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    James Ensor The oyster eater 1882   • Mueller Refuses To Testify Publicly Before Congress (ZH) • Democrats’ Impeachment Divide Tests Pelosi (NPR)
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle May 22 2019]

    #47498
    Dr. D
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    “Mueller Refuses to Testify Publicly before Congress (ZH)”

    Despite the focus of this story, it’s more likely that he realizes he would have to answer questions not from Democrats, but also from Republicans. And they would ask questions like: “Why didn’t you interview any of the key witnesses, like Assange and Binney?” “Why didn’t you look at the originating DNC servers?” “Since you interviewed the key people in question, how could you not have known that there was nothing of substance months before throwing the 2018 midterms? Ya know, stuff like that. That could get him counter-investigated and arrested.

    “Democrats’ Impeachment Divide Tests Pelosi (NPR)”

    Great! For what crime? And with Amash flipping to impeach, for what crime? It’s so strange to hear this, because I come from a very simple world: IF there is a “high crime” of substance, it is your duty to impeach immediately, Fīat jūstitia ruat cælum, “though the heavens fall.” And if there is no crime for which to impeach, then what’s the problem? Rejoice! The only condition that can NOT happen, is that there IS a crime, and we – in fact, the opposition that openly wishes to remove him – will NOT impeach. That itself says better than any words that there is no crime.

    Also, IF they impeach, and it fails – which it must, as we’ve already pretty well established they themselves have no crime – then Trump is inoculated against them pretty much forever, and their party collapses more than it already has. So they want it both ways, and unfortunately we’ve seen quite a lot of that from them lately.

    “We’ve Hit a New Low in Campaign Hit Pieces (Matt Taibbi)”

    Because she’s almost the only viable candidate to beat Trump – and perhaps without all that much difficulty – she is the only candidate the DNC MUST knock out. And the levels of slander and other team tricks have been off the charts, even by ’16 standards where the DNC literally vote-tampered in CA, and then were open about it in court. I see this, and yet in a way I do not understand. Do the DNC not like power? Do they not WANT to be in office, with a candidate that can re-establish the party and viably bring them together for the future? I guess not. They’d rather lose to Trump than give up mass murder and their beautiful bombs. And that’s a liberal value now. What can I say? I just report it.

    “US ‘Sees Signs’ Damascus ‘May’ Have Used Chlorine in Idlib (RT)”

    If you hadn’t noticed, the U.S. sees a lot of things that aren’t there. So now that he owns the whole country and isn’t fighting anyone, he uses chemical weapons? Wouldn’t it be easier to send the secret police and arrest whoever/whyever he was mad at them for? I won’t even bother with the argument, “So what? It’s his country, what business do we have with their internal affairs?”

    ‘The UK’s social safety net has been “deliberately removed and replaced with a harsh and uncaring ethos..”

    Oh no, they have a FABULOUS safety net. Trouble is, it’s only for bankers and weapons manufacturers. Trillions for them, but we have to pay for it somehow! Send home the Windrush pensioners. …Oh wait, we’re still $999 Billion short of target. Shoot the National Health.

    “Will FAA’s Plan For 737 MAX Fly Outside US? (AFP)”

    Boeing’s latest argument was that Boeings fall out of the sky if they’re hit by a sparrow. …Gentlemen, I’m not sure that’s a strong selling point.

    “Tesla Stock ‘Bear Case’ Is $10 – Morgan Stanley (MW)”

    Tesla is worth anything? That’s a bull case. Question: everybody else on earth now has battery cars and not one of them explodes into flames while parked. How can that be? Is it just piss-poor engineering and software that doesn’t work? You know, like when the doors don’t open and the bumpers fall off?

    “IMF Admits ‘Notable Failures’ In Bailout Deepened Greek Recession (KTG)”

    Because words have meaning: they were NOT bailed out. So adding billions more in debt to an economy that collapsed from debt, it somehow crippled their economy and increased a recession caused by debt? You don’t say. See? When you use real words, things make a lot more sense. But if they told the truth, they wouldn’t be the IMF. Ask Perkins.

    “Netherlands Becomes First AAA Rated Sovereign to Launch Green Bond (R.)”

    Now their bonds can collapse right after their economy, just like Germany’s.

    #47499
    John Day
    Participant

    http://www.johndayblog.com/2019/05/transparent-lies.html
    ​Helen of Des Troy has this breaking/broken story:
    ​ ​It’s almost as if Mossad agents have psychic powers. After exciting the bloodlust of the Trump regime’s hawk-in-chief John Bolton with an impossibly vague yet somehow “credible” tip that Iran (or its proxies) was plotting to attack US interests (or allies) somewhere in the Middle East, they have delivered the promised attack, right on time, with a “rocket strike” on Iraq that landed a mile outside the US embassy in Baghdad’s American-occupied Green Zone.
    ​ ​The plucky little rocket injured no one, and the launcher that fired it was immediately found in a canal in East Baghdad, which Israeli media breathlessly report is “home to Iran-backed Shiite militias.” “Non-emergency” US government personnel had already been safely bundled out of the Iraqi embassy by the State Department last Wednesday, supposedly due to an “imminent threat” from Iran, and even Exxon-Mobil interrupted its plunder of Iraq’s resources, pulling 30 engineers off a Basra oil field as a “temporary precautionary measure.” But despite its apparent futility, the lonely rocket fulfills the deliberately broad criteria set forth by “Rapture Mike” Pompeo earlier this month when he warned that any attacks on “US interests or citizens” by “Iran or its proxies” would be met with a “swift and decisive” response.
    http://helenofdestroy.com/index.php/94-mossad-psychic-friends-network-strikes-again

    ​Later the same yesterday:
    ​HAJJAH, YEMEN — Saudi Arabia has claimed that its air defenses shot down two ballistic missiles over the city of Taif, just 65 kilometers east of Mecca, in the early hours of Monday morning. Saudi officials claim that another missile was intercepted over the Haddah in western Saudi Arabia.
    Saudi newspaper Okaz reported that the missiles were intercepted as residents were breaking their day-long Ramadan fast. The paper claimed that the attempted attack was evidence that the Houthis had no regard for the safety and security of Muslim pilgrims visiting Mecca during the nights of Ramadan. The Houthis have unequivocally denied any involvement in the attacks.

    Houthis, Yemeni Army Deny Saudi Allegations of Attempted Missile Attack Near Mecca

    Thanks for this link, Cat:
    For nearly two decades, one of the most overlooked and little known arrests​ ​made in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks was that of the so-called “High Fivers,” or the “Dancing Israelis.” However, new information released by the FBI on May 7 has brought fresh scrutiny to the possibility that the “Dancing Israelis,” at least two of whom were known Mossad operatives, had prior knowledge of the attacks on the World Trade Center.
    ​ ​Shortly after 8:46 a.m. on the day of the attacks, just minutes after the first plane struck the World Trade Center, five men — later revealed to be Israeli nationals — had positioned themselves in the parking lot of the Doric Apartment Complex in Union City, New Jersey, where they were seen taking pictures and filming the attacks while also celebrating the destruction of the towers and “high fiving” each other. At least one eyewitness interviewed by the FBI had seen the Israelis’ van in the parking lot as early as 8:00 a.m. that day, more than 40 minutes prior to the attack.​…
    ​ The men — Sivan Kurzberg, Paul Kurzberg, Oded Ellner, Yaron Shimuel and Omar Marmari — were subsequently apprehended by law enforcement and claimed to be Israeli tourists on a “working holiday” in the United States where they were employed by a moving company, Urban Moving Systems. Upon his arrest, Sivan Kurzberg told the arresting officer, “We are Israeli; we are not your problem. Your problems are our problems, The Palestinians are the problem.”
    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51631.htm

    ​This is Helen’s story for RT. She says all these chips are manufactured in Israel. Go figure…
    ​ ​Researchers have found another security flaw in the Intel processor chips that power most of the world’s computers, one that can compromise users’ private data – and that can’t be fixed without a major performance drop.
    ​ ​The exploit, dubbed ZombieLoad, is embedded in Intel’s processor chips themselves, meaning even the best-designed software patches can only go part of the way toward plugging the hole without reducing the chips’ performance. The vulnerability may allow attackers to ‘resurrect’ critical data processed by the chip – from browser history and passwords to disk encryption keys and other system-level sensitive data.
    ​ ​Its reach isn’t even limited to the end-user’s computer, according to researchers Michael Schwarz, Moritz Lipp, and Daniel Gruss from Graz University of Technology and Jo Van Bulck from KU Leuven: it “can also be exploited in the cloud.”
    https://www.rt.com/news/459358-zombieload-exploit-intel-processors/

    F​inally, a well designed crossover study comparing a processed food diet, to an unprocessed food diet, then vice-versa with each group.
    ​ The team’s final results were striking. On the ultra-processed diet, the volunteers ate an average of 500 extra calories a day, gained body fat and about a pound of weight by the two-week mark; on the unprocessed diet, they lost body fat and dropped that same pound.
    ​ ​The results were published Thursday in Cell Metabolism.
    ​ ​While the findings may seem obvious on the surface, Hall said that it’s not clear why people overate on the ultra-processed diet. In recent years, many experts have gravitated to the simple, intuitive idea that since ultra-processed foods tend to be richer in fat, sugar, and salt, it’s these three nutrients that are largely to blame for the rise in weight, obesity, and metabolic disorders. But given the design of this study, that explanation seems to fall short.
    ​ ​“I was kind of suspecting that once you matched for these nutrients—for the fat, sugar, and salt—there wouldn’t be much difference, but I was wrong,” Hall said.
    https://gizmodo.com/a-new-diet-study-confirms-your-worst-suspicions-about-u-1834818556

    #47500
    zerosum
    Participant

    Where can we get “news” that has not been “seeded” by fake news?
    TAE?
    What about the comments on TAE? Are the comments “seeded”?

    The proof or evidence is not an opposite or different opinion than the one presented by the author of the article.

    After reading all of the articles and all of the different comments, I get an overall view of where our social/economic systems are possibly heading.

    There is no doubt, in my mind, that the future road is rough and that the road is full of potholes that could derail the plans of all good men.
    ————–
    Latest news, (pothole), this morning:

    https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-22/syrian-rebels-attack-russian-air-base-major-offensive
    Syrian Rebels Attack Russian Air Base In Major Offensive

    According to RT, more than 150 rebels were killed during the morning offensive. Three tanks were destroyed, while 24 trucks mounted with heavy guns were also destroyed in the fighting.

    So, I go and look at the RT report.
    https://www.rt.com/news/459985-missiles-fired-kheimim-base-syria/

    More than 500 militants, seven tanks, four APCs and 30 trucks with mounted machine guns and two explosive-laden vehicles, driven by suicide bombers, took part in the assault, on Wednesday morning. They were backed by another 200 gunmen, and hardware, attacking the government forces from the other side.

    Now, I have big questions.
    Who supplied all the reported equipment and men?

    It should be easy to take pictures, that are not photoshop, of the destroyed equipment and of all the dead bodies. It should be easy to find the identy of those dead attacker.
    Who printed all the money to buy all that equipment.
    I don’t have the capability to find the answers so all I can do is ask questions.

    #47501
    seychelles
    Participant

    Nobody wants to talk to these people anymore.

    That is because they have a significant thought disorder that renders meaningful dialogue about certain issues impossible. Certain inarguable concepts have been handed down by the Zioglobalist occult priesthood and like all such tenets they have no intrinsic value other than to empower the priesthood as the situation warrants. The solution is not to scream at or waste your time paying attention to the wall, but rather to destroy the wall.

    #47502
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Sort of a wailing wall.

    Info? Who knows? I have the same problem myself, certainly. And then there are the obvious things clearly published we don’t put together…but the reporter almost certainly knew, and knew his editor would never let him point them out. So he prints the “facts” in the desperate hope that somewhere, somebody might clue in. But I expect that kind of reporter is mostly gone now.

    For example, what’s going on? China seems to have more or less declared war on us, more or less suddenly. Over Huawei not having Intel-type back doors and not enforcing patent rights? That seems awkward. What’s going on elsewhere? After longing to, and generally delivering on promises to bring troops home from Syria, suddenly we want illogical, illegal wars in Venezuela, even cutting off our own much-needed heavy crude to Houston? And in Iran, we’re going to what? invade them? Don’t make me laugh. They’ll grind us up and still be a nation when the U.S. is forgotten. So…what?

    How about this: the U.S. for reasons I suspect but won’t get into, knows that China is now nearly as powerful (thanks to being handed out patent book, then later our manufacturing knowledge), and being young, hot, and nationalistic, will probably leap out over the Pacific Rim like Japan did, as far as taking Hawaii. Meanwhile, the U.S., being old, tired, and chewed up in long-planned foreign wars, is gutted from within, de facto loses to China, and China hands the N.A.U. fiefdom to the traitors that undermined it.

    Offering to have everyone get rich, if only they can play ball (in their eyes) and enforce present law, has been rebuffed by both China and Iran, perhaps for reasons we didn’t entirely anticipate. Who wouldn’t sign up, given the alternative?

    Circling back, this is all in the news, front-page, with the “Trade War Song” on Karaoke to boot. Yet what does this mean? It means Trump, the U.S., run by the Marine Intel that installed him, are trying to win the war with China by cutting off their war-oil supplies worldwide. That means there is a clock on this problem. China, rather than catching us on the flip side, for some reason does not want to participate/cooperate but has moved to war footing. Now you can see why it was worth it to the inside planners that they MUST have Venezuela controlled, and they MUST have Iran shut down. Perhaps at any cost. And I mean that literally. Of course they all know this, all leaders, all nations. Only we do not, because everybody is lying, mostly by telling the truth, as in the headlines, above.

    This goes to a third interesting twist. As the flip-nationalism of DJT appears, they will throw those guys, Gen-Z alt-right patriots, into the war cycle, the 4th turning, like the young Americans of D-day. Dummies, fighting for banks and old, decrepit men again. But the twist is that Russia, our enemy, is to flip toward the new, now-reformed America, and fight along side us, against China, their old and former rival. Or so I’ve heard it planned in some circles. Here’s an idea: stay out of this nonsense. Stay out and stay home. We have no business prosecuting wars planned 100 years ago by maniacs long dead. If we’d stayed home and got rich, armed to the teeth like Switzerland as the Founders told us to, we’d have all the resources we need to counter China. Instead, we don’t. Plan accordingly.

    Read it in the news and see if it follows.

    #47503
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Snowing in Corsica, snowing in Tuscany, not planted in the U.S., and it’s almost June.

    GlobalWine

    10 years until climate change gets us? What kind of climate were you thinking?

    #47506
    PlanetaryCitizen
    Participant

    “Climate change and the jet stream”

    “Rising global temperatures from global warming are affecting the jet stream and, in turn, the weather. Because the Earth’s polar regions are warming more quickly than the rest of the world, the temperature contrast that drives jet streams has decreased. Slower, weaker jet streams have been linked to melting in Greenland and a potential rise in deadly weather events because they can lock weather systems into place, stalling them over regions.”

    “Studies also have linked a warming Arctic with more severe winter weather in the United States (and elsewhere, mine PC), even though other reports note that on average, winter cold snaps are actually getting warmer because of climate change. Part of this link involves the polar vortex, a swirling low-pressure center at the North and South poles. An unstable polar vortex can expand and send cold Arctic air into the jet stream, leading to frigid winter weather and storms southward.”

    https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/weather/reference/jet-stream/

    #47507
    chettt
    Participant

    “Climate change and the jet stream”
    and
    “The little boy who cried wolf”

    How many more failed predictions of an ice free arctic passage must pass?
    How many more climate models need to crash and burn?
    How much more historical data need to be “adjusted”?
    How many more suicidal walruses do we need to see jumping off cliffs?

    I guess the little boy was eventually eaten by the wolf but until I see them farming in Greenland again I just can’t seem to take it seriously anymore..

    #47508
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    …but until I see them farming in Greenland again I just can’t seem to take it seriously anymore..

    Indeed. I think part of the problem is that the planet is being looked upon as a sum of many different parts; rather than the organism it is.
    Nothing can come from a wrong understanding of the very subject studied.
    Lovelock and Margulis’ Gaia Hypothesis was/is a ground breaking work on this view of our home, planet Earth.

    #47509
    PlanetaryCitizen
    Participant

    chett…nice to see someone is current on their fairy tales. Arctic ice free territory (arctic sea) and passages are currently being disputed between the arctic countries. Haven’t heard that Russia has planted its flag at the North Pole (under the sea)? China is planning arctic routes for shipping for certain times of year. Models are just that “models,” available scientific information and theory. Anyone with any notion of science would know that very little in science is conclusive! Additional data, aka, science! What ever the reason (suicide not fucking likely) Walruses went off a cliff. What’s your point!

    V…perhaps you’re right and perhaps not. I won’t argue it either way. But what is the evidence that supports your statement and understanding of the subject. “I think?”. Spirituality and science are not antithetical to one another. Plenty can come from wrong understanding, especially when the “wrong” input is of the order of magnitude that established systems are significantly impacted. “Beings” “Gaia,” what have you, become diseased when their homeostatic balances are disturbed/perturbed for long enough that basic systems begin to transform into states that no longer support the current biological state, or Being if you prefer. Had any blood let recently to cure any “bad humours?” Understanding of systems and organisms does advance, No?”

    #47511
    PlanetaryCitizen
    Participant

    V. thanks for the addition of your last sentence. I’ll make a point of looking at it though I’m not completely ignorant of the concept.

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