Stefan Kreutter

[General Mike Flynn @GenFlynn]

1. While most of America remains blissfully uninformed by our establishment press, the world's two greatest superpowers are being manipulated by Dark Forces inside and outside our government, into a major military confrontation that no country wants, and no sane person would ever want.

2. I have no role in the Trump Administration, but over a long career in the active uniformed military, specifically military intelligence, I have made it a point to cultivate many sources of information around the world. From what I can piece together, I want to share my deep concerns about who is behind this march to war, and my recommendations for how our nation and the West can avoid a major military confrontation with Russia.

3. I believe that the American Deep State is staffed by those with a deep, visceral, and irrational hatred for Russia, and these persons have conspired to box in President Trump's decision making through the Russiagate Hoax. During the time the Soviet Union was expanding and infiltrating our government, I was an outspoken anti-communist, but, despite the lies told by our Deep State, Russia is not the Soviet Union and Putin is not Stalin. Even today, years after the Russiagate Hoax has been exposed, President Trump's efforts to bring peace are met with resistance. The Establishment Press, deeply influenced and even sometimes controlled by our Deep State, labeled President Trump and those who work for him "Putin's Puppets" to goad him into taking unwarranted and aggressive steps against Russia. These voices from the establishment press reflect the views of the Deep State, not the American People, and not the MAGA movement, and should be completely disregarded, if not mocked.

4. During almost all of the post-World War II period, and certainly since the establishment of the CIA in 1947, these unelected dark establishment forces have acted to destabilize the world, bringing death, famine, assassinations, violence, coups, riots, revolutions, and destruction to our planet. Currently, these forces are working to provoke Russia into a major --- perhaps a final --- military conflict with the West.

5. This provocation has many forms. Most recently, it involves the surprise drone attack on the Russian federation strategic arsenal, said to affect 40 bombers, or about a third of Russia's strategic bomber fleet. Since Russian and American strategic bombers are generally required by agreement to be visible to satellite surveillance, never before has anyone engaged in an attack on these visible targets. If Russian bombers can be attacked with impunity, so can American bombers. By this action, the Ukrainian Government has not just weakened Russia, it has jeopardized America. Thus, those in the Ukrainian government who ordered these strikes have made themselves enemies not just of Russia, but of the United States. Making matters worse, this unwarranted attack was followed by Ukrainian attacks on the Kerch Strait Bridge connecting Russia and Crimea.

6. I do not believe that the recent escalation against Russia's strategic bomber fleet was authorized by or coordinated with President Trump. Rather, it is my view that the Deep State is now acting outside of the control of the elected leadership of our nation. I believe that these persons in our Deep State are engaged in a deliberate effort to provoke Russia into a major confrontation with the West, including the United States. The time is now to take aggressive action against those who abuse their authority as government employees to manipulate the elected leadership of our nation.

7. Growing up in an Irish Democrat family in Rhode Island, I was only about five when John Kennedy was assassinated, but our family viewed John Kennedy as a hero. Not just for my family, one of our most beloved Presidents, John F. Kennedy, in 1961, found himself manipulated by earlier versions of these same Deep State forces when they attempted to manipulate President Kennedy to launch Air Force planes to attack Cuba after the failed invasion, resulting in an open conflict with both Cuba and the Soviet Union. In President Kennedy's June 1963 speech at American University declaring his vision of peace with the Soviet Union, he declared himself to be an enemy of this Deep State, which by all indications then retaliated by participating in his assassination five months later in Dallas. The American Deep State is not only a threat to peace, but a threat to the President.

8. President Trump has already faced at least two assassination attempts. If there is one person who I believe has the character and love for our nation to rid our government of these forces, it is President Trump. After the shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania, President Trump displayed the type of personal courage that those of us who have served in the military deeply admire. With great affection for the President, I now urge him to risk the wrath of the Deep State once again by taking actions to purge enemies of our nation within our agencies and departments. Removing such persons from power is absolutely necessary to achieve the type of peace he described during his campaign and the beginning of his Administration.

9. Once President Kennedy realized he was being manipulated, and opposed because he sought peace, he removed Allen Dulles as Director of Central Intelligence, and several of his assistants. I urge President Trump to immediately clean house of any in government who had prior knowledge of or participated in any way in the Ukrainian attack on the Russian federation strategic bombers, and to go further by immediately declaring an end to any support for the Ukraine War. President Trump is right: this is not "his" War. I urge him to recall all open and covert military and other government personnel from Ukraine. I urge him to have all those personnel removed and interrogated by the FBI or the military to learn of their possible participation in unauthorized military activities. Any Americans who have aided and abetted Ukraine's attacks should be investigated for violation of American law, and prosecuted as necessary.

10. I also believe President Trump should distance himself from certain Western leaders such as German Chancellor Fred Merz, who have acted and spoken in an irresponsible manner with respect to the Ukraine War. If there are countries in Europe who wish to provide military assistance to Ukraine, that is their concern, and they should not be surprised by President Putin’s response to their actions against Russia. If such leaders want to lead their nations to war by persisting in such irresponsible behavior, they will go it alone.

11. I urge President Trump to also distance himself from demonstrated war mongers in our own government, chief among whom is U.S. Senator Lindsay Graham. Those who love wars fought by others are no friends of America, and have no entitlement to be friends of the President.

12. Finally, I urge the American people to stand prayerfully and resolutely with President Trump as he cleans house and acts in pursuit of the type of peace which President Kennedy embraced. Peace is not the normal state of man. Freedom requires a price be paid by every generation. It is time to recommit our nation to both.

[DHH @dhh]

The merchants of complexity will try to convince you that you can't do anything yourself these days. You can't do auth, you can't do scale, you can't run a database, you can't connect a computer to the internet. You're a helpless peon who should just buy their wares. No. Reject.

[Stefan Kreutter @defa]

@tuparev It‘s a recursive problem. What is the base case? When to consider a fact proven to be true?

[Stefan Kreutter @defa]

Hey @Tesla, @elonmusk I’m out with the family camping, this time with our Model Y (love it). It needs some kind of “park at camp mode” to preserve battery. Kids open the doors all the time, screen goes on, audio autoplays. Really annoying. Loosing a couple of % SOC each day.

[Bilawal Sidhu @bilawalsidhu]

It’s wild that Aaron Swartz was aggressively prosecuted for scraping JSTOR articles.

Meanwhile huge companies routinely scrape the public internet and sell it for $20/month and all is well.

Aaron helped create RSS, Creative Commons, Markdown and a little site called Reddit (which now ironically sells its data to AI companies) - all by the age of 26.

All he wanted was free and open access to information. Really makes you wonder the dent he’d have made on the world if he was still alive today.

[Tansu Yegen @TansuYegen]

Turkish photographer Ugur Gallenkus portrays two different worlds within a single image. Brilliant work

[Stefan Kreutter @defa]

Just pledged for #Assange, you can help, too: https://t.co/r7VLSX1Vtf

[Pavel Mayer @pavel23]

Eine Person ohne Ego, die nur Funktion ist, wie etwa der Dalai Lama, ist daher unsterblich. Jemand, der den Beruf lebt oder Tradition verkörpert und weitergibt, nimmt an etwas unsterblichem teil und ist umso unsterblicher, je mehr das Ego in den Hintergrund tritt.

[Stefan Kreutter @defa]

@realDonaldTrump Mr. President, please pardon Julian Assange.

[Stefan Kreutter @defa]

@Yubico on a new running the latest macOS my Yubikey 5Ci is not recognized by the Yubikey Manager. A USB-A Security Kay hower appears immediately. Same 5Ci works via Lightning on iPhone and Mac Book Pro running Mojave. Any idea?

[Stefan Kreutter @defa]

@OvercastFM

[Stefan Kreutter @defa]

@OvercastFM why does Overcast redownload tons of already played episodes and the keep episodes count is at 2? Had this issue multiple times. Any ideas?

[Stefan Kreutter @defa]

Looks like Overcast now tries to download all episodes of all subscribed podcast (after reinstall)

[Courage International AISBL @couragefound]

“Julian Assange shouldn’t be the subject of a grand jury hearing, he should be given a medal. He’s contributing to democracy.” -Noam Chomsky

#WeAreMillions
#FreeAssage

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[Gerd Eist @erdgeist]

Punktrechnung, Strichrechnung. https://t.co/91YYN0sppN

[Stefan Kreutter @defa]

@pavel23 https://t.co/ews8E7R10P ... “This account has been disabled. Please visit https://t.co/MB4iKPI7ZS.”?

[Stefan Kreutter @defa]

Würde es gerne lesen, aber:
$ curl -D - https://t.co/H116Sw4rSy
curl: (60) SSL certificate problem: certificate has expired

[netzpolitik.org @netzpolitik_org]

Tracing-Technologien: Die Corona-App Ihres Vertrauens https://t.co/bj0YSPrIEc

[Pavel Mayer @pavel23]

Liebe Regierende, bitte begreift, dass unsere Zahlen und Daten erbärmlich sind und nicht von allein besser werden, und statt von Apps zu fabulieren solltet ihr erst mal die Datenerhebung durch die Gesundheitsämter auf die Reihe kriegen. Covid19 ist schließlich meldepflichtig.