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The Duran: Episode 961
France's Marine Le Pen Acquitted in Case Over Violating Hate Speech Laws
https://sputniknews.com/europe/202105041082797685-frances-marine-le-pen-acquitted-in-case-over-violating-hate-speech-laws/

Larry Johnson:

PiS stands accused of capturing the courts, ignoring rulings and stacking institutions with loyalists. The cure prescribed is to purge the courts, ignore rulings and install the right loyalists. The sin becomes a sacrament when the right people commit it.
Poland is just the case where the patient is thrashing hardest. Look at the rest of the ward and the same pathology shows up everywhere: elections treated as advisory, with the final say reserved for institutions nobody voted for. Romania... France... Germany... Hungary... Poland...
Put the cases side by side and the illness has a clear set of symptoms. Courts annul or narrow the choices on the ballot. Intelligence services rate which parties are fit to compete. Brussels pays for good behavior, defined as the right government. All of it is done in the name of protecting democracy from the people who vote in it.
The irony is hard to miss. The project was sold as protecting democracy from the barbarians at the gate. What it ...

Hate instead of knowledge:
Retired Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, who served as an adviser to President Trump, has been the Director, Concept Development and Experimentation (later renamed Concept Development and Learning), in the Army Capabilities Integration Center (ARCIC) at Fort Monroe, Virginia, part of U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command for almost a decade. Yet he can't explain correctly what the Mother of All Bombs is or where it was first used (it was NOT in Iran). Nor does he realize that MOAB = Massive Ordnance Air Blast (GBU-43/B) can NOT be effective in bombing mountains. How did he become a Lt. Gen.?