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Air Defender 23: The Largest Exercise Since The Foundation Of NATO (Helmer)
G7 Members Want The Rest Of The World To Join Their Crusade (Lukyanov)
Lavrov Hails China’s “Balanced Position”, Ukraine Asked To Cede Territory (ZH)
NATO’s ‘Grave Mistake’ Led To Ukraine Conflict – Kissinger (RT)
Russia Protests To US Embassy Over Sullivan’s Crimea Statements (RT)
US Incites European Yes-Men To Poke Russia – Lavrov (TASS)
The EU Has No Leadership, Only NGOs And Think Tanks – Hungarian Minister (RMX)
Anti-China Bloc Tests AI-Powered Drone Swarms (RT)
Trial By Ordeal (Kunstler)
The Green Fraud (Jim Rickards)
IRS Whistleblower Defies the Biden Administration and the Media (Turley)
The DeSantis -Or GOP Generally- Political Question (Denninger)
US Debt A Pyramid Scheme – Russia’s Top MP (RT)
Inside Joe Biden’s Struggles To Create A ‘New Economic World Order’ (Pol.)

 

 

 

 

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“There is a grave risk that in three weeks’ time US and NATO forces will attempt direct combat against Russia..”

Air Defender 23: The Largest Exercise Since The Foundation Of NATO (Helmer)

There is a grave risk that in three weeks’ time US and NATO forces will attempt direct combat against Russia. The operational plan is to strike from Romanian airspace in the south and the Baltic states in the north, in camouflage of the NATO exercise called “Air Defender 23”, and under cover of US F-16 fighter aircraft purportedly operated by Ukrainian pilots but fuelled, directed, and guarded by more than two hundred US and NATO aircraft, including the most advanced US air war fighter, the F-35. “This [is] the largest deployment exercise since the foundation of NATO”, according to the cover story published by NATO headquarters. “ Commanded at US bases in Germany, ostensibly led by German officers, a Bundeswehr “fact sheet” claims “100 [US] Air National Guard aircraft from 35 different states will make the leap across the Atlantic to participate in Air Defender 2023.

In addition to the world’s most modern jets, the F35, more than 20 different types of aircraft and Airmen from 24 nations will practice air warfare operations together over Germany, but also over eastern Europe on the NATO border. Among them Eurofighter, F18, F16, A10, [Saab] Gripen jets.” Including the Ukrainian regime in Kiev as one of “our partners in East and South-Eastern Europe”, the German military announcement says “we want to promote collective defense of common values (freedom, democracy, prosperity) – attack on one NATO nation is an attack on responsiveness of airpower – Allied air forces are first responders.” Camouflaging US direction of the combined NATO attack operations from the Ramstein base in Germany, headquarters of the allied air command in Europe, are two parallel operations.

“Two NATO exercises, RAMSTEIN DUST for NATOs Deployable Air Command and Control capability, the DARS, and RAMSTEIN GUARD for Electronic Warfare are linked into our exercise.” In design since the start of the Russian Special Military Operation in February 2022, this plan of US and NATO air operations against Russia follows the defeat of the Ukrainian ground forces at Artemovsk (Bakhmut) and the strategic defeat of the US Patriot missile system at Kiev by the Russian hypersonic Kinzhal missile on May 16. The use of NATO exercises to conceal active attacks on Russian targets was first demonstrated last September when the Nord Stream pipelines were blown up following the BALTOPS naval exercise. More recently, on May 13 a US-directed ambush of Russian aircraft was rehearsed when an Su-34 fighter-bomber, an SU-35 air-defence escort, and two Mi8 helicopters were hit simultaneously and downed in Russian airspace, over Bryansk region.

[..] The post-operational Russian intelligence reports of May 18 and May 20 indicate “a multifunctional radar station, as well as five launchers of the Patriot anti-aircraft missile system manufactured by the United States were hit and completely destroyed.” In the days following, Russian military operations have intensified long-range missile attacks targeting anti-aircraft defence complexes, rail marshalling yards, fuel and ammunition stocks, equipment parks, and reserve assembly areas in the west of the Ukraine, including Khmelnitsky, Rivne, Zhitomir, and Lvov. The scope of targeting goes beyond the Electric War of previous months, a NATO forces veteran comments. “It’s now a full-on campaign. Now that the US/NATO air defence has proven to be useless against Russian strike capabilities, I expect them to take to the sky. It’s all they have left.”

The source agrees with retired US military experts in the alternative media who do not believe that supplying old F-16 aircraft to Kiev adds significant air defence or air attack capability against Russia. The F-16s for the Ukraine are a deception, camouflage for a much deeper NATO attack plan, the source warns. “How about the F-16s being cover for US F-22s or other US aircraft in Romanian or Polish airspace, firing stand- off weapons?”

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The G7 has rapidly become an irrelevant anachronism.

G7 Members Want The Rest Of The World To Join Their Crusade (Lukyanov)

One is reminded of American journalist Thomas Friedman’s international bestseller of the late nineties, ‘The World is Flat’. At the time, he was referring to the coming together of everything and everyone in the context of globalization. But nowadays the metaphor needs altering. Today, the message should be somehow simpler and even flatter, because otherwise there is no way for people to grasp the frightening multidimensionality that abounds. Such an approach is characteristic of contemporary international relations, and from there it spills over into the domestic politics of every country. That said, within states themselves everything is more closely understood, so real world factors are still important. On a global scale, however, the situation is more ambiguous.

The recent G7 summit in Hiroshima was a powerful illustration of the efforts being made to fix, if not cement, this very two-dimensional scheme at the global level. This is perhaps the first time that Russia and China have been given essentially equal status – as adversaries and major threats to the world that the US-led bloc represents. The organizers were very serious about widening their circle of sympathizers – with many of the major states of the non-Western world receiving invitations: India, Brazil, Vietnam and Indonesia. Joining them were the heads of major international organizations. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky was the main guest, and this was noteworthy. His country’s issue is becoming, as the saying goes, a ‘rallying point’ for a community that considers itself to be ‘on the right side of history.’

Indeed, here is a curious detail: The Japanese press wrote that, after the summit, their Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was considering calling early elections because the success of the event, especially the arrival of the Ukrainian leader, had boosted his party’s ratings. In other words, Zelensky has managed to become a factor in the domestic politics of a country far removed from Ukraine. The need for a strong, personal, unifying motif is clear. In the absence of such elements, these communities tend to disintegrate because the world is not really two-dimensional. It is not only diverse, it is actually fragmented by interests, perceptions and agendas, and it needs maximum flexibility to respond to increasingly diverse challenges. It is very difficult to maintain cohesion without heavy artillery, both figuratively and, unfortunately, literally.

What should those against whom this consolidation is targeted do? Probably the opposite, i.e. they should aim to maximize the diversity of their connections and their options for development, and insist on the right not to make final and irrevocable choices about joining one bloc or the other. The good versus evil dichotomy is understandable and morally appealing, but in most cases irrelevant to the real international process. And the G7’s attempts to draw India, Brazil and others into its orbit on this basis will not be effective.

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China will call the shots…

Lavrov Hails China’s “Balanced Position”, Ukraine Asked To Cede Territory (ZH)

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov hailed China’s “balanced position” on the conflict in Ukraine during a Friday meeting with Chinese special envoy Li Hui in Moscow. China has thus far resisted Western pressure to condemn Moscow, but has instead tried to present a neutral stance while issuing occasional statements condemning NATO expansion and US global dominance. Beijing has also been among a handful of Asian countries to have greatly expanded Russian energy imports since the start of the war. The Chinese envoy on Friday once again called for an immediate ceasefire, at a moment Russian forces are consolidating gains in Donetsk, particularly in Bakhmut where Wagner finally declared victory over the weekend following more than 200 days of fierce fighting.

According to The Wall Street Journal Li Hui conveyed a clear message that: “US allies in Europe should assert their autonomy and urge an immediate ceasefire, leaving Russia in possession of the parts [of Ukraine] …that it now occupies.” China has also sent representatives to Ukraine and Europe, with EU officials conveying their stance that freezing the conflict was not in their interest. The Zelensky government too believes that a ‘freeze’ would only allow the Russians to resupply, regroup, and fortify their positions. Western allies have also been arguing against a freeze. EU officials reportedly told the Chinese envoy that “it’s impossible to split Europe from America” and that Europe remains committed and unified in support of Ukraine.

According to a review of Friday’s meeting between Russian and Chinese representatives: Russia’s Lavrov expressed gratitude for China’s “balanced position” and willingness to play a positive role in a meeting with China’s Ukraine envoy, the foreign ministry said. China’s Li Hui, who spent 10 years as ambassador to Moscow, has been on a tour of European capitals, and last week visited Kyiv. After those talks, China said it wanted to “form the greatest common denominator for resolving the Ukrainian crisis, and make its own efforts to stop the fighting and (establish a) ceasefire and restore peace as soon as possible”. Kyiv has told Li, however, that it would not accept any proposal that involved Ukraine losing territory.

Hawks in both Britain and the United States have urged Ukraine to stay the course, despite mounting troop casualties in the tens of thousands. The UK especially has long been accused of actively thwarting attempts at peace talks which were proposed last year – instead encouraging Ukraine to ‘win’ militarily. President Zelensky has all the while maintained that talks with Moscow are impossible until Russian troops leave every bit of Ukrainian territory.

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But now that is has all those weapons, it must join NATO anyway?! He doesn’t understand the “mistake”.

NATO’s ‘Grave Mistake’ Led To Ukraine Conflict – Kissinger (RT)

Former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger has explained how his views on prospective NATO membership for Ukraine changed between 2008, when the bloc first acknowledged Kiev’s “aspirations” to join, and now when the stream of Western military aid turned its into the “best-armed country” in the region. “I’m in the ironical position that I was alone when I opposed membership, and I’m nearly alone when I advocate NATO membership,” the veteran politician told a Wall Street Journal contributor in an interview recorded days before his 100th birthday. “I think the offer to put Ukraine into NATO was a grave mistake and led to this war,” he explained, yet claimed that the scale of the conflict and “its nature, is a Russian peculiarity, and we were absolutely right to resist it.”

But after Washington and its allies turned Ukraine into the “best-armed country in Europe,” it clearly belongs to the US-led military bloc, the politician stated, reiterating his firm belief that peace in Europe cannot be achieved without Ukraine in NATO. Back in 2008, NATO declared that Kiev would join the bloc, but did not specify a date for that to happen. Russia, which sees the bloc’s eastward expansion as a major security threat, had singled out Kiev’s growing push to join the bloc as among the main reasons for launching its military operation in Ukraine more than a year ago. Kissinger drew the ire of Kiev last year when he suggested that Ukraine should accept a return to the “status quo ante,” or relinquish its territorial claims to Crimea and grant autonomy to the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, in the name of peace.

In an interview with WSJ he went as far as to claim that from his “perspective, the Ukraine war is won,” but any peace terms are unlikely to include Crimea. “For Russia, the loss of Sevastopol, which was always not Ukrainian in history, would be such a comedown that the cohesion of the state would be in danger. And I think that’s not desirable for the world after Ukraine,” he said. The US-led bloc is already waging a proxy war against Russia, and Kissinger, despite his vast experience, is “totally wrong” to suggest that Ukrainian membership in NATO would somehow guarantee peace, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said earlier this month. Medvedev, who currently serves as deputy head of Russia’s Security Council, said that until the “Ukrainian nationalist regime” is dismantled it “won’t give up on attempts to regain lost territories,” and in response Moscow “would have to reply harshly with all available means,” likely triggering NATO’s Article 5.

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95+% of Crimeans voted to join Russia in 2014.

Russia Protests To US Embassy Over Sullivan’s Crimea Statements (RT)

The Russian Foreign Ministry has summoned senior US diplomats and expressed a strong protest in connection with the words of White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan about strikes on the territory of Russia, Report informs referring to TASS. On May 21, Sullivan said Washington does not allow Kyiv to use Western weapons to strike at the territory of Russia, noting that he does not consider Crimea to be part of it. “Senior diplomats of the US diplomatic mission in Moscow were summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry on May 26, a strong protest was expressed about the unacceptable statements of the White House National Security Advisor J. Sullivan, who actually approved the strikes of the armed formations of the regime in Kyiv on Russian territory, including the Republic of Crimea and the Belgorod region,” the statement said.


Washington’s words about strikes on Crimea are hypocritical and false, the ministry said. “The assurances of US officials that the United States does not encourage such attacks on Russia are hypocritical and false, given the direct evidence of the use of weapons and equipment supplied for the needs of the Ukraine military by the Pentagon for the preparation and implementation of terrorist acts by Ukrainian militants,” the ministry said. The ministry noted that the hostile actions of the United States, which has long been a party to the conflict, plunged Russian-US relations into a deep and dangerous crisis, fraught with unpredictable consequences.

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“Washington believes that its self-preservation is ensured by the Atlantic Ocean.”

US Incites European Yes-Men To Poke Russia – Lavrov (TASS)

Washington is unleashing its European satellites to nip at Moscow’s heels, believing it can get away with anything, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said. “For now, Washington is egging its European satellites on [to antagonize] the Russian Federation, thinking they can get away with anything,” he said in an appearance on the “Moscow.Kremlin.Putin” television program, according to an excerpt posted on Friday on journalist Pavel Zarubin’s Telegram channel. According to Lavrov, the US is sorely mistaken in entertaining the deluded belief that its “self-preservation” in any World War III scenario would be ensured by the Atlantic Ocean serving as a buffer zone. “Washington believes that its self-preservation is ensured by the Atlantic Ocean. This also represents a serious fallacy if they [the US] are preparing to bring the world to the very brink of World War III,” the top diplomat pointed out.

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“..Europe is stumbling around the stage of history as a clumsy sideshow, drifting from crisis to crisis..”

The EU Has No Leadership, Only NGOs And Think Tanks – Hungarian Minister (RMX)

No one has the courage and aptitude to lead Europe today, meaning there is no political leadership in the European Union, especially in the European Commission, said Hungarian Justice Minister Judit Varga at a Budapest conference on Thursday. “In the European Union today, it is non-governmental organizations (NGOs), foundations and think tanks that tell Europe how to run Europe, according to the will of their own leaders,” she said. “Recently, for asymmetric reasons, a crisis of confidence has arisen between the EU leadership and the Hungarian government. This is because the Hungarian government, unlike the EU institutions, says what it thinks and does what it says,” she added.

Varga said Europe is stumbling around the stage of history as a clumsy sideshow, drifting from crisis to crisis, and since the migration crisis, it has been trying to make policy in a way that is completely divorced from the real needs of its citizens. She said the institutional system also failed during the Covid crisis and then shot itself in the foot with sanctions against Russia after the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian war She warned that immigration is a crisis that still affects Europe and continues to cost the Hungarian budget heavily. “At the same time, by defending Europe, we have to constantly fight the judgments and proceedings of the European Court of Justice,” she said. “Waiting for yet another slap in the face instead of any good deed, that is the fate of Hungary.” Varga noted that during the coronavirus crisis, the EU made deals regarding vaccines, and yet those text messages have never been produced, referring to the murky case involving EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

“We make no secret of the fact that we want to hold the functioning of the institutions in the European Union accountable in terms of the rule of law. Let’s talk about whether the European Commission, the European Parliament, the European institutions are respecting the rules, whether the rule of law is working in the institutions,” said the minister. On the issue of the Hungarian EU presidency, the European Parliament has no say in this, the minister said, stressing that more than 10 years ago, a unanimous European Council decision had established the order of the member states, which can only be changed by unanimity. The presidency is not only a right but also an obligation, and the opposition will not achieve anything by such an attempt, but it could do enormous damage. According to the minister, the European Parliament wants to block Hungary’s EU presidency precisely because it fears that Hungary will take stock of the dysfunctional state of EU institutions.

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“..urging the three members to stop “ignoring the concerns of the international community.”

Anti-China Bloc Tests AI-Powered Drone Swarms (RT)

The US, UK and Australia have shown off new AI-powered drone swarms, marking the first-ever collaboration on autonomous UAV technology between the members of the AUKUS security pact, described by officials as a way to counter China. The allies carried out the three-way “capabilities trial” late last month in Wiltshire, Britain, where they achieved the “live collaborative retraining of models in flight and the interchange of AI models between AUKUS nations” for the first time, according to the US military. “The work saw the initial joint deployment of Australian, UK and US AI-enabled assets in a collaborative swarm to detect and track military targets in a representative environment in real time,” the Pentagon said in a statement on Friday.

Formed in 2021 as a way to deter China in the Indo-Pacific region, the AUKUS pact has repeatedly come under fire from Beijing. Under the “Pillar I” of the deal, the United States pledged to furnish nuclear submarine technology to Australia “at the earliest date possible.” Hosted by the UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, the drone tests were conducted as part of “Pillar II” of the AUKUS partnership, which calls to “develop and provide joint advanced military capabilities” between the three allies in order to “promote security and stability in the Indo-Pacific region.” The Chinese Foreign Ministry insists that the new military initiatives will only “motivate an arms race, damage the international nuclear nonproliferation regime and harm regional stability and peace,” urging the three members to stop “ignoring the concerns of the international community.”

While officials have not offered extensive details about the UAV trials, the British military said they involved “more than 70 military and civilian defense personnel and industry contractors,” who tested swarms of Blue Bear Ghost and Boeing/Insitu CT220 drones. UK forces provided several tanks and armored vehicles for the demo, while private contractors supplied a number of self-propelled howitzers and Soviet-era BMP vehicles produced in the former Czechoslovakia. The gear was used to test the drones’ ability to track military targets on the battlefield.

“This trial demonstrates the military advantage of AUKUS advanced capabilities, as we work in coalition to identify, track and counter potential adversaries from a greater distance and with greater speed,” British Lt. Gen. Rob Magowan, a senior Defence Ministry official, said in a statement. The Australian military stated that the tests “achieved several world firsts,” including the live retraining of the drone swarms in flight. Russia also sees the West’s expansion of its military presence in Asia as a risk that could lead to prolonged conflict. “I cannot imagine the great Asian civilizations toeing the line the way the EU unfortunately did, and obediently delivering Washington’s agenda,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in March.

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“..we are living in a very badly-ordered society these days, a society in which anything goes and nothing matters, which is a poor principle for civilization.”

Trial By Ordeal (Kunstler)

Would it surprise you to learn that children well beneath the age of puberty are not inclined to think about sex at all? In a well-ordered society that recognizes children as different from adults, they don’t. And if something sexual comes to their attention, they are generally perplexed by it. Unless they’re born into an era when adults are busy erasing boundaries, guard-rails, and cultural inhibitions, in which case I must imagine that young children exposed to, say, pornography in a chaotic household find it traumatically sinister. So, why the gleeful celebration about sexualizing children now? I’ll tell you why: because we are living in a very badly-ordered society these days, a society in which anything goes and nothing matters, which is a poor principle for civilization.

It’s the same principle that has people shitting all over the sidewalks of San Francisco, looting Walgreens stores in broad daylight, pushing ineffective and unsafe vaccines (and lying about it), and arresting people for thought crimes. It’s a degenerate society. Morally bankrupt. Wicked. You might ask, how did it get that way? The concise answer is that a broken business model for daily life and a collapsing economy have so disordered millions of minds that values are seen as having no value. The scaffold for truth, beauty, honor, dignity, courage, prudence, generosity, etc., folded some time ago, in slow-motion, so we didn’t notice. The keepers of our culture have replaced it with a tacky system of ritual virtue-signaling fakery that they don’t really believe in, that persists simply because the moral vacuum it stands for provokes such unbearable anxiety.

The main lesson of the recent Durham Report — missed by even the most punctilious observers — is that our country does not want to fix itself, indeed the whole broken apparatus of fixing it is in the hands of the people who broke it. This epic negligence leaves the doors wide open for the broad range of lower-order criminal mischief we’re seeing expressed all around us. Now I will venture into shadowland. There is a rumor floating around the Internet that this seemingly coordinated campaign to sexualize children and initiate them into marginal behaviors was started to soften up the public for forthcoming shocking revelations contained in the much-whispered-about Jeffrey Epstein archive of videos that show eminent international figures caught in compromising sexual situations that include sexual acts with children.

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“What is new is that the climate crowd now has the political power they need to push their agenda using fear and the regulatory state..”

The Green Fraud (Jim Rickards)

Those yelling the loudest about climate change want to destroy the oil and natural gas industry, destroy nuclear power plant construction, shut down coal-fired plants, end coal mining, mandate electric vehicles (EVs) on very short deadlines and eliminate gas stoves in your kitchen, fireplaces and even outdoor barbecues. They also want to build wind turbine arrays offshore and on deserts, plains and even mountains near you. They want to install solar module fields on every rooftop and open space near a population center. The climate change radicals want to increase the mining of lithium, nickel, cobalt, copper, rare earths and other dangerous chemicals to feed their obsession with EV batteries. They’re spending hundreds of billions of tax dollars to subsidize the EVs, battery manufacturing and a coast-to-coast network of charging stations to keep the EVs moving (even if they do have to stop for a charge every 180 miles).

The greenies also want to mandate “15-minute cities” where you can walk everywhere in town within 15 minutes, which means you won’t need your car to visit a doctor, dry cleaner, grocery store, pharmacy or any of the other locations we routinely visit for errands and necessities. That may sound attractive if you chose it voluntarily. That’s not what the greenies have in mind. They want 15-minute cities as a Trojan horse to eliminate automobiles entirely and force you to ride bicycles or use public transportation. In the end, you’ll need a permit to fly to another city. The permits will be rationed and you’ll have to put yourself on a waiting list until your turn. You can pay for your ticket with the new central bank digital currency (CBDC), assuming your social credit score is high enough and you didn’t vote for the wrong candidate in the last election.


In short, the climate change agenda is not about climate change. It’s about total political and economic control of the population. So-called climate change is an elite scare tactic to get you to fall into line and obey government orders (as most people do). Elites claim that if we don’t radically reduce CO2 (carbon dioxide) and CH4 (methane) emissions, global warming will melt the ice caps, raise sea levels, put island nations underwater and flood the New York City subway system in 10 years or less. They’ve been making similar claims for 40 years and they’ve been wrong every time. That doesn’t stop them. Fear works. What is new is that the climate crowd now has the political power they need to push their agenda using fear and the regulatory state to attack your means of transportation, your personal conveniences and your consumer choices.

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“I don’t want to do any of this.”

IRS Whistleblower Defies the Biden Administration and the Media (Turley)

“I don’t want to do any of this.” Those words from 14-year IRS veteran Gary Shapley may be the most important line in his CBS News interview this week. After weeks of Democrats dismissing whistleblowers alleging the president’s administration interfered with investigations of Hunter Biden, Shapley had enough. Putting his career and much of his life at risk, Shapley came forward to say he and others believe Hunter is being protected and identified the Justice Department as the source of the protection. Shapley has every reason not to want to do any of this. After all, as President Joe Biden stated last year, “No one f–ks with a Biden.” For years, a Democrat-controlled Congress refused to investigate Biden family influence-peddling, and the press dismissed people raising Hunter’s laptop as spreading “Russian disinformation.”

The media have worked hard to minimize the blowback after acknowledging the laptop’s authenticity and the growing evidence of millions in influence-peddling. Part of this effort at “scandal implosion” has been to dismiss any criminal charges as relatively minor tax violations unconnected to the president. Indeed, when the president recently agreed to a rare sit-down interview, the White House chose MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle. Before asking about his son Hunter’s scandal, Ruhle emphasized it was “something personal” with “no ties to you.” Many of us guffawed at the claim given multiple references on the laptop to President Biden, including possibly sharing in the proceeds from influence-peddling with foreign governments.

The problem is Shapley suggests some uncomfortable questions on how Biden’s administration may have worked to minimize charges against his son and, according to Shapley, “slow-walked” the investigation. His interview explains why the Justice Department can indict figures like Rep. George Santos (R-NY) on a variety of fraud and money-laundering charges in a few months while spending years investigating Hunter Biden with no conclusion. Shapley made clear he had never seen this level of interference in his long service at the IRS and said it was done “at the direction of the Department of Justice.” And he said the interference began as soon as he “took control of this particular investigation”: “I immediately saw deviations from the normal process. It was way outside the norm of what I’ve experienced in the past.”

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“Nobody would tolerate the price of gasoline varying by 10:1 based on which company you bought auto insurance from. Yet this sort of nonsense is bog-standard through the medical industry.”

The DeSantis -Or GOP Generally- Political Question (Denninger)

Is it not reasonable to expect that manufacturers are legally responsible for the integrity of their products? If, after discovering that a flaw or risk exists they continue trials, sweep said evidence under the rug or otherwise obfuscate what’s going on a courtroom is accessible to those allegedly harmed in which such evidence can be heard and a determination made? How about the rank price-fixing? What has DeSantis done in Florida about it? I can tell you what he did during the time I lived there: Nothing. In fact there are medical centers in NW FL in particular that feast on such disparities and have been known to be doing it for a very long time. In fact Florida has long been the capital of this sort of abuse and you have paid for it if you live in the state, directly and indirectly, particularly when inmates in a jail require care and thus you get the bill in your property taxes.

Can this be fixed at the state level with legislation or even just executive action? You bet; States are the exclusive issuers of both business and medical licenses. Any state can condition said licensing on non-discriminatory pricing irrespective of the method of payment. You expect this at WalMart, the grocery store and gas station. Nobody would tolerate the price of gasoline varying by 10:1 based on which company you bought auto insurance from. Yet this sort of nonsense is bog-standard through the medical industry. Where is the candidate who will put a stop to it and, if they’re a governor, can demonstrate they’re serious because they did put a stop to it? In addition the executive, which is the Governor’s department controls the prosecuting apparatus. DeSantis could have directed his prosecutors to go after medical providers for violations of the State anti-trust laws, which absolutely do exist in each state and which are available under existing law — no new legislation required. He, like the rest, actively refused.

DeSantis is NOT a governor who did either of these things. Folks if we are going to fix what’s wrong with this nation it starts with the medical system. If we don’t force one of the political parties to do it neither will because there are billions of reasons for them not to spread around the politicians in both parties. This has to stop because CMS, Medicare and Medicaid services, consumed one third of all dollars spent federally last year — $2 trillion of the $6 trillion total — and is in fact responsible for the entire trillion dollar deficit. That’s right — if it was stopped (that is, it spent only what it took in via taxes by stopping the screwing medical system-wide) the federal government would in fact run a modest surplus and the inflation you are having happen right now would not be happening.

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“The US public debt is a global financial pyramid, built by Washington to defraud other nations..”

US Debt A Pyramid Scheme – Russia’s Top MP (RT)

Senior Russian lawmaker Vyacheslav Volodin has branded the US federal government debt a global pyramid scheme that is heading for an inevitable collapse. The comments come as Washington struggles to agree on raising its debt ceiling to avoid a default. “Just think about it, in 2023 interest payments on the US debt could reach $1.5 trillion – almost a third of all US budget revenue!”Volodin, who serves as chairman of Russia’s lower house of parliament, said in a Telegram post on Friday. “The US public debt is a global financial pyramid, built by Washington to defraud other nations,” the State Duma member wrote. “History has shown that all pyramid schemes eventually fail,”he added, warning that the dollar is becoming toxic. Countries dependent on the US dollar should start looking for alternatives such as national currencies, to reduce risks for their citizens, Volodin concluded.


The US government faces a default on its $31 trillion in debt if lawmakers fail to raise the federal borrowing limit. US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned Congress earlier this week that bills can’t be paid if the debt ceiling is not raised by June 1. Reuters reported on Thursday that President Joe Biden and top Republican lawmaker Kevin McCarthy were edging close to a deal on the debt ceiling but have yet to agree on cuts to discretionary spending, which powers a wide range of military and domestic programs. Russia started settling trade deals with its partners in national currencies after the US effectively cut it off from dollar-denominated trade as part of sanctions arising from Moscow’s military operation in Ukraine. Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said on Wednesday that the ruble and the yuan are now dominating trade between Russia and China, and are used in 70% of mutual payments.

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A/ Joe Biden creates nothing.

B/ The US sees itself in the center of this ‘New Economic World Order’. It won’t be.

Inside Joe Biden’s Struggles To Create A ‘New Economic World Order’ (Pol.)

The Biden administration has been trying to bury the free-trade era for months. U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai drove a nail into its coffin in January, telling the world’s one percent at Davos that the Biden administration would try to shape a “new economic world order” around protecting workers. And National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan sought to deliver last rites in April, promising the White House would forge a “new Washington consensus” to replace the one that had governed the globe for over a generation. “I remain convinced that through all of this disruption we’re moving towards a new economic order,” Tai told POLITICO in an interview. “I’d really like to fill that gap with a positive vision that we will be prepared for it.”

The goal is to replace the old paradigms of globalization — free trade and a reliance on markets — with a “worker-centered” trade policy that raises wages not just for Americans, but around the world. But building a new world economy is proving more difficult than eulogizing the old one. While the pro-globalization consensus has shown cracks for years — from the financial crisis to the election of former President Donald Trump — Biden’s team has struggled to outline how it will shape new rules and institutions to replace those that governed the world for the last half-century. Biden’s team is moving slowly to transform a paralyzed World Trade Organization, once the premier facilitator of globalization, into a new-look economic club that reflects its progressive values.

As those efforts crawl along, Biden has sought to forge new economic partnerships in Asia and Latin America, but the nascent efforts pale in comparison to China’s trillion-dollar infrastructure program for developing nations and risk replicating the corporate-friendly trade policies of the old system. Meanwhile, Biden’s quest to counter China’s technological growth risks sparking a new Cold War and dividing the world into two or more global trading blocs — a fate the White House insists it is trying to avoid. More fundamentally, Biden’s brain trust has yet to settle on a vision for how the next era of global economics will be constructed. Their initial ideas are abstract at best.

[..] Biden’s critics — from centrist free-trade holdouts to Trump-fueled populists who focus on competition with China — are hardly more concrete in their own ideas. Across the political spectrum, American policymakers are grappling with how to shape a new global economic system to replace the one they built decades ago. “I don’t know if the administration has clearly outlined what that new world looks like,” Sen. Marco Rubio , the top Republican on the Intelligence Committee, told POLITICO after a Capitol Hill hearing in February when he assailed the old, pro-globalization paradigm. “But I don’t know if anybody else has either.”

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    Vincent van Gogh Pollard Willows and Setting Sun 1888   • Air Defender 23: The Largest Exercise Since The Foundation Of NATO (Helmer) • G7 Member
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle May 27 2023]

    #135829
    Dr. D
    Participant

    ““why the gleeful celebration about sexualizing children now?
         I’ll tell you why: because we are living in a very badly-ordered society these days, a society in which anything goes and nothing matters, which is a poor principle for civilization. It’s the same principle that has people shitting all over the sidewalks of San Francisco, looting Walgreens stores in broad daylight, pushing ineffective and unsafe vaccines (and lying about it), and arresting people for thought crimes. It’s a degenerate society. Morally bankrupt. Wicked.
    You might ask, how did it get that way?”

    Because no one is enforcing the rules. And the people who enforce the rules will arrest YOU, if YOU enforce the rules.* Simple. People are not more or less wicked than they were before, they’ve just learned a life of bad habits fed by decades of no consequences. They have no consequences because you only need to capture ½ of 1% of the population, the people of the “law” system, in order to FORCE this to happen. On purpose. And why?

    For the wreckage? Or is it for the backlash where they can install a mustached dictator? Both, probably.

    And all you have to say is “something” “happened to Us.” No. We weren’t involved. Something was DONE to us, the same as most other crimes, assaults, robberies, murders, and exhibitions, as these are. I you took away the active capture, the system would right itself, although perhaps at a slightly lower level due to the habits formed.

    If you STOP a guy from killing fellow passengers on the subway, you’ll be arrested. If you STOP rioters from burning your house, you’ll be arrested. If you STAND up at a school board meeting, you’ll be arrested. If you REPORT the news truthfully, you’ll be arrested.

    But don’t kid yourself that in general ‘The People wanted this.” Generally, they don’t care, and generally, the people would want things “normal” where you can generally report things and generally assault and robbery is punished. YOU ONLY HAVE TO CAPTURE A FEW. Like the D.A.s, the FBI heads, and some mayors. A few reporters to present it just right, make some stuff far too big, other stuff far too small. But it’s not “Us”. It’s THEM. Old story.

    And they are committing open crimes, so arrest them. It will all go away in a fortnight.

    * This is the same as decades in the Ghetto: if Black people own guns and defend themselves from attackers in these dangerous areas, the State goes insane on them. They NEED these pointless deaths, and they MUST stop good black families from defending themselves. Legal, Constitutional gun rights was the original origin of the Black Panthers. Thus tyrannical gun laws in these areas (district of their Blue City) and the provably high (gun) crime rates there. Chicago. Baltimore. D.C.

    “our country does not want to fix itself,” Not true. Most people do, far in excess of 51%. “indeed the whole broken apparatus of fixing it is in the hands of the people who broke it.” True. That’s the sole problem. How to wrest the terrorists from the nuclear control center.

    F35 is missing all their jet parts, can’t fly and aren’t ready. (Paid for by China? I would.)

    Audit Reveals Pentagon Lost Thousands of F-35 Jet Parts


    They found the bill. They couldn’t find any parts. This was under a million dollar audit as to why no F35s were flying.

    I’ve got an idea: I LOST your bill, just like you LOST my parts. When you find some parts I might find your invoice again. They don’t? …Then they’re in on it.

    This reminds me of the 30’s. They LOST your savings account. However, they FOUND your mortgage agreement. No.

    “Newsom Blasts Target CEO ‘Sell-Out’, Claims Nationwide “Systematic Attack” On LGBTQ People Imminent”

    This has been very interesting, and a great example of good vs evil. “Good” works together to unity into One. “Evil” divides infinitely, each minion desiring to be their own overlord, blaming each other and stabbing each other in the back. So in this case, Bud Light, under their CIA director, suffered a boycott for being pro-LGBT as they say. What happens? LGBT then ALSO boycott them for being not LGBT ENOUGH. …The same appears to be happening to Target as headlined by Newsom. Who should for the love of God know better.

    You all wanted to be political. All actions are political. Now welcome to hell. Conservatives leave it all alone, have done for decades. You taught them this, essentially demanded it. Now when Target does as you ask, you boycott them TOO. So…conclusion is, Target and Co. should be political and every day boycotted by BOTH SIDES for it? How long do you think that will last?

    Speaking of, a woman was attacked by a crazy person on the Subway yesterday, nearly killed but paralyzed from the neck down which may be worse. Boy, good thing nobody intervened! NY’ers learned their lesson to let crazy people attack and kill whoever they want without interference, as YOU will be arrested for saving lives. Adams and Bragg will be VERY MAD if any NY’ers are left alive and safe, mister. They’re out sweeping the city for anyone still defending themselves. …And rounding up Hispanic people. And this is not a Death Cult? How much more obvious?

    “Democracy: Pic:” That is the textbook definition of fascism. Right down to the propaganda and wars.

    “• Air Defender 23: The Largest Exercise Since The Foundation Of NATO (Helmer)”

    I kinda hope so, this needs to end, and it ends in an “Event”. Waiting for the other shoe to drop? It’s been held off for years.

    ““Washington believes that its self-preservation is ensured by the Atlantic Ocean.”

    That. Is bat s—t crazy.

    We’re following a lot of war stories — and rightfully – but the real work is going on underneath. What is that work?

    News on the missing fertilizer, because reporters can’t be arsed and I didn’t wanna either: It came from from the Nobel company; that is to say, an explosives manufacturer, not a fertilizer company. That may matter as it may be a higher grade and helps explain why their go-to was “explosives.” …Although it isn’t. They “Found” the railcar in the desert in California, empty. Explain? How did you know it was missing if you didn’t know where the car was? How do you not know where every car is? You look on the computer, it’s on Engine X, it’s in switchyard X, go look. The seals were still intact. Okay, so there was a hole in the bottom? They IMPLY yes, without actually saying we saw a hole, OR that the car isn’t one of those three-sluice type where it would be divided and 2/3s would remain.

    So you reported the story – again – and didn’t ask or check anything, at all, ever. Again. Right.

    Here’s my take: if the seals are intact, then it wasn’t stolen. It either never got on, or. And so there’s no story because it wasn’t missing and isn’t robbed. It’s just a mega P.R. plant to seed your mind for “explosives” in the news later this month, probably unrelated. 100 FBI employees re-deployed from J6.

    And F16’s So Both and Either events are why the Senate got 50 satellite phones to stay in touch when Russia nukes D.C. — Or the FBI does.

    ““What is new is that the climate crowd now has the political power they need to push their agenda using fear and the regulatory state..”

    That’s not new. However, setting up ESG, Die! Die! Die! They capture just a few people and thereby institutionalize the “We pay friends and destroy enemies” approach. This is Fascism. We integrate commercial activities and weaponize them against all enemies, internal and external.

    “the Biden administration would try to shape a “new economic world order” around protecting workers.”

    Ask Jimmy Dore about Democrats “Protecting workers” as they ban strikes (railroads), shut down Unions (Amazon), stop minimum wage, and move heaven and earth to stop Medicare for All. However, since like all laws we only enforce them against our enemies, “Protecting workers” means we attack, kill, and harvest people. Poor, working people. Of all colors and in all areas, Red and Blue alike.

    “The greenies also want to mandate “15-minute cities” where you can walk everywhere”

    This is called “Feudalism” where the Serf is not allowed off the manor without a Passe-Porte. The manor at maximum is the size of a township. You are the Serf. So let me get this straight: we’re doing this for Green, but we’re ALSO doing this for Viruses? Funny how no matter what the problem is, the answers are always the same, off a 100-point checklist. Gives me more power? √ Yes. Gives the people autonomy? √ No. Easy!

    “Democrat-controlled Congress refused to investigate Biden family influence-peddling, and the press dismissed people raising Hunter’s laptop as spreading “Russian disinformation.”

    Is is being said that they are going HYPERSONIC NUCLEAR to sexualize children and normalize satanism for when Hunter’s Human trafficking of children for this father comes out. You can see how that makes sense. They can’t stop the Epstein list, so they need for when it comes out, all Blue Suburban Moms think sex-and-kids go together like peanut butter and jelly and isn’t a problem at all. And if they also do it “for Satan”, Tee-hee, well, we all know that’s just words, a light joke we put on T-Shirts at Target. They’ve prettymuch already accomplished this, everyone is defending amputating and sterilizing kids at strip shows. Meh, I’m indifferent, but it’s said. It’s hard to think of another explanation. Want to abduct kids and do bad things? They have for decades, nobody cares. All you have to do is keep it down and American Moms applaud. American Moms have already killed like 25M kids and march weekly in favor of doing it again. But you need to go public about it? Fast? New? Now? There’s a reason; they know how hot this issue is and they’d get everything they want slowly, as indeed they have since 1949.

    #135830
    aspnaz
    Participant

    That Sierra Nevada Torpedo IPA that I made three weeks ago, the one from the Sierra Nevada website (https://sierranevada.com/blog/our-beer/torpedo-ipa-homebrew-recipe/), it is a beauty! A beauty! Dark, clear after three weeks (no protein/yeast residue at the bottom of last night’s glasses) with a solid head that stays with you like a lonely puppy, all the way to the bottom of the glass, and what a great hoppy taste with solid bitterness, the Sierra Nevada signature flavours. Mind you, we left everything, including the dry hops (supposed to go in after two days and stay for only two days), in the fermenter from pitching to two weeks, to only then hit he secondary. You can’t buy decent beer like this in Hong Kong. The USA rules when it comes to craft brewing – sorry UK, you never reached the USA level of public acceptance – even though I would say I only “like” about 10% of what is created, but those brewers cater for all tastes. After producing many shite brews, there is nothing like brewing a great one, shame it is only every once in a while.

    With beer in hand, I shall read RIM’s work.

    #135831
    aspnaz
    Participant

    “There is a grave risk that in three weeks’ time US and NATO forces will attempt direct combat against Russia..”

    I am totally convinced that Yevgeny Prigozhin’s latest outbursts are a carrot to the NATO politicians, the ones looking for some Russian weakness that they can exploit to give themselves a better chance of beating Russia (Putin). When you look at the quality of the people around Putin – I am not talking morality, but competency – then you just know that Putin is not going to let some loudmouth lout run a private army in Russia. Yet Prigozhin is berating his boss, giving the impression that there is discord between the Russian army and Wagner. I smell a rat, I think it is a trap and I think the politicians in the west may also smell a rat but they have no choice, they have to go with it. Russia controlling the field.

    #135832
    aspnaz
    Participant

    jb-hb said (yesterday):

    Corporations being artificial government-created entities which function using bureaucracies just like governments, but with with little to no grass roots input from any quarter, I would never expect market forces to function within their bowels. Particularly if they hold a monopoly or quasi monopoly.

    But yeah, when I was younger, there was that thought that maybe…. maybe that was a thing.

    From 42:00 is awesome – both hilarious and illuminating. 49:07 and on makes me laugh uncontrollably, especially when the WELCOME TO THE RED PILL pops up. I think it’s worth watching the whole thing to get to that point.

    I watched that video and as you said, it was hilarious, the lack of self awareness of the criticising cockney was magical. I particularly appreciated the surgical definitions of capitalism, fascism, socialism etc, as so many talk about this stuff without really knowing what it means, it was refreshing. I then started to think about Maggie Thatcher, who’s parents were shop keepers and who did the most (at that time) to eradicate shop keepers (thinking small businesses) from the UK. Then I was thinking about China, a country that has probably more “capitalists” (per the video definition) than any other in the world. Isn’t it ironic that the west’s view of the only successful communist country (China) is actually a view of capitalism, the socialism having been abandoned during the Mao famines. Almost everybody I know, in my age group, here in Asia owns their own business, or did and has now sold up to retire. When China was a bunch of peasant farmers, the vast majority did not own their fields, they were “employees”. Now they are all self-owned business people. They are capitalist, thriving in communist China. My brain is hurting.

    #135833
    aspnaz
    Participant

    But after Washington and its allies turned Ukraine into the “best-armed country in Europe,” it clearly belongs to the US-led military bloc, the politician stated, reiterating his firm belief that peace in Europe cannot be achieved without Ukraine in NATO.

    Why doesn’t the USA want a no-mans-land between NATO and their declared enemy, Russia? Would it not keep NATO safer to have a bit longer to detect those Russian missiles, maybe an extra second? Why does NATO always want to go up to the Russian borders yet Russia does not want to go up to NATO borders? What is the different thinking between these two military blocks? Could it be that NATO is an aggressive, attacking culture, while Russia is an aggressive defensive culture?

    #135834
    aspnaz
    Participant

    “Washington believes that its self-preservation is ensured by the Atlantic Ocean.”

    I would say that, given today’s technology, the fact that they are further away is an advantage to the aggressor. Consider all the potential benefits to the aggressor:
    – on the target side, there is time enough for automated systems to be questioned, so the US human questioners will probably make the wrong decision and decide it is a false alarm.
    – the aggressor has longer to wait and to see the response which it “knows” is a military response and needs to be defeated.
    – mechanically, a missile that enters space then hits its target in an almost vertical descent is just as effective against a target the other side of the earth as it is against your neighbour. Both will see it coming for similar lengths of time.

    #135835
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Russia could destroy any facility in the USA at any time it wants to, using conventional weapons. Why don’t they do it? Maybe starting small then moving onto the bigger facilities? Sure, the USA would threaten nuclear war, but we know they threaten all sorts of shit but never follow through unless the opponent is super weak. Russia is not super weak. I wonder what the Russian plan is, when/if they will start destroying the USA, or whether their thinking is that the USA is doing such a good job of destroying itself that they will just sit back and watch.

    #135837
    Oroboros
    Participant

    “Washington believes that its self-preservation is ensured by the Atlantic Ocean.”

    Hahahahaha!

    The Russians have the Empire of Lies covered with target zones, especially the East Coast off DC and New York Shity.

    They will be ash in an hour.

    Then: The Russian Poseidon torpedo and the Radioactive Tidal Wave of Death

    All down both coasts of the Empire of Lies Gangster Nation® there will be 500-meter [1,640 feet] high tidal waves of radioactive seawater covering every square inch of Duhmerica® far inland and thankfully wiping Washington DC from the map forever.

    The Empire of Lies Gangster Nation® not even open to suggestion on how to cope

    .

    #135838
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Putin was quoted that

    “If We [Russians] must go to Heaven, at least We will be accepted…”

    I have 100% confidence that if push comes to shove with the nuclear option, the Russians will choose to die on their feet than live on their knees.

    Duh’mericans wont even realize what hit them like a cow on the railroad tracks hit by the Cannonball Express

    Moo!

    Golly, what do we do!

    .

    #135839
    zerosum
    Participant

    @ John Day
    You left me speechless.

    I had to dig and find more info.

    Another blogger is digging and documenting how C-19 was designed to be a tool for depopulation.

    https://dailyclout.io/category/pfizer-reports/
    May 15, 2023
    Barbara Gehrett, MD; Joseph Gehrett, MD; Chris Flowers, MD; and Loree Britt
    DailyClout Pfizer Reports
    Report 71: Musculoskeletal Adverse Events of Special Interest Afflicted 8.5% of Patients in Pfizer’s Post-Marketing Data Set, Including Four Children and One Infant. Women Affected at a Ratio of Almost 4:1 Over Men.
    ———-
    Outside of the work the War Room/DailyClout Pfizer Documents Analysis Volunteers did in their reports, the volunteers are completely independent of DailyClout and the opinions that they express are solely their own.

    ————

    Report 71: Musculoskeletal Adverse Events of Special Interest Afflicted 8.5% of Patients in Pfizer’s Post-Marketing Data Set, Including Four Children and One Infant. Women Affected at a Ratio of Almost 4:1 Over Men.


    May 15, 2023 • by Barbara Gehrett, MD; Joseph Gehrett, MD; Chris Flowers, MD; and Loree Britt
    The War Room/DailyClout Pfizer Documents Analysis Project Post-Marketing Group (Team 1) – Barbara Gehrett, MD; Joseph Gehrett, MD; Chris Flowers, MD; and Loree Britt – wrote a review of musculoskeletal adverse events of special interest (AESIs) found in Pfizer document 5.3.6 Cumulative Analysis of Post-Authorization Adverse Event Reports of PF-
    07302048 (BNT162B2) Received Through 28-FEB-2021 (a.k.a., “5.3.6“). This group of AESIs include diagnoses of arthralgia (joint pain), arthritis (joint inflammation), arthritis/bacterial, chronic fatigue syndrome, polyarthritis (inflammation of multiple joints), post-viral fatigue syndrome, and rheumatoid arthritis (an autoimmune and inflammatory disease).

    It is important to note that the AESIs in the 5.3.6 document were reported to Pfizer for only a 90-day period starting on December 1, 2020, the date of the United Kingdom’s public rollout of Pfizer’s COVID-19 experimental mRNA “vaccine” product.

    Highlights of this report include:

    Please read the full report below.
    https://dailyclout.io/wp-content/uploads/Post-Marketing-Musculoskeletal-AESI-micro-report.pdf
    ———–

    The depopulation is already happening.
    At 80 yrs old, Sorry, I’m not into “watching sausage making”.

    I, like the majority of people, bloggers, non- specialized trained readers, did not read the first report, and I did not read any of the reports.
    Posting 5/27/2023
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    BRAVADO BEFORE CAPITULATION – WILL RUSSIAN DEFEAT OF US PATRIOT MISSILE BE FOLLOWED BY “UKRAINIAN F-16” ATTACK  DURING  THE NATO  “AIR DEFENDER 23” EXERCISE ON JUNE 12

    “There is a grave risk that in three weeks’ time US and NATO forces will attempt direct combat against Russia..”

    • Air Defender 23: The Largest Exercise Since The Foundation Of NATO (Helmer)

    ————–
    Testing AI-powered drone swarms for next war.
    ———-
    Words of wisdom

    The main lesson of the recent Durham Report — missed by even the most punctilious observers — is that our country does not want to fix itself, indeed the whole broken apparatus of fixing it is in the hands of the people who broke it.

    Trial By Ordeal


    Trial By Ordeal
    ———

    #135840
    kultsommer
    Participant

    Good day to remember Gregg Allman:

    #135841
    Oroboros
    Participant

    • Anti-China Bloc Tests AI-Powered Drone Swarms

    Drones in warfare are the future

    Drones commanded by AI are the future

    Skynet anyone?

    But at the bottom of the drone swarm is the industrial capacity to out produce the enemies drone production.

    China, Russia, India, they’re Homies

    Quite a bit of raw resources and industrial might in that combo

    The Empire of Lies Gangster Nation is rapidly transforming itself into a First World Shithole

    A totally new classification for nation-states

    None of the advantages of a first world power

    All of the disadvantages of a third world power

    Craptastic!

    Duh’merica is the perfect manifestation of the law of unintended consequences

    Here’s what we got

    .

    #135842
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    Here we go, … Travelogue Europe, NATO F-16 fighter jets from the US Air Force, taking off for Europe!

    F.S.

    #135843
    zerosum
    Participant

    @ figmund-sreaud
    After preparing, all the Ukraine military, since 2014, (without any F-16), any one close to those planes should have their will done.

    #135844
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Bank want to control Debt, it’s better than resources or ‘money’ because it has no physical limitations.

    Debt is the Monster living in the Cave of Life and Death

    #135845
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Congress of Whores

    Lots of congress critters are lawyers

    hear no evil, see no evil, speak not evil

    The Empire of Lies Gangster Nation Judiciary are mega whores who want to mute all law cases about Covid skullduggery

    Judges are the very worst of lawyers and that’s saying a lot about a profession built on the foundations glorifying Lying for a Living as a sacred edifice.

    .

    https://twitter.com/i/status/1662140836602167308.

    #135846
    Oroboros
    Participant

    #135847
    Oroboros
    Participant
    #135848
    zerosum
    Participant

    Oroboros
    A bit more info might persuade readers to go read the link.

    https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/guide-understanding-hoax-century-thirteen-ways-looking-disinformation

    A Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century
    Thirteen ways of looking at disinformation

    BY
    JACOB SIEGEL
    MARCH 28, 2023

    #135849
    jb-hb
    Participant

    The Dilbert guy theorized that if there were election interference, it was done perfectly, because there was no particular instance you could point to and say “it’s because of THIS thing.” For any specific instance, it would be possible to say “Okay, maybe, but that could not have thrown the election”

    It’s certainly looking like a certain thing was purpose-built to spread injury and death across the actuarial tables as opposed to one specific category.

    #135850
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    Welcome to WOT III (Yes, that includes *you*):

    How Biden’s DHS Is Weaponizing Anti-Terror Program Against Opponents…

    MRC Free Speech America, as part of its new Freedom of Information Act investigations, has learned how the Biden administration is weaponizing a government-funded anti-terrorism grant program in an effort to destroy conservatives, Christians and the Republican Party.

    Under the Trump administration, the “Targeted Violence & Terrorism Prevention Grant Program” (TVTP) was used to prevent terrorism, but it was revamped under the Biden administration and renamed to provide funding for localities to combat “all forms of terrorism and targeted violence.” Instead of focusing on preventing actual violence and terrorism, the program is now being used to target the entire spectrum of the political right and Christians through “media literacy and online critical thinking initiatives” and other so-called training seminars as part of a coordinated effort to make America into a one-party system.

    The University of Dayton, one of several grantees, targeted groups including The Heritage Foundation, Fox News, Christian Broadcasting Network, Turning Point USA, PragerU, the National Rifle Association (NRA), Breitbart News, the American Conservative Union Foundation and the Republican National Committee .

    (Don’t worry kiddos, I’m sure ZH, TAE et al. will make the list soon 😉 ).

    The Department of Homeland Security awarded a total of 80 grants at the behest of embattled DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who called the program a “high priority” in an internal memo exclusively obtained by MRC Free Speech America. This anti-American program cost taxpayers just under $40 million, with each individual project receiving between $85,000 and $1.19 million.

    For example, a chart used by DHS and its grantee in a training program equates mainstream groups with militant neo-Nazis, including: The Heritage Foundation, Fox News, the National Rifle Association (NRA), Breitbart News, PragerU, Turning Point USA, the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), the American Conservative Union Foundation (ACUF) and the Republican National Committee, among others…

    The seminar also compared former President Donald Trump to Pol Pot and suggested Florida Governor Ron DeSantis might wish to start a second Holocaust.

    This is nothing new, GlobalCap has been perfecting Fifth-generation warfare (5GW) since GHWB assumed control of the FDR’s Junta HQ, the kettle of frogs have been dying at an ever increasing rate since Ruby Ridge, efficaciously attaining terminal velocity/stupidity/malevolence forthwith (re: Operation C-19)…

    Doc Mallone said, The hearings are inconsequential

    No shit Sherlock! Some of us have been suffering these gaslight capers (cover-ups, except for regularly scheduled swindles), non-stop, for over 30 years now 🙄

    Guess what’s gonna happen to The Durham Report? Bueller? Bueller?!?

    Personally, I stopped voluntary subjection to Ministry Of Truth content soon after Clintoon was pardoned for grooming his staffers 🙄

    *HARD TRUTH: = Democratic Republic under Natural Law (private rights/property) > Banking/MIC EMERGENCY POWERS Empire under Equity (Corporate) & Admiralty (State) Laws (GlobalCap Socialism) 😐

    LATHER. RINSE. REPEAT…

    Stay calm & enjoy the Agitprop!


    @dr-d

    But don’t kid yourself that in general ‘The People wanted this.”

    Keep whistlin’ in the dark Dr. Diablo…

    While that may have been true in 1955 (actually 1933), the Imperial citizenry has been born, bred, edumakated, engineered, forcibly indoctrinated & bribed by society/apparatchiks/media ad nauseum, blissfully ignorant within the pathological hive mind where they’ve just learned a life of bad habits fed by decades of no consequences (the very definition/causation of *evil*) 🙄

    Don’t ask me how I know, you already know how I know, are you starting to miss your Matrix pod?

    Sic Semper Tyrannis, Finis!

    #135851
    Oroboros
    Participant

    #135852
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #135853
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    Climate change culprit(s) finally found (Trust The Science)!

    Jane Fonda made the outrageous claim Friday that climate change is being caused exclusively by men, specifically white men, adding that “those men” must be arrested and jailed.

    https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2023/05/27/jane-fonda-blames-men-for-climate-change-we-have-to-arrest-and-jail-those-men/

    Ultima Transmissio.

    #135854
    Celticbiker
    Participant

    If you reside in a Western country, you’re in a jewgulag. Your culture, money and Christian religion is being destroyed. Rats in a cage staring at phones and televisions. For the love od God, wake up, they want you dead. Your replacements are running over the border..

    #135855
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    I did some random browsing today into previously of no real interest, and one “rabbit hole” led me to this page, … TheRANDblog:

    F-16s Will Bolster Ukraine’s Fighting Force
    https://www.rand.org/blog/2023/05/f-16s-will-bolster-ukraines-fighting-force.html

    … interesting reading!

    F.S.

    #135856
    chooch
    Participant

    Brew master said,

    “I am totally convinced that Yevgeny Prigozhin’s latest outbursts are a carrot to the NATO politicians, the ones looking for some Russian weakness that they can exploit to give themselves a better chance of beating Russia (Putin).”

    During the outburst, when Prigozhin was threatening to pull out of Bakhmut, he had claimed that Wagner was the main force that saved Assad in Syria and was undermined by the Russian MoD every step of the way. Recently, there was an article in the War Horse detailing a Feb. 2018 battle between US special forces and Russian mercenaries in Syria which seems to corroborate his statement regarding being undermined by the MoD.

    The article claimed

    [..] Wagner mercenaries had a surface-to-air system that made it impossible for American aircraft to press the attack. Only after officials in Washington talked to their Russian counterparts did the surface-to-air system get shut down, allowing American aircraft to return and attack.

    [..] but sources have estimated between 100 and 300 Russian and pro-Syrian fighters were killed or wounded in the battle. Russian officials claim only five Russian citizens died, but audio recordings of Wagner Group soldiers suggest hundreds of mercenaries were killed. One Wagner Group veteran confirmed the Apache attack in the recordings, describing it as “a fucking merry-go-round with heavy-caliber machine guns.”

    If true, seems Prigozhin would have a legitimate axe to grind with the powers that lead to his men getting killed.

    Ganbei

    #135857
    aspnaz
    Participant

    @chooch An interesting perspective, but I am always wary of people who work in secret industries, such as the security services or military, who then use the media to air their grievances. I think it is very unlikely that the article is the whole story, the reason being that Prigozhin’s Wagner is a trusted arm of the Russian military. However, I am sure, as the article implies, that the deaths of mercenaries are less important to the government than deaths of government employees in the military. That certainly appears to be the case in the US government, I have no reason to believe it is any different in Russia.

    #135858
    aspnaz
    Participant

    @chooch Cheers!

    #135859
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    Re NATO exercise called “Air Defender 23”, …

    [aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford] Described as the largest aircraft carrier in the world, the vessel will stay in the Norwegian capital until Tuesday. It is then expected to take part in drills with the Norwegian armed forces, reportedly in the Arctic.

    US aircraft carrier arrives in NATO member Norway, to take part in drills
    https://o.canada.com/pmn/news-pmn/us-aircraft-carrier-arrives-in-nato-member-norway

    Vid of the arrival:

    #135860
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://southfront.org/wagner-revealed-results-of-military-operations-in-ukraine/
    Wagner sources reported on the results of the military operations of the PMC in Ukraine:

    Destroyed the manpower of the AFU – 72 095;
    Prisoners taken – 509;
    Tanks destroyed – 309;
    IFV – 566;
    APC – 131;
    Armored vehicles – 1134;
    Cars – 2075;
    Mortars and cannons – 3155;
    ATGMs – 300;
    SP gun mounts – 124 ;
    MLRSs – 83;
    Air defense systems – 45;
    UAVs – 282;
    Warplanes – 5;
    Helicopters – 4;
    EW/radar systems – 149.

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