May 152023
 


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Wagner Chief Offered To Give Russian Troop Locations To Ukraine (WaPo)
WaPo Deletes Part of Zelensky Interview Accusing It Of Aiding Russia (Antiwar)
Here Are The Zelensky ‘Treason’ Quotes The Washington Post Deleted (RT)
Western Pressure Can ‘Screw Up’ Ukrainian Counteroffensive: Ex-US General (RT)
Ukraine Now De-Facto ‘State-Sponsor Of Terrorism’ – Kremlin (RT)
White Supremacy Is ‘Most Dangerous Threat’ To US – Biden (RT)
The Charlemagne Prize for Hypocrisy and Mass Murder (Vogel)
G7 and EU To Ban Restart Of Russian Gas Pipelines (RT)
Play it Again Uncle Sam… Debunked Syrian Chemical Weapons Card in Ukraine (SCF)
Deliver Us from Reality (Kimball)
The Dynamics Driving The Dollar Down (Macleod)
Never Forget: A Retrospective On The Media Lies Surrounding COVID (ZH)
Assange Allies Turn to Squire Patton Boggs to Help Lobby DOJ (BBL)

 

 

 

 

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Prygozhin talks to Kiev. But does he offer to give up military secrets? That’s a stretch.

Wagner Chief Offered To Give Russian Troop Locations To Ukraine (WaPo)

In late January, with his mercenary forces dying by the thousands in a fight for the ruined city of Bakhmut, Wagner Group owner Yevgeniy Prigozhin made Ukraine an extraordinary offer. Prigozhin said that if Ukraine’s commanders withdrew their soldiers from the area around Bakhmut, he would give Kyiv information on Russian troop positions, which Ukraine could use to attack them. Prigozhin conveyed the proposal to his contacts in Ukraine’s military intelligence directorate, with whom he has maintained secret communications during the course of the war, according to previously unreported U.S. intelligence documents leaked on the group-chat platform Discord. Prigozhin has publicly feuded with Russian military commanders, who he furiously claims have failed to equip and resupply his forces, which have provided vital support to Moscow’s war effort. But he is also an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who might well regard Prigozhin’s offer to trade the lives of Wagner fighters for Russian soldiers as a treasonous betrayal.


The leaked document does not make clear which Russian troop positions Prigozhin offered to disclose. Two Ukrainian officials confirmed that Prigozhin has spoken several times to the Ukrainian intelligence directorate, known as HUR. One official said that Prigozhin extended the offer regarding Bakhmut more than once, but that Kyiv rejected it because officials don’t trust Prigozhin and thought his proposals could have been disingenuous. A U.S. official also cautioned that there are similar doubts in Washington about Prigozhin’s intentions. The Ukrainian and U.S. officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive information. In an interview with The Washington Post this month, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky would not confirm the contacts with Prigozhin. “This is a matter of [military] intelligence,” he said. The Ukrainian leader also objected to airing classified information publicly and said he believed that the leaks had benefited Russia.

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Zelensky doesn’t appear to get it. This is the Discord leaks.

WaPo Deletes Part of Zelensky Interview Accusing It Of Aiding Russia (Antiwar)

The Washington Post deleted a portion of an interview with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, where he accused the paper of helping Russia by posing a question about information contained in leaked classified documents. The interview was conducted on May 1 and published on Saturday. An archived version of the interview shows a testy exchange between Zelensky and the Post, which was later deleted. The Post asked Zelensky about documents they obtained that they said showed members of Ukraine’s Main Directorate of Intelligence, known as HUR, had “back-channel contact” with Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Russian mercenary force Wagner Group. Zelensky appeared to think the Post received the information from a Ukrainian and demanded the paper reveal its source.

“I would also like to ask you a question: With which sources from Ukraine do you have contact? Who is talking about the activities of our intelligence? Because this is the most severe felony in our country. Which Ukrainians are you talking to?” he said. The Post said the information “did not come from Ukraine” and that it was part of the Discord leaks, which revealed information that was obtained by the US spying on Zelensky. The Post said the documents showed Kyrylo Budanov, the head of Ukraine’s Main Directorate of Intelligence, informed Zelensky about a “Russian plan to destabilize Moldova with two former Wagner associates.” The Post added: “Budanov informed you that he viewed the Russian scheme as a way to incriminate Prigozhin because ‘we have dealings’ with him.

You instructed Budanov to inform Moldovan President Maia Sandu, and Budanov told you that the GUR [HUR] had informed Prigozhin that he would be labeled a traitor who has been working with Ukraine. The document also says that Budanov expected the Russians to use details of Prigozhin’s secret talks with the GUR [HUR] and meetings with GUR [HUR] officers in Africa.” Zelensky responded by asking if the paper wanted the help Russia. “You are releasing some sort of information that does not help our state to attack and does not help us to defend our state. So, I don’t quite understand what you are talking about. I don’t quite understand your goal. Is your goal to help Russia?” he said. When the Post responded by saying it didn’t want to help Russia, Zelensky replied, “Well, it looks different.”

It’s not clear why the Post deleted the portion of the interview, but it could have been done at the behest of the Ukrainian government, which had previously pressured CBS News to remove a documentary on military aid to Ukraine. On Sunday night, the Post published a report on the HUR’s alleged contacts with Prighozhin. The report said Prighozhin, who is known to speak out against Russian military leadership, offered to give Ukraine information on Russian troop positions if Ukrainian forces withdrew from Bakhmut. But the report said US and Ukrainian officials thought the proposal was disingenuous. Prigozhin on Sunday made light of the allegations about his contacts with the HUR. According to the Post, he met with Ukrainian intelligence officials in an unnamed country in Africa. “Yes of course I can confirm this information, we have nothing to hide from the foreign special services. Budanov and I are still in Africa,” Prighozhin wrote on Telegram.

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There’s more at the URL.

Here Are The Zelensky ‘Treason’ Quotes The Washington Post Deleted (RT)

The Washington Post has deleted a large tract of an interview with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky in which he lashed out at alleged “traitors” in his ranks. RT is publishing the entire section that the US newspaper would rather keep hidden. The following section appeared in an interview with the Ukrainian president published on Saturday. By Sunday it had been removed with no explanation. After discussing a trove of recently leaked Pentagon documents, which revealed – among other things – that the US monitors Zelensky’s communications, the newspaper presented him with a fresh allegation that has not yet been reported in the US media. Note that Evgeny Prigozhin is the founder and head of the Wagner Group, a Russian private military company currently fighting in the Donetsk People’s Republic.

WaPo: The documents indicate that GUR, your intelligence directorate, has back-channel contact with Evgeny Prigozhin that you were aware of, including meeting with Evgeny Prigozhin and GUR officers. Is that true?

Zelensky: This is a matter of [military] intelligence. Do you want me to be convicted of state treason? And so, it’s very interesting, if someone is saying that you have documents, or if someone from our government is speaking about the activities of our intelligence, I would also like to ask you a question: With which sources from Ukraine do you have contact? Who is talking about the activities of our intelligence? Because this is the most severe felony in our country. Which Ukrainians are you talking to?

WaPo: I talked to officials in government, but these documents are not from Ukraine, they are from…

Zelensky: It doesn’t matter where the documents are from. The question is with which Ukrainian official did you talk? Because if they say something about our intelligence, that’s treason. If they say something about a specific offensive plan of one general or another, this is also treason. That’s why I asked you, which Ukrainians are you talking to?

WaPo: About these specific documents? You are the first person I am talking to about them.

Zelensky: Okay.

WaPo: And I can read you what information exactly there is about Prigozhin and the GUR. On February 13, Kirill Budanov, chief of Ukraine’s Main Directorate of Intelligence, informed you about a Russian plan to destabilize Moldova with two former Wagner associates. Budanov informed you that he viewed the Russian scheme as a way to incriminate Prigozhin because “we have dealings” with him. You instructed Budanov to inform Moldovan President Maia Sandu, and Budanov told you that the GUR had informed Prigozhin that he would be labeled a traitor who has been working with Ukraine. The document also says that Budanov expected the Russians to use details of Prigozhin’s secret talks with the GUR and meetings with GUR officers in Africa…

Zelensky: Listen, to be honest, well, you just read something, you say something. I just don’t understand where you get it, whom you talk to and so on. You talk about how I met with Budanov. This suggests that you – how do you put it? It looks like you have people who have some records or you have some evidence or you have something, because that’s what it looks like. You are again doing, I apologize, what you were doing before. You are releasing some sort of information that does not help our state to attack and does not help us to defend our state. So, I don’t quite understand what you are talking about. I don’t quite understand your goal. Is your goal to help Russia? I mean, that means we have different goals. If I’m not sitting at the same table with them, I don’t quite understand what we’re talking about. Each of these inquiries simply demotivates Ukraine, demotivates certain partners to help Ukraine. Well, one way or another, I just don’t understand your goal.

WaPo: Our goal is not to help Russia.

Zelensky: Well, it looks different.

WaPo: No one gave us this information personally. These were in the leaked documents, which do indicate, as I said earlier, that the United States is listening in on you.

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“..This narrative is promoted by those who “don’t want to see Ukraine win..”

Western Pressure Can ‘Screw Up’ Ukrainian Counteroffensive: Ex-US General (RT)

The West could sabotage Ukraine’s much-hyped anticipated counteroffensive against Russia by piling up too much pressure on Kiev, a retired US general has warned. In an interview to Business Insider released on Thursday, Ben Hodges, former commander of US Army Europe, cautioned that portraying Ukraine’s push to reclaim lost territories as a make-or-break offensive could set a dangerous precedent and derail it even before its starts. “The only thing I think that can screw this up is if the West exerts so much pressure on Ukraine and it causes them to stop short of a total victory,” he told the outlet. Echoing remarks by some top Ukrainian officials, Hodges went on to say that he would “reject the talk that Ukraine’s only got one shot” at the offensive, and if it fails to “achieve a knockout blow,” then its Western backers would stop supporting Kiev.

This narrative is promoted by those who “don’t want to see Ukraine win,” he added. Hodges also noted that many top White House officials “are not committed to Ukraine absolutely winning,” rebuking the administration of US President Joe Biden for failing to clearly define its strategic objectives in the conflict. With speculation rampant in recent months about an imminent spring push, in late March Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba attempted to downplay its significance, saying that “we should counter by all means the perception of the counteroffensive as the decisive battle of the war.”

Earlier this week, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky claimed that Kiev was ready for the offensive, but still needed a bit more time for the conditions to become optimal and for the groundwork to be laid so as to avoid “unacceptable” losses. However, in late March General Mark Milley, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, voiced skepticism about the planned offensive, warning that Ukraine would have a hard time “kicking every Russian out” of the territories it claims as its own. In April, commenting on the potential move by Kiev, Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said that the Russian military “thoroughly tracks all the relevant information.”

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This implicates us who support them.

Ukraine Now De-Facto ‘State-Sponsor Of Terrorism’ – Kremlin (RT)

Ukraine has de-facto turned into a “state-sponsor of terrorism,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. The official made the remarks in an interview with journalist Pavel Zarubin that aired on Sunday. The spokesman was asked for comments about a recent pledge by Ukraine’s military intelligence chief Kirill Budanov, who vowed to “keep killing Russians anywhere” across the globe. Despite their explosive nature, the remarks did not face any criticism from Kiev’s Western sponsors, Peskov noted. “The statement is unprecedented in its essence. And of course, it will be strange not to hear any words of condemnation from European capitals and from Washington. Logic says it’s impossible to do without condemnation,” he said. Budanov’s admission was yet further proof that Kiev has been directly orchestrating terrorist attacks against Russians, Peskov added.

The spokesman said that Russia’s “special services know what to do after such statements,” but did not elaborate on the potential countermeasures against such activities. “It’s evident that the Kiev regime is behind the killings, not only sponsoring them, but organizes, incites and carries them out. De-facto, we’re talking about a state-sponsor of terrorism.” The controversial remarks were made last week by the boss of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s Main Directorate of Intelligence (GUR) in an interview with Yahoo News. Budanov boasted that “we’ve been killing Russians” and will “keep killing Russians anywhere on the face of this world until the complete victory of Ukraine.” The statement came in response to a question whether the GUR had anything to do with last year’s murder of Darya Dugina, a journalist and daughter of prominent Russian philosopher Aleksandr Dugin. Budanov dismissed accusations of engaging in terrorism, stating that what Russia calls “terrorism, we call liberation.”

The terrorist activities that Moscow has attributed to Kiev have picked up in recent months. In April, for instance, Russian military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky was killed in St Petersburg with an improvised explosive device that had been concealed in a statuette handed to him during an event. The blast killed the blogger on the spot and injured over a dozen others. Russia’s Security Service (FSB) has blamed the blast on “Ukrainian special services and their agents, including fugitive members of the Russian opposition.” Last week, Russian author and political activist Zakhar Prilepin was targeted in a car bombing near the city of Nizhny Novgorod. The blast left Prilepin critically injured, and killed his close associate, who was inside the vehicle at the moment of the attack.

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Plenty old videos with Joe as supremacist.

White Supremacy Is ‘Most Dangerous Threat’ To US – Biden (RT)

In a speech to black college graduates on Saturday, US President Joe Biden labeled ‘white supremacy’ the most dangerous terrorist threat to the US. The statement – which is contradicted by crime statistics – was condemned by conservative pundits. “White supremacy… is the single most dangerous terrorist threat in our homeland,” Biden told graduates from Howard University, a historically black university (HBCU) in Washington DC. “I’m not just saying this because I’m at a black HBCU. I say this wherever I go,” Biden continued. “Fearless progress toward justice often means ferocious pushback from the oldest and most sinister of forces. That’s because hate never goes away… it only hides under the rocks.”

Throughout his time in office, Biden has often talked up the threat of white supremacy, claiming that belief in the superiority of the white race motivated former President Donald Trump’s supporters to riot at the US Capitol in January 2021, and declaring last year that black people live in fear of being “gunned down by weapons of war deployed in a racist cause.” In mid-2021, the Biden administration published the US government’s first ever National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism, which named “racially motivated violent extremists” and anti-government extremists as “the two most lethal elements of today’s domestic terrorism threat.”

According to FBI crime statistics, the average Howard University graduate is 11 times more likely to be murdered by a member of their own race than a white perpetrator. While African-Americans commit the majority of all violent crime in the US, most crime – whether committed by white or black Americans – is intraracial. Biden’s statement was condemned by conservative pundits, who accused the president of using divisive rhetoric to solicit votes. “The Democratic Party spent most of the 19th Century and much of the 20th using overt racism to win elections,” libertarian activist Jon Miltimore tweeted, adding that “They are doing it again in the 21st century. The racism just looks a lot different than the 19th century version.” Journalist Julie Kelly called Biden a “pathological liar” and accused him of fueling “dangerous racial division.”

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“exceptional work performed in the service of European unity.”

The Charlemagne Prize for Hypocrisy and Mass Murder (Vogel)

On Sunday, 14 May 2023, Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky will receive the Charlemagne Prize for “exceptional work performed in the service of European unity.” The Prize will be given to Zelensky himself and to the Ukrainian people. The official citation is full of praise, lofty terms and high ideals, but somehow there is a ring of insincerity about it. Obviously, the Prize is given because eight years after starting a war against what it claims to be its own citizens, the Ukraine is now engaged in a real battle with its Russian neighbor. After shelling cities of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, killing at least some 15,000 civilians and wounding countless others, Ukrainian soldiers and their NATO mentors now have to face a real enemy.

With European nations, as members of NATO and US vassal states, participating in brutal killing sprees in Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, and given the violent past of nations like England, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Sweden and Denmark, what right do they have of lecturing Russia? The citation speaks of “an unspeakably brutal Russian war of aggression that contravenes international law, directed against the European Social Order, Security Order and Peace Order, with the objective of destabilising the European community of peoples…” As for upholding the principle of sovereignty that the EU supposedly holds so high and for which Zelensky is being praised to the skies, like everything else in the citation, it is a cynical sham. If the Ukraine is entitled to sovereignty and independence, what about Catalonia?

The last time the Catalans, who since the 17th century have desperately wanted to be sovereign and independent, tried to achieve this peacefully, they were brutally repressed by the government in Madrid and the unelected apparatchiks in the European Commission in Brussels. The European values defended by the guy with the hoarse voice and the olive green t-shirt are actually the same as those of the years 1941-45 when all of Europe was in the East trying to defeat the Red Army. Nevertheless, the Charlemagne Prize citation says about Zelensky and the Ukraine: “His country is defending Western values, unassailable principles of coexistence, peace and freedom, and therefore precisely what the European Union stands for politically.” All of it pure baloney.

Since 1950, the German city of Aachen has been giving the annual prize for helping to promote “European unity.” In 1955, it was given to Sir Winston Churchill who, only eleven years before, had in fact been responsible for flattening the ancient city with all its priceless monuments and killing almost two thousand of its citizens. Apparently, the Prize Committee believed that killing men, women and children with aerial bombardments was “exceptional work performed in the service of European unity.” The Committee still held that view half a century later when it gave the Charlemagne Prize to Tony Blair (1999), Bill Clinton (2000) and Javier Solana (2007). In their respective functions as British Prime Minister, US President and NATO Secretary General, this trio was responsible for destroying the European nation of Yugoslavia and bombing the European nation of Serbia, killing thousands of Serbian men, women and children. Many of those who escaped NATO bombs were contaminated by radioactive material from the depleted uranium munitions dropped on Serbia. Indeed, “exceptional work performed in the service of European unity.”

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Wait till it gets colder.

G7 and EU To Ban Restart Of Russian Gas Pipelines (RT)

The G7 and EU will ban Russian gas imports on routes where Moscow has cut supplies, according to officials involved in the negotiations, the first time pipeline gas trade has been blocked by Western powers since the invasion of Ukraine, Report informs via the Financial Times. The decision, which is to be finalized by G7 leaders at a summit in Hiroshima next week, will prevent the resumption of Russian pipeline gas exports on routes to countries such as Poland and Germany, where Moscow cut off supplies last year and triggered an energy crisis across Europe. Western powers want to ensure that Russia does not receive a boost to its energy revenues as they attempt to raise economic pressure 15 months after Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

One of the officials, all of whom spoke on condition of anonymity, said the move was “to make sure that partners don’t change their mind in a hypothetical future”. A draft G7 statement seen by the Financial Times said that the group of leading economies would further reduce their use of Russian energy sources “including preventing the reopening of avenues previously shut down by Russia’s weaponization of energy” at least until “there is a resolution of the conflict”. While the measures are unlikely to affect any immediate gas flows, it underscores a deep determination in Brussels to make permanent the rapid and painful pivot away from decades of reliance on Russian energy. The ban is highly symbolic because, at the start of the war, the EU had avoided targeting pipeline flows given their huge dependence on Moscow’s gas. Russia went ahead and cut supplies anyway, sparking a surge in gas prices to more than 10 times their normal level.

But in recent months prices have fallen substantially as Europe successfully cut demand over winter, accelerated the roll out of renewable energy and sourced alternative supplies such as seaborne cargoes of LNG. Moscow’s share of the European gas imports has fallen from more than 40 percent to less than 10 percent, and a mild winter has boosted gas storage in the EU. Officials are confident that gas storage, which is already some 60 percent full compared with roughly 30 percent at the same time in 2022, will reach capacity long before the next winter arrives. Oil pipelines where Russia has cut supplies, including the northern leg of the Druzhba line that supplies refineries in Germany and Poland, could also be blocked under EU measures to prevent a resumption in flows.

The embargo is being discussed by diplomats as part of the EU’s 11th sanctions package. The commission said it would not comment on sanctions discussions or leaks. One EU diplomat said that the proposal needed more clarification from Brussels to show how the “status quo” would change, particularly as some oil from Kazakhstan flows through Druzhba. “It has to be clear exactly how it would work,” they said. Berlin and Warsaw, despite having an exemption from sanctions on Russian oil, said that they would voluntarily end deliveries of crude through Druzhba last year although Poland continued to receive supplies until Russia cut off flows in February. German refineries stopped ordering Russian crude from the beginning of this year.

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Aaron Maté territory.

Play it Again Uncle Sam… Debunked Syrian Chemical Weapons Card in Ukraine (SCF)

The CW card is a complete dud. That Western media are playing it shows that their role is as sinister as mass drug-dealing. Western media are now accusing Russian forces of preparing to use chemical weapons (CW) of mass destruction in Ukraine, thereby making the case for greater NATO military intervention. The CW card is a complete dud. That Western media are playing it shows they are also complete duds, and that their role is as sinister as mass drug-dealing. Deliberate provocation by Western powers is the watchword. Britain this week supplying long-range missiles, as well as depleted uranium artillery shells, and drone attacks on the Kremlin are part of a sequence to solicit never-ending escalation. Accusing Russia of planning to use chemical weapons of mass destruction, as with earlier claims of Russia willing to use nuclear weapons, is all part of the orchestrated provocation.

The degradation of Western media standards has become so bad that they can get away with retailing such nonsense to consumers of this “information”. First of all, Russia does not have any chemical weapons. As a signatory to the international treaty known as the Chemical Weapons Convention (1997), the Russian Federation verifiably destroyed all of its arsenals as per its signatory obligations. The complete decommissioning of these weapons by Russia in 2017 was verified by the Organization for the Prohibition on Chemical Weapons (OPCW). The United States is the only major power that has not fully implemented the CW convention by retaining stockpiles of these weapons. Not only is speculation about Russian forces possibly using CW in Ukraine baseless, but the Western media are also deploying the shoddy lie used earlier against Syria. Incredibly, for anyone cognizant of the facts, such calumny is still peddled to blame the wrong people when the real perpetrator in Syria was Western-backed militants and their CIA and MI6-sponsored media accomplices, the so-called White Helmets.

Western media continue to claim that the Syrian government forces of Bashar al Assad used CW against civilians during the decade-old civil war in the Arab country. Russia supported the Syrian army to defeat NATO-backed radical extremists. Now the Western media are moralizing that the United States and other Western powers took no punitive action against Syria over CW which, it is contended, is acting as a precedent for Russia to use these weapons in the Ukraine conflict. Euronews quotes Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, a former British military intelligence officer, as saying: “The international community needs to reaffirm that any use of chemical or biological weapons would not be acceptable in any shape or form… I’m sure NATO and the West would act if they [Russia] used chemical weapons in Ukraine. But having said that they stood by when Assad used such weapons in Syria and that might embolden Putin.”

This is an outrageous lie being propagated by the Western media. It has been documented by independent investigations that the CW attacks in Syria were actually carried out by NATO-backed mercenaries in false-flag operations to provoke Western military intervention. One of those false flags in the city of Douma in April 2018 succeeded in its nefarious aims. Following the incident – dutifully amplified at the time by Western media for gaslighting the Western public – U.S. President Donald Trump bombed Syria “in revenge” along with British and French allies. However, it turned out later that Syria, Russia and Iran were vindicated in their initial claims that the CW incidents in Syria were false-flag stunts. Indeed, it was shown that personnel in the UN watchdog, the OPCW, engaged in a cover-up to implicate the Assad government when the real perpetrator was the jihadists backed by the West, as reported by Aaron Maté and other independent journalists.

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The defence fund for former Marine Daniel Penny is at $1.6 million.

Deliver Us from Reality (Kimball)

“Because he can.” That’s the answer one has to give to those who ask how Alvin Bragg, a local district attorney in office by the slimmest of margins—and then only because of a huge subsidy from the anti-American billionaire George Soros—can get away with antics like indicting Donald Trump, a former (and, possibly, future) president of the United States, and, now, with charging former Marine Daniel Penny with manslaughter because he (along with at least two others) intervened to stop Jordan Neely from attacking fellow passengers on a New York subway. Because he can. As a friend remarked when digesting the spectacle of Penny being led away in handcuffs, totalitarian movements often start slowly, almost timidly, but as they gain power, they become more brazen. After a certain point, they do outrageous things just to intimidate the public and demonstrate their power.

We now know that the FBI, the CIA, and other elements of America’s security apparatus intervened directly in the decision making of Twitter and other social media companies to influence the course of the 2020 election. One part of that intervention had to do with organizing 51 senior former intelligence figures to sign a letter declaring that Hunter Biden’s laptop was “Russian disinformation.” That was a lie. They knew it was a lie. It didn’t matter. They did it because they knew they could get away with it. The United States is on the verge of being inundated with thousands upon thousands of illegal aliens. Many are from South or Central America. Hundreds are from China, even though they are crossing that notional line we used to be able to call, without irony, our southern border. Why did the Biden Administration decide to enact a real-life Camp of the Saints invasion of the United States? Because it could. There was no immediate price to pay.

In her classic study, The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt makes several observations that bear on our current situation. “There is no doubt,” she observes, “that the elite was pleased whenever the underworld frightened respectable society into accepting it on an equal footing. The members of the elite did not object at all to paying a price, the destruction of civilization, for the fun of seeing how those who had been excluded unjustly in the past forced their way into it. They were not particularly outraged at the monstrous forgeries in historiography of which all totalitarian regimes are guilty and which announce themselves clearly enough and totalitarian propaganda.”

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“..currency as a medium of exchange which allows us to turn our production into our consumption..”

The Dynamics Driving The Dollar Down (Macleod)

John Maynard Keynes did the world a disservice with his offhand dismissal of Say’s law. Consequently, economists have lost the true relationship between production and consumption. And we have lost our understanding of the true role of currencies as a medium of exchange. Nearly all our economic errors have flowed from this dismissal. In order to understand the seriousness of it with respect to the dollar today, the denial of Say’s law is no less than a denial of the division of labour. Yet, plainly, the division of labour is the basis of all human economic activity. Without having something to sell, we cannot buy the things we need which we are unable to provide for ourselves efficiently or easily. Where we differ from other animals is that we develop our personal skills to maximise the value of our specialised production so that we can increase our wider consumption for the greatest relief of our needs and desires.

Our individual skills are the key that provides our wealth. And it is the role of currency as a medium of exchange which allows us to turn our production into our consumption. Several things follow from this truism. One is that if we reduce our total production, we reduce our total consumption, because the former leads to the latter. No, say the Keynesians, who put it the other way round. They say that if we reduce our consumption there will be a general glut of goods on the market and then prices will fall, leading to unemployment. The error is to not understand that first we must produce in order to consume, so that there cannot be a general glut, only changes in the level of productive output which are broadly matched by changes in overall consumption.

Surely, this can be easily understood even by non-experts. But this deliberate error — for that is what it can only have been — has led to a misunderstanding of the role of the medium of exchange. It provides the means to exchange goods of unequal value: for example, a cobbler makes shoes and boots, whose unit value will be greater than the individual food items he requires daily to feed his family. It also provides producers with the credit required to finance production, paying costs incurred before a final product is sold and creditors repaid. This is the essence of trade. And so long as transacting individuals only produce to consume, the expansion and contraction of the sum total of money and credit purely in connection with that trade cannot alter their value in terms of goods and services generally. Not so, say Keynes’s macroeconomists, now joined in chorus by the monetarists. They claim that expansion of money and credit alters the general price relation. Both believe in manipulating credit to this end.

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“..the most aggressive global propaganda attack in modern history..”

Never Forget: A Retrospective On The Media Lies Surrounding COVID (ZH)

Lest we get too comfortable once again and forget that only a couple years ago the western world was on the verge of perpetual medical tyranny, it is important to look back at the massive media disinformation campaign concerning the effectiveness (or lack of effectiveness) of the pandemic mandates and the mRNA vaccines. Only two years ago, the public was bombarded by possibly the most aggressive global propaganda attack in modern history. And, this campaign was a conjoined effort between national governments, global institutions and corporations.


Keep in mind, all the hysteria was generated over a virus with a median official Infection Fatality Rate of only 0.23%. That’s right, all the fear mongering featured in the video below was in reaction to a “pandemic” that 99.8% of the population would easily survive, and this death rate was known only months after the spread started. Also keep in mind that essentially every single claim made by the media concerning covid featured below ended up being false. In many cases, the media knew that scientific evidence ran contrary to their narrative, but they promoted that narrative anyway. Enjoy this flashback of corporate media covid fear mongering, and never forget…

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No play no pay?

Assange Allies Turn to Squire Patton Boggs to Help Lobby DOJ (BBL)

A WikiLeaks fundraising organization has hired Squire Patton Boggs to lobby the Justice Department on behalf of the site’s publisher, Julian Assange, amid his espionage charges, according to public records and three sources familiar with the matter. German foundation Wau Holland has paid Squire at least $1.2 million since last October to push DOJ on journalists’ rights to publish classified information, federal disclosures show. The sources said the global law and public policy firm has been seeking a meeting with the department to discuss how the espionage case against Assange holds up in light of Attorney General Merrick Garland’s recent policy to protect journalists from enforcement actions.

The hiring of one of Washington’s most storied and influential firms marks an escalation of a years-long public advocacy campaign. Advocates haven’t yet succeeded in persuading the Biden administration to abandon the Trump-era prosecution of Assange for publishing classified war documents. There’s no sign the two Squire attorneys listed on the lobbying disclosures—both former government lawyers—have made headway in convening with DOJ officials to understand how Assange’s charges mesh with Garland’s press-friendly approach. But their campaign on behalf of someone condemned by members of both political parties, which hasn’t been previously reported, represents the Big Law firm’s most lucrative federally-disclosed work over the past six months.

Assange is a polarizing figure due to his high-profile national security breaches and publication of hacked Democratic National Committee emails in 2016. He was arrested in 2019 in London on a US warrant and remains detained as he fights his extradition. Squire’s efforts align with press freedom and civil liberties groups, major news outlets, and the House’s progressive wing, who have warned that extraditing Assange from the UK and putting him on trial in US court would threaten First Amendment rights. [..] Squire received $600,000 from the Wau Holland Foundation in each of the prior two quarters starting in October 2022, according to lobbying filings disclosed in mid-April. The foundation, a longtime Assange and WikiLeaks financer, enlisted the firm to lobby DOJ on “First Amendment issues related to the publication by journalists of classified information,” Squire said in the filings.

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    Alessandro Allori Portrait of a Lady c1560   • Wagner Chief Offered To Give Russian Troop Locations To Ukraine (WaPo) • WaPo Deletes Part of Zele
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle May 15 2023]

    #135211
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    Thanks for the DU shells, Britian. Just what is needed to convert the killing zone into a toxic killing zone.

    #135212
    Red
    Participant

    So nationalize! Sounds very WEF from here. Nationalize and then spread out the wealth nice and evenly with a broken fork.

    “We are essentially talking about economic security in a war,” Alexander Bastrykin, head of the Investigative Committee, told a conference that was streamed online. “Let’s go along the path of nationalising the main sectors of our economy.”

    https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/head-russias-crime-agency-suggests-nationalising-key-parts-economy-2023-05-13/

    #135213
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “Toronto ‘Anti-Capitalist’ Pay-When-You-Can Cafe Shuts Down After Just One Year
    Citing: “ lack of generational wealth/seed capital”

    Yes, ALL THINGS are “Capital”, i.e. “Capitalism”. In this case, daring to have any savings. I’m sure we’ve all run households with zero savings and farms with zero seed corn, and it worked great! We should have no tools, which are “capital” and no food in the cupboard which is “capital”.

    “”It’s Just Not Safe”: Decades-Old Baltimore Business Closes Shop Because Of Crime, Blames Democrats

    No private property, no voluntary exchange. If I have stuff, you can just take it. Violently, if you want. What do you think will happen if I go to your house and steal it back? What would happen if I match your violence to me, on a subway for instance?

    “Wedding Parties, Homeless Vets Booted From NY Hotels To Make Room For Migrants

    “Some animals are more equal than others.” …You only matter if you’re not a citizen.

    Not just here: UK Food-Bank Dependency Reaches Record High What we need here are 1M more British immigrants. (5x in American terms, 5M new mouths to feed per year)

    Wagner Chief Offered To Give Russian Troop Locations To Ukraine (WaPo)

    Very interesting. But it’s WaPo, so it’s almost certainly a lie. What makes you think this part wasn’t entirely real, and the plan was to have Ukraine walk into a trap? Geez that would be way easier than every other explanation. “But the report said US and Ukrainian officials thought the proposal was disingenuous.” No kidding.

    An archived version of the interview shows a testy exchange between Zelensky and the Post, which was later deleted.”

    WaPo, so it’s certainly a lie.

    Ze says to WaPo, “We thank you for your work, your help when you support Ukraine in this war. You did a big job.” Nothing says honest, independent journalism like that.

    “Plenty old videos with Joe as supremacist.
    • White Supremacy Is ‘Most Dangerous Threat’ To US – Biden (RT)

    I guess when you put it that way, White Supremacist Joe Biden IS the most dangerous threat the U.S. has faced in generations. Second only to Congressional RINOs.

    “I’m not just saying this because I’m at a black HBCU. I say this wherever I go,” Biden continued”

    Yeah, we know. Half the nation is your mortal enemy, and you plan to kill them all. We’ve heard. You had a whole Red Wedding speech about it, “That’s because hate never goes away.” Hate of Joe to imprison the most Black Men ever in history, refuse busing, support “superpredators”, say on camera “we don’t need no n—-r mayors”, then start a pan-African war and genocide. AFTER supporting destroying the richest, best nation in Africa and setting up open slave markets. X is what X does, as Gump would say. You’ve done more damage than 100 KKKs. What am I supposed to do about it? Lie and hide it for you?

    “G7 and EU To Ban Restart Of Russian Gas Pipelines (RT)”

    This is why NY is banning stoves. More profits to ship that tiiiiiiiny amount of LNG to Europe. But hey: we can kill NYers AND kill Europeans? Sign me up!

    “The United States is the only major power that has not fully implemented the CW convention by retaining stockpiles of these weapons.”

    We needed them for like genocides in Yemen n stuff.

    This is an outrageous lie being propagated by the Western media. …Incredibly, for anyone cognizant of the facts, such calumny is still peddled”

    So insert this here: https://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=29900

    “One of the strange and unnoticed aspects of the modern age is how much time is spent debating imaginary things. In fact, most of our public debates are about things that may happen or could never possibly happen. The things that are actually happening get very little attention.

    “Every politician is an illusionist now, making reality disappear behind a curtain of deceit.
    What has happened to modern American society is a form of the Peter Pan syndrome, in that society prefers to live in a world of make believe, rather than face up to the tough choices that come with adulthood.”

    And
    “Libertarian kooks would rather think about a world governed by the non-aggression principle than think about the problems that the current world is presenting to us.”
    This seemed to be Johnstone’s position too but at least she disagreed with : ”the libertarian guy is concerned about theoretical abuses of state power.” She thinks there ARE abuses of power, but apparently still need a super-powerful government to stop it. Not sure.

    “Imagination land is so powerful, it even warps the mundane things. Here is a story about a sportsball coach who used salty language in public. It was rude and he apologized for it. In the world of real things, this would be enough, but in the world of imaginary things, he must be punished. Imaginary people were traumatized, maybe even physically harmed by his words. According to his boss, the imaginary people now have scars that cannot be seen, because they are not real.

    In the [real] world, you apologize to a person who you can identify as a victim of your actions. In imagination land you apologize to imaginary people for imaginary crimes.”

    Pretty close. This is the basis of all law as well. You have to demonstrate actual harm to an actual person, and quantify it, roughly at least. “Feelz” can neither been seen nor quantified. In fact they may not exist at all and be a complete fabrication for grift. Probably they are since most “harms” are just little ego knocks we should probably let go.

    “Last month, Douglas Mackey was found guilty in Federal court of violating the civil rights of people who do not exist. The government claimed that his tweets mocking Hillary Clinton voters in 2016 harmed these people. They produced no one claiming to have been harmed by these tweets. They did not establish that such a harm was even possible, but that did not matter. In imagination land, anything is possible. When anything is possible, you go to jail for imaginary crimes.”

    Thus the effective end of all law. Or #Logos. There’s no objective reality and no #Order. There’s no #Order then there’s no #God. Perfect! Peace at last. We finally won and got everything we wanted.

    No reality: no problem.

    “They did it because they knew they could get away with it.” And they did, and are, and will. No one is arrested.

    Notes: Where’s Sri Lanka? Where’s FTX? And it was widely reported that Congress has now conceded there was no evidence at all that Bidens did anything wrong. What’s up with that?

    #135214
    Dr. D
    Participant

    It’s summer, so rushed and editing/formatting is terrible.

    #135215
    Oroboros
    Participant
    #135216
    Oroboros
    Participant
    #135217
    Oroboros
    Participant

    I’m a living example with this post

    .

    #135218
    zerosum
    Participant

    Reality
    Some people go to jail for lying.
    Some people go to jail for telling the truth.
    ———–
    Secret – Depopulation, no believabe evidence that anyone is responsible.
    ———–
    “Hatre, the oldest and most sinister of forces. That’s because hate never goes away… it only hides under the rocks.” – Biden
    • White Supremacy Is ‘Most Dangerous Threat’ To US – Biden (RT)

    ———–
    Eight years after starting a war against what it claims to be its own citizens, the Ukraine is now engaged in a real battle with its Russian neighbor. After shelling cities of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, killing at least some 15,000 civilians and wounding countless others, Ukrainian soldiers and their NATO mentors now have to face a real enemy.

    • The Charlemagne Prize for Hypocrisy and Mass Murder (Vogel)

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    “pandemic” that 99.8% of the population would easily survive, and this death rate was known only months after the spread started.

    “..the most aggressive global propaganda attack in modern history..”

    • Never Forget: A Retrospective On The Media Lies Surrounding COVID (ZH)

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    #135219
    zerosum
    Participant

    Zelensky in surprise visit to NATO allies.
    Did someone, (the Biden), advise him on how to set up bank accounts with bankers?

    #135220
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    @ Dr D
    Enjoyed Imagination Land — spot on. 🙂

    #135221
    kultsommer
    Participant

    That “Media lies about Covid” video clip seems like distant nightmare.
    Not so fast with the sigh of relief.
    I think that, at this moment, we are subjected to “Good cop” treatment to ease build-up tension that arose from the fact that more people realized absurd contradictions and danger in the narrative promoted.
    Rest assured that “they” are diligently working on the next step in this “time of calm”.
    Complete societal break-down is their “full proof ace in the sleeve” if softer method does not work.

    #135222
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Kultsommer makes a timely point about that “good cop, bad cop” schtick that’s being played for all that it’ worth everywhere you can think of. Also take special note that the operative thing about “good cop, bad cop” is the word cop. Both the good one one and the bad one are COPPERS. That means they consider themselves to be magically authorized to tell everybody else what to do and to use violent (and other) force to make sure they do it. Ain’t it just the damnedest coincidence that the orders always seem to serve the material interests of the coppers, at the expense of the people they’re ordering around?

    Hey, wait a second ! Is there some sort of defining characteristic lurking within the dynamics of that coincidental arrangement?

    I think there might be something fishy going on, and that people trying to make you do stuff that you really don’t want to do just might have something to do with it.

    #135223
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    John Day is working on a sensitive reply as he knows full well how hospitals run, where respirators run, and who runs ICUs.

    So far the only respondents couldn’t type the words Arr Enz and for the most part deflected enmity back on to MDs, deservedly for the venal, avaricious 98percenters just following orders from the C-suite.

    #135224
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    The ex-jarhead? (one is never an ex-Marine) Daniel Penny would probably be fine if some “dutiful citizen” hadn’t done their civil duty by filming anything they found interesting. I’m pretty sure that Mr. Penny had a bit of bloodlust going on: he was trained to go into hyper-drive when engaging the enemy. I’m, sure he was clouded by dark passions. One kills before one knows what has happened in such engagements.

    I’m sure I would’ve killed the guy a lot faster than Penny did. I wouldn’t pretend I was “preserving the peace” or whatever silly nonsense people say cops do for us. But I wouldn’t have had to kill him cuz I’d’ve told him to sit the fuck down and shut up or I bloody well would kill him. Painfully. (Actually, I’d kill him as euithanistically as possiboe, but the threat of pain works wonders on disorder minds.) He’d’ve sat down.

    Jordan Neely was a Michael Jackson impersonator who frequently performed in New York’s Times Square.

    He had 42 previous arrests on charges such as evading fares, theft and assaults on three women, according to US media.

    He had pleaded guilty to assaulting a 67-year-old woman leaving a subway station in 2021.

    His mother, Christie Neely, was strangled to death in 2007 by her boyfriend, who was sentenced to 30 years in prison in 2012.

    Following his mother’s death, Mr Neely began experiencing mental health issues, according to family members.

    “Jordan deserves justice. He was loved,” his aunt Carolyn Neely told the BBC.

    You can’t make this stuff up.

    Especially the present tense used by his Aunt Carolynn. I don’t believe in this justice crap; it’s a flimsy disguise for revenge. But if I did believe in it, I’d point out to Aunt C. that justice is for the living, not the dead.

    But, you know, it’s fun to talk about interesting things, and it’s interesting when people die.

    When I was a youngun, only rich creeps had access to snuff flix.

    #135225
    boscohorowitz
    Participant
    #135226
    jb-hb
    Participant

    White Supremacy Is ‘Most Dangerous Threat’ To US – Biden (RT)

    All 3 guys somewhere in the back woods of Arkansas? Or the governments of the nation’s 50 largest cities where most african americans live, Democrat-dominated for over half a century? The Democrat dominated NGO’s functioning there? The corporations operating there that continually broadcast Democrat talking points, use them in their mandatory HR trainings? Democrat-dominated Legacy Media and tech corporations? This Democrat oppression must stop??? What???

    I would think the one defining characteristic of Supremacy would be… supremacy? You keep using that word. I don’t think that word means what you think it means.

    Do we believe in BOTH Systemic Racism and White Supremacy?

    If the Democrats are in charge, and the Democrats aren’t the White Supremacists that the Democrats are worried about, then are we to presume that these Most Dangerous White Supremacists are people that are disenfranchised, NOT in power?

    Does Supremacist = “incel in mom’s basement”?

    Does Greatest Danger = “pepe memes”?

    Okay, but wasn’t Systemic Racism the idea that the (Democrat run) institutions ARE racist? Do Democrats NOT believe in Systemic Racism? And if they DO, are they willing to voluntarily bow out from their long-time leadership of our 50 largest cities, to end Systemic Racism for the vast majority of those affected? As Jesus Jones would say, A Good Start?

    (Detroit, Baltimore, Philadelphia – “Thank goodness for all this extra help I am getting from electing Democrats for half a century, think how much worse it would have been otherwise!”)

    Is it that the BUREAUCRACIES of Federal, State, County, and City governments of our 50 largest cities, where the oppressed demographic largely lives, headed by elected Democrats but are then inexplicably staffed by all staunch White Nationalists? Is that how it works? The elected officials just can’t manage to hire non evil clerks?

    Which is it, this Greatest Danger? An oppressive dominant system or disenfranchised fringe elements? Does convenience and expediency determine at various times when it is one, the other, both, or neither? If they didn’t show up in 2020 during 100 straight days of protesting, what do you think WILL bring this ubiquitous bogeyman out of the woodwork? Most logical explanation is those White Supremacists must be even MORE dangerous than we originally thought? Due to their powers of invisibility?

    Joe Biden, who WAS the system for half a century, of the political party that ruled the affected areas for half a century, wants to say THEIR OWN MANAGEMENT was oppressive and what logically follows from that is to insinuate that ordinary decent people everywhere are probably closet nazis or something?!?!?

    #135227
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Babson’s Warning


    [A] crash is coming, and it may be terrific. …. The vicious circle will get in full swing and the result will be a serious business depression. There may be a stampede for selling which will exceed anything that the Stock Exchange has ever witnessed. Wise are those investors who now get out of debt.

    Babson’s Warning

    #135228
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    So all the good people that follow the rules.

    Where did it get them this time?

    #135229
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    🙄

    #135230
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Oh boy. New Miller beer commercial. 2 weeks until Woke Ramadan starts. Can’t wait to see what Coors will have to contribute. The entertainment will certainly be better than Disney Star Wars or Star Trek STD.

    A spokeswoman announces they’re going to collect all the Miller “Bad Shit” of the past decades – any promotional materials with hot women on it – and MULCH it, use it to grow hops, and send the resulting hops to help Women Brewers.

    She starts out that Women were among the first to brew beer going back to ancient Mesopotamia. Among? Amongst WHOM? Was it Women and the Anunaki or what?

    Having asserted Women brewing beer goes back to the beginning of beer, she proceeded to state random periods in history and conclude that “Women were the ones doing the brewing”

    uh, not “Women were brewing beer” nope. “Women were The Ones brewing”

    so, Miller. You’re saying:

    1. Women don’t know how to garden. Women think horribly toxic plastic promotional junk can be made into compost. They think this “compost” will grow plants.

    2. Women don’t care about ingredients in the things they make – if their beer contains a whole bunch of toxic stuff, so be it. Can’t figure it out, wouldn’t care if they could.

    3. Women have been the ones brewing beer all along- didn’t and don’t need no man. That’s why we need to help by sending free hops to women. Women are equal to men in every way and they NEED HELP!

    4. “Women were The Ones brewing.” “Without women, there would be NO BEER.” (verbatim quote)

    5. Women are ridiculously credulous. (we think they will believe 1-4 without question)

    Finally, it bears mentioning this is an ad campaign targeting women exclusively. One that specifically encourages women to make… their OWN beer? And pish-poshes on MAN made beer.

    They’re advertising to a sliver of their customer base, the result presumably that demographic MAKES THEIR OWN product instead of buying Miller????

    Miller, all those “Hold my beer” stories were warnings, not instructions.

    Attractive people in advertising is wrong!

    #135231
    zerosum
    Participant

    Why are there so many people supporting Ukrainian Nazism and the killing of Russians

    “….. insinuate that ordinary decent people everywhere are probably closet nazis or something?!?!?”

    #135232
    John Day
    Participant

    Thanks for engaging on Multiple Personality Disorder yesterday DBS. This event at Big Spring State Hospital was in the late 1980s, and the patient was born in the early to mid 1960s. I later became suspicious that she may have gone through the kind of childhood processing called “Ritual Abuse”, which MK Ultra was exploring in those days.

    Thanks for all who gave thought to Kinzhal missile interception. It seems like the best thing is to smack something, almost anything into it as far away as possible, and get it to fragment way up there.
    Easier said than done.

    #135233
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    John,

    I was waiting to see if anyone proffered what is probably the only *feasible* response to the “Kinzhal missile interception” question, which could be deployed quickly in the near future time frame (under an optimal tech + mfg. environment), but no one even hinted at it…

    Rail guns.

    With a combination of a sprightly, expeditious & accurate mechanical platform, combined with AI targeting & pinpoint accurate detection, a Mach 9+ rail gun projectile + shock wave *might* destroy a hypersonic missile, at the very least it would drastically alter it’s course…

    At the very least it could represent an interim *fix*, like it was originally intended to fulfill for Reagan’s Star War initiative, where it was far more functional than is even to date acknowledged.

    Just an idea, but I doubt it is feasible given the greed, hubris & general egomania that the MIC (+ associated bureaucratic malaise) is no doubt consumed by…

    If half of the things I heard about rail guns in the “professional” engineering community are even halfway true (now more than 30 years ago), even a glancing strike would decimate a Kinzhal.

    Oh, the effective range would be also far greater than most of the solutions suggested, thus far 😉

    #135234
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    We The People were warned, too bad, so sad, They chose grifters, con artists, NPD sociopaths (LBJ’s Great Society) instead:

    .

    #135235
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    Well, I thought about adding something re: The Durham Report, but it’s just the latest HARD TRUTH(s) that will be spun by NPD sociopaths into the Machiavellian dung heap, where the electorate that loves/supports The Party of Chaos & Anarchy will feel only more empowered in their war against Truth, Justice & The American Way 🙄

    One POTUS, innocent of *all* accusations, attacked, slandered & legally sandbagged into oblivion…

    Two POTUS psychos (actually more) proven guilty of innumerable Crimes Against Humanity, pissing on their Oaths To Office & Country & in *total* war against The Loving, Healing, Creative Power of The Great Spirit ~ Never to be held accountable for the least of their transgressions because of We The People’s addiction to an Imagination Land so powerful, it even warps the mundane things into an alternate reality where lies are truth; up is down; left is right; good is evil.

    One day the bill for this runaway Mass Formation Pyschosis will come due, which has swallowed the hearts, minds & spirits of hundreds of millions of “Americans”, but it’s clearly apparent that this *unreality* manifested by Collective EG0ic Madness is going to get much, MUCH worse before it’s over…

    It’s literally a Civil War where the enemy uses the government as a weapon against anyone that tries to restore any semblance of ethics, morals or sanity itself…

    It’s really a nightmare, within a nightmare, within a nightmare 😐

    #135236
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    OK folks, an omen, … the world goes kaput… any moment from now!
    Martha Stewart Featured As 2023 SI Swimsuit Cover Model
    https://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2023/05/15/martha-stewart-featured-2023-si-swimsuit-cover-model

    F.S.

    #135237
    WES
    Participant

    I like how the original leak keeps on leaking new leaks!
    Especially stuff that was never in the original leak!
    It is called “Piggybacking”!
    Whenever you want to reshape the narrative, you just release a new leak while referring to the original leak as the source!
    Nobody bothers to check if this is true or not!

    The Ukrainians are winning the war by buying the farm big time!
    Mr. Z keeps extending his European trip!
    Maybe he is afraid to go home?

    Ukrainian pilots all want to fly F16 jets so they get enough warning to push the eject button unlike no warning flying old Mig jets!

    Corruption in the Ukraine has soared so much in 2023, that their Swiss bank accounts are up over 30% in just the last few months!
    As government insiders, maybe these Ukrainians know something we don’t?

    #135238
    WES
    Participant

    Republican James Comey not only distracted you from noticing anyone crossing the southern US border but also magically made all of Joe and Hunter Biden’s crimes disappear!
    Poof!
    Quite the magician don’t you think?
    Don’t you love being had like that?

    #135239
    WES
    Participant

    As for the US dollars demise, the US criminals can still smack gold down $50 and silver a dollar, any day they feel like it.
    But trust in holding the US dollar is dropping slowly but surely, as more and more people are realizing that they no longer own the US dollars they falsely believed they hold.

    #135240

    Figmund Sreud: thank you for sharing.

    #135241
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @Figmund Sreud

    Vis a vis the Martha Stewart psychotic break (and oh, how I regret clicking the link to that photo) I remain uncertain of where the line between moderately functional sanity and stark staring madness lies, but that photo is way far on the far side of it.

    I could go on and on about the implications, ramifications, probable consequences and possible motivations of all involved, but in the end my heart goes out to the poor schmo who accepted, as terms of employment, the necessity of following through and actually producing the photograph. I doubt if that person’s life will, or even can, ever be the same as it was before that awful choice.

    #135242
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    I was out doing real things all day (and yeah, it was absolutely wonderful. Me and Ruey mowed lawns, cleaned house, clipped hedges, and cracked outrageously dark jokes in the wholesomeness of Hermann, Missouri for hours. Heaven on Earth.)

    Anyway, to get to the point, upon our return to Bedlam this evening I was shocked to see only 30 comments had transpired on TAE so far. Slow day.

    Time for some mind blowing. Shake out a few cobwebs for ya (at least the geeks, nerds and scienticians in the crowd. . . . of whom there are more than most of them will admit.)

    Here is a moderately short factual analysis of an piece from YouTube that proves beyond reasonable doubt that not only is Earth’s history quite a bit different than you’ve been told, it is so MUCH different that it makes recent “world” events truly picayune in comparison. Here’s the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxg5cgdOz-Y

    If you’re not scared of the dark, or of using your noggin for more than a hat stand, consider the implications and ramifications of what the existence of just that one little trinket means. It might put our present predicament into better perspective.

    #135245
    WES
    Participant

    D B Smith:

    Maybe that version of Martha Stuart is just an AI version!

    Unfortunately one tell tale reveals it is the real her!

    Sure lots of coats of paint on her! If she were to move, the thick paint might crack and peel off! No doubt a lot of air brushing too!

    But hey, we live in an imaginary world!

    #135246
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @WES

    Well, they do say that life is an illusion, and in the case of Ms. Stuart I sure do hope they’re right.

    P.S.
    and at least I got the name spelled correctly on the second try.

    #135247
    TAE Summary
    Participant

    So Martha’s a symbol for sex
    Her ancient wares splayed on the decks
    The swimsuit sensation
    Once cause titillation
    It now promotes Oedipal wrecks

    #135249
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    Temperature of recent weapons stockpile explosion not high enough to generate DU oxide dust?

    Ukraine to unleash terrorists on Europe if European nations fail to deliver desired weapons?

    #135267
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Veracious Poet said

    Rail guns.

    Wouldn’t work. Maneuverability is the problem, and with a relatively small projectile, as fired from a rail gun, you need maneuverability to hit the target. Anyway, why a rail gun, you can get a rocket to do much worse than a rail gun. At such high speeds, you cannot use ailerons to direct the projectile because – as any windsurfer can tell you – the aileron will spin out. In other words, you would create a vaccum behind the aileron rather than directing air behind the aileron, so the only reliable way to steer the projectile would be rocket motors. So the rail gun – but why? – would need to fire a missile with rocket motors. May as well launch a rocket: a missile. Better still, cover the possible track of the Kinshal with plasma created by a nuke.

    #135269
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Figmund Sreud said

    Martha Stewart Featured As 2023 SI Swimsuit Cover Model

    Ouch. She still has good hair but that corset swimsuit and the pancakes really could do with a lot of work.

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