NC Renegades

🚨BREAKING: HHS Secretary is NOT ABLE to account for the over 400,000 missing children! pic.twitter.com/wa4e68Zj7P

— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) November 20, 2024

Permanent Washington decides nuclear war is preferable to Donald Trump. Glenn Greenwald on the nihilism of our ruling class.

(0:00) Permanent Washington Dangerously Misunderstands Vladimir Putin
(23:06) We Are on the Verge of Nuclear War
(28:11) The Concerted Effort to Control… pic.twitter.com/GOJDslU23W

— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) November 20, 2024

🚨 BREAKING: Scott Presler just told Bucks County, PA commissioners who tried to steal the Senate election that he is gunning for their seats right to their faces.

"I have a message: peacefully, we are COMING for your seat in 2027, if you don't resign TODAY. I am coming for your… pic.twitter.com/bfQRj7hFBP

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 20, 2024

This needs to happen across North Carolina also starting with New Hanover County.

JUST IN: Biden administration tells Ukraine they can keep $4.65B they were supposed to pay back to the U.S. – Congressman Rosendale pic.twitter.com/rXniFtZpjG

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 20, 2024

Chinese social media erupted over an AI video of Elon Musk in Ming dynasty attire, explaining bureaucracy and how he intends to get rid of it with the Department of Government Efficiency. Incredible.
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— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) November 20, 2024

Me tomorrow … WW3 pic.twitter.com/5i5V3qSKbM

— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) November 20, 2024

JUST IN: 🇷🇺🇺🇸 Russian President Putin is open to discussing a ceasefire with Ukraine if negotiations are led by US President-elect Donald Trump.

Putin has ruled out any significant territorial concessions and demands that Ukraine abandon its NATO membership ambitions. pic.twitter.com/nYvnVPCXJT

— BRICS News (@BRICSinfo) November 20, 2024

Washington appears fully aware it has poked the Russian bear, after President Biden greenlighted Ukraine striking Russian territory with long-range missiles.

US officials have warned Wednesday that “potential significant air attack” on Kiev is likely coming, and have announced the closure of the US Embassy in the capital “out of an abundance of caution”. This follows immediately on the heels of Ukrainian forces having struck an arms depot inside Russia with U.S.-supplied weapons, specifically the Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS), on Tuesday.

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The United States vetoed a U.N. resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire in the war in Gaza on Wednesday because it is not linked to an immediate release of hostages taken captive by Hamas in Israel in October 2023.

The U.N. Security Council voted 14-1 in favor of the resolution sponsored by the 10 elected members on the 15-member council, but it was not adopted because of the U.S. veto.

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Israel, fortified by bombs and funding from the Biden administration, is escalating the forced evacuation of hundreds of thousands from the north of Gaza to the south, amid fierce bombing and the deprivation of food and water for those who stay behind. This is continuing amid marches and other demonstrations sponsored by the religious right in Israel whose leadership also is calling for north Gaza to be turned over to Israeli settlers. What was a worrisome rumor in Gaza more and more seems like a reality.

Control over all of Gaza and the West Bank is the core demand of the religious right in Israel that now dominates the government. I was told this week by a well-informed Washington official that the Israeli leadership will formally annex the West Bank in the very near future—perhaps in two weeks—in the hope that the decisive step will end, once and for all, any talk of a two-state solution and will convince some in the skeptical Arab world to reconsider financing the planned reconstruction of Gaza. Arab communities in the West Bank have been under increasingly violent pressure from Israeli police and armed settler attacks have become a sad staple of life.

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🇬🇧🇺🇦🇷🇺‼️🚨 ESCALATION CONTINUES: British Storm Shadow missiles hit Kursk region!

It was reported that 12 Storm shadow missiles in the Maryino area were shot down.

Whenever the claim of 12 Downey is true, I can’t judge.

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— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) November 20, 2024

WOW.

This is a chart of Target's stock price, $TGT, this morning, one of America's largest retailers.

Even after reducing prices on thousands of items, the company just posted its LARGEST earnings miss in 2 years.

Did Target just confirm a retail recession?

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— The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) November 20, 2024

Target is the retail poster child for DEI. I would not set foot in a Target.

A lame duck president just started a hot war with the world’s most dangerous country. All of us are very close to being killed. Yet somehow the Republican Speaker of the House hasn’t even mentioned it, in public or in leadership meetings. What is going on? https://t.co/91Hx4wohVt

— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) November 20, 2024

DEFENSE PAPER: TAMING THE WARFARE STATE

The United States is sailing through turbulent waters: the post-Cold War unipolar moment has passed, and the 21st-century geopolitical landscape is shaped by sweeping social, political, and technological change. Our current defense policy, a relic from a bygone era, is an expensive and ill-fitting suit that no longer serves its purpose. The fiscal storm is upon us, and profound changes are needed to right the ship.

The Defense Elephant in the Room

The realization that the United States is in fiscal free fall is beginning to sink in. An economic crisis looms, one that bailouts and quantitative easing cannot stop. Regardless of the circumstances, profound changes in defense structure, leadership, and thinking are needed. These changes will inevitably evoke strong responses from Capitol Hill and the defense industry.

The incoming President has three choices:

Find them here …