Nominaties door Trump

[gunter5148]

Verdient een aparte draad;
Rubio; secretary of state
Gaetz; attorney general
Gabbard; director of national intelligence
Musk en Ramaswamy; dep government effeciency
Thune; leider senaat

[Bach]

"Trump appoints real estate investor Steven Witkoff as 'special envoy to the Middle East.' Witkoff has zero experience in diplomacy and is not familiar with the region. The Times of Israel describes Witkoff as Trump's "regular golf partner" who was "seen as a conduit to the Jewish business community during his winning presidential campaign."

@vandenende
https://www.timesofisrael.com/livebl...oy-to-mideast/

[Bach]

Press Secretary... Tucker Carlson

[Bach]

Trump Completes Trifecta: Republicans Keep Control Of US House



En wat met een derde ambtstermijn voor de president? Trump is er nu al mee bezig:. Het zijn dagen van triomfalisme.

I don't think I'm going to run again unless you say, "He's good, we need to figure something out."

[Bach]

Trump's pick for Homeland Security Secretary has proposed bill to penalize criticism of Israel - entitled “Ensuring the Security of God's Chosen People”

In her statement, Kristi Noem reflected on her upbringing, where she was taught to pray for Israel and recognize Jews as "God's chosen people."

@RiseGS

Speciale invulling van 'Make America Great Again' moet gezegd.

[Bach]

Thomas Homan... Border Czar

Remigration

Trump has named a former head of ICE as border czar with the express order to begin a vast process of eviction of illegal migrants. Basically all stick, no carrot. And, at least for now, it looks like no addressing the demand problem, the siren calls to migrants (businesses hiring the illegals, the benefits system, ...). Is this the best way to go about it? In any case, if the Americans truly do go all in with this, in Europe we can learn from the process.

There are 1.3 million illegals in America that have already been processed for eviction. This will be the “easy” part. You still have to find them and arrange for transport to their countries of origin but let’s assume that this can be done more or less painlessly. That leaves another 10 or 15 million unprocessed. Every single one of whom constitutionally has the right to their day in court. Individually. The backlogs in the court system will be monumental. And the costs. Potentially hundreds of billions according to some sources.

Would it not make sense to go about this from the opposite end? As it stands, illegals in America, and most definitely in UK, have huge incentives to make the perilous journey. They know they can find well paid (by third world standards) employment. They can find a decent place to live, and sometimes far better than decent…

It would be far more efficient, cheaper, and probably faster to attack this end of the chain:

1) Meaningful penalties for employers of illegals and with a sufficiently high probability of being caught.

2) No housing without papers in order. Again, with meaningful penalties for infracting landlords.

3) A remodelling of the entire benefits system which, as it currently stands, seems specifically designed as a magnet for illegals.

4) Elimination of gaping loopholes in the system such as in the foreign student visa programme in the UK.

Trump’s current plan (or at least what we can imagine it will be) will already face huge opposition from the left. A plan of the type outlined here, would not only face this opposition but added to it would be those who benefit from the current system, especially employers who pay illegals very low salaries, and the entire migrant housing industry, now worth billions.

Of course I realise that these beneficiaries, employers, landlords, second tier universities in the UK, etc., will not give in without a fight, and they will coach their arguments in moralistic terms, allying themselves with the woke set. A fight for the ages, but now is the time!

(Yes, we could gleefully look forward to watching those with blue hair valiantly defending employers exploiting migrants and capitalists milking the system for billions. Let’s call that a side benefit of this plan.)

In any case, eliminate the incentives and far fewer will come and many will leave. That is the goal of Trump, and the goal of those who push for remigration in Europe. But doing it this way I have no doubt would be far quicker and easier. And a long term solution, rather than a stop gap.

I am not anti-immigration per se. Some level of QUALIFIED immigration is probably needed. But an immigration system largely built around who can evade immigration controls, and not around the needs of the host country, whether America or UK or any European country, is patently absurd.

@MadTParty

[Bach]

Het blijft uitkijken naar Kennedy als secretary of health. Dat is een delicate positie gegeven de wil van Kennedy de Covid aanpak uit te spitten. Het gaat hier potentieel zware corruptie met vele doden tot gevolg en wereldwijde vertakkingen. De backlash daarvan kan de imperiale positie van de VS op het wereldtoneel doen wankelen.

[Bach]

En niet te vergeten...

Trump appoints neocon warmonger Pete Hegseth as US Secretary of Defense...

...it would be hard to imagine a cabinet more inclined toward warmongering and war abroad while scapegoating at home, instead of investing in the United States as most Trump supporters deeply desired.

Neither Americans nor the world as a whole is "voting" their way out of American meddling and wars.

Only by creating an international system that fully confines US foreign policy (and the interests driving it) - through the defense of international information space, protection from US interference, military deterrence, and economic independence - will peace and stability be obtained from the West for the "Global Rest."

@thenewatlas

Who is Pete Hegseth, Trump’s new secretary of defense?

Peter Hegseth - a former US National Guard officer and Fox News host - has been chosen by president-elect Donald Trump to be the next secretary of defense.

????A Princeton University graduate and ex-analyst with Bears Sterns, Hegseth previously served as a Minnesota National Guard officer. He participated in the US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and was also deployed at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, the site of probably the most notorious US prison overseas.

????He earned himself a reputation of a staunch Trump supporter, even defending such controversial decisions by the 45th POTUS as the assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani in 2020.

????Hegseth is known for his hawkish stance on Iran, branding the country as “an evil regime” at one point, and for being a big proponent of close relationship with Israel. He stressed the importance of the US being Tel Aviv’s “strongest ally” and accused Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah of seeking to destroy Israel.

????Not a big fan of Russia by any means, Hegseth nevertheless postulated that issues the US domestic problems – such as inflation, wokeness and the border crisis – are much more important than the Ukrainian conflict.

????He criticized the European NATO members for their apparent reliance on US protection and their reluctance to spend their fair share of money on defense in hopes that Uncle Sam would bail them out if push comes to shove.

????China is apparently regarded by Hegseth as a threat, seeing how he claimed that Beijing is “building a military specifically dedicated to defeating the United States.”

????In 2019 Hegseth vocally defended Edward Gallagher, a US Navy SEAL who was accused of multiple war crimes including murdering an injured prisoner and firing upon civilians in Iraq.

????Last week Hegseth argued that any US general or admiral “involved in diversity, equity and inclusion programs” or “woke sh*t” needs to be fired.

????In his book titled “War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free,” Hegseth accused left-wing US politicians of betraying the American “warriors” and insisted that the US military must be returned to “meritocracy, lethality, accountability, and excellence.”

@geopolitics_live

De VS blijven een rogue war nation

[Bach]

Geen geschenk voor Gabbard op het eerste zicht. Warmongers op defensie en state Department. Maar als er terug geslagen wordt wordt er naar anti warmonger Gabbard gekeken voor de breach of security.

[Bach]

Een tendens lijkt sommigen op te vallen



Nu ja. Aipac had de verkiezen steeds gewonnen. Varieert misschien de hoeveelheid religieus fanatisme die Trump kan leveren.

[gunter5148]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Bach

Het blijft uitkijken naar Kennedy als secretary of health. Dat is een delicate positie gegeven de wil van Kennedy de Covid aanpak uit te spitten. Het gaat hier potentieel zware corruptie met vele doden tot gevolg en wereldwijde vertakkingen. De backlash daarvan kan de imperiale positie van de VS op het wereldtoneel doen wankelen.

Dat er iets zal wankelen, laat ons hopen, maar dat zal dan eerder het medisch-industrieel complex zijn.
Maar ik ben voor Kennedy, louter voor zijn standpunt terzake.

[Bach]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door gunter5148

Dat er iets zal wankelen, laat ons hopen, maar dat zal dan eerder het medisch-industrieel complex zijn.
Maar ik ben voor Kennedy, louter voor zijn standpunt terzake.

Er zijn wel meer interessante focuspunten in zijn Make America Healthy Again project gericht op preventie. Wordt het niet tijd dat eens naar suiker inname gekeken wordt bv.

[Bach]

Het is ironisch dat Tulsi Gabbard door Oekraïense warmongers gezien wordt als "mogelijk een Russisch agent" en om die reden op de beruchte Mirotvorets 'kill list' gezet werd. En nu dient ze de CIA te overzien wiens tentakels ongetwijfeld deze lijst hebben gefaciliteerd. Ik schat dat ze nu vlug van de lijst gehaald zal worden.

De CIA aanpakken is geen risicoloze bezigheid trouwens. De organisatie functioneert als een misdaad syndicaat binnen het staatsaparaat met hele gangen vol kasten met lijken.

Een andere Kennedy wou de CIA ontmantelen kondigde hij aan niet lang voor zijn onfortuinlijke dood.

[Bach]

Wat denkt het Kremlin over Trump's benoemingen? Een vrij optimistische opinie voor wie geen oorlog wil.

International relations, Russian affairs
What is the Kremlin saying about Trump’s nominees for his ‘power ministries’
gilbertdoctorow November 13, 2024

What is the Kremlin saying about Trump’s nominees for his ‘power ministries’

Ever since the outcome of the presidential election was clear on 6 November; all attention of American political analysts has been directed to whom Donald Trump will choose to fill the key positions in his administration on the understanding that such individuals equate with policy. Today, when names have been put to most of the slots which the Russians would call ‘power ministries’ in any government, the Kremlin has made public its conclusions about the individuals named and about the policies they expect Trump 2.0 to implement in general and towards themselves in particular.

In the past I would never have suggested that I divine what Vladimir Putin, or more broadly what ‘the Kremlin’ thinks on any given subject. But since that is precisely the phrasing that is used by my host on ‘Judging Freedom,’ I have stopped arguing and regularly use the most authoritative political talk show in Russia, ‘The Great Game,’ hosted principally by the hereditary Kremlin insider Vycheslav Nikonov, with guest panelists from the leading universities and think tanks, to represent what Vladimir Putin and his closest confidantes are thinking.

And so, as the Brits love to say, let’s get cracking.

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The single most important observation by ‘the Kremlin’ is that all of the key nominees, namely Mike Waltz for National Security Advisor, Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense; John Ratcliffe at the CIA, and (presumably) Marco Rubio as Secretary of State are soft on Russia and hard on China. This all supports the notion that Donald Trump genuinely wants to end the Ukraine war as soon as possible so that he can focus U.S: foreign policy on this other greater concern, and in this connection he is likely to respond positively to Russia’s terms for peace, including their claims to the Donbas and Novaya Rossiya oblasts that they have annexed and their demand that Ukraine be a neutral state without any prospects of joining Nato, without having foreign troops and installations on their territory.

Under the same logic, the Kremlin assumes that the USA under Trump however pro-Israeli it may be, will press Israel to de-escalate its campaigns in Lebanon and Gaza, and to conclude cease-fires as soon as possible. Moreover, the Kremlin does not expect the enmity towards Iran among several of those named in the Trump team to translate into hostilities of any kind. Indeed, given his pleasure in doing the unexpected, as was the case in his dealings with the North Korean leader, Trump is seen as possibly opening a dialogue with Teheran now and reducing tensions there.

Otherwise Nikonov and his panelists reported with some amusement on the likely changes at the Pentagon both before the confirmation in the Senate of Hegseth and after. They mentioned specifically the firing of the generals and others responsible for the debacle of America’s exit from Afghanistan and the purge of generals who in one way or another owed their promotions to the ideological agenda of the Democrats favoring gender equality, nontraditional sexual orientation and the like over merit. In this regard, they noted that the head of the Air Force Brown, present head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will be flung out early in the new administration.

The panelists on The Great Game do their homework: they read both major US and UK mainstream press such as The Washington Post and The Economist as well as the leading American professional journals such as Foreign Affairs. Accordingly they quoted today from the latest article by Harvard professor Stephen Walt clearly conceding that Ukraine has lost the war and should sue for peace now; accepting Russian terms, while there is still something of their country left to save.

The Kremlin is taking great comfort in the latest professional commentary in the USA to the effect that it must reconcile itself to being just a major superpower among others that has no ‘exceptional’ status. All-in-all that comes to what Vladimir Putin has been saying at least since 2013, when he spoke of growing trust with Barack Obama after their deal on destruction of Syrian chemical weapons but still upbraided Obama for his retaining the unacceptable characterization of his country that had been given by Madeleine Albright as standing taller than others and seeing farther.

Russian television reporting on the war remains upbeat, very confident that it is going well in part thanks to the Zelensky’s grievous strategic mistake in committing so much of his best trained reserves to the hopeless invasion of Russia’s Kursk region where they are now being pulverized.

*****

Despite the waves of news coming out of the Middle East each day, there are many developments of great importance that are under-reported. One of those in the past 24 hours was the missile and drone attack on the U.S; aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln and its squadron in the Red Sea by the Houthis of Yemen. The Houthis were the first to announce that their mission was successful. The Pentagon spokesman in Washington confirmed to assembled journalists that an attack took place but said that no military personnel were injured and that the drones were all destroyed. This spokesman did not say anything about the ship-busting Palestine 2 hypersonic ballistic missiles that were allegedly used by the Houthis as part of the attack, and so perhaps there was some serious damage to the ships.

So far, so good. We may assume that the missiles were provided to the Houthis by Iran. But who gave them the precise coordinates of the ships, likely obtained from satellites overhead, shall we say by Russian satellites. This is similar to the question of the Russian role in countering the Israeli attack on Iran a week ago. For the moment the Pentagon seems to avoid speaking of the Russian activities in the Middle East even as it overventilates describing the way the Russians have integrated 10,000 North Korean infantry into their 50,000 man force that is about to crush or drive from Kursk what remains of the Ukrainian invasion force.

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Finally, I direct attention to the confused use of political nomenclature used by the American media, both mainstream and alternative media, as they put labels on each and every nominee by Trump for his incoming administration. Most commonly we hear that candidate X or Y is a ‘Neocon’ when what is really meant is that they just take aggressive stands on international issues. After all, behind the true Neocons like Victoria Nuland and her husband Robert Kagan there is an entire ideology, not merely the will to subdue one or another potential geopolitical competitor of the United States. That ideology is founded on the belief that they see the direction history is taking and want to accelerate that trend by staging coups d’etat or orange revolutions here and there, for example.

In this sense, I maintain that the America First promoters whom Trump is nominating are not Neocons, whereas those whom he has specifically rejected like Bolton are.

I also call attention to the US media confusion over Trump’s position against globalism. Globalism is also a whole ideology based on the premise that in our age the business of running the world can be left to transational corporations and other supranational organizations. Such views are essentially a denial of national sovereignty, just as the free movement of people across borders to seek employment where they will is a denial of sovereignty.

And so, in the end, there is indeed a closeness between the conservative; shall we say ‘retro’ political thinking of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. But it is not in what Trump’s enemies are suggesting, namely that he admires strongmen rulesr, authoritarians and dictators and wishes to be one himself. No, what they have in common is the pride of place they both give to national sovereignty. And; to give credit where it is due, this all goes back to 1648, the Treaty of Westphalia, and the then belief that the nation state is the best defender of the freedoms of their citizens.

Interessante conclusie. Debat verzekerd. Ergens.

[Bach]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door gunter5148

Dat er iets zal wankelen, laat ons hopen, maar dat zal dan eerder het medisch-industrieel complex zijn.
Maar ik ben voor Kennedy, louter voor zijn standpunt terzake.

Big Pharma heeft natuurlijk ook een poot in huis.

[Bach]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Bach

Het is ironisch dat Tulsi Gabbard door Oekraïense warmongers gezien wordt als "mogelijk een Russisch agent" en om die reden op de beruchte Mirotvorets 'kill list' gezet werd. En nu dient ze de CIA te overzien wiens tentakels ongetwijfeld deze lijst hebben gefaciliteerd. Ik schat dat ze nu vlug van de lijst gehaald zal worden.

De CIA aanpakken is geen risicoloze bezigheid trouwens. De organisatie functioneert als een misdaad syndicaat binnen het staatsaparaat met hele gangen vol kasten met lijken.

Een andere Kennedy wou de CIA ontmantelen kondigde hij aan niet lang voor zijn onfortuinlijke dood.

Ook Hillary Clinton noemde Tulsi Gabbard een "Russian Assett". De lijken in de kast van Hillary zijn nu aan het beven aan de deur kan ik me voorstellen.

[gunter5148]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Bach

Er zijn wel meer interessante focuspunten in zijn Make America Healthy Again project gericht op preventie. Wordt het niet tijd dat eens naar suiker inname gekeken wordt bv.

Zeker. Suiker is een potente drug. Erg verslavend, een een sluipende killer.
Ook de blootstelling aan zonlicht dient eens goed tegen het licht gehouden te worden, en daarmee gepaard gaand, of uw eigen dagen aan een stuk volsmeren met chemische substanties wel de beste manier is om u tegen “over-exposure” te beschermen.
Wat met fluor in het water?
Etc.

[gunter5148]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Bach

Big Pharma heeft natuurlijk ook een poot in huis.

Bijlage 120233

Je kan zoiets moeilijk 100% uitschakelen hé.
De meest intelligente mensen komen sowieso in de bovenlagen van de maatschappij, maar helaas de socio- en psychopaten, systeemgewijs, ook.

[gunter5148]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Bach

Ook Hillary Clinton noemde Tulsi Gabbard een "Russian Assett". De lijken in de kast van Hillary zijn nu aan het beven aan de deur kan ik me voorstellen.

Bij de clinton-clan zijn dat letterlijke lijken, meestal.

[Bach]

De nieuwe minister van defensie waant zich een kruisvaarder. Religieuze fanatici. Element van het christelijk zio proxy leger zou men kunnen zeggen.

https://x.com/TaylorMatthewD/status/1856785904888942783

And, sure enough, Hegseth has 2 Crusader tattoos: a Jerusalem Cross, the symbol of the Crusader kingdom of Jerusalem on his chest, & "Deus Vult" the Crusaders' theological cri de coeur ("God wills it") on his bicep.

"Deus Vult" means God mandated Crusaders' violence. 13/