Jun 222023
 


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Ukrainian Troops Understand They Don’t Stand A Chance – Putin (TASS)
Counteroffensive Not Going Well – Zelensky (RT)
Scott Ritter: Ukraine’s Counteroffensive Loses Momentum as Logistics Falters (Sp.)
Kiev Should Sue for Peace to Avoid Further Losses (Tsukanov)
Putin: Half Of Strategic Missile Units Rearmed With Hypersonic Systems (TASS)
Putin Reveals Future Of Russian Armed Forces (RT)
Biden Walks Back On Ukraine’s NATO Accession (Bhadrakumar)
Moscow Issues Warning Over ‘Nuclear Winter’ (RT)
France Has NATO-for-Truce Plan For Ukraine – Media (RT)
Pressure on US Dollar, Debt Drove Blinken Effort to Mend Ties With China (Sp.)
The Hunter Biden ‘Controlled Demolition’ is Complete (Turley)
Economic Cutbacks Making British Kids Shorter (RT)
House Votes to Censure Rep. Adam Schiff (ET)
Durham: FBI Overlooked Intel Clinton Masterminded Plot To Smear Trump (JTN)

 

 

 

 

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“.. that includes Leopards, French wheeled vehicles, US-made armored vehicles – everything,” the president said. “They burn quite well.”

Ukrainian Troops Understand They Don’t Stand A Chance – Putin (TASS)

Ukraine’s troops understand that they don’t stand a chance against heroic and courageous fighters of the Russian Armed Forces, President Vladimir Putin emphasized on Wednesday. “Thanks to the courage and heroism of our fighters, thanks to the commanders’ readiness to repel any aggressive actions against Russia, I believe, the enemy doesn’t stand a chance. They understand that and this is why they have stalled now,” Putin said at the meeting with military college graduates, answering a question from reporter Pavel Zarubin. “Ukrainian forces began [the counteroffensive] on June 4, engaging strategic reserves. Curiously, we currently observe certain lull at this moment,” the president said, adding that “this is due to the enemy suffering serious casualties in personnel and in vehicles.”


According to the president, “there are individual elements of hostilities going on: shelling, reconnaissance-in-force.” “But, I repeat, there is currently no active offensive,” Putin added. Meanwhile, he noted: “As of today, we see that the enemy’s offensive potential has not been depleted yet; the enemy has reserves and it thinks where and how to use them.” Speaking about the destroyed Western vehicles, Putin underscored that these numbers keep growing. “How much – that would require a look at the numbers. The total as of last night was 245 tanks and 678 armored vehicles of various types. Of course, that includes Leopards, French wheeled vehicles, US-made armored vehicles – everything,” the president said. “They burn quite well.”

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Give it up. Start negotiating.

Counteroffensive Not Going Well – Zelensky (RT)

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has admitted that the long-promised counteroffensive against Russian forces has not delivered the results that some Western observers expected. Amid mounting losses, Zelensky insisted that he would not discuss peace with Moscow. “Some people believe this is a Hollywood movie and expect results now. It’s not,” he told the BBC on Wednesday, admitting that advances by Ukrainian troops have been “slower than desired.” “Whatever some might want, including attempts to pressure us, with all due respect, we will advance on the battlefield the way we deem best,” he added.

Ukraine’s counteroffensive began on June 4 with a failed attack on Russian positions near Donetsk, according to the Russian Defense Ministry. Wave after wave of attacks followed along the Donetsk and Zaporozhye sectors of the front line, all of which Russian forces have managed to withstand while destroying hundreds of Western-supplied tanks and armored vehicles, and thousands of Ukrainian troops, according to the ministry. While Zelensky told the BBC that his forces have managed to capture eight villages, Ukrainian troops have yet to penetrate even the first of Russia’s multi-layered defensive lines. With a warren of trenches, minefields, and fortifications in their path and Russian artillery and air support operating freely, Ukraine has lost 7,500 men and 30% of its Western-supplied tanks and armored vehicles, the Kremlin estimated last Wednesday.

Daily reports from Moscow have since added at least another 2,000 men to the casualty count, with Ukraine said to have lost over 1,000 soldiers and 20 tanks in a single day of fighting over the weekend. Zelensky is reportedly under pressure to score some battlefield successes for his Western patrons, and he acknowledged to the BBC that “victories on the battlefield are necessary” to resolve the conflict in Kiev’s favor. However, he added that “no matter how far we advance in our counteroffensive, we will not agree to a frozen conflict because that is war, that is a prospectless development for Ukraine.”

Zelensky has repeatedly vowed to drive Russian troops out of the four formerly Ukrainian regions – Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson, and Zaporozhye – that voted last year to join Russia, as well as Crimea, which joined Russia after a referendum in 2014. American, British, and other NATO officials have backed his refusal to “freeze” the conflict, but many admit that Ukrainian forces could never hope to mount an attack on Crimea. “Behind the scenes, many Western military analysts express serious doubts about the success of the Ukrainian adventure,” Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) chief Sergey Naryshkin said on Monday. “Without going into details, I’ll say that the tasks announced by the Kiev regime are assessed as unachievable” by foreign experts, he added.

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“one of the most heavily fortified defensive positions in the history of modern warfare.”

Scott Ritter: Ukraine’s Counteroffensive Loses Momentum as Logistics Falters (Sp.)

With Ukraine’s current military condition desperate and dire, the political leadership in Kiev may be planning to target Crimea with Western-supplied HIMARS and Storm Shadow missiles, Sergey Shoigu, Russia’s defense minister, said. Speaking at the Russian Defense Ministry Board Session, he warned, the “[d]eployment of these particular missiles outside the special military operation zone will be regarded as direct involvement of the US and UK in the conflict and will result in immediate retaliatory strikes on decision-making centers in Ukraine’s territory. Scott Ritter believes that the rationale for Ukraine’s move is to provoke an intervention by the West, stressing, however, “they’ve lost this war.”

Despite a seemingly impressive army on paper, Ritter explained to Sputnik that the Ukrainian forces cannot penetrate Russia’s fortified defenses, which he describes as “one of the most heavily fortified defensive positions in the history of modern warfare.” As the Ukrainian Armed Forces falter and stand at the precipice of collapse in their counter-offensive, Ritter’s view of the Russian military stands in stark contrast, as he believes they have managed to quietly amass a significant force, maintaining a notable numerical advantage and demonstrate strategic prudence in their operations. Ritter underlined the chaotic and disorganized nature of Ukraine’s defense logistics system, asserting that large quantities of military aid are being mismanaged or lost in transit.


Furthermore, he pointed out that Ukraine has a notorious reputation for corruption, which may exacerbate the issue. According to him, accountability for this military aid is being overlooked mainly by the West due to the intensity of the ongoing conflict. A recent US media report says Ukrainian government documents show that over $800 million have been spent by Ukraine since 2022 on partially or completely unfulfilled arms supply contracts. “That’s the Ukrainian defense logistics system right now. Totally haphazard, totally chaotic. And if I were, you know, an inspector general going at it, I’d have to be honest and say, guys, we’re not going to be too strict on the accounting right now because this is war.”

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“..the peace terms Russia will offer will likely be significantly worse than the peace terms it is offering Ukraine today..”

Kiev Should Sue for Peace to Avoid Further Losses (Tsukanov)

The colloquially named ‘Surovikin Defensive Line’ has thrashed Ukrainian forces, with the Russian military reporting thousands of enemy casualties and the destruction of nearly 200 tanks and over 400 armored vehicles over the past two weeks. Named after Sergei Surovikin, the Russian general who commanded the Joint Group of Forces in the Special Military Operation Zone last fall and winter, and who was charged with the task of preparing Russian defenses for a Ukrainian counteroffensive, the Surovikin Line consists of vast networks of zigzag infantry trenches, anti-tank dragon’s teeth, berms and minefields across a frontline that stretches hundreds of kilometers. Kiev’s long-awaited counteroffensive – expected since March, began in early June, and is now widely acknowledged to have bogged down, with even senior Ukrainian officials and their Western patrons admitting in recent days that Ukrainian forces have wasted significant resources and lives probing the highly-fortified Russian defensive lines.

“The Ukrainians are yet to push deeply into Russian defensive lines,” Rainer Sachs, the former head of Estonian Foreign Intelligence who until about a month ago believed that Kiev had been successful in “creating the preconditions” for an offensive, said this week. “Russia considers it very important to hold onto the southern part of the front, so more defensive lines have been built there,” the intelligence analyst said. The term ‘Surovikin Line’ is actually a product of Western tabloid media, and was originally used to mock Russia’s military preparations, and dismissed as “grandiosely senseless” and “completely insane in terms of uselessness – but wildly expensive in terms of execution cost.” The past weeks have proven otherwise, with President Putin announcing late last week that despite some local gains, Ukrainian forces failed to penetrate even the first layer of the network of defensive lines anywhere along the front, instead becoming trapped and facing horrendous casualties.


“US intelligence had predicted only modest territorial gains for the Ukrainian spring offensive because Russian defensive preparations have been so extensive,” former US Army combat arms and HQ staff officer David T. Pyne told Sputnik. Citing reports that Ukrainian troops have taken ten times more casualties and lost three times more tanks than Russian forces in the past two weeks, Pyne said that “the longer the counteroffensive continues, the heavier Ukrainian casualties will be and the more vulnerable Ukraine will be to a Russian counteroffensive that could enable Russia to take control over western Donetsk [Region] and perhaps Kharkov [Region] as well.” If that happens, Pyne said, “the peace terms Russia will offer will likely be significantly worse than the peace terms it is offering Ukraine today.” Accordingly, he said, “Western leaders must face the reality that there is no chance Ukraine can defeat Russia and therefore we must negotiate the best deal for Ukraine we can get without further delay.”

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“Russia’s nuclear triad allows for effective and guaranteed strategic deterrence and maintains the global balance of power..”

Putin: Half Of Strategic Missile Units Rearmed With Hypersonic Systems (TASS)

About half of the units of Russia’s Strategic Missile Force have been equipped with the latest Yars missile systems and are being rearmed with modern Avangard warheads, Russian President Vladimir Putin said. “About half of the Strategic Missile Force units are now equipped with the latest Yars systems. Rearmament with modern missile systems carrying Avangard hypersonic warheads is in progress,” Putin said at a meeting with graduates of military academies on Wednesday. He stressed that the strengthening and development of the army and reliable security of the country had always been and remained an unconditional priority.

“In light of the new challenges and invaluable experience of the special military operation we will continue to improve the Armed Forces in every possible way,” he said, adding that the most important task here was to develop the nuclear triad as the key guarantee of Russia’s military security and global stability. Putin also announced that new Sarmat missile launchers would enter duty soon. “In the near future, the first launchers of the Sarmat complex with a new heavy missile will be put on combat duty,” he said. “The arsenals of aviation and naval components of strategic nuclear forces are being replenished in strict accordance with the timetable,” he stressed.


In particular, he noted, the lead submarine of the Borey-A project had been commissioned and in January 2023 the frigate Admiral Gorshkov left base on a combat duty mission. Putin stressed that this ship was designed to perform tasks in the blue water zones and carried the newest hypersonic missiles Tsirkon. “Russia’s nuclear triad allows for effective and guaranteed strategic deterrence and maintains the global balance of power,” Putin concluded, adding that it was an embodiment of many years of tremendous efforts by domestic enterprises, design bureaus, workers, engineers and military and civilian specialists.

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The future is hypersonic.

Putin Reveals Future Of Russian Armed Forces (RT)

Strengthening the armed forces is one of Russia’s top priorities, President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with graduates of military academies in Moscow on Wednesday. The nation’s military will evolve on the basis of the “priceless experience” provided by the ongoing military operation in Ukraine, as well as the modern challenges Russia is facing, he added. Russia’s nuclear triad will remain a focus of the military development efforts, Putin said, adding that it remains “a key guarantee of Russia’s military security and global stability.” Around half of Russia’s strategic land-based missile units have already been equipped with state-of-the-art Yars missiles – some of Russia’s most modern nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles, Putin revealed.

The troops also continue to receive the hypersonic Avangard gliders, the president said. Such systems are fitted on silo-based ICBMs. The military will also be further supplied with hypersonic anti-ship Zircon missiles, to be used by the Navy, as well as air-launched Kinzhal hypersonic missiles. New Sarmat heavy intercontinental ballistic missiles are also about to enter combat duty, Putin added. The modernization will not be limited to nuclear weapons only, the president explained. Heavy armor, air defense systems, and the production of drones will all be upgraded, he said. “We have yet to do much for a quality upgrade of all parts of our Armed Forces,” Putin said, adding that Russia “is delivering on those plans to the fullest.” The Russian defense industries in particular are expected to “boost mass production” of drones and “robotized strike systems” that have “demonstrated good results in combat,” the president said. According to Putin, every Russian military unit down to a platoon should be equipped with such systems.


His words came a day after Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that Moscow is potentially ready for a conflict with NATO if the military bloc decides to attack Russia. “Well, let them fight, we are ready for this,” he said. Putin has described the conflict in Ukraine as a hybrid war between Russia and “the entire Western military machine.” The statements came amid the continued Ukrainian offensive, which was launched earlier in June. The operation had been touted by Ukrainian and Western officials for several months but has so far failed to yield any major results. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, Kiev’s troops have suffered heavy casualties in their attacks on Russian positions. NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg also described the Russian defense as “well prepared.”

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”Don’t rule out an insurrection in Ukraine if war deaths become unsustainable for the society.”

Biden Walks Back On Ukraine’s NATO Accession (Bhadrakumar)

Biden’s remark on Saturday that the US is “not going to make it easy” for Ukraine to join the NATO can only be seen as a retrogressive journey into the past. Biden underscored that Ukraine will be required to meet the “same standards” as any other member of the bloc, implying that Ukraine must conform to the so-called Membership Action Plan or MAP, which requires a candidate nation to make military and democratic reforms, with NATO’s advice and assistance, before a determination of membership can be made. The MAP process can take years. Macedonia took 21 years. Biden’s remark is not only a signal to Kiev but comes at a time when there is a groundswell of opinion within the alliance that Europe and the US must provide Ukraine clear-cut NATO security guarantees, which is important for the future of European security.

In fact, Biden spoke only 4 days after meeting with Jens Stoltenberg, NATO secretary-general, at the White House last Tuesday, where, reportedly, the latter sought to simplify the accession process for Ukraine on the plea that Kiev had already made significant progress toward membership. What prompted Biden to take a hard line? Poland’s President Andrzej Duda declared, in the run-up to his talks in Paris on June 12 with France’s President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in the Weimar Triangle format, that Ukraine would like to have “a very concrete perspective … of joining the North Atlantic Alliance.” Duda hoped that the NATO summit in Vilnius will “send a positive message to Kiev, …that Ukraine’s future membership in NATO is clearly visible.”

Apparently, there was consensus amongst the Weimar Triangle members also that Ukraine should receive security guarantees. Scholz declared: “It is evident that we need something like this, and we need it in a very concrete form.” Macron endorsed, calling for a rapid agreement on “tangible and credible security guarantees.” Indeed, there have been threatening noises too that if there is no concretisation on Ukraine’s membership in Vilnius, some of the “hardcore” allies may take things into their own hands, and the renegade undertaking – at the national level –- could also include stationing of troops from NATO members in Ukraine. Now, Biden has ignored these demands from Old and New Europeans. He is confident he can shift the goal post. Maybe, Macron and Scholz are only playing to the gallery? We may never know.

The heart of the matter is that Biden realises that the ongoing Ukrainian offensive is heading for a train crash and the decimation of Kiev’s remaining army. It is uncertain how long Kiev will be able to recruit enough soldiers. The two figures whom Washington had groomed for precisely the sort of Plan B in Kiev that it needs now — commander of the armed forces Gen. Valeri Zaluzhny and spy chief Maj. Gen. Kyrylo Budanov — are out of reckoning, having been put out of action summarily by recent Russian missile strikes. Don’t rule out an insurrection in Ukraine if war deaths become unsustainable for the society. Biden also sees that there is continuously shrinking approval in America for his war policy, which could possibly endanger his re-election. Biden pointed out to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky during his last visit to Kiev that the funds that Washington could provide were limited. And CIA chief William Burns separately left a message with Zelensky that continued American military assistance beyond July is problematic.

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“acute deficit of mutual trust.”

Moscow Issues Warning Over ‘Nuclear Winter’ (RT)

Global arms control is mired in an unprecedented crisis, triggered primarily by the actions of the West, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov claimed on Tuesday. Speaking at the PIR Center, a Russian think tank specializing in nuclear non-proliferation, Ryabkov argued that the issue had been building for some time, and had been exacerbated by US and Western attempts to “actively use coercion and violence in unsuccessful attempts to strengthen their global positions.” Those actions could be exemplified by the bombing campaign against the former Yugoslavia, the US invasion of Iraq, and NATO’s “destabilizing” eastward expansion, the diplomat said.

At the same time, Washington and NATO “categorically refused” Russia’s proposals to create a comprehensive security framework in Europe, Ryabkov insisted. Instead, they embraced a course seeking to “deliberately and maliciously” fan the Ukraine conflict and inflict a “strategic defeat” on Moscow – all of which affected areas of contact with the West, including regarding arms control, he added. According to the diplomat, the problem could potentially be remedied by dialogue between the US and Russia, which hold the largest nuclear arsenals on the planet. “However, that’s all in theory. In practice… Washington is clearly not ready to revise its destructive course seeking to undermine our security. And how long such a ‘frosty winter’ in this field will last is anyone’s guess. This is not fatal in itself, as long as it doesn’t spiral into a nuclear winter!”


Ryabkov said that Moscow had noted Washington’s proposal to discuss arms control separately from other issues in bilateral relations. However, by endorsing this “compartmentalization,” the US wants to push the red lines even further in a bid to undermine Russia’s national security, the diplomat claimed. Against this backdrop, arms control talks are unlikely to be productive unless the US and the West “dramatically change their aggressive anti-Russia policies,” Rybakov argued. In early June, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said Washington was ready to engage in arms control discussions with Russia and China “without preconditions.” Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov welcomed the suggestion, but noted that Moscow should understand the specifics of the proposals, which he said came at a time of an “acute deficit of mutual trust.”

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You don’t know what Ukraine will look like “after the conflict is over”.

France Has NATO-for-Truce Plan For Ukraine – Media (RT)

The French government may attempt to lure Kiev to the negotiating table with Russia by offering support for Ukraine’s accession to NATO after the conflict is over, French media reports. According to Le Monde, this approach was discussed at the Elysee Palace on Monday last week by the French Defense Council. The hope is that if Ukraine joins the US-led military bloc, this would deter further hostilities, according to the report on Tuesday. A military source told the newspaper that the French position is “closer to that of Poland than that of Germany.” Russia considers NATO a hostile organization and has called attempts to include Ukraine in the bloc a ‘red line’ for national security.

Moscow launched its military operation in the neighboring country last year after NATO members refused to discuss its security concerns. The organization was quietly absorbing Ukraine without formally including it, Russian officials claimed. The deliberations in Paris come ahead of a summit of NATO leaders which will take place in Lithuania next month. Last week, US President Joe Biden poured cold water on hopes that Ukraine’s candidacy would be fast-tracked. He stated that the country would have to meet the same standards as everyone else and that “we are not going to make it easy.” The Biden administration is reportedly siding with the cautious German position rather than with Poland and other countries which want to see a swift roadmap for Ukraine to join NATO.


According to the New York Times, Kiev may instead receive an upgrade of relations with the bloc to the council level – the same that Russia once had – and a pledge of continued arms supplies. Kiev demands the full withdrawal of Russian troops from territory that Ukraine claims before any peace talks. A ‘peace plan’ promoted by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky demands this, as well as reparations and other concessions. Moscow has rejected the proposal, calling it detached from reality.

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And then Biden calls Xi a dictator…

Pressure on US Dollar, Debt Drove Blinken Effort to Mend Ties With China (Sp.)

Secretary of State Antony Blinken likely sought to stabilize relations with Beijing because Washington has begun to feel pressure from China’s withdrawal of support for the dollar and the enormous US government deficit, analysts told Sputnik. From June 18-19, Blinken visited China for talks with President Xi Jinping, Director of the CCP Central Foreign Affairs Office Wang Yi and other senior officials. During the trip, the secretary highlighted the importance of maintaining open channels of communication and made clear that the United States will responsibly manage the competition so that the relationship does not veer into conflict. “The United States is feeling itself squeezed and probably needs to make nice with China,” Krainer Analytics founder Alex Krainer told Sputnik.

“The United States has painted itself into a corner with China: they want to do their usual destabilization/regime change thing, except China is still the second largest creditor the United States has, and it has been getting rid of the US debt quite aggressively over the last two years.” Now China and Russia are increasingly shifting to national currencies in their trade and that could lead to many other nations abandoning the dollar and triggering a huge financial crisis in the United States, Krainer warned. “If they [the Chinese] continue to dump US treasuries, they could depress its price, push interest rates higher and trigger a selling stampede by other nations as well. This is one of the biggest risks that the United States is facing,” he said.


Independent Institute Center for Peace & Liberty President Ivan Eland believes that Blinken’s trip was meant to stop the relationship between Washington and Beijing from deteriorating even further. “The Biden administration was concerned that US relations with China were sinking to dangerous levels. His meeting with Xi, itself noteworthy, did not produce many tangible breakthroughs but did seem to stop the free fall in bilateral ties,” he said. A mild thaw in relations could set in, but there are still no indications of any major progress on defusing potential sources of serious hostilities, Eland cautioned. “It is likely now that US-Chinese economic relations will get better. However, [there is] still no Chinese agreement for military-to-military ties improving – including deconfliction of military operations,” he said.

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The essence:

“He will plead to a couple of misdemeanors on tax violations without addressing how he actually made this money..”

The Hunter Biden ‘Controlled Demolition’ is Complete (Turley)

The House Oversight Committee has documented potentially millions in financial transfers from foreign sources to Biden family members. The labyrinth of LLC corporations and accounts used for the transfers seems designed to evade detection. Indeed, allegations from a trusted FBI source referenced payments that were being made to the Bidens without directly involving “the big guy.” That was the name allegedly used for President Biden after associates insisted that no one should use his name. Attorney General Merrick Garland took the most important step in pulling off the controlled demolition by steadfastly refusing to appoint a special counsel. Such an appointment would allow the release of a report that would detail the alleged corrupt practices of the Biden family and the knowledge and involvement of the president. It is the essential framing used in demolition to avoid broad blast effects.

The second key is the charge. In buildings, you have to use just enough explosives to take out supports to collapse the structure in on itself. In scandals, it comes down to the criminal charges. You need an assortment of minor charges to suggest equal justice without anything large enough to cause collateral damage to others. It also has to be minor enough to get Hunter to take one for the team. The Hunter plea is the perfect charge load for the scandal. He will plead to a couple of misdemeanors on tax violations without addressing how he actually made this money. The gun charge looks like a serious threat for incarceration, but it is little more than a phantom felony count under which Hunter will be allowed to go into a diversion program and ultimately negate the violation.


The problem for those seeking to drop this scandal in a confined fashion is that the House GOP is now investigating the influence-peddling scandal. The Democrats’ loss of the House in 2022 was a huge blow to the Biden team and, when the new Congress was sworn in, it was essential to enter a plea deal before the release of more serious evidence. In May, I called it a “capstone plea” to make it more difficult for the Justice Department to be pressured into stronger action. The House will push ahead, but the media has already imposed another blackout on coverage. The challenge for the White House is that this plea could come at a tactical cost. If this is the end of the Hunter Biden investigation, the Justice Department and FBI will have a more difficult time withholding evidence on the basis of an “ongoing investigation.” That is why it is a bit suspicious to see U.S. Attorney David Weiss state that that there is an “ongoing investigation.”

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Curious.

Economic Cutbacks Making British Kids Shorter (RT)

British five-year-olds who grew up in the era of austerity are shorter than their peers in other developed nations by as much as 7cm (2.76in), according to data from the Non-Communicable Diseases Risk Factor Collaboration published by The Times on Tuesday. Since 1985, when British boys and girls both ranked 69 for average height at five years out of 200 listed countries, their ranking has plummeted dramatically – to 102 for boys and 96 for girls, putting them behind countries as diverse as Canada, Kyrgyzstan, and Cuba. Comparing the numbers to data on 19-year-olds, Professor Tim Cole of University College London’s Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health suggested to The Times that growing up in the 2010s “period of austerity” was what “clobbered the height of children in the UK.” The height of British five-year-olds peaked in 2011 at 112.8cm (44.4in) and has been falling ever since, the statistics show.

Because height is affected not just by quality and quantity of food but also stress, poverty, illness, and even sleep quality, Cole argued it is a uniquely “sensitive” indicator of living conditions. “It’s quite clear we are falling behind, relative to Europe,” he said. “In modern Britain, the way we eat is one of the clearest markers of inequality,” former UK government food adviser Henry Dimbleby told The Times, pointing out that “children in the poorest areas of England are both fatter and significantly shorter than those in the richest areas at age ten to eleven.” Family doctors in low-income areas have reported an “extraordinary” surge in the kind of nutritional-deficiency-borne diseases prevalent during Victorian times, Dimbleby explained. According to NHS data, 700 children are admitted to English hospitals every year with rickets, scurvy, or other forms of malnutrition, while nutrition charity The Food Foundation has found higher rates of type 2 diabetes and dental decay as well as obesity in poorer children.


“A diet of cheap junk food has the peculiar quality that it can make you simultaneously overweight and undernourished.” It is not just European countries like the Netherlands and Lithuania which outperform Britain. According to the study, China and North Korea both raise taller five-year-olds than the UK. Even five-year-olds in Libya – born and raised after the NATO bombing campaign that helped to overthrow their government and turn the country into a failed state – are taller (boys) or as tall (girls) compared to their British counterparts. Austerity has been linked to a host of socioeconomic problems in the UK, from soaring inequality to declining educational achievement. While supporters argue the program enacted in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis was necessary to rescue a floundering economy, critics have countered that the damage done outweighs any benefits.

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Not enough.

House Votes to Censure Rep. Adam Schiff (ET)

The House of Representatives voted to censure Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on June 21, a week after an initial resolution to do so was tabled. The measure passed along party lines on a vote of 213–209. Six Republicans voted “present.” The resolution, introduced by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.), denounces Schiff, a Democrat, for allegedly perpetuating misinformation against former President Donald Trump. With the passing of the resolution, Schiff has been referred to the House Ethics Committee for investigation. The resolution was privileged and therefore triggered a House vote. In last week’s vote, 20 Republicans joined 205 Democrats to table the initial resolution.

The revised resolution was similar to the initial one, with the notable difference being that it doesn’t include a $16 million fine for Schiff should he be held accountable by the House Ethics Committee for his alleged “falsehoods, misrepresentations, and abuses of sensitive information.” The proposed $16 million fine is half of the taxpayer cost of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. The new resolution, like the tabled one, condemns Schiff, the former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, for perpetuating the notion there was collusion between Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russia. That was debunked by Mueller in 2019, Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz later the same year, and special counsel John Durham in May. Durham testified on June 20 at a closed-door hearing before the House Intelligence Committee and also gave testimony in a public hearing on June 21 in front of the House Judiciary Committee.


Additionally, the new resolution didn’t state that “Schiff used his position and access to sensitive information to instigate a fraudulently based investigation, which he then used to amass political gain and fundraising dollars.” House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) gave credence on June 15 to the 20 House Republicans that joined Democrats in tabling the initial resolution. “I think everybody knows my thoughts of Adam Schiff,” McCarthy told The Epoch Times. “That’s why I removed him from [the House Intelligence Committee]. … You have a number of members on principle that sat and argued for the last four years with President [Donald] Trump that you had to have due process and voted that way. And I think a number of them believe that they should [have] gone to [the House Ethics Committee] first.”

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Very disappointing. 5 years?!

How many of these half-assed investigations, include also Hunter Biden, can the country take?

Durham: FBI Overlooked Intel Clinton Masterminded Plot To Smear Trump (JTN)

Former special counsel John Durham testified Wednesday that the FBI overlooked intelligence that Hillary Clinton had approved a plan to smear former President Donald Trump with Russia allegations and treated the two campaigns disparately during the 2016 election. Durham confirmed that the CIA had received intelligence about Clinton approving a plan to make Russia allegations against Trump as a means of distracting from her classified email scandal. The prosecutor said the FBI did not “sufficiently scrutinize information it received” and did not “apply the same standards to allegations it received about the Clinton and Trump campaigns.” “The FBI was too willing to accept and use politically funded and uncorroborated opposition research, such as the Steele dossier,” he said during the House Judiciary Committee hearing.

“The FBI relied on the dossier and FISA applications, knowing there was likely material originating from a political campaign or political opponent.” He told the House panel that “it’s going to take time to rebuild the public’s confidence in the institution” of the FBI after the agency’s handling of the so-called Russia collusion probe. Durham, appointed as a Justice Department special counsel in 2020 to investigate the matter, has said there was no evidence of collusion between the 2016 Trump presidential campaign and Russian intelligence officials when the FBI probe was launched. “There were some individuals who clearly expressed a personal bias” against Trump, Durham told the committee, following the release in May of his final report on the now-discredited Russian collusion probe.


Under questioning from House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, Durham said former FBI Director Jim Comey withheld a referral memorandum from the agents working the Crossfire Hurricane case that contained information about then-Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s attempts to tie Trump to Russia. The memo contained intelligence from a high-level briefing with Director of the Central Intelligence Agency John Brennan. Durham testified that then-President Obama, then-Vice President Joe Biden and then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch received the same briefing from Brennan. “They kept key intelligence from the investigators. This is how bad this investigation was but here’s the scary part: I don’t think anything has changed,” Jordan said.

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    Joaquin Sorolla Passeggiata sulla spiaggia (Walk on the beach) 1909   • Ukrainian Troops Understand They Don’t Stand A Chance – Putin (TASS) • Co
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle June 22 2023]

    #137514
    Germ
    Participant

    Health bosses warn of heart disease emergency in England

    “Analysis of official government data suggests that more than 500 people a week are dying needlessly from heart disease, heart attacks or strokes. There have been 96,540 extra cardiovascular-related deaths since March 2020, according to the report by the British Heart Foundation.”

    ” …while deaths from Covid-19 have since fallen, the number of cardiovascular disease deaths have remained much higher than expected.”

    England was “firmly in the grip of a heart and stroke care emergency

    https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jun/22/health-bosses-warn-of-heart-disease-emergency-in-england

    TVASSF(but the death vaxx is never, ever mentioned – ever)

    #137515
    Germ
    Participant

    Kirk Herbstreit says son has ‘long journey ahead.’ Ohio State’s Zak Herbstreit hospitalized

    “I have some of the best cardiologists looking after me, and I am beyond appreciative,”

    https://eu.dispatch.com/story/sports/college/football/2023/06/20/zak-herbstreit-osu-tight-end-kirk-hospitalized-ohio-state-football/70338522007/#lj6bt0c4ykghjilhkl8

    TVASSF

    #137516
    Germ
    Participant

    The Covid vaccines are starting to reach their expiration dates.

    Get ready to see a new blast of marketing as they try to get a shot in every child’s arm.

    “It does not matter what brand [vaccine] you previously received.”

    How can they even possibly know that is safe?


    TVASSF(they don’t care about you, or your kids)

    #137517
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Can we get more rich guys into subs? Or Teslas?

    “Supreme Court Considering If ‘Americans With Disabilities Act’ Covers Gender Dysphoria

    It’s so normal it’s a disability? I can’t keep up.

    ‘Blatant Provocation’: China Lashes Back After Biden Labels Xi A Dictator”

    You mean like the kind of guy who would protect his son and have the opposition arrested?

    “Zelenskyy Questions US Presidential Candidates Calling For Ukraine Peace Deal: ‘Are They Ready To Go To War?’
    “Are they ready to fight? Send their children? Die?”

    Everyone please keep going. Don’t change a thing. Can I get you a water or something? A louder platform?

    “• Counteroffensive Not Going Well – Zelensky (RT)

    You don’t say. No one knew this before? Had to actually try it to be sure?

    “• Scott Ritter: Ukraine’s Counteroffensive Loses Momentum as Logistics Falters (Sp.)

    They’re fighting a modern war with zero air cover. This is simply impossible.

    “Kiev Should Sue for Peace to Avoid Further Losses (Tsukanov)

    So said Kissinger 9 months ago, the greatest warmonger in the world for 50 years. Guess what? He was right, and the other Insiders are morons (thankfully). They are dedicated to both exposing themselves and losing everything with impatience. Like Bzrezensky, he lived to see every minute of his lifetime of work destroyed.

    “The future is hypersonic.”

    Yes, and now it doesn’t have to be nuclear. That may be worse, but it’s probably better.

    “You don’t know what Ukraine will look like “after the conflict is over”.

    It’s not what Ukraine looks like, it’s what NATO and W. Europe will look like. That is: collapsed. No more. The world goes around them as useless and unnecessary.

    “House Votes to Censure Rep. Adam Schiff (ET)

    Wooooo, a sternly-written censure. But apparently he threw a Federal election but somehow committed no crimes?

    “How many of these half-assed investigations, include also Hunter Biden, can the country take?”

    Devolution. Reduce the center, no credibility: no money. The more the better, for without money, power, regulation, what harm can they do? They are brought to heel before The People. …But that shows the money system is still standing right now, and nothing can win until it cracks.

    Forward indicator may be BTC, up 20%. Don’t think simple: insiders are rigging the pricing as ever, in all markets, so they may and probably driving price up the cash out for a bigger crash (in everything) upcoming. That’s the “Powell has totally reversed the money supply– a thing never seen before even in the Depression” chart.

    Durham: yes and magically pre-positioned the millionaires in the sub into the news BEFORE it sank and disappeared. Huh. Those media guys are super-lucky that 5 morons in a tub were posted front page before anybody knew it would go bad.

    Strangely this time I think people are listening. Not the news, not probably the people. But people like government employees and middle men. I think they’re finally listening to Durham for the first time in decades.

    #137518
    Dora
    Participant

    Happy plants.

    #137519
    zerosum
    Participant

    3 wise monkeys, “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil”.

    Zelensky has repeatedly vowed to drive Russian troops out of the four formerly Ukrainian regions – Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson, and Zaporozhye – that voted last year to join Russia, as well as Crimea, which joined Russia after a referendum in 2014.
    https://www.azerbaycan24.com/en/counteroffensive-not-going-well-zelensky/
    ———–
    https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/ukraine-hits-bridge-linking-crimea-to-mainland-in-blow-to-russian-supply-route/ar-AA1cSOjJ?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=0b1c8511116047dab15faa1b2affc26a&ei=49

    Ukraine hits bridge linking Crimea to mainland in blow to Russian supply route
    Story by By Tom Balmforth

    “Another meaningless act perpetrated by the Kyiv regime on orders from London. It solves nothing as far as the special military operation is concerned,” he said, vowing to repair the bridge and restore traffic.

    He threatened to retaliate by targeting a bridge linking neighbouring Moldova to NATO-member Romania: “A very serious response is coming very soon.”

    The Chonhar bridge hit overnight is one of just a handful of access roads to Crimea, which is linked to the Ukrainian mainland by a narrow isthmus.

    Reporting by Reuters bureaux; Writing by Peter Graff; Editing by Gareth Jones)

    ———-
    Zelenskyy, is the figure head, that must be remove, to solve/end the Russia – Ukraine – NATO war.
    ———–

    #137520
    zerosum
    Participant

    In Canada – Freedom and Democracy and free speech


    2:31 PM · Jun 21, 2023
    87.2K Views

    Dimitri Lascaris

    Unfortunately, due to pressure tactics from persons who support the escalation of the Ukraine war, the venue for my speech in Toronto this evening has been cancelled at the last moment.

    This is my statement on the cancellation.
    ———–

    #137521
    zerosum
    Participant


    The Russians Launched An Unexpected Counteroffensive. Military Summary And Analysis For 2023.06.22

    #137522
    kultsommer
    Participant

    Lovers of Bit-tulip disagree with the “Note the logic” capture above
    Power and data infrastructure, in their minds, will be forever maintained for their “value gains” of precious little thing.

    #137523
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    If you have not yet read “The Art of War” then stop reading this and go read that. Not skim. Study.

    The world around you will make a lot more sense after you’ve read the book. Especially the parts about war.

    It’s Chinese, by the way, and it was codified 2,500 years ago so they’ve had a considerable amount of time to practice since then. [ https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/66706/pg66706-images.html ]

    Then move on to The Oera Linda Book [ https://www.gutenberg.org/files/40986/40986-h/40986-h.htm ]

    Shouldn’t take more than a day of pleasant reading, with plenty of breaks to meditate upon the implications, and come to terms with the discomforting fact that the world is not what you have been thinking it is. By a long shot.

    Lot’s of folks have noticed that we’re in a war. Barely a handful are earnestly attempting to confront how big it is. But many are waking up.

    #137524
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Professor Tim Cole of University College London’s Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health suggested to The Times that growing up in the 2010s “period of austerity” was what “clobbered the height of children in the UK.” The height of British five-year-olds peaked in 2011 at 112.8cm (44.4in) and has been falling ever since, the statistics show.

    Living in the first world means nothing when your government, their owners and their paid minions are stealing from the rest of us, from under our noses. No wonder they all went globalist, they knew they were destroying their own countries through their own corruption. Poor quality leadership is the biggest problem in the west, the good people have opted out and the trash is in control.

    #137525
    Bosco stick
    Participant

    boscohorowitz #137502, RIM is the Keymaster, you are a Participant

    RIM provides and decides “We at TAE”

    #137526
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @DrD

    They’re fighting a modern war with zero air cover. This is simply impossible.”

    It’s worse than impossible, it’s an oxymoron. If one of the belligerents doesn’t have and use state of the art air cover then isn’t a modern war. It’s more of a modern turkey shoot.

    #137527
    hugho
    Participant

    A diet rich in sugar and processed foods from the globalized big food industry has generated a new disease called Metabolic syndrome resulting in diabetes, hypertension, Cardiovascular disease, insulin resistance and a massive increase in obesity right down to the pediatric level.. The damage occurs at the cellular level primnarily in the mitochondria. Sugar, primarily the fructose fraction is an addictive and metabolic poison which is only metabolized in the liver just like alcohol.. This change in world health has happened in the last 5 decades Fast food aka “fast garbage” and limited physical activity also bears a large part of the blame. The cause is bad nutrition which can only be reversed by eating real and natural food which is more expensive. Shop your farmer’s field and your farmer’s market and abandon the grocery chains and remove sugar from you and your children’s diet, The worst single offenders are soda, energy drinks and fruit juices. Eat the fruit. Don’t drink the juice and add fiber to your diet.

    #137528
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Apparently, the CEO in charge of the submersible company on which the billionaires are missing said they AVOIDED having any “50 year old white men” on the team, “because that wouldn’t be inspiring”

    This sounds remarkably like, in the leadup to Captain Marvel, Disney’s lead actress was building up goodwill (ha!) by making speeches about how she didn’t need any middle aged white dudes. To be followed by “sold-out” yet EMPTY theatres. Who bought the seats? Blackrock? Soros? HRC? They were bussing schoolchildren to the film as a field trip – for Girl Power and the theatres were STILL essentially empty. Where’d the $1,000,000,000 box office come from then?

    That’s FINE when it is entertainment.

    Well, kinda fine. Disney is getting – finally – into serious trouble. The parks aren’t making money. They’ve got an impending hit coming from the Hulu thing. They’ve destroyed all their best IP’s. Even their mediocre ones. They’re looking at what they can sell off.

    In both cases, it wasn’t so much that an image of Wokeism automatically means suckitude in and of itself, but that the KIND of messaging by people actually DOING the things that need to be done is a signal that it will suck because it is being run by incompetents. They’re good at SOMETHING, just not their job.

    For the upper and upper middle class, they’ve been wallowing in, essentially a LUXURY BELIEF. Since all their needs are taken care of, no real struggles, no real unmet desires, endless luxuries of every kind available even depraved ones, what’s left but a belief system to top it off? For the people who already have everything?

    But finally we are seeing (important) people’s stock prices crater, their submersibles not function, billions in printed dollars turning out to NOT be what wins wars. It was presumed they could carpet bomb the population for decades in ways that could only cause dissolution and demoralization. Yet they assumed competency would always be springing eternal, just something that HAPPENS, surely at least for anyone with sufficient money.

    Disney, for instance, keeps axeing powerful C-suite folks now. Previously untouchable. Their CFO, their DIE commisar, basically anyone who isn’t Kathleen Kennedy for some reason. I almost wonder if the “writer’s strike” is happening because someone realized everyone is fed up and a sufficient number of people (but not believers) are now educated in neo marxism that they may have to change gears.

    They got us up to speed, people who just wanted to play video games or read comic books can now explain weird abstruse points from Gramsci and Marcuse – but to know marx apparently was not to love him. That was a weird assumption for them to have. So they made themselves SUPER annoying for the past 7 years and all they got were antibodies in response.

    Considering that various corporations have pulled back this month, there must have been some official dispensation from …who? The HRC? Blackrock/Vanguard/State Street? Pulling back on required metrics for xyz score? lol and yet Bud Lite isn’t allowed to do anything it would take to survive.

    Anyway, The New Religion is deeply enough embedded that it’s starting to affect REAL people. Somebody (who matters) might get HURT by it. Like in the stock market or in a pressurized tube in the ocean.

    But I thought we could just jet between our various homes in gated communities, our Elite Archipelago and enjoy our Luxury Belief forever! Enjoy spending our excess capital on browbeating decent normal folks forever, not so much to achieve anything in particular but just enjoy having a religion that makes us folks at the top holy and ordained (in our spoiled depravity) as well as rich and powerful.

    Finally, possibly too late, skin in the game.

    #137529
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    Joaquin Sorolla Passeggiata sulla spiaggia (Walk on the beach) 1909
    ______________________________

    Beautiful, … pleasing all the senses! Mind you, the times they are a-changin’. These days – example:

    F.S.

    #137530
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    DBS yesterday
    The reason that the bad guys are compelled to show and tell you what they’re doing and intend to do is that by you allowing them do that action, without consequential restraint or punishment, is demonstration and proof that you find it acceptable. Really!? Well, you accepted it didn’t you? That’s proof that you find it acceptable, and since it is acceptable then I’m going to keep on doing it.

    My ex was like that. He erroneously believed that by following that course of action that he wouldn’t lose me, as he had checked with me first to make sure his behavior was “acceptable.” What he didn’t understand is that I wasn’t interested in putting ligatures on him — I preferred that he behave the way he pleased, without fear of reprisal from me, so that I could see who he truly was and what he wanted. Piece by piece he shattered the myths that I originally had crafted around him until there was nothing left that I could love, and then I then I carefully analyzed the situation and found a way to legally eject him from the home, because the home was key to the long term well-being of myself and the children. (It probably sounds very cold for me to write it in this way — actually, the process was heart-wrenching and very emotionally painful. By the time I found my solution he was an alcoholic and addicted to psychiatric medicine and barely brought in any income.)

    What the “bad guys” don’t realize is that the “good guys” often play by rules. Those rules mean that the good guys won’t rain down repercussions on the bad guys until they have proof of the bad guys’ malfeasance. The good guys are giving the bad guys the opportunity to show their “true colors.” The bad guys don’t understand that rules can be followed out of desire, rather than only out of fear of reprisal; the bad guys have a fundamental misunderstanding that the good guys do not see the world as they do, and do not operate on the same assumptions as they do.

    #137531
    jb-hb
    Participant

    phoenixvoice – 1,000,000% agreement

    Part of restoring sanity when involved with a Narc is to allow or even create opportunities for misbehavior and dispassionately observe. Not traps, but openings, apparent vulnerabilities.

    This skill came in handy in Call Center jobs – I would feign weakness – cracking voice, higher pitch, uncertain stuttering, try to sound a little bit naïve or credulous. Couldn’t lay it on too thick, but I would throw it in there if I had any doubts as to the customer’s complaint. It was a useful lie detector.

    If they acted like a rabid carnivore throwing themselves immediately on red meat, I knew they were not acting in good faith. I’d project that I was JUST on the verge of cracking, of being fooled, and they’d enter a kind of megalomania in which their claims and demands would wildly increase – they almost seemed to get drunk on the projection.

    But then 2 hours later, they’re still drunk but getting exhausted, STILL somehow just on the cusp of steamrolling me. Still being presented with the same affect. Still not getting anywhere. lol frustrated incomprehension at my “weakness”

    #137532
    kultsommer
    Participant

    Walk on the Beach.
    Dynamic masterpiece by slight diagonal position of the figures battling the light wind. In concert with the wavy garment, “power of the wind” was, rather, cleverly depicted by the water behind using the long strokes of the brash from dark to the lighter value of blue, where the latter is “hitting” the girl’s chest.
    Painter must be fully immersed and dead exhausted afterwards, by almost repeating mantra to himself: “they are walking on the slightly windy beach” ….on-and-on, during his work. Level of ability to maintain that state determines the quality of the painting among other talent requirements. Such an effort to make figures “alive” and “gestures” right.

    #137533
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    rototillerman: pandiculation. Physical therapy technique for our more elderly friend (whose name I forget).

    pan*di*cu*la*tion

    #137535
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @kultsommer

    Exactly so, and when I occasionally manage to see it they way you have described it uplifts me from my ignorant prosaic existence, and for those brief moments I am a soul and not this pathetic old human man.

    #137536
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @jb-hb

    Astute, and cagey. And another reason why I would decline to get into a high stakes poker game with you at the table.

    #137537
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Disney Studios made a mountain of money by lying to everyone that Disney was all about good wholesome (sane!) values. In point of fact Disney has been rotten to the core from the very start, but just brilliantly good at hiding that fact behind appealing deception’s. There is an entire genre of YouTube and Website content that essentially consists of the Satanically pornographic snippets and symbols that Disney’s artists and executives surreptitiously slipped in ever film that company ever produced.

    Back at the ranch, Disney now starts to more OPENLY espouse and portray the perverse obsessions that it has always had . . . and is going broke because normal people are revolted and repulsed by it. Disney should backpedal, but it won’t. It will instead double-down. Are we ready for XXX rated Snow White?

    #137538
    kultsommer
    Participant

    Re cartoon from 1934:
    My understanding ( I may be wrong) is that FDR forced the mega-rich to open the purse and finance many public works (that country should be proud of given the quality of work) so they were, obviously, pissed-of and expressed their anger with “Trotsky artist”.
    I would wholeheartedly support the image if I had not learned in the course of years that they were protecting the notion of:
    Robbing you is my business,
    robbing you is my business
    and business is good!

    #137539
    John Day
    Participant

    Earlier today D Benton Smith wrote:
    “Then move on to The Oera Linda Book [ https://www.gutenberg.org/files/40986/40986-h/40986-h.htm ]”

    It’s a black hole of discovery, I fear, and I have only read the introduction.
    Pull Out Betty

    #137540
    John Day
    Participant

    Gary Larson pull out Betty

    It won’t post, but it’s the Gary Larson Far Side comic of a mosquito swelling up when it hit an artery.

    #137541
    zerosum
    Participant

    New Video Of Missile Strike On Chongar Bridge Released


    New Video Of Missile Strike On Chongar Bridge Released
    The moment of the “fly-in” was caught on CCTV.

    22.06.2023

    #137542
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @JohnDay

    I am unable to decipher the metaphor “black hole of discovery” , and only reading the introduction. Was the book itself unavailable, or did the introduction induce you to not read the book?

    #137543
    John Day
    Participant

    Yellen tries to walk back Biden’s “dictator” comment about Xi, which is potentially even more-insulting by saying that “dictator” Xi was misinformed/out-of-the-loop in his own country.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/yellen-tries-walk-back-bidens-dictator-remarks-says-critical-work-china

    #137544
    John Day
    Participant

    @DBS: “Black Hole of Discovery” was to be illustrated byt the Gary Larson cartoon of the swelling red mosquito. “Pull out Betty! You hit an artery.”
    I am a thoughtful reader, and the introduction alone ate well over an hour of my precious and very limited human life.
    I dread how long it may take me to read and digest the Oera Linda Book. I have forwarded to a friend who I know to be so-inclined, already.
    I feel like cursing you for this gift, which will demand so much of my conscious attention.

    I read The Art Of War while traveling through India with my family in 2005, on our 9 month bike/backpack trek around the planet. We sold the house and cars and traveled like college students, Mom, Dad and 4 teenagers
    “Pull Out, Betty! You hit an Artery!”

    #137545
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @JohnDay

    Ah, yes, gifts have a way of being like that. It’s similar to the old saw about, “Be careful what you wish for because you just might get it.”

    Oera Linda is encapsulated very nicely in this interview of Jan Ott (it’s most recent and diligent translator) by none other than my favorite little old lady Catherine Austin Fitts [ https://youtu.be/0Lo8bZIacgA ].

    I wish I could let you off the hook and just let you martial your time in peace, but the inescapable implication of the book’s existence and content is that we have a lot catch-up reading to do about this History of Earth thing that more and more people are starting to argue about. Apparently civilizational history is exponentially longer, and considerably DIFFERENT than Academia and the average Department of Education (among others) would have us believe.

    #137546
    WES
    Participant

    Since more Ukrainian soldiers are trying to surrender, the Ukrainian Nazis have been secretly sewing into the clothes of their conscripted cannon folder, GPS beacons so they can shell and kill them after they surrender to the Russians. Evil has no bounds.

    #137547
    zerosum
    Participant

    Lots of pictures of life in pitch dark, at +400 atmosphere, near freezing, on the Titanic.

    BING HELP
    . The ship lies at a depth of about 3,800 meters (12,467 feet) in the North Atlantic Ocean2. At that depth, the pressure is about 380 atmospheres and the temperature is around 1°C (34°F)3. There is no sunlight and very little oxygen. The only life forms that can survive in such harsh conditions are some bacteria and microorganisms.

    #137548
    kultsommer
    Participant

    That’s why “Trotsky cartoon” was drawn in 1934:

    #137550
    jb-hb
    Participant

    The sub was controlled by a Logitech G F710 Wireless Gamepad

    Always, always read the 1 star reviews…

    I’ve had this controller for years, I love everything about it except for the most important feature: functionality. It frequently loses connection and loses input control. For example, you might be pressing right on one of the thumb directional pads, and even if you let go, it’s still sending “right” to your computer. It happens all the time. I’ve put in new batteries, I’ve moved the USB receiver to different ports, I’ve moved the USB receiver to the front of my desktop, and I’ve moved the USB receiver to my G19 keyboard right in front of me. If I’m 2′ away one moment, then move to 3′ away, it can lose connection or get stuck sending button presses. Really F’ing Annoying.

    I’ve been using the controller for a little over a month now and it keeps randomly losing connection. Often it loses inputs or just gets stuck at for example left or right.

    the buttons get stuck and sometimes do not push. the joystick turn you around and doesn’t stop so u end up moving round in circles.

    I own two of these and I regret the purchase. I use this about six feet from the dongle, brand new batteries and these controllers go through cycles of lost connection or stuck connection. That translates to either dead time in a game, or unexpectedly continuing in whatever direction you were pushing for a random amount of time. If you can get a wired then pick one of those up

    #137551
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Is RFK Jr on the Zelensky hit list? Is Ukraine wanting to have him assassinated? Why is the USA supporting a country that is wanting to murder one of their POTUS candidates?

    #137552
    Celticbiker
    Participant

    Step back from the separate stories…ukraine, sub marines, biden, wheather balloons, trump etc. Like different channels on talmudivision, you are being entertained, from comedey to tragedy while you are being robbed blind and your countries destroyed. Why do think all of your factories are now in china?They’re on the same team. Why do you think every country in the world injected the jewjuice into their people? Same team. You’re being set up, for the kill, but staring at the shadows on the cave wall.

    #137553
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    Somebody shut this bloated liar, please. “jewjuice” is getting really close to ye olde blood libel.

    Silence when some creep smears his excrement on this discussion forum connotes approval to those reading. I clean up my dogshit when I take it on walks. It’s my neighborhood. I share it with my neighbors. It’s an investment in basic common decency. Same principle here.

    While some here waste words psychoanalyzing whether I’m a toxic narcissist, no one takes jerks like celticibiker to task.

    It’s not a flattering portrait. But there’s light at the end of this cloaca: keep it up and I’ll be unable to countenance even reading these comments much less contributing. You can get rid of me by accepting jackwads like celticbiker. Winning, right!

    #137554
    zerosum
    Participant

    Controls are being created for AI

    Here is what my AI said on my question

    list regulatory rules for AI

    Sent message. list regulatory rules for AI
    Searching for: regulatory rules for AI

    Searching for: regulatory rules for AI

    Generating answers for you…

    Generating answers for you…

    The current web page context is empty, so I cannot use it to answer your request. However, I can provide you with some information from web search results.

    Regulatory rules for AI are rules or guidelines that aim to ensure the effective and ethical use of AI systems in various domains and applications. Different countries and regions have different approaches and frameworks for regulating AI, depending on their values, ethics, and laws.

    Some examples of regulatory rules for AI are:

    The EU AI Act: This is a proposal by the European Commission for the first EU regulatory framework for AI. It classifies AI systems according to the risk they pose to users and imposes different levels of regulation accordingly1.
    The Directive on Automated Decision-Making: This is a directive by the Government of Canada that governs how automated decision systems are used in government programs and services. It is based on principles such as transparency, accountability, and fairness2.
    The Algorithmic Accountability Act: This is a bill introduced in the U.S. Congress that would require companies to conduct impact assessments for high-risk AI systems that involve personal information, such as credit scoring, hiring, or health care3.
    These are just some examples of regulatory rules for AI that are currently in place or under development. As AI technologies become more widespread and powerful, more regulation may be needed to ensure their responsible and trustworthy use.

    Received message. The current web page context is empty, so I cannot use it to answer your request. However, I can provide you with some information from web search results. Regulatory rules for AI are rules or guidelines that aim to ensure the effective and ethical use of AI systems in various domains and applications. Different countries and regions have different approaches and frameworks for regulating AI, depending on their values, ethics, and laws. Some examples of regulatory rules for AI are: – The EU AI Act: This is a proposal by the European Commission for the first EU regulatory framework for AI. It classifies AI systems according to the risk they pose to users and imposes different levels of regulation accordingly. – The Directive on Automated Decision-Making: This is a directive by the Government of Canada that governs how automated decision systems are used in government programs and services. It is based on principles such as transparency, accountability, and fairness. – The Algorithmic Accountability Act: This is a bill introduced in the U.S. Congress that would require companies to conduct impact assessments for high-risk AI systems that involve personal information, such as credit scoring, hiring, or health care. These are just some examples of regulatory rules for AI that are currently in place or under development. As AI technologies become more widespread and powerful, more regulation may be needed to ensure their responsible and trustworthy use.
    Learn more:
    1. europarl.europa.eu
    2. canada.ca
    3. alston.com
    4. hbr.org
    5. hbr.org
    (YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE)

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