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René Magritte The voice of blood 1948

 

Ceasefire and Peace Talks Should Be Focus of NATO Summit (CD)
NATO Summit, a Theater of the Absurd (Scott Ritter)
Understanding The NATO Summit (Kim Dotcom)
Stoltenberg: No Point in Discussing NATO Membership if Kiev Loses (Sp.)
Should Ukraine Join NATO? Don’t Kid Yourself: It Already Has (Tracey)
China Warns Against NATO Expansion Into Asia-Pacific (RT)
Ukraine Lost 26,000 Troops and 3,000 Arms In Counteroffensive – Shoigu (Sp.)
Trump Slams Biden Over Cluster Bombs For Ukraine (RT)
NATO Neck Deep In Ukraine Conflict Due To Weapons Pipeline – Zakharova (TASS)
Underestimate Russia at Your Own Risk (NC)
US Trying To Use Foreign Mercenaries To Plug Gaps In Ukraine (Marsden)
The Blob Begins to Quiver (Kunstler)
Judge Refuses Hold On Order Limiting Admin Contact With Social Media (AP)
The Truth About Bidenomics: More Debt, More Inflation (Lacalle)
Putin Issues Warning About US Banking System (RT)

 

 

 

 

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“..It does not have the right to encourage escalation of a war where there will be no winners.”

Ceasefire and Peace Talks Should Be Focus of NATO Summit (CD)

The start of NATO’s annual summit in Vilnius, Lithuania on Tuesday has been dominated by talk of maintaining the flow of weapons to Ukraine and potentially expanding the Western military alliance to include the war-ravaged nation as its conflict with invading Russian forces drags on. But anti-war campaigners argued that approach is a recipe for a prolonged and possibly larger military conflict, one that could ultimately involve nuclear weapons. Lindsey German, a founding member and convenor of the United Kingdom-based Stop the War Coalition, wrote Monday ahead of the two-day summit that “a ceasefire and peace talks are the only means to end this bloody spiral,” warning a primary focus on weaponry and NATO expansion would signal that “Western powers are preparing for an even greater war.”

The alternative to serious peace negotiations, German wrote, is that the war “grinds on, with battles such as Bakhmut increasingly resembling those of the First World War. And that further ‘red lines’ are crossed—more cruise missiles, more cluster bombs. And then what? Tactical nuclear weapons?” “While Ukraine has every right to defend itself from the invasion and war with Russia, it does not have the right to demand weapons which even the British government has said it will not send,” German added, referring to cluster munitions—weapons that the U.S. is preparing to send Ukraine. “It does not have the right to encourage escalation of a war where there will be no winners.” “A ceasefire and peace talks are the only means to end this bloody spiral.”

NATO leaders gathered in Lithuania for the 2023 summit are reportedly expected to issue a statement pledging to “extend an invitation” to Ukraine to join the military alliance once “allies agree and conditions are met,” offering no specific timeline. U.S. President Joe Biden endorsed the draft communique on Tuesday. But Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who is in attendance at the NATO summit, criticized the available details of the document, saying it “seems there is no readiness neither to invite Ukraine to NATO nor to make it a member of the alliance.”

Ukraine’s push to join NATO was recently backed by dozens of “foreign policy experts,” many of whom work for organizations that receive funding from weapons companies and industry lobbyists. Eli Clifton of Responsible Statecraft reported that 21 of the 46 signatories to a new open letter supporting Ukraine’s NATO bid “are associated with institutions with financial ties to the weapons industry, an industry that presumably stands to benefit from the policy recommendations laid out in a letter that had a particular focus on providing more Western weapons to Ukraine, a fact not shared with readers.”

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NATO Summit, a Theater of the Absurd (Scott Ritter)

NATO had placed high hopes on the Ukrainian army being able to carry out a counteroffensive against Russia which would achieve discernable results both in terms of territory re-captured and casualties inflicted on the Russian army. The results, however, have been dismal to date — tens of thousands of Ukrainian casualties and thousands of destroyed vehicles while failing to breach even the first line of the Russian defenses. One of the challenges NATO will face in Vilnius is the question of how to recover from this setback. Many NATO countries are starting to exhibit “Ukraine fatigue” as they see their armories stripped bare and their coffers emptied in what, by every measurement, appears to be a losing cause.

The scope and scale of the Ukrainian military defeat is such that the focus of many NATO members appears to be shifting from the unrealistic goal of strategically defeating Russia to a more realistic objective of bringing about a cessation to the conflict that preserves Ukraine as a viable nation state. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will attend the NATO summit. However, his demands for NATO membership will not be met — U.S. President Joe Biden himself has weighed in on the matter, saying this would not be possible while Ukraine is at war with Russia. There will be face-saving gestures from NATO, such as the creation of a NATO-Ukraine Council and talk of eventual post-conflict security guarantees.

But the reality is Zelensky’s presence will do Ukraine more harm than good, since it will only accentuate the internal disagreement within NATO on the issue of Ukrainian membership and highlight NATO’s impotence when it comes to doing anything that can meaningfully alter the current trajectory on the battlefield, which is heading toward a strategic defeat for both Ukraine and NATO. The vision of the Madrid summit was that of NATO capitalizing on its strategic victory against Russia to further expand its ranks in Europe (both Finland and Sweden were invited), and to push its influence into the Pacific Ocean. While NATO’s Pacific partners (Australia, New Zealand, Japan and South Korea) have been invited to Vilnius, the hopes that their presence would coincide with the announcement of the opening of a NATO liaison office in Japan have been quashed by France, which objects to an alliance ostensibly focused on North Atlantic security becoming involved in the Pacific.

A Scott Ritter Investigation: Agent Zelensky – Part 1

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“NATO has lost this war. Biden has lost this war. The lunatic Democrats have lost this war. The uni-party warmongers have lost this war. The EU has lost this war. Ukraine and Zelensky have lost this war.”

Understanding The NATO Summit (Kim Dotcom)

:The steam for the US proxy war in Ukraine is running out. No commitment is given to Ukraine to obtain NATO membership because the West has come to realize that they can’t win a war against Russia and that peace will only be possible with a neutral Ukraine. Ukraine will never be a member of NATO. Zelenskyy has realized this and is fuming in Vilnius, attacking NATO as disrespectful and calling the conditions absurd. In a moment of clarity he acknowledged what’s really going on: “It seems there is no readiness neither to invite Ukraine to NATO nor to make it a member of the Alliance. This means a window of opportunity is being left to bargain Ukraine’s membership in NATO in negotiations with Russia.”

That’s exactly right. NATO has lost this war. Biden has lost this war. The lunatic Democrats have lost this war. The uni-party warmongers have lost this war. The EU has lost this war. Ukraine and Zelensky have lost this war. Russia wins and rightfully so because everything that happened in Ukraine was a fraud against the Ukrainian people perpetrated by a failing US empire in its final stand against a rising multipolar world. Zelenskyy was never a leader who did what’s best for his people. He will be remembered as a US puppet and actor for foreign interests. 350,000 Ukrainians dead because of him and his puppet masters in the US. He lost $12.7 trillion worth of land and resources to Russia because he did not sign the reasonable peace agreement that Russia had proposed to him.

Instead he fell for empty promises from Biden that the US will support Ukraine until victory. What a fool. The good news is this war may be over soon. The West has lost its appetite to throw more money into the Ukrainian black hole. With the US and EU entering recession they have enough problems at home. Protests and riots will become regular news. Biden wouldn’t stand a chance in the next election. His brain is Swiss cheese and the only alternative for the Democrats is Kennedy. Trump will use the fatal mistake in Ukraine and the dire economic outlook of the US to run a successful campaign. Kennedy, who says all the right things, would be his only real obstacle but the Democrats have messed their country up so royally that Trump seems like the only choice.

The reality is that it doesn’t matter who the next US president is. The insurmountable debt burden combined with de-dollarization in global trade and the rise of BRICS+ are going to send the US into a decade long depression with unseen levels of poverty and violence. Hopefully humanity dodged a bullet and nuclear war is no longer imminent. At least that is my read of the situation right now. But things could flare up again if peace negotiations fail. Russia may be tempted to take Odessa and turn Ukraine into rump state without access to the sea. Russia is holding all the cards. Let’s see how Putin plays them.

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Does anyone doubt it will?

Stoltenberg: No Point in Discussing NATO Membership if Kiev Loses (Sp.)

NATO summit kicked off on Tuesday with the focus on Ukraine possible invitation to the alliance. Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg stressed that the Eastern European state would join the bloc when all member states agree on it and if it meets all the conditions. There is no point in discussing Ukraine’s NATO membership if Kiev does not prevail in the ongoing conflict, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Tuesday. “I think all allies agree that when a war is going on that’s not the time for making the Ukraine the full member of the alliance,” he stressed. “We also made clear that we will issue an invitation for Ukraine to join NATO when allies agree and conditions are met,” Stoltenberg told a press conference. The secretary general also said that the procedure does not have a specific time frame.

In the final communiqué, NATO members confirmed that they see Ukraine in the alliance in the future. “We fully support Ukraine’s right to choose its own security arrangements,” the document says. “Ukraine’s future is in NATO. We reaffirm the commitment we made at the 2008 Summit in Bucharest that Ukraine will become a member of NATO, and today we recognise that Ukraine’s path to full Euro-Atlantic integration has moved beyond the need for the Membership Action Plan.” Per the NATO communiqué, Ukraine has become increasingly interoperable and politically integrated with the transatlantic alliance and “made substantial progress on its reform path.” The alliance particularly referred to the 1997 Charter on a Distinctive Partnership between NATO and Ukraine and the 2009 Complement, stressing that NATO member states will continue to support and review Ukraine’s “progress on interoperability” and “additional democratic and security sector reforms that are required.”

“NATO Foreign Ministers will regularly assess progress through the adapted Annual National Programme. The Alliance will support Ukraine in making these reforms on its path towards future membership. We will be in a position to extend an invitation to Ukraine to join the Alliance when Allies agree and conditions are met,” the document reads. The bloc has announced the establishment of the NATO-Ukraine Council, a new joint body where NATO member states and Ukraine would sit as “equal members” to advance political dialogue, cooperation and “Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic aspirations for membership in the alliance.” sStill, the Kiev leadership is seeking admission to NATO in an expedited manner insisting that no other decision will suit Ukraine. On the opening day of the NATO summit in Vilnius, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky tweeted that it is “absurd” that there is no time frame for inviting Ukraine to the alliance.

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“..who needs the bother of formal NATO membership anyway, when you can sneak in through the back door?”

Should Ukraine Join NATO? Don’t Kid Yourself: It Already Has (Tracey)

As NATO members gather in Lithuania this week with traditional Eastern European fanfare, the chief focus of their deliberations is whether to extend formal membership to Ukraine amid the ongoing war. But the question of whether Ukraine officially joins NATO may have turned into something of a red herring. The truth is Ukraine has already been unofficially incorporated into NATO. As University of Chicago international relations professor Paul Poast, a passionate advocate for NATO’s swift admittance of Ukraine, aptly put it, “NATO has already expanded into the war zone. The allies should just acknowledge that reality.”

A year and a half into the war, it can hardly be denied that NATO forces have gained substantially more than the mere “foothold” in Ukraine that Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed to have launched his invasion of Ukraine to preempt. With the U.S. effectively assuming financial, material, political, strategic, and operational dominion over Ukrainian state warfare, the “foothold” has turned into a heavily-fortified bridgehead. Rockets lobbed at Russian troop positions are ultimately the product of U.S. commanders “controlling every shot,” as Ukrainian officials have occasionally acknowledged. A great deal of American engineering ingenuity is currently being harnessed to pulverize Russians. But as Putin is keenly aware, much of this U.S. and NATO “infrastructure” had been well-established long before any invasion was launched.

For example, exactly two years earlier to the day of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, on February 24, 2020, the nascent government of Volodmyr Zelensky decreed what was hailed as being Ukraine’s first “comprehensive and systematic” framework to achieve “the full Euro-Atlantic integration of the state” with particular emphasis on “deepening cooperation with NATO.” Almost exactly one year before that, in February 2019, an amendment to the Ukrainian Constitution was passed proclaiming that it was a non-negotiable national priority for Ukraine to pursue “full-fledged” NATO membership at the earliest possible opportunity. By June of 2019, Ukraine received an unusual prize: certification for one of its more seasoned Special Forces units to join the “NATO Response Force,” a specialized “rapid deployment” alliance formation which had been nurtured to life in 2002 by the famously foresighted Donald Rumsfeld. The summer before the invasion started, U.S. and Ukraine special forces convened their largest-ever joint “multinational maritime exercise” in the Black Sea.

Given all of this, who needs the bother of formal NATO membership anyway, when you can sneak in through the back door? Steady incremental assimilation seems like much less of a headache than the customary slog of conventional ratification. And then when the question of full membership does arise, proponents have been handed an argument on a platter: With NATO irreversibly entrenched in Ukraine already, it may as well just dispense with the niceties and go all the way. Oleksii Reznikov, the Ukrainian Defense Minister, is fond of declaring that Ukraine has already “de facto joined the Alliance,” given the massive surge in joint war-planning activity. And no existing alliance member seemed compelled to dispute Reznikov’s characterization—which is perfectly intuitive, given that Ukraine has been furnished over the past year and a half with what is essentially a brand new military, conveniently up to NATO specifications fresh out the box.

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“They also accused Beijing of posing “cyber, space, hybrid and other asymmetric threats,” and of engaging in “the malicious use of emerging and disruptive technologies.”

China Warns Against NATO Expansion Into Asia-Pacific (RT)

The Chinese government has urged NATO not to expand into the Asia-Pacific, warning that it would retaliate to any increased Western military presence in the region after the alliance criticized Beijing during its summit in Lithuania. China’s Mission to the European Union issued a statement on Tuesday in response to NATO’s joint communique, which accused Beijing of pursuing “coercive policies” that “challenge” Western interests. “The China-related content of the communique disregards basic facts, wantonly distorts China’s position and policies, and deliberately discredits China. We firmly oppose and reject this,” the Chinese diplomats said. The statement went on to pledge that Beijing would “safeguard its sovereignty” and oppose “NATO’s eastward expansion into the Asia-Pacific.”

It added that “any actions that damage China’s legitimate rights and interests will be met with a resolute response.” Leaders of the Western military alliance met on Tuesday in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, to discuss additional aid to Ukraine, among other matters. They also accused Beijing of posing “cyber, space, hybrid and other asymmetric threats,” and of engaging in “the malicious use of emerging and disruptive technologies.” The Chinese EU mission argued that NATO had failed to reflect on its own responsibilities, and instead “blindly blames other countries, keeps meddling in extraterritorial affairs [and] creates confrontation.”

It added that the bloc’s “ambitions for expansion and hegemony are obvious,” and warned that its status as a “nuclear alliance” would only “further aggravate regional tensions.” The statement comes after Chinese officials warned against the opening of a NATO liaison office in Japan, which would mark the bloc’s first facility in Asia. Though Tokyo indicated it was considering the idea, France has reportedly shot down the project, insisting NATO should remain confined to the North Atlantic. The relations between the US and China have deteriorated significantly in recent years, with countries clashing over Taiwan, global trade, and human rights.

Beijing’s remarks on NATO’s expansion echo previous criticisms from Moscow, which has repeatedly decried the alliance’s gradual expansion eastward in recent decades, and stressed that it considers Western military sites close to its borders a threat to national security. NATO has rejected these claims, insisting that the supply of heavy weapons to Ukraine does not make the alliance a party to the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Kiev had hoped it would be offered a clear path to NATO membership at the Vilnius summit on Tuesday, but was disappointed after the alliance reiterated its prior promises to admit Ukraine as a member at some point in the future, after its armed conflict with Russia is resolved.

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“We know that the results of our combat work are carefully monitored and analyzed by foreign intelligence services..”

Ukraine Lost 26,000 Troops and 3,000 Arms In Counteroffensive – Shoigu (Sp.)

Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu reported about the situation in special military operation zone. Shoigu stressed that Kiev failed to achieve its goals in all directions and lost roughly 26 thousands of troops and 3 thousands of military equipment. “To sum up some results, what did they achieve for this widely promoted and announced, as they called it, strategic counteroffensive. As a result, what have they got approaching the NATO summit? Since June 4, the enemy’s losses have amounted to more than 26,000 military and 3,000 units of various weapons,” Defense Minister stressed. Russian army decimated 21 Ukrainian aircraft, 5 helicopters, over 1200 tanks and other armored vehicles, including 17 Leopards.

He stressed that Kiev continues to unsuccessfully try to break through the defense of the Russian military in different directions, and several waves of attacks have been launched in two days, the minister said. “They are actively fighting, trying to break through our defenses in different directions. Just over the past two days, several waves of attacks have been launched,” the minister said. High-precision strikes of the Russian military against the reserves of the Ukrainian military, including Western equipment, significantly reduce the offensive potential of the enemy, the minister concluded. Shoigu stressed that should the US supply Ukraine with cluster munitions, the Russian Armed Forces would use similar arms against Kiev militants. Sergey Shoigu added that the Russian Armed Forces launched its own counterattack in Krasny Liman direction and advanced 1.5 km.

The intelligence services of the United States and other NATO countries carefully monitor and analyze the results of the combat work of the Russian military, Shoigu stressed. “We know that the results of our combat work are carefully monitored and analyzed by foreign intelligence services, primarily the United States and NATO countries,” Shoigu said. Western intelligence agencies note the high efficiency of the defense of the Russian armed forces, minefields, preemptive airstrikes, as well as the highest resilience of the Russian military and the prompt response measures of commanders, the minister concluded. Russian President Vladimir Putin carefully monitors the situation – he is is briefed twice a day by the command of the Combined Group, as well as individual commanders with detailed reports on the current situation of the special military operation, Shoigu said.

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“Joe Biden is needlessly and dangerously leading us into World War three, which would be a nightmare beyond imagination—obliteration!”

Trump Slams Biden Over Cluster Bombs For Ukraine (RT)

In sending Kiev cluster bombs, the US government is “dragging us further toward World War Three,” former US president Donald Trump warned on Tuesday. President Joe Biden “should be trying to end the war and stop the horrific death and destruction being caused by an incompetent administration,” Trump said in a statement posted on his Truth Social platform. The 45th US president objected to the use of cluster munitions on both humanitarian and strategic grounds, pointing to the fact that unexploded ordnance “will be killing and maiming innocent Ukrainian men, women, and children for decades to come,” long after the war has ended.

Trump also called out Biden’s statement, made in an interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria over the weekend, that cluster munitions were being sent because the US has run out of conventional 155mm artillery shells. If true, Trump retorted, this “only further emphasizes the urgency of immediately deescalating this bloody, dangerous, and out of control conflict.” “It certainly means we should not be sending Ukraine our last stockpiles at a time when our own arsenals, according to Crooked Joe Biden, are so perilously diminished,” the former president added, arguing that Biden’s policy of “endless war” in Ukraine has “tremendously weakened” the US.

“Joe Biden is needlessly and dangerously leading us into World War three, which would be a nightmare beyond imagination—obliteration!” Trump said. Trump, who currently leads the polls for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, vowed to achieve “peace through strength” once he returns to office after the next election. The White House announced last week it would send dual-purpose improved conventional munitions (DPICM) artillery shells to Ukraine. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Colin Kahl told reporters that the danger the munitions, which are banned in over 100 countries, pose to civilians was diminished because a Russian victory in the conflict would be far worse. He also accused Russia of having used the weapons in Ukraine.

Moscow has denied the US allegations. Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said on Tuesday that if any US cluster munitions make it to Ukraine, the Russian military will respond with equivalent weapons of its own that are “much more effective” and “diverse.” The US offer of cluster munitions has been condemned by the UN, NATO allies such as the UK, Canada and Spain, as well as members of Biden’s own party in the US House of Representatives. “Either cluster bombs are bad, or they are not bad. You can’t determine the value of a cluster bomb based on who’s being blown up by it,” comedian and podcast host Russell Brand said on Tuesday.

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“It is NATO that has pushed the Kiev regime this far..”

NATO Neck Deep In Ukraine Conflict Due To Weapons Pipeline – Zakharova (TASS)

NATO is deeply involved in the conflict in Ukraine through the bloc’s provision of weapons, mercenaries, funds and intelligence to Ukraine, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in an interview with Qatar’s Al Jazeera television. “Do you really think that NATO is not at war with Russia? In fact, it’s NATO that provides all of the weapons, fighters, mercenaries, instructors, advisors and intelligence data to the Kiev regime. NATO is definitely involved in these military activities; there is no doubt about it. It is NATO that has pushed the Kiev regime this far,” she noted.


On February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a special military operation based on a request from the heads of the Donbass republics amid escalating tensions in the region, with the authorities in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) and Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR) reporting some of the heaviest Ukrainian shelling up to that time. In response, the West imposed major sanctions on Russia. In addition, Western countries started to provide weapons and military equipment to Kiev, the aggregate value of which is currently estimated in the billions of dollars. However, the Kiev authorities have repeatedly demanded that Ukrainian forces be provided with yet more weapons and more advanced equipment, long-range missiles and aircraft.

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Operation Barbarossa.

Underestimate Russia at Your Own Risk (NC)

In honor of the NATO summit July 11 and 12, this is a comparison of how the Nazi leadership in World War Two and today’s collective West similarly underestimated Russia and overestimated their capabilities. Despite Russia’s overwhelming upper hand in Ukraine, Western officials and media continue to largely pump sunshine and weave stories of Russian collapse. There are increasing breaks in the fever, and it looks like maybe, hopefully the acceptance of the loss is gaining traction in Washington. Meanwhile, the unwillingness or inability for hardliners to objectively assess efforts against Russia occurs today just as it did during Operation Barbarossa. As Seymour Hersh writes:

“There is an enormous gap between the way the professionals in the American intelligence community assess the situation and what the White House and the supine Washington press project to the public by uncritically reproducing the statements of Blinken and his hawkish cohorts.” This too is reminiscent of the Nazi offensive against the Soviet Union when the failure was hidden from the German public. Adding to the similarities is the fact that both the Third Reich command and today’s officials in the West simultaneously downplay Russia’s military capabilities while endlessly hyping the threat from Moscow. Hitler, similar to so many Western “experts” and officials today, mocked Russia’s supposed backwardness while also hyping the threat “Slavic Bolshevism” posed to the West.

The progression of his comments show him seesawing between a reluctant acceptance and desperate hope as his miscalculations of Russia slowly dawn on him. It’s a path today’s governments in the West are still discovering. On the other hand, Goebbel’s diary entries are faster to admit that Operation Barbarossa was a disaster. Prior to the operation, he writes how there is no way the USSR could hope to oppose “the strongest army in all of history” and adds that “I consider the Russian military force to be very weak, even weaker than the Fuhrer believes. If anything is a sure thing, it is this.”

Indeed, German high command anticipated a quick collapse of Soviet resistance along the lines of the Blitzkrieg in Poland, but within a few weeks of the launch of the German offensive, it’s clear that Berlin underestimated the Russians. And the winter of 1941-42 saw the Nazi war machine stopped 12 miles short of Moscow and then driven back. It was all downhill from there. Despite evidence that Russian resistance was much more capable than anticipated, Hitler continues to talk of Russian inferiority and a breakup of the country for months before a realization of the situation begins to set in. Read in tandem with Goebbels’ more honest diary entries, it calls to mind today’s battle within the Blob between the realists and anti-Russian fanatics.

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“You’d think he’d have taken an offramp at that point. Nope, not Rambo here.”

US Trying To Use Foreign Mercenaries To Plug Gaps In Ukraine (Marsden)

Western mercenaries from countries other than the US are dying for Washington’s interests while President Joe Biden warns Americans themselves to stay away. Most of the foreign mercenaries in Ukraine at this point aren’t American, according to Russia’s Channel One news. It’s actually Poland and Canada that lead the charge, with the US coming in third. And now reports are starting to emerge of US intelligence attempting to fill the void with even more foreign recruits to fight for US interests against Russia in Ukraine. The Russian Ministry of Defense estimates that about 2,000 of the approximately 7,000 ‘volunteers’ have been killed. Recent reporting reveals a troubling trend among Western mercenary deaths: combatants whose military experience is virtually non-existent.

Presumably it all looked like good Hollywood action hero fun from afar — until the bullets started whizzing by. In a story published in May about two Canadian mercenaries who volunteered for Ukraine’s “International Legion” and were killed in the Artyomovsk (named Bakhmut by Ukraine) battle, the CBC revealed that one had previously served in the Canadian Forces as a medic and had been photographed working in search and rescue in Kharkov. Kyle Porter, a 27-year old from Calgary, had been in touch with Canada’s state broadcaster. “Let me figure out how I am going to survive the next few days,” he wrote. “It was a meat grinder the first time and I’m not expecting it any better this time around.” You’d think he’d have taken an offramp at that point. Nope, not Rambo here.

The question that everyone should be asking is how on earth Canadians, whose combat experience amounts to administering band-aids and applying tourniquets, could subsequently end up serving on the front lines — all while the Canadian government seemingly just shrugs. We’re talking here about a government that legislated zero-risk against overwhelmingly survivable Covid, but now can’t even be bothered to save unprepared Canadians from a much more likely death in Ukraine. Last May, the CBC reported on yet another Canadian veteran, identified only as “Shadow,” describing how he and his colleagues had repeatedly come under fire in the Donbas.

While “Shadow” might seem like a code name for a main character in a Hollywood movie about a badass who goes around single-handedly meting out justice, in reality he’s a meteorological technician who “experienced combat for the first time as a volunteer in Ukraine,” according to the report. The weather guy probably shouldn’t be placed in a position to be “blown out of their sniper’s nest by a shell.” For all his weather expertise, Shadow doesn’t seem to be too well-versed in grand chess geopolitics either. “If NATO had stepped in, the war would have been done in like less than a week, but because everyone sat back and watched, well, we are seeing all those civilians dying,” he told the CBC. Actually, direct NATO military confrontation with Russia would have resulted in World War III, and probably a few more civilian deaths than Shadow imagines.

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“..the US reduced in a few short years to a broke, socially disordered, marginalized power susceptible to its own political breakup..”

The Blob Begins to Quiver (Kunstler)

One likely, reality-based alternative is to stand by and let Russia complete its Special Military Operation to pacify and neutralize Ukraine. The prevailing theory is that this would be the end of America’s world dominance militarily, and effectively the end of NATO, but also the end financially for the US, as the non-West abandons the dollar. In that scenario, the BRICs dump their trillions in US bond holdings, sending all that putative “money” back to America, stoking a king-hell inflation, effectively bankrupting us. It would be the final fruit of the disastrous “Joe Biden” regime imposed on us via election fraud by the Blob: the US reduced in a few short years to a broke, socially disordered, marginalized power susceptible to its own political breakup — not a tantalizing outcome, but perhaps better than turning the planet Earth into a smoldering ashtray.

That outcome would force our country to turn inward and face its own stupendous failures of honor, decency, and integrity. It would be the end of the Blob’s hegemony inside the USA. The question is whether the Blob sets America’s house on fire in the attempt to save itself and escape a legal accounting for its crimes. One kindling stack already burning is the pile-up of jive prosecutions aimed at Mr. Trump. You know that the attempt to kick him off the game-board using Special Counsel Jack Smith may easily lead to severe civil disorder, and possibly a counter-coup, a US first!

The current Mar-a-Lago “Doc Box” case is as much a complete fabrication as were RussiaGate and Impeachment Number One — Mr. Trump’s telephone inquiry to Ukraine about the Biden family grifting operations there, now firmly documented to be true. An upright judge would summarily dismiss the Mar-a-Lago case and slam sanctions on the US attorneys involved, including disbarment and criminal investigation for mounting a maliciously fraudulent prosecution. AG Merrick Garland and his deputy, Lisa Monaco, obviously would have some ‘splainin’ to do, possibly before juries.

A long list of public figures populating the Blob await a reckoning: Hillary and Bill Clinton and their retainers, Barack Obama and retinue, John Brennan, James Clapper, James Comey, Christopher Wray (plus Rosenstein, Strzok, McCabe, Carlin, Ohr, Mueller, Weissmann, Horowitz, Atkinson, Ciaramella, Vindman), Rep. Adam Schiff, Senator Mark Warner, William Barr, Avril Haines, Marie Yovanovitch, William Burns, James Boasberg, Marc Elias, Michael Bromwich, David Laufman, Alejandro Mayorkas, Xavier Baccerra, Anthony Fauci, Rochelle Walensky, Francis Collins, Lloyd Austin. Mark Milley, Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, Ron Klain, Nancy Pelosi, Liz Cheney… the list goes way on, but there’s a start.

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“COVID-19 vaccines, legal issues involving President Joe Biden’s son Hunter and election fraud allegations were among the topics spotlighted in the lawsuit..“

Judge Refuses Hold On Order Limiting Admin Contact With Social Media (AP)

The Biden administration asked a federal appeals court Monday to temporarily block a lower court’s order limiting executive branch officials’ discussions with social media companies about controversial online posts. The request for an emergency stay was filed at the 5th U.S. District Court of Appeals shortly after U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty rejected an administration motion that he put his own July 4 order on hold. The order came in a lawsuit filed by Republican attorneys general in Louisiana and Missouri, as well as a conservative website owner and four individual critics of government COVID-19 policies. The lawsuit claimed the administration, in effect, censored free speech by using threats of regulatory action or protection while pressuring companies to remove what it deemed misinformation.

COVID-19 vaccines, legal issues involving President Joe Biden’s son Hunter and election fraud allegations were among the topics spotlighted in the lawsuit. Doughty was nominated to the federal bench by former President Donald Trump. His injunction blocked the Department of Health and Human Services, the FBI and multiple other government agencies and administration officials from meeting with or contacting social media companies for the purpose of “encouraging, pressuring, or inducing in any manner the removal, deletion, suppression, or reduction of content containing protected free speech.” Administration attorneys said in the motion filed at the 5th Circuit that Doughty’s ruling was too broad and vague, and had the potential to chill government officials’ speech on important matters.

And they said Doughty failed to point to any evidence that the administration had made threats against social media companies to coerce them to take down posts. “The district court identified no evidence suggesting that a threat accompanied any request for the removal of content. Indeed, the order denying the stay — presumably highlighting the ostensibly strongest evidence — referred to ‘a series of public media statements,’” the administration said. They asked that the 5th Circuit block Doughty’s order while the case is pursued at the appeals court in New Orleans or, at minimum, grant a 10-day block of the order so the administration could prepare to go to the Supreme Court to seek a longer stay.

Earlier Monday, Doughty rejected administration requests that he stay his own order pending appeal. “In essence,” Doughty’s Monday order said, “Defendants argue that the injunction should be stayed because it might interfere with the Government’s ability to continue working with social-media companies to censor Americans’ core political speech on the basis of viewpoint. In other words, the Government seeks a stay of the injunction so that it can continue violating the First Amendment.”

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“..the bottom 40 percent of the income distribution now has liquid assets worth $1,200 less than they did before covid..”

The Truth About Bidenomics: More Debt, More Inflation (Lacalle)

Estimates of United States growth have improved but remain massively below the Federal Reserve projections. After the largest monetary and fiscal stimulus in recent years, growth remains well below trend, and debt is significantly higher. It is interesting to hear Janet Yellen say that “trickle-down economics did not work” when this is the failed trickle-down: massive government deficit spending leads to negative real wage growth and weaker GDP.Current consensus real GDP growth for 4Q23 stands at 0.2 percent, significantly lower than the median projection of one percent in the FOMC’s June Summary of Economic Projections. The latest figure, for example, shows evidence of headline strength hiding weakness in the details.

New durable-goods orders surged in May, but this headline growth disguised that core capital-goods orders were revised down again. Even if we consider the optimistic assumptions of the Biden administration, which assume a two percent per annum GDP growth until 2032 and 3.8 percent unemployment, the United States federal government deficit would not fall below five percent of GDP even in 2032. That is a deficit that rises from $1.1 trillion in 2023 to $2.01 trillion in 2032, an accumulated deficit between 2023 and 2032 of $15.46 trillion. That is a 106 percent debt to GDP, according to the Biden administration calculations even with very bullish estimates of growth that consider no recession or stagnation in the entire forecast period.

One of the biggest problems of this neo-Keynesian approach to government budgets is that it leaves households with less money in real terms, and the “anti-inflation” measures increase debt and inflation. Take the American Rescue Plan. It was supposed to be the helicopter money solution to the crisis, giving families cash and supporting consumption through the pandemic. Adjusted for inflation, Bloomberg Economics estimates the average household in the bottom 40 percent of the income distribution now has liquid assets worth $1,200 less than they did before covid. You wanted the stimulus check? With printed money? You paid for it multiple times over in higher inflation. The other key policy items of the Biden administration, the Inflation Reduction Act, the CHIPS and Science Act, and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, were created to incentivize aggregate demand and boost investment in areas where the private sector seemed to be underinvesting. However, it was not the case.

The problem is that the government does not have more or better information about the requirements of the real economy, assumes erroneously that the private sector did not invest because of some flaw in the market, and these massive federal expenditure programs generate more inflation as they add artificial demand created with newly printed units of currency to an economy that is already working at full capacity and full employment. Thus, it puts more fuel to the fire of inflation. Bloomberg Economics warns that “If successful, the benefits of these projects will play out in the long term – and other deliverables, like reduced dependence on China and lower carbon emissions, won’t show up directly in the GDP data. In the near term, our view is that the costs in terms of higher inflation and recession risks offset the benefits and may even outweigh them”. Even if we assume a benign view of multiplier effects, the result is that these plans accelerate the risk of a recession by artificially tightening an already strong labor market and putting more pressure on supply chains.

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Andrey Kostin does the warning.

Putin Issues Warning About US Banking System (RT)

The increase in the level of sovereignty and independence of the Russian banking sector has been quite timely, given the negative trends that are growing globally, namely in the US banking system, Russian President Vladimir Putin has stated. Putin was meeting with Andrey Kostin, the CEO of Russia’s second-largest bank, VTB, who assured the president that the country’s banking sector was secure. “Regarding anti-Russia sanctions, we have probably become somewhat immune because of them, and we have enhanced our sovereignty in this field,” Kostin told the Russian leader in Kremlin on Tuesday. “Look at what is now happening in the United States. This is virtually the largest financial and banking crisis since 2008, and it is already spreading to Europe,” the Russian top banker noted, adding “that sanctions against Russia are a double-edged sword.”


By imposing economic restrictions against Moscow, the West has “demolished the global trade system and caused an inflation surge,” while its attempts to resolve this problem by standard methods devalued bank assets, Kostin pointed out. The Russian banking sector is feeling “quite safe,” the VTB chief executive maintained, adding that he believes there won’t be any problems, “although we incurred certain losses last year when our property was simply taken away from us.” Putin, who has previously named economic sovereignty as the country’s top priority, agreed with Kostin, saying: “Perhaps what you have said about raising the level of independence and sovereignty is rather timely, considering greater negative trends in the US banking system.” The Russian president has earlier stated that the country’s economy was successfully withstanding the outside pressure, warning that Western sanctions will have a boomerang effect.

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    René Magritte The voice of blood 1948   • Ceasefire and Peace Talks Should Be Focus of NATO Summit (CD) • NATO Summit, a Theater of the Absurd (S
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle July 12]

    #138885
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “Bernie Sanders’ Medicare-For-All Would Destroy America’s Health-Care”

    Well that can’t be right: Didn’t we how Obamacare radically cut prices due to government control and regulation? Surely M4A will be half as much again.

    “You Won’t Hear This on NPR or NYT”: US Forest Fire Burn Acreage at Decade Lows

    We’re saved! Why isn’t this front page news? No Climate Change, no climate change forest fires. Better than ever. And California with lots and lots of water, Lake Mead filling up, or at least the watershed, and so on.

    So…Now that they got the cluster bombs – the only remaining 155mm shells in NATO (Where’s my money, Brian? Where is it? Where’s my $1Trillion a year?) — they’re moving to talking about nukes and tactical nukes. Slow escalation for a goldfish people with no attention span. No? Then they’re also demanding widely that Ukraine be Article 5, and therefore start a total worldwide nuclear war 5 minutes later. No one in the West has the slightest reaction to this, still busy talking about bathrooms and what they can stick in their butt.

    But first France has 4-5 longer range missiles they want blown up, I guess. Let’s do that first.

    “Ryszard Legutko, (of EU video) is a Polish philosopher and politician, and professor of philosophy at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, specializing in ancient philosophy and political theory.” — Wiki

    “The start of NATO’s annual summit in Vilnius, Lithuania on Tuesday has been dominated by talk of maintaining the flow of weapons to Ukraine and potentially expanding the Western military alliance to include the war-ravaged nation”

    The West is a year late, but they are now partitioning Ukraine. They are floating adding Ukraine to NATO “In pieces”, which is a clear admission they are never getting the Russian parts back, or not in any reasonable, say decade-long timescale. Also they do not care about “Ukraine”? I thought Ukraine was a unified, sovereign state whose borders weren’t open to negotiations? Isn’t that what the whole war was about? But now Ukraine is anything, nothing, just a thing, the sort of thing you can attack Russia with and nevermind Ukraine or 25 Million Ukrainians?

    Note they did not say “the present border Ukraine” which would mean one piece. So they are multi-pieces, for example, the whole Polish West, leaving a “Ukraine” piece at Kiev, a piece under Russian control, as well as possibly a bunch at Romania, Transnistria, etc, as “slicing the salami”. If we add one town of 1,000 to NATO, will you nuke us? No? Then how about 6 towns of 1,000? No? Then how about one town of 6,000? And so on.

    To them, this is a way around “Stable defined borders” and “Countries that are already in a war” clauses of NATO entry, because they’re narcissistic egomaniacs and sociopaths, incapable of thinking like the other guy: NONE OF THAT MATTERS. Because Russia doesn’t care. If NATO moves. One inch to the East. They will nuke us and start WWIII. They don’t care about your stupid salami or where you’re trying to hide it today.

    Nor is this a plan they’ve started sending lawyers to write up. But its existence tells you something about the war and the ongoing situation.

    “NATO has lost this war. Biden has lost this war. The lunatic Democrats have lost this war. The uni-party warmongers have lost this war. The EU has lost this war. Ukraine and Zelensky have lost this war.”

    Yet nothing happens, nobody cares. If this were true, people, something, would CHANGE. Nothing has CHANGED, so they have not lost, they have not admitted it, don’t feel it, and so on. How does that work? We all knew they lost it before it started. NATO gear is garbage, Russia has complete superiority, and can on the outside nuke all of Ukraine to glass at any time. They are also 10x the size of Ukraine with a 0-mile supply chain. It’s impossible to lose. But did that matter 18 months ago? No, they lost long before then, and it didn’t matter, and they still lost today and it doesn’t matter, and they’ve lost their counter-offensive again last night and it doesn’t matter.

    Nothing matters. Nothing will ever matter again. Cause and effect have been permanently suspended. At least for 30 years.

    “The insurmountable debt burden combined with de-dollarization in global trade and the rise of BRICS+ are going to send the US into a decade long depression with unseen levels of poverty and violence.”

    He’s not wrong. There’s going to be pain, and we are going to be humbled. It builds character, which we need a lot of. It also may not be as violent as you think, considering violence barely went up because the long-term averages of violence in the top Democratic cities was so genocidally bad for Black people since the day they got in. Remove that, those few Blue islands and it’s blah. Meth heads robbing your car in Lexington. Harassing your girlfriend. I mean, violent? Yes, it is, they are, but low-level stuff mostly if you’re careful and strong. The kind of hardened, shiftless toughs you’d see in 1910.

    The Money-printing, which leads to the exclusively FIRE, Speculative economy, which once speculative hot money, is divorced from all production, all consumption, all reality, is entirely predictable, although carefully, unusually slow this time. It causes, must cause, this collapse, both in morality first, then the money after.

    But since that’s the disease, REMOVING that money is the cure. So it’s nearly impossible not to get stronger and better because of it. Once divorced from all Reality, the only thing that matters is “The Narrative”, that is, the “Big Lie”. Why? Because once you do this, that’s all there is. There is no real power, strength, projection, or control. Only narrative, words, monkeyshine, sales-jobby, Lies. “Faith and Confidence in”…anything.

    “• Ukraine Lost 26,000 Troops and 3,000 Arms In Counteroffensive – Shoigu (Sp.)

    Probably. Are we 3 weeks in, so 10,000 a week? And the heavy equipment is a turkey shoot. I think the one thing we can figure is that the age of tanks is done. Or at least without matching or superior air coverage even if that is merely drones. Where do you fight if you can’t hide?

    One thing that I most see is, no ammo dumps. So the war HAS to be: every man is given a rifle, whatever there is, and has access to ALL the things, freely, to roam around, freely. So if he’s a conscript, he will shoot his Captain immediately. If he’s a patriot, he will shoot THEIR captain, immediately. This is one of Ukraine’s true problems: they can’t trust their own men, and therefore have to bunch all their materials for Russia to bomb at will.

    “Trump Slams Biden over Cluster Bombs for Ukraine (RT)
    (Slams?)

    Nope: Trump is still an idiot and Biden is still a genius. All the way to mushing the Big Red Button. NY Times: “Joe Biden, never stronger or more clear!”

    “it calls to mind today’s battle within the Blob between the realists and anti-Russian fanatics.”

    Yes. Because they are Nazis. They are Progressive, Race-fascinated, War-exaulting, Merger-of-corporation-and-State party focusing on “Unity” using propaganda. They are literal, active Nazis, not NeoNazis, not Ironic Nazis, by very definition.

    “You wanted the stimulus check? With printed money? You paid for it multiple times over in higher inflation.”

    Exactly as we and everybody said when they did it. But you can tell it now – AFTER IT HAPPENED – and get the same response: “No it won’t.” “I’d lock down Covid again and give even BIGGER checks next time, see if I won’t.”

    Aaaaaand, what are we supposed to say to that? With all prices doubled in two years? What kind of words will affect that kind of denial? Nothing. So how about this: YOU’RE ALL GOING TO DIE. And because you won’t help yourself, I am going to watch.

    JB may like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86yAxsKThfU&pp=ygUSYW1hem9uIGNlbyBkZW1hbmRz
    Amazon Prime Video Fails.

    Amazon is right on the Disney Plan, or even faster. Video is too long and repeats itself, but just the same it’s breathtaking. Every possible problem and failure of capitalism, every possible failure to adjust ever and do it over. And over. And over. And over. Again. Blowing $100M with every move, — just cause — just cuz I wanna look coolz — then blowing it again. Honestly, I don’t know what it is. Picking on other and evil? MY mind reels. –I– Cannot comprehend or process this. As with Kathleen Kennedy I can’t even imagine a level of blackmail that could permit her to continue roaming the countryside, bankrupting a $90B company in mere months, but what other explanation is there?

    And speaking of, we were way ahead on Disney, apparently the theme park is empty. Huh? Yes, and apparently the theme parks down the road in Orlando are full. Wha? So they’re on a Bud Light plan? How does/can that happen without a media?

    Fascinating, and maybe like me we both struggle to figure out how the heckin’ that can even happen. It defies everything, and seems to pop up, now entirely unmoored from … #Logos, logic and reality.

    Speaking of, yes my only point in bringing up the coal mine example was: No Property Rights = No Capitalism. Capitalism IS property, then with no property rights, there is no property. That’s self-evident but sometimes you have to drill down to the basics. If there are no property rights for the little guy, there are no property rights at all. Like if there is free speech only for nice things everyone agrees on, there is no free speech at all.

    Is that voluntary exchange? To have your coal mine taken? One thing you never hear in Capitalism, that’s for sure: “Did you SEE that guy? He just did voluntary exchange with me! And I am super mad about it. Arrest him, I want him stopped!!!” Uh, no. If it’s VOLUNTARY, nobody is mad about it. If it’s not VOLUNTARY, it’s not Capitalism. It’s a crime. Unfortunately “crimes” flip over into whatever political and justice system that society has.

    So they constantly say, “Look at this violent, extractive, involuntary exchange, isn’t Capitalism bad?” Uh. Whut? “Capitalism stole my property that they had no rights to!” Uh. Whut?

    I know we repeat ourselves, but that’s the part we take issue with. And why I say every day “This is not Capitalism.” No Capitalism to be seen, nearly anywhere. Call it by the right name and we can get on the same page, and agree, which is nice!

    #138886
    Red
    Participant

    “… Nothing less than the fate of a 300 year project for world government hangs in the balance. Everyone of these horrific factions wants to rule the world but none of them have the means by themselves to pull it off. So, watching them maneuver each other into the line of fire would be hilarious if the stakes weren’t so freaking high for the rest of us.”

    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/luongo-macron-nato-fate-empire-part-ii

    #138887
    those darned kids
    Participant

    rfk, jr. is controlled by a secret cabal of earwigs!

    #138888
    tboc
    Participant

    Navigate to Moon of Alabama this morning and view the images.

    In plain view the culmination of the Enlightenment and
    a view of personal enlightenment

    Bush: “The American lifestyle is non-negotiable”

    How many here have the same feeling shown on The Face of Ukraine? Though to be fair Zelensky only murdered about 400,000 and we slaved away our lives to pay for the murder of millions. The similarity is that The Oh So Enlightened Ones have walked away from both. “Good job Brownie” or perhaps Albright – ‘We Think The Price Is Worth It,’

    #138889
    tboc
    Participant

    twenty years of hammer and skilsaw in the company of humane beings – the best

    twenty minutes among those who “rip you of with a smile and it don’t take a gun-(Van Morrison)” – purgatory. Hope for salvation was always present.

    #138890
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @aspnaz From late yesterday

    The Israeli Jews stole Israel . . .(etc, etc, etc.)”
    “The vast majority of Jews live in the USA and Israel. . .”
    “. . .I could go on, but DBS, you have selective memory syndrome. ”

    Well, first of all, thank you for NOT going on, because , like I said to the angry Celt, it’s tiresome to re-listen to the same old rant-sans-substance.

    Secondly, how could you possibly know what I remember or not remember or how selective it might or might not be?

    As to your lumping all Jews together based on what the “vast Majority” of them allegedly did or did not do is illogical enough on its own that I don’t really need to make further comment about it. Your erroneous generalization and prejudice speak for themselves and actually just illustrate the point I was making, which is that SOME (or even MOST) does NOT equal ALL.

    So, basically, you can stick that tar brush of yours up where the sun don’t shine. In fact, please do. You’re quite smart about some things, and a total idiot about others, just like the rest of us. Big surprise.

    #138891
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @DrD

    Are you in especially fine form this morning or is it just my coffee working better than usual? In either case, good stuff!

    #138892
    zerosum
    Participant

    Peace is not the plan.
    Wake up! Everything is going according to plans.
    The Emperor’s New Clothes

    • Ceasefire and Peace Talks Should Be Focus of NATO Summit (CD)
    • NATO Summit, a Theater of the Absurd (Scott Ritter)
    • Understanding The NATO Summit (Kim Dotcom)
    • Stoltenberg: No Point in Discussing NATO Membership if Kiev Loses (Sp.)
    • Should Ukraine Join NATO? Don’t Kid Yourself: It Already Has (Tracey)
    • The Blob Begins to Quiver (Kunstler)

    Victory is the plan/option.
    I already showed you how to get victory.
    I am irrelevant. Everybody is ignoring what I wrote. The Emperor’s New Clothes
    Too bad. So sad.

    ———

    #138893
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    I’m fine with the Cabal of Murderers coming up with a new plan based on failure of their old plan, and wish them the same Irish Blessing as before, “Well, it could have been worse.”

    #138894
    Dora
    Participant

    John Campbell and Andrew Bridgen.

    #138895
    zerosum
    Participant

    Share the scam.
    Zelensky is in family photo at NATO.
    He is between Biden and Trudeau.
    The shadow of the blackmail hammer was visible

    #138896
    Oroboros
    Participant

    A Testimony to Willful Ignorance

    A Duh’merican slowly realizing

    Too bad stupidity isn’t painful

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    #138897
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Ah, the level of bullshit that will be absorbed by the Sheeple

    This is a Test

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    #138898
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #138899
    John Day
    Participant

    Don’t get Cancer https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/dont-get-cancer

    Paul Marik MD was one of the most organized and most visible proponents of early outpatient treatment of COVID in the US. He was a clinical professor of Critical Care Pulmonary Medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School, until his Hospital Privileges and Professorship were stripped from him for advocating and prescribing ivermectin for COVID patients
    Like many of us, Dr. Marik became more acutely aware of the false narratives promulgated by pharmaceutical corporate interests. Cancer is as big as vaccines, isn’t it? He is working on alternative treatments for Depression, which is another profit-center. Recently he has done an interview with Chris Martenson, who studied the first two years of Medical School and took training in laboratory Pathology. Dora found that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vv1nzsEFFC8
    (Dr Marik starts after about 9 minutes)
    Meryl Nass MD sent this link to his work on her blog. https://covid19criticalcare.com/reviews-and-monographs/cancer-care/
    Included is a link to the slides Dr. Marik uses in the presentation:
    https://covid19criticalcare.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Cancer-Care-Webinar-Powerpoint-2023-07-11.pdf
    The first graph is dramatic, showing an approximate tripling of the incidence of cancer in all American age groups between 1997 and 2019. Since that can’t be genetic, it must be environmental, basically food and toxins.
    Why don’t Amish children get cancer, autism and diabetes? Why did the number of cases of non-melanomatous skin cancer in the US increase by 12 times from 1983 to 2012? Americans were getting less and less sun.

    Cancer is a derangement in cellular metabolism which causes the cells to replicate outside of the normal limits, forming clumps, “tumors” and spreading like seeds to “metastasize”. These deranged cells should be destroyed by the immune-surveillance processes in the body, so cancer also involves a degradation of these processes. Influences that derange cellular metabolism and immune-surveillance in the body typically increase the incidence of cancers.

    Dr. Marik points out that all cancer cells have a deranged energy metabolism, using anaerobic sugar-metabolism exclusively. This is a mitochondrial derangement that prevents the burning of fats and ketones by cancer cells. Ketogenic diets therefore treat cancer by starving the cancer cells.
    What is important to those without cancer is that excess carbohydrate and sugars in the diet, which push people into insulin-resistance (pre-diabetes, metabolic-syndrome and diabetes) lead to 40% of new cancers.
    Reducing carbohydrate intake and increasing daily exercise will dramatically reduce the risk of cancer in people who are overweight from a typical high carbohydrate western diet, or have those diagnoses. Time-restricted-eating (12 hours of continuous fasting every 24 hours), skipping that breakfast cereal, and avoiding sweet drinks of all kinds are important interventions. (We find that a dinner, morning-coffee and brunch schedule, with morning exercise is fairly easy.)
    Cutting out all white starches is something we have been trying for the past month, and it is difficult. Starches/carbs ARE addictive, just like the rat-studies say, and it is hard to think of other ways to prepare meals, leaving off bread, rice and pasta…

    Avoiding processed foods will greatly reduce your trash pick-up. Avoiding the packaged foods with long lists of additives and cooking fresh vegetables using high quality virgin olive oil, avocado oil and/or coconut oil will provide the anti-cancer effects of the fresh-vegetables and avoid the subtle carcinogens which probably lurk in some of those “safe” chemical additives. The “vegetable oils” or “seed oils” contain a lot of Linoleic Acid, which is harmful to health in multiple ways, so stick to butter (grass-fed, such as Kerrygold is best) and best-quality olive, avocado and coconut oils.

    Addressing the immune system, which has now been unburdened of high blood sugar and high-insulin conditions, we look to the immune system, which should be identifying and destroying pre-cancerous cells day and night. Slide 17 shows that in a clinical trial, supplementing 5000 units per day of vitamin-D3, a gram of fish oil (Omega-3 fatty acids, also found in grass-fed dairy fats) and 30 minutes of daily exercise (better in the sun) there was a 60% reduction in cancer risk over time.
    We can reason that the 30 minutes of brisk walking or equivalent may have improved the blood sugar and insulin levels a bit, but that 60% cancer-incidence reduction was from just vitamin-D, a big fish-oil horse pill and a brisk morning or evening walk every day.
    Vitamin-D levels are best in the upper half of the normal range, basically 60-100 ng/mL, which may take a long time to achieve without use of some higher doses in the first weeks to months. This is addressed in the Vitamin-D section of the complete 146 page monograph, which I have read and printed for reference.
    https://covid19criticalcare.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Cancer-Care-2023-06-28.pdf

    The healthy lifestyle:
    Avoid tobacco products.

    Keep alcohol to “2 beers” per day equivalent or less.

    Use carbohydrate reduction, time restricted eating and avoidance of all sweet drinks (including fruit juice), with daily morning or evening exercise, hopefully in the sunshine, to treat insulin resistance and elevated blood-sugar, which predispose to cancers. [Metformin by prescription is a further treatment step.]

    Take 5000 units per day of vitamin D3, though this is more effectively managed by adjusting the dose to achieve blood levels of 60-100 ng/mL, the upper normal range.

    Take 2-4 gm of Omega-3 fatty acids per day, which are found in fish oil, krill oil and butter produced from grass-fed cows, such as the Kerrygold Irish butter (and notably their lovely Dubliner cheese, an Irish Cheddar).

    Drink green tea or take green tea catechin supplements with meals.

    Sleep 8 hours per night, and if you don’t, which is common in over-50s, consider a time-release melatonin every evening. The morning and evening sunlight on your skin will also stimulate melatonin production in the mitochondria of your deeply warmed cells.

    Exercise 30 minutes or more daily, including walking, running vigorous bicycling, gardening, pushing a lawnmower, weights and calisthenics.
    [More time active is better than higher intensity exercise, since time-doing-nothing is its own risk for poor-health.]

    Reduce-stress (NOW!) through meditation, yoga, mindfulness-practices, compassion for self and others, and friendly engagements with people who don’t suck the life force out of you, then squeeze you for that last drop. [Humor is a healthy stress-reduction intervention strategy.]

    #138900
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Dr D – I enjoyed Disparu particularly during the Rings of Prime travesty.

    I’ve seen rumors over the years that C suite people, board members, and stockholders, will occasionally use videos from this end of the youtube universe to try to communicate what is being done to their company.

    At this point, it seems like he and people like him are quite purposely trying to give an explanation that a corporate board could understand – the repetition seems calculated to get it through slow, thick heads. Hey. They are destroying your thing there. No really. They are. Fiduciary duty.

    There have been waves of this over the years – Alex Becker’s Star Wars rants were awesome, for instance – but only now, after years and years of warnings, can they say look at the hundreds of millions being consistently thrown away JUST like we warned you.

    It’s interesting that Carl Benjamin/Sargon of Akkad/The Lotus Eaters came out of this same crucible. He just wanted to play video games when all this whacko wokeist stuff hit his hobby. It was kind of inevitable that if you keep being broad-spectrum marxist wokeist jerks to hundreds of thousands of people, you’re going to provoke SOME intelligent principled people who care and therefore DO have the time to go ahead and start figuring you out on behalf of everyone.

    So there’s now a gradual ramp running all they way from particular narrow hobby-specific all the way to philosophical, spiritual, geopolitical. From the wokeist point of view, destroying the structure of Disney is just as desirable as the destruction of Star Wars. But they inoculated several generations against wokism to do it.

    #138901
    zerosum
    Participant

    Here is how to get victory

    Admit losing the war and negotiate with Russia and letting Russia be the winner.
    “Winner take all”
    Blackrock is the loser.

    #138902
    Dora
    Participant

    @ Dr. D:

    Amazon is right on the Disney Plan, or even faster. Video is too long and repeats itself, but just the same it’s breathtaking. Every possible problem and failure of capitalism, every possible failure to adjust ever and do it over. And over. And over. And over. Again. Blowing $100M with every move, — just cause — just cuz I wanna look coolz — then blowing it again. Honestly, I don’t know what it is.

    Am I the only one thinking a lot of these CEO’s are following the script from “The Producers” to make themselves rich ? There are so many ways to play the stock market.

    #138903
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Max Blumenthal shares irrefutable facts and summaries the US corruption of the war in Ukraine at the UN Security Council:

    “The American public has no idea where their tax money is going…

    Duh’merica the Beautiful

    Here’s where a big chunk is going, down the rat hole of public ‘education’

    .

    #138904
    Dora
    Participant

    The Producers – Financial Crisis.

    #138905
    poppie
    Participant

    Humor is a presentation of the truth. Your comments are very funny. Right up to cause and effect 30 years. It could be sudden, say at the end of a war. Warning. This link is disturbing. https://3reich-collector.com/concentration-camp-ww2-german/11-very-graphic-and-explicit-photos-show-some-german-wehrmacht

    #138906
    Red
    Participant

    A little more Disney trouble complements of Sound Of Freedom.

    #138907
    kultsommer
    Participant

    What is important to those without cancer is that excess carbohydrate and sugars in the diet, which push people into insulin-resistance (pre-diabetes, metabolic-syndrome and diabetes) lead to 40% of new cancers.

    Miracle of Keto- diet

    Cutting out all white starches is something we have been trying for the past month, and it is difficult. Starches/carbs ARE addictive, just like the rat-studies say, and it is hard to think of other ways to prepare meals, leaving off bread, rice and pasta…

    True. While there are multitude of other ways to make carb-free, Keto meals are also noticeably expensive. That should be taken in account due to expectation of hard times ahead.
    There is that “French paradox” with baguette, where all you need is the butter,bit of cheese, tomato (and glass of wine) to have the heaven producing taste bud experience.
    Or “Asian paradox” with excessive use of rice.
    In both cases population, in general, is not ravaged by illnesses or subjected to excess deaths at the barely threshold of an old age. Quite the opposite.
    So everybody has to figure out as what works for them and what they can afford.

    #138908
    kultsommer
    Participant

    How I could possibly omit “Italian paradox” with the same follow up.

    #138909
    kultsommer
    Participant

    Speaking of starches here is Mac-story.
    What stared as a prize of a “business philosophy” ended in utter demolish.
    Bon appetit!

    #138910
    zerosum
    Participant

    All prisoners should save their brothers by pointing out the location of their ammunition depots.
    eg.(1 ammunition depot of the 1st Special Forces Brigade of the AFU has been destroyed near Volchansk )

    #138911
    chettt
    Participant

    Love Magritte but I can’t imagine what inspired the title of this work.

    #138912
    Oroboros
    Participant

    .

    #138913
    thomasjkenney
    Participant

    @kult:

    Tell me what happened to Indonesia after Soeharto said “Everybody now eats white rice!”

    #138914
    WES
    Participant

    OK, so I am a Ukrainian artillery man and all I have on hand are US cluster bomb shells. I see a Russian tank coming my way. What should I do?

    1. Fire a cluster shell at the tank and give away my position and get blown to hell?
    2. Fire a cluster bomb shell, then try running away and hiding, knowing the Russians will fire cluster shells at me, so I can’t run away and hide?
    3. Don’t fire a cluster bomb shell and run away and hide?

    Because that cluster bomb shell will not penetrate the tank’s armor but it surely will provoke a very angry response from the Russians!

    P.S. I love Dr. D’s explanation of why the Ukrainians Nazis still have no choice but continue to stockpile ammunition in depots, so they can control and guard it, especially near the front! They can’t trust their Ukrainian conscripts! I do wonder how the Russians always seem to know exactly where these depots are!

    Not after so many Leopard tank engines suddenly failed due to a little sand mixed in with the engine oil!

    The Ukrainian Nazis earlier tried welding tank hatches closed, only to find out that the Ukrainian conscripts quickly developed a very effective solution against this tactic! They simply drove the tank backwards with their gun also pointed backwards to counter any Nazi counterfire to stop them from surrendering to the Russians! Apparently Russians don’t seem to shoot tanks driving backwards!

    #138915
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    Helmer:

    THE NATO ULTIMATUM TO UKRAINE – INVITATION TO WIN BY WINTER OR DIE – Tuesday, July 11th, 2023

    THE NATO ULTIMATUM TO UKRAINE – INVITATION TO WIN BY WINTER OR DIE

    F.S.

    #138916
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    So it looks to me that NATO’s plans for victory is actually a plan for a more or less organized retreat, under the guise of an absurd ultimatum that literally NO ONE believes to be anything other than what it is: a broad public announcement of Ukraine’s time table of defeat.

    I expect that Russia has already signed off on the plan as (barely) acceptable, and that it has agreed to let the face-saving bit of theater proceed.

    And all it will cost the West is a few more months of half-hearted propaganda, a couple of trillion dollars and perhaps a quarter of a million more human lives. Disgusting.

    But better than the end of the world.

    #138917
    kultsommer
    Participant

    @thomas
    What happened?
    Do tell.

    #138918
    Celticbiker
    Participant

    If you step back and look at it as 1 crew running the whole show…Russia, China, USA, same boss, things begin to make sense.. The theatre is all for show, like sportsball, us vs. them. They want their new world order and don’t give a fuck who dies to get it/ Covid should have shown you, it’s already here, same rules, globally. Sattellites are up, 5G ready, now you fuckin cattle are going to get in your pens.

    #138919
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    Don’t you just love this headline!

    “NATO didn’t ‘create incentive’ for Putin to stop Ukraine war”

    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/7/12/nato-didnt-create-incentive-for-putin-to-stop-ukraine-war

    F.S.

    #138920
    Oroboros
    Participant

    .

    #138921

    Humans thrive on energy and light-
    Wandering from the pap of hearth and warmth-
    They seek the stars and sip the Milky Way.
    Those hours then nourish sleep ’til a new day.

    Without the dancing tongues of fire we’re mute.
    Without the gasp of stars we we lose our minds.
    So stir the embers, crick your neck in awe,
    then nestle in the ties where love unbinds.

    #138922
    citizenx
    Participant

    This is Epic 10/10 – extremely well done

    this oughta brighten your demeanor- like those still wearing masks on their smug faces

    fuck all you Nato scum , fu obama and biden you trash sub scum filth

    #138923
    citizenx
    Participant

    Meanwhile at CNN – faggot Liberal meltdown…. oh nooooeeessss, my feeeelings are so hurt

    all the snowflakes in the world just melted a little bit

    Heard a hilarious rant from an awesome woman today-

    Fuck you , you snowflake faggots – I’m not calling you faggots because you’re gay, I’m calling you faggots because you’re a bunch of fucking pussies

    I think I’m going to use this one for a while, its so true…

    Sick and f’n tired of the faggots whining, the same snowflake covid mask tards, the same stand with ukr-nazi tards, pro-noun tards, libtards-

    fuck all you ho’s, don’t tell me how to live

    play it loud for a good fu belly laugh

    or what to think or how to think it , go govern yourselves harder bitches – I’m done with your retarded bs

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