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March 30, 2023

Ukraine Open Thread 2023-75

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The current open thread for other issues is here.

Please stick to the topic. Contribute facts. Do not attack other commentators.

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Open (Not Ukraine) Thread 2023-74

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March 29, 2023

Ukraine Open Thread 2023-73

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The current open thread for other issues is here.

Please stick to the topic. Contribute facts. Do not attack other commentators.

Posted by b at 14:18 UTC | Comments (247)

March 28, 2023

The Burden Of Blogging

Some times it's just like this. I am not feeling well. I am not sick but something is just not right.

I have no idea what to post about. Every theme and issue feels so repetitive. It is the burden of blogging, especially when one tries to post every day.

I need a pause. Likely only for a few days. I will continue to post open threads. I will continue to clean the spam queue and to somewhat police the comments. But over the next few days there will be no new original content here.

I will do something other than reading news, thinking and writing about it. I hope that it will help to clean my mind to then come back with some fresh ideas.

Posted by b at 16:37 UTC | Comments (341)

March 27, 2023

Polish Nukes

I was busy today but had a good laugh over this entity of the "When 'we' do it" versus "When 'they' do it"  collection.

The Poles are (again) allowing the Anglo-Saxons to push them into rabbit rabid hostility against Russia and Germany. Not that there is much pushing needed but still.

That won't end well.

Posted by b at 17:47 UTC | Comments (154)

March 26, 2023

Ukraine Open Thread 2023-72

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Posted by b at 13:22 UTC | Comments (259)

The MoA Week In Review - (Not Ukraine) OT 2023-71

Last week's post on Moon of Alabama:

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Other issues:

Cont. reading: The MoA Week In Review - (Not Ukraine) OT 2023-71

Posted by b at 13:19 UTC | Comments (282)

March 25, 2023

Ukraine Open Thread 2023-70

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Posted by b at 20:15 UTC | Comments (339)

Israeli Agents, Not Russian Bears, 'Hacked' The 2016 Elections For Trump

Th Nation has a new, and way too long, piece about secret Israeli interventions in favor of Donald Trump during the 2016 election campaign:

The Trump Campaign’s Collusion With Israel
While US media fixated on Russian interference in the 2016 election, an Israeli secret agent’s campaign to influence the outcome went unreported.

The piece is by James Bamford who has revealed and written a lot about shady intelligence stuff.

Before we go into details here is a short summary of the story. A Netanyahoo aid with intelligence experience contacted Trump aide Roger Stone and fed him news of upcoming releases of the emails that were allegedly hacked from the Democratic National Council (DNC). Later similar occurred with the emails from Hillary Clinton and her political advisor John Podesta. The Israelis informed Stone of these 'hacks' before anyone else knew of those issues.

The 'hacks' were later claimed, without any evidence, to have been done by the Russians. Bamford, the author of the Salon piece, holds that up. However the details he describes, what the Israelis knew when and what they had told Roger Stone, make it way more likely that it was some Israeli entity which had acquired the emails and used them to give Trump an advantage in the campaign in exchange for political concessions.

It has never been proven that the DNC has been hacked. Many people have pointed to Seth Rich, a DNC IT administrator who had favored Bernie Sanders and was disgruntled after the DNC cheated to make Clinton the candidate. He may indeed have downloaded the DNC emails and may have given them to someone else. Later Seth Rich was murdered under curious circumstances. What I did know until I researched on him today is that Seth Rich was Jewish which may have played a role in the events Bamford tells about.

Here now is the essence of the Salon story:

Cont. reading: Israeli Agents, Not Russian Bears, 'Hacked' The 2016 Elections For Trump

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March 24, 2023

Ukraine Open Thread 2023-69

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Posted by b at 14:20 UTC | Comments (335)