Kunte Kinte spoke Mandinko

Episode 7 Niger Congo: Biggest Language Family in Africa Part II

Language Families of the World

Dr John McWhorter

Film Review

In McWhorter’s second lecture on the Niger-Congo family of languages, he focuses on on the wide variety of subfamilies. Unlike English and Persian, which underwent simplification after large numbers of adult speakers were forced to learn them (following conquest) – all Niger-Congo subfamilies retain their original complexity and are extremely difficult to learn.

• Ijaw: spoken on the west coast of Nigeria is atypical of Niger-Congo languages in that it has no genders and places verbs at the end of the sentence. McWhorter hypothesizes that Ijaw was most likely Nigeria’s indigenous language, replaced by more modern Niger-Congo languages when the region was overwhelmed by Niger-Congo speakers.
• Fulu:  (part of the Atlantic subfamily of Niger-Congo) spoken in Senegal. It has 20 genders (noun classes), which are designated by suffixes.
• Edo: (spoken in Benin) uses tones (like Chinese) to designate tense.Bambara, spoken in West Africa, uses tones in place of a definite/indefinite article (the/a).
• Twi: (spoken in southern and central Ghana) uses tones to different between identical words with totally different meanings.
• Yoruba and Fangbe: (spoken in Nigeria) both use tones, while Fangbe uses reduplication.*
• Ibo and Hausa: (also spoken in Nigeria) don’t use tones.
• Manding: subfamily of languages spoken in Burkina Faso, Sengal, Guinea-Bisseau, Sierra Leone, Mali, Liberia, Ivory Coast and Gambia. The best known Manding language is Mandinka, spoken in Gambia. Kunte Kinte, in Alex Haley’s fictional novel Roots, spoke Mandinka.

*A widespread linguistic process in which a part or an exact copy of a word is repeated to alter meaning,

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Fyodor Lukyanov

The speed of his cabinet nomination announcements tells us that the Republican president-elect has a plan

US President-elect Donald Trump has moved quickly to form his proposed new administration. His team is better prepared to take power than it was in 2016 – when neither the candidate himself nor the vast majority of his supporters believed he could win.

It’s too early to draw far-reaching conclusions, but in general, the composition of the preferred government reflects the ideological and political coalition that has gathered around the president-elect. From the outside, it may look motley, but so far it is all in line with Trump’s views.

Contrary to the perception actively propagated by Trump’s opponents, he is not an unpredictable and inconsistent eccentric. More precisely, we should separate his character and mannerisms, which are flighty, from his overall worldview. The latter has not changed, not only in the years since Trump entered big politics, but more generally in his public life since the 1980s. It suffices to look through the old interviews of the famed tycoon to see this: ‘Communism (in the broadest sense) is evil’, ‘the allies must pay up’, ‘the American leadership does not know how to make favorable deals but I do’, and so on.

Trump’s personal qualities are important. But more importantly, in a somewhat cartoonish way, he embodies a set of classic Republican notions. America is at the center of the universe. However, not as a hegemon that rules everything, but simply as the best and most powerful country. It must be the strongest, including (or especially) militarily, in order to advance its interests wherever and whenever it needs to. Essentially, there is no need for Washington to get directly involved in world affairs at all.

Profit is an absolute imperative for the future president (he is a businessman), and this does not contradict conservative ideals. America is a country built on the spirit of enterprise. Hence his rejection of over-regulation and his general suspicion of the extensive powers of the bureaucracy. In this, Trump joins forces with the equally flamboyant libertarian Elon Musk, who promises to rid the state of a hodgepodge of bureaucrats.

Musk himself is unlikely to be hanging around the president’s office for long, but politicians who think along these lines are likely to be there.

An important difference between the new Trump cohort and traditional Republicans is a significantly lower degree of ideologization of politics in general and international politics in particular. Domestically, the rejection of an aggressive agenda in the spirit of the Woke movement and the imposition of the cult of minorities (which the Republicans call ‘Marxism’ and ‘communism’) plays an important role. It’s about imposition, because the human right to any lifestyle is not in itself questioned by conservatives. For example, key figures around Trump – ardent supporter and former ambassador to Germany Ric Grenell and billionaire Peter Thiel – are married to men.

In foreign policy, the conceptual difference is that Trump and his entourage do not believe, as the Biden White House does, that at the core of international relations is the struggle of democracies against autocracies. This does not mean ideological neutrality. The idea of the ‘free world’ and criticism of ‘communism’ (in which they include China, Cuba, Venezuela, and by inertia, Russia) plays an important role in the thinking of many Republicans. But the defining factor is something else – intolerance of those who for various reasons do not accept American supremacy.

Trump’s choice for national security adviser, Michael Waltz, for example, speaks negatively and disparagingly of Russia, but not in terms of a need to be ‘re-educated’, but because it interferes with America. Marco Rubio, who is being considered for secretary of state, does not oppose regime change in his ancestral homeland of Cuba, but is otherwise not a militant supporter of American intervention anywhere.

The undoubted priority of the Trumpists and those who have joined them is to support Israel and confront its opponents, first and foremost Iran. Last year, Elise Stefanik, the likely US ambassador to the UN, publicly shamed the presidents of leading American universities in Congress for alleged anti-Semitism. It is worth remembering that the only really effective use of force in Trump’s first term was the assassination of General Qassem Soleimani, the head of the special forces of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Trump is not a warrior. Threats, pressure, violent demonstrations – yes. A large-scale armed campaign and mass bloodshed – why? Perhaps because of the peculiarities of relations with China, which is clearly seen as the number one rival. Not in a military sense, but rather in the political and economic sphere, so any ‘war’ with it (forcing it to accept terms favorable to America) should be cold and ruthless. This also applies in part to Russia, though the situation is very different. All of this is neither good nor bad for Moscow. Or to put it another way, it’s both good and bad. But the main thing is that it is not the way it has been up to now.

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Via https://www.rt.com/news/607715-this-time-trump-means-business/

By Bradley Greer

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has vowed he will use all the power necessary under the new Trump administration to jail Bill Gates, Dr. Antony Fauci, and Big Pharma executives who worked with media to censor the truth behind the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines.

The pharmaceutical elite, who thought that election fraud would carry Kamala Harris over the finish line, are now facing being exposed for perpetrating the biggest lie in U.S. history following Donald Trump’s landslide presidential victory on Tuesday.

According to Trump insiders, the new administration is already preparing to send the Pharma cartel to jail for destroying the lives of millions of Americans.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. discovered undeniable evidence that the COVID-19 virus and the mRNA vaccine rollout were nothing more than a bioweapon used to create more Big Pharma customers and reduce the population.

This was also helped by Bill Gates, who pumped billions of dollars into the production of warp-speed vaccines.

Gates, who recently funnelled $50 million to the Kamala Harris‘s campaign in a desperate attempt to avoid standing trial in the U.S., now has nowhere left to run.

Last month, RFK Jr said: “[Bill Gates] has been indicted in the Netherlands for lying to the public about the COVID-19 vaccine. And he’s going to have to go to trial.”

“You think that he [Gates] wants to go to trial here in the United States of America?” Kennedy asked.

“[Do] you think maybe that’s one of the reasons he chose to give $50 million to Kamala Harris?”

A brave judge in the Netherlands ordered Gates to stand trial, ending his reign of terror.

Gates argued the judge had no jurisdiction over him; however, the judge still issued a ruling.

In August, a federal also judge ruled that RFK could sue the Biden administration for pressuring social media companies to censor COVID-19 vaccine information.

“The Court finds that Kennedy is likely to succeed on his claim that suppression of content posted was caused by actions of Government Defendants, and there is a substantial risk that he will suffer similar injury in the near future,” U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty in Louisiana declared in a ruling.

The lawsuit details how the government pressured social media giants to censor anyone who dared to question the official narrative about COVID-19 vaccines.

“Judge Terry Doughty carefully and clearly analyzed the law and facts and applied the framework from the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Murthy v. Missouri regarding standing,” CHD general counsel Kim Rosenberg said after the ruling, referring to a similar case brought against the government.

“The court also firmly found in plaintiffs’ favor that plaintiffs had not waived — and indeed had affirmatively raised — direct censorship claims in addition to listener claims.”

Meanwhile, Fauci is also trying to get away with his depraved crimes against humanity.

Besides pushing the deadly vaccine, Fauci also pressured people infected with AIDS to take his deadly drug AZT, resulting in the deaths of over 300,000 people.

RFK, who will be soon appointed Secretary of Health under President Donald Trump, also vowed to fire the entire National Institute of Health ‭(NIH) team and jail Fauci.

During a recent speech, Kennedy said Trump would “make America healthy again” and that he would be a president “who is going to protect us against totalitarianism.”

Kennedy also vowed to stop the NIH from studying infectious diseases and moved to study chronic diseases like diabetes, obesity, and cancer.

“I’m going to say to NIH scientists, God bless you all,” Kennedy said.

“Thank you for public service. We’re going to give infectious disease a break for about eight years.”

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Via https://disswire.com/rfk-jr-promises-bill-gates-and-fauci-will-be-jailed-under-new-trump-administration/

Ben Bartree

Heavens to Betsy!

Who could have guessed that legacy media, Great Respecter of Democracy™, might not take well to the cabinet appointments of the man who won a landslide mandate from the people?

Virtually every article on this topic in legacy media follows the same formula:

·       RFK Jr. is a dangerous vaccine denialist

·       Some NGO asshole, probably getting paid by Bill Gates or similar interests, is worried the babies might not get all 72 of their CDC-recommended injections straight out of the womb

·       Another random community college professor, excited to be quoted by CNN (I made it, Mom!) on such a grave matter of import, is also very concerned

·       In addition to his anti-vaxx wrongthink, RFK Jr. bitterly clings to wild ideas like toxic industrial waste products dumped into the water supply with no informed consent from the public might not be ideal policy

·       He also once chopped a whale’s head off

None of this lazy smearing of their political opponents worked to keep Trump out of office — if anything, it had the opposite effect of making him more sympathetic because 90% of the public at this point hates legacy media and knows they lie — why would it work now?

But let’s not intervene on behalf of the corporate media mid-suicide.

Instead, let’s cheer as they condemn themselves further to irrelevancy.

Via The Guardian (emphasis added):

“Donald Trump’s nomination of Robert F Kennedy Jr as US secretary of health and human services has prompted widespread criticisms towards Kennedy, an anti-vaccine activist who has embraced a slew of other debunked health-related conspiracy theories…

In response to Kennedy’s nomination, Public Citizen, a progressive nonprofit organization focusing on consumer advocacy, said: “Robert F Kennedy Jr is a clear and present danger to the nation’s health. He shouldn’t be allowed in the building at the department of health and human services (HHS), let alone be placed in charge of the nation’s public health agency.”…

Apu Akkad, an infectious disease physician at the University of Southern California, called the announcement a “scary day for public health”.”

If you cut through the BS, eventually you get to the real fear, which is that Pfizer stock might not be as lucrative as it was when the Brandon entity’s handlers were forcing everyone in the country to submit to their injections passed through the regulatory process via fraud and pseudoscience.

Via CNN (emphasis added):

“Shares of prominent vaccine makers plunged Thursday after President-elect Donald Trump announced his pick of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be the next secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.

An hour before the market closed Thursday, as news reports of Trump’s choice began trickling out, Covid-19 vaccine maker Moderna dipped as much as 6%, and Pfizer fell almost 2%. Novavax, which created a protein-based Covid-19 vaccine, fell almost 6%.

Kennedy has been one of the country’s most prominent anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists for years and has frequently spread falsehoods about the safety and efficacy of vaccines. Last week, Kennedy said he would “immediately” begin studying vaccine safety and efficacy but promised to not “take vaccines away from anybody.”

Other vaccine-related companies also felt the fallout. German company BioNTech closed 7% lower, and British GSK fell 2%. US vaccine companies have already been struggling, thanks to lessened demand since the peak of the pandemic. Over the past year, Pfizer stock has dipped 11%, and Moderna stock has plunged 46%.”

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Via https://armageddonprose.substack.com/p/corporate-media-angst-stricken-over

(Natural News)—In the late-night hours of November 6 while most of the country was asleep, a “huge and improbable Dem vote dump,” to quote the “Shylock Holmes” (@shylockh) X / Twitter account that dropped the news, resulted in the Wisconsin Senate race being handed to Democrat Tammy Baldwin instead of Republican Eric Hovde.

Two counties in particular, Dane and Winnebago, saw oddly improved Democratic vote counts at numerous points during the count. Every time the GOP started to pull ahead in the race, the Democrat vote spikes became observably more “extreme” to offset it.

Also, in Milwaukee at 3:31am, there was a single count update of 109,000 votes, 83 percent of which favored Democrats. That vote count dump ultimately flipped the outcome of the race from Hovde to Baldwin.

“This vote batch is improbable on several dimensions,” Shylock Holmes tweeted.

1.  It is late at night
2. It differs from the 67% Dem vote share beforehand
3. It is 25% of all Senate votes cast in Milwaukee
4. It is a considerable fraction (3.2%) of votes in the overall race
5. The race was close beforehand (49.1% Dem vote share)
6. It flipped the outcome of the race”

Rigging the vote to “win”

As you can see from the above chart, the red and blue spikes from the 3:31am vote count dump looks oddly similar to the one that was widely published after the contentious 2020 election, which was similarly rigged to favor certain candidates.

There were no other areas in Wisconsin where any similar types of vote count dumps occurred that resulted in the race being flipped. Clearly something is amiss.

“While each property has innocent explanations, the combination is highly unlikely,” Shylock Holmes says.

“Only 8 updates are as extreme on the first 5 traits (including the Milwaukee President race). The Milwaukee Senate is the only update out of 46,489 that also flipped the outcome of the race.”

To clarify this point further, imagine flipping a coin 24 times and getting heads 22 of those 24 times. Also imagine along with that having the coin flip to heads 14 times in a row. This is how the vote count for the Wisconsin Senate race went in Milwaukee on Election Day.

Even with the vote count dump, the GOP ended up pulling ahead in the national race, at least, bringing a victory for Donald Trump in the traditionally “blue” state. For Hovde, though, his seat will now be held by Baldwin due to the fiasco.

The X / Twitter thread explains much more in-depth how all of the calculations were made to determine that things simply do not add up in Milwaukee. Take a look at it if heavy math interests you.

“I want to know what it will take for the Republican Party to purchase ballot images, cast vote records, absentee records, and voter registration lists in Wisconsin,” wrote commenter “Dave” from Dave’s Substack, suggesting an idea as to how this all might be remedied with proactive efforts such as these.

“There are ways to do a deeper investigation into an anomaly like this, but it requires resources. People like you and me don’t have those resources, but the Republican Party does.”

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Via https://americafirstreport.com/evidence-points-to-voter-fraud-in-2024-wisconsin-senate-race/

Modernity

CNN freaked out over President-elect Donald Trump making RFK Jr. Secretary of Health and Human Services, with Jake Tapper accusing Kennedy of engaging in “quackery”.

Announcing Kennedy would head up the post on Truth Social, Trump asserted that it was a victory for Americans who have been “crushed by the industrial food complex and drug companies.”

Trump added that Kennedy “will restore these Agencies to the traditions of Gold Standard Scientific Research, and beacons of Transparency, to end the Chronic Disease epidemic, and to Make America Great and Healthy Again!”

This caused heads to explode at CNN, with Tapper raging that RFK was “somebody who has been pushing quackery, who has been pushing lies, who has been pushing conspiracy theories.”

CNN’s resident regime mouthpiece Sanjay Gupta claimed that almost the entire medical community was in “lock step” in the belief that RFK would be a “horror” appointment.

Gupta said one source told him, “I can’t think of any single individual who would be more damaging to public health than RFK.”

The neurosurgeon then expressed his concern that Kennedy would essentially be in control of the CDC, the FDA, and the NIH.

“He’s talked about basically wanting to strip funding for infectious diseases overall,” said Gupta, referring to the COVID pandemic and future infectious diseases.

Gupta then perhaps unintentionally revealed why RFK would actually be a good appointment, acknowledging, “We are not a very health country, we spend four and a half trillion dollars on health care and we have some of the worst outcomes in the developed world.”

The doctor asserted that Kennedy was pushing “false views” about health care, including the claim that vaccines are linked to autism, before dubiously claiming that the unvaccinated are actually at higher risk of developing autism.

RFK Jr. has vowed to “make America healthy again,” and it appears as though Big Pharma and the medical establishment are utterly terrified of Kennedy pursuing that goal.

Kennedy would also undoubtedly launch inquiries into the COVID vaccine and gain of function research, another issue that the medical establishment and people like Dr. Anthony Fauci are loathe to see investigated.

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Via https://modernity.news/2024/11/15/cnn-freaks-out-over-trump-making-rfk-jr-hhs-chief/

By Steven Richards

In Congress, Donald Trump’s Attorney General pick Matt Gaetz was at the forefront in challenging the Justice Department and was a staunch defender of the former president, hinting at the role the firebrand could play in remaking the troubled federal agency if he is confirmed.

Gaetz rose to prominence defending then-President Trump and bashing the Justice Department during the Russia collusion investigation into the Trump campaign, frequently appearing on television and using his role on key committees to challenge the agency, which pushed the long-debunked “Russian conspiracy” narrative.

After Trump’s first term ended, the four-term congressman challenged the department on its handling of Hunter Biden probes and the investigation into the Trump assassination attempts.

President-elect Trump undoubtedly nominated Gaetz for these reasons, seeing him as an important defender and loyal ally to head an agency he felt was undermining him at every turn in his first term.

But, Gaetz will still likely face a tough confirmation battle and his nomination has drawn skepticism from Senate Republicans who will be vital to confirming him to the role.

When spurious allegations that the Trump campaign had colluded with Russia were being pushed by Capitol Hill Democrats, Donald Trump’s first attorney general, former Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions, angered the president when he recused himself and allowed the department to appoint a special counsel to investigate the allegations.

Failure to verify

Rep. Matt Gaetz, along with Reps. Jim Jordan and Devin Nunes became the chief critics of the investigation and defenders are President Trump and his administration.

Throughout the investigation, he demanded special counsel Robert Mueller release any evidence of collusion obtained during his secretive investigation. When the final report came showing the probe found no evidence of collusion between Trump and Russia, Gaetz sharply criticized Mueller and pressed him in a hearing for answers about the foundations of his investigation.

Specifically, he criticized Mueller for the apparent bias of his team which pursued shaky leads on Trump but failed to evaluate the veracity of information in the infamous—and now discredited—Steele Dossier.

“Here’s what I am kind of noticing Director Mueller, when people associated with Trump lied, you threw the book at them. When Christopher Steele lied, nothing. So, it seems to be when Glenn Simpson met with Russians, nothing. When the Trump met with the Russians, 3500 words. And maybe the reason there are these discrepancies in what you focused on is because the team was so biased and pledged to the resistance. And pledged to stop Trump,” Gaetz told Mueller at the hearing.

After the Trump Justice Department appointed special prosecutor John Durham to investigate any errors in the Russia investigation, Gaetz criticized him for, in his view, failing to deliver a thorough probe. “For the people like the chairman who put trust in you, I think you let them down. I think you let the country down. You are one of the barriers to the true accountability that we need,” Gaetz told Durham during a hearing.

Congressional Democrats swept into power in 2019 and eventually launched the first impeachment against President Trump alleging he improperly pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to find political dirt on his opponent Joe Biden. Gaetz yet again became a key defender of Trump.

When Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., who led the probe, held secret hearings behind closed doors and out of public view in a SCIF—a facility for hearing classified information—Gaetz rallied a group of House Republicans to rush into the room and disrupt the hearings. The group of representatives complained of the “Soviet style” process of the impeachment. Schiff would later be censured by the House.

Eventually that impeachment effort failed when Senate Republicans voted to acquit the president.

After President Joe Biden took office in 2020, Gaetz continued his criticism against the Department of Justice for what he called unfair treatment of Jan. 6 protestors that entered the Capitol and for stonewalling the Biden impeachment investigation.

Garland’s DOJ fueled “conspiracy theories”

Earlier this year, Gaetz pressed Garland on the several legal cases against Trump, asking the attorney general to provide communications between his office and local authorities that had charged Trump. Specifically, Congress sought any communications between Garland’s DOJ and either Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg or Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.

Gaetz argued that any obstruction of the request would fuel the very “conspiracy theory” Garland sought to discount: that the Biden administration had coordinated with local prosecutors in the Trump cases. “The offices you’re referring to are independent offices of state—” Garland attempted to answer.

“You come in here, and you lodge this attack that it’s a conspiracy theory that there’s coordinated lawfare against Trump. And then we say, ‘Fine, just give us the documents. Give us the correspondents, and then if it’s a conspiracy theory that will be evidence,’” Gaetz interjected.  “But when you say, ‘Well, we’ll take your request, and then we’ll sort of work it through the DOJ’s accommodation process, then you’re actually advancing the very dangerous conspiracy theory that you’re concerned about,’” he continued.

Gaetz’s critical history with the Justice Department leaves little room for doubt that the now-former representative would seek to overhaul the agency and pursue the “retribution” at both the DOJ and FBI that Donald Trump promised on the campaign trial.

“Fully committed”

The choice has reportedly rattled DOJ officials, especially those involved in the prosecutions against Trump, which have wound down at the federal level as the former president prepares to take office again in January.

One thing that Gaetz is almost certain to do is be fully committed to implementing any Trump policies at the department, a mission that stands in contrast to his Republican successors, which acted in more independent ways from their chief executive.

Close Trump ally and transition team member Mark Paoletta said that rank-and-file DOJ lawyers should be “fully committed to implementing President Trump’s policies or they should leave or be fired” in a post to X.

Paoletta also warned that the new Trump team would not accept any attempts by federal bureaucrats to thwart the agenda of the incoming administration.

Gaetz appears likely to face a tougher confirmation that other nominees. Several Senate Republicans, necessary to confirm the former representative, have expressed doubt about Gaetz’s ability to achieve the required support in the chamber. Losing the support of more than three GOP senators would doom any one of Trump’s nominees.

“It’s simply that Matt Gaetz has a very long, steep hill to get across the finish line,” said Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.C. “And it will require the spending of a lot of capital, and you just have to ask: if you could get him across the finish line, was it worth the cost?”

“It’s going to be very difficult,” said Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla.

Some Senators have expressed concerns about the yet-unknown findings of a House Ethics Committee probe into Gaetz said to involve sexual misconduct and illegal drug use allegations. Gaetz has vehemently denied all of allegations that have been reported publicly. Now that Gaetz has resigned from the House, the committee no longer has jurisdiction to to continue the probe.

The Chairman of the Committee, Rep. Michael Guest, R-Miss., said Thursday that the findings of the report would remain confidential. Still, some Senators say they want to see the ethics report before voting on whether or not to confirm Gaetz.

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Tex., said he “absolutely” wanted to see the findings. Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Thom Tillis, R-N.C., both told NBC News that they believe the findings will come out one way or another and have bearing on the confirmation process.

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Via https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/verbal-clashes-deep-state-show-gaetz-would-bring-trump-loyalty-doj-role

By Ekaterina Blinova – Sputnik – 15.11.2024

President-elect Donald Trump nominated the former Democratic congresswoman and a 21-year army reserve veteran to oversee the bewildering array of 18 US spy agencies in his incoming administration.

“A foreign policy and national security appointment that has created considerable dissent is that of Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence [DNI],” Philip Giraldi, a former CIA operations officer with experience in Europe and the Middle East, told Sputnik.

The CIA veteran said much of the dissent comes from inside the ‘intelligence community’, including active officers and former staff of organizations like the CIA and NSA.

Objections to Gabbard’s nomination have focused on her lack of intelligence experience, claiming she will “be unable to perceive problems among an unruly 18-member intelligence community,” the pundit said.

But Giraldi countered that she was “smart, experienced and capable enough to gather her own staff around her that will guide her way through the shoals of Washington DC.”
“To my mind, she is an excellent choice, coming from outside of the intelligence community ‘club,’ and could be an effective and ethical DNI,” he added.

The former CIA officer noted that Gabbard is viewed as a “peace candidate” for her opposition to endless overseas wars, the US military occupation of parts of Syria and the demonization of China. But she is also known for her support for Israel, currently waging a war against the Palestinian territory of Gaza.

“It is likely that Trump appointed her to shake up the intel community, which is regarded by many as the black heart of the deep state,” Giraldi said. “She will, of course, be both helped and handicapped by being provided with plenty of ‘direction’ by a president who is fundamentally ignorant of foreign policy and national security issues.”

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Via https://sputnikglobe.com/20241115/tulsi-gabbard-right-pick-to-shake-up-us-spy-agiencies–cia-veteran-1120898424.html