Given that the SurrealPolitiks audience is, comparative to their fellow citizens, so well informed and appropriately skeptical of the nonsense they are fed by less credible sources than we, it might be described as less than newsworthy for us to say that Ukraine blew up the Nordstream pipeline. What warrants mention here today, is that the Washington post has deemed this to be the case, and while we would hardly deem a thing confirmed just because the personal plaything of Jeff Bezos deigned to say it, we do consider it a newsworthy event for such a publication to utter a truth from time to time. The Washington Post made its bones, in some measure, under the Nixon administration. You may hear in your news consumption about a thing called "The Pentagon Papers" now and again, and if you had not heard the story referenced, you might say to yourself "I imagine the Pentagon has many papers, which documents do you here reference?" Back in those fairy tale times, it was considered the duty of people who called themselves journalists to challenge the powers that be, and when the paper, and their colleagues at the New York Times, came to possess documents which shed some negative light on the conflict in Vietnam, they stood defiant and fought the government through the courts. In the end, they were legally vindicated, but this was by no means the certain outcome of their gambit at the time. These days, you may have noticed, there is less appetite in the Press for this kind of challenge. If they do not like the President of a given cycle, they might go so far as to call for him to be executed, and they would then tout this as some sort of brave act worthy of approbation. Yet the media establishment does not seem to have the slightest curiosity about the National Security State or what has been known as the Military Industrial Complex. They have "sources" within these branches of the apparatus, and they dutifully report as fact whatever these anonymous "sources" wish for the public to believe in the course of a given day.  For this reason, when the likes of Tucker Carlson called attention to the obviousness of the fact that Ukraine had blown up the Nordstream pipelines, with certain knowledge of the US government, the Post and others dutifully dismissed this, as they do all truth, as a "conspiracy theory".  A "conspiracy theory" is newspeak for "truths which must not be spoken". To be sure, there are such a thing as "crackpot conspiracy theories" which may consist of frivolous dot connecting exercises of the sort a caged schizophrenic might engage in without the benefit of medication. There is also the subject of many a legal controversy, called conspiracy, wherein people do in fact conspire, and one must first form a theory of that conspiracy to prosecute or otherwise hold accountable the conspirators.  Much of what are called conspiracy theories are of the latter sort, and the likes of the Washington Post makes them out to be the former, because they are themselves conspirators in the plots of our time.  And so, when they spill the beans it is a newsworthy event. When Jeff Bezos goes "full Sammy the Bull" on his War Party partners, the discerning reader must question the motives.  In case you haven't heard, the impetus of this diatribe is a a headline in the Post that reads "Ukrainian military officer coordinated Nord Stream pipeline attack". In it, Roman Chervinsky, described as a "decorated 48-year-old colonel who served in Ukraine’s special operations forces" and who has "deep ties to the country’s intelligence services" is said to have managed "logistics and support for a six-person team that rented a sailboat under false identities and used deep-sea diving equipment to place explosive charges on the gas pipelines". This follows five months after the Post reported, based on the Discord leaks of Air National Guard member Jack Teixeira, that the US had "intelligence of a Ukrainian plan to attack the Nord Stream project".  It also comes nearly a full year after the Post described as "shoddy" Tucker Carlson's case that the US or Ukraine had anything to do with the bombing, repeatedly. We were all supposed to believe the completely ridiculous theory that the Russian government did this, to themselves, because they are after all Russians, and Russians are always doing crazy things that no sane person would do, according to the Biden administration and their loyal scribes at the Post. If you said otherwise, you were not just stupid, you were evil. A Siberian Candidate doing the bidding of Vladimir the Terrible.  In attempting to discern the motives for this change of heart, arguably, all that has changed is that the story can no longer be ignored. The Ukrainian government has, after all, arrested the man. But the Post has also cited numerous anonymous sources within the Ukrainian government. This is more than that. SurrealPolitiks airs every Monday at 9:30pm US Eastern

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Augustus Invictus has long held a unique and special place in the history of the Radical Agenda. We had him as a guest in October of 2015 on Episode 44, long before we had contemplated the idea of "Stages" to the program. Back then, he was seeking the Libertarian Party's nomination to run for the United States Senate, and I could tell just from the enemies he had made that he was pissing off all the right people. Thus began a friendship now more than 8 years running. For those familiar with his activities, it will come as no surprise to hear, that he continues to make all the right enemies. Among the most notable and energetic of these is Albemarle County Commonwealth's Attorney Jim Hingley, a Soros backed Democrat who replaced my erstwhile tormentor from that office, one Robert Tracci.  Mr. Tracci, my fellow Republican, made a mistake all too common among members of our Party. He tried to have it both ways. Knowing that his witnesses had lied under oath to frame me for a crime, he refused to drop the charges against me, lest be seen as going soft on the Nazis. He calculated that by pursuing one fraud and not another, he could placate the mob without looking unreasonable. In service to this calculation, he had written quite coherently about all the reasons it would be inappropriate to violate the First Amendment rights of Unite the Right attendees who had carried tiki torches through the University of Virginia campus on August 11th 2017.  But the people who think it admirable to torment the innocent under color of law in some circumstances, do not know what it feels like to have their thirst quenched. That is, to them, an entirely foreign concept. They are congenitally incapable of satisfaction, and all they know is the drive to mayhem and chaos.  The people who find this sort of behavior disreputable, few though they are in the City of Charlottesville, are by no means energetic to vote for politicians who make scapegoats and human sacrifices of the innocent to placate mobs of insatiable bloodthirsty criminals.  And so, predictably, Mr. Tracci lost his job in the following election, to the aforementioned Mr. Hingley.  And Mr. Hingley himself, though he had ran on a campaign promise to abuse the powers of his office as no sane man would dare, even then did not begin dragging men from their homes to answer for this imagined crime of "burning to intimidate". He set himself to the more mundane task of setting killers and drug dealers loose on the street and making his jurisdiction wholly intolerable for the law abiding, but it took him several years to work up the nerve to do something so outrageous, as to charge hundreds of men with felonies for a political demonstration approved in advance by law enforcement.  Among those hundreds of men is our good friend, Mr. Invictus. Now, once again, a practicing attorney himself, Mr. Invictus found himself in the market for a colleague to represent him, when he was arrested for this imagined crime. Being the sort of fellow he is, and trained in the practice of law, he has been quite energetic in participating in his own defense. Perhaps this is part of the motivation for the gag order just rescinded which prevented him from discussing the case at all until just last week.  And now, freshly able to provide his valuable expert commentary on the subject, our dear friend joins us for the entirety of this evening's two hour broadcast to bring us up to speed on the latest in lawfare outrages.  The Radical Agenda airs live every Friday at 9:30pm US Eastern

You are going to laugh your ass off at tonight's episode of the Radical Agenda. We are going to have a lot of fun, and I am really looking forward to this.  My opening monologue tonight is (yet another) remake of "The Night Before Christmas" and there's more to come besides that. I will give you a bit of a teaser below, but there's another 800 plus words to this, and much more planned for tonight. I hope you'll catch the live show, but even if you can't, do be sure and download the podcast or catch the video on Odysee.  Twas the night before Christmas in Manchester, New Hampshire For junkies, and blacks, and their Jewish masters This place once so white, but not anymore Then at my apartment, a knock at my door "This fucking PO, at this hour on Christmas? Who else could be knocking? This place is a secret!" Put down the controller to my PS4, put on a t-shirt, and open the door "You ain't my PO, what the hell are you wearing? There's no pets allowed here, much less, 8 reindeer Bull fuckin shit, is this some kind of gag? The FBI send you? The fuck's in the bag? Take your damn drugs and your wierd fucking pets, go back to Boston, I'm done with you feds. I asked you for help and you sent me to prison, Now I'm trying to work and you keep interfering Enough with the jokes, I'm in no mood to laugh" Santa: "Ho Ho Ho Chris, you're too funny by half I'm not with the feds, and I live far from here, Where everything's white, except my reindeer," The Radical Agenda airs live every Friday at 9:30pm US Eastern and takes your calls at 217-688-1433