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Epstein Bombshell: Forget the Client List, the FBI is Hiding Thousands of Video Tapes Used to Blackmail Epstein’s Twisted Clients
An FBI Investigation conclusively cleared Trump years ago of any wrongdoing regarding his association with Epstein, but MSM has censored the story. Epstein’s victims said Trump kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago and actually tried to protect them.
-Infowars
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WATCH: Vivek Ramaswamy Obliterates Woke Washington Post ‘Reporter’ With Epic Response After She Asks Him a Stupid Gotcha Question Regarding White Supremacy
Image Credit: Chris Carapezza
Iowa caucus-goers on Wednesday witnessed a legacy media “reporter” being obliterated by the most based presidential candidate in the GOP Presidential Primary outside of President Trump.
As Mediaite reported, a female Washington Post reporter wanted Vivek Ramaswamy’s take on the overhyped subject of white nationalism after former Rep. Steve King (R-IA) endorsed him Tuesday. King was repeatedly accused by the left of embracing white nationalism while in office and lost his House seat in 2020 after being stripped of his committee assignments over the issue.
The outlet revealed the confrontation took place at a Wednesday campaign event in Scott County, Iowa.
She proceeded to ask him a stupid, gotcha question on the matter, which Ramaswamy promptly turned around on her in epic fashion, to the audience’s delight. The result was pure destruction.
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Transcript:
Reporter: Do you condemn white supremacy and white nationalism?
Ramaswamy: What kind of.. who are you with?
Reporter: Washington Post.
(crowd laughs)
Ramaswamy: So potato, potato (uses different pronunciations).
Of course, I condemn any form of racial discrimination in this country. But I think that the presumption of your question is fundamentally based on a falsehood that that is the main form of racial discrimination in this country.
Institutionalized racism today is institutionalized discrimination based on affirmative action.
Was there a point in our history where there have been forms of anti-black or anti-brown discrimination after the Civil War and otherwise? Yes.
But you are looking in the rear-view mirror and posing a question that is so far removed from what the reality is today. This myth of white supremacy, the closest you could find was Jussie Smollett, where you all were jumping up and down over some false narrative. The best way you were able to find your instance of white supremacy was a guy who was paying his fellow people to stage something that didn’t happen.
But instead of moving on, the reporter doubled down on her stupidity. Unsurprisingly, Ramaswamy finished her off in style.
-Cullen Linebarger, The Gateway Pundit
Trump Asks US Supreme Court to Overturn Colorado Decision to Remove Him From 2024 Ballot
President Trump asked the US Supreme Court to overturn the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to bar him from the 2024 ballot.
The Colorado Supreme Court last month disqualified Trump from the 2024 ballot.
All 7 Colorado Supreme Court justices were appointed by Democrats – 3 of the justices dissented to the ruling.
Here are the four that voted in favor of banning Trump from the 2024 ballot:
The legal theories are based on Section 3 of the US Constitution’s 14th Amendment which states public officials who have “engaged in insurrection or rebellion against” the US may be disqualified from public office.
Trump has not been charged with engaging in insurrection or rebellion against the United States.
The state’s high court stayed their ruling and left room for an appeal. The ruling was set to go into effect on January 4, 2024, however, Trump will remain on the ballot pending appeal.
President Trump also appealed Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows’ 2024 ballot ban to the state superior court.
The US Constitution has three requirements to be president:
Be a natural-born citizen of the United States.
Be at least 35 years old.
Have been a resident of the United States for 14 years.
A few disgruntled Democrat voters, left-leaning lawyers and radical justices cannot determine whether a person can run for president.
-Cristina Laila, The Gateway Pundit
Iran says at least 84 were killed in blasts at a ceremony honoring slain general
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Two bombs exploded and killed at least 84 people at a commemoration for a prominent Iranian general slain by the U.S. in a 2020 drone strike, Iranian officials said, as the Middle East remains on edge over Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for what appeared to be the deadliest militant attack to target Iran since its 1979 Islamic Revolution. Iran’s leaders vowed to punish those responsible for the blasts, which wounded at least 284 people.
The explosions struck minutes apart on Wednesday, shaking the city of Kerman, about 820 kilometers (510 miles) southeast of the capital, Tehran. The second blast sprayed shrapnel into a screaming crowd fleeing the first explosion.
An earlier death toll of 103 was twice revised lower after officials realized that some names had been repeated on a list of victims and due to the severity of wounds suffered by some of the dead, health authorities said. Many of the wounded were in critical condition, however, so the death toll could rise.
The gathering marked the fourth anniversary of the killing of Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the head of the Revolutionary Guard’s elite Quds Force, in a U.S. drone strike in Iraq. The explosions occurred near his grave site as long lines of people gathered for the event.
Iranian state television and officials described the attacks as bombings, without immediately giving clear details of what happened. The attacks came a day after a deputy head of the Palestinian militant group Hamas was killed in a suspected Israeli strike in Beirut.
The first bomb Wednesday was detonated around 3 p.m., and the other went off some 20 minutes later, the Iranian interior minister, Ahmad Vahidi, told state television. He said the second blast killed and wounded the most people.
Images and video shared on social media appeared to correspond with the accounts of officials, who said the first blast happened about 700 meters (765 yards) from Soleimani’s grave in the Kerman Martyrs Cemetery near a parking lot. The crowd then rushed west along Shohada Street, where the second blast struck about 1 kilometer (0.62 miles) from the grave.
A delayed second explosion is often used by militants to inflict more casualties by targeting emergency personnel responding to an attack.
Iranian state TV and state-run IRNA news agency quoted emergency officials for the casualty figures. Authorities said Thursday would be a national day of mourning.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the attackers will face “a harsh response,” though he didn’t name any possible suspect. Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi added: “Undoubtedly, the perpetrators and leaders of this cowardly act will soon be identified and punished.”
Iran has multiple foes who could be behind the assault, including exile groups, militant organizations and state actors.
While Israel has carried out attacks in Iran over its nuclear program, it has conducted targeted assassinations, not mass casualty bombings. A U.S. State Department spokesman, Matthew Miller, said American officials had “no reason” to believe Israel was involved in Wednesday’s attack in Iran. That was echoed by National Security Council spokesman John Kirby at the White House, who said “our hearts go out to all the innocent victims and their family members.”
Sunni extremist groups including the Islamic State group have conducted large-scale attacks in the past that killed civilians in Shiite-majority Iran, though not in relatively peaceful Kerman.
-Jon Gambrell, AP News
As the new international order takes hold, what can we expect from China and the rest of Asia in 2024?
Image Credit: Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, Indonesian President Joko Widodo and Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev head to a group photo session at the third Belt and Road Forum on October 18, 2023 in Beijing, China. © Getty Images / Getty Images
The formation of a new international order is inevitably accompanied by a conflict between the powers seeking to preserve their status and rivals whose development determines the creation of new rules and customs of interaction on the world stage. The military and political conflict between Russia and the West, as well as the gradually accelerating confrontation between China and the US, determine the central position of Greater Eurasia and Asia in international politics. This is, first and foremost, because this vast region is a space where stability and development are important for Moscow and Beijing, while crises and conflicts are highly desirable for the United States and its European satellites. The year 2023 has shown that Greater Eurasia and Asia have so far been resistant to the negative external influences that are having the most dramatic consequences in Europe and Middle East.
The fact that there are no opposing military and political alliances in Asia and Eurasia, and that the so-called geopolitical fault lines exist only in the imagination of particularly impressionable readers of American newspapers, is due to the peculiarities of this space’s political culture, but also to the general trends of international life at the present time.
Firstly, although this macro-region has its own experience of resolving interstate contradictions, conflict as the best way to achieve goals is not a central part of its foreign policy culture. In other words, where Western nations like to take up arms and see the solution to complex situations in confrontation, Asia and Eurasia prefer to resolve disputes peacefully.
Secondly, the emerging associations of states in Asia and Eurasia are not aimed at achieving aggressive goals against third countries. They are primarily aimed at achieving their members’ development goals and maintaining their internal stability. Therefore, there are no alliances in Asia and Eurasia that are created to ensure the privileged position of their members vis-à-vis the rest of the macro-region.
Thirdly, there are no relatively large states within the macro-region that would act as “agents” of extra-regional actors. The only countries that might be exceptions in this sense are Japan and South Korea.
It is true that they have limited sovereignty and are dependent on the US for their basic security. But even in the case of Japan, achieving its development goals and acquiring the necessary resources is not absolutely dependent on an aggressive policy towards its neighbors. This is unlike the European Union, whose leading powers were interested in cornering Russia and gaining monopoly access to its resources. Finally, the comparative resilience of Asia and Eurasia to the challenges of destabilizing interstate relations is due to the fact that all the countries of the macro-region belong to the global majority, i.e. they share common strategic goals, even if the specific tasks required to achieve them may differ.
In other words, if we divide the international community into two groups of countries – those that parasite on the rest and those that rely on their own resources (natural or demographic) – we will not see representatives of the first group in Asia and Eurasia. This makes their interests common, even if their methods of achieving their goals may be different.
At the same time, as the major events of regional life in 2023 have shown, Asia and Eurasia are not free of certain internal contradictions, the resolution of which is an important task for interstate cooperation. Among these contradictions, the relatively difficult relations between the world’s two demographic giants – India and China – are at the top of the list. Despite the fact that New Delhi and Beijing are highly capable of not taking their conflict to the stage of systemic confrontation, the existence of a border problem plays a significant role in regional cooperation in general.
-Timofey Bordachev, RT News
NATO member calls out Western hypocrisy on Ukraine and Gaza
Image Credit: A woman is seen among the rubble in the residential area known as Juhor ad-Dik heavily damaged due to Israeli attacks in the southeastern part of the enclave of Gaza Strip on November 28, 2023. © Mustafa Hassona / Anadolu via Getty Images
The West has lost any right to speak about principles and morality by taking one position on Ukraine and the total opposite on Gaza, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Wednesday.
Speaking at a press conference in Ankara, Fidan addressed issues such as the current conflict in Gaza, the recent Israeli escalation in Lebanon, and the Yemeni blockade of the Red Sea.
“What happened in Gaza has caused the West and Europeans to suddenly lose all their reputation and all the credit they had accumulated. They have spent all their credit in the eyes of humanity, and especially our generation,” Fidan told reporters. “It won’t be easy for them to get it back.”
The Turkish foreign minister also described the contrast between the West’s position on Gaza and its official stance on the Ukraine conflict as “peak hypocrisy.”
“They can’t talk about principles, virtue and morality [when] they completely ignore them,” Fidan said. “I see that all of this is paving the way for a huge geostrategic rupture.”
While the US and other Western countries have provided “unconditional support” to Israel, Russia and China are “in a different position,” Fidan said, noting that “the equation in the region has evolved.”
Türkiye and several other Muslim countries in the region have set up a ‘contact group’ to coordinate their policy on the conflict and pursue a peaceful solution in Gaza, Fidan reminded reporters.
His comments come a day after Ankara announced the arrests of 33 people suspected of spying for Israel and issued warrants for 13 more suspected Mossad agents.
Last week, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan denounced Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as “worse than Hitler,” accusing him of carrying out the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
Netanyahu declared war on Hamas after the Gaza-based Palestinian group attacked Israel on October 7, killing an estimated 1,200 Israelis and taking 240 captive. Almost 22,000 Palestinians have since been killed by Israeli forces, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.
-RT News