 25, 2024

🔥 Russia: Large fire at a construction site near Rokossovsky Boulevard station in Moscow. pic.twitter.com/ctmUq80q0V

— Igor Sushko (@igorsushko) April 25, 2024

Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi – who was arrested during the Woman, Life, Freedom protests that swept Iran in 2022 – was sentenced to death.https://t.co/KK4lfWlNdV

— The Jerusalem Post (@Jerusalem_Post) April 24, 2024

Episode 164 has been uploaded.

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• SPECIAL COMMENT: The “Presidential Immunity” case beginning today at the Supreme Court? Trump’s already won.
• Because while most of the coverage is binary (the Court will never invent something as anti-democracy as “presidential immunity”/the Court will grant Trump presidential immunity) the real point here is that the delay already created by the Supreme Court’s conspiracy to keep Trump from facing justice and to fix the election so he can seize power, has already guaranteed the jury can’t possibly get the case before the election. The point from here on in is to extend that delay and the way to do that is to send the case BACK to Judge Chutkan with some lame ass “review” to see if there are parts of Jack Smith’s indictments Trump might be immune from.
• Trump’s already won.
• Plus: the Arizona Fake Elector Indictments are in. Trump is an unindicted co-conspirator and Giuliani and Christina Bobb are among EIGHTEEN just plain indicted. And as I always say, democracy survives not because of our efforts to preserve it, but by the stupidity of those who would destroy it. Fox nimrod Jesse Watters has found his analogy for Trump prevailing no matter how his enemies try to lay him low: Trump is King Kong. “And what happens with King Kong? You remember! So he’s going to bust out of this cage eventually.”
• Jesse doesn’t know that King Kong gets killed.

B-Block

• THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: The L.A. Dodgers get Elayne Boosler, an entertainer who has sung the anthem at their games five different times, ARRESTED for asking them to let her bring her purse into the stadium with her. Pastor Shane Vaughn thinks if you say “I’m not calling Joy Reid …” followed by a really racist insult, it means you didn’t call her that.

I don’t think this is going to be a one-time thing … last month, he ranted about Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

• And Cornel West thinks he’s going to beat Trump and apparently does not know the people trying to get the signatures needed to get him on the ballot work … for Trump. (Paging Scott Presler …)

Cornel West has created the first all-Black Presidential ticket. Who knows how Shane Vaughn is going to react to that …

C-Block

• THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: If it’s Supreme Court day, why don’t I tell the story of the day I was invited on a first date by a woman who thought the ideal thing to go see was … Clarence Thomas’s chair at the Supreme Court. Yes, it was Laura Ingraham.

Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck!

Episode 164 has been uploaded.

Preview:

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A-Block

• SPECIAL COMMENT: The “Presidential Immunity” case beginning today at the Supreme Court? Trump’s already won.
• Because while most of the coverage is binary (the Court will never invent something as anti-democracy as “presidential immunity”/the Court will grant Trump presidential immunity) the real point here is that the delay already created by the Supreme Court’s conspiracy to keep Trump from facing justice and to fix the election so he can seize power, has already guaranteed the jury can’t possibly get the case before the election. The point from here on in is to extend that delay and the way to do that is to send the case BACK to Judge Chutkan with some lame ass “review” to see if there are parts of Jack Smith’s indictments Trump might be immune from.
• Trump’s already won.
• Plus: the Arizona Fake Elector Indictments are in. Trump is an unindicted co-conspirator and Giuliani and Christina Bobb are among EIGHTEEN just plain indicted. And as I always say, democracy survives not because of our efforts to preserve it, but by the stupidity of those who would destroy it. Fox nimrod Jesse Watters has found his analogy for Trump prevailing no matter how his enemies try to lay him low: Trump is King Kong. “And what happens with King Kong? You remember! So he’s going to bust out of this cage eventually.”
• Jesse doesn’t know that King Kong gets killed.

B-Block

• THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: The L.A. Dodgers get Elayne Boosler, an entertainer who has sung the anthem at their games five different times, ARRESTED for asking them to let her bring her purse into the stadium with her. Pastor Shane Vaughn thinks if you say “I’m not calling Joy Reid …” followed by a really racist insult, it means you didn’t call her that.

I don’t think this is going to be a one-time thing … last month, he ranted about Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

• And Cornel West thinks he’s going to beat Trump and apparently does not know the people trying to get the signatures needed to get him on the ballot work … for Trump. (Paging Scott Presler …)

Cornel West has created the first all-Black Presidential ticket. Who knows how Shane Vaughn is going to react to that …

C-Block

• THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: If it’s Supreme Court day, why don’t I tell the story of the day I was invited on a first date by a woman who thought the ideal thing to go see was … Clarence Thomas’s chair at the Supreme Court. Yes, it was Laura Ingraham.

Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck!

Episode 164 has been uploaded.

Preview:

YouTube, later

A-Block

• SPECIAL COMMENT: The “Presidential Immunity” case beginning today at the Supreme Court? Trump’s already won.
• Because while most of the coverage is binary (the Court will never invent something as anti-democracy as “presidential immunity”/the Court will grant Trump presidential immunity) the real point here is that the delay already created by the Supreme Court’s conspiracy to keep Trump from facing justice and to fix the election so he can seize power, has already guaranteed the jury can’t possibly get the case before the election. The point from here on in is to extend that delay and the way to do that is to send the case BACK to Judge Chutkan with some lame ass “review” to see if there are parts of Jack Smith’s indictments Trump might be immune from.
• Trump’s already won.
• Plus: the Arizona Fake Elector Indictments are in. Trump is an unindicted co-conspirator and Giuliani and Christina Bobb are among EIGHTEEN just plain indicted. And as I always say, democracy survives not because of our efforts to preserve it, but by the stupidity of those who would destroy it. Fox nimrod Jesse Watters has found his analogy for Trump prevailing no matter how his enemies try to lay him low: Trump is King Kong. “And what happens with King Kong? You remember! So he’s going to bust out of this cage eventually.”
• Jesse doesn’t know that King Kong gets killed.

B-Block

• THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: The L.A. Dodgers get Elayne Boosler, an entertainer who has sung the anthem at their games five different times, ARRESTED for asking them to let her bring her purse into the stadium with her. Pastor Shane Vaughn thinks if you say “I’m not calling Joy Reid …” followed by a really racist insult, it means you didn’t call her that.

I don’t think this is going to be a one-time thing … last month, he ranted about Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

• And Cornel West thinks he’s going to beat Trump and apparently does not know the people trying to get the signatures needed to get him on the ballot work … for Trump. (Paging Scott Presler …)

Cornel West has created the first all-Black Presidential ticket. Who knows how Shane Vaughn is going to react to that …

C-Block

• THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: If it’s Supreme Court day, why don’t I tell the story of the day I was invited on a first date by a woman who thought the ideal thing to go see was … Clarence Thomas’s chair at the Supreme Court. Yes, it was Laura Ingraham.

Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck!

Episode 164 has been uploaded.

Preview:

YouTube, later

A-Block

• SPECIAL COMMENT: The “Presidential Immunity” case beginning today at the Supreme Court? Trump’s already won.
• Because while most of the coverage is binary (the Court will never invent something as anti-democracy as “presidential immunity”/the Court will grant Trump presidential immunity) the real point here is that the delay already created by the Supreme Court’s conspiracy to keep Trump from facing justice and to fix the election so he can seize power, has already guaranteed the jury can’t possibly get the case before the election. The point from here on in is to extend that delay and the way to do that is to send the case BACK to Judge Chutkan with some lame ass “review” to see if there are parts of Jack Smith’s indictments Trump might be immune from.
• Trump’s already won.
• Plus: the Arizona Fake Elector Indictments are in. Trump is an unindicted co-conspirator and Giuliani and Christina Bobb are among EIGHTEEN just plain indicted. And as I always say, democracy survives not because of our efforts to preserve it, but by the stupidity of those who would destroy it. Fox nimrod Jesse Watters has found his analogy for Trump prevailing no matter how his enemies try to lay him low: Trump is King Kong. “And what happens with King Kong? You remember! So he’s going to bust out of this cage eventually.”
• Jesse doesn’t know that King Kong gets killed.

B-Block

• THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: The L.A. Dodgers get Elayne Boosler, an entertainer who has sung the anthem at their games five different times, ARRESTED for asking them to let her bring her purse into the stadium with her. Pastor Shane Vaughn thinks if you say “I’m not calling Joy Reid …” followed by a really racist insult, it means you didn’t call her that.

I don’t think this is going to be a one-time thing … last month, he ranted about Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

• And Cornel West thinks he’s going to beat Trump and apparently does not know the people trying to get the signatures needed to get him on the ballot work … for Trump. (Paging Scott Presler …)

Cornel West has created the first all-Black Presidential ticket. Who knows how Shane Vaughn is going to react to that …

C-Block

• THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: If it’s Supreme Court day, why don’t I tell the story of the day I was invited on a first date by a woman who thought the ideal thing to go see was … Clarence Thomas’s chair at the Supreme Court. Yes, it was Laura Ingraham.

Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck!

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IN A MAJOR SHAKEUP at the top of China’s intelligence and security apparatus, President Xi Jinping last Friday unexpectedly abolished its key eavesdropping and codebreaking agency, the Strategic Support Force (SSF) and replaced it with three new agencies put directly under the Chinese Communist Party’s military oversight body, the Central Military Commission. 

It’s the rough political equivalent of President Biden abolishing the NSA and creating three new powerful spy agencies under the direct purview of the White House National Security Council.    

Analysts told SpyTalk that rumors of an intelligence shakeup have been floating around for at least several weeks, but the creation of three separate “forces,” as China calls them, from the SSF, including a new information warfare agency, was a surprise. It reflected Xi’s dissatisfaction with the rate of progress in the development of China’s  “intelligentized warfare,” or what the U.S. calls Joint Doctrine, the fusing of ground, air, space, cyber and naval forces operations through digital networks bolstered by artificial intelligence.

The shakeup includes the creation of a new information warfare unit, the Information Support Force, or ISF.  It appears to encompass signal intelligence (SIGINT), signal security and network security, while cyber intrusion operations are likely handled by a separate new service, the Cyberspace Force.

China has long sought to unify and add new technology to its traditional military forces. In 2019, the People’s Liberation Army published a national defense white paper, “China’s National Defense in the New Era,” which noted that “War is evolving in form towards informationized warfare, and intelligent warfare is on the horizon.” Now it looks to be standing on the precipice.  

The SSF’s leader, General Ju Qiansheng, has been dismissed, the latest chapter of Xi Jinping’s ongoing purge of the party and army. Ju’s deputy, General Bi Yi, will now reportedly command the new ISF, along with a senior political commissar. 

Ju has been seen only once since July, performing the relatively lowly task of taking notes on a routine “inspection” of Guizhou province in January. There’s been no word from Beijing on his current whereabouts or status since.

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