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17 Judges at Hague Permit Genocide Proceedings Against Israel, Order Leaders to Limit Fatalities

By Ryan Delarme, January 26, 2024

Friday marked the decision of the highest court of the United Nations to permit the prosecution of a genocide case against Israel in relation to its military operations in Gaza.

The charges were filed by South Africa, who petitioned the court to order Israel to cease its military offensive in Gaza. In October 2023, the territory-based militant organization Hamas launched an attack against Israel, prompting Israel to declare war on Hamas.

At the Hague, seventeen judges of the International Court of Justice rendered their verdict.

Without mandating a cease-fire, the court also urged Israel to attempt to limit casualties and destruction during the offensive. Additionally, the 17 judges ordered six so-called provisional measures to protect Palestinians in Gaza.

Ryan Delarme

Ryan DeLarme is an American journalist navigating a labyrinth of political corruption, overreaching corporate influence, a burgeoning censorship-industrial complex, compromised media, and the planned destruction of our constitutional republic. He writes for Badlands Media and is also a Host and Founder at Vigilant News. Additionally, his writing has been featured in American Thinker, the Post-Liberal, Winter Watch, Underground Newswire, and Stillness in the Storm. He’s also writes for alt-media streaming platforms Dauntless Dialogue and Rise.tv. Ryan enjoys gardening, kung fu, creative writing and fighting to SAVE AMERICA

Senior NATO Official Drools Over Potential Hot War with Russia
An esteemed NATO official has advised Europeans to brace themselves for the possibility of a full-scale conflict with Russia within the following two decades.

By Ryan Delarme, January 20, 2024

Following a meeting of NATO defense chiefs in Brussels, Admiral Rob Bauer, chairman of the Military Committee, told reporters that governments must immediately begin preparations and that significant numbers of civilians will need to be mobilized.

“We have to realise it’s not a given that we are in peace. And that’s why we [Nato forces] are preparing for a conflict with Russia,”Baur declared.

“But the discussion is much wider. It is also the industrial base and also the people that have to understand they play a role.” he continued.

“It starts there, The realisation that not everything is planable and not everything is going to be hunky dory in the next 20 years.”

According to The Telegraph, Baur additionally lauded Sweden for advising its citizens to prepare for battle.

“We need to be readier across the whole spectrum,” Bauer proclaimed. “You have to have a system in place to find more people if it comes to war, whether it does or not. Then you talk mobilization, reservists or conscription.”

“You need to be able to fall back on an industrial base that is able to produce weapons and ammunition fast enough to be able to continue a conflict if you are in it.”

The 90,000-strong NATO military exercise Steadfast Defender 2024 is slated to commence the following week, constituting the most extensive endeavor since the conclusion of the Cold War.

NATO prepares for Putin.

NATO will launch its biggest military exercises in decades next week with around 90,000 personnel set to take part in months of drills aimed at showing the alliance can defend all of its territory up to its border with Russia, top officers said.

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— Yasmina (@yasminalombaert) January 19, 2024

 

Ryan Delarme

Ryan DeLarme is an American journalist navigating a labyrinth of political corruption, overreaching corporate influence, a burgeoning censorship-industrial complex, compromised media, and the planned destruction of our constitutional republic. He writes for Badlands Media and is also a Host and Founder at Vigilant News. Additionally, his writing has been featured in American Thinker, the Post-Liberal, Winter Watch, Underground Newswire, and Stillness in the Storm. He’s also writes for alt-media streaming platforms Dauntless Dialogue and Rise.tv. Ryan enjoys gardening, kung fu, creative writing and fighting to SAVE AMERICA

Jim Jordan Obtains Documents Showing Federal Agencies Flagged Transactions of “MAGA” and “Trump” Supporters
Additionally, those who shop at sporting goods stores and those who've purchased bibles are also being tracked.

By Ryan Delarme, January 18, 2024

Jim Jordan, chairman of the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, announced on Wednesday that the committee had obtained documents revealing that federal agencies have flagged financial transactions for people using politically sensitive words such as “MAGA” and Trump.”

Jordan elaborated in a letter to Noah Bishoff, a former director of FinCEN (Financial Crimes Enforcement Network) and current anti-money laundering (AML) officer at the fintech company Plaid, Inc., on scenarios in which the transactions of American citizens purchasing bibles or sporting goods stores might be flagged.

New documents obtained by the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government reveal that the federal government flagged terms like “MAGA” and “TRUMP” for financial institutions if Americans used those phrases when completing transactions. Individuals who shopped at stores like Cabela’s or Dick’s Sporting Goods, or purchased religious texts like a bible, may also have had their transactions flagged. This kind of pervasive financial surveillance, carried out in coordination with and at the request of federal law enforcement, into Americans’ private transactions is alarming and raises serious concerns about the FBI’s respect for fundamental civil liberties. -Judiciary.house.gov

“The Committee and Select Subcommittee have obtained documents indicating that following January 6, 2021, FinCEN distributed materials to financial institutions that, among other things, outline the ‘typologies’ of various persons of interest and provide financial institutions with suggested search terms and Merchant Category Codes (MCCs) for identifying transactions on behalf of federal law enforcement,” the letter reads.

“These materials included a document recommending the use of generic terms like ‘TRUMP’ and ‘MAGA’ to ‘search Zelle payment messages’ as well as a ‘prior FinCEN analysis’ of ‘Lone Actor/Homegrown Violent Extremism Indicators,” the letter continues. “According to this analysis, FinCEN warned financial institutions of ‘extremism’ indicators that include ‘transportation charges, such as bus tickets, rental cars, or plane tickets, for travel to areas with no apparent purpose,’ or ‘the purchase of books (including religious texts) and subscriptions to other media containing extremist views.’ In other words, FinCEN urged large financial institutions to comb through the private transactions of their customers for suspicious charges on the basis of protected political and religious expression.”

The Committee declared that senior intelligence officials, including Bishoff, are to be interviewed.

Ryan Delarme

Ryan DeLarme is an American journalist navigating a labyrinth of political corruption, overreaching corporate influence, a burgeoning censorship-industrial complex, compromised media, and the planned destruction of our constitutional republic. He writes for Badlands Media and is also a Host and Founder at Vigilant News. Additionally, his writing has been featured in American Thinker, the Post-Liberal, Winter Watch, Underground Newswire, and Stillness in the Storm. He’s also writes for alt-media streaming platforms Dauntless Dialogue and Rise.tv. Ryan enjoys gardening, kung fu, creative writing and fighting to SAVE AMERICA

Biden’s DOJ Verifies the Authenticity of Hunter Biden’s Laptop
After years of censorship, the Biden DOJ admits that the Hunter Biden laptop was not Russian disinformation.

By Ryan Delarme, January 18, 2024

In a court filing on Tuesday, the Justice Department (DOJ) vindicated the authenticity of Hunter Biden’s laptop, an undisclosed fact that had the potential to disrupt the 2020 presidential election.

It is worth noting that, according to polling, an astonishing 71% of Americans believe that factual coverage of Hunter’s “Laptop from Hell” could have influenced the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.

The DOJ established Hunter’s ownership of the laptop by verifying two conditions: he did, in fact, leave the laptop at a computer store, and the contents of the device matched information obtained by authorities through a search warrant of Hunter’s iCloud.

“Investigators also later came into possession of the defendant’s Apple MacBook Pro, which he had left at the computer store,” prosecutors wrote:

A search warrant was also obtained for his laptop and the result of the search warrant were largely duplicative information also obtained for his laptop and the result of the search were largely duplicative of information investigators had already obtained from Apple.

CNN hack-reporter Natasha Bertrand penned the infamous and now-discredited Politico article shortly after the New York Post broke the laptop story. Bertrand used “dozens of former intelligence officials” (aka the dirty  to promote a false and misleading narrative regarding the provenance of Hunter’s laptop.

Over a year passed before the establishment media acknowledged the story’s inaccuracy. The Washington Post eventually conceded that Hunter’s laptop contains “authentic communications that can be verified” after devoting 532 days to investigating the matter.

Even CNN now has ultimately acknowledged the authenticity of Hunter’s “laptop from hell” subsequent to the initial story’s October 24, 2020 release, where the network notably labeled it “fabricated” and “Russian disinformation.”

It only took the New York Times two years to admit that the communications on the laptop indeed belonged to Hunter Biden. Naturally, independent media got it right much sooner.

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Our Take:

The “dirty 51” refers to the 51 compromised DS intelligence officers who willfully lied about the laptop in the days preceding the election. These individuals are currently commentators on legacy media outlets such as MSNBC, FOX, and CNN or are still employed by the various alphabet agencies.

Every outlet in the world, including ours, had access to the laptop’s contents. Upon the affixation of that letter, the aforementioned intelligence assets coerced Facebook and others into eliminating accounts that were sharing the laptop on the grounds that it contained “Russian disinformation.”

Beyond F-book, we were de-platformed by PayPal and other platforms we relied on financially. The publication I worked for at the time never fully recovered from this.
Honestly, it feels strange to even behold the photographs of HB smoking cocaine and interacting inappropriately with prostitutes; I don’t give a damn about them. However, what is crucial is the mountain of evidence demonstrating that Joe Biden, a career politician who is presently destroying this nation by radicalizing his followers to believe that their family and friends are the new Nazis, funding genuine Nazis in Ukraine with an endless stream of unconditional taxpayer dollars, and involving us in a serious conflict in the Middle East, made a great deal of money by selling his influence to the burgeoning deep states, made a lot of money.
The DOJ, years later, has now confirmed to be true what lives were ruined over three years ago. This is the danger of the censorship regime.
Ryan Delarme

Ryan DeLarme is an American journalist navigating a labyrinth of political corruption, overreaching corporate influence, a burgeoning censorship-industrial complex, compromised media, and the planned destruction of our constitutional republic. He writes for Badlands Media and is also a Host and Founder at Vigilant News. Additionally, his writing has been featured in American Thinker, the Post-Liberal, Winter Watch, Underground Newswire, and Stillness in the Storm. He’s also writes for alt-media streaming platforms Dauntless Dialogue and Rise.tv. Ryan enjoys gardening, kung fu, creative writing and fighting to SAVE AMERICA

Editorial: Joe Biden and the Rebranded Neocons
The decrepit pawn in the Whitehouse escalates our involvement in the Middle East without Congressional approval as the International Court of Justice prepares to hear case against Israel

By Ryan Delarme, January 17, 2024

Everything that we’ll cover in this piece, from the escalation to the trampling of the constitution, should come as no surprise, as anyone who’s been paying close attention to the situation in Gaza, for longer than just the last couple months, should have seen it coming from miles away.

In case you haven’t heard, the U.S. funded war between Israel and HAMAS is escalating. The Biden Administration, in partnership with the United Kingdom, has now bombed more than 16 sites in Yemen on the pretense that the Houthis, an Iran-backed militia, has been attacking and impeding Israeli and “Israel-connected” (aka American) ships in the Red Sea in retaliation for the aforementioned U.S. funded destruction of Gaza.

Regardless of your views on the bombing campaign that Biden initiated, there are a couple of indisputable points worth considering.

First, despite the fact that these attacks had been planned weeks in advance, they were carried out without congressional approval or debate. A number of representatives have made objections to the strikes on the grounds that they are illegal and unconstitutional.

It is worth noting, in case anyone was wondering, that it is a matter of debate whether the American President has the constitutional authority to order the use of military force without the proper congressional approval in this instance.

Secondly, even if you think Biden’s decision to bomb these targets without congressional approval was the right call, you cannot deny that his actions have now caused the war to escalate to include the use of American combat forces.

Now, instead of simply sending an endless stream of taxpayer dollars to another country on the other side of the world, we will potentially also soon be paying with the lives of our brothers, our sisters and our children in uniform.

 

Democrats and the Bush-Era Neocons, Reunited at Last

The title of this section is actually slightly misleading, as this unholy reunion of establishment Democrats and the political representatives of the Military Industrial Complex (MIC) otherwise known as Neoconservatives, had actually occurred more than half a decade ago, in the immediate wake of Hillary Clinton’s defeat by Donald Trump in 2016.

It was one of the most under-discussed things in progressive and liberal circles at the time. The Democrats, who were enjoying the limelight and clout awarded by a more polished President and a well oiled propaganda machine during the Obama Era, were in the process of assimilating the then radioactive and discredited neocons.

The reasoning was simple: both factions loathed Donald Trump as he posed an existential threat to them all. Democrats (and establishment Republicans as well) hated him because he was their biggest political enemy after years of uncontested uniparty-rule. The neocons loathed Trump because he sought to put an end to all wars and enact non-interventionist policy, essentially neutering the MIC.

In any other time, this budding union would have been looked on by Democrat voters with horror and dismay, however, the Trump Derangement Syndrome that had afflicted such huge swaths of the population at that time must also have been accompanied by some kind of amnesia. No one batted an eye once the same forces that were almost universally hated by the end of the Bush-era were now on the side of establishment Democrats.

Though it may have seemed like they were quietly getting the old band back together, the truth was that they never really parted ways.

One of the things that the security state and its representatives often do is prime the conditions for future wars while fighting current wars. Obama was still drone bombing civilians in the Middle East (including an average of 72 bombs dropped per day in 2016 alone) while the likes of Victoria Nuland were busy escalating tensions with Russia. A confrontation with Russia had been in the works for a long time at that point and it never would have happened if the neocons were actually reined-in during the Obama era.

Vladimir Putin was the new up and coming boogeyman for the denizens of the West to hate and fear, so developing an angle where Donald trump was an agent of the Kremlin served two purposes. This is how the Russia-Collusion hoax was born.

Soon, once disgraced neocons like Bill Kristol, Robert Kagan, Victoria Nuland, Mike Rogers. Jamie Fly, etc. would grace left-wing media outlets like CNN and MSNBC, pontificating to us plebs about the dangers Donald Trump poses to Democracy.

Democrats frequently rationalize this alliance as a simple union of convenience: a pragmatic and transitory partnership imperative for the limited objective of obstructing Trump. However, that is a patent pretext and, to put it mildly, unpersuasive for a multitude of reasons. Long before anyone believed Donald Trump could accede to power, a reunification of Democrats and Neocons was taking place; this alliance is based on shared objectives, perspectives, and policies.

For instance, one of Dick Cheney’s foremost foreign policy advisers during the Bush administration was Victoria Nuland. Nuland, who was married to one of the most influential neocons, Robert Kagan, transitioned without difficulty from the Bush White House to the Obama State Department, then to the Clinton campaign’s chief foreign policy adviser, and now is second in command in Joe Biden’s State Department.

The ramifications of this reunion are significant and enduring. By a wide margin, neocons have caused considerably more harm to the United States and the world than any other single group. They were the masterminds behind the Iraq invasion and the accompanying deceit, the post-9/11 global torture regime, and the prevailing political atmosphere that stigmatized dissent.

Keep all of this in mind as we fast-forward to today.

 

Unconstitutional Escalation?

The United States had ceased bombing Yemen for roughly a year now, that is, until last Thursday when the Biden Administration decided it was going to bomb 16 different sites in that country.

To provide some critical backstory, there had been a somewhat informal ceasefire between the Houthis and the Saudis for the last year, which by the way was a war that had started under President Obama, who extensively helped the Saudis by decimating Yemen and creating one of the worst humanitarian crises in recent history, until the recent bombardment and deprivation taking place in Gaza of course.

Regardless of the various excuses being bandied about, what Biden and the UK did was, by definition, an escalation. We weren’t bombing Yemen, and now we are.

The primary justification you’ll see for for this escalation, among others, is the often misrepresented War Powers Resolution (or Act) (50 U.S.C. §§ 1541-1550).

Section 1541(c) of the War Powers Resolution states:

“The constitutional powers of the President as Commander-in-Chief to introduce United States Armed Forces into hostilities, or into situations where imminent involvement in hostilities is clearly indicated by the circumstances, are exercised only pursuant to (1) a declaration of war, (2) specific statutory authorization, or (3) a national emergency created by attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or its armed forces.“

None of the three scenarios cited above indicate that the President can take unilateral offensive military action without the consent of Congress.

Former Michigan Congressman Justin Amash recently broke it down on X:

The first two (scenarios) allow the president to take offensive military action but only with Congress’s express approval (Article I of the Constitution grants Congress the exclusive power to declare war). The third authority allows the president to take defensive military action without Congress’s approval in the event of a specific type of national emergency, a sudden unforeseen attack on the United States (happening too quickly for Congress to meet) necessitating immediate action to protect Americans.

It’s for this last situation (or for situations in which the president introduces forces into hostilities unlawfully) that the War Powers Resolution provides for the oft-mentioned 48-hour report to Congress (§ 1543) and 60-day (up to 90-day) timeline (§ 1544). If there’s an attack in progress on the United States (i.e., currently happening), we expect the president to respond swiftly to neutralize the attack and protect Americans—and then we will hold the president to account.

The Framers of the Constitution agreed at the debates in the federal convention of 1787 that the president should have the “power to repel sudden attacks” but not the power to otherwise introduce forces into hostilities without congressional approval.

The War Powers Resolution does not confer any new authority on the president to take offensive military action without congressional approval—nor could it under our Constitution. It instead checks the president when, as the Framers contemplated, the president introduces our Armed Forces into hostilities to repel a sudden attack.

The belief that Presidents have no limitations on their power is one that came about during the Bush-Cheney era, particularly when they exploited 9-11 to usher in radical theories of executive power under Article Two of the Constitution.

You’ll see people argue that The Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) of 2001 which was passed shortly after 9/11 authorizes the President to use all “necessary and appropriate force” against those he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks, or harbored said persons or groups.

The argument seems to go back and forth endlessly. Putting aside the legal jargon, as I am not a law scholar, we can judge the merit of this authorization by it’s fruit.

This authorization was a neocons wet dream. It was first used to go after Al Qaeda and, according to a report by the Congressional Research Service published May 11, 2016, has since been used “37 times in connection with actions in 14 countries and on the high seas.” The countries that have been targeted via this authorization include Afghanistan, Cuba (Guantanamo Bay), Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Georgia, Iraq, Kenya, Libya, the Philippines, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.

Remember when Obama and Hillary iced Gaddafi? The AUMF was cited in that instance as well.

It is not hard to see that the founders were opposed to the idea of a standing army at the ready to be used at the discretion of a President. The President is only commander-in-chief once there is a war declared by Congress. The arguments that Biden had the authority to attack Yemen is a neocon’s argument, as they were the ones who dreamt up the AUMF, well before 9-11, as the ultimate workaround to initiate endless wars.

The AUMF should be repealed.

Reposted from: The Post-Liberal

Ryan Delarme

Ryan DeLarme is an American journalist navigating a labyrinth of political corruption, overreaching corporate influence, a burgeoning censorship-industrial complex, compromised media, and the planned destruction of our constitutional republic. He writes for Badlands Media and is also a Host and Founder at Vigilant News. Additionally, his writing has been featured in American Thinker, the Post-Liberal, Winter Watch, Underground Newswire, and Stillness in the Storm. He’s also writes for alt-media streaming platforms Dauntless Dialogue and Rise.tv. Ryan enjoys gardening, kung fu, creative writing and fighting to SAVE AMERICA

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