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Kiev Must Show ‘Battlefield Results’ In Next Ten Days – Zelensky (RT)
Ukrainian Counteroffensive Will Be Long And ‘Very Bloody’ – Top US General (Az. )
Ukraine Preparing for Second Stage of Counteroffensive in Zaporozhye Region – Official
Kiev Ready For Talks If It Gains Control Of 1991 Border – Zelensky (TASS)
Ukraine’s Growing Addiction to Foreign Mercenaries (Scott Ritter)
Medvedev Raises Specter Of Poland Using Nuclear Weapons (TASS)
Prigozhin’s Folly (Seymour Hersh)
Orban: ‘Weak Nations Will Perish, Strong Will Survive’ (Sp.)
Sweden Should Reconsider Turmoil It Would Become Part of in NATO – Maloof (Sp.)
Tulsi Gabbard Slams Biden for Nuclear Warmongering (Sp.)
Prices Rising Across The Eurozone (RT)
Gas Prices Fall 50% In Europe (Az.)
Dedollarization Accelerates: Argentina Makes IMF Payment Using Yuan, SDR (Sp.)
US Military Veterans Tell Family Members Not To Enlist – WSJ (RT)
Musk Explains New Twitter Limits (RT)
Twitter’s Rate Limiting Is Temporary (S.I.R.)

 

 

 

 

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“NATO without Ukraine is not NATO..” ?!

Kiev Must Show ‘Battlefield Results’ In Next Ten Days – Zelensky (RT)

Ukraine wants to make some progress on the battlefield in its counteroffensive against Russia before the upcoming NATO summit, President Vladimir Zelensky said on Friday, although he admitted that this would lead to new losses. Speaking to several Spanish media outlets, the Ukrainian leader stated that Kiev has to “show results” before NATO leaders convene in Vilnius, Lithuania, on July 11, adding that “every kilometer costs lives.” Zelensky noted that “torrential rains… slowed down some processes quite a bit” and reiterated calls for Kiev’s Western backers to continue sending arms to Ukraine. He also claimed that Ukraine’s offensive operations conducted last autumn were undermined by the late arrival of artillery.

“We stopped because we couldn’t advance. Advancing meant losing people and we had no artillery,” he explained. “We are very cautious in this aspect. Fast things are not always safe.” The Ukrainian president also reiterated his long-standing demands that Kiev eventually be admitted to NATO. “NATO without Ukraine is not NATO,” he stated, claiming that there were no other armies on the continent like Ukraine’s that had the same battlefield experience. Zelensky’s comments come after Igor Zhovka, a deputy head of the president’s office, warned that the Ukrainian leader could skip the NATO summit altogether if the bloc did not make a serious commitment to Kiev’s accession. Earlier, Jens Stoltenberg, the head of the US-led military bloc, stated that any discussions about Ukraine’s membership could start only on the condition that it prevails over Russia.

Ukraine launched a large-scale offensive against Russian positions in early June but has failed to gain any ground and has suffered heavy losses, according to the Russian Defense Ministry. Zelensky himself has admitted difficulties, saying that the offensive is proceeding “slower than desired” in the face of “tough resistance” from Russian troops. According to a Financial Times report from earlier this week, Western officials have been unimpressed by Ukraine’s performance on the battlefield, with the paper’s sources noting that long-term Western support for Kiev is contingent on the eventual outcome of the offensive.

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So start peace talks.

Ukrainian Counteroffensive Will Be Long And ‘Very Bloody’ – Top US General (Az. )

Ukraine’s counteroffensive will be “very difficult” and achieving significant gains could take a long time, a top US military officer has warned, Report informs, citing Yahoo. Army general Mark Milley told the National Press Club in Washington that the counteroffensive was “advancing steadily, deliberately working its way through very difficult minefields … 500 meters a day, 1,000 meters a day, 2,000 meters a day, that kind of thing”.


Mr Milley said he was unsurprised progress was slower than some people predicted. He said: “War on paper and real war are different. In real war, real people die. Real people are on those front lines and real people are in those vehicles. Real bodies are being shredded by high explosives.” Mr Milley added: “What I had said was this is going to take six, eight, 10 weeks, it’s going to be very difficult. It’s going to be very long, and it’s going to be very, very bloody. And no one should have any illusions about any of that.”

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“They are currently trying to confuse our intelligence, so along the entire line of contact on the Zaporozhye front, they are constantly maneuvering and transferring troops.”

Ukraine Preparing for Second Stage of Counteroffensive in Zaporozhye (Sp.)

Ukraine launched its long-advertised counteroffensive in early June after multiple postponements. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, Ukrainian troops continue to try but are failing to advance along three directions: South Donetsk, Artemovsk (Bakhmut) and Zaporozhye, the latter being of primary focus. Ukrainian troops are preparing to attempt the second stage of a large-scale counter-offensive in the Zaporozhye region in the coming days, Vladimir Rogov, a senior official of the Zaporozhye regional administration, told Sputnik.

“The enemy is already prepared for the second stage of a full-scale offensive. It can start any day, at any moment. They are currently trying to confuse our intelligence, so along the entire line of contact on the Zaporozhye front, they are constantly maneuvering and transferring troops. This is being done in order to hide the location of the main forces,” Rogov explained. He added that Ukrainian forces could concentrate the main blow for a breakthrough at any location of the front line. “Over the past four weeks, they have conducted the maximum number of attempts at reconnaissance in combat, offensive options, breakthroughs, studying our reaction and interaction of units, plus regular shelling of our rear in order to hit infrastructure facilities – bridges, transport hubs, units, depots with equipment and ammunition, airfields,” Rogov told Sputnik.

Russia launched its special military operation in Ukraine in February 2022, after the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics appealed for help in defending themselves against Ukrainian provocations. In response to Russia’s operation, Western countries have rolled out a comprehensive sanctions campaign against Moscow and have been supplying weapons to Ukraine. On September 30, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin and the heads of the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics, as well as Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, signed agreements on the accession of these territories to Russia, following referendums that showed that an overwhelming majority of the local population supported becoming part of Russia.

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aka never no talks.

Kiev Ready For Talks If It Gains Control Of 1991 Border – Zelensky (TASS)

The government in Kiev will be ready to hold talks to end the conflict in Ukraine if its armed forces gain control of the borders that the country believes are recognized internationally, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said at a joint news conference with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Saturday. These borders would include the Crimea, Donbass and the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, the president said, when asked if Ukraine would be ready for talks if its troops regained control of the positions they had held before Russia started its special military operation in February 2022.


“Are we ready for diplomatic settlement and what kind of diplomatic settlement are we ready for if we’re at the borders as of February 24?” Zelensky said, repeating a question from a reporter, according to a video of the news conference that he posted to Telegram. “It wasn’t our borders on February 24, it was a line of engagement,” he went on to say. “And so we emphasize once again: Ukraine will be ready for some format of diplomacy when we are really on our borders, on our real borders according to international law.” Zelensky also brought up the issue of the country’s much-desired NATO membership. He said he believes that there is every reason for the alliance to invite the country to join when the bloc convenes for a summit in Vilnius on July 11-12. He said he was expecting a clear signal in this context.

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“..not only are they legitimate targets under the laws of war, but also the fact that they themselves most likely lack any protections under international humanitarian law..”

Ukraine’s Growing Addiction to Foreign Mercenaries (Scott Ritter)

A Russian missile strike on a popular restaurant in the city of Kramatorsk has set off a wave of discussion over the presence of foreign military personnel in Ukraine. The Russian Ministry of Defense has described the target as a gathering place for the command and officers of the 56th Separate Motorized Infantry Brigade of the Ukrainian army and claims to have killed scores of Ukrainian soldiers—and foreign mercenaries. While the Ukrainian government has not made any mention of the presence of foreign volunteers/mercenaries at the Del Rio Pizzeria, video from the scene of the attack shows numerous personnel in uniform, many of whom are obviously foreigners, congregated at the scene, providing first aid, and helping rescue victims.

The presence of military vehicles near the destroyed restaurant reinforces the Russian contention that there was a congregation of military personnel at the time of the attack. This would appear to lay to rest any question about the legality of the Russian strike—it conformed with the accepted precepts set forth under the laws of war. The legal status of the foreign personnel working alongside the Ukrainian army is not so certain. The fact that many are dressed in camouflage uniforms and engage in social media activity which advertises the military/paramilitary aspects of the work they are engaged in only reinforces the reality that not only are they legitimate targets under the laws of war, but also the fact that they themselves most likely lack any protections under international humanitarian law when it comes to being treated as lawful combatants.

The lack of legal status, however, does not appear to serve as a deterrent for the scores of foreign soldiers of fortune that had congregated at the Del Rio Pizzeria, or the thousands of others who, like them, had travelled to Ukraine to participate in a war with Russia that is entering its sixteenth month, and which has taken the lives of hundreds of thousands of people, most of whom are combatants fighting on the side of Ukraine. The presence of these foreigners in such numbers under such conditions is suggestive of two unescapable realties: that there is a high demand for their services, and that foreign governments are actively facilitating the availability of personnel possessing skill sets attractive to the Ukrainian military.

An examination of the 56th Motorized Infantry Brigade might provide better insight into both the role played by the foreigners that had been congregated in Kramatorsk, and the scope and scale of their involvement. When the Special Military Operation began, the 56th Brigade was stationed in Mariupol, and was in the process of transitioning into a naval infantry (Marine) unit. The brigade was largely destroyed in the subsequent fighting for the city, and the surviving remnants reconstituted using mobilized personnel from the territorial forces. Most recently, the 56th Brigade was operating in the vicinity of the city of Bakhmut, where once again it suffered heavy casualties.

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“US National Security Council Strategic Communications Coordinator John Kirby [..] underscored that the United States saw no Russian intentions to use nukes amid the Ukraine crisis.”

Medvedev Raises Specter Of Poland Using Nuclear Weapons (TASS)

The potential deployment of nuclear weapons to Poland may prompt the country to use them, Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev told TASS. Commenting on Poland’s ambitions to take part in NATO’s Nuclear Sharing program, he said, “The only danger arising from the request to deploy nuclear weapons to Poland is that such weapons will be used.” Earlier, Polish Prime Minister Morawiecki announced that Warsaw would like to join NATO’s Nuclear Sharing program amid Russia’s intentions to deploy tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus. Speaking during an online press briefing on Friday, US National Security Council Strategic Communications Coordinator John Kirby said that he has absolutely nothing to say about this kind of negotiations. However, he underscored that the United States saw no Russian intentions to use nukes amid the Ukraine crisis.


On March 25, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that, at Minsk’s request, Moscow would deploy its tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, similar to what the United States has long been doing on the territory of its allies. Moscow has already provided Minsk with Iskander tactical missile systems capable of carrying nuclear weapons and has helped Minsk to re-equip its military aircraft to carry specialized weapons. As well, Belarusian missile crews and pilots have undergone training in Russia. On June 16, Putin said that the first Russian nuclear warheads had already been delivered to Belarus, while the rest would arrive before the end of this year. On June 23, Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko said that his republic had already received a substantial portion of warheads that were planned to be delivered.

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“..He is, after all, no matter how cunning financially, an ex-hot dog cart owner with no political or military accomplishments.”

Prigozhin’s Folly (Seymour Hersh)

[..] below is a look at what is really going that was provided to me by a knowledgeable source in the American intelligence community: “I thought I might clear some of the smoke. First and most importantly, Putin is now in a much stronger position. We realized as early as January of 2023 that a showdown between the generals, backed by Putin, and Prigo, backed by anti-Russian extremists, was inevitable. The age-old conflict between the ‘special’ war fighters and a large, slow, clumsy, unimaginative regular army. The army always wins because they own the peripheral assets that make victory, either offensive or defensive, possible. Most importantly, they control logistics. special forces see themselves as the premier offensive asset. When the overall strategy is offensive, big army tolerates their hubris and public chest thumping because SF are willing to take high risk and pay a high price. Successful offense requires a large expenditure of men and equipment. Successful defense, on the other hand, requires husbanding these assets.

“Wagner members were the spearhead of the original Russian Ukraine offensive. They were the ‘little green men’. When the offensive grew into an all-out attack by the regular army, Wagner continued to assist but reluctantly had to take a back seat in the period of instability and readjustment that followed. Prigo, no shy violet, took the initiative to grow his forces and stabilize his sector. “The regular army welcomed the help. Prigo and Wagner, as is the wont of special forces, took the limelight and took the credit for stopping the hated Ukrainians. The press gobbled it up. Meanwhile, the big army and Putin slowly changed their strategy from offensive conquest of greater Ukraine to defense of what they already had. Prigo refused to accept the change and continued on the offensive against Bakhmut. Therein lies the rub. Rather than create a public crisis and court-martial the asshole [Prigozhin], Moscow simply withheld the resources and let Prigo use up his manpower and firepower reserves, dooming him to a stand-down. He is, after all, no matter how cunning financially, an ex-hot dog cart owner with no political or military accomplishments.

“What we never heard is three months ago Wagner was cycled out of the Bakhmut front and sent to an abandoned barracks north of Rostov-on-Don [in southern Russia] for demobilization. The heavy equipment was mostly redistributed, and the force was reduced to about 8,000, 2,000 of which left for Rostov escorted by local police. “Putin fully backed the army who let Prigo make a fool of himself and now disappear into ignominy. All without raising a sweat militarily or causing Putin to face a political standoff with the fundamentalists, who were ardent Prigo admirers. Pretty shrewd.” 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.

The current battlefield statistics that were shared with me suggest that the Biden administration’s overall foreign policy may be at risk in Ukraine. They also raise questions about the involvement of the NATO alliance, which has been providing the Ukrainian forces with training and weapons for the current lagging counter-offensive. I learned that in the first two weeks of the operation, the Ukraine military seized only 44 square miles of territory previously held by the Russian army, much of it open land. In contrast, Russia is now in control of 40,000 square miles of Ukrainian territory. I have been told that in the past ten days Ukrainian forces have not fought their way through the Russian defenses in any significant way. They have recovered only two more square miles of Russian-seized territory. At that pace, one informed official said, waggishly, it would take Zelensky’s military 117 years to rid the country. of Russian occupation.

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“Brussels is calling for mandatory migrant quotas once again. The Soros-empire strikes back..”

Orban: ‘Weak Nations Will Perish, Strong Will Survive’ (Sp.)

Hungary must strengthen its own defense capabilities and law enforcement agencies, as the time will come when weak nations will perish, and only the strong ones will remain, Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Saturday. “We need a strong country, a strong government, a strong economy, a strong army and, last but not least, strong law enforcement agencies… We have to train and equip ourselves,” Viktor Orban declared at a graduation ceremony at the Faculty of Law Sciences of the National University of Public Administration (NKE) in Budapest. 166 students of the Faculty of Law Enforcement were taking their oath of office at the event attended by Orban, Minister of the Interior Sandor Pinter, and Minister of National Defense Kristof Szalay-Bobrovniczky.

The prime minister warned that the world is experiencing tremendous upheavals, and “strong people are greatly needed, because the truth is worth little without strength.” Orban emphasized that Hungary must face up to the challenge that thousands of migrants from the south are “besieging our borders.” In June, Viktor Orban had slammed the European Union’s newly-adopted quotas for the equitable resettlement of migrants from the Middle East and across the Mediterranean Sea in EU member states. “Brussels is calling for mandatory migrant quotas once again. The Soros-empire strikes back,” Orban tweeted at the time. Addressing graduates on Saturday, the Hungarian PM emphasized that crime levels had gone down in the country, and today, “Hungary is one of the safest countries in Europe, or perhaps the safest,” and we are all proud of that.

As far back as in 2019, Viktor Orban has been urging the need for Hungary to beef up its military to defend itself. “I belong among those who consider NATO important, but I don’t think Hungary’s military security can be based on NATO… We need to be able to avert attacks with our own power,” Orban told US media at the time. Orban also advocated for Europeans to be able to address security threats without US assistance. In 2022, the PM said that Hungary will speed up its defense development program to “radically increase our defense capabilities.” He also emphasized that his country would not only refrain from supplying weapons to its neighbor, Ukraine, after the conflict there escalated, but would not permit such deliveries to transit through Hungarian territory.

This was a matter of national security, Peter Szijjarto, minister of foreign affairs, underscored. On May 2-23, Hungary blocked the European Union from allocating its eighth €500 million aid package from the so-called European Peace Fund to pay for military assistance to the Kiev regime. Orban has insisted that the ongoing hostilities stem from a “failure of diplomacy.” The politician has also offered especially harsh criticism of the European Union’s aggressively anti-Russian policies. Rather than pursuing a strategy of further ramping up tensions, the veteran Hungarian leader urged an immediate end to escalation by the West.

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“.. Sweden has traditionally been unaligned and that “neutrality was important for Sweden before,” adding that “ought to remain that way.”

Sweden Should Reconsider Turmoil It Would Become Part of in NATO – Maloof (Sp.)

Ankara and Stockholm already have a rocky relationship as the Scandinavian state seeks to join the NATO alliance, but Turkiye has conditioned its assent for Sweden’s admission based on the ending of its support for Kurdish nationalist groups that Ankara considers terrorist organizations. Michael Maloof, a former senior security policy analyst in the US Office of the Secretary of Defense, told Sputnik that both Sweden and NATO should consider what benefit is gained by adding the Scandinavian state to the alliance, especially given the kind of tensions that further NATO expansion to the East is likely to create in the region. Maloof explained that NATO’s policy “seems to be to contain Russia at all costs, never mind anybody else and what their political considerations might be.

“I think it’s been damaging for Europe generally to have this kind of an expansion. It certainly has alarmed [Russian President Vladimir] Putin to the point that he basically said ‘it’s a red line if you do it in Ukraine,’ and they attempted that, and we saw the reaction, it had to do with fundamental security.” “The United States does not appreciate the sensitivities and the security concerns, historically, of Russia, and previous to that in the Soviet Union. When the Cold War was over, NATO expanded, but the Warsaw Pact went away. And so that raises a very serious question: what’s the point and purpose of NATO’s continued existence? Before [the conflict in] Ukraine, they were looking around for a new purpose. We had them looking into space, looking at the Arctic, NATO officials now are looking into the Asia-Pacific.

What is that? What’s that all about? What’s the point? It really raises questions about what the concerns are, really, about dominance and the need by the United States and using NATO as a basis to extend its hegemony everywhere – and at what cost,” Maloof said. The former Pentagon official noted that Sweden has traditionally been unaligned and that “neutrality was important for Sweden before,” adding that “ought to remain that way.” Stockholm already has its own security arrangements with other Scandinavian countries separate from the NATO alliance, and expanding that to include 31 other states across Europe “can have repercussions.”

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RFK Jr.’s running mate?

Tulsi Gabbard Slams Biden for Nuclear Warmongering (Sp.)

Former US presidential contender and ex-lawmaker Tulsi Gabbard has accused US President Joe Biden of pushing the world to the brink of a possible nuclear war as the Ukrainian conflict continues to escalate. “We are faced with the reality. Now, President Biden’s actions and policies have pushed us to the brink of nuclear war. This is an existential crisis, not only for us here, but the world. This proxy war against Russia using the Ukrainian people’s lives continues to escalate,” Gabbard said on Saturday at a meeting in a university in Centennial, the US state of Colorado, which was broadcast on her social media.

The politician also said that NATO’s weapons delivery to Ukraine would “only increase the likelihood” of a possible direct confrontation between the United States, NATO member states and Russia. “Now if you hear President Biden and his administration … talk about this, they talk about World War III and nuclear war as though it is just another war, just another conflict … it is so far removed from the reality … they are not being honest with the American people what the cost and consequences of these wars would look like,” Gabbard added.

Western countries have been providing financial, humanitarian and military support to Ukraine since the start of Russia’s military operation in February 2022. The support evolved from lighter artillery munitions and training in 2022 to heavier weapons, including tanks, later that year and in 2023. Russia has been warning countries giving weapons to Ukraine that it sees military shipments as legitimate targets. Moreover, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said that NATO allies’ arming and training Ukrainians is tantamount to a direct involvement in the conflict.

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This caught my eye: As “core inflation” rose over 5%, gas prices were cut in half. Odd.

Prices Rising Across The Eurozone (RT)

Core inflation in the euro area accelerated and stayed stubbornly high in June, a preliminary reading revealed on Friday. Head inflation in the 20 countries that share the euro hit 5.5% this month, coming in slightly lower than analyst projections. But core inflation, which excludes energy and food, remained high and surged to 5.4% as price growth in the service sector also rose to 5.4%, up from 5.0% recorded in April. “The core rate is likely to remain well above the 5% mark in the next months which will [require] further rate hikes by the ECB,” said Ulrike Kastens, an economist for Europe at DWS.


Although the Eurozone’s core inflation eased somewhat from 5.6% in April to 5.3% in May, the latest deterioration may eclipse an improvement in the headline inflation gauge, economists warn. “Base effects and statistical distortions are likely to keep the core reading elevated over the next couple of months and see the ECB hiking at least until September,” said Bloomberg’s senior economist, Maeva Cousin. Consumer price growth will be closely monitored by the European Central Bank, which hiked interest rates to their highest level in 22 years on June 15. The regulator moved the benchmark rate by 25 basis points to 4%, in a ninth consecutive rate hike.

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“..abnormally warm weather, high level of gas in storage facilities and reduced demand for gas in the EU..”

Gas Prices Fall 50% In Europe (Az.)

The price of gas in Europe in January-June 2023 fell by half, to about $425 per 1,000 cubic meters, Report informs via TASS. The main factors behind this decline were abnormally warm weather, high level of gas in storage facilities and reduced demand for gas in the EU. On December 30, 2022, gas futures were trading at about $845 per 1,000 cubic meters, but on June 30, 2023, trading closed at $425 – 50% lower compared to the beginning of the year.

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And the IMF accepts it.

Dedollarization Accelerates: Argentina Makes IMF Payment Using Yuan, SDR (Sp.)

The US dollar, which has enjoyed the status of de facto world reserve currency since 1945, has come under growing strain as countries search for alternatives amid Washington’s efforts to use its financial might to bully and sanction adversaries into submission. Argentina made a loan repayment to the International Monetary Fund worth the equivalent of $2.7 billion “without using dollars” on Friday, using Chinese yuan and special-drawing rights notes (the IMF reserve asset based on a basket of five currencies – the yuan, the euro, the dollar, the yen, and the pound) instead. Argentina’s Economy Ministry said the payment – the first ever of its kind by Buenos Aires, was made in yuan and SDRs to hang on to dwindling dollar reserves in the Argentinian Central Bank’s coffers.

The Latin American nation, which is in the grip of a major economic and debt crisis, has turned to yuan as one means to help stabilize the situation, signing a 130 billion yuan ($19 billion) currency swap agreement with Beijing in April amid plummeting agricultural exports caused by an unprecedented drought, which has already caused $20 billion in damage. Argentina and the IMF reached an agreement in 2022 to restructure the nation’s $44 billion debt. The IMF had approved a $57 billion loan to the administration of now former President Mauricio Macri in 2018, with current President Alberto Fernandez left to clean up the consequences of what he has dubbed “reckless,” “toxic and irresponsible” borrowing.

After his election in 2019, Fernandez asked the IMF not to move forward with transferring the remainder of the loan amount, citing a dearth of dollars in the nation’s coffers to pay it back with. Argentina’s economic crisis has resulted in inflation topping 110 percent, and poverty reaching 40 percent of the population, even as GDP continues to grow, rising 1.3 percent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2023. International reserves have dwindled to about $28 billion, their lowest since 2016.

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“..her father returned from a deployment to Afghanistan. During the nightly fireworks show, he cowered in a fetal position while his family looked on.”

US Military Veterans Tell Family Members Not To Enlist – WSJ (RT)

The US military’s recruiting woes have reportedly intensified as current and former troops increasingly advise their family members against enlistment, weakening a tradition of multi-generation service that has historically been the nation’s primary source of new soldiers. Veterans have soured on recommending that loved ones follow in their footsteps in the face of a tight labor market and rising concerns over low pay, debilitating injuries, suicides, and indecisive wars, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. The recruiting crisis also comes amid controversy over the Pentagon’s prioritization of left-wing issues, such as transgenderism and critical race theory.

The sudden end of the Afghanistan war in August 2021 added to the consternation of some current or former troops, such as US Navy veteran Catalina Gasper, the WSJ said. “We were left with the gut-wrenching feeling of, ‘What was it all for?’” said Gasper, who still suffers from a traumatic brain injury incurred during a Taliban attack on her base in Kabul. She vowed to do all she could to make sure her children never join the military. “I just don’t see how it’s sustainable if the machine keeps chewing up and spitting out” our young people.

Likewise, US Air Force officer Ernest Nisperos decided that he did not want his children to join the military after realizing the toll that his deployments took on him. One of his daughters, Sky Nisperos, said that after years of dreaming about following her father and grandfather into military service, she would instead become a graphic designer. One event that stuck in her mind came during a 2019 family trip to Disneyland after her father returned from a deployment to Afghanistan. During the nightly fireworks show, he cowered in a fetal position while his family looked on.

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The video and the Twitter thread below explain what is happening. It’s serious. Twitter must protect itself and its users.

Musk Explains New Twitter Limits (RT)

Twitter owner Elon Musk announced on Saturday that users of the platform will be limited to viewing a maximum of 8,000 posts per day, claiming that the measure would cut down on “data scraping and system manipulation.” Musk’s announcement came hours after Twitter users around the world found themselves unable to view their timelines or read comments under tweets. “To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits,” Musk tweeted, explaining that verified accounts would be limited to reading 6,000 posts per day, unverified accounts to 600 posts per day, and new unverified accounts to 300 per day. Shortly afterwards, Musk posted an update saying that the limits would be increased to 8,000, 800, and 400 respectively. He did not say for how long the “temporary” limits would remain in force.

Since purchasing Twitter for $44 billion last October, Musk has repeatedly promised to clamp down on non-human use of the platform, for example by data-mining companies. As of Friday, Twitter has not been viewable to anyone without an account, a decision that Musk said was made as “several hundred organizations (maybe more) were scraping Twitter data extremely aggressively, to the point where it was affecting the real user experience.” Concurrently, Musk has been encouraging users to shell out for verification, which costs $8 per month. The prospect of ten times more tweets, however, has not gone down well with users, and as of Saturday evening, “#RIPTwitter” and “Goodbye Twitter” were trending topics in the US.

American whistleblower Edward Snowden explained that he could no longer use Twitter effectively as, for security reasons, he often browses the platform without logging in. Other users who follow breaking news stories on Twitter – for example updates from the conflict in Ukraine – complained that even when verified they burn through their allocated tweets in a matter of hours. It remains unclear whether Musk will keep the new restrictions in place. Shortly after purchasing Twitter last year, the billionaire said that he would end up doing “lots of dumb things” in his bid to overhaul the platform, and would “keep what works and change what doesn’t.”

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Twitter thread.

Twitter’s Rate Limiting Is Temporary (S.I.R.)

Some people asked me to share what I just shared in a space about the rate limits. I don’t work for Twitter but, I do architect IT cloud solutions as my day job. It is temporary. Twitter’s rate limiting is not what everyone is thinking it is. It is not to punish non-paying users. “Data scraping” is a big deal. This is where automated systems load the website or app and pull your tweets/data. It’s a huge security issue. Automated systems are pulling every tweet/word/user account information to store in an unknown database somewhere else. This could be state actors like China, the US Government, Australia, or other bad political actors like PAC’s that are trying to gain access to everyone’s information to analyze and use for nefarious things.

Manipulating what is said on the site can be done at scale with data scrapping. It could also be used to figure out the identity of Anons or to punish people in their country for what they tweet. Looking at you #Australia and #Canada and #UnitedKingdom. The temporary measures of limiting tweets is to protect users just as much as it is to protect the entire Twitter network from going down. They are currently scrambling to get ahead of this and tune their network security to block it from happening again. It’s also important to note that twitter has 500,000+ servers. That’s not free. In cloud data centers, the companies that use them have to pay for what is called “ingress and egress” of data going “in and out” of the servers.

A data scrapping event that is large enough for them to start limiting means that it was a MASSIVE event that could be considered an attack on the site. It would also put massive load on their servers and cost them so much money it could threaten the site’s financial ability to keep running. It could be on purpose to put twitter out of business from cost alone. Many people are misunderstanding why @elonmusk wants people to pay for twitter or for the twitter API (a programming interface that can pull data for other sites and apps). The reason he wants people to pay is because if China or porn companies want to create massive bot farms of fake accounts, it is currently free.

These bad actors are highly skilled and operate like a business. They have professional staff that continuously change their tactics and Twitter engineers have to fight 24/7 to stay ahead of them. If they have to pay for every account or pay to use the API, it would cost them A LOT of money. This limits the amount of people who could create bots, put automated porn on here, and the hacking/scrapping/DDOS attacks on the site. It protects you. It also guarantees twitter will continue to exist without bloating it with tons of ads. This is all a part of the plan to create a free-speech place we can enjoy without being controlled by outside actors or advertising companies. I know $8 is a lot to some people but, it is for many reasons. None of the reasons are to hurt or punish people.

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    Douglas Percy Bliss High Noon, Windley 1951   • Kiev Must Show ‘Battlefield Results’ In Next Ten Days – Zelensky (RT) • Ukrainian Counteroffensiv
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle July 2 2023]

    #138196
    Germ
    Participant

    Explains why so many folks (including my super death-vaxxed sister-in-law and her daughter) are repeatedly getting sick.

    “Follow the Science” – LOL

    This is the smoking gun in the paper referenced below:

    XBB.1*: The variant family that has learned how to use vaccine imprinting to its own advantage

    XBB.1*: The variant family that has learned how to use vaccine imprinting to its own advantage

    Here’s the paper itself:
    https://academic.oup.com/jid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/infdis/jiad230/7209041?login=false

    TVASSF (indeed they are)

    #138198
    Dr. D
    Participant

    ““I don’t think we’ll ever get to the 2024 election. Things will implode in Washington before that.” — Martin Armstrong

    “Ukraine wants to make some progress on the battlefield in its counteroffensive against Russia before the upcoming NATO summit, President Vladimir Zelensky said”

    Aaaaaaaaaand, this is different from the last 16 months how?

    “Ukrainian Counteroffensive Will Be Long And ‘Very Bloody’ – Top US General (Az. )

    No it won’t. There aren’t enough Ukrainians for it to be “long”.

    Now you see the longer plan. Oopsie!!! All those immigrants to France caused a total mess. Who Knew??? Wot a surprise, I for one am shocked, shocked, shocked I tell you. But, well, there’s only ONE solution now for the health of France and the integration of the people. We need to DRAFT all 1 MILLION immigrants, put them in uniform, and drive them into human waves in Ukraine. Yup, that’s it.

    Boy, sure was lucky we’ve been importing immigrants for exactly the 10 years leading up to the war Merkel admitted we had planned!

    However, that will be DIRECT involvement of all NATO in a DIRECT frontal attack. Meaning Russia will DIRECTLY nuke us. Like in that Alois prophesy where they drop the world’s biggest tsunami bomb off the mouth of the Thames past Margate? But of course they feel this is #Winning. This is the POINT. They’ll be safe in bunkers and they can’t kill all 6 Billion people themselves. They tried! They need help.

    So there you have it, same as it ever was. Importing a million man illiterate, unemployed army of cannon fodder into Europe. My God! What have I done? Oopsie. “I did that!” — Macron. These people are D I S P I C A B L E. Hanging is too good for them. But the citizens will wave and cheer. If you love immigrants, hang these leaders in public. Preferably BEFORE they draft them all and prompt a Russian mass-bombing. Of YOU.

    Speaking of, that’s all the BS we put up with here in the ‘States. NYC doesn’t care about wood pizzas, they don’t care about gas stoves. What they want is NATIONWIDE RATIONING to get war material for WWIII against Russia. That’s it. Every breath of every syllable, of every word, of everything Green is a lie. It’s not even really for the profits of NYer LNG to Europe.

    20,000 foot view: There is no oil crisis (yet). But all the oil and gas is in Russia and Iran. That is, “Liquid Hegemonic Power”, the power that runs nations and armies. It’s all in Russia now. Forever. The only way to FIGHT that war, is to CUT OFF the need for that gas and oil, domestically, at home, where your people sit in the dark in January in Fargo SD, at the same time that you try to attack and get hold of their oil again. Thus EVERY GREEN INITIATIVE SINCE 1995. That’s what every breath of every word, every article, every paid scientist, every paid placement in movies and on kid’s TV was for: War. WAR WAR WAR. Killing, killing, killing. We needed this “Green” to be way further on so all our remaining oil could be directed to NUKING RUSSIA. That’s it. Not complicated. he 4th Horseman, the Green Horse. They did this when Cheney went apoplectic that they needed to Nuke Russia at least by 1999 or it would be too late and was voted down. The glue-sniffing morons went this route instead, never got 10 seconds into Russia, and now have lost everything, at least since Bush (actually Cheney) in 2005. He then went apoplectic to invade Iran’s oil in 2008 to at least keep the game in play, but couldn’t, and that’s the end. We lost.

    Like Ukraine, the very IDEA of NATO/U.S./West beating Russia is impossible. It’s a waste of time.

    But that’s the whole point. Of everything. Of immigration, probably in the U.S. as well. Of Soros paying to move armies of The Poors, to and fro. Of “Global Warming” and windmills that don’t work. Of controlling food. Of product shortages. Of digital IDs aka “ration cards”. Even of shutting down German nuclear plants in anticipation of getting bombed. All of it. All for war, all for decades, all on board because we love war, war, nothing but war, war all day, all night, forever.

    What is war? CONTROL. They are mentally ill and cannot rest, close their eyes for a moment without panic that there’s something moving on the face of the earth without their control.

    “They are currently trying to confuse our intelligence, so along the entire line of contact on the Zaporozhye front, they are constantly maneuvering and transferring troops. This is being done in order to hide the location of the main forces,”

    Finally learning something about modern satellite drone warfare.

    ““The United States does not appreciate the sensitivities and the security concerns, historically, of Russia,”

    Sure we do. We just don’t care. Dulles knew all about Russia’s problems and that putting nukes in Turkey would cause WWIII with Kruchev. That was WHY he did it and tried to get it started in Cuba. You have to wrap you mind around: They Know. They are not Stupid. They Want War. A War Where Everyone Dies. This is their dream, their goal, their focus, their orientation to life itself.

    They are #AntiLogos, #AntiReason, #AntiLife itself.

    “US Military Veterans Tell Family Members Not To Enlist – WSJ (RT) “

    Agree. However, they should get years of private training with weapons because we’ll need them all here, as citizens. We’ll need them shortly as the U.S. Devolves and there is no major central power like a unified army, but Texas standing alone to stop the border. Oh. Wait. That’s not a prediction, that’s already in the past. Can’t you see it?

    #138199
    Red
    Participant

    Gas prices fall sharply in Europe.
    Sure they do, now that it’s summer with fewer demands on the supply. The citizenry doesn’t require as much in the summer. Industry and business’ could use the break but most have already gone, closed, moved out or bankrupt. Gas isn’t like petrol, the private citizen can’t buy a 5000 litre tank, bury it in the back yard, fill it while the price is low and use it this coming winter when the prices soar again, and the prices will. They could always burn some buildings to keep warm, except in France where they seem to be trying to use up that possible supply in the middle of summer! The human enterprise? Oh well.

    #138200
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    The Greatest History Never Told

    Dr. Jacob Nordangård interviewed by Ivor Cummins.

    “This epic production explains the bizarre behavior of Covid, Climate, Trans, etc, etc. – the whole shooting match, decoded. I’m not exaggerating…! ” (Ivor Cummins)

    #138201
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    #138202
    Red
    Participant

    VP that statue of liberty should be upside down. You know, head in the sand!

    #138205
    EoinW
    Participant

    Is that a painting of Macron? Hand that man a fiddle!

    #138207
    boilingfrog
    Participant

    I continue to do my best to keep abreast of what’s going on in the world, and this site and comment board is wonderful – thanks all (and really appreciate the writings of DrD).

    One seeming contradiction I hear many wrestling with is idea that Russia’s invasion is illegal, immoral and a crime. But how to make sense of the clear goading by Nato et al that came first?

    But it’s clearly (to me, at least) a case of referee saw the SECOND punch, and the press focuses on that second punch.

    The best analogy I can come up with to clearly explain this to the very few folks who want to discuss is: brandishing a weapon. And brandishing a weapon is a serious crime of provocation which (around here, at least) entitles one to self-defense.

    Here in my Appalachian Mountains a friend’s dog killed a neighbor’s cat out in the country. The neighbor brandished a weapon and my friend then pulled a gun leading to a stand-off on the gravel road.

    In court (other complications) later the judge said my friend had every right to shoot the brandishing neighbor dead in his tracks.

    To my way of thinking that’s what Nato did: brandished a weapon, and got shot.

    Helps me ‘clarify’ the events. Now, for the ‘whys’ I fall back to Mr. Hemingway’s words:

    “The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.”

    Yes, I know most here totally get this already, I just thought the analogy might be helpful in a discussion. Maybe.

    Wonder where Dr D Rich went…

    #138208

    We are responsible for our neo-leaders.
    If we do not hurry and cut off their feet
    We shall all become the feeders
    of the bugs that we were promised we would eat.

    #138210
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Macron wanted to be Emperor Napoleon

    But it turns out he is a sad little gnome in a burning garden

    In the immortal words of Eurotardistan’s foreign policy chief Jungle Josef

    “Europe is a garden. We have built a garden. Everything works. It is the best combination of political freedom, economic prosperity and social cohesion that the humankind has been able to build – the three things together,” Borrell said during the event.

    “The rest of the world,” he went on, “is not exactly a garden.

    Most of the rest of the world is a jungle, and the jungle could invade the garden.”

    Jungle Josef Borrell then appeared to refer to EU ambassadors as “gardeners” and urged them to “go to the jungle,” that is to carry out their diplomatic work around the world and advance the Garden’s geopolitical agenda….”

    What goes around comes around I guess

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    #138211
    Oroboros
    Participant

    NEWS FLASH HEADLINE

    Malaria Returns to the United States

    And wait for it…..

    It’s treated easily with……

    Ivermectin

    Hahahahahaha

    Another cruel irony pistol whipping the public

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    #138213
    zerosum
    Participant

    Randommized thoughts

    What are the motivators of Zelensky?

    In a few images

    Dr. D/insight/ upholdreality
    You cannot stop/control unregistered/illegal immigrants when your left hand, (a conglomerate of corporations, Blackrock and Vanguard), is motivating/scaring/ the movement of those people, (to avoid depopulation), from where they are, to find a better place to live.
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    On September 30, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin and the heads of the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics, as well as Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, signed agreements on the accession of these territories to Russia, following referendums/democratic vote, that showed that an overwhelming majority of the local population supported becoming part of Russia.
    https://sputnikglobe.com/20230702/ukraine-preparing-for-second-stage-of-counteroffensive-in-zaporozhye-region—official-1111610962.html
    ————
    Correction
    • Tulsi Gabbard Slams Biden for Nuclear Warmongering (Sp.)
    Western countries have been providing financial, humanitarian and military support to Ukraine since the start of Russia’s military operation in February 2022. Since the overthrow of the elected gov. in 2014.
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    Solutions, Non-Participation Efforts – Quiet Quitting, Energy usage/consumption, Education, prepare/adapt for coming changes, accept that yesterday is gone
    ———-

    #138215
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #138216
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Vaccines

    How They Work

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    #138219
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Regarding Twitter limits:

    One of those unintended consequences we hear so little about. The very essence of the reason that DARPA created social media in the first place has circled back to wrap its coils around their neck to choke them to death.

    US (Global Cabal?) Intelligence went so all-in on ubiquitous surveillance and full spectrum colonoscopy that they are now inescapably dependent upon it. Their AI’s (which they also UTTERLY depend upon to be able to even get out of bed and tie their shoes in the morning) cannot function. [Repeat : CANNOT function] without that incessant firehose of raw data filling it’s hoppers and pipelines of evil and bile.

    It’s going to be very VERY interesting to watch as the firehose gets decelerated or even interrupted from time to time.

    It’s possible that the system is so fragile that a serious hiccup in the data flow could shatter it like cheap crystal glass. One day it’s all a wild party with goblets full of free flowing blood money and adrenochrome . . . . and the next moment the stunned revelers stand knee deep in chaos, with everything shattered and sloshing around on the floor in an indescribable toxic mess.

    I can hope.

    #138221
    Dora
    Participant

    Mike Benz tweet posted on Rumble.

    #138222
    Dora
    Participant

    Daily Mail headline:

    “More gloomy news from Biden! White House says it’s open to plan that would BLOCK sunlight from hitting surface of the Earth in bid to limit global warming”

    Vampires rejoice!

    #138224
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    How can you tell if you are being fed false information?

    Easy peasey. Anyone with eyes, ears or fingers can tell.

    Here’s how : Just know and understand with certainty that all information entering through your eyes, ears, or any other sensory organ, is FALSE . . . . to some degree. The only hard part is in then determining to what degree. How false is that input? How far short of absolute truth does it fall? Is it close enough to veracity that we should consider it true? Or is it so enormously false that we call it a god damned lie?

    Well intentioned, earnestly moral best friends . . . no matter how hard they try . . . . cannot help but give you information that is LESS than absolutely true . . . . because they cannot themselves know what is ABSOLUTELY true. And no mortally inimical liar can be so utterly false that the lie does not at least have presence as a thing that was carried out in a real universe (and is thus, and only to that extent, “true”.)

    True vs false is a graduated scale that runs to infinity in both directions. We could call the top of the scale God and the bottom of the scale satan, for lack of better words, or concepts or explanations. Like I said, no matter what we call it we will be falling somewhere short of ABSOLUTELY true.

    Like all graduated scales this one too has a tipping point somewhere in or around the middle. Above that tipping point you are headed toward “what is right and true”, and below it you are headed toward “what is wrong and false”.

    I don’t think I need to say much more about which side of the fulcrum you want to be on.

    Anyway, and with all of the aforesaid firmly in mind, have a listen to this interview regarding the myriad implications and significance of the so-called UFO Space Aliens situation. [ link : https://youtu.be/bPduNhp7PfE ] It is QUITE the nuanced and complex subject. Don’t underrate until you’ve listened carefully and thunk it all the way through a couple of times.

    In fact, I’m gonna go way out on a limb right now and call it a real game changer.

    So now , in company with all of the other game changers who have gotten solid hits recently, the “Space Alien/UFO Disclosure” hot topic is safe on base and the bases are loaded. Exciting times. Big game. We’ve got a lot riding on it. Tense.

    Wait! Is that big shining dude stepping up to the plate who I think He is?

    #138225
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/israel-to-buy-25-more-f-35-stealth-jets-in-3-billion-deal/ar-AA1dk2Ch?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=e2de1f6743a441f58fd7d96a18a97189&ei=54

    Israel to buy 25 more F-35 stealth jets in $3 billion deal
    The additional 25 aircraft manufactured by Lockheed Martin will bring the number of F-35s in Israel’s air force to 75, the ministry said, adding that the deal will be financed through the defense aid package Israel receives from the United States.

    Did you get the truth
    The gov will give another subsidy of $3 billion deal to Lockheed Martin and the transaction will be hidden in the defense aid package Israel receives from the United States.

    #138226
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @zerosum

    the transaction will be hidden in the defense aid package Israel receives from the United States.”

    So in other words, the US writes another bad check denominated in counterfeit money and gives it to itself, while getting people to believe that it will keep that promise a few years from now by which time such toys (even if they existed or worked properly) would be completely inappropriate to that theater of war and both useless and impossible maintain or operate. Good plan.

    #138227
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    Department, ICYMI:

    Apple Inc. made – last Friday! – a history as a very first company with a market capitalization over U$3 trillion, the latest sign of big tech’s seemingly unstoppable dominance in equity markets!

    The company gained 2.3% on latest trading day adding to a rally that’s added more than US$983 billion to its size this year and leaving it roughly a half-trillion dollars above the next-largest company, …

    … imagine that!

    Plus this=> https://realinvestmentadvice.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/nasdaq-tweet.png

    F.S.

    #138228
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    How can you tell if you are being fed false information?

    Easy peasey. Anyone with eyes, ears or fingers can tell. – D Benton Smith
    _______________________

    To make it even easier peaser, related article, educational:

    Caitlin Johnstone: Why Propaganda Works

    F.S.

    #138229
    zerosum
    Participant

    Drones – something Useful
    https://oscarliang.com/

    #138230
    zerosum
    Participant


    Drone show
    (Tomorrow is here)

    #138231
    zerosum
    Participant

    NOTE:
    Path to Peace and Winning

    Ukraine, declares lost the war, aligning with Russia, tells lenders to collect from Russia, and by that means, stiff the West of its lend-least debt payments.

    #138233
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Everybody has to believe in something. And I really do mean that they HAVE TO. If one doesn’t believe in something then they will be paralyzed, unable, for example to believe that there will be solid ground under their next footstep or safe air available to be drawn as their next breath.

    It’s not “psychology” to believe that people need to believe in things. It’s just pragmatic common sense, and our nervous systems are designed to accommodate the inescapably factual necessity of it.

    #138234
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @zerosum re your suggested Path to Peace.

    That is brilliant to the point of almost being funny. And if Zelensky had the chutzpah to play the gambit I think it would work, too!

    #138235
    Red
    Participant

    A common belief is that if the world does not have adequate energy, the result will be high prices. These high prices will allow more fossil fuels to be extracted or will allow renewables to substitute for fossil fuels.

    In my view, the real issue is quite different: Inadequate energy supply of the types the economy requires can be expected to affect the economy in a way that causes it to become “unglued.” The economy will gradually fall apart as infighting becomes more of a problem. Goods won’t necessarily be high-priced; many simply won’t be available at any price. Political parties will fragment. Conflict within countries, such as the recent Wagner conflict with the military leadership in Russia, will become more common.

    It has become fashionable to use models to predict the future, but simple models do not consider real-world dynamics. They don’t consider the importance of already existing infrastructure and the types of energy products this infrastructure requires. They don’t consider the importance of continuing food production. They don’t consider the dynamics of “not enough goods and services to go around.”

    In this post, I will look at some pieces of evidence that suggest we should expect the world economy to become unglued as limits are hit. A corollary is that we cannot expect a transition to a world powered by renewables to work.

    The World Economy Is Becoming Unglued; Models Miss Real-World Behavior

    #138236
    Kimo
    Participant

    Carrington Event at 11 minute mark. They forgot to mention that we’re now dropping our magnetic shields, making things worse. Buckle Up.

    #138237
    Maxwell Quest
    Participant

    DB Smith,

    Concerning Dr Steven Greer, I certainly applaud the guy for what he has done to get the word out on UFO’s despite the best efforts of the national security state to squelch it, but I don’t always agree with him on certain claims, and my spidey senses get activated whenever I hear him speak.

    For example, whenever he speaks a few things jump out that make me a little suspicious that he is not able to be fully objective about the UFO field. Firstly, he enjoys the spotlight too much. Secondly, he continually puffs up his importance by name dropping, and recounting all the high-profile briefings that he’s given over the years to all those poor, clueless government drones that are kept in the dark, US presidents and such. Thirdly, he tends to emote too much. Strong feelings are certainly warranted, but they can also be used to manipulate his audience. Being an empath myself, it is often difficult to squelch the water works when I see someone else choke up, yet when I see Dr Greer get all teary-eyed during one of his presentations something inside me puts the breaks on as if it is not genuine.

    As to some of his claims… He says that the cattle mutilations are part of a government psyop in order to scare the population in preparation for an upcoming false flag alien invasion, which will justify the creation of a World Goverment. I’m savy to the agenda of a World Government, but via cattle mutilations? Really? This does not make any sense to me, unless Dr Greer is just trying to lump every UFO-related phenomenon into his theory in order to give it a greater sense of validity. Mr Spock would say his claim is “highly illogical”.

    Exactly why would the MIC use reengineered alien craft to abduct animals around the globe, sometimes right under the noses of their owners, take them up into the craft, extract all the blood, surgically remove certain organs in a way that humans cannot duplicate, then dump them in a nearby location leaving not a trace of blood or ground disturbance? Then sabotage their own supposed psyop by squelching the stories, claiming the mutilations were caused by predators or satanic cults? No, something else is afoot here.

    Dr Greer also claims that David Fravor’s tic-tac is also a MIC product, another illogical idea. According to David Fravor, the tic-tac he encountered was interacting with something just under the surface of the ocean, possibly another craft, when his jet went to investigate, while the new phased radar array indicated the main group of craft puttering along at 80,000 feet. I could see the MIC adding some human interface tech to an alien saucer in order to pilot it, but why would they develop a fleet of 40’ white cylindrical craft with no windows and fly them in groups at 80,000 feet at 100 MPH off San Diego? Again, I think Dr Greer’s theory has taken possession of his senses. He does his theory a disservice by trying to shoehorn in actual alien activity by claiming it is the MIC in disquise.

    #138238
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    The Greatest History Never Told

    Dr. Jacob Nordangård interviewed by Ivor Cummins.

    “This epic production explains the bizarre behavior of Covid, Climate, Trans, etc, etc. – the whole shooting match, decoded. I’m not exaggerating…! ” (Ivor Cummins)

    Oh, I heard that story in 1972 from my estranged maternal grandfather, who inexplicably showed up one day at our door, when he felt compelled to warn my mother & us about TPTB/TBTF that he had learned during his time as a top secret DARPA scientist/engineer from the 1930s through WWII & into the cold war…

    Although my young mind at the time couldn’t grasp the warning(s), in 1993 from “conspiracy” theorists taught me, in *much* greater detail with all supporting documentation, the *HARD TRUTHS* about the UniParty GlobalCap Empire ~ I took the red pill & my whole life changed 😐

    My rude awakening from the CULTural brainwashing/mind fuckery (that we’re all marinated with via radio, TV, pubik edumakacion, think tank agendas, political lies, pandering & propaganda), was weekly reinforced as part of a men’s prayer group, representing many loving, family, business & spiritually *sane* patriarchs from SoCal ~ Where I learned the real reality history of the U$ofA, among other *HARD TRUTHS*:

    At the dawn of the 20th century, when the banksters & robber barons were about to become public enemies #1, they successfully *conspired* to create The Narrative ~ Almost *everything* that has happened within American CULTure since is *directly* influenced and/or controlled by that *cabal*, which has grown immensely in size, power & *scope* (see Gates), with legions of toadies, lackeys & sycophants sprawling from sea-to-shining-sea, like a vampire octopuses spreading their tentacles across *every* aspect of Western Civilization

    #138239
    Red
    Participant

    The climate police insist that “the science is settled.” Any disagreement with their position is censored. Of course, these people aren’t real scientists. Real scientists are skeptical. They know that science is never “the truth.” Instead, it’s a method to construct ever-improving approximations that allow ever-improving computations of observable phenomena. The only thing you can “prove” about a theory is that it’s false, or that a better one produces more accurate results. Ask the ghosts of Newton and Einstein. Especially for (most) academic scientists, proving that “science” is NOT settled might earn a Nobel Prize. Even a book or journal article about it puts a feather in their cap.

    Politicians find “the science is settled” to be extremely useful to funnel enormous sums of public money to their donors and cronies.

    Here are some reasons to doubt “the science is settled.”

    https://vsnyder.substack.com/p/are-humans-really-causing-climate

    #138240
    WES
    Participant

    I see the CIA is making France burn, to force Macron back in line.

    The Ukraine losing won’t stop the US’s war against Russia. The Ukraine is no where near running out of Ukrainians. They can sustain daily losses of 1,000 a day for years to come. Then there are millions more Ukrainians in Europe available too.

    #138241
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    The Rockefeller Foundation; The gift that keeps giving…

    Darrick Hamilton on Holding Treasury Accountable

    Too little, too late…not enough Spiritually Sane *men* seals Our fate 😐

    God help the *innocent*, because His sons are totally compromised, impotent & lost.

    #138247
    Oroboros
    Participant

    NYC cop knocks over pizza bike guy for Pedo Presidementia Joe’s motorcade

    #138248
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Trans Major Rachel Jones from the U.S. Army Has a Message

    Sweet!

    The Elite 96th Chechen Regiment has a message for the likes of Trans Major Rachel Jones

    #138250

    on Greer…
    Here’s my question: considering the aliens stand by and watch the bad guys use their alien tech to be even worse than they are, aren’t we already screwed?

    #138251
    zerosum
    Participant

    As it has always been it shall be

    If Russia win it get all the assets that it want. Therefore, Ukraine must negotiate.
    If Ukraine does not lose, Foreigners, (Blackrock, IMF bank, etc) gets everything.

    #138252
    Oroboros
    Participant

    PRO TIP for 4th of JULY

    Know your fireworks capabilities

    https://twitter.com/i/status/1674986113507926018

    Hey, maybe they’re French

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