[JustTheNews] Documentary leans on cell phone geotracking data and security camera video to expose hundreds of "mules" who stuffed ballot boxes at odd hours of the day in critical swing states in 2020.
Dinesh D'Souza didn't take any chances with his new documentary, "2000 Mules."
The conservative filmmaker leaned on free speech-friendly platforms like Rumble and Locals.com to ensure his provocative challenge to election integrity got a fair hearing.
"2000 Mules" may be the most convincing, and explosive, evidence the 2020 Presidential election wasn't as fair as we've been told.
"We are essentially keeping our boat away from the reef of censorship," D'Souza says of his Big Tech strategy. "It's at a high price … this is the most censored topic in America."
"2000 Mules" enjoys a limited theatrical release (May 2, 4) before a virtual premiere May 7. You won't find much about it, though, via D'Souza's Facebook, Twitter or YouTube channels, despite his large followings on each.
"I didn't put the trailer up on Facebook," he says. "If I do it'll be banned." He is hopeful, however, that "2000 Mules" can thrive in a new, freer speech environment on Twitter following its recent purchase by Elon Musk.
Calling Musk's Twitter "a liberated platform" evoking "Eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall," he says, "I feel the excitement."
D'Souza knew any statement, let alone an entire film, questioning the security of the 2020 presidential election triggers Big Tech censors. Even former President Donald Trump's chat touching on the subject with the NELK Boys earned a YouTube ban.
D'Souza's film leans heavily on geotracking data from cell phones and video collected by security cameras to show hundreds of "mules" who stuffed ballot boxes at odd hours of the day in critical swing states during the 2020 election cycle.
These mules traveled from box to box between visits to nonprofit groups in their elaborate journeys in the weeks approaching Election Day. (D'Souza's film doesn't share the names of these groups for legal reasons, he says).
Some "mules" came from states outside the polling places in question. Others visited more than 10 different nonprofits before their work days were done.
They often toiled late at night and took pictures of themselves dropping off fistfuls of ballots, possibly to prove to their benefactors they performed the task in question. Others are shown wearing blue surgical-style gloves while dropping off the envelopes only to dispose of them seconds later.
The Houston-based True the Vote, which formed in 2009, supplied the geotracking data for D'Souza's film. The organization hopes to restore confidence in the U.S. election system, which took a sizable hit after the fallout from Joe Biden's 2020 victory.
D'Souza knows many Americans, especially conservatives, want to move past questions of 2020 election chicanery. He can't help but wonder if the mules in question cost President Trump a second term.
"The ramifications are considerable … if its evidence holds up, we're in uncharted territory," he says, citing accusations of voter fraud in John F. Kennedy's victory over Richard Nixon in 1960 as child's play in comparison.
D'Souza's films are often like conservative op-eds, brimming with rough and tumble charges against the left. "2000 Mules" is different, taking an investigative approach to its subject.
The real-world consequences of the evidentiary trove detailed in the film are unfolding in Georgia, among other swing states, where the State Elections Board and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger are investigating potential illegal ballot trafficking during the 2020 election cycle. Biden won there 49.5%-49.3% in 2020, defeating Trump by fewer than 12,000 votes in the long reliably red Peach State.
D'Souza brings curious baggage to "2000 Mules." Not only are his previous films ("Death of a Nation," "Trump Card") brimming with conservative sharp elbows, President Donald Trump pardoned D'Souza in 2018 for illegally contributing $20,000 to a New York politician.
He wants audiences to put his ideology aside.
"It wouldn't matter if I was an extreme left-winger or moderate," he says. "The proof of the pudding is in the pudding."
The filmmaker admits many questions remain unanswered by "2000 Mules."
"How do we know the mules were paid? Who organized this?" he asks, adding he wasn't able to show money changing hands but that doesn't mean the mules weren't paid for their efforts.
He's also at a loss to explain why the allegedly tainted ballots didn't fuel a blue Democratic wave in 2020. Perhaps, he muses, people weren't comfortable with election chicanery but did the bare minimum required to keep the "fascist" Trump out of the White House.
President Trump has seen "2000 Mules" and gave it his approval, but most Republicans in D.C. haven't screened the movie yet.
"I would be surprised if they didn't hear about it very soon," D'Souza notes.
Following its premieres, the filmmaker says, the movie will shift to digital downloads via SalemNow.com and Locals.com, the latter a free speech hub created by pundit and author Dave Rubin.
D'Souza thinks his critics will cling to the notion that the votes stuffed into all those ballot boxes were ultimately legal, even if the methods behind them look shady.
"They're not going to be able to shut it down," he says of his critics. "It's unstoppable."
D'Souza predicts one significant fallout from "2000 Mules." The canard that the 2020 presidential battle between Joe Biden and Donald Trump was "the most secure election in history will start falling by the wayside," he says.
The outside world observed Egypt losing, along with Syria, Jordan, and all their little friends, but Egypt is a special, magical place.
[AlAhram] War veterans Mohammed Abbas Mansour and Mahmoud Khalaf, who served in the 1973 October War, tell Ahmed Eleiba about the role played by the artillery corps to liberate Sinai and what is needed to protect Egypt
General Mohammed Fawzi, who served as minister of defence after the June 1967 War, wrote in his memoirs: "The War of Attrition [1967-1970] was an urgent necessity for Egypt and the Arabs and its value was demonstrated in the expertise acquired by the leadership, the Office of the Chief-of-Staffs and other agencies which, once they were reorganised on modern scientific bases, began to ready themselves to liberate the territory that had been usurped by force."
Fawzi’s remarks provide the context for General Chief-of-Staff Mohammed Abbas Mansour’s account of the artillery corps’ preparations for the battle to liberate Sinai. He was a lieutenant colonel at the time, and appointed as an artillery commander in 1973.
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Pretty much the same paradigm as Disney executives thinking support for grooming is "popular."
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Well, after the six day war defeat the Egyptians had the character to be honest with themselves and conduct a thorough AAR...and realize and learn from the hard lessons defeat taught them...And they improved dramatically.
We on the other hand, have not done the same after getting our ass handed to us in Afghanistan last year or learning from the whole 9/11 attack. And we are likely not learning from what is happening on the Southern border...where a shadowy asymmetric proxy war is being waged against us by China.
We didn't learn from the Chinese successful proxy war either with our overt virtue signaling proxy war in the Ukraine, where we stupidly announce every bit of tech and aid that we send to the Ukrainians...and the Russians simply wait for it to hit the ground and target the aid with precision long range missile fire...we are led by absolute idiots.
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/\ I have visited and participated in a number of these overseas conflicts or misadventures. Permit me to share my observations if you will.
It is my belief that political strife, conflict, and war are the seed corn of the Military Industrial Complex or MIC. War has become our business, and a vanquished enemy is bad for business. Victory is no longer a component of the equation.
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I always wondered why the Egyptian Army that performed so poorly in 1948, 1956, and 1967 did so well in 1973. They had excuses in 1956, for example, but why did the Egyptians do so well during the period during and immediately following the Canal Crossing and then quickly lapse back into mediocrity thereafter?
Kenneth M. Pollack's Arabs At War: 1948-1991 (2004) in its Egyptian chapter has an intriguing theory. That they did not get better at combined arms warfare and tactics. His supposition is that the Egyptian High Command read the Israeli books on doctrine, marked out the locations of the Israeli units and then the Staff wargamed, wargamed and then wargamed so more. Instead of uniformly upgrading their junior officers skills they instead developed a step-by-step series of instructions to "Move here, do that, and form a defense here against the Israelis that will show up there" all orchestrated like the instructions to a play. Then wargamed it again and again until they had the best plan... This worked great at the beginning and was *cough* "not so great" during the encirclement of the Egyptian Third Army (they Israelis just refused to do the things they were expecting).
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Lots of top commanders, when asked about their greatest victories, said "We got lucky..."
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“ The artillery fire was sustained for 22 minutes, firing 175 rounds a second” .
Today’s math problem…
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The fact that the Egyptian army fought well at the beginning of the war is true, compared to its performance in previous wars, but nevertheless its army in the Sinai was cut off from supplies and forced to surrender, and Egypt was only rescued from complete loss of that army by international
pressure from the USA and USSR. That army was forced to give up all its weapons, if my memory is correct.
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#6 - LOLOLOL
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[Washington Examiner] Storage tanks at a major oil depot in the Russian city of Bryansk exploded early on Monday. Was Ukraine responsible?
Before you answer, consider first that this is only the latest disaster to afflict Russian critical infrastructure near the Ukrainian border. Another oil depot in Belgorod was targeted by a Ukrainian helicopter strike in early April. Prior to that, Russian railway lines near the border were sabotaged. A Russian missile research center and a chemical plant also recently suffered explosions.
These incidents all appear to fit well with Ukraine's military strategy.
Bryansk, 62 miles from the Ukrainian border, is beyond the range of most drone systems in Ukraine's possession. An unconfirmed video from the Bryansk incident indicates the sound of a missile in the terminal attack phase. Considering this noise and Bryansk's relative distance from Ukraine, short-range ballistic missiles may have been responsible. Regardless, the explosion will disrupt energy replenishment efforts for Russian military forces in Ukraine.
The explosion also dilutes Russian President Vladimir Putin's credibility in claiming that his war on Ukraine is not a war, but rather a limited "special military operation." When stuff keeps blowing up in Russian cities, it's hard to convince the residents of said cities that Russia isn't at war.
That takes us to Ukraine's evolving military strategy. With Russia forced to scale back its goals in the conflict, Ukraine has escalated its offensive operations in what's known as the "deep battlespace." This involves the targeting of Russian logistics and command and control units deeper behind the front lines. Employing Western-provided drones and highly mobile small units, Ukraine is degrading and demoralizing Russia's war machine.
It's not a wild leap to expect that Ukraine is now applying these same tactics over the border inside Russia. This is likely a result of the British training the Ukrainian military.
After all, while British military forces are not directly engaged in combat against Russian forces, they have been training Ukrainian forces for years. This includes training by British special forces, which prioritizes deep battlespace operations. Going back to the British Army's 22nd Special Air Service Regiment in North Africa during the Second World War, British Special Forces revel in action deep behind enemy lines. Operating without support and relying on mobility and stealth, the SAS has repeatedly proven that small units can create havoc.
The compromise of a SAS unit during the Gulf War shows that these operations are high-risk. But whether or not the Bryansk incident involved Ukrainian forces on the ground in Russia, it seems clear that other incidents behind Russian lines do involve Ukrainian ground forces.
Havoc is certainly what we're seeing in Russian border areas right now. Ukraine seems to be trying to cut off Russian forces from their logistics trains, while also bringing the war home for Russians who might otherwise be fooled by the fiction of Putin's so-called "special operation."
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The Russians aren't the only ones trying to recapture past glories.
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Read somewhere yesterday, or the day before, that the Klingons have been active in the Ukraine since they declared independence. I have absolutely no use for the Russians, but have to wonder how we might feel if the Russian Federal Security Bureau (FSB) were to set up shop in Jaja California ?
[Mises Wire] The US government today likes to pretend that it is the perennial champion of political independence for countries that were once behind the Iron Curtain. What is often forgotten, however, is that in the days following the fall of the Berlin Wall, Washington opposed independence for Soviet republics like Ukraine and the Baltic states.
In fact, the Bush administration openly supported Mikhail Gorbachev's efforts to hold the Soviet Union together rather than allow the USSR to decentralize into smaller states. The US regime and its supporters in the press took the position that nationalism—not Soviet despotism—was the real problem for the people of Eastern Europe and the Caucasus.
Indeed, in the case of Ukraine, President George H.W. Bush even traveled to Kyiv in 1990 to lecture the Ukrainians about the dangers of seeking independence from Moscow, while decrying the supposed nationalist threat.
Today, nationalism is still a favorite bogeyman among Washington establishment mouthpieces. These outlets routinely opine on the dangers of French nationalism, Hungarian nationalism, and Russian nationalism. One often sees the term nationalism applied in ways designed to make the term distasteful, as in "white nationalism."
When nationalism is convenient for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and its European freeloaders, on the other hand, we are told that nationalism is a force for good. Thus, the US regime and mainstream media generally pretend that Ukrainian nationalism—and even Ukrainian white nationalism—either don't exist or are to be praised.
In 1991, however, the US had not yet decided that it paid to actively promote nationalism—so long as it is anti-Russian nationalism. Thus, in those days, we find the US regime siding with Moscow in efforts to stifle or discourage local nationalist efforts to break with the old Soviet state. The way it played out is an interesting case study in both Bush administration bumbling and in the US's foreign policy before the advent of unipolar American liberal hegemony.
[YouTube] Moscow has begun limiting natural gas supply to Poland and Bulgaria as Russia seeks to increase #energy pressure on Europe. Ostensibly these moves are to encourage European buyers of natural gas to pay their bills in rubles. But Russia has a longer-term goal in mind.
Many private players within Germany, #Austria and #Hungary especially are lobbying their respective governments to allow them to continue doing business with Russia in rubles, hoping to sidestep sanctions.
Why cut gas supplies to #Bulgaria and Poland? Both have older infrastructure linkages to Russia dating back to their status as former members of the Soviet Union. Both also serve as transit states to downstream customers.
#Russia can limit gas deliveries to Poland and Bulgaria without hurting primary consumers--and significant trade partners--in places like Germany, Austria and Hungary.
Russia is also betting that Bulgaria and Poland will tap newer gas transit lines to distribute within their networks, which will then allow Moscow to pursue a variety of legal remedies against the two EU states.
This is all being done with an eye of exacerbating the considerable EU and NATO cohesion that has seen a broad constellation of political, economic and military support for the Ukrainians since the Russian invasion began.
Even if Europeans are broadly supportive of Ukraine conceptually, the Russians know that when the rubber hits the road (or more bluntly, if the natural gas doesn't flow), Berlin and Vienna and Budapest will prioritize local economic and energy concerns over an abstract sense of supporting democracy in Ukraine.
All of this to a point, though. The Europeans are showing many signs of shaking off decades of inertia and wishful thinking when it comes to finally doing the hard work of weaning off Russian energy. We see this most clearly when it comes to updating oil transport infrastructure.
Russia needs to move quickly before buyers like Germany can easily source alternative crude supplies, and before its own fields must be shut-in due to a lack of buyers. Which makes natural gas the last strategic link. Moscow must walk a narrow line between applying enough pressure to break the European alliance, but not so much that Germany and its neighbors become convinced to sever its energy dependencies on Russia.
[Babylon Bee] WASHINGTON, D.C.—In its first official act, the new DHS Government Disinformation Board ruled today that all criticism of the Government Disinformation Board is disinformation. This comes in response to sharp criticism from conservatives, which they say is untrue and unwarranted.
"The new board has barely begun its work and already many have jumped to the entirely unwarranted conclusion that it will be used to quash free speech," said DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. "This could not be further from the truth, as everyone in this country has the right to say how much they support and agree with the Biden administration. It is only that speech that we disagree with which will be labeled as disinformation. This follows the well-established practice of media fact-checkers and social media content moderators."
The ruling further found as "substantially dishonest, false and untrue" all allegations that the work of the board would in any way resemble that of "The Ministry of Truth" from George Orwell’s 1984. The Board stated: "There is no possible way that we could have been inspired by George Orwell’s 1984 since none of us have read that book or even know who this Orwell person is."
Nina Jankowicz, President of the Board, concluded the ruling by singing a song to the tune of "Supercalifragilistic" from Mary Poppins. The lyrics, in part, were: "People think our lovely board is somehow quite atrocious, we conclude they suffer from a terrible psychosis, so we will come down on them in ways that are ferocious, please excuse my singing as I’ve got bad halitosis."
At publishing time, Ms. Jankowicz was still working on choreography to accompany her song, along with a big closing number, "A Spoon Full of Coercion Helps the Propaganda Go Down."
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It was said many years ago, in a political comedy comment, by one of the best comedians that lived.
Sad to say, it is becoming more and more obvious every year.
“Rights aren’t rights if someone can take them away. They’re privileges. That’s all we’ve ever had in this country, is a bill of temporary privileges. And if you read the news even badly, you know that every year the list gets shorter and shorter. Sooner or later, the people in this country are gonna realize the government … doesn’t care about you, or your children, or your rights, or your welfare or your safety… It’s interested in its own power. That’s the only thing. Keeping it and expanding it wherever possible.”— George Carlin
[Frontiers in Public Health] LESSONS LEARN BY THE PUBLIC REGARDING THE PANDEMIC.
There will be a lot of conflicting information about the virus and many initial "official" warnings and findings will be disproven. This will greatly reduce the citizenry faith in the authorities to handle the pandemic going forward.
Too many preventive measures will be media driven and not medically based.
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[FoxNews] The medieval saying 'the hair of the dog that bit you' has been used as a rumored hangover cure, but here's why you shouldn’t fight alcohol with alcohol
DOES 'HAIR OF THE DOG' WORK?
"The short answer is yes," said Dr. Ken Perry, an emergency physician in South Carolina.
"The feeling of a hangover is due to the receptors being without alcohol," he told Fox News Digital. "Many of the symptoms [including headache and gastrointestinal upset] are minimized if the alcohol is reintroduced and the receptors are no longer absent of alcohol."
"In a way, the ‘hair of the dog’ does actually work in the short term," Perry continued. "That being said, it doesn’t fix a hangover, but rather delays the symptoms."
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Hair of the dog, in ancient Greece, was a rabies treatment (in modern times, only two known cases of rabies have been non-fatal) The way it worked was you got hair from the tail of the rabid dog (what fun!) burned that and consumed the ashes.
He, it was worth a try, right?
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cases of rabies in humans, that is...
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I second what Frank said. Lots of water. Fresh air while sleeping is a help too.
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or, if you drink enough , you eventually don't get hangovers.
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[Townhall] In an astonishing interview last week on the Iran ...They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... Students Correspondents Association (ISCA) news channel, an Iranian state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
outlet, the former deputy speaker of the Iranian parliament, Ali Motahari, spilled the beans on the theocratic regime’s nuclear ambitions. "There is no need to beat around the bush," he said. "When we began our nuclear activity, our goal was indeed to build a bomb." The politician and son of an Ayatollah admitted that the goal of constructing a nuclear bomb was to use it as a "means of intimidation and to strike fear in the hearts of the enemies of Allah." Motahari continued by stating that the plan by the regime had been to keep the nuclear program secret until such time as they were ready to perform a nuclear test. "It would then have been a done deal, like in Pakistain," he said, arguing that the world tends to take seriously countries that have nuclear bombs like Pakistain and North Korea
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Washington Examiner] Storage tanks at a major oil depot in the Russian city of Bryansk exploded early on Monday. Was Ukraine responsible?
[Babylon Bee] WASHINGTON, D.C.—In its first official act, the new DHS Government Disinformation Board ruled today that all criticism of the Government Disinformation Board is disinformation. This comes in response to sharp criticism from conservatives, which they say is untrue and unwarranted. 
...They hate 
