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    Pablo Picasso The muse 1935   • Iran Says It Will Never Pursue A Nuclear Weapon (ZH) • Iran Foreign Minister Accuses Bolton Of Plotting For War (
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle June 26 2019]

    #48209
    zerosum
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    Are everyone making better weapons that the USA?
    It seems that making expensive and useless weapons is the USA specialty.

    • NATO Calls On Russia To Destroy New Missile, Warns Of Response (R.)

    Time to send the navy kids back to school to get a refresher course on potential and kinetic energy.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-25/us-combat-ship-collides-canadian-freighter-montreal-0
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    • Apple Doubles Down On Buybacks (Axios)

    Buyback is a good way of describing how the rich get to sell their shares at the top of the market.

    “Laughing all the way to the bank.”

    #48210
    John Day
    Participant

    My bcc news snd to 190 recipients was just blocked today. Google algorithm on Democratic Debate Day, I suspect.
    I started the blog in 2016 Primary season to bypass this problem.
    Things sent out fine 2 days after each vote in 2016 and 2018.
    I think the AI is blocking posts/emails more nimbly now.
    http://www.johndayblog.com/2019/06/negotiations.html
    I guess all of this is being discussed right now.
    This week’s National Security Advisor summit in Jerusalem is an historic event because of the participation of the Russian, Israeli, and American representatives during this multi-day meeting from 24-26 June, but it’s also a juicy one too because of the many rumors that it’s given rise to, the most popular being the possibility of a so-called “grand deal” being clinched about the future of the Middle East.
    US National Security Adviser John Bolton together with his Israeli and Russian counterparts Meir Ben-Shabbat and Nikolai Patrushev will meet behind closed doors in what is described as an “unprecedented summit” in Jerusalem.
    According to the Israeli media: “The chaos in Syria, rising tensions in the Persian Gulf” are on the agenda.

    Secret US-Russia-Israel National Security Summit in Jerusalem: What is the Hidden Agenda?

    CJ Hopkins has something like a crackpot conspiracy theory:
    ​ ​See, according to this crackpot conspiracy theory that I would put forth if I were a geopolitical analyst instead of just a political satirist, there have been no “catastrophic policy blunders,” not for global capitalism.
    ​ ​The Restructuring of the Greater Middle East is proceeding exactly according to plan. The regional ruling classes are playing ball, and those who wouldn’t ​(cooperate) ​have been regime-changed, or are being regime-changed, or are scheduled for regime change.
    ​ ​Sure, for the actual people of the region, and for regular Americans, the last thirty years of wars, “strategic” bombings, sanctions, fomented coups, and other such shenanigans have been a pointless waste of lives and money … but global capitalism doesn’t care about people or the “sovereign nations” they believe they live in, except to the extent they are useful.​..​
    ​ ​Global capitalism has no nations. All it has are market territories, which are either open for business or not.
    What you’re looking at is global capitalism cleaning up after winning the Cold War. And yes, I do mean global capitalism, not the United States of America (i.e., the “nation” most Americans think they live in, despite all evidence to the contrary)…
    The point is, “America” is not at war with Iran. Global capitalism is at war with Iran. The supranational corporatist empire. Yes, it wears an American face, and waves a big American flag, but it is no more “American” than the corporations it comprises, or the governments those corporations own, or the military forces those governments control, or the transnational banks that keep the whole show running.

    The Ongoing Restructuring of the Greater Middle East

    Caitlin Johnstone: “For example, while ‘only’ 33 percent of the US public prefer a US preventive nuclear strike that would kill 15,000 North Koreans, 50 percent approve,” the report reads.

    Survey: Americans Have Remarkably Ignorant Attitude Toward Nukes And North Korea

    Ahead of the Democratic Party Presidential Debates, this is all they can say about the anti-war candidate:
    Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) may have met with Donald Trump during the presidential transition and Trump’s transition team may have put together a vetting document on the Hawaii Democrat as part of considering her for the post of Secretary of Veterans Affairs. But a spokesperson for Gabbard now insists to The Daily Beast that she didn’t know she was considered for the position and was never asked about it.
    https://www.thedailybeast.com/tulsi-gabbard-insists-she-was-never-vetted-for-a-trump-cabinet-post

    ​ ​The New York Times published a series of video interviews in which it queried Democratic presidential hopefuls on, among other questions, whether “Israel meets international standards of human rights,” in what it described as an attempt to gauge their willingness to voice criticism of the Jewish state.
    ​ ​Most, the newspaper said, were reluctant to do so…
    ​ ​The paper asked 21 candidates — excluding former vice president Joe Biden, who refused to participate — the question, “Do you think Israel meets international standards of human rights?”
    https://www.timesofisrael.com/queried-on-israel-and-human-rights-democratic-hopefuls-offer-guarded-criticism/

    Most Democratic Candidates Still Afraid to Criticize Israel’s Violations of Palestinian Rights

    What does it cost to kill a nice old man with a security detail?
    ​ ​Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday released a sweeping higher education plan that includes canceling all of the nearly $1.6 trillion of existing student loan debt that’s owed by roughly 45 million Americans.
    ​ ​Sanders announced his legislation alongside progressive lawmakers, including Reps. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), who are filing a companion bill to Sanders’ proposal in the House.​..
    The overall higher education plan, including the debt cancellation, would cost $2.2 trillion. Sanders would pay for it by imposing a new tax on Wall Street transactions. His campaign said the tax would generate more than $2.4 trillion over the next decade.
    https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/24/bernie-sanders-2020-student-loan-debt-forgiveness-plan-1296863
    https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/06/bernie-student-loan-debt-forgiveness-aoc

    ​In an otherwise slow news-cycle, the mainstream media has somehow failed to report on an undercover exposé by Project Veritas in which a senior Google employee admits that the company is manipulating its algorithms ahead of the 2020 election in order to prevent the “next Trump situation.”
    ​ ​”We all got screwed over in 2016, again it wasn’t just us, it was, the people got screwed over, the news media got screwed over, like, everybody got screwed over so we’re rapidly been like, what happened there and how do we prevent it from happening again,” said longtime Google employee and head of “Responsible Innovation,” Jen Gennai, in the undercover Veritas sting.
    “We’re also training our algorithms, like, if 2016 happened again, would we have, would the outcome be different?” she added.
    ​ ​As noted by Infowars’ Jamie White, “CNN, WaPo, CNBC, HuffPost, The New York Times, Vox, Vice, Newsweek, Politico, and even The Daily Beast haven’t written a single piece on the devastating evidence.”
    ​ ​Meanwhile, YouTube parent Google has scrubbed the video from its video sharing platform (also ignored by the MSM).
    https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-25/msm-silent-after-google-election-meddling-bombshell-video-scrubbed-youtube

    #48211
    Dr. D
    Participant

    RUSSIA is leaving the INF treaty? We left that over a year ago. …But because it’s true, we can’t report it, but report the OPPOSITE. As here:

    “Democrats will attempt to make the case for President Donald Trump’s impeachment”

    AFP being today’s journalists, making s—t up. Are they really? Seems like the two wings of the DNC are having a civil war over that. You’re sure? Why? But unlike Pelosi, Schumer, and AOC, he has the “savoir faire”. He knows. Really.

    “the prosecutor had agreed to abide by subpoenas for his testimony.”

    Gosh, how generous for him to show up to court when ordered to by law. Because apparently Clapper and Brennan can perjure themselves and just like Clinton, Mueller doesn’t have to show up, along with 90,000 illegals jumping court. The only one on earth who has to follow the law is me. But we knew that as it’s parcel of NeoLiberal, NeoCon, NeoFeudalism we all support when we say Google should control free speech and openly rig elections.

    Probably he’s only showing up so they can all go golfing later. Saves the carpool.

    Gosh Doctor, you’re so cynical. It’s not all fixed by insiders and their wealthy billionaire oligarchs:

    “Merrill Lynch Caught Criminally Manipulating Precious Metals Market (ZH)” –Thousands and thousands of times over 6 years, minimum.

    Just like we’ve been saying since ’94, or at least 2000. But when we all stated the obvious it was “crazy.” –Just like the tech bubble and mortgage crash. Later, after the first 10 lawsuits…oh yeah, it was still crazy, still not happening. Now it’s either still a) a “crazy conspiracy” on even-numbered days, or b) “everybody knows and has ALWAYS known, and we’re never going to fix it, quit bugging me.” on odd-numbered days. And a second later the same blinding obvious things, the SAME economists and 10,000 bloggers say, will be ANOTHER crazy conspiracy theory, until 10 years later, “everybody always knew” that too. That part: fine. But never prosecuting it and STILL participating in these markets as if they’re at all real? Tell me who’s really crazy here.

    PS, from this morning’s end of USD reserve currency, as browbeaten by DJT all over the world, when this gold market stops being rigged, the USD reserve ends. That’s the reset. So admitting it’s rigged more and more each day? Part of the end.

    “Italy’s Gold Now Belongs to the ECB (ZH)”

    Speaking of needing gold, stealing gold, rigging gold, and resetting gold …But Italy can get that gold back, in a way, by taking it out of the hide of the Euro. Anyone follow Tier 2 banking lately, with what’s owed to Germany and the ECB? Default on that and buy your gold with the new, rapidly depreciating Lira2. Bonus question: is Germany actually rich and well-off when their riches are owed by those who will never pay them but giggle hysterically? Or did they also get screwed by the EU free-continental-screwing plan? So if all this money disappeared and neither Italy, Greece, or Germany got any, who left with it? Isn’t that your private billionaires? Asking for a friend who’s looking at some pitchfork investments.

    “Investors With $34 Trillion Demand Urgent Climate Change Action (R.)”

    Sure, they pre-invested in Tesla and Solyndra and want governments to force up the price of their investments rather than go bankrupt on them as they thermodynamically should. …Not that the joining of state and corporation, direct transfer of taxpayer money to my insider friends is fascism or anything. Nope. Totally green! …Yeah, they’re seeing green alright.

    Speaking of AGW, it’s 20 degrees cooler this summer and raining all over, just like the Maunder minimum and the sun-cycle models predicted. Stay tuned, but if you want to eat this winter, you might want to take a commercial break and Buy Today! Only HALF the fields have been planted, in the world’s top Ag exporter by leagues. When that happens, God himself cannot help you. The cycle flips, stocks are worthless compared to eating, commodities rise. Gold will be one of those along for the ride.

    #48212
    zerosum
    Participant

    Did anything change?
    Re.: A drowned child being picked off the beach?
    I can’t remember when, but it was on a beach in the med.
    I think it was a Syrian child.
    NOW ….
    There is another picture of a man and his 22 month old toddler drowned, face down, in the river, trying to cross into the USA
    Do you think that this picture will motivate Americans to become “holier than thou” and become example humanitarians?

    #48213
    zerosum
    Participant
    #48225
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    Highs and lows are higher and lower in 2019

    Here in the tropics (13°N latitude), at least the area I live in, has been remarkably “normal” so far.
    Three years ago we hit 41°/43°c for a few days in April (our hottest month). I weathered that with no air-conditioning; just fans. At that point I had been here for 14 years with no air; so aclimated pretty well in that time.
    I never know quite what to think when I read about all the deaths in the U.S. and Europe in temperatures like that.
    We did finally get air, a little over 2 years ago. At 74yo anything over 38°c does tend to get to me now…
    So, I know age can be a factor in temperature tolerance…
    😉

    #48226
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    I never know quite what to think when I read about all the deaths in the U.S. and Europe in temperatures like that.

    Well, I thought about what I said above and realized that the key word is acclimated.
    Living in the northern climes; one has no chance to acclimate.
    Hitting temps like 41°/43°c would stress everything in the human body…
    …okay, I get it… 😉

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