Scott Ritter: Dictator Joe thinks Russian nuclear threats are a joke. Big mistake!
Scott Ritter was pulled off a plane for St. Petersburg by order of the State Department. There’s no law against attending the St. Petersburg Economic Forum, but the Biden team makes its own laws.
Guess that’s the famous “rules based order.”
Meanwhile, Scot told Judge Napolitano he fears King Joe will goad Russia into attacking NATO and that could spell doom for us humans. I am quite sure of that.
What the Dictator-in-Chief just did is trample on ALL of our rights. The First and Fourth Amendments were written for the sake of the American people. We have the right, under the 4th Amendment, to hear Ritter’s speech at the forum. He was going there as a journalist to impart valuable information that we need and want. Now we are denied this information in a gross violation of the 4th Amendment, as pointed out by Kremlin spokesperson Maria Zakharova, who knows more about the US Constitution than most of us.
But it’s worse than that. Scott’s name is on a hit list of “terrorists” in Kiev. Their definition of a terrorist is a person who disagrees with them. Gonzalo Lira, a US journalist, disagreed with Zelensky and was jailed and murdered in Ukraine, with Biden’s tacit approval.
Is this America anymore?
As I keep saying, one of the main pillars of Nazism is hatred of Russia, aka Russophobia. The US regime is very openly and frankly Russophobic and has been for many years. Can you sympathize with Nazis and not be a Nazi yourself?
Many naïve souls believe that if Trump is elected, he will change all that.
Actually, Trump was one of the first to sanction Russia. In fact, he put a halt to the Nord Stream pipeline project by heavily sanctioning all the European investors in the project, forcing them to pull out. Russia was forced to pull a ship and a barge out of mothballs and complete the project itself – only to see the Biden team later sabotage it, thereby dooming the German economy to failure for lack of cheap gas. Not only that, but Trump shuttered Russian diplomatic missions. All to please the Neocon donors, who control him, and America.
US State Department Forced Scott Ritter Off Plane to Russia, Confiscated His Passport
Ritter was slated to participate in the annual St. Petersburg International Economic Forum as a guest speaker.
“As I was boarding my flight out of New York I was pulled aside by three CBP officers, who seized my passport. When asked why, they said orders of the State Department. No further information was provided. My bags were removed from the flight, and I was escorted out of the airport,” the former US Marine intelligence officer told Sputnik.
Scott added that his passport was not given back. He said he will appeal the decision.
Ritter believes US authorities are afraid of his participation in the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF).
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Our thanks to MB for this:
Friends & Colleagues
Colonel Scott Ritter (ret.), former United Nations Weapons Inspector, is a highly visible commentator on American foreign policy and international affairs. You may not be aware that on Sunday he was taken off a plane bound for St. Petersburgh by Customs officials at the instruction of the State Department. His passport was seized. No explanation was given. These arbitrary actions appear to be a direct violation of Constitutionally guaranteed civil liberties. The story has been largely ignored by the media and political circles.
As a public service, I am distributing a video interview (below) wherein Ritter discusses exactly what happened and its implications. (Minutes 1 - 14)
cheers
Me
Yes, I did a search this AM and found NO msm reports at all on this, though a fair number of alt.news outlets covered it. I also found it covered in Russian by Russian sources.
I just now listened to the conversation between Judge Napolitano and Scott Ritter. EVERY American MUST listen to this. If you do, you will understand that your top government officials have put us all on a course that is headed directly for nuclear war and that could mean the end of the planet.
The Neocon FOOLS in Washington think Russia is bluffing, but Ritter has listened to Putin and Lavrov and he is convinced that, if the US crosses a red line, they WILL attack NATO directly, possibly with tactical nukes. They will knock out all nuclear launching sites in Europe.
I would go further than that. I see no reason that Russia would hold back on targeting sites in the US.
If they go the whole way, they knock out all US military or dual-use satellites (sorry, Elon), quite likely the whole of US government office complexes including CIA at Langley.
I say this because Washington is the head of the snake, not NATO in Brussels, and Russia knows this.
They will also knock out all locatable nuclear-armed subs and all US aircraft carriers. A few holes in the flight deck will disable the entire carrier.
They may also cut all the key undersea communications cables to blind the enemy completely.
Here is an incomplete list of other things that would have to be done, which I published here:
https://donhank.substack.com/p/if-the-biden-regime-succeeds-in-provoking
the strike would have to be designed to rule out a counter-strike to the greatest possible extent. To accomplish this, we can imagine that Russia would have to first beef up Russia’s air defenses around important cities and also around all early warning systems like the one at Armavir that was reportedly hit. (Russia’s air defenses include the S-500, which reaches into outer space). There are about a dozen such sites. They would also have to beef up air defenses around important government sites in Moscow and cities like Kaliningrad, Petersburg, and a whole host of others both in the east and in Siberia. Then it would be important to start up the jammers at least just before firing off the missiles. Then just ahead of the strike, Russia would want to shoot down all the known western military satellites. All identifiable Western nuclear-armed subs in the world would also have to be tracked down and neutralized, with tactical weapons, preferably with crews spared. All Western aircraft carriers would have to be neutralized simultaneously with this, again, with tactical weapons, to reduce the radioactive fallout around the planet. No need to sink them. All known major US bases around the world would be neutralized, preferably with tactical nukes. All US government buildings, including the White House, Congress, the Pentagon, the CIA HQ, either with tactical nukes or multiple missiles or kamikaze drones, and possibly the residences of known rabid Neocons such as Nikki Haley, the Obamas, Lindsay Graham, VICTORIA NULAND, Bill Burns, Antony Blinken, Joe Biden (if living), Emmanuel Macron’s HQ, David Cameron’s home and HQ, assorted prominent Ukronazis, the NYT and other toxic newspapers and think tanks, the NATO HQ and EU complex, all US top military command posts in the world, all major arms company HQs, and the venues of all the most dangerous officials involved with the US military or NATO. Russia would also determine what other venues and individuals would have to be liquidated to make the world safe for the multipolar world order]
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Here’s your air strike update for June 4, 2024
Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
Missile systems of the Black Sea Fleet dealt a powerful blow to Ukraine
4 June 2024
Crews of the Bastion coastal missile systems of the Russian Black Sea Fleet hit targets of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), the Russian Ministry of Defense reported on June 4.
The strike was carried out during combat duty. The personnel received the coordinates of the targets and moved to the position area, where they deployed launchers and launched cruise missiles.
The combat work of the crews can be seen in the footage distributed by the defense department. The exact hit of targets was confirmed by the results of objective control, the Ministry of Defense indicated.
From ship to battle: how naval weapons are used in the Northern Military District
Military experts have adapted a number of naval fire systems for use in the ground forces
Earlier, on May 29, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that naval aviation of the Black Sea Fleet destroyed three unmanned boats of the Ukrainian Navy in the northwestern part of the Black Sea. The targets were heading towards the Crimean Peninsula.
The special operation to protect Donbass, the beginning of which was announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin on February 24, 2022, continues. The decision was made against the backdrop of a worsening situation in the region.
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Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
https://radiosputnik.ru/20240604/istrebiteli-1950312699.html
04.06.2024
Su-34 crews attacked an Ukrainian Armed Forces stronghold with bombs equipped with glide and control kits
Russian Ministry of Defense: Su-34 crews attacked a Ukrainian Armed Forces stronghold with FAB-500 bombs
© RIA Novosti / Nina Padalko
MOSCOW, June 4/ Radio Sputnik. Russian pilots attacked a stronghold of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of responsibility of the Russian Armed Forces group "Center", the Russian Ministry of Defense reports.
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“The crews of the Su-34 multifunctional fighter-bombers of the Russian Aerospace Forces struck an enemy stronghold and manpower in the zone of responsibility of the Center group of forces. The strike was carried out by FAB-500 unguided aerial bombs with a universal planning and correction module (UMPK - ed.),” the message clarifies.
It is noted that the UMPC allows you to hit targets from a safe distance from the line of combat contact.
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“After receiving a combat mission, we carry out the necessary calculations to complete this task. Then we go to the aircraft, inspect it, inspect aircraft weapons, mountings and then launch. After checking all systems, we taxi, take off and fly along the given route. After we carried out a release of aircraft weapons, we perform a safety maneuver and leave along the return route to the landing airfield,” said Su-34 fighter-bomber pilot Andrei.
Earlier, Sputnik radio reported that the Russian Armed Forces attacked the location of technical specialists who were preparing flight missions for drone operators of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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Fires blaze in North of Israel.
Kiryat Shmona was an illegal settlement on land stolen from Palestine. A while back, it was attacked by Hezbollah rockets and the whole settlement had to be evacuated. Looks like the land thieves moved back in the meantime, but yesterday, Hezbollah hit it again to pressure the IDF to stop the genocide. Israel didn’t stop. Rockets hit again. Kiryat Shmona is evacuated again,
https://www.yahoo.com/news/forest-fires-blaze-north-israel-021800125.html
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Israeli Missile Attack Turns Refugee Camp Into Rafah Hellscape
On Sunday, Israel launched multiple missile strikes on a “safe zone” in the Tal al-Sultan neighborhood of Rafah. The explosions –which could be heard miles away– ignited a massive fire that swept rapidly through the encampment trapping many people in their tents where they were burned alive. The ghoulish scenes from the site appeared almost immediately on a number of social media channels where millions of viewers were able to see the effects of Israel’s murderous onslaught firsthand. Many of the videos that appeared on Twitter are almost too painful to watch. In one particularly horrible clip, a bearded man holds up the headless remains of a toddler who was blown to bits minutes earlier.
https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/israeli-missile-attack-turns-refugee-camp-into-rafah-hellscape/
Video of the horror. Send this link to your “Christian” Zionist friends! Ask them if they still stand with Israel.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1794852711277727938
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Very important conversation between Nima Alkhorshid and Pepe Escobar.
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Against a world without Palestinians
If the world as it is cannot abide Palestinian existence, then we will have to change the world. We have already started.
BY QASSAM MUADDI JUNE 3, 2024 3
Internally displaced Palestinians crowd the beach in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, June 2, 2024. (Photo: Omar Ashtawy/APA Images)
When I was five, my father told me that I was Palestinian. I don’t know if he understood what he did, but that little piece of knowledge started a chain of consciousness in my then-child’s mind that would continue for a lifetime. Eventually, it led to the bitter realization that I now cannot escape — the awareness that we Palestinians live in an international system that has no place and no wish for us as a people.
Hours after the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, announced that he had requested the court to issue arrest warrants against Israeli and Hamas leaders, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a video statement expressing his outrage over the decision because it equated him with Hamas leaders. The same outrage over this supposed “false equivalency” was echoed by the U.S. State Department and members of Congress.
But what were Netanyahu and his allies in Washington really outraged about? When the ICC studies issuing an arrest warrant, it takes into account — theoretically, at least — the nature of the crime, not the perpetrator. Supposedly, it shouldn’t matter if it is a democratically elected official or the head of a military junta; whether they are the head of a U.S. state ally, or the leader of a group designated by the U.S. as a terrorist organization. When the ICC prosecutor requested arrest warrants for leaders of both Hamas and Israel, he was equating the lives of Israelis killed on October 7 with those of thousands of Palestinians that Israel killed.
Looking at the past eight months, one could easily think that this equation of human life, this assertion that Palestinians live and die in the same way, with the same instrinsic value as any other people, is what has incensed world leaders so much and fired up Israeli leaders so much that they are ready to threaten, smear, and repress. It is what allowed the ongoing genocide to continue for months on end.
But this dehumanization goes back long before the events and aftermath of October 7. In fact, we Palestinians have been living through it for decades, although we didn’t always have the words to describe it. The current genocide has clarified it to the extent that we can’t ignore or shy away from it or find a way to live with it anymore.
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San Jose State University professor says she was suspended over her Palestine activism
The school claims that Kil violated Article 17 of the collective bargaining agreement between the school and the faculty union, but she believes she was suspended over her Palestine activism.
BY MICHAEL ARRIA JUNE 3, 2024 2
Last month Sang Hea Kil, a justice studies professor at the San Jose State University, was placed on a temporary suspension. The school claims that Kil violated Article 17 of the collective bargaining agreement between the school and the faculty union, but she believes she was suspended over her Palestine activism.
Kil stepped down as co-chair of the Palestine, Arab, and Muslim Caucus of the California Faculty after the school placed her under an investigation for allegedly disruptive activities.
“i am resigning now as co-chair and from all committees in pam. it was an honor to fight side by side with you all against the tragic and painful silence around the genocide we experienced at our campuses,” said Kil in a statement to her colleagues. “you all inspired me to do more than i ever thought possible and i am so grateful to you all for this shared experience. i wish you the best in your battle for (boycott, divestment and sanctions) at the csu and cfa. you will be victorious!”
Kil, who is a faculty advisor for the school’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter, spoke with Mondoweiss about her suspension, what happens next, and the current climate at universities.
Can you talk about the organizing on campus regarding Gaza and how you were involved leading up to your suspension?
Sang Hea Kil: I got activated when I visited the occupied territories back in 2015 and I saw the apartheid, the oppression, the history of genocide in the region, and I was really alarmed by the volumes of information that I didn’t know.
More:
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Video of Netanyahu caught bragging genocide and about leading Americans around by the nose
We’re stupid suckers and Bibi always knew it.
What he didn’t know is that the rest of the world is awake and doesn’t trust either Israel OR the US.
The Anglo-American SS leading men (sic) Borish Johnson and Hobo Joe Biden are nothing more than the world's leading 'Buffoon Bluffer's, two drunken stumble bums leaning next to each so they don't fall down and collapse.
They have doomed their nations to a Dickensian life of brutal misery while desperately hoping they have enough time to provoke Russia into World War III so they, like Israel, can play the victim, become the heros (sic) in a blaze of glory (sic) like the cigar smoking, besotted gas bag Winston Churchill.
The Scott Ritter incident reflects panic, bordering on hysteria, amidst the ruling Anglo-American Militarists who are increasingly seen by the majority of the worlds population (the BRICs) as the biggest LOSERS in the history of failed empires viz. the Roman Empire and the British Empire.
The brazen and heavy-handed methods to silence critics of their proxy wars in Ukraine and Israel is forcing them into a risky and desperate provocation of nuclear superpower Russia in a last ditch effort to "overpower" Putin into submission to their 'Fools Based Order' of wanton genocide and endless wars to maintain their status quo.