It has long been said that the first casualty of war is truth.
I believe that is the case on several matters now that the Slidin' Biden administration has created and spent billions on the proxy war in Ukraine, and is now neck deep in the conflict between Israel and Gaza.
For starters, let's review this story about Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin suddenly having to go to hospital n Jan 1 - without letting anyone know he was going AWOL.
Via an article in the Epoch Times, the Pentagon would have us believe that ...
"Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was released from the hospital on Jan. 15, according to military officials. Mr. Austin, 70, will continue his recovery at home and work remotely, the U.S. Department of Defense said in a statement." (Source)
Now compare that to this...
"The White Hat coalition has confirmed that the criminal Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was killed in Ukraine on January 3 by a Russian cruise missile strike that annihilated a command post where Austin and a high-ranking Ukrainian military commander, Lieutenant General Valerii Zaluzhnyi, were scheming to overthrow Vladimir Putin, a source in GeneralEric M. Smith’s office told Real Raw News." (Source)
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My left eye might be wonky, but I'm nowhere near blind when it comes to years of experience reporting on official statements and talking heads.
An official statement is carefully preplanned, worded, and disseminated - often many days after an event - and the reporter has no option but to report what he has been given, whether he believes it or not.
That's why you see attributions, such "according to" and "released in a statement."
The reporter is saying, as clearly as possible, that you should decide for yourself whether to accept it without question, or draw your own conclusions - and even, perhaps, do your own research (God forbid!).
And that's why, having seen some gaping holes in the first reports about Austin disappearing to hospital - which usually makes instant headlines - I did my own research and now favor the story that Austin is dead.
Now, when it comes to the US and UK retaliating against the Houthis in Yemen, there's something fishy about that too.
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First off, we had the news about the Houthi lobbing missiles at commercial shipping, saying they were doing so in support of Gaza's Palestinians to ensure no ships reached Israel.
What I didn't know then was that it was the US that set up the Houthis in Yemen way back when. Shades of yesteryear...didn't America (via the CIA) set up the Taliban, or was it Al Qaeda, in Afghanistan to fight the Russians? Same thing goes for Hamas in Gaza.
Never mind. The Houthis have now been declared, by America, to be a Terrorist organisation.
At some recent point, we were told that a US warship had shot down a missile that was fired by the Houthis from Yemen. They had moved from attacking commercial shipping and took a shot at one of America's navy vessels.
Okay. One missile was shot down.
What we were not told by the US administration was that the Houthi were speaking on BBC world news saying one of their missiles had hit a US warship (I heard that broadcast) at the very time we were being told a missile had been shot down.
What if both stories are true. America did shoot down a missile, and the Houthis did hit a navy vessel, but both sides are leaving out certain critical pieces of information in their public revelations?
In war, that's the name of the game.
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The next thing, when it comes to truth being a casualty, is that there are two versions of an incident involving Navy SEALS and what is said to be a vessel carrying Iranian weapons to Yemen.
Caveat - Maybe I'm putting two things together that are not an exact fit. However, the US story is that....
U.S. Central Command revealed Tuesday that the U.S. Navy seized control of a ship last Thursday that was illegally transporting “advanced conventional weapons” from Iran to Houthi terrorists in Yemen.
Central Command released a statement Tuesday explaining that U.S. Navy SEALs completed a “complex boarding” of the dhow vessel in international waters off the coast of Somalia and successfully seized Iranian cruise missile and ballistic missile components. Read More
But once again, there's an alternate possibility.
One Navy SEAL died , and a second is MIA after a CENTCOM-approved operation to board a vessel allegedly seized by Iranian militants off the coast of Somalia/Yemen went catastrophically wrong, a CENTCOM source and White Hat speaking under condition of anonymity told Real Raw News. Read More
Here, I must admit that I visited the Real Raw News website many times over many months before choosing to use any of links to the site. That does not mean I endorse or totally agree with everything there. However, it is an information source, and the majority of the articles suggest that something really is going on at Gitmo and other bases by way of military tribunals and arrests of Black Hat / Cabal individuals.
Oprah Winfrfey (child trafficker extraordinaire in my opinion) would be a case in point - but she's just one of many. I'll come back to that, and the retaliation against the Houthis by a joint US/UK bombardment.
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One Politician Stands Upright - Rand Paul
Late last week President Biden started a new US war on the tiny country of Yemen. US warships and fighter jets launched more than a hundred missiles at the country in a massive escalation that the Administration bizarrely claimed would “de-escalate” tensions in the Red Sea.
Taking the US to war without a Congressional declaration of war is a grave crime against the Constitution. Not only did Biden show no interest in coming to Congress for a war declaration, he didn’t even ask for authorization. Together with Washington’s reliable junior partner in war, the UK, Biden attacked Yemen. It seems the US Administration consulted more with the UK government than with the US Congress on the attacks.
But that’s not really the worst part. Far from taking action against this illegal move by an out-of-control president, Congress as a body couldn’t even see fit to criticize the Administration. On the contrary, Congressional leadership in both bodies actually applauded President Biden for brazenly violating US law!
House Speaker Mike Johnson not only praised the illegal move, he urged the President to go further and confront Iran. He said, “This action by U.S. and British forces is long overdue, and we must hope these operations indicate a true shift in the Biden Administration’s approach to Iran and its proxies that are engaging in such evil and wreaking such havoc.”
To their credit, several Members of Biden’s own party joined with a handful of Republican colleagues to denounce a US president taking the country to war without the authority to do so. California Rep. Ro Khanna was one of the first Democrats to criticize Biden’s warmaking, stating, “The President’s strikes in Yemen are unconstitutional. For over a month, he consulted an international coalition to plan them, but never came to Congress to seek authorization as required by Article I of the Constitution.”
The Framers of the Constitution gave war-making power to Congress because they understood that leaving such power in the hands of one person was a recipe for disaster. The role of the president is to make the case for a war declaration. Congress deliberates and either authorizes or refuses the proposed action.
Washington has obviously not learned the lessons of Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and all the other failed US interventions over the past 20 years. Why do we keep losing wars? Because we do not go into wars according to the US Constitution.
This war will be no different.
The Houthis in Yemen withstood years of attacks from the Saudis using the latest US weaponry and came out on top. To this point they have not been targeting US vessels in the Red Sea, but only ships heading to or from Israeli ports. They are doing so in opposition to Israel’s destruction of Gaza.
In short, it was never our war.
But now, with this attack, Biden has made it our war.
So we are left with the strange and sad spectacle of Congress asleep at the wheel as a Defense Secretary launches military strikes from his hospital bed in the service of a president clearly not in his prime.
All this in pursuit of a policy that makes no sense and is leading us closer to a major war in the Middle East that will only harm, not serve, the US national interest.
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If I were CIC (which Biden is not - so who else comes to mind?) - I'm sure I would have authorised the strike, in conjunction with the UK Air Force. And perhaps this is what happened.
As U.K. warships sortied planes and fired cruise missiles at Houthi-controlled sites in Yemen Thursday, American F/A-18s sat pilotless on flight decks, and cruise missiles were dormant in vertical launch tubes—even though Kamala Harris and Deputy Defense Secretary Hicks had ordered the Navy’s 5th Fleet to join in the assault. (Read More).
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"Charged with treason, accessory to mass murder, conspiracy to influence an election outcome, aiding and abetting the enemy, and other high crimes and misdemeanors, talk show host Oprah Winfrey has been an inmate at Guantanamo Bay since early December, a source at GITMO told Real Raw News."
She's said to have been arrested, desperately referred to a document given her by Obama which purportedly ensured her "above the law" status - and was replaced with a lookalike who weighs a couple of hundred pounds less (or maybe I exagerrate the weight thing). Read More
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I think I should call this the piece de resistance.
First, as one of my teachers has said, "the only real truth is personal experience."
Everything else is just information - and information is open to argument, conjecture, belief or disbelief.
We tend to believe that our "feelings" about information are the ultimate judge of whether it is true or not.
But what makes a feeling - an emotional reaction - a reliable arbiter?
You might take time to ponder that - or not.
Meantime, if you've read this far, the next step is time out.
Take a moment to play a short video, and you'll be on the same page as I am, which is - did some ET race come to this planet, start crossbreeding with humans, and now occupies positions of authority, or celebrity, behind a physical mask of authenticity?
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Is This True? Who, Or What, Is Under The Masks?
