May 102023
 
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Vincent van Gogh Stairway at Auvers 1890

 

Ukraine’s Future Lies in the Great Reset (Pabst)
Any Ideology of Superiority Is Criminal – Putin (TASS)
Globalist Elites Provoke Bloody Conflicts And Coups – Putin (RT)
UN Chief Says Peace Talks Between Ukraine And Russia Impossible Now (RT)
UN Skeptical About China Helping To End Ukraine Conflict (RT)
‘All’ NATO Members Support Ukraine Membership – Stoltenberg (RT)
Can BRICS Save Argentina From Disaster? (Vargas)
“We’re Back”: Tucker Carlson Moves Show To Twitter (ZH)
Journalists-on-Journalists Crime (Patrick Lawrence)
War for Profit: A Very Short History (Brad Wolf)
Jury Rejects Rape Claim Against Trump But Finds Liable For ‘Sexual Abuse’ (ZH)
If Hunter Is Indicted (Lipson)
House Committee Prepares to Hold Blinken in Contempt (Turley)
Australian Lawmakers Call On US To Drop Assange Extradition Bid (RT)
Why the Release of Julian Assange Is Crucial for Our Future (Scheidler)

 

 

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The power of propaganda.

 

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It’s all a literally bloody experiment.

Ukraine’s Future Lies in the Great Reset (Pabst)

“Ukraine 2030 — the freest and most digital country in the world. Without bureaucracy, but with strong tech industry. Cashless & paperless. This is the future we are building.” These were the words of Ukraine’s Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov, who posted a glossy video showcasing Ukraine’s sci-fi-esque future to Twitter. The video boasts of Ukraine’s plans (after its victory over Russia, of course!) to become the “freest and most convenient country in the next 10 years.” In this theoretical scenario, Ukraine is “the first country to abandon paper money,” tele-health and tele-education programs abound, courts’ decisions are guided by artificial intelligence, and cities can even defend themselves with an “ultra-modern iron dome.”

But the juxtaposition between the video’s boasts and Ukraine’s dire reality on the ground grows more uncanny by the day.November 2022 reports quietly admitted that roughly 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed or wounded in action, and apparently leaked documents from April 2023 exposed Ukraine’s especially weak wartime positioning, where Ukrainian casualties outnumber those of the Russians four to one. Meanwhile, complaints of low ammunition — with Ukraine running through ammo faster than the US and NATO can replace it — run amok, and in Bakhmut’s “meat-grinder,” the estimated lifespan of Ukrainian soldiers in battle was reported as being a grim four hours in late February. Meanwhile, millions of Ukrainians have fled home as sky-high inflation rates and energy prices have slashed living standards in Europe and internationally.

But as the war drudges on, Ukrainian officials have zeroed in on the conflict’s alleged “silver linings,” bragging about the new technological developments and investment possibilities that have surfaced during the conflict, such as Ukraine’s “state in a smartphone” Diia app, the e-hryvnia, mounting technological capabilities spurred by corporate war-time involvement in Ukraine, a further crystallization of the public-private partnership as a civil society instrument, and Ukraine’s budding “green” revolution, which is slated to blossom during its prospective elite-backed reconstruction. While these and other initiatives taking place as part of Ukraine’s war-time and reconstruction efforts are being done in the name of modernization, convenience, and democracy, these efforts instead contribute to a technological and political terrain that is conducive to depriving the civilians of Ukraine, and all nations, of their sovereignty, privacy, and dignity.

As I illustrate in this investigative piece, such efforts are part of the larger drive towards the related phenomena of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, today’s technological revolution that blurs the physical, digital, and biological spheres, and the World Economic Forum’s Great Reset, an elite-driven initiative to establish Klaus Schwab’s vision of stakeholder capitalism, where corporations are positioned as “trustees of society” to address the world’s economic and social woes.

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“..in essence, a system of robbery, violence and oppression.”

Any Ideology of Superiority Is Criminal – Putin (TASS)

Any superiority ideology is, by definition, repulsive, deadly, and criminal, Russian President Vladimir Putin said during the Victory Day parade on the Red Square on Tuesday. “We believe that any ideology of superiority is inherently disgusting, criminal, and deadly,” he said. At the same time, Putin added that Western elites “still talk about their exclusivity, put people against each other and divide society, provoke bloody conflicts and coups, sow hatred, Russophobia, aggressive nationalism, destroy those family, traditional values that make humans human.” All this, he said, is done in order “to continue dictating, imposing their will, rights and rules on the peoples – in essence, a system of robbery, violence and oppression.” “They seem to have forgotten what the Nazis’ insane claims to world domination led to,” the president added. “They have forgotten who defeated this monstrous, total evil, who stood as a wall for their homeland and did not spare their lives for the liberation of the peoples of Europe,” he said.

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“The Ukrainians became“hostages” of the coup that took place in the country in 2014 and were turned into “a bargaining chip” by the West..”

Globalist Elites Provoke Bloody Conflicts And Coups – Putin (RT)

Western elites have forgotten the consequences of the Nazis’ “insane ambitions,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said during his Victory Day Parade speech on Red Square in Moscow. Russia believes that “any ideology of superiority is by its nature disgusting, criminal and deadly,”the president pointed out. “The globalist elites keep insisting on their exceptionalism; they pit people against each other, split societies, provoke bloody conflicts and coups, sow hatred, Russophobia and aggressive nationalism, destroy traditional family values that make human a human,” Putin said. According to the Russian leader, all this is being done by the US and allies in order to “further dictate their will, their rights and their rules” and implement what is basically “a system of robbery, violence and suppression” on the international stage.


“It seems that they have forgotten what the insane ambitions of the Nazis led to. They have forgotten who defeated this monstrous, total evil,” he stressed. Referring to the conflict in Ukraine, Putin said that “a real war has been unleashed against out Motherland. But we resisted international terrorism. We’ll also defend the residents of Donbass and assure our security.” The aim of the West is “to achieve the disintegration and destruction of our country, nullify the results of World War II, completely break down the system of global security and international law, and strangle any sovereign centers of development,” he insisted. The US and its allies are to blame for the outbreak of the conflict in Ukraine, the head of state said. “Overwhelming ambitions, arrogance and permissiveness inevitably lead to tragedies. This is the reason for the catastrophe that the Ukrainian people are now experiencing,” he pointed out. The Ukrainians became“hostages” of the coup that took place in the country in 2014 and were turned into “a bargaining chip” by the West, which uses the country to implement its “cruel selfish plans.”

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The UN does not want peace.

UN Chief Says Peace Talks Between Ukraine And Russia Impossible Now (RT)

The peace talks between Ukraine and Russia are impossible now, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said in an interview with Spain’s El Pais published on Tuesday. “Unfortunately, I think that the talks on peace are impossible now,” he said. According to him, “both sides are convinced that they can win.” “We are in dialogue with both sides as far as possible to solve specific problems. The most important initiative was the export of grain from Ukraine… And now I do not see the possibility of an immediate ceasefire and peace negotiations,” Guterres stated.

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And if peace were to break out regardless, then China should not be its agent. That would threaten the UN.

UN Skeptical About China Helping To End Ukraine Conflict (RT)

Offers to mediate in the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine are unlikely to come to fruition at the moment since both parties seem to be “fully involved” in continuing the war, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has said. “Peace negotiations are not possible at this time,” Guterres told Spain’s El País newspaper in an interview. Asked whether the peace initiatives floated by China and Brazil, were “doomed to fail,” the UN chief said both parties to the conflict seemed to be too resolved to continue the hostilities for the mediation offers to work. “I already said that peace negotiations at this time are not going to happen. I hope in the future, yes. There was talk of a Russian offensive in the winter and a Ukrainian one in the spring. It is evident that the parties are fully involved into the war,” Guterres stated.

The grim prediction comes amid an apparent uptick in fighting, with both Moscow and Kiev ramping up long-range attacks against each other in recent days. The increase in military activities comes amid the long-hyped looming counteroffensive by Kiev’s forces, repeatedly cheered by the country’s top officials. Early this year, China unveiled a 12-point peace roadmap designed to bring the conflict, which has been raging since February 2022, to an end. The initiative got a positive reception in Moscow, with Russia’s top leadership signaling its readiness to discuss it further. However, the roadmap was received poorly by Kiev and its Western backers, who accused Beijing of allegedly already siding with Russia and, therefore, having no say on potential peace talks.

Brazil has also been actively pushing for Moscow and Kiev to come to the table, with the country having taken a neutral stance on the conflict. Brazilian President Lula da Silva has condemned both Russia’s military operation and the collective West for “encouraging war,” urging them to stop arming Kiev and to push for a ceasefire instead. “There is no use now in saying who is right, who is wrong. What we have to do now is stop the war,” Lula said late in April, claiming that “no one in the world is talking about peace except for me.”

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NATO wants no peace either. It wants to cross Russia’s no. 1 red line.

‘All’ NATO Members Support Ukraine Membership – Stoltenberg (RT)

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has told the Washington Post that all member states have agreed to welcome Ukraine after it defeats Russia. He also revealed that the US-led military bloc had started backing Kiev in 2014. In the interview, conducted last week at the bloc’s Brussels headquarters and published on Tuesday, Stoltenberg told the WP’s editorial staff that “all NATO allies agree that Ukraine will become a member of the alliance.” “Then the question is when, and I cannot give you a timetable on that,” Stoltenberg added. The NATO head has made this claim once before, last month when he visited Kiev. This prompted a one-word response from Hungarian PM Viktor Orban, who suggested that the bloc had not actually bothered to obtain consent from Budapest.

Stoltenberg told the Post that NATO was currently helping Kiev “transition from Soviet-era equipment, doctrines and standards” and become “interoperable with NATO forces,” while reforming and modernizing their military and defense institutions. “The urgent task now is to ensure that Ukraine prevails as a sovereign, independent nation, because if Ukraine doesn’t prevail, then there is no issue to discuss at all.” According to Stoltenberg, NATO has two fundamental tasks “in the war,” one being to “support Ukraine,” the other to prevent escalation “by making absolutely clear that we are not party to the conflict.” The deployment of 40,000 troops to eastern Europe is also helping avoid escalation with Russia, he argued. The former Norwegian prime minister, who has been running NATO since October 2014, also revealed that the US, Canada, and the UK have provided 78% of the bloc’s support to Ukraine, and have been training Kiev’s troops since 2014.

“The war in Ukraine has fundamentally changed NATO, but then you have to remember the war didn’t start in 2022. The war started in 2014,” Stoltenberg told the Post, noting that all members of the bloc have “significantly increased” their military spending since then. Ukraine’s government was overthrown by US-backed nationalists in a February 2014 coup. The new authorities quickly moved to violently crush any opposition, leading Crimea to seek protection from Moscow. Protests against the coup government were met with a massacre in Odessa, terror in Kharkov, and a “punishment expedition” against Donetsk and Lugansk, which responded by declaring independence.

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“.. the more Argentina wants to produce, the more US dollars it needs..”

Can BRICS Save Argentina From Disaster? (Vargas)

Argentina recently announced that it will be adopting the Chinese yuan, rather than the US dollar, for trade with the Asian giant – the latest development in a wider global process of de-dollarization. This comes as Argentina is currently pushing to formally join BRICS, for which it says it has the support of Brazil, India, and for which Russia and China have hinted at possible support in the past. Argentina is South America’s second-largest economy with significant potential to contribute to BRICS, but the country is also in the grips of an increasingly extreme economic crisis with runaway inflation that’s hitting new highs every week. Can a multipolar financial system help struggling economies like Argentina? Can this move away from the dollar, and membership of BRICS, save the country from potential disaster? Yes, but only if Argentina stops flip-flopping on economic and foreign policy decision-making.

Argentina’s economic turmoil has reached desperate levels, a result of debt slavery to the International Monetary Fund, lack of access to dollars, and a historic drought that has battered crucial agricultural exports. While the official exchange rate with the US dollar is 222 pesos for 1 USD, the ‘Dollar Blue’, the unofficial rate offered on the black market, reached up to 500 Pesos in recent days. For context, in 2014 under leftist President Cristina Kirchner, the official rate was 8 pesos for 1 USD and the unofficial rate hovered around 12-14 pesos. Annual inflation stands at 104% and Argentinians have attempted to combat this by holding their savings in US dollars, and even in cryptocurrency. The crypto market is not as bullish as it was a couple of years ago, and the Fed’s interest rate increases along with speculation within Argentina has made dollars very hard and expensive to access.

More importantly, the colossal debt built up with the IMF is dollar-denominated. Argentinian economist Gisela Cernadas, now working in China with Dongsheng News, spoke exclusively to RT and explained the perilous situation caused by dependency on the dollar. “Argentina has been suffering, for an extended period of time, from a structurally unbalanced current account,” she said. “This means that the country needs more US dollars to function than what it has. “To carry out its productive activities, Argentina needs immediate inputs that have to be imported, such as machinery and equipment that has to be imported in dollars,” Cernadas explained.

“Therefore, the more Argentina wants to produce, the more US dollars it needs. So, this structurally unbalanced current account puts pressure on the currency exchange market.” In this context, the move to de-dollarize trade with China is clearly a positive move, in so far as it will ease the stranglehold that the US dollar has on the country. It will also help protect the central banks’ foreign reserves. “Paying part of the imports from China using Chinese currency instead of the US dollar will help relieve the pressure on the current account deficit,” said Cernadas. “It’s not going to solve the structural problem of needing more foreign currency to produce and carry out its productive activity, but at least it will relieve parts of the demand they have.”

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“The rule of what you can’t say defines everything..”

Huge boost for Musk as well; he can showcase new Twitter features..

“We’re Back”: Tucker Carlson Moves Show To Twitter (ZH)

According to Twitter owner Elon Musk, Twitter and Carlson have not signed “a deal of any kind whatsoever,” which we assume means that Tucker has found a clever way around his Fox contract which stipulated that he has to stay off the air until 2025 insofar as other networks are concerned. “Rewards means subscriptions and advertising revenue share (still working on software needed for latter), which is a function of how many people subscribe and the advertising views associated with his content,” Musk tweeted.

As hinted at in a Sunday Axios report, former Fox News host Tucker Carlson announced on Tuesday that he’s moving his show to Twitter. “There aren’t many platforms left that allow free speech. The last big one remaining in the world is Twitter,” Carlson said in a monologue – in which he took a shot at Fox, saying “If you bump up against the limits [in the news business] you will be fired for it.” “The rule of what you can’t say defines everything,” he said, adding “You can’t have a free society if people aren’t allowed to say what they think is true… There aren’t many platforms left that allow free speech. The last big one… is Twitter, where we are now.”


“Twitter has long served as the place where our national conversation incubates and develops,” he continued, adding that other networks are “thinly disguised propaganda outlets.” “You see it on cable news, you talk about it on Twitter,” said Carlson. “The result may feel like a debate, but actually the gatekeepers are still in charge. We think that’s a bad system. We know exactly how it works and we’re sick of it.”

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“..the hoards of flunkies working for corporate media have it in for Tucker Carlson because he takes positions that are forbidden to them..”

Journalists-on-Journalists Crime (Patrick Lawrence)

I’ve read a lot of smear since Fox News dismissed Tucker Carlson as its premier evening news presenter late last month. How could I not? It was everywhere, and more fecal matter is being flung Carlson’s way as we speak. My favorite in this line so far comes from The American Prospect. “Farewell to a Neo–Nazi Blowhard” was the head on its piece last week. Carlson, you see, is a “neofascist,” TAP wants us to know. What hollow hyperbole. How few are the level heads in mainstream media these days. How cavalierly do our liberal media debase the English language. How difficult it is to take journalists seriously as they attack another journalist because his views do not match theirs. What can we learn from all the unhinged denunciations we read daily?

What do they tell us about the predicaments of independent minds in journalism—and no matter what you think of Carlson, he has one—and by extension independent journalism altogether? In my read, independent media are in a state of siege that has escalated markedly of late. Although he worked for a corporate-owned cable network, I take Carlson’s fate as symptomatic of an intensifying attack on any media that deviate from the national security state’s ever more rigorously enforced orthodoxies. The past week brings grim news of the determination of political elites and deeply insecure mainstream media to stifle dissent in wall-to-wall fashion. It is time to pay close attention. This is more now than the grousing of a few independent journalists such as your columnist. Everything up to how we live and think is at stake.

Setting aside all the dross casting Carlson as the Beelzebub of our profession, the remarks that stay in my mind are of another kind. Diana Johnstone, the distinguished Europeanist who has corresponded from Paris for decades, sent a brief note after Fox’s announcement, calling Carlson “the last free voice on mainstream television.” I paused and wondered if I agreed. And then decided I did. “The TV host paid the price because he tried the impossible: straddling the divide between corporate media and critical journalism,” Jonathan Cook, who I hold in the same high regard I have for Johnstone, wrote last week on his blog. “He exposed ordinary Americans to critical perspectives, especially on U.S. foreign policy, that they had no hope of hearing anywhere else—and most certainly not from so-called ‘liberal’ corporate media outlets like CNN and MSNBC.

[..] the hoards of flunkies working for corporate media have it in for Tucker Carlson because he takes positions that are forbidden to them. Among these many, Carlson opposes the war in Ukraine, the military-industrial complex, covert coup operations in Cuba and elsewhere, Washington’s subterfuge at the United Nations and America’s imperialist project altogether. Carlson took Seymour Hersh’s report on the Biden’s regime’s covert op to destroy the Nord Stream pipelines for what it is: a tour de force piece of work by the premier investigative reporter now writing. Corporate-paid journalists detest Carlson for these things. I imagine there is a lot of subliminal envy attaching to Tucker Carlson’s professional performance over the years.

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“Senator Nye suggested that upon a declaration of war by Congress, taxes on annual income under $10,000 should automatically be doubled and higher incomes should be taxed at 98%.”

“If such policies were enacted, businessmen would become our leading pacifists.”

War for Profit: A Very Short History (Brad Wolf)

TIn 1934 a book written by Helmuth Engelbrecht called The Merchants of Death became a best seller. The book exposed the unethical business practices of weapons manufacturers and analyzed their enormous profits during World War I. The author concluded that “the rise and development of the arms merchants reveals them as a growing menace to World Peace.” While not the only reason for the US entering the war, it became clear the Merchants of Death lobbied both Congress and the President for war. The American public was incensed. In 1934 almost 100,000 Americans signed a petition opposing increased armament production. Veterans paraded through Washington DC in 1935 in a march for peace. And Marine Major General Smedley Butler, two-time Medal of Honor winner, published his book War is a Racket, claiming he had been “a high-class muscle man for big business, for Wall Street and the bankers.

In short, I was a racketeer; a gangster for capitalism.” His book too became a bestseller. The growing wave of public outrage led Senator Gerald Nye to initiate congressional hearings investigating whether US corporations, including weapons manufacturers, had led the United States into World War I. In two years, the Nye committee held 93 hearings and called more than 200 witnesses to testify, including JP Morgan and Pierre S. DuPont. The committee conducted an extensive investigation searching the records of weapons manufacturers. They uncovered criminal and unethical actions including bribery of foreign officials, lobbying the United States government to obtain foreign sales, selling weapons to both sides of international disputes, and the covert undermining of disarmament conferences.

“The committee listened daily to men striving to defend acts which found them nothing more than international racketeers, bent upon gaining profit through a game of arming the world to fight itself,” Senator Nye declared in an October 1934 radio address. The Senate Nye Committee recommended price controls, the transfer of Navy shipyards out of private hands, and increased industrial taxes. Senator Nye suggested that upon a declaration of war by Congress, taxes on annual income under $10,000 should automatically be doubled and higher incomes should be taxed at 98%. A journalist wrote at the time, “If such policies were enacted, businessmen would become our leading pacifists.” The American public was outraged at the committee’s findings and so created some of the largest peace organizations the country had ever known.

Committed to staying out of all future European wars, American college campuses in the 1930s had thousands of students taking oaths swearing they would never fight in a foreign war. Farmers, laborers, intellectuals, ministers, people from all walks of life declared they would never again participate in a war fought to increase the profits of corporations. And then, business fought back. They lobbied those in Congress to cut off funding for the Nye committee, which they soon did. A smear campaign was orchestrated against Senator Nye. The committees’ days were numbered. In the end, the Nye Committee demonstrated that “these businesses were at the heart and center of a system that made going to war inevitable. They paved and greased the road to war.”

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2012 episode of Law and Order SVU.

Jury Rejects Rape Claim Against Trump But Finds Liable For ‘Sexual Abuse’ (ZH)

A New York City jury has found former President Trump liable for sexual assault, but not rape, in a New York defamation case brought by accuser E. Jean Carroll. The jury awarded Carroll $20,000 in punitive damages for a battery claim, and $2.7 million in compensatory damages for defamation by Trump. The verdict came after less than three hours of deliberation by jurors in US District Court in lower Manhattan. The jury did not find Trump liable for rape, as Carroll alleged. Trump, who has long-denied her allegation dating back to the mid-90s, accused Carroll of using false claims as a way to promote her book. “I’ll say it with great respect: Number one, she’s not my type. Number two, it never happened,” the-then president told The Hill in an interview at the White House in June 2019.

“U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan read instructions on the law to the nine-person jury before the panel began discussing Carroll’s allegations of battery and defamation shortly before noon. If they believe Carroll, jurors can award compensatory and punitive damages. Trump, who did not attend the trial, has insisted he never sexually assaulted Carroll or even knew her. Kaplan told jurors that the first question on the verdict form will be to decide whether they think there is more than a 50% chance that Trump raped Carroll inside a store dressing room. If they answer yes, they will then decide whether compensatory and punitive damages should be awarded. If they answer no on the rape question, they can then decide if Trump subjected her to lesser forms of assault involving sexual contact without her consent or forcible touching to degrade her or gratify his sexual desire. If they answer yes on either of those questions, they will decide if damages are appropriate.” -AP

The nine-member panel began discussing verdicts at 11:50 a.m. ET after Judge Lewis Kaplan gave his final instructions and a 10-question verdict form. Carroll, 78, sued Trump in 2019, claiming the Republican sexually assaulted her in 1995 or 1996 in a dressing room at a Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan. Because the alleged attack happened decades ago, Carroll was originally barred from suing over sexual battery, pushing her to sue for defamation over allegedly disparaging comments Trump made about the rape allegation. Trump denied her allegation at the time and accused her of using false claims as a way to promote her book. “I’ll say it with great respect: Number one, she’s not my type. Number two, it never happened,” the-then president told The Hill in an interview at the White House in June 2019. The D.C. Court of Appeals was then asked to weigh in on whether Trump was acting within the scope of his presidential duties when he denied raping Carroll and dismissed her during the interview. Trump last October called her claims “a hoax” and “a lie.”

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Today is Comer’s day.

If Hunter Is Indicted (Lipson)

First, a pardon would set off the biggest political firestorm since Watergate. It would look worse than self-dealing, bad as that is. It would look like the president is covering up his family’s corruption, not only to get Hunter off the hook but to prevent the disclosure of damning evidence in court. That evidence is likely to touch many more Biden family members than Hunter, and perhaps the president himself. The more Biden family members who are implicated, the more the whole operation looks like a concerted operation to monetize Joe’s political position. It also might threaten to shred Joe’s repeated claim that he knew nothing about any family business interests or influence peddling. The wider the sleaze, the harder it is to sell that story.

The chairman of the House committee investigating these issues has said Hunter’s corruption was merely one part of the family business. And that business was selling influence. Rep. James Comer has publicly said that his House Oversight Committee has already collected evidence that nine Biden family members are involved in sketchy business deals, including substantial payments from foreign firms. Some of those firms are closely linked to the Chinese Communist Party. Comer added that his committee is investigating the possible involvement of at least three more family members, as well as Joe Biden’s own role. His conclusion: “The entire Biden family” is entrapped in the financial enrichment scheme. So far, however, Comer hasn’t named names or provided the evidence. He says he will provide much more at a major press conference Wednesday.

Comer’s principle suggestion is that the Biden family’s influence-peddling scheme is much broader, and their criminal actions more serious, than isolated schemes perpetrated by the president’s conniving second son. He adds that his evidence points to Joe Biden’s direct involvement, including possible payments for official actions. That is what he told Maria Bartiromo on Sunday, although he hasn’t yet provided the evidence for that incendiary allegation. Comer is also attacking the FBI for desultory investigation – which ignored much of the malfeasance – and calling out the mainstream media for its concerted silence.

The Internal Revenue Service might be implicated, too, since a lot of payments – and a lot of Hunter’s income – went through what Comer calls the family’s “web of LLCs.” A senior supervisory agent at the IRS is seeking whistleblower protection to tell Congress about “preferential treatment and politics improperly infecting decisions and protocols that would normally be followed” in investigating Hunter’s taxes. If political pressure really was applied to the IRS over Hunter’s taxes, or if senior agents acted improperly to curry favor, those would obviously be very serious matters, legally and politically. Comer and the House Republicans in the committee’s majority want that testimony under oath and are seeking responses from the IRS and DOJ.

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“The question is whether Blinken and the Administration really want to test this in court.”

House Committee Prepares to Hold Blinken in Contempt (Turley)

The House of Representatives and the Biden Administration appear in a staring contest waiting for any sign of Blinken. Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) warned Secretary of State Antony Blinken that the House Foreign Affairs Committee is moving to hold him in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with subpoena requests related to the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. There is no question that the Committee has a legitimate oversight interest in the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan at a huge loss of life, abandonment of thousands of allies, and seven billion dollars in military equipment. The committee specifically wants to review a full copy of a dissent cable that had been signed by nearly two dozen State Department officials warning Blinken of a Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan a month before the terrorist group’s takeover occurred.

The Wall Street Journal reported that the cable undermines the claims of the Biden Administration that it had no forewarning of the chaos that would unfold in the country. The State Department has stonewalled the Committee, offering oral testimony and a summary while refusing to turn over the document. In his letter, McCaul warned that “the Department is now in violation of its legal obligation to produce these documents and must do so immediately.” McCaul added that “It strains credulity to believe that the official responsible for preparing the cable summary and briefing Congress on it would be unable to provide this information.” This has not been a great month for Blinken. He was earlier identified as the Biden campaign associate who “triggered” the infamous letter of 51 former intelligence officials claiming that the Hunter Biden laptop was likely “Russian disinformation.”

He was then named as a contact of Hunter Biden in the Obama Administration as part of an alleged influence peddling operation. (Blinken previously denied such contacts and was accused of lying under oath). The withdrawal from Afghanistan has been condemned by Democrats and Republicans alike. Given the loss of lives and equipment (as well as the impact on U.S. standing), there could not be more obvious subject matter for congressional inquiry. The question is whether Blinken and the Administration really want to test this in court. Attorney General Merrick Garland would likely decline to prosecute Blinken for contempt (despite his green lighting such prosecutions against former Trump officials), but the Congress could go to court to compel production.

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“..during a meeting with US Ambassador Caroline Kennedy in Canberra on Tuesday..”

Australian Lawmakers Call On US To Drop Assange Extradition Bid (RT)

A delegation of Australian lawmakers called for the United States to end its attempts to extradite and prosecute Julian Assange during a meeting with US Ambassador Caroline Kennedy in Canberra on Tuesday. The ‘Bring Julian Assange Home Parliamentary Group’ informed Washington’s chief diplomat in Australia that its citizens had expressed “widespread concern” at the continued detention in Britain of the WikiLeaks founder, who is an Australian national, as well as attempts to extradite him to the United States to face espionage charges. In 2010, Assange’s WikiLeaks platform published sensitive US government documents leaked by former US Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning. “There are a range of views about Assange in the Australian community and the members of the parliamentary group reflect that diversity of views,” the cross-party group said in a statement following the meeting with Kennedy on Tuesday.

“But what is not in dispute in the group is that Mr. Assange is being treated unjustly.” The group’s co-chair, independent MP Andrew Wilkie, added on Tuesday that the Australian parliament had also expressed “broad concern” for Assange, as outlined in statements of support last week by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and opposition leader Peter Dutton. Albanese, in particular, was a noted critic of Assange’s detention throughout his successful election campaign in 2022. Assange is currently in London’s Belmarsh prison as he continues a legal battle to fight extradition to the United States, where he is facing espionage charges related to WikLeaks’ publication of hundreds of thousands of government documents pertaining to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, in addition to diplomatic cables. If convicted, Assange faces a sentence of 175 years in a maximum security prison.

Washington maintains that Assange’s actions put the lives of US servicemen in danger. His supporters, however, argue that Assange is being unfairly targeted by Washington following the damaging leaks, which exposed malfeasance by US personnel during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. In April, 48 Australian lawmakers co-signed a letter addressed to US Attorney General Merrick Garland in which they said the United States’ pursuit of “journalist and publisher” Assange “set a dangerous precedent” for press freedom. US President Joe Biden is scheduled to visit Sydney on May 24 for the Quad Leaders’ Summit, where he will meet with the leaders of Australia, India and Japan. Albanese has not said whether he intends to raise the issue with Biden during his visit.

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“Wars cannot be fought without lies because most populations reject these wars as soon as they know the truth about them..”

Why the Release of Julian Assange Is Crucial for Our Future (Scheidler)

What is Julian Assange in prison for? He is in prison for showing the truth about our wars, in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. War and lies are very closely related. Wars cannot be fought without lies because most populations reject these wars as soon as they know the truth about them. Governments never tell the truth about their wars, because otherwise they lose the support of the population. Embedded journalists do not tell us the truth about the wars. After the disaster of the Vietnam War, various concepts have been developed to allow journalists to go to war theaters only embedded, accompanied by the respective military. We saw this in Iraq, we saw it in Afghanistan and elsewhere. Only a few journalists had the opportunity to look behind the scenes. That is why leaks, confidential sources and journalists like Julian Assange are so important.

Reporting the dirty truth about wars, no matter from which side they are waged, is crucial so that these wars can no longer be waged in the future. Let me give a few examples of this from history. In the Vietnam War, reporting by courageous journalists, often citing anonymous sources or using leaks, played a decisive role in ending the bloodshed. One of the most important steps was the story revealed by Seymour Hersh in 1969 about war crimes in My Lai, Vietnam. At that time, U.S. troops murdered hundreds of civilians, mostly women and children, in the village. This story and the images of it were instrumental in turning popular sentiment against this war. Another important revelation was the so-called Pentagon Papers, published by whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg with the help of journalists.

They showed that several U.S. governments had systematically lied to the population about the Vietnam War, about its motives, about its scale, and about its methods. It came out that not only Vietnam was bombed, but also Laos and Cambodia. An estimated three to four million people died in that war. These reports and the largely anonymous sources on which they were based were instrumental in bringing this war to an end. This was later followed by the revelations of the secret programs used by the CIA to illegally spy on U.S. citizens. These revelations, again by Seymour Hersh, led to the establishment of the so-called Church Commission in 1975 to provide parliamentary oversight of the intelligence agencies – an important step in defense of democracy. We then saw a new phase of wars with the start of the so-called war on terror after September 11. In 2004, Seymour Hersh exposed U.S. torture practices at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison.

Wikileaks and Julian Assange are part of this long tradition. In 2010 and 2011, based largely on information from Chelsea Manning, Wikileaks exposed a whole series of crimes committed by our governments that shocked the world. Among them was a document that showed how the CIA tried to mobilize sentiment in Germany and France for the war in Afghanistan. A headline from this document is telling: “Why it is not enough to count on the apathy of the Germans.” The point was to mobilize people for an expansion of operations in Afghanistan through manipulated information.

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    Vincent van Gogh Stairway at Auvers 1890   • Ukraine’s Future Lies in the Great Reset (Pabst) • Any Ideology of Superiority Is Criminal – Putin (
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle May 10 2023]

    #134947
    Dr. D
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    “Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer told the public in February 2023 that the idea of a ban on gas stoves was nothing more than a MAGA conspiracy theory. “At first you have to laugh at the ‘gas stove ban’ narrative being cooked up by the MAGA GOP,” Schumer stated.

    New York approved a $229 billion budget plan laced with restrictions. New buildings under seven stories will be prohibited from using gas stoves by 2026, and taller buildings will face the same ban in 2029. There will be some exceptions for places like hospitals and restaurants, but newly constructed buildings will be forced to use electric.” …Electric which they don’t have.

    The distance between Conspiracy Theory and Fact continues to shorten. P.S. Schumer is FROM NY. So he definitely knew this was a lie when he said it. He says it anyway and isn’t discredited but everyone cheers. “I want to have your baby, Chuck. If only you would lie some more and outlaw my gas stove.”

    “Biden Admin Creates New Disinformation Office To Oversee The Rest”

    At least Truth in Advertising. They are the hub of Disinformation.

    “National Police Association Joins Others In Suing For Nashville Shooter’s Manifesto”

    Yup, there’s something there. So the Police know they should sue for it without knowing what’s in it? No, they know.

    ““No nation in the history of battle ever suffered more than the Soviet Union in the Second World War.”

    By the numbers, this is probably true. The most ever with the broadest hardship ever. Which is a bit shocking if you think about it. Proportionally probably not, Belgium and the Lowlands were sacked for centuries, and many nations and people ceased to exist. Does time count? Like if you’re being murdered by 30,000/year for 20 years in one attack alone, that adds up. What if you poison an entire state in one go, then forget about it forever?

    Keats: “The Honest Truth is a Beautiful Thing.” Of course he says it better.

    “The United States and its allies defeated fascism,”

    Which is why we’re funding open fascists with $150B today.

    “Pentagon press secretary Gen. Patrick S. Ryder confirms Ukraine’s claim”

    Confirms a claim? Yup, Ukraine made that claim! Next question. What’s that? Is that claim TRUE? No comment.

    Ukraine 2030 — the freest and most digital country in the world. Without bureaucracy”

    Maybe this guy doesn’t know what words mean. Does he mean GOVERNMENT bureaucracy? Really? Because the entire country is given over to International Corporations? (A: Yes.)

    They had planned to conquer everything, set up this new fascist/corporate state superseding governments, then have a money laundering, human-trafficking worldwide power center and Capital where they could have Trans gender, Trans human technofascism future. It was the “Greater Israel”, leaving Israel, which is already all these things, as just the Beach Resort side.

    It doesn’t seem to be going well. But all us normal people knew that just from hearing The Plan, which is g– d—d insane. Like all their – Davos’, and therefore Biden’s and DNCs – stuff. (The GOP is nuts in a different way.)

    The article highlights how totally bats—t crazy, drooling on the floor insane Ukraine was, and still is, if not more crazier today. Yeah, leave them to it.

    “Any Ideology of Superiority Is Criminal – Putin (TASS)”

    It depends, but yes. That demands that any Ideology of Inferiority is also criminal. There is a social and ethnic group in the U.S. and even worldwide that is considered “inferior” at birth, because in a subtle adjustment, all other ethnicities are innately morally superior to it. That’s called “racism”.

    “Globalist Elites Provoke Bloody Conflicts And Coups – Putin (RT) “ In Pakistan. Fixed it.

    “”We see how in certain countries they ruthlessly and cold-bloodedly destroy memorials …, demolish monuments to great commanders, create a real cult” …In the United States. And you should see what they did in Europe!

    Same Nazis, different day.

    • UN Chief Says Peace Talks Between Ukraine And Russia Impossible Now (RT)”

    Ummmmm…? So the war will go on until the sun burns out? Sooo…we are now in, and have to have, WWIII? Alright then, might as well just push the button now and beat the rush, right Guterres? He UN, the peace organization just told us we have no choice but have to nuke the planet right now today!

    Everyone still takes them seriously for reasons inexplicable.

    “• ‘All’ NATO Members Support Ukraine Membership – Stoltenberg (RT)”

    Yup, that nation of Brown Untermench in the “Jungle” down there in Turkey don’t exist. We don’t talk to and don’t care about people outside the “Garden”. Did you say something? Sounded like pointless animal grunts to me.

    These guys are some of the most astonishing racists in the history of the world. Everyone loves them and hangs on their every word. Heck, they’ll kill their children for them!

    “Argentina recently announced that it will be adopting the Chinese yuan,”

    Meroni double-crossed 100% of all Italian voters by doing the #Opposite of this, and the #Opposite of everything that got her elected. Of course.

    “This means that the country needs more US dollars to function than what it has.”

    That this guy, and other Argentinians, and other nations, believe this false thing is the whole problem. Unless we all want to admit if they correctly name this as false the U.S. will bomb them and make a coup in 6 months. Like Ukraine and Pakistan today. Then it’s a “War” not an “Economy.”

    First: Tell the Truth. Then everything gets easy. But the #Truth is #God and we can’t have that.

    What can we learn from all the unhinged denunciations we read daily?”

    They’re both astonishingly intolerant AND can’t leave anyone alone. I dislike a lot of people and points of view but to each their own unless there’s a crime. I may not be right either.

    “I imagine there is a lot of subliminal envy attaching to Tucker Carlson’s professional performance”

    It’s more like this: they KNOW they are doing wrong. They know what is right, and they can’t do it, for whatever reason, “paying the bills” but is essentially just cowardice. When evil, or people leaning this direction, meet someone who’s not a coward, not compromised, they hate them more than the overlords doing the oppressing. For reasons I don’t entirely understand. I think it’s because his VERY EXISTENCE demonstrates that they are doing Wrong. That they ARE cowards and sell outs. That they are Bad People. And who wants to be reminded they’re a bad person?

    That isn’t Tucker’s – or our – intention at. We would wish to be inspiring, saying “I did this, you can do this too.” But in a concentration and prison camp you don’t generally get that reaction. You get the “I need to expose, compromise, get him to fail even if I have to make stuff up, or arrange it for him, only if he’s taken down as being as miserable, evil, and failed as I am will I feel safe.” Now I can SAY “Please don’t do this thing, it’s both illogical and unhelpful” but it won’t matter. People DO this. They ARE this. And they CAN change. But how do you remind them if this is their reaction to you?

    So it’s not “Envy” really, in the sense that Tucker is successful, makes a million bucks. That’s not the point. The author probably knows that, they are “envious” of his professional performance because being good people, they got into it to be good journalists, and aren’t. They were weak. We say, “Then do what you can and strengthen up” but their heart fails them and they betray themselves, inside. That’s why they can’t escape “him”, and hate him so much. He’s sort of their conscience. But if Tucker disappeared something else would appear. What they’re fleeing and denying is THEMSELVES. It’s that “Still, quiet voice” of God almighty, whispering to them. It’s their source and being they are trying to, need to destroy: they need to Kill God.

    How crazy is that? God loves them. I love them. Don’t do this thing.

    “War for Profit: A Very Short History (Brad Wolf)”

    Yes, but also without fiat money and central banks this sort of war and behavior is impossible. We put it all on credit.

    “First, a pardon would set off the biggest political firestorm since Watergate.”

    Nope, no one would care. They’re unreachable. As we’ve seen for decades in an ever-increasing crescendo. And UKRAINE’s evidence? You mean the one they impeached him for? When Biden wasn’t an official or an candidate, but just some average citizen? And not him but the SON of some average citizen? Facts and Logic. We don’t do that.

    “Charging Stations.” Big surprise. And as said 10,000 times, there’s no grid for them either. Besides, who wants a coal-burning car? Electric car sales are apparently not only not getting traction, they are now collapsing in U.S. UK.

    “Racism Chart” I don’t know how to interpret this except that President Obama oversaw an eight-fold increase in racism. Good job.

    #134948
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Total extra-curricular (mostly), and long.

    “Why the Myth of Atlantis Just Won’t Die” — Nat. Geographic
    https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-civilisation/2023/04/why-the-myth-of-atlantis-just-wont-die?

    This is amazing. Okay, so not only wrote, not only top magazine, not only posted and pushed everywhere via Firefox, but thinking about Atlantis makes you a Nazi White Supremacist. Like Graham Hancock. By name. In fact anyone who asks science questions of places like National Geographic is a Nazi White Supremacist too.

    And to do this, amazing. Also lie about the facts, refuse to quote Plato, and mischaracterize everybody for the last 2,000 years. P.S., proving Erin Blakemore is a moron and should go back to college to get her money back. …Let’s not ask questions, shall we?

    Okay, vented. New question: W H Y ?

    I always say they never go after Bigfoot, because he doesn’t matter. But they have dropped everything they’re doing and gone out of their way to go after…something in this story.

    Atlantis, as they say, is clearly just as fictional as Troy. …Which they quickly found with a little bit of looking.

    A quick run of Plato’s description is here: https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/154223 Or larger text here: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0180%3Atext%3DHipp.+Maj.

    Now that could say many things, and I have my own ideas, but he clearly does not seem to describe as fiction in any way. Suppose, we said, “And we all remember when England was threatened by the great land of Narnia, and then you sir, remember when King James defeated the Snow queen.”

    I don’t get that at all. Instead, he specifically says “Listen then Socrates to a tale which though strange, is wholly true,” “the exploits of this city in olden days, the record of which [is so old it] had perished through time” (Note, this was said and written 380BC)

    They laboriously explain how this Greek heard it when he was 10 years old from an old man who heard it from Egypt and King Amasis (569BC) and from that king, who made a point of telling it because it was so old it was before the Flood (between 9 and 12,000 years ago, according to modern geologists). He then explains that the earth has had more changes than just a geological flood ending the last Ice Age, and that these calamities occur regularly, but aren’t usually the same as the previous one was by fire. “after the usual interval of years, like a plague, the flood from heaven [for example] comes sweeping down afresh upon your people,\… you remember but one deluge, though many had occurred previously”

    Amasis then specifically says it wasn’t Athens that was the hero, but a an ancient people who lived where Athens is today. 9,000 years ago. That’s WHY they tell the story, because Solon is from Athens, and they’re complaining Greeks are too young a culture to know history, so they fill him in and tell him.

    Where is Atlantis? “starting from a distant point in the Atlantic ocean,” Any questions?

    Where was it? “Outside the Pillars of Hercules” that is, the Straits of Gibraltar.

    So it’s an island, right? How big? “larger than Libya and Asia together;” Strangely this direct statement might be the harder to figure. Libya like Libya? Northern Africa outside Egypt? Asia like Asia? Or like Asia Minor? So, minimum size, very, very large. 2.5M Km2. You know: larger than Mexico and almost as large as India. One of those two nations is “Across the Atlantic” and also “Across from the Straits of Gibraltar.”

    They then specifically say you USED TO be able to cross the Atlantic, meaning in 350BC it was considered NOT navigable. So they both say 1) it’s across the Atlantic Ocean and 2) Something changed.

    He then describes the Mediterranean exactly accurately, saying that, sorry to say boys, your whole big Sea is the size of a pond, and the real ocean is outside. They are somewhat vague here, but e.g. Greece is not a “continent” but any land large enough to encompass the entire Atlantic Ocean is. Atlantis may be one such place. If so, that implies very, VERY large size, you know, like the size of the New World. “Asia” plus “Northern Africa”.

    Now the rest of the story isn’t that noteable. Given a “Greater Mexico” – of which we know there were Aztecs, Toltecs, and Olmecs – or even all of North America, then 9,000 years ago they were having a world war where the “Atlanteans” crossed the sea and were trying to beat up and establish Mediterranean colonies. Now this is an awfully, AWFULLY long way away, and as it happened, the resistance to these New World invaders was most successful out of Greece, Athens. Which is why they’re telling Solon the story. So good on ya’ Athens. Seems like 2,000 years after 350BC people think highly of them too, even founding whole nations based on their example.

    We don’t know what would have happened, because it seems the collapse (that probably ended the Ice Age, caused the Flood, and made the Atlantic unnavigable for some reason) happened soon after. They don’t say but do not attribute the Atlantean self-destruct to Athens. Not like Greek Skywalker flew into the Death Star in Mexico city. It’s just coincidental, not causal it seems. Unless Mexico set off a Neutron Bomb they were testing to use on Italy and blew up the world or something. Oppenheimer almost did. They said, “Hey, we think our calculations are pretty good, but on the other hand the bomb MIGHT set all the world’s atmosphere on fire ending all life on earth. Let’s drop it and find out.”

    Does any of that sound like a fictional story made up to make Athens sound cool? No, they were made into little boys with little boys pants, are a small, young irrelevant nation, who only had one cool thing that happened once, and barely worked, and it wasn’t Athens who did it anyway but people who lived nearby but 9,000 years ago. So that’s like saying America beat the Krauts, but 9,000 years ago. Um…different a little? Like maybe Og from the Crow Clan allied with Pequat of the Narrow Faces…oh nevermind.

    Would this be why this writer, who has written 100 science articles, literally doesn’t know, care, or read anything. Wonder about all her other articles. This was so easy a cave man could do it, and understand it. But she’s an adult journalist in America, so can’t be arsed.

    So f’ing, unbelievably, hard-core to the bone racist that she thinks Mexico simply couldn’t do this exactly as historically described? Nope, they’re the “Jungle People” not like us “Experts” in the “Garden.” Un-believable. Maybe she’s never SEEN the pyramids of Mexico or something?

    Consider every one of these to be made up. As she never read anything. https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/author/erin-blakemore

    Back to the first question, so this is all painfully obvious. So why the denials and hate? Suppose Mexico Olmecs were Atlantis: SO the heck What? Who cares? What difference does it make if there were advanced civilizations crossing the Atlantic making contact 9,000 years ago?

    You tell me. We JUST went through this with Columbus when, for 50 years it was pretty obvious, there were whole books written describing Vikings and Vinland, and Columbus himself got his info from Portuguese and Irish fishermen going there regularly. And there’s the “Use your Head”: You can practically SEE Greenland from Iceland. (You can in fact see the clouds) They LIVED in Iceland for 1,000 years. That book was well-known in several major nations and that was BEFORE digging up a town in Greenland where you can canoe to Canada.

    Yet like f—g idiots they still refused for many decades more. Why? Science™!?! Yeah, but who’s telling the Scientists not to and paying to ruin their careers? They don’t do that on their own, or not in this way. They’re the Nerd Squad, their spats don’t run like the Mean Girls’ Table.

    So for whatever reason, here we are again, worldwide. Göbekli Tepe is out there everywhere, yet nobody lived in it. Pyramids worldwide but nobody built them. Is this because it ruins some weird “evolution” religion, in that people in the past were as, or even more, advanced than we are? Therefore history runs in cycles, and Chad at Twitter is NOT the apex of all human civilization and thought? So maybe we SHOULD question him? Be humble and not high on our own farts all the time? If it runs in cycles, then it’s not a straight line of “Manifest Destiny” …to a goal none of us set but was forced on us by those same “ad executives” at birth? The ones that say we’re required to go to war with Russia and live in hovels without fresh water so Bezos can take his D—k Rocket to the Stars? What?

    Because in my world, Science DOES ask questions. They use DATA, and the Science is never settled.

    So why? Why dey going nuts on this stuff and Hancock specifically? If I say a dinosaur has feathers or a crown, nobody cares, we debate it like normal people. But not this. Why?

    #134949
    oxymoron
    Participant

    I believe the racism chart reflects the cultural marxism described by James Lindsay in Raul’s twitter link from the other day. The institutions are being hijacked by this academic mind virus infiltrating the minds of everyone who graduates these days.

    Loved your thoughts around the character issues in the journalism profession Dr. I think we just saw similar with Doctors and see similar hatred and smearing of the McCollough’s of this world too.

    We can’t be frustrated with them when they have free choice, and have their own time frame to learn what they must. Only when they have hit rock bottom will they return to truth-telling for the betterment of us all.

    #134950
    Armenio Pereira
    Participant

    “Beauty is truth, truth beauty …”

    Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
    Truth in the mind’s eye of the believer

    Seek not for the truth, let go of opinions instead.

    Radical acceptance

    #134951
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #134952
    Just Some Randomer
    Participant

    The problem I have with this theory of cyclical development and ancient civilisations is a practical one – specifically, if a previous civilisation has consumed all the non-renewable (on a 9,000 – 12,000 year timescale) natural resources, then how can a subsequent civilisation get going?

    Where, for example, on the planet will the founders of a future civilisation after ours be able, with nothing more technological than a pick and shovel, be able to pull coal and iron ore out of the ground to begin their Industrial revolution the way we did? We’ve consumed (or at least spread widely over the planet) pretty much everything that a fledgling civilisation could reasonably expect to be able to reach without already having deep-mining technology equivalent to ours.

    Are we to suppose that the minerals we mined to build our society were overlooked by all previous civilisations because they were using some other means (which we have no evidence of) to build theirs?

    What we have done is take materials from a small number of concentrated locations where they could be economically mined and spread them all over the planet. Sure, all the Iron etc. we’ve ever produced is still on the planet and theoretically available for re-use, but it’s now in an uneconomically sparse distribution pattern.

    Maybe when the hypothesised previous civilisation collapsed, they helpfully collected up, from all over the world, all the metals and so on that they’d mined and put them all back in the ground just where we could then come along and find them? Then, obviously, they put all the fossil fuels back – unless they had some science fiction alternative to fossil energy, of course and never needed to burn coal or oil.

    Seems to me that unless we postulate some higher being ‘Re-setting’ the gaming board back to the way it was after each collapse, which is kind of like the Creationists who tell us that God put the dinosaur fossils in the ground to make the world look ancient, then I can’t see how this cyclical theory works.

    #134953
    Oroboros
    Participant

    What’s that smell in the air?

    A Whiff of Weimar

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    German Food Price Inflation

    Ouch, 20% food inflation

    You’re gonna need a wheelbarrow to bring the cash to the grocery store

    .

    I guess the Germans are Thick as a Brick

    #134954
    John Day
    Participant

    This caught my eye this morning, because without the embedded proviso, the meaning becomes falsified:
    “NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has told the Washington Post that all member states have
    agreed to welcome Ukraine after it defeats Russia

    which happens AFTER hell-freezes-over.

    #134955
    Oroboros
    Participant

    The blood drinking Satanists in the Empire of Lies Gangster Nation will prop up any corporation good through the motions of Woketurdness by secretly funding any monetary hit they take in the cause of Tardness.

    Disney will literally be funded to profitability and make the stockholders whole so forget boycotting the Disneyturds, they will not go under

    Same with Anheuser-Busch, home of the piss queer beer. They will be made whole behind the scenes

    Stop using their product will not hurt them. They are Made Men

    Which brings me to Fox Mediawhores

    Tucker going to Twitter is certainly interesting but Fox Fuck News will be directly funded by Presidementia Pedo Joe

    It’s all Potemkin, all the way down

    Tucker Carlson Defects to Twitter. SCREWING FOX News

    I’m not sure if Mr Styxhexenhammer understands the depth of the shear propaganda effort going on

    Fox could lose ALL their viewers and still be Number One

    #134956
    zerosum
    Participant

    Wake up …. The secret is out …. It’s about Depopulation
    @RobertKennedyJr
    explains that the U.S. military-industrial complex’s goal …..
    ———–
    The lie“The United States and its allies defeated fascism and nazism”
    The truth“The United States and its allies did not defeated fascism and nazism”
    ————–

    Western elites have forgotten the consequences of the Nazis’ “insane ambitions,”

    We will protect ourselves and Donbass. We want to see a future of peace, freedom, and stability.”

    The US and its allies are to blame for the outbreak of the conflict in Ukraine, the head of state said. “Overwhelming ambitions, arrogance and permissiveness inevitably lead to tragedies. This is the reason for the catastrophe that the Ukrainian people are now experiencing,”
    — Putin Speech at the Victory Day Parade 2023

    ———–
    The search for peace …. ben there done dat
    Read some history …

    • War for Profit: A Very Short History (Brad Wolf)

    In 1934 a book written by Helmuth Engelbrecht called “The Merchants of Death” became a best seller.

    War for Profit: A Very Short History

    https://archive.org/details/merchantsofdeath0000unse
    Merchants of death; a study of the international armament industry
    by Engelbrecht, H. C. (Helmuth Carol), 1895-1939

    Publication date 1934
    Publisher New York, Dodd, Mead & Co.
    Collection inlibrary; printdisabled; trent_university; internetarchivebooks
    Digitizing sponsor Kahle/Austin Foundation
    Contributor Internet Archive
    Language English
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    Future projection

    • If Hunter Is Indicted (Lipson)

    Wrong question

    • If Hunter Is PARDONED BY JOE (Lipson)
    ————

    #134957
    John Day
    Participant

    Just Some Randomer inquired:
    “Where, for example, on the planet will the founders of a future civilisation after ours be able, with nothing more technological than a pick and shovel, be able to pull coal and iron ore out of the ground to begin their Industrial revolution the way we did? We’ve consumed (or at least spread widely over the planet) pretty much everything that a fledgling civilisation could reasonably expect to be able to reach without already having deep-mining technology equivalent to ours.
    Are we to suppose that the minerals we mined to build our society were overlooked by all previous civilisations because they were using some other means (which we have no evidence of) to build theirs?

    Coal and ores had been mined by hand for thousands of years. Technology in China was far more advanced than in the west. Why did the industrial revolution happen in backward England, which was less technologically advanced than China?
    I have read that a confluence of factors, like the partition of the commons ejecting peasant laborers into cities, and especially the creation of a novel steam engine that could drive looms and pump water out of coal mines helped it happen in England. Debt at interest helped fund wars to expand the industrial franchise. Peak-good-coal in England happened in WW-1, disrupting the balance of power and fading that empire. It’s why Italy had to align with German-coal for the next go-around.
    So they say.
    We’ve sort of scorched-the-earth behind us on this particular energy ramp, huh?
    Maybe we’ll pull through all of this alright though, huh?

    #134958
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Atlantis unsinking.

    The reason that the Atlantis history has been suppressed up until now, and continues to be suppressed with all of the vicious might that the bad guys can muster, is simply that it is a very factual key component of the actual history of the actual Earth. It’s the Truth, in other words. What was, was. It’s not a secret. It’s just being suppressed and obfuscated to the absolute max.

    Begin by reading “The Oera Linda Book” (available everywhere that publishes and sells books) and then watching any number of history documentaries on You Tube, or digging below the surface of Classical history (much harder work, by the way, because of all of the deflection that must be waded through) .

    Can’t be having crime victims becoming aware of the actual events on our actual planet, now can we? Why folks might decide to do everything a slightly different way than the way things are being run now . . . . by the bad guys.

    It’s one of those cases where the answer is so fundamentally obvious that it is easily overlooked as just being another neutral part of the general environment.

    The reason that the true story of what has been done on Earth is being suppressed, and replaced by an attempted false narrative, bullshit story and phony alibi, is that we are being robbed and abused by the very assholes who are feeding us the bullshit by lying to our faces 24/7.

    When we more fully wise up to who has done what to whom (and for what reason) then I assume appropriate actions will be taken against the responsible fools and criminals who did it.

    #134960
    Oroboros
    Participant

    From transgendered to ‘transabled’: People are ‘choosing’ to identify as handicapped

    https://nypost.com/2023/04/29/transabled-people-choosing-to-identify-as-handicapped/

    Duh’merica® is so fuckedup. Now some want to ‘identify’ as ‘disabled’ and are willing to injure themselves permanently to achieve this new level of victimhood Nirvana

    “A troubling societal issue called “transableism” is attracting attention these days.

    Transableism is a newer term for BIID, or “Body Integrity Identity Disorder,” in which a person actually “identifies” as handicapped.

    BIID has been relabeled to transableism to align with today’s trans community, according to some.

    The point of “changing the identifier” from a psychiatric condition (BIID) to an advocacy term (transableism) is to “harness the stunning cultural power of gender ideology” to the cause of allowing doctors to “treat” BIID patients by “amputating healthy limbs, snipping spinal cords or destroying eyesight,” according to Evolution News and Science Today (EN), which reports on and analyzes evolution, neuroscience, bioethics, intelligent design and other science-related issues.

    Culturally, transableism is “the next abyss,” that site also notes.”

    Because “some of these persons mutilate themselves; others ask surgeons for an amputation or for the transection of their spinal cord,” that site adds of the shocking steps some are taking.

    .

    #134962
    Oroboros
    Participant
    #134964
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    hit a snag trying to post a comment, so this line is just a test.

    #134965
    zerosum
    Participant

    WWIV – A.I. conflict/diversion
    Its already started.
    (I believe mine. Yours is lying.)
    (eg. Russia, Ukraine conflict)

    #134969
    Oroboros
    Participant

    .

    They aren’t comedians.

    They’re overpaid regime propagandists.

    .

    #134970
    Dora
    Participant

    Bill Gates and food.

    #134971
    anticlimactic
    Participant

    What may be an uncensored search engine and AI :

    Good news: Tusk is a conservative AI, a browser and a search engine

    #134972
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    Number one, she’s not my type. Number two, it never happened,”
    I grudgingly admit that Trump was a much better president than is Biden. (I didn’t vote for either of them.). If Trump were president right now, I believe that the US would be on a better course than it is presently. But this quote illustrates so well why I really, REALLY don’t like Trump.
    It would be great to see RFK Jr garner the Dem nomination, but that is less likely than Bernie Sanders receiving it — Bernie had years of experience putting forth legislation that neither party would further, to the delight of his constituents. He had some good points to make — but he wasn’t directly attacking the foundations of the current power system in the US. Bernie was, essentially, just trying to make sure that the voice and concerns of the common folk were addressed at the national level. RFK Jr *is* attacking the current power foundations, is saying “that which must not be uttered” — and I hope that he has a very good security team.

    #134973
    Just Some Randomer
    Participant

    @ John Day #135957

    “Coal and ores had been mined by hand for thousands of years. Technology in China was far more advanced than in the west. ”

    Yeah – I guess that’s my point. If there HAD been a prior advanced civilisation that looked anything like ours there’d have been nothing for the Chinese to mine by hand. To secure any useful (from an industrial point of view) quantities they’d have had to do what we now must, and drive shafts miles into the ground, and then pump them dry. None of which you can do without already having some pretty advanced tech.

    We have pulled the bottom 10 rungs out of the ladder from hand tools to industrial civilisation. Nobody can come after us.

    Clearly, this has not happened before.

    #134974
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    “Crocodiles do not swim here”

    I imagine it pictured in a Far Side comic with a crocodile walking along the beach in the moonlight, carrying a mallet and a bunch of signs.

    #134975
    zerosum
    Participant

    @ anticlimactic
    The link has a good discussion.
    (I believe my A.I. Your A.I. is lying.)

    Good news: Tusk is a conservative AI, a browser and a search engine

    #134976
    jb-hb
    Participant

    That Atlantis stuff is interesting – I’ve seen some theories that Atlantis was a ridge in the Atlantic that would have extended the Azores. That seems workable, what with the disasterous melting of the ice from the last glacial period (stasis = best, change = worst, interglacial periods therefore = Bad)

    There’s a variety of sub-sub-cultures out there now questioning – The Narrative. I don’t buy into their conclusions, but I DO enjoy them nonetheless, enjoy the LARPing they invent along with the actual available materials.

    For instance, Giants in the Americas. Apparently, we kept finding giants buried in all those mounds throughout america, buried with METAL artifacts, giants with 2 rows of teeth? Mentioned as commonplace knowledge through the late 1800’s for instance in a famous speech by President Lincoln in which he references american giants as something everyone knows about?

    And then of course there are the actual mounds – giant pyramids – throughout North America, huge walled cities, 1000-2000mi trade routes and so on. Cahokia is super fascinating too. Why do we talk of humans living in North America as if they were wild animals in harmony with nature when they were building pyramids and big cities?

    And then there’s the Old World movement — how DID the US somehow, in the space of 10 years, build all these intricate, massive stone structures, structures they would LAUGH at you if you proposed building, built by, according to Wikipedia, towns of 4,000? 10,000?

    Yet we are supposed to currently have on average, the equivalent of 100 slaves each, due to petrochemicals and petro energy? Yet they built buildings of such impressive massiveness and heartbreaking beauty WITHOUT slaves OR combustion engines/machinery? HOW?

    weirdly, they go off into weird ideas from there
    –there was a ginormous flood of MUD that covered everything?
    –there was a nation formed by turkic horse archer peoples stretching across multiple continents?

    Idunno how you get there from here, but after this channel shows me 1,000’s of impossible amazing buildings built in the space of a decade that we knocked down as if worthless, I start to wonder if there’s SOMETHING weird going on. I love how amateur and slightly asmr-ish this channel is. He has a great eye for beautiful architecture. The LARPish addition TO the architecture interest just adds an extra layer of interest. Better than a lot of current big budget entertainment, anyway.

    #134977
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Just Some Randomer – see The Mote in God’s Eye (1974) and The Gripping Hand (1993), by Larry Niven and Gerry Pournelle

    What if there were a species that was too expansionist, multiplied too fast, had bootstrapped up quickly from stone age to spacefaring tech, and was well aware that if they have a collapse, they won’t be able to bootstrap up from easily-accessed coal, oil, etc deposits a second time? What if Humans know they can’t risk letting them out to expand and they realize they must expand or fall back into barbarism forever?

    #134978
    Maxwell Quest
    Participant

    For any Atlantis enthusiats who are interested, I found this video rather compelling. I’m not sure if it’s the same one I watched a while back, but it identifies the same geographic location:

    Lost Roman Map has ATLANTIS at Eye of Sahara Africa! (Richat Structure)

    #134979
    zerosum
    Participant

    (I believe my A.I.
    Your A.I. is lying.
    Your A.I. is pushing your emotional buttons.
    Your A.I.is diverting you from the truth)

    #134980
    MelG
    Participant

    A sophisticated country in the Atlantic that fell due to hubris? General Cavoli in his testimony mentioning an unprecedented increase in Russian subs in the Atlantic? Could it be a setup for a false-flag in the Atlantic to bring down the US? An attack on undersea cables maybe, an east coast tsunami? Just yesterday I believe there was earthquake activity in the area of the Bermuda triangle, not that it necessarily means anything. Do we have the capability to trigger earthquakes? Blame Russia, justify WWIII.

    #134981
    John Day
    Participant

    @Just Some Randomer: Yeah, no rungs behind us on the ladder. Fortunately, shovels last a long time.
    There will be blacksmiths in the future if there are people.

    @Doc Robinson: I had a similar Far Side reaction to crocodiles Don’t Swim Here, and also saw it two ways, with a crocodile putting up signs, while you can see the eyes of another in the water, OR
    “Crocodiles: Don’t Swim Here!”
    🙂

    @DBS, jb-hb & Dr.D: Hail Atlantis! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AUEjzVQwKo

    #134982
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    Hell frozeth over….an Army General rather than a Navy “general” lecturing us about submarines.

    Evidence the world war is indeed a civil war at home AND we are losing. These following things are all related:

    1. When an “insider threat’ is and isn’t an threat to the nation: George Santos version:

    Derek Myers: Twitter

    @DerekMyers

    I can publicly confirm that during my brief time in the Congressman’s office I had met secretly with agents from the:

    @FBI

    in an effort to work as a confidential informant and human asset against the Congressman during my course of employment in his office. I cannot go into further detail at this time.”

    And if you weren’t paying attention in 2017 when The Big Crow James Comey crowed about doing the exact same thing to President Trump, then the POTUS

    2. Insiders surveilling and threatening POTUS in 2017:

    Former FBI Director James Comey openly admitted to Congress on March 20, 2017, how the FBI, FBI Counterintelligence Division, DOJ and DOJ-National Security Division, together with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and the CIA, had been conducting independent investigations of Donald Trump for over a year without informing Congress [the Gang of Eight]. When asked the question, Comey winced, then justified the lack of informing Gang of Eight oversight by saying, “um, because of the sensitivity of the matter?”

    3. Insiders were inside a U.S. Congressman and “rarely” killed him with routine gallbladder surgery or file under the title “One Can’t Strive To Be Too Perfect Because it’s Irksome to Dr. D”

    “Even when you have an injury, it doesn’t often, obviously, lead to death,” Britt said. “This is very surprising, but we know that death is a possible complication of any procedure.”

    one dare call it a conspiracy, war crime or treason: Murtha’s criticism of the Iraq war intensified in 2006, when he accused Marines of murdering Iraqi civilians “in cold blood” at Haditha, after one Marine died and two were wounded by a roadside bomb

    #134983
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    WW2 was not fought to defeat fascism: it was fought to ensure that British and American fascists continued to dominate the world.

    Those who saw the danger of a completely fascistic world emerging after WW2 provided the USSR with information that speeded the development of nuclear weapons in the USSR and created a balance of power. They already had the best rocket technology.

    Bristish and American fascists worked tirelessly for four decades to undermine the USSR and intended to take it over and subsequently surround and eliminate communist China.

    Putin, with the support of the Russian people, messed up the British-American fascist’s plans.

    Please remember your Two Minutes of Hate [of Putin and Russia] sessions. Once a day is mandatory for all ‘good citizens’ but those seeking advancement within the fascistic system should perform Two Minutes of Hate [of Putin and Russia} as frequently as they are able. -Ministry of Truth.

    Northern sectors of Airstrip Five are being subjected to the third climate catastrophe in four months, in the form of torrents of rain that flood and wash away infrastructure.

    The management of Airstrip Five have nearly succeeded in wrecking the economy, the environment and the financial Ponzi scheme. Collapse is accelerating.

    Meanwhile, much of Airstrip Three is on fire. And it’s not even summer there yet.

    The coming El Nino, in combination with falling energy availability, catastrophic war policies, and unravelling of fake money systems, will likely push most of the current living arrangements in ‘Oceania’ off the cliff by 2025.

    About 1% of the populace of ‘Oceania’ is awake and prepared.

    Most of those who ran from truth or tried to conceal it will get wiped out.

    #134984
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    Where Derek Myers, congressional staffer to George Santos, digs his own hole…deeper.

    I predict Derek already received “inured” benefits for his traitorous acts against congress in the assurance he won’t be prosecuted like Jack Texiera, The Proud Boys and J6 Protesters.
    Derek has also likely been promised a job AND legal representation. I hope he knows he must pay federal income tax on the monetary value of that “free” legal representation.

    #134985
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Colorado Teachers’ Union Passes Anti-Capitalist Resolution, Sparking Outcry From Republicans
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/colorado-teachers-union-passes-anti-capitalist-resolution-sparking-outcry-republicans

    Well, that escalated quickly.

    From thinking maybe there’s something a little weird going on with teachers to, a few years later, they come right out and say it.

    “capitalism inherently exploits children, public schools, land, labor, and resources.”

    The biggest systems of exploitation the past 100 years, the most people murdered, the most people enslaved, least responsive to environmental concerns, STILL least responsive… that was done by what system again? Not capitalism, something ELSE? Let me think about this one….

    “systemic racism, climate change, patriarchy (gender and LGBTQ disparities), education inequality, and income inequality.”

    The system that created a massive 2-tier society of super powerful and affluent and a gigantic majority poor miserable and terrified with a tiny negligible class of support staff for the lucky ones, what was that one again? The one that keeps replicating that situation?

    All the retrofit critical theory issues for the current Mystery Religion/Gnostic Religion were cited. We’ve got to keep religion out of schools, you know.

    while we – well, “we” – still don’t want to come out pro communist or marxist, regardless of repeating all its exact talking points 1,000,000 times, we – well, “we” – sure are against any ANTI-communists. They’re Big Meanies and also conspiracy theorists. They’re imagining things. And also we’d like to make a formal statement on behalf of all of us encapsulating all the current year marxist things. Cosmic Coincidence.

    We’re not COMMUNISTS you paranoid fascist idiot fucks, we’re ANTI CAPITALISTS who say all the marxist things. Duh. Argh. God. Morons. Just like Ukraine isn’t IN nato, like we didn’t SAY THE WORDS you dumb idiots. They’re just trained by NATO, equipped by nato, funded by nato, advised by nato, act on decisions by nato, rely on NATO intelligence, use mercs from nato countries, talk about becoming officially part of nato tomorrow with total confidence, have continual meetings to coordinate between Ukranian and nato military and political leadership in the news. What are you, some kind of lead paint chewing asshole?

    #134986
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Dr D said

    New York approved a $229 billion budget plan laced with restrictions. New buildings under seven stories will be prohibited from using gas stoves by 2026, and taller buildings will face the same ban in 2029. There will be some exceptions for places like hospitals and restaurants, but newly constructed buildings will be forced to use electric.” …Electric which they don’t have.

    Gas is very common in home brewing because it is not possible to get a ten or fifteen gallon pot of water to keep boiling without gas. You can get it to boiling using a lot of insulation nut to then sustain a rolling or vigorous boil then you will need gas as the amount of heat taken away as steam will exceed the limits of high powered domestic appliances.

    Even restaurant grade induction heaters are mostly limited to the limits of domestic electricity as most do not have high voltage supplies. In restaurants it is impossible to get a range to work with electiricity because the electrical system – even using two phase 120v – is just not designed to power everything in the house using electricity. I assume that it is for this reason that restaurants are excluded from this law as otherwise they would have to close. It also tells us that the law makers are aware of the short comings of the electrical system.

    The electircal standards were written in a day when every house used fossil fuels for the heavy lifting. In my grandparents house they used oil to heat the house and hot water. Now that job is to be undertaken by the same electrical system that was never designed for such heavy lifting. Obviously the people who put these laws in place are enforcing energy rationing: they will not allow you to use high voltage electricity and you would never be able to afford the equipment anyway. They never believed that renewables would replace the existing energy usage, they always wanted rationing. As always, you can be sure that the billionaires will all have high voltage electiricity going to their homes, the necessary equipment to use that voltage, as well as dispensation to use gas.

    #134987
    John Day
    Participant

    Influence And Perception Management
    https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/influence-and-perception-management

    Yesterday was Victory Day in Russia, 78 years after Germany surrendered unconditionally to end the European theater of WW-2. Sputnik has reflections of some geopolitical analysts about the changes now underway in the global “order”, since the brief period of great-power friendship, the cold-war and the unipolar world have come and are gone, or are departing now. Thanks Christine.
    1945 to 2023? World on the Precipice of a New Global Realignment
    Gradually, Wang stressed, the US is transforming from global hegemon to a global “rogue state spreading its empire across the world” in the eyes of other countries. The Ukrainian crisis is helping to speed this process along, the academic believes, with the conflict making clear to “the majority of the peoples of the world…that Washington’s malign Cold War mentality” is driving the Ukrainian crisis, and “preparations for a future war against China” as well…
    ​ ..Parenti agrees that the Ukrainian crisis has “accelerated the above-mentioned historical trends.”
    ​ ​”A new international order is already here to stay, under construction throughout the last decades of wars, financial crises and new emerging international arrangements to free the world population from said tyranny,” he said. “New cultural codes, a new media environment, and new regional and international institutional arrangements” will help “shape a real democratization of international relations, of people-to-people relations,” the observer suggested…​..It’s been my experience that most Americans are really good people. They love to help. They love to try their best to make a better world,” Pauken said. Unfortunately, US engagement with the world, particularly after the end of the Cold War and the dawn of the 21st century, gradually turned to attempts to establish a unipolar world order “in which basically Washington is in charge,” in search of control and dictating its terms to the rest of the world.
    ​ ​”This is common for many great empires, no matter how ‘good and wonderful’ they are; eventually, there is going to be a decline of the empire. Because what happens in power is it becomes very addictive and suddenly people who [have it] become corrupted. And I think what we’re seeing right now is a corruption of America, along with that US foreign policy. It’s no longer about helping the world, but about making selfish changes for the US,” he said…
    ​..​The same tone was struck by Gilbert Doctorow, an international relations and Russian affairs analyst, who insisted in an interview with Sputnik that “the dramatic changes that we see around us are still rudimentary.”
    ​ ​According to him, these changes are “sketching where history is going, but there are no conclusions that we can draw, because this all is a work in progress.”
    ​ ​When asked about the most significant geopolitical events taking place right now, he pointed to the conflict in Ukraine, which Doctorow said is “really a test of strength between Russia and the collective West led by the United States.” …
    ​ ​Mentioning trade in oil, he said that “if it no longer is in dollars,” it will destroy “the dollar’s reserve position.”
    ​ ​”That is what we are witnessing today, and that is bringing about the change in global politics that heads us in the direction towards a multipolar world, a more democratic world governance. If the dollar loses its supreme position as a reserve currency, it loses its fists, its hammer for controlling global governance,” the analyst underlined.
    https://sputnikglobe.com/20230509/1945-to-202-world-on-the-precipice-of-a-new-global-realignment-1110177944.html

    ​ ​New Federal Disinformation Offices Created
    ​ ​Big Brother adds “Influence and Perception Management Office” & “Foreign Malign Influence Center”
    ​ ​The Pentagon will oversee the “Influence and Perception Management Office,” which is consistent with the fact that “Perception Management” is an old DoD euphemism for psychological warfare and deception. According to the investigative journalist Robert Parry, who covered the Iran-Contra Affair, the Reagan and first Bush Administrations adopted the techniques of “Perception Management” for the objective of overcoming the American public’s “Vietnam Syndrome”—that is, its reluctance to get involved in foreign military adventures that were widely perceived as fruitless and likely to end badly.
    https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/new-federal-disinformation-offices

    ​ ​What will President Biden do if his son is indicted by the federal prosecutor in Delaware? That’s one of three questions looming over U.S. Attorney David Weiss’ fateful choice. The second is whether the indictment will go after a larger, coordinated family scheme of influence peddling or confine itself to smaller, tightly-confined issues like lying to get a gun permit and not registering as a foreign lobbyist. The third is whether Attorney General Merrick Garland will approve Weiss’ proposed charges.
    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/05/09/if_hunter_is_indicted_149195.html

    Summary: House Republicans laid out evidence of a vast network of Biden family dealings which reek of corruption – including;
    The Biden family received, and tried to hide, over $10 million in payments from foreign nationals
    A previously undisclosed $1 million in Romanian-linked payments
    Ties to Romanian ‘influence peddling’
    A ‘web’ of 20 LLCs created while Joe Biden was Vice President with a ‘complicated corporate structure’
    ‘At least 15’ of the LLCs were formed after Biden became VP in 2009 – several of which were owned or co-owned by Hunter
    These LLCs accepted payments ranging from $5,000 to $3 million
    The committee wants to know what legitimate business the Biden family was in
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-live-comer-unveils-evidence-biden-family-corruption

    #134989
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ ​NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has told the Washington Post that all member states have agreed to welcome Ukraine after it defeats Russia. He also revealed that the US-led military bloc had started backing Kiev in 2014…
    ..The NATO head has made this claim once before, last month when he visited Kiev. This prompted a one-word response (“What?”) from Hungarian PM Viktor Orban, who suggested that the bloc had not actually bothered to obtain consent from Budapest…
    ..“The war in Ukraine has fundamentally changed NATO, but then you have to remember the war didn’t start in 2022. The war started in 2014,” Stoltenberg told the Post, noting that all members of the bloc have “significantly increased” their military spending since then.
    https://www.azerbaycan24.com/en/all-nato-members-support-ukraine-membership-stoltenberg/

    Canadian trucker facing criminal charges from Freedom Convoy remains ‘confident,’ puts trust in God​
    ​’I’m comforted in the fact that we are called to speak the truth, and after that, it’s not up to us,’ said Harold Jonker.
    https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/canadian-trucker-facing-criminal-charges-from-freedom-convoy-remains-confident-puts-trust-in-god/

    Canadian police officer told to work 140 unpaid hours as punishment for donating $50 to Freedom Convoy​
    ​A small donation by a Windsor police officer that never made it to the organizers is considered a ‘serious’ violation by the government.
    https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/canadian-police-officer-told-to-work-140-unpaid-hours-as-punishment-for-donating-50-to-freedom-convoy/

    The Censorship-Industrial Complex: Top 50 Organizations To Know​
    ​[Update: How do we know Matt and crew are over the target? Facebook won’t allow this post…]
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    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/censorship-industrial-complex-top-50-organizations-know

    #134990
    John Day
    Participant

    censorship biz

    #134991
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ ​Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has expressed frustration at the United States’s continuing efforts to extradite WikiLeaks founder and Australian citizen Julian Assange who has been in a high-security United Kingdom prison for the past four years as he fights the case.
    ​ ​Albanese, who ​(was)​ in the UK for King Charles III’s coronation, said he was frustrated there had not yet been a diplomatic resolution to the issue and concerned about the mental health of the now 51-year-old.
    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/5/5/australia-pm-says-no-point-in-uss-continued-pursuit-of-assange

    Australian lawmakers call on US to drop Assange extradition bid​
    ​A delegation of Australian lawmakers called for the United States to end its attempts to extradite and prosecute Julian Assange during a meeting with US Ambassador Caroline Kennedy in Canberra on Tuesday.
    ​ ​The ‘Bring Julian Assange Home Parliamentary Group’ informed Washington’s chief diplomat in Australia that its citizens had expressed “widespread concern” at the continued detention in Britain of the WikiLeaks founder, who is an Australian national, as well as attempts to extradite him to the United States to face espionage charges.
    https://www.rt.com/news/576024-australia-us-assange-ambassador/

    ​ ​A KINGLY PROPOSAL: LETTER FROM JULIAN ASSANGE TO KING CHARLES III​
    ​ To His Majesty King Charles III,
    ​ ​On the coronation of my liege, I thought it only fitting to extend a heartfelt invitation to you to commemorate this momentous occasion by visiting your very own kingdom within a kingdom: His Majesty’s Prison Belmarsh.
    ​ ​You will no doubt recall the wise words of a renowned playwright: “The quality of mercy is not strained. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath.”
    ​ ​Ah, but what would that bard know of mercy faced with the reckoning at the dawn of your historic reign? After all, one can truly know the measure of a society by how it treats its prisoners, and your kingdom has surely excelled in that regard….
    ..As a political prisoner, held at Your Majesty’s pleasure on behalf of an embarrassed foreign sovereign, I am honoured to reside within the walls of this world class institution. Truly, your kingdom knows no bounds…
    ​..​I implore you, King Charles, to visit His Majesty’s Prison Belmarsh, for it is an honour befitting a king. As you embark upon your reign, may you always remember the words of the King James Bible: “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy” (Matthew 5:7). And may mercy be the guiding light of your kingdom, both within and without the walls of Belmarsh.
    ​ ​Your most devoted subject,
    ​ ​Julian Assange​ ​A9379AY

    A Kingly Proposal: Letter from Julian Assange to King Charles III

    #134992
    John Day
    Participant

    Net Zero grid batteries alone would bankrupt America​
    ​Here in the real world, however, we would need literally millions of weather-dependent wind turbines, billions of equally unreliable solar panels, millions of half-ton battery modules for vehicles, billions more modules to back up intermittent electricity generation, millions of transformers, and tens of thousands of miles of new transmission lines.
    ​ ​All these technologies must be manufactured from metals, minerals, and petroleum extracted from the Earth, via mining on scales unprecedented in human history…
    ​​..Science and policy analyst David Wojick calculated that just the batteries needed to back up wind and solar electricity generation in a “net zero” USA would cost $23 trillion — America’s entire 2021 gross domestic product (GDP) — and probably many times that.
    ​ ​Energy and technology consultant Thomas Tanton found that battery backup to replace current U.S. fossil fuel electricity — and convert vehicles, furnaces, water heaters, and stoves to electricity — would cost at least $29 trillion in initial outlays.
    ​ ​Trillions more would be needed to cover financing, repairs, maintenance, replacements, burying broken and worn out non-recyclable equipment, and building systems strong enough to survive hurricanes.
    ​ ​Professional engineer Ken Gregory determined that grid-backup battery costs could reach $290 trillion (12.6 times the USA’s 2021 GDP), based on actual 2019 and 2020 hourly intermittent electricity generation data, rather than annual average data utilized in the other studies.
    ​ ​None of these estimates includes the costs of turbines, panels, transmission lines, or transformers.
    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/05/net_zero_grid_batteries_alone_would_bankrupt_america_.html

    Texas Wants to Create a Gold and Silver-Backed Currency​ (Waiting in Calendar-Committee to be scheduled for floor debate. It may not happen this session.)
    Can the fiat system be reformed? Can this be done or at least initiated at a state level?
    https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/texas-wants-to-create-a-gold-and

    Linoleic Acid — The Most Destructive Ingredient in Your Diet​ , Joseph Mercola D.O.
    (I’m not sure it’s the “most destructive”, but here is a reference.​ We use olive oil, avocado oil, coconut oil and grass-fed butter.​)
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    Linoleic Acid — The Most Destructive Ingredient in Your Diet

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