Ukraine Open Thread 2023-75
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Open (Not Ukraine) Thread 2023-74
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Ukraine Open Thread 2023-73
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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.
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.
- Poland suggests hosting US nuclear weapons amid growing fears of Putin’s threats - Oct 5, 2022 - Guardian
- Poland: Nuclear arms in Belarus are further threat to European peace - Mar 26, 2023 - Anews
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.
Ukraine Open Thread 2023-72
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The MoA Week In Review - (Not Ukraine) OT 2023-71
Last week's post on Moon of Alabama:
- Mar 20 - Casino Aficionados Will Have A Busy Day
Related:
- The Death of Credit Suisse - Joseph Politano
How a 166-Year Old Financial Giant Fell Apart, and What the Fallout Could Mean for the Global Financial System
- Total Wipeout of $17 billion in Credit Suisse AT1 CoCo Bonds Shocked Because No One Reads Clauses Anymore? - Wolfstreet
- How the Current Refusal to Deal Harshly with Failing Banks and Their Executives Will Create an Even Bigger Crisis - Naked Capitalism
- Mar 20 - Geopolitical Rumblings Leave U.S. Behind
Related:
- Why Would China Be An Enemy? - Craig Murray
- China Is Starting to Act Like a Global Power - WSJ
- Little Room for Maneuver as U.S.-China Ties Slide Further - US News
- Xi and Putin Have the Most Consequential Undeclared Alliance in the World - Foreign Policy
- Mar 21 - Ukraine SitRep - Avdiivka
Related:
- Why Ukraine may embrace China’s peace plan - Asia Times
- Scorched earth, war crimes, Avdeevka and the Chinese - Black Mountain Analysis
- Surviving Avdiivka: Russia intensifies assault on city deemed a ‘second Bakhmut’ - Kyiv Independent
- Mar 23 - The 'Junior Partner' Meme Gives No Insight To Real Changes
- Mar 24 - The Rebirth Of The Axis of Evil
Related:
- ‘Now or Never’:The Immediate Origins of Putin’s Preventative War on Ukraine - Journal of Military and Strategic Studies
- Will Tensions in Ukraine Boil Over? (Feb 22) - National Interest
- Apocalypse: Operation Barbarossa - Big Serge
- Mar 25 - Israeli Agents, Not Russian Bears, 'Hacked' The 2016 Elections For Trump
Related:
- Zero Dark Trump… - L.Woodhouse, M. Shellenberger
- EXCLUSIVE: Is this the smoking gun? Letter from Michael Cohen claiming Donald Trump did NOT reimburse him for hush money paid to Stormy Daniels appears to fly in the face of the star witness's grand jury testimony - Daily Mail
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Ukraine Open Thread 2023-70
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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:
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Ukraine Open Thread 2023-69
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