Jul 292022
 


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Ukraine Shells Prison Holding POWs – Donbass Official (RT)
US Should Not Fund Ukrainian ‘Blacklist’ (Scott Ritter)
Provoking Beijing (MoA)
UK Official Says Nuclear War Threat Higher Than During the Cold War (Antiwar)
US GDP Drops 0.9 Percent In Second Quarter (PM)
‘Horror Chart’ Suggests Germany On Brink Of Huge Energy Crisis (RT)
Hanover Becomes First German City To Ban Hot Water In Public Buildings (DM)
EU Ban On Russian Gas ‘Impossible’ – Austria (RT)
EU Gas Solidarity Complicated By Lack Of Fuel Sharing Deals (R.)
Worst Is Yet To Come From Trudeau Liberals (Jordan Peterson)
Bill Barr To Merrick Garland: Appoint A Special Counsel Already (Fed.)
Joe Biden Met With 14 Of His Son’s Business Associates (RT)
They Can’t Let Him Back In (Michael Anton)

 

 

 

 

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Ukraine Shells Prison Holding POWs – Donbass Official (RT)

Dozens were killed after Ukrainian forces struck a jail with POWs in Donbass, local official says Ukrainian troops shelled a prison housing POWs in Yelenovka early Friday morning, Donetsk People’s Republic Deputy Information Minister Daniil Bezsonov wrote on his Telegram channel. “There was a direct hit at a building with prisoners,” Bezsonov wrote. “The results as of now: 40 killed, 130 wounded.” The minister added that he believes Kiev used US-supplied HIMARS multiple rocket launchers for the attack. The facility reportedly housed Ukrainian fighters captured by Russian and allied forces during the siege of the Azovstal steel mill in the city of Mariupol.

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“Many on this list are citizens of the United States, some of whom, like me, have taken an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

US Should Not Fund Ukrainian ‘Blacklist’ (Scott Ritter)

Dear Senators Schumer and Gillibrand, and Congressman Tonko, My name is Scott Ritter. I am a New York State resident, currently residing in the Town of Bethlehem, in Albany County. My family and I have lived at our current address since July 2000. I am writing to you in your collective role as my elected representatives in the United States Congress, specifically regarding H.R. 7691, the Additional Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2022, which became Public Law 117-128 on May 21, 2022, which each of you voted in favor of. I draw your attention to the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, specifically the following language: “Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.”

By enacting Public Law 117-128, you appear to have abrogated your Constitutional responsibilities in so far as you may have, in fact, made a law which both abridges the freedom of speech and a free press by enabling the Government of Ukraine, through the use of US taxpayer dollars appropriated under Public Law 117-128, to publish a “blacklist” singling out US citizens as “Russian propagandists” for exercising their Constitutional rights pertaining to free speech and a free press. The “blacklist” in question was published on July 14, 2022, by the Ukrainian Center for Countering Disinformation, and consists of a list of politicians, academics, and activists who the Center claims promote “Russian propaganda.” Many on this list are citizens of the United States, some of whom, like me, have taken an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States.

While the specific criterion used by the Ukrainian Center for Countering Disinformation for selecting persons for inclusion on this “blacklist” is not known, in my case the Ukrainian government appears to have taken umbrage against my articulation of Ukraine as a NATO base of operations, my analysis of the Bucha Massacre in early March which assigns responsibility to Ukrainian security services, and my description of the current Ukraine-Russian conflict as a “proxy conflict” being waged on behalf of the United States. Whether one agrees with my positions on these and other matters pertaining to Ukraine is not the point; by articulating my views, I am exercising my rights under the Constitution of the United States. While the Government of Ukraine is free to express its opinions regarding my viewpoints as it sees fit, the Government of the United States, by using funds appropriated by the United States Congress, should not facilitate the actions of the Government of Ukraine in this regard.

[..] As a constituent whose name has appeared on a so-called “blacklist” published by the Ukrainian Center for Countering Disinformation, my personal and professional life has been, and continues to be, detrimentally impacted by the chilling effect of being labeled a “Russian propagandist” for simply exercising the right to free speech guaranteed by the United States Constitution. Moreover, Ukraine has a history of converting “blacklists” of this nature into “kill lists”, where those who speak out against the policies of the Ukrainian government are being murdered or threatened with violence.

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Nancy missed the past 30 years.

Provoking Beijing (MoA)

Yves Smith is aghast about the U.S. eyepoking of China: “The neocons above all seem unable to process that the days of US hegemony are over. It boggles the mind that they are not just eyepoking but escalating greatly with China via the still-planned Pelosi visit to Taiwan in August. As we’ll explain, China is fully cognizant of the fact that Pelosi is number two in line after Harris should something happen to the increasingly addle-brained Biden. And they don’t buy for a second that Pelosi is operating without the explicit approval of the Administration. Note that it’s entirely possible that Pelosi revived her Taiwan trip plan (recall she put it off after coming down with Covid) all on her own. The Pentagon gave her a face-saving out by saying they didn’t recommend it. China, which is routinely screechy when it is upset about what it perceives to be foreign transgressions, has managed to find new registers in its objections the proposed Pelosi visit.”

Pelosi is not only number two in line but has been hostile to the Chinese government for more than 30 years. In 1991 she and two other members of Congress made a stunt on the Tiananmen square where two years before protests had taken place. The multiday protest in the square had ended peacefully. But outside of the square bloody riots took place over several days and nights during which hundreds of soldiers and rioters got killed. The protest and riots had been a U.S. instigated color revolution attempt with the father of the color revolution concept, Gene Sharp, being personally in the Beijing and consulting the protest leaders. After the attempt had failed the CIA organized the exit of hundreds of protest leaders and agents to Hong Kong where they formed the base for the 2020 color revolution attempt there. Lots of those ‘activists’ have now moved to Taiwan.

In 1991 Pelosi and two congressmen unfolded a banner on Tianamen in front of the international media that said: “To those who died for democracy in China.” Police immediately intervened and ended the stunt. The stunt had a positive echo in U.S. media (Note: The video title says it is 1989 but the announcer says it is two years later). Pelosi may think she can recreate another positive media echo by traveling to Taiwan. But the China of 2022 is no longer the China of 1991. It is now the world’s biggest economy and its military force rivals the one the U.S. has. It no longer condones eyepoking and ‘human rights’ stunts. It knows a U.S. provocation when it sees one. In the 1950s and 60s the U.S. financed terrorism in Tibet. In 1989 it coached and financed a bloody color revolution attempt in Beijing. In the 1990s it brought Islamist terrorism to Xinjiang. In this century the U.S. instigated several periods of riots in Hong Kong.

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“..during the Cold War, there was an “understanding of the Soviet doctrine and capabilities — and vice versa” because they kept more negotiation channels open.”

UK Official Says Nuclear War Threat Higher Than During the Cold War (Antiwar)

British National Security Advisor Stephen Lovegrove warned on Thursday that there is a greater risk of nuclear war today than there was during the Cold War due to a lack of communication channels. “The Cold War’s two monolithic blocks of the USSR (Soviet Union) and NATO — though not without alarming bumps — were able to reach a shared understanding of doctrine that is today absent,” Lovegrove said. He said during the Cold War, there was an “understanding of the Soviet doctrine and capabilities — and vice versa” because they kept more negotiation channels open. “This gave us both a higher level of confidence that we would not miscalculate our way into nuclear war,” Lovegrove said.

“Today we do not have the same foundations with others who may threaten us in future — particularly with China,” he said. Today, there is only one remaining nuclear arms control treaty between the US and Russia, the New START, which limits the deployment of nuclear warheads, bombers, submarines, and missiles. Since Russia invaded Ukraine, the US has abandoned diplomacy with Moscow, and US officials have said they can’t imagine negotiating a replacement of New START before it expires in 2026. The US has no nuclear arms control treaties with China, which has a vastly smaller arsenal than the US or Russia. Current estimates put Beijing’s arsenal at around 350 warheads, while the US has 5,550 and Russia has about 6,200.

During the Trump administration, the US tried to get Beijing to take part in trilateral arms control talks with Moscow and Washington. But China has little interest in such talks while its arsenal is so much smaller. If the US were serious about getting China involved, it would need to work with Russia to significantly reduce its stockpiles. Besides the lack of communication, the risk of nuclear war is significantly higher today because the US is funding a war on Russia’s border and helping Ukraine with intelligence to carry out attacks on Russian forces. The US is also stoking tensions with China by deploying more military forces in the South China Sea and increasing support for Taiwan.

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What Is A Woman? – Part 2

US GDP Drops 0.9 Percent In Second Quarter (PM)

The Bureau of Economic Analysis has released their report on the second quarter GDP. “Real gross domestic product (GDP) decreased at an annual rate of 0.9 percent in the second quarter of 2022, according to the ‘advance’ estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the first quarter, real GDP decreased 1.6 percent.” By standard definitions, two consecutive quarters of declining GDP growth indicates that a nation is in an economic recession. President Joe Biden said on Monday that the US is not facing a recession. “We’re not going to be in a recession, in my view,” Biden said. “The unemployment rate is still one of the lowest we’ve had in history. It’s in the 3.6 percent area. We still find ourselves with people investing.”

“The decrease in real GDP reflected decreases in private inventory investment, residential fixed investment, federal government spending, state and local government spending, and nonresidential fixed investment that were partly offset by increases in exports and personal consumption expenditures (PCE). Imports, which are a subtraction in the calculation of GDP, increased,” the BEA reports. The White House last week adjusted the definition of recession to distinctly not mean that two consecutive quarters of declining GDP growth is a recession. “While some maintain that two consecutive quarters of falling real GDP constitute a recession, that is neither the official definition nor the way economists evaluate the state of the business cycle,” the White House wrote.


“Instead, both official determinations of recessions and economists’ assessment of economic activity are based on a holistic look at the data—including the labor market, consumer and business spending, industrial production, and incomes. Based on these data, it is unlikely that the decline in GDP in the first quarter of this year—even if followed by another GDP decline in the second quarter—indicates a recession,” the White House said.

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Zschaepitz : “This horror chart suggests that #Germany is heading for a huge energy crisis. Not only are gas prices near record highs, but electricity prices in particular are signaling stress.”

‘Horror Chart’ Suggests Germany On Brink Of Huge Energy Crisis (RT)

Germany is heading for a “huge energy crisis,” a senior editor at one of the country’s most influential newspapers, Die Welt, warned on Wednesday. “Not only [are] gas prices near record highs, but electricity prices in particular are signaling stress,” Holger Zschaepitz, a senior editor on the daily’s economic and financial desk, wrote on Twitter. In what he called a “horror chart” that he posted with his tweet, Zschaepitz showed that the price of electricity had reached almost €400 per megawatt hour on the energy exchange, or €0.40 per kilowatt-hour. If consumer prices reflected such market rates, Germans would be paying around €0.80 per kilowatt-hour rather than the current €0.30, including taxes and fees. However, such a sharp increase would be socially explosive, Zschaepitz suggests.

Meanwhile, in such a case energy companies would no longer be able to produce competitively, he adds. Electricity prices in Germany are influenced by the price of natural gas, which is the source of 15% of the country’s electricity, according to official statistics. Gas prices have nearly quadrupled this year, primarily due to shrinking flow from Russia, the continent’s major supplier. The price crunch has already led to a partial nationalization of one of Germany’s largest energy supply companies. The German government announced last week it would acquire a 30% stake in Uniper after the company asked for a bailout, citing “extreme financial pressure” caused by the reduced Russian natural gas deliveries.

The curtailment of gas flows meant that rather than being able to fully rely on its long-term contracts at a fixed price, Uniper has recently been forced to buy gas on the spot market at a much higher price to make up for shortages. According to a recent report by Bloomberg, European energy firms are racking up debt to cover the soaring costs, with their liabilities having reportedly reached over $1.7 trillion.

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Shoot. Foot.

Hanover Becomes First German City To Ban Hot Water In Public Buildings (DM)

The Germany city of Hanover has become the first big city in Europe to ban hot water and central heating in public buildings in response to Vladimir Putin’s weaponizing of gas supplies. The drastic step comes as Germans have been told to expect sky high electricity bills and sweeping gas rationing measures that will affect their day-to-day lives. In a sign of things to come, Hanover, the capital of Lower Saxony in the north west of the country, will cut off the hot water in public buildings, swimming pools, sports halls and gyms. Other desperate gas-saving measures include switching off public fountains and blacking out night-time lights on major buildings such as the town hall and museums. The city’s mayor, Belit Onay, spoke of an ‘imminent gas shortage’ that meant they had to reduce the city’s energy consumption by 15 per cent.


The plans call for shutting off heating within public buildings between April and September each year, and thermostats set at just 20C (68F) for the rest of the year, although there will be some exemptions. There will also be a ban on portable air conditioners, heaters and radiators among the general populace as the average German begins to pay a price for standing up to the Russian dictator. The panic among European states – especially Germany – will likely come as music to Putin’s ears, as he is seen to be cutting energy supplies in retaliation for countries that have supported Ukraine after he invaded the country. Germany, like most of Europe, has been enjoying a hot summer which should soften the blow of the cold showers, but public officials are introducing the measures now in fear of what awaits them when the season turns.

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“..the German industry also depends on it, and if it collapses, the Austrian industry will also collapse, and we will face mass unemployment..”

EU Ban On Russian Gas ‘Impossible’ – Austria (RT)

The European Union cannot ban Russian natural gas, as the step would harm EU members more than Russia, Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer warned on Thursday, as cited by Austrian media outlets. Chancellor Nehammer made the comments during a visit to Vienna by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. “Sanctions must hit those against whom they are directed more, but not harm those who decide them,” Nehammer told the Austria Press Agency. A ban on gas supplies from Russia – an idea that has been circulating within the EU since Moscow started its military operation in Ukraine – would lead to a domino effect in Europe, the Austrian chancellor suggested.

“Austria’s position is that an embargo on gas is impossible. Not only because Austria depends on Russian gas, the German industry also depends on it, and if it collapses, the Austrian industry will also collapse, and we will face mass unemployment,” Nehammer said, as cited by Lenta.ru. Viktor Orban criticized the gas rationing plan approved by the EU – which aims to reduce gas consumption within the bloc by 15% from August to March next year – earlier this week. According to the Hungarian PM, the mandatory rationing of natural gas is “the first sign of a war economy,” and warned of a possible recession and unemployment in Europe.

Europe has seen reduced gas flow from Russia – a major supplier – due to technical issues at a major pipeline. Nord Stream 1 is currently operating at 20% capacity. The reduction comes as the continent is trying to top up its gas reserves ahead of the heating season. The EU pledged earlier this year to end the bloc’s reliance on Russian energy. A partial embargo on oil was agreed upon, but several rounds of sanctions have not included similar restrictions on Russian natural gas.

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The EU is made up of bureaucrats, so of course pratical things do not get done.

EU Gas Solidarity Complicated By Lack Of Fuel Sharing Deals (R.)

The European Union clinched a deal this week to cope with a gas supply crisis, but to make it work member states need to establish bilateral pacts to share gas and, right now, most have no such agreement in place. Only six such deals have been secured, leaving most of the EU’s 27 countries without firm terms on how and when they would share gas in a supply crunch, or the financial compensation they would give or get for doing so. “[Bilateral deals] are really … the only thing that will hold at the end of the day if there is a real supply crisis,” Christian Egenhofer, associate senior research fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies, said. “They organise the legal stuff, the compensation, the financial but also the infrastructure constraints,” he said.

Fearing Russia may completely halt gas flows, EU countries agreed on Tuesday to curb their gas use by 15% over winter, to fill storage and free up fuel to share around in a supply crisis. But it is up to individual countries to sort out how that sharing of fuel will happen in practice. EU laws oblige member states to send gas to a neighboring state whose households or essential services like hospitals face a severe shortage. To make that happen, governments arrange bilateral deals. However, just eight countries are covered by the six agreements so far – including between Germany and Austria, Estonia and Latvia, and Italy and Slovenia. “This is not sufficient,” EU energy policy chief Kadri Simson said last month, urging countries to arrange more.

A handful of countries are negotiating new two-way agreements, government officials said. A German-Czech deal is due to be signed by winter, and Germany is working on further agreements with Poland and Italy, its economy ministry said. But some countries heavily reliant on Russian gas – such as landlocked Hungary, which opposed this week’s deal – have none. Italy and France are the EU’s biggest gas users after economic powerhouse Germany. Italy has just one bilateral deal on emergency gas sharing and France has none. A senior Italian official said the country was negotiating a deal with Greece on gas storage.

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“I simply cannot believe that this absolute failure of economic policy is now being trumpeted as a positive accomplishment.

Worst Is Yet To Come From Trudeau Liberals (Jordan Peterson)

I have had the great privilege of travelling to 40 American cities in just about as many states and to 15 European countries in the last four months, in the waning days of the great COVID panic, and I have learned many things about our great and self-conscious nation. First: I have not travelled anywhere else where the citizens and the government are more neurotically “concerned” about the pandemic. It may have escaped Canadians’ notice, but virtually nowhere else in the developed world is it now required to wear a mask, as is still mandatory in many of Canada’s airports and on flights out of our benighted country. There is absolutely no excuse for this, except the punitive self-righteousness of the Trudeau Liberals.

What else might you expect, however, from a government that also includes Chrystia Freeland, a deputy prime minister who has bragged about her colleagues’ appalling economic performance, claiming that it is actually good for Canadians to empty their wallets at the gas pumps, because of its implications in fighting the “climate emergency.” I simply cannot believe that this absolute failure of economic policy is now being trumpeted as a positive accomplishment. Here’s a hint for you saintly progressives: if you cared about the poor (the real poor, not the hypothetical poor you are hypothetically saving in the future), you would seek to drive down the cost of energy — energy that is precisely equivalent to work and, therefore, to the wealth that ameliorates poverty.

Second: it is almost impossible to overstate the degree to which Canada’s international reputation has been damaged by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The Americans I have talked to (including people very well-placed politically on the Democratic and Republican fronts alike) listen in disbelief when I recount the claim brought forth by the Trudeau Liberals: that the trucker Freedom Convoy was financed by Americans hell-bent on bringing about a Jan. 6-style insurrection in Ottawa. Who would benefit from that, even in principle? Even if the Americans (Republican MAGA-types, say) cared about us — which they don’t — why in the world would they want to destabilize Canadian democracy? What’s the motive, to justify the crime? There is none. Even the American Democrats think that idea is insane.

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Barr 180º.

Bill Barr To Merrick Garland: Appoint A Special Counsel Already (Fed.)

Recent developments warrant the appointment of a special counsel to investigate Hunter Biden, former Attorney General William Barr says. “[I]ntervening events, especially recent reports about FBI whistleblowers and the possible reach of the investigation, warrant adding the protections of special counsel status to assure that key decisions are made independently without political ‘favor,’” Barr told The Federalist. President Joe Biden’s son Hunter has been under federal investigation since 2018 for issues related to his foreign business practices, including obtaining investments and board positions from politically compromised figures in communist China and other trouble spots. Multiple U.S. attorney’s offices were tasked with components of the investigation, with the Delaware office being the lead.

Hunter Biden’s problems became much more public with the news that he had left a laptop full of incriminating information at a computer repair store in Delaware. That news was then suppressed by Democrat-allied intelligence officials falsely claiming it was Russian disinformation. This week, multiple FBI whistleblowers, including those in senior positions, accused FBI headquarters of “improperly discredit[ing] and falsely claim[ing] that derogatory information about Biden’s activities was disinformation, causing investigative activity and sourcing to be shut down,” according to a Monday letter from Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa. That fact, as well as concern over the investigation’s complexity and scope, convinced the former attorney general of the need for a special counsel.

By highlighting the apparent breadth of the still-pending investigation into Hunter Biden’s affairs, Barr’s comments confirm concerns of three insiders, reported by The Federalist on Wednesday, that “the Delaware U.S. Attorney’s Office investigating Hunter Biden lacks the wherewithal and resources to adequately probe the dubious financial dealings of the Biden family and their business partners.” Barr’s view that a special counsel is now warranted to continue the investigation into Hunter Biden’s business dealings represents a change from the position he took in December 2020.

During a December 21, 2020 press conference, when asked whether he agreed with Republicans that a special counsel was needed to handle the Biden investigation, Barr negated the idea. “I think it’s being handled responsibly and professionally currently within the department, and to this point I have seen no reason to appoint a special counsel, and I have no plan to do so before I leave,” the outgoing attorney general told reporters.

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Get that counsel.

Joe Biden Met With 14 Of His Son’s Business Associates (RT)

Despite repeated denials that he ever spoke to his son Hunter about the latter’s overseas business dealings, Fox News reported on Thursday that President Joe Biden met with at least 14 of Hunter’s business associates from the US, Mexico, Ukraine, China and Kazakhstan. Abandoned in a Delaware computer repair shop some time before the 2020 election and unearthed by the New York Post, Hunter’s laptop contained presumed evidence of numerous foreign deals in which businessmen offered tens of millions of dollars for introductions to Joe Biden, as well as graphic proof of Hunter’s drug use and dalliances with prostitutes.

“I have never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings,” Biden insisted in 2019. When last month Britain’s Daily Mail published a 2018 voicemail featuring Biden speaking to Hunter about a deal with Chinese oil firm CEFC, the official line remained the same, with White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre saying that “what the president said still stands.” Fox News’ latest report casts serious doubt on Biden’s denial. According to the news site, Joe Biden met with Mexican businessmen Miguel Aleman Velasco and Miguel Aleman Magnani in 2014, giving the pair a tour of the White House. A year later, Biden reportedly spoke by video with Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim and all three Mexicans – whom Hunter was doing business with or in negotiations with at the time – visited them at the vice presidential residence in Washington DC.

In a text message found on the laptop, Hunter told his business partner, Jeff Cooper, that he had spoken to his father about the deal involving Slim. Joe Biden also reportedly met with former Colombian President Andres Pastrana Arango and Eric Schwerin, another of Hunter’s business partners, in 2012, before dining with Arango and Juan Esteban Orduz, a Colombian businessman, later that same day. Files from the laptop show that during a single dinner in 2015, Joe Biden met with Hunter’s business associates from Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Russia, including an executive from Burisma Holdings, the Ukrainian energy company that paid Hunter a reported $50,000 per month from 2014 to 2018 to sit on its board. The following day, the Burisma executive emailed Hunter, thanking him for “giving an opportunity to meet your father.”

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Anton is a former Trump WH adviser.

They Can’t Let Him Back In (Michael Anton)

Why? They say Jan. 6. But their determination began much earlier. And just what is so terrible about Trump anyway? I get many of his critics’ points, I really do. I hear them all the time from my mother. But even if we were to stipulate them all, do Trump’s faults really warrant tearing the country apart by shutting out half of it from the political process? Love him or hate him, during Trump’s presidency, the economy was strong, markets were up, inflation was under control, gas prices were low, illegal border crossings were down, crime was lower, trade deals were renegotiated, ISIS was defeated, NATO allies were stepping up, and China was stepping back (a little). Deny all that if you want to. The point here is that something like 100 million Americans believe it, strongly, and are bewildered and angered by elite hatred for the man they think delivered it.

Nor was Trump’s record all that radical—much less so than that of Joe Biden, who is using school-lunch funding to push gender ideology on poor kids, to cite but one example. Trump’s core agenda—border protection, trade balance, foreign restraint—was quite moderate, both intrinsically and in comparison to past Republican and Democratic precedent. And that’s before we even get to the fact that Trump neglected much of his own agenda in favor of the old Chamber of Commerce, fusionist, Reaganite, Conservatism, Inc., agenda. Corporate tax cuts, deregulation, and bombing Syria: These are all things Trump’s base doesn’t want, but the oligarchs desperately do, which Trump gave them. And still they try to destroy him.

Again, why? I think it’s because, while Trump’s core MAGA agenda is decidedly not outside the historic bipartisan mainstream, it is well outside the present regime’s core interests. Our rulers’ wealth and power rise with open borders, trade giveaways, and endless war. Trump, at least in principle, and often in practice, threatens all three. The old America—the one in which Republicans cared about the heartland and weren’t solely valets to corporate power, Democrats were pro-worker and anti-war, and Bill Clinton and The New York Times could advocate border security—is in the process of being replaced, if it hasn’t already been, by one in which there is only one acceptable opinion on not just these, but all other issues.

Anti-Trump hysteria is in the final analysis not about Trump. The regime can’t allow Trump to be president not because of who he is (although that grates), but because of who his followers are. That class—Angelo Codevilla’s “country class”—must not be allowed representation by candidates who might implement their preferences, which also, and above all, must not be allowed. The rubes have no legitimate standing to affect the outcome of any political process, because of who they are, but mostly because of what they want. Complaints about the nature of Trump are just proxies for objections to the nature of his base. It doesn’t help stabilize our already twitchy situation that those who bleat the loudest about democracy are also audibly and visibly determined to deny a real choice to half the country. “No matter how you vote, you will not get X”—whether X is a candidate or a policy—is guaranteed to increase discontent with the present regime.

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    Odilon Redon Sunset n.d.   • Ukraine Shells Prison Holding POWs – Donbass Official (RT) • US Should Not Fund Ukrainian ‘Blacklist’ (Scott Ritter)
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle July 29 2022]

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    “The US military, under the Biden Administration, has also implemented woke policies that deter future members from enlisting or re-enlisting. Elaine Donnelly, president of the Center for Military Readiness, said prioritizing the woke agenda has alienated the once core conservative, traditional members. “It sends a message that if your son or daughter joins the military, if they’re not of a certain skin complexion or sex, they might be investigated for extremism,” she stated. “They alienated their constituency.”

    The Army is now stating that it could fail to reach its recruitment goal by an alarming 25% in 2022. The Army is set to decline by 10,000 troops this year, and an additional 14,000 to 21,000 in 2023. All branches of the military are failing to recruit members, but these figures have not been seen since the end of the Vietnam War. The Army has until September 30 to meet its recruitment goal of 60,000 soldiers. So far, they have only achieved 50% of that figure.
    https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/us-military-failing-to-meet-recruitment-goals/

    “On August 1, the European Commission will begin to reduce its demand for gas with no alternative in place. Unsurprisingly, our computer states that a Panic Cycle will begin in August or September and go into Q1 of 2023.”

    Not sure what a “Panic Cycle” is defined as for Armstrong, but he’s not wrong colloquially.

    “Member states are now required to submit energy plans to the Commission by the end of September”

    Classic Europe. SUBMIT plans by September? They need to be two months into implementing action and chasing down the stragglers by Sept 1. But they’ll have PLANS by then. Then some discussions, committees, maybe objections, revisions. Already Spain and Portugal said they won’t. Not that they use a lot, likely.

    “Simson and others are calling on the public sector to reduce demand.”

    Oh the PUBLIC sector!!! Yes, YOU get all the gas you want, in every building and mansion, while WE get cold water and bread. Got it. And why is all this again? Explain it to me in tiny words.

    “This will fall back to the citizens, who will be asked to limit their consumption and abandon comforts for a proxy war they never voted on.”

    “FDA Warns Puberty-Blockers May Cause Vision-Loss In Children”

    And Tavistok is being closed as a gender-change center essentially for chronic malpractice. Humans aren’t bugs: you can’t just swap genders back and forth without losing important or even critical functions that make one human: sexuality and childbearing, and to some extent common sexual orientation which has both mind and body components. These are events that will make it difficult for you to go on a date again, much less find a long-term relationship, family, and children. What will you do in your old age? I mean, when you’ve also voluntarily blinded yourself and your children, apparently?

    “LA Abandons Plan to Reimpose Mask Mandate as Multiple Cities Refused Enforcement”

    L.A. finally learns something. Maybe someday the rest of us will.

    From undertaker clips, etc, reports that gravediggers who don’t work even every day are now opening 2 graves a day in Ohio. It’s summer.

    A major anti-blood-clotting drug is now ordered so much that it’s in national shortage. But there’s no reason and nothing’s going on.

    “By enacting Public Law 117-128, you appear to have abrogated your Constitutional responsibilities in so far as you may have, in fact, made a law which both abridges the freedom of speech and a free press by enabling the Government of Ukraine, through the use of US taxpayer dollars appropriated under Public Law 117-128, to publish a “blacklist” singling out US citizens”

    Their response? “Yes, but that’s the GOOD part. What’s your objection again?”

    ” US GDP Drops 0.9 Percent In Second Quarter (PM) “

    They still think anyone is listening to them. If I FEEL a recession in my house, do I care? So who is this for? PMC virtue-signalers. As they are only on people still getting paid, and as the 1%’s managers and hand-job providers, the only ones that still constitute their voting base (outside of extensive cheating). Why say there’s no recession? Well as airtight -sshole tower-residents, they live exclusively in their BMWs and 2nd beach houses while their neighbors have 5 mile food lines by believing they are the good guys. So the re-definition that there’s no recession, there are no problems in Baltimore and Oklahoma lets them vote and obey in good conscience: This is Fine!!! The Country is fine! I mean, it’s fine at my house, I just drove my new Tesla to buy my third new grill.

    Reverse: if they lose the PMCs and Federal Employees, who do they have? In Civil War planning, the allegiance of this class of gov’t managers is critical.

    “Hanover Becomes First German City To Ban Hot Water In Public Buildings (DM)”

    Hahahaha! You so funny that this will save any gas: Brother can you spare a dime? No hot water in 20 whole bathrooms?

    Next fun: so they shut off gas. People then put in spot on-demand electric hot water tanks like they should have decades ago. Then then electric usage does what? Too complicated: can’t figure it out. Pro tip: Buy an Electric car.

    “Austrian industry will also collapse, and we will face mass unemployment..”

    Gosh, if only everyone had died exactly one year before the war, on Rosh Hashanah 2019. Then we wouldn’t have these problems.

    “nowhere else in the developed world is it now required to wear a mask, as is still mandatory in many of Canada’s airports and on flights out of our benighted country.”

    Sieg Heil!

    “Even the American Democrats think that idea is insane.”

    That’s insane indeed if even insane people think it’s insane. That’s a strange sentence – did he mean it that way? What does “Even DNC” mean to him?

    “Bill Barr to Merrick Garland: Appoint a Special Counsel Already (Fed.)”

    Thanks to Kamala Harris, they can’t drop Biden. She exists so when Trump ordered the Army to Occupy Congress in the coup they put up all those fences for (walls don’t work), they could claim “raysisss”…although Black and Asian people hate her more than Republicans do.

    So to appoint Hunter, they need to drop Biden. To drop Biden, they must advance Harris. To advance Harris, they need to remove Harris and add…who? There is no talent roster in the entire Democratic Party now that Gabbard is removed. Add Newsom, the most failed embarrassing Governor in the country, perhaps even ahead of Cuomo? Add Hillary or Pelosi as VP? Way, WAY too many steps in this plan. I’d say because they painted themselves in a corner, but really the White Hats just played the cards better. Should they have stayed in office? Enforced rule of law, and foreign election tampering the mass murder of Milley on the U.S. Military which is open treason? And then how on earth do you have voter revelations and a worldwide economic collapse that clears out the corruption and the US$?

    Anyway, on this long train comin’, they can’t appoint Hunter and they can’t make the story go away. Maybe they can get a Trump impersonator to shoot him on 5th Avenue.

    In actuality: they are going to queer the election in the biggest way in American history. No one will know who was really elected for 100 years. Then how do you seat Congress, etc?

    #112407
    Formerly T-Bear
    Participant

    Aspnaz at 112389 28 July 2022 Debt Rattle

    Thank you for your reply. Macron of France is proof of process, appearing out of political nowhere, generously funded, no prior political experience, well orchestrated organisation that put a turd in Ëlysée Palace (French Presidential residence) against all well known, experienced, professional national politicians. And that is supposed to be naturally acceptable political result? Since then, like toadstools, others have sprouted to also occupy key managerial positions, the thing in Canada comes to mind – Turdeau.

    Zombies may be the apt description of public awareness, zeitgeist of this age; seen everywhere on the public street, walking, glued to their screens, oblivious to any and all about them, a danger to themselves and other users of the public domain – shite for brains (or was that the ‘vaccine’).

    Antidote may be as simple as knowing the candidate for public office better than those who use the public media do (or tell you about). Look at what organisations which support that candidate, who might be funding their candidacy, know the candidate’s history, biography. If any of these are hidden or of questionable provenance, simply vote, possibly against ones preferred political leanings, for the optimal (if numerous) candidate or against the incumbent if less than transparent or cryptic biographic history can be reasonably expected, i.e. no known political position in full support of public interests.

    WEF will likely be an historical ‘flash in the pan’, not likely to last longer than the original manipulator and be gone as dust in the wind. The damage that may be caused extends to existential. Keeping their acolytes out of public office by knowing their provenance is essential. Always look to see who or what supports their candidacy for any candidate; support those who will not cause your interests harm. Keep in mind that although WEF may travel mostly by air, what goes up must come down sometime, somewhere.

    Your comment:

    The fools leading Holland are WEF puppets, so logic does not count, this is about following the WEF plan: this is just a part of the “you will own nothing and be happy” plan. They force purchase land and in return provide cash for you to pay rent, except that very soon that cash will be worthless.

    As this is WEF we can assume that their puppet politicians will be doing this all over the world. WEF shows itself to be a bunch of common thieves, not surprising as it is owned by oligarchs who, by definition, are criminals. A little bit of theft will not bother their consciences one little bit, so it is up to the people to defend their possessions using violence, or be unhappy slaves. Notice that the WEF overlords still remain in the shadows, afraid that the common people might end their foray on this planet.

    #112408
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    Once you recognise that we [in so-called western democracies] are governed by globalist scumbags -as per the cartoon- put into position by other globalist scumbags, and the globalist scumbags have huge armies of mindless, unqualified bureaucrats who are both self-serving liars and grossly incompetent, and these mindless bureaucrats use fraud to establish and maintain (ram down our throats) policies that are counterproductive, it all starts makes sense.

    When it comes to the question of what to do about this dismal predicament, we have to bear in mind that the bulk of the so-called media operates at the ten-year-old level (as opposed to the twelve-year-old level of politicians and bureaucrats) and the system has been carefully designed to ensure there is no accountability anywhere. Indeed, the worse mess politicians and bureaucrats make of everything, the more they are rewarded.

    Anticipating the ‘zombie apocalypse’ to commence later this year or early in 2023, and the end of the completely fraudulent and dysfunctional systems imposed on us by the moneylenders and corporations and their lackeys before 2025.

    Sadly, billions of people and most of the wildlife on this once-beautiful planet are going to suffer immensely during this meltdown.

    I noted to a friend that the war in Ukraine is mostly being fought with 1940s technology…explosions in barrels and explosions of projectiles.

    I’ve been saying for a log time that we are headed for fourteenth century living arrangements (at best) in the short term, and a new stone age or extinction in the longer term.

    Without a stable environment, nobody survives. And without energy, nothing happens.

    I guess the people of Sri Lanka are already learning that lesson. And the people of Europe are about to learn it.

    Until they do, the criminals and clowns remain in power.

    #112409
    Just Some Randomer
    Participant

    ” “The neocons above all seem unable to process that the days of US hegemony are over. It boggles the mind that they are not just eyepoking but escalating greatly with China via the still-planned Pelosi visit to Taiwan in August.”

    Exactly the same as the elite of the British Empire in the years following WWII. Still attempting to throw their weight around like they used to in the old days, not realising that the rest of the world is looking on at this with increasing contempt and, to be honest, incredulity.

    Ukraine could be (if indeed Afghanistan doesn’t turn out to be in hindsight) the US Empire’s ‘Suez Crisis’ moment – the event that finally brings home to the Neocons that they no longer have the power they once had and that the world has noticed that behind the shell of bluster and threat, there’s nothing to back that up.

    Will the TPTB in the US pack up their tents, relinquish their empire and find another way to pretend the glory days are still here, as the UK did, or will they go down fighting?

    #112410
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Russian Foreign Affairs major PR trolling of Eurotardistan

    hahahahaha

    #112411
    Oroboros
    Participant
    #112412
    Polder Dweller
    Participant

    Dutch farmers

    Around where I live, about ten miles from Amsterdam airport, Schiphol, there are a lot of upside-down flags, maybe on 10-15% of the lampposts. Head east from here into the next province (Utrecht) and there are whole streets where every lamppost has a flag. I think it’s a great protest as it harms no one, keeps the struggle uppermost in people’s minds and clearly annoys the government.

    A couple of days ago there was a news report that the flags would have to be taken down as some people found them annoying. In the comments people wrote that they found the Ukrainian flags everywhere annoying and asked if those could be taken down too. So TPTB had to change tactic and the next news item said that the flags would have to come down because they’re dangerous. Well, that was met with no end of ridicule, so for the time being the flags will stay.

    As for the blocking of roads etc, yes, the farmers are doing snap actions, dumping stuff on a highway and then going somewhere else. Every day different roads are targeted. However, no one knows who is setting light to bales of straw and car tyres. It could be some extra militant farmers but more likely it’s so called Romeos who are people hired by the police and dressed in farmers’ clothes who do this in order to swing public opinion against the farmers.

    This may sound far fetched but it isn’t as there are many videos circulating of Romeos emptying out of police vans at demonstrations and then deliberately stirring up trouble so that the heavy police can move in hard and break a few skulls. Also, despite the fact that there are cameras on many bridges over the motorways, the police somehow haven’t managed to find any footage of farmers doing these thingss.

    Public support is still above 70% even though the MSM keeps saying that it’s reducing.

    #112413
    Mr. House
    Participant

    Huzzah for Dutch Farmers, glad somebody is fighting the good fight

    #112414
    Mr. House
    Participant

    good news guys, clownworld is going to get even more entertaining soon!

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/politics/19359667/rishi-sunak-gambles-on-interview/

    #112415
    zerosum
    Participant

    Bloggers are informed

    The US is funding a war on Russia’s border and helping Ukraine with intelligence to carry out attacks on Russian forces. The US is also stoking tensions with China by deploying more military forces in the South China Sea and increasing support for Taiwan.
    ————
    GDP – The number are lies
    Change/increase the government spending numbers

    gross domestic product (GDP) decreased at an annual rate of 0.9 percent in the second quarter of 2022, according to the ‘advance’ estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the first quarter, real GDP decreased 1.6 percent.” By standard definitions, two consecutive quarters of declining GDP growth indicates that a nation is in an economic recession.
    ————
    At 40%

    The curtailment of gas flows meant that rather than being able to fully rely on its long-term contracts at a fixed price, Uniper has recently been forced to buy gas on the spot market at a much higher price to make up for shortages. According to a recent report by Bloomberg, European energy firms are racking up debt to cover the soaring costs, with their liabilities having reportedly reached over $1.7 trillion.

    Now its 20%

    Who will be forced to cut back, people or industry?

    What are you going to do?
    no gas on the spot market
    —————–
    • Worst Is Yet To Come From Trudeau Liberals (Jordan Peterson)

    Rough times are a-coming, what with the cascading consequences of energy shortages, supply chain disruptions, war in Ukraine/donation of military inventory, and severe and looming food and fertilizer shortages, crop failures, labor shortage, inflation, recession, ignoring the plight of growing poverty/street people, unaffordability of housing,
    propaganda – medical fear of covid/monkeypox,

    ———–
    Hate is in the air
    • They Can’t Let Him Back In (Michael Anton)
    just what is so terrible about Trump anyway?
    ————

    #112416
    Red
    Participant

    This is in the UK and likely isn’t far off for the rest of the west.

    Quantifying the Cut Back Economy
    Our research shows almost 9 in 10 (86%) consumers plan to cut back their spending over the next twelve months due to the rising cost of living. Of those planning to cut back, more than a quarter (28%) intend to do so across all areas of their spending.

    https://view.ceros.com/grant-thornton/the-cut-back-economy/p/3

    #112417
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://www.rt.com/russia/559817-ukraine-shells-prison-holding-pows/
    Ukraine shells prison holding POWs – DPR
    Dozens died after Kiev’s forces struck a jail in Donbass, a local official claims
    “There was a direct hit at a building with prisoners,” Bezsonov wrote on Telegram. “The results as of now: 40 killed, 130 wounded.”

    The minister added that he believes Kiev used US-supplied HIMARS multiple rocket launchers for the attack.

    The facility reportedly housed Ukrainian fighters captured by Russian and allied forces during the siege of the Azovstal steel mill in the city of Mariupol.

    ————–
    https://www.rt.com/russia/559831-ukraine-pow-missile-strike/
    Russia claims Ukraine had a reason to kill its own POWs
    At least 53 people died in a strike on a detention center in Donbass
    The ministry said the facility held members of Ukraine’s Azov Battalion, whose fighters surrendered to Russian and Donbass forces during the siege of the Azovstal steel mill in Mariupol. The battalion is notorious because it includes fighters with nationalist and neo-Nazi views.

    Speaking to Russia’s TV Channel One, DPR head Denis Pushilin claimed that the Ukrainians “deliberately” targeted the detention center in order to kill Azov members who had been providing testimonies about possible war crimes by their commanders.
    —————

    #112418
    HerrWerner
    Participant

    Some gems in the comments this week. @dr-d Dr.D thanks for the link “why liberals dump their oldest friends” I’m testing that idea, and it seems to fit. It explains the EXTREMELY visceral response – point out that there’s nuance in any story, challenge any bit of official dogma (on covid, ukraine, vax, green energy, ad infinitum) and it is met with fight-or-flight (KILL OR OUTRUN!!1! ALLCAPS!!11!! ) That’s the amygdala reacting, dominating the response. It is not conscious. I’ve watched ppl’s eyes, facial reactions. It’s reflexive, like disgust or fear or phobia.
    There’s no reasoning with it; you cannot get around that reaction with logic, or even compassion in my experience. It bypasses the thought process, like the dread I feel when my fear of heights overwhelms my reason. The article assembled two missing bits for me – the amygdala’s role, and the concept that repeated training re-wires the brain. Exposure to NPR,PBS,BBC,Guardian et, – or any repeated stimulus – rewires the brain to simplify that task – evolutionary advantage (reduces the cognitive requirements of the brain, a sensible adaptation for the organ that takes 1/3 of the body’s resources to run 😀 )

    DBS thanks for sharing your survival story in Alaska! That was a near-miss, about as close as you can get to tragedy and walk away. Your take on the lesson is spot-on, I wouldn’t have figured it out right away. Understand what other people really do “owe” you, and make sure it matches what *they* think they “owe” you.


    @Oxymoron
    your comments on animals reflect the stories (fictionalized real-life stories) from James Herriot’s farmers from the 1930s – animals were not coddled like today’s pets – animals were for meat, or else they were working animals (cat= mouser, dog=watchdog+ratter, horse=tractor) The old timers would not spend hard-earned “brass” on a vet bill for a cat. Only for a cow or a work-animal. Those stories are from a more austere time, like the one we’re headed into. People now may think that view as cold-hearted.
    That said, we have two dogs and a cat that we will spend a ton of cash to keep them healthy and happy – they are not working animals but my companion animals, they give comfort and joy when many of the humans in my life the last 2 yrs have become insufferable and unsupportive. I recognize it as a privilege do so, for as long as it lasts!
    A couple of Herriot’s stories are heartwarming because they tell the opposite – a businesslike farmer who cries over the pig he has just turned into bacon, a farmer who’s embarrassed to bring his dog to the vet because it reveals just how much he’s worried about his canine friend.

    #112419
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    American Diplomacy as a Tragic Drama

    American Diplomacy as a Tragic Drama

    #112420
    kultsommer
    Participant

    That “The Good Reset” illustration resembles cover page of some Jehovah witnesses brochure.
    Incidentally, that’s how globalists envision the (sustainable) World for themselves and half-a-bill of servants.

    #112428
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    “They Can’t Let Him Back In (Michael Anton)
    just what is so terrible about Trump anyway?”

    …because Trump isn’t Tulsi Gabbard and his Mask doesn’t obscure quite as effectively as Presidential Candidate Gabbard’s disguise.

    #112429
    #112430
    Bill7
    Participant

    This is quite good from Patrick Lawrence,
    as far as it goes:

    Patrick Lawrence: The Causes of Things

    Still not seeing an adequate big-picture
    analysis, though.

    #112431
    citizenx
    Participant

    Civil Disobedience, Rise Up

    A Civil Disturbance – Wounded Knee 1973

    They took the whole Cherokee nation
    Put us on this reservation
    Took away our ways of life
    The tomahawk and the bow and knife

    Took away our native tongue
    And taught their English to our young
    And all the beads we made by hand
    Are nowadays made in Japan

    Cherokee people
    Cherokee tribe
    So proud to live
    So proud to die

    They took the whole Indian nation
    Locked us on this reservation
    Though I wear a shirt and tie
    I’m still part redman deep inside

    Cherokee people
    Cherokee tribe
    So proud to live
    So proud to die

    But maybe someday when we’ve learned
    Cherokee nation will return
    Will return, will return
    Will return, will return

    #112432
    zerosum
    Participant

    Amsterdam, Netherlands

    Another mass protest in solidarity for the farmers. But still the media aren’t extensively reporting on this.

    Geee Our leader must be deaf and dumb.
    They didn’t pay attention to the farmer protest in India.
    Are our leader waiting until farmers impact their diner?
    (PS. The rebel can eat cake)

    #112433
    zerosum
    Participant

    You should hang your head in shame
    Your USA Christians leaders are Proud to brag about being part of, and instrumental in the killing and destruction as a sign of their superiority
    US Intelligence Tells Lawmakers Russian Casualties Surpass 75,000 In Ukraine

    #112434
    willem
    Participant

    @Bill7: Thanks for the link to the Patrick Lawrence article–a great read IMHO.

    #112435
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    Re the piece in today’s “rattle” above:
    https://nationalpost.com/opinion/jordan-peterson-worst-is-yet-to-come-from-trudeau-liberals

    Justin[e] Trudeau lost all his ways almost immediately and at the precise time when his “Principal Secretary to Prime Minister”, Gerald Butts, was punted out of Prime Minister’s Office (… yes, Butts was not perfect!). Subsequently, Chrystia Freeland, … and her force-obedient staff, took over that vacant position, … all has changed, for Trudeau, for Liberal Party of Canada, … for Canada, as a whole, …

    And so, it’s all about Chrystia Freeland, NOW!, … and all about her wet dreams. Her desire is to wedge Justin[e] out asap, … to become a Liberal Party leader by acclamation by the current set of Liberal Elites, … and eventually, become a Prime Minister of Canada, … or perhaps even Prime Minister of “soon liberated and free from Russian oppression” Ukraine!

    Anyway, … however you slice it, Jordan Peterson is correct, Canada will continue to resemble chaotic country for as long as Freeland reigns, … and only Canadian, Pepé Le Pew (aka. Pierre Marcel Poilievre), can save Canada now! Dog help us, …

    Go, Pepé! Go, …

    F.S.

    #112436
    chettt
    Participant

    I find the sudden surge of Monkeypox infections to be quite curious. I’ve tried to find out the vaccination status of those infected but to no avail. Does anyone know if the unvaccinated are also falling prey to it?

    #112437
    WES
    Participant

    HerrWarner:

    I am glad you enjoyed the article “Why Liberals Dump Their Oldest Friends”. I have had rather mixed reactions to this article. Most seem to think it is nothing special. I read it, and light blubs went off! I guess one’s reaction depends upon how one is wired.

    Just Some Randomer:

    The TPTB will not go away. If they fail, they will punish us for their failure. Just like the German people failed Hitler.

    Bill Barr:

    As the Uniparty member he is, he has popped back into the news to protect Joe Biden. Calling for a special prosecutor invokes Congress’s oldest trick to deal with a stink that just refuses go away. By appointing a special prosecutor, Congress can make sure the stink disappears. You see what you are not supposed to know, is a special prosecutor reports directly to Congress, not to the DoJ or FBI.

    Need proof? Has special prosecutor Durham made a previous stink disappear? Oh, you have already forgotten what it was Durham was not investigating? See, Congress knows how to pull the wool over the eyes of Americans. Hunter Biden will disappear before the November mid-term elections, right on schedule.

    Bill Barr is a traitor.

    #112438
    WES
    Participant

    Chettt:

    My take on the monkeypox is that it is mostly impacting gay men. I have to assume most gay men are vaccinated, thus weakening their immune systems to infections. With weakened immune systems, monkeypox is now more easily spread amoung vaccinated gay men than before.

    It appears the vaccine is behind the spread of the monkeypox infection.

    #112439
    zerosum
    Participant

    You all know that if you got money in the stock market that you must be among the fortunate few gamblers that are ridding on the coattails of “those people that are to big to fail”. Until the unthinkable happens.

    #112440
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Many videos to explore here

    TruthSeekerNews1984

    https://rumble.com/user/TruthSeekerNews1984

    #112441
    Bill7
    Participant

    My impression is that The Authorities and their workers are having trouble getting the Monkeypox Threat into full-flight mode. One POV.

    You are welcome for the link, willem.

    #112442
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Polder Dweller said:

    Public support is still above 70% even though the MSM keeps saying that it’s reducing.

    Pulic support is irrelevant as long as the public are not willing to actually do something to support the farmers. Sure, some will support the farmers, but if 70% of people were to march on the government and demand their resignation then there would be a chance of change. As it is, the Dutch leaders are getting their orders from outside the Netherlands, they were put in place by those powers and they will continue to be loyal and obedient to those external forces until they are physically stopped.

    #112443
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    Wow! All of it is worth watching but for those in a hurry from minute 24.

    The world is on a knife edge, with deceitful maniacs in control in the west. Are they going to push China into war?

    #112444
    Dora
    Participant

    About “They Can’t Let Him Back In”, who is “they”? What apple cart did Trump upset?
    —–
    Here a long quote from Gary Lawson’s work.

    “I. Bagehot’s Theory of Dual Institutions

    A disquieting answer is provided by the theory that Walter Bagehot

    suggested in 1867 to explain the evolution of the English Constitution.40

    While not without critics, his theory has been widely acclaimed and has

    generated significant commentary.41 Indeed, it is something of a classic on

    the subject of institutional change generally, and it foreshadowed modern

    organizational theory.42 In brief, Bagehot’s notion was as follows.

    Power in Britain reposed initially in the monarch alone. Over the

    decades, however, a dual set of institutions emerged.43 One set comprises

    the monarchy and the House of Lords. 44 These Bagehot called the

    “dignified” institutions—dignified in the sense that they provide a link to

    the past and excite the public imagination.45 Through theatrical show, pomp, and historical symbolism, they exercise an emotional hold on the public

    mind by evoking the grandeur of ages past. 46 They embody memories of

    greatness. Yet it is a second, newer set of institutions— Britain’s “efficient”

    institutions—that do the real work of governing. 47 These are the House of

    Commons, the Cabinet, and the Prime Minister. 48 As Bagehot put it: “[I]ts

    dignified parts are very complicated and somewhat imposing, very old and

    rather venerable; while its efficient part . . . is decidedly simple and rather

    modern . . . . Its essence is strong with the strength of modern simplicity; its

    exterior is august with the Gothic grandeur of a more imposing age.”49

    Together these institutions comprise a “disguised republic”50 that

    obscures the massive shift in power that has occurred, which if widely

    understood would create a crisis of public confidence. 51 This crisis has been

    averted because the efficient institutions have been careful to hide where

    they begin and where the dignified institutions end. 52 They do this by

    ensuring that the dignified institutions continue to partake in at least some

    real governance and also by ensuring that the efficient institutions partake in

    at least some inspiring public ceremony and ritual. 53 This promotes

    continued public deference to the efficient institutions’ decisions and

    continued belief that the dignified institutions retain real power.54 These

    dual institutions, one for show and the other for real, afford Britain expertise

    and experience in the actual art of governing while at the same time

    providing a façade that generates public acceptance of the experts’

    decisions. Bagehot called this Britain’s “double government.”55 The

    structural duality, some have suggested, is a modern reification of the

    “Noble Lie” that, two millennia before, Plato had thought necessary to

    insulate a state from the fatal excesses of democracy and to ensure

    deference to the golden class of efficient guardians. 56 onetheless,

    Bagehot’s enduring insight—that dual institutions of governance, one public

    and the other concealed, evolve side-by-side to maximize both legitimacy

    and efficiency—is worth pondering as one possible explanation of why the

    Obama and Bush national security policies have been essentially the same.

    There is no reason in principle why the institutions of Britain’s juridical

    offspring, the United States, ought to be immune from the broader

    bifurcating forces that have driven British institutional evolution.

    As it did in the early days of Britain’s monarchy, power in the

    United States lay initially in one set of institutions—the President,

    Congress, and the courts. These are America’s “dignified” institutions.

    Later, however, a second institution emerged to safeguard the nation’s

    security. This, America’s “efficient” institution (actually, as will be seen,

    more a network than an institution) consists of the several hundred

    executive officials who sit atop the military, intelligence, diplomatic, and

    law enforcement departments and agencies that have as their mission the

    protection of America’s international and internal security. Large segments

    of the public continue to believe that America’s constitutionally established,

    dignified institutions are the locus of governmental power; by promoting

    that impression, both sets of institutions maintain public support. But when

    it comes to defining and protecting national security, the public’s impression

    is mistaken. America’s efficient institution makes most of the key decisions

    concerning national security, removed from public view and from the

    constitutional restrictions that check America’s dignified institutions. The

    United States has, in short, moved beyond a mere imperial presidency to a

    bifurcated system—a structure of double government—in which even the

    President now exercises little substantive control over the overall direction

    of U.S. national security policy. Whereas Britain’s dual institutions evolved

    towards a concealed republic, America’s have evolved in the opposite

    direction, toward greater centralization, less accountability, and emergent

    autocracy.”
    —-

    #112445
    Dora
    Participant

    The long quote above includes work from Michael Glennon.

    https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2376272

    #112446
    Veracious Poet
    Participant


    Ergo…

    #112447
    Bishko
    Participant

    I hope you all realize that the WEF are only the chauffeurs of the ones really pulling the strings. You will only ever see the chauffeurs.

    #112448
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    I hope you all realize that the WEF are only the chauffeurs of the ones really pulling the strings. You will only ever see the chauffeurs.

    #112477
    Cetzer
    Participant

    There will also be a ban on portable air conditioners, heaters and radiators among the general populace as the average German begins to pay a price for standing up to the Russian dictator.

    As far as I know, this is only a (plausible) suspicion. At this moment experts are only warning, see for example: RT, German: https://rtde.live/inland/144762-deutschland-600000-heizlufter-verkauft-experten/ (Germany: 600000 heaters sold). Of course, I bought me a second heater for strictly scientific purposes…

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