Freedom of the press is for EVERYONE!
The debacles in Ukraine and Palestine illustrate the importance of the First Amendment. Neither the genocide nor the Ukraine war could have happened without censorship and disinformation,
After the Edward Snowden hullabaloo, with the government hysterically declaring Snowden a criminal for exercising his right to tell the truth under the First Amendment, the government suddenly realized it was hampered by the First Amendment in its campaign to censor journalism, and the Senate scrambled to find a way to abridge the rights of journalists protected by the First Amendment that declared that Congress does not have the right to pass any law abridging the right to free speech and free press. Obviously, the Constitution meant what it said, but Sen. Diane Feinstein, who did not like the constitution as it was written, decided that the founders were wrong, and cooked up a law that did in fact do what the constitution said could not be done, namely, abridging the right to a fee press. (See the video presentation linked at the bottom of this page).
Her unconsitutional law redefined “journalist” for the purpose of abridging this right. She decided that a journalist could only be a journalist if he or she had a salary.
If a poor blogger like me was not paid for publishing, then all of a sudden, they were not journalists in Feinstein’s brave new America.
And no one in the judiciary challenged her right to abridge our rights.
Ever since the constitution was first published, “lawmakers” have been hard at work trying their level best to cancel it, and the Supreme Court, charged with upholding the Constitution, sat back and let it happen.
Yesterday, I wrote the following about the crisis in the West that we all face regarding the free press. https://donhank.substack.com/publish/post/145907847. Be sure to open the link about Alina Lipp, who was threatened with jail if she ever returns to her native Germany. Her crime? She traveled to Donbass during the Kiev-perpetrated genocide against the Russian speaking population there and broke the story to the world. Msm journalists in the West were not supposed to report from there or write about what was happening there. This was to keep a lid on the fact that the US regime under Obama- BIDEN was preparing the ground for a war between Ukraine and nuclear-armed Russia – they were playing with fire and with the survival of planet earth. They accomplished this by sending their agents, notably Victoria Nuland, then under secretary of state, to install a US-obedient puppet government in Kiev. This new US-backed government was a bunch of hand-picked Neonazi thugs who took over and immediately started attacking the civilian population of Russian-speaking Donbass, which after 8 years and thousands of murders, goaded Putin into entering Ukraine to protect the brothers and sisters there. Now since the journalists were ordered never to enter Donbass during this genocide, you the Western public were not told of the genocide and when Putin finally launched his special military operation on Feb 24, 2021, you were immediately fed the lie that this was an “unprovoked invasion” and that Putin’s motive was to grab more land and reconstruct the Soviet Union.
The average Joe Sixpack in the West – predisposed to fear and hate Russia by a lying media and government, slurped up this lie and the entire Western population was thus prepared to fight Putin’s Russia to prevent Russia from “taking over Europe.” Incredibly, that narrative is still believed by the gullible Western masses, who under the influence of this anti-Russian fable, are willing to send your hard-earned tax money to Ukraine to support the US-backed Neonazi regime of the corrupt Volodymy Zelensky, believing that this utterly corrupt regime is keeping Ukraine free, independent and sovereign, when all freedom has been suppressed. In fact Mr Z has called off elections and has continued to govern illegally even though his term expired on June 21, making him a de facto dictator. So the US is now supporting not only a Nazi regime but in fact a dictatorship and supporting a war under the pretext of “defending freedom” in Ukraine when there is absolutely no freedom. In fact, Zelensky is now highly unpopular because his regime is kidnapping men off the streets and sending them to the front lines where their life expectancy is no more than about 2 days. They have been referring to the front lines as a “meatgrinder.”
Thanks to the above-described US meddling, Ukraine has lost its economy, its freedom, its future, its statehood, etc. and yet, the US-led West has ordered Zelensky not to surrender and to keep sending terrified men to die on the front lines.
So far I have only heard these two politicians (and most other analysts) talk about the extension of NATO to Russia’s borders as the provocation for the war. Very few are relating the story of how Kiev attacked Donbass since 2014 – and in fact is still attacking it – which is a kind of low-key genocide that has killed thousands of civilians. I have been talking about this since April 1, 2023. The lying US-controlled western media had been reporting this aggression as a “war” between Kiev and Russia, but Russia proper was not involved in the fighting. Only Donbass militias were fighting back against the US-backed Ukronazi terrorists. It was best described as a genocide. Notably, no western journalists were sent into Donbass during this time, and at least one renegade, German independent investigative reporter Alina Lipp, was threatened with prison for reporting from there, Note the similarity between this aggression in Donbass and the genocide in Palestine. Genocide accompanied by disinformation and censorship in the media is a hallmark of US involvement in foreign conflicts. The false reporting and the hamstringing of reporters (over 100 journalists have been murdered in Gaza by Israel since Oct 7) makes it very difficult for the world to see what is happening. However, the open attacks on civilians in Gaza and the massive number of civilian deaths, many of them televised or filmed on video, ultimately made the Israeli atrocities impossible for the US-backed Israeli regime to conceal or lie away. This situation has given rise to a shift in world opinion that is hampering further atrocities with Washington’s involvement. The US and its puppets/allies are now exposed and the reckoning is on the way. The world is now immune to bogus accusations of anti-Semitism.
]If you’re confused by all this it is because you were denied the truth ever since 2014 and have been sold the lie that Putin marched into Ukraine without provocation and supposedly wants to take over all of Europe. Europe is still in thrall to this bogus narrative and people there are therefore committed to send their last euro to Ukraine. Their own economy is plummeting, their manufacturing is gone, their defenses are gutted (their weapons have been sent to Ukraine, where most have been captured by the Russians) and many of them believe they must accept these conditions to fight the “dictator” Putin who supposedly wants to enslave them, when in fact, if they had been allowed to trade freely with Russia, they would now be prospering.
Censorship of the press and strict government control of the narrative has destroyed all of Europe and America is also suffering the fallout of the lies.
These shelling attacks in Donbass were greatly intensified in the weeks and days just before the Russian incursion into Ukraine. The whole elaborate scam was apparently a US-orchestrated attempt to goad Russia into attacking, obviously in the mistaken assumption that Russia could not stand up to all of NATO. It was a regrettable miscalculation]
These shelling attacks in Donbass were greatly intensified in the weeks and days just before the Russian incursion into Ukraine. The whole elaborate scam was apparently a US-orchestrated attempt to goad Russia into attacking, obviously in the mistaken assumption that Russia could not stand up to all of NATO. It was a regrettable miscalculation]
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Here’s your air strike update for June 23, 2024
06/23/2024
A missile strike destroyed training sites for flight and technical personnel of the Ukrainian Air Force
Ivan Petrov
On Sunday morning, the Russian Armed Forces launched a group strike with high-precision, long-range, sea-based weapons at a training site for flight and technical personnel of the Ukrainian Air Force. This was reported in the report of the Russian Ministry of Defense on the progress of the special operation for June 23. It is noted that the goal of the missile strike was achieved - all designated targets were hit.
[I want to point out that Russian strikes are on military targets, including power facilities that power the trains delivering personnel and materiel to the front or powering the manufacture of military materiel and ammunition, while the missile strikes by US-backed Ukraine are normally on civilian targets. Today, for example, June 23, 2024, a Crimean beach was hit and beach goers were killed and wounded. This is a war crime. Attacks on civilians are a hallmark of military actions taken by US-backed regimes]
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The report does not specify which pilots and technical specialists are being discussed. But it is possible that they were those who were being prepared for the use and maintenance of American F-16 aircraft, the delivery of which is expected in the near future to Ukraine.
It is worth noting that in recent days, the Russian military has been almost daily launching powerful missile attacks - from aircraft and ships - as well as drone strikes on the military and energy infrastructure of Ukraine.
The military department's report for June 22 reported that in response to the Kiev regime's attempts to damage Russian energy facilities at night, the Russian Armed Forces carried out a group strike with high-precision long-range air and sea-based weapons, as well as drones, on Ukrainian energy facilities that supported the operation of enterprises of the military-industrial complex. In addition, warehouses of ammunition and aircraft weapons supplied to the Armed Forces of Ukraine by Western countries were destroyed. “The objectives of the strike were achieved. All designated targets were hit,” the Russian military noted.
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https://www.kp.ru/daily/27598.5/4949531/
June 22, 2024
Military special operation in Ukraine June 23, 2024: live online broadcast
Maria PAVLOVA
The Russian military is conducting a special operation in Ukraine to denazify and demilitarize the country. The KP.RU website publishes online the latest news about Russia’s military special operation in Ukraine as of June 23, 2024.
On-duty air defense systems destroyed two UAVs over the territory of the Bryansk oblast, two UAVs over the territory of the Smolensk oblast and one UAV over the Sea of Azov on the night of June 22.
Explosions occurred in five oblasts of Ukraine - Dnipropetrovsk, Volyn and Lviv oblasts, as well as in Vinnytsia and Ivano-Frankivsk oblasts.
Three people became victims of shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in the Budennovsky district of Donetsk.
Russian troops launched a group strike with precision weapons on Ukrainian energy facilities and military infrastructure in response to attempts by the Kiev regime to damage facilities on Russian territory.
The Russian Armed Forces (AF) on the morning of Saturday, June 22, struck the Ukrainian army in the Ivano-Frankivsk oblast in western Ukraine.
Air defense systems shot down six missiles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) over the Bolshesoldatsky district of the Kursk oblast [Russia proper].
Over the past 24 hours, the Russian Armed Forces (AF) have destroyed storage warehouses for unmanned boats and aircraft-type drones, as well as four electronic warfare (EW) stations.
MOSCOW, June 23 – RIA Novosti. Bombing positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with FAB-3000 aerial bombs will overload the air defense of Ukraine, The National Interest reports.
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Hating on the Palestinian victims is bipartisan.
Genocide is the American way.
Trump will not help in the least.
Even after all the videos and photos showcasing the suffering of Palestinians, nothing will change in Washington.
The Palestinians’ main hope is Iran and the resistance fronts.
https://mondoweiss.net/2024/06/republicans-demonstrate-their-terrifying-palestine-policy/
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Strike on the beach at Sevastopol
https://www.rt.com/russia/599797-ukraine-attack-crimea-us-weapons/
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Translation from Arabic with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
The thermobaric weapon described below, as well as its launcher, look a lot like the Russian TOAS-1, or Solntsepyok, perhaps the scariest weapon in the Russian arsenal. Just above the target, it emits droplets of an inflammable liquid that are then ignited to cause a superhot explosion which sucks the oxygen out of the surrounding atmosphere, including in the lungs of humans. They are the weapon of choice for penetrating fortifications.
مفاجأة حزب الله الجديدة: أسلحة ثيرموباريك (alkhanadeq.org.lb)
February 28, 2024, 04:18
Hezbollah's new surprise: thermobaric weapons
Thermobaric weapon
A commander in the anti-armor weapon of the Islamic Resistance Hezbollah recently revealed that one of the resistance's surprises in the current battle - which it is waging in southern Lebanon as a supporting front. – its anti-armour munitions are no longer the only ones.
The leader of the resistance indicated that the battle had begun with fortifications and individuals required them (i.e. the resistance) to introduce ammunition of a different type. Pointing out that there are missiles capable of destroying homes - that is, inside settlements in occupied Palestine - and others that can penetrate homes and kill those inside them. Revealing that the "Thermobaric" missile (possessed by Hezbollah) is capable of destroying homes and exterminating life inside them.
What is this missile, how does it work, and what are its tactical benefits?
_This missile belongs to the category of thermobaric weapons, also called vacuum weapons, which is a type of explosive munition that works by forming a fire in the air present in a target. These weapons consist of two separate explosive charges, so that when fired at the target, the first explosive charge opens a container and spreads a fuel mixture widely in the form of a cloud, which can penetrate any openings or defenses in the building that are not completely closed. A second charge then explodes the cloud, creating a massive fireball, a massive blast wave, and a vacuum that sucks up all the surrounding oxygen.
_This weapon can significantly destroy buildings and equipment and kill or injure people, and as a result it is much more active than conventional explosives of equal weight.
Many types of thermobaric weapons can be mounted on rockets fired from portable launchers (called flamethrowers), and can also be launched from individual “Shmel” launchers (very similar to the RPG-7 launcher, which can also fire thermobaric projectiles called the TBG-7V). It can be launched by aircraft.
There is an RMG projectile fired from an RPG-26 launcher, which uses two tandem warheads (a head consisting of two sections), one of which is a high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) that opens a hatch for the main thermal charge to enter and explodes inside. The HEAT warhead can penetrate 300 mm of reinforced concrete or more than 100 mm of homogeneous armour, allowing the 105 mm HEAT warhead to detonate internally (similar to the operation of the Al-Yassin 105 missile).
There are many types of flamethrowers, such as the Russian TOS-1A and TOS-1M, including 220 mm and 333 mm caliber missile systems mounted on tank chassis.
There are also many artillery shells and missiles with thermal warheads, such as the Grad [Soviet made] and Fajr 5C missiles (Iranian made).
_ Designed to attack enemy fortified positions, light armored vehicles and transport, in open terrain in particular. When this type of ammunition explodes in the covered space of underground shelters or canals, its destructive pressure remains for a longer period in the closed space of the shelter and causes more destruction. Therefore, it is considered an effective weapon in removing fortifications and trenches.
_ The technology of this weapon is used in the manufacture of many anti-armor system shells, such as the RPG-7, Kornet [Russian made], and Metis missiles.
Syria possesses more than 8 systems, in addition to individual “Shammel” launchers. These systems achieved great success in the battles of Aleppo, Homs and Qusayr, where they contributed to destroying the fortifications of terrorist organizations.
_ These systems were also used during the battles to liberate Iraq from the Wahhabi terrorist organization ISIS.
__ The United States of America used it in Afghanistan, in 2001, to try to destroy Al-Qaeda forces hiding in the caves of the Tora Bora mountains.
In September 2007, Russia detonated the largest thermobaric weapon ever built, which it called the “Father of All Bombs,” which produced an explosion equivalent to a conventional 44-ton TNT bomb—making it the largest non-nuclear explosive device in the world.