Congress Must Increase its Support for Ukraine, Not Cut and Run

Russian President Vladimir Putin might be suffering a humiliating military defeat in Ukraine, but reducing American support for Kyiv — as some American politicians are suggesting — will not only constitute an unconscionable betrayal of the Ukrainian cause. It will encourage Putin, and allies such as Iran, to conduct further acts of territorial aggression.

With the Ukraine conflict now in its eighth month, it is, perhaps, inevitable that a degree of conflict fatigue has set in among some politicians. But with Ukraine still managing to inflict significant defeats against its Russian adversary, the Ukrainians require more support, not less, if they are to succeed in their goal of achieving a conclusive victory and liberating their country from Russian occupation.

There are worrying concerns, though, that instead of intensifying military support for Kyiv to provide it with the firepower it requires to achieve victory over Russia, America’s political classes are tiring of their support role, and are instead looking for ways to scale down their contribution.

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Transgendering Language

As has become flagrantly obvious over the years, the political left and its myrmidons in the media, medical industry, social agencies, public libraries, and school system have become slickly adept at framing the cultural debate between conservatives and “progressives” by mutilating discourse, fudging long-accepted distinctions, and decoupling terms from their culturally ascribed referents. What was understood for centuries and millennia as decency becomes indecency, good becomes bad, virtue becomes vice, settled tradition becomes feral violence, family and marriage become barbarism and bondage (the feminist mantra), and so on. Conversely, what is destructive of customary order becomes enlightened transformation.

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The real American divide

Most Americans are moderate and pragmatic, but politics is dominated by cranks.

Elections are never easy to predict. But whatever the outcome of America’s Midterms next month, it does seem certain that vast swathes of the American electorate will be largely ignored. In state after state, voters face a Hobson’s choice between abortion-banning, election-denying Trump loyalists on the one hand and Democrats embracing the Biden administration’s unpopular economic and cultural agenda on the other.

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Will a Biden Go to Prison Instead of Trump?

Soon after he announced his run for President in June of 2015, the Democrats – along with their obedient lap dogs in the media – went after then New York City businessman Donald J. Trump hammer and tongs.

In collusion with elements of the “Deep State” within our own Federal government, fabricated accusation after fabricated accusation was hurled at then candidate Trump. Once he was elected President, the left’s smear machine went into overdrive.

Why?

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Trans child rapist – who identifies as a woman – is being segregated in a male jail due to risk posed to female inmates

Marcia The Tranny Child Rapist

A transgender paedophile is being kept in isolation at a men’s prison because she is too dangerous for a women’s jail, reports say.

Marcia Walker, 48, was jailed for 13 years in 2003 after raping two girls – one of whom was aged four – and has also served time for assault and bomb hoaxes.

The child rapist, formerly known as Mark Walker, is being kept at the Category A men’s prison HMP Frankland in County Durham.

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Never Forget the COVID Fanatics

Two news stories are illustrative of the current state of the COVID panic and public health. Biden got his third booster, but it appears he is nearly alone in this. Uptake for boosters is very low, with fewer than 10 percent of eligible people getting them.

The COVID vaccines’ lackluster benefits, significant apparent health risks, recent admissions that they do nothing to stop transmission, additive risk from boosters, combined with the general sense that COVID is not worth worrying about for most people have reduced COVID’s salience in the news and in our lives. With many people having already gotten and survived COVID with little difficulty, there is no longer the fear and uncertainty that prevailed in the earliest days of the pandemic. 

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Washington Should Halt Military Welfare for Europe

The time is long overdue for American officials to put the American people first.

Is Europe threatened or not?

For months, the United Kingdom has been leading the charge against Russia over Ukraine. When serving as foreign secretary, Liz Truss, recently ousted as prime minister, hired a Beatles tribute band to lobby Secretary of State Antony Blinken to take a tougher stand toward Moscow. Then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson even more ostentatiously played uber-hawk when visiting Ukraine, mimicking Winston Churchill, about whom Johnson wrote a biography. London’s message appeared to be “Follow Me!”

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Is there proof that the UK and US sabotaged the Nord Stream pipeline?

Kim Dotcom has a spotted history, but he also has a reputation for being on top of news stories that involve information and technology. In this case, his information is that Liz Truss, when she was foreign secretary, and Antony Blinken, currently the U.S. Secretary of State, were complicit in the sabotaging of the Nord Stream pipelines that brought natural gas from Russia to Europe. Currently, there’s evidence that both supports this claim and refutes it.

Read the whole thing. It really has me concerned as I have suspected US involvement. Have we been lied to again?

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On Pelosi: We’re not falling for the “Right Wing Terrorist in the Tailpipe” joke

Dear Mid-Term 2022 voter – this is a public service announcement. The rush to blame the Right for words = violence in the aftermath of the awful attack on Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul is looking even more cynical than it usually is when they whip out the blame card, so please hold your judgment for a day or so. Events and reports from the scene are shifting rapidly. The possibility the cynical Democratic card is being played more as a distraction from the true situation, vice an accusation of fault, looks stronger every passing hour.

Like I said about Elon – Watch what he does not what he says – Elon Musk deletes tweet linking conspiracy theory to Paul Pelosi attack

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Adam Pankratz: How long until anti-oil art vandalism turns to real violence?

Two entitled Stop Oil activists continued the group’s cunning plan to draw attention to our fossil fuel dependence by vandalizing a priceless Vermeer, last week. The video, captured at the museum in The Hague, includes one of the protesters trying to glue his head to the painting, while another poured a can of tomato soup on him. The reaction of the museum visitors demonstrates just how well the message of the climate crusaders is landing: cries of “stupid,” “shame,” and “obscene,” along with an admonition for the perpetrators to “shut the f— up” can be heard from those witnessing the act. While I won’t explicitly endorse vulgarity and insult, I must say that my sympathies here lie unequivocally with the appalled bystanders.

Already has in Canada. and still no arrests I am aware of in the Coastal GasLink terror attack.

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Experts fear rising global ‘incel’ culture could provoke terrorism

Almost 1,000 references to dehumanising misogyny or violent action are recorded each day in the “incelosphere” as the toxicity of male supremacist content continues to intensify.

Analysis of the incel movement found that online references to inflicting violence and extremely degrading language on dedicated incel forums are running eight times higher than in 2016, when researchers first began tracking misogynist content on the internet.

Academics from the University of Exeter also noted an increasing overlap between incel followers and the far right, with online algorithms blamed for pushing young boys towards extreme rightwing ideology.

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Is the life of ‘the spare’ really so bad?

The life of a back-up royal sounds pretty enviable

Three cheers for whoever came up with the title of Prince Harry’s new autobiography, Spare. It’s punchy — and it evokes a sense of sadness. Is this how Harry has always felt? Like a disposable spare part?

The “heir and the spare” describes the first in line to the throne and the “reserve” monarch. It may sound cruel — and perhaps it is — but as soon as hereditary systems were established, queens and kings recognized that to ensure continuity and stability for their monarchy, it was necessary to have a healthy male heir and one in reserve should the eldest one die — which they often did.

Spoiled and manipulated is not a good look Harry.

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Inside a US military cyber team’s defence of Ukraine

In early December last year, a small US military team led by a young major arrived in Ukraine on a reconnaissance trip ahead of a larger deployment. But the major quickly reported that she needed to stay.

“Within a week we had the whole team there ready to go hunting,” one of the team recalls.

They had come to detect Russians online and their Ukrainian partners made it clear they needed to start work straight away.


I realize this is the military equivalent of flag football but the facade of non-intervention by the US and likely other NATO allies can no longer be maintained.

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