Jul 242023
 


Jackson Pollock Number 31 1949

 

Weird That NATO Failed to Foresee Botched Counteroffensive – Larry Johnson (Sp.)
West Knew Ukraine Wasn’t Ready For Counteroffensive – WSJ (RT)
West’s Hopes for Breakthrough in Ukraine’s Counteroffensive Dashed (Sp.)
Wagner Fighters Want To ‘Visit’ Poland – Lukashenko (RT)
Putin Cracks Down On ‘Angry Patriots’ In Wake Of Wagner Mutiny (ZH)
UK Media Now Admitting NATO’s Proxy War in Ukraine is a Disaster (21C)
Demining Ukraine Will Take 757 Years – WaPo (RT)
Putin Says Grain Deal Used to Enrich US, Europe, Lost Its Meaning (Sp.)
Russia Prevented From Giving Free Fertilizers To Poorest Nations – Putin (TASS)
More Than 40 Countries Willing To Join BRICS –Official (RT)
Hunter Phones A Friend (Miranda Devine)
Trump To Face Trial Before Election (RT)
Trump Calls Biden ‘Stupid’ For Revealing US Has Run Out of Ammo (Sp.)
Greece Heatwave Likely To Become Longest Country Has Ever Recorded (RT)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Macgregor

Former Pentagon adviser Douglas McGregor:
NATO may not come out unscathed from this war in Ukraine, and I believe that there will be a change of governments in Europe and we will see the emergence of new leaders who will say: “Why are we going after these Americans?” If Russia was the aggressor against Ukraine, the situation would be different now, and we would see Russians on the borders of Poland after they destroyed Ukraine, but this did not happen, because the Russians do not want this.

Ukraine is to Russia what Mexico is to America. If there was an army in Mexico fully equipped to attack us, we would not hesitate to destroy it, which the Russians did. We lack diplomats and mature and moderate military leaders, and today we only have people whose ideology has blinded them to the truth, so it is difficult to do something good with us. The West wants to destroy Russia, plunder its resources.

 

 

 

 

“I wonder was everybody asleep over the last six-seven months?”

Weird That NATO Failed to Foresee Botched Counteroffensive – Larry Johnson (Sp.)

The US mainstream press laments the fact that Ukraine’s “small territorial gains come at an outsize cost,” citing multiple obstacles in the path of the Ukrainian campaign, including weary soldiers, shortage of ammo, and, above all, Russia’s fortifications and minefields. One US media outlet quoted a former US Special Forces engineer as saying that Russia’s minefields are unlike anything he has ever seen and that battling these traps is “exhausting.”
Appearing on a web podcast on July 22, Larry Johnson, a veteran of the CIA and former analyst at the State Department’s Office of Counterterrorism, said he is perplexed that Russia’s fortification caught the West by surprise. “I wonder was everybody asleep over the last six-seven months?” Johnson asked.

When Russia pulled out Kherson and pulled out Kharkov the last fall, it then publicly embarked on a plan of building a defensive line along the southern front, he recalled. Obviously, the Russians planted mines in front of their fortifications, according to him. Per the CIA veteran, there is nothing new in Russia’s tactics and NATO has enough reconnaissance and intelligence capabilities to monitor and see how Russia created those minefields. It was predictable that the Ukrainian Armed Forces would be stalled and trapped early in the counteroffensive effort, according to Johnson. The former CIA analyst highlighted that he had earlier forecast that the Ukrainian counteroffensive would be doomed without aviation, self-propelled artillery, installations and air defense systems.

Ukraine’s long-delayed counteroffensive kicked off on June 4. For five weeks, the Ukrainian military has been firing a great deal of shells and missiles and sending sappers to demine the fields in order to make some progress on the ground. However, they cannot boast of any successes, generating concerns in the West that the government of President Volodymyr Zelensky “may not deliver as powerful a blow as it could,” according to the US media.

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But what’s 100,000 Ukrainian lives?

West Knew Ukraine Wasn’t Ready For Counteroffensive – WSJ (RT)

Western military officials knew earlier this year that Ukraine lacked the supplies and training to launch a successful counteroffensive against Russian forces, but allowed Kiev to launch its disastrous operation regardless, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday. Nearly two months after it began, Ukraine’s counteroffensive remains stalled. Advancing through Russian minefields without air support or adequate anti-air weapons, the Ukrainian military has lost 26,000 men and more than 3,000 pieces of hardware, according to the latest figures from Moscow. In return, Ukraine has captured only a handful of hamlets and villages, while failing to penetrate Russia’s multi-layered network of defensive trenches and emplacements.

The US and its allies knew that such an outcome was inevitable, according to the Wall Street Journal. Citing leaked Pentagon documents, the newspaper claimed that US military analysts counted a “tiny number” of Ukrainian weapons capable of hitting Russian aircraft, and determined that Kiev would face an “inability to prevent Russian air superiority.” “America would never attempt to defeat a prepared defense without air superiority, but [the Ukrainians] don’t have air superiority,” John Nagl, a retired US Army lieutenant colonel, told the paper. “It’s impossible to overstate how important air superiority is for fighting a ground fight at a reasonable cost in casualties.”

In public, American officials told a different story. “We believe that the Ukrainians will meet with success in this counteroffensive,” White House national security advisor Jake Sullivan told CNN on the eve of the operation. Several months earlier, Dan Rice, an Iraq War veteran who now serves as an adviser to the Ukrainian armed forces, declared that the counteroffensive would “shock the world” with its success. European leaders were similarly optimistic. Polish President Andrzej Duda, who has been one of Kiev’s most fervent backers, announced in early June that the operation would lead to “the ousting of Russian military forces from all occupied territories.”

Western officials have since downgraded their expectations, and are privately “alarmed” at the lack of results on the battlefield, according to recent media reports. Western governments are therefore at a crossroads, and will soon need to decide whether to commit the massive amounts of arms, equipment, and money necessary to support Kiev in a longer conflict, the Wall Street Journal explained, citing anonymous diplomats. Russian President Vladimir Putin has described Ukraine’s counteroffensive as “suicidal.” In a public address on Friday, he pointed out that despite the “colossal amounts of resources,” and “thousands of foreign mercenaries and advisers” that Kiev has received from the West, its counteroffensive has still resulted in failure.

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“..And we are confident that the Ukrainians have what they need..”

West’s Hopes for Breakthrough in Ukraine’s Counteroffensive Dashed (Sp.)

Western countries knew that Ukraine did not have enough weapons and training for the counteroffensive, but hoped that Ukrainian courage and resourcefulness would save the day; however, these hopes have been dashed, the US press admits. Russia’s resistance, airpower, and extensive fortifications blocked the Kiev regime’s advance and eventually led to Ukraine’s counteroffensive stalling. There is a risk of Ukrainian lives and equipment being lost without any shift in momentum, as per a US mainstream media outlet. The media outlet noted that as the likelihood of any large-scale breakthrough by the Ukrainian forces this year fades, it raises the “unsettling prospect” for Washington and its NATO allies of a “longer war” which would require more armaments and even more training.

Under these circumstances, the political calculus for the Biden administration appears especially complicated given the forthcoming election in November 2024. While the EU is continuing to help Ukraine, European leaders are unlikely to make a significant increase in aid to Ukraine if they feel a lack of enthusiasm from the United States, the newspaper noted. At the end of June, the Pentagon stated that they initially understood that the counteroffensive would be tough and entail casualties among their ranks. Still, US war planners claimed the Kiev regime was well-equipped. “Our assessments have been pretty clear from the beginning. We know this is going to be a hard fight. We know this is going to take time. And we are confident that the Ukrainians have what they need,” claimed Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh on June 21.

“We have accounted for losses. We know there are going to be losses on the battlefield. That’s the unfortunate part of this war,” she added. However, it appears that Washington did not expect that the losses would be so heavy. The long-advertised Ukrainian counteroffensive in the South Donetsk, Artemovsk (Bakhmut), and Zaporozhye directions started on June 4 after months of delays. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky complained in an interview with the Western press earlier this month that the effort couldn’t start earlier due to a lack of weaponry. Kiev deployed NATO-trained brigades armed with Western equipment, including the much-touted Leopard tanks. Shortly after, images of burned and damaged NATO-grade weaponry started to pop up in the media and social networks.

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Maybe not…

Wagner Fighters Want To ‘Visit’ Poland – Lukashenko (RT)

Fighters from the private military company (PMC) Wagner want to “visit” Poland, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko told his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin on Sunday. According to Lukashenko, the PMC’S members want to reach the Polish capital Warsaw and the city of eastern city of Rzeszow, which they believe was a hub for providing Ukrainian troops with military hardware during the fighting for the key Donbass city of Artyomovsk (also known as Bakhmut). After the failed mutiny attempt in June, Wagner members were offered the opportunity to retire, sign contracts with the Russian military, or relocate to Belarus together with the group’s chief, Evgeny Prigozhin.

According to Lukashenko, the fighters hosted in the country are starting to “concern” local authorities, as they want to “go on tour to Poland” to visit Warsaw and Rzeszow, which they believe was a hub for providing Ukrainian troops with military hardware during the fighting for the key Donbass city of Artyomovsk (also known as Bakhmut). “They know where the military hardware [to support Ukrainian troops] came from during the fighting in Artyomovsk,” the Belarusian president explained on Sunday during his meeting with Putin. “So they have this internal feeling that Rzeszow is trouble.”

He also noted that the Wagner members know “what’s going on around the Union State [of Russia and Belarus],” so he wouldn’t like to have them relocated somewhere away from the center of the country, particularly given that they are in what he characterized as a “bad mood.” On Friday, Putin claimed that Polish leaders are planning to form a NATO-backed coalition to intervene in the Ukraine conflict and take over parts of western Ukraine. Belarusian territory might also be endangered, he added, promising retaliation in case of any aggression against the Union State member.

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Not mentioned: Igor Vsevolodovich Girkin, aka Igor Ivanovich Strelkov, is also one of the main suspects in the MH17 downing.

Putin Cracks Down On ‘Angry Patriots’ In Wake Of Wagner Mutiny (ZH)

Russian President Vladimir Putin has continued cleaning house in the wake of last month’s Wagner mutiny and short-lived uprising. In a bold move, he and his defense ministry are cracking down even on pro-Kremlin ‘patriots’—but who have publicly criticized top decision-making and how Moscow has handled the Ukraine war effort. On Friday a prominent blogger who has taken a critical stance on war strategy and Putin himself was arrested. Igor Girkin is a longtime proponent of the invasion of Ukraine, and is an ex-security official who led Russian-backed separatists in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region in 2014. He also helped Crimea enter under the Russian Federation that same year.

Shortly after last year’s start of the February invasion, he co-founded an ultra-nationalist political group called the Angry Patriots Club, and is a popular pro-war blogger. These are hardliners who tend to think the Kremlin has been too restrained in Ukraine. In the wake of the June 22-23 Wagner mutiny, he suggested Putin is “not ready” for difficult decision-making under war-time conditions. And this week, he went so far as to call Putin a “low life”. According to a CNN translation of some key quotes he’s posted publicly: The day after Wagner’s brief insurrection ended, on June 25, he said that if Putin “is not ready to take the leadership over the creation of war-ready conditions” in Russia, “then he really needs to transfer the powers, but legally, to someone who is capable of such hard work.”

But the final straw for Putin may have come on Tuesday, when Girkin called the president a “lowlife” and a “cowardly bum” in a blistering post on his Telegram channel. “For 23 years, the country was led by a lowlife who managed to ‘blow dust in the eyes’ of a significant part of the population. Now he is the last island of legitimacy and stability of the state,” the post read. “But the country will not be able to withstand another six years of this cowardly bum in power.” Girkin’s lawyer confirmed Friday that following his arrest a Moscow court has given him pretrial detention until at least Sept.18. The charge against him is “extremism”. Below is analysis via regional observer Tatiana Stanovaya, who points out that “This is a direct outcome of Prigozhin’s mutiny: the army’s command now wields greater political leverage to quash its opponents.”…

“This is a moment many within the siloviki have eagerly awaited. Strelkov had overstepped all conceivable boundaries a long time ago, sparking the desire among security forces — from the FSB to military chiefs — to apprehend him. The complaint came from a former commander of the Wagner Group. At this point, the source of the accusation is inconsequential — it does not come from Wagner in its current, let’s put it softly, difficult state.” “Strelkov’s arrest undeniably serves the interests of the Ministry of Defense. This is a direct outcome of Prigozhin’s mutiny: the army’s command now wields greater political leverage to quash its opponents in the public sphere. It’s unlikely that there will be massive repressions against ‘angry patriots,’ but the most vehement dissenters may face prosecution, serving as a cautionary tale for others.”

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Just stop it.

UK Media Now Admitting NATO’s Proxy War in Ukraine is a Disaster (21C)

After 18 months, it looks like the propaganda dam that’s been holding up the official NATO narrative on Ukraine – has finally begun to crack in the UK mainstream media. It seems that the bevy of journalists and military pundits who’ve been insisting for the last 18 months that “Ukraine is winning”, have finally convened and appear to have collectively decided that maybe it’s high time to begin facing reality and accept that the Ukrainian army’s much-vaunted ‘counter offensive’ came and went with no success. Truth be known: there was never any actual counter offensive, rather, it was strictly a media-driven mirage, specifically designed to help keep the money and weapons flowing into an increasingly disastrous proxy war ahead of this month’s lack-luster NATO Summit in Vilnius.

The legacy media’s belated acknowledgment of this epic failure is a symptom of their own chronic and misguided approach to the war from day one, which can only be described as a deluded, albeit shameless lockstep propaganda campaign that would make even Stalin’s information minister wince. Interestingly, throughout the conflict, The Telegraph has been one of the main pro-war propaganda echo chambers on social media, regularly host hosting Twitter Spaces frequented by NAFO “fellas” (NATO’s 100K strong online trolling army), with various ‘experts’ regularly coming on making outrageous and unsubstantiated claims about Russian military maneuvers manuevers and alleged war crimes. The MSM are now playing catch-up to reality… Robert Clark from the UK Telegraph writes in his recent piece, “Ukraine and the West are facing a devastating defeat”…

Since Putin’s tanks crossed into Ukrainian territory last year, three options have been on the table for how this war would end: victory for one side or the other, a frozen conflict or a negotiated settlement. The public comments made this week by Oleksiy Arestovych, a former advisor to Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of staff, appear to indicate the last may be more likely than previously thought. Arestovych raised the prospect of Ukraine making territorial concessions in return for the rest of the country receiving the most cast-iron security guarantee there is: Nato membership. These comments have proved highly controversial. Not only would such an outcome be unpalatable to many in Kyiv and other European capitals, raising it as a possibility highlights a growing uncertainty about the long-term sustainability of the war – particularly amongst Ukraine’s western backers.

Arestovych’s suggestion comes at a crucial time. The long-planned counter-offensive, now in its second month, has run into several problems – not least that Kyiv is still waiting for approximately half of the western military equipment promised earlier in the year. Meanwhile, its forces are under increasing pressure to commit its reserves as Russian troops – despite reports of low morale across the front – remain dug-in, seemingly committed to defending every inch of Ukrainian ground captured since last year. As Russian minefields take their toll on western-supplied tanks and Ukrainian sappers, their forces have so-far retaken approximately five miles of the sixty miles they need to split the land-bridge connecting Russia to Crimea. The land between Mariupol in the east and Melitopol to the west is seen as the vital ground to achieving this.

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“The sheer quantity of ordnance in Ukraine is just unprecedented in the last 30 years. There’s nothing like it..”

Demining Ukraine Will Take 757 Years – WaPo (RT)

The conflict with Russia has turned Ukraine into the “most mined country” in the world, the Washington Post reported on Saturday, citing data from the nation’s government and several non-governmental humanitarian mine clearance groups. Almost one-third of Ukraine’s territory has been affected by heavy fighting and will likely require intense demining operations, the media outlet said, adding that over 67,000 square miles (173,529 square kilometers) have been contaminated with unexploded ordnance, according to Slovakia-based think tank GLOBSEC. That’s more than the size of Florida and roughly equivalent to Uruguay. “The sheer quantity of ordnance in Ukraine is just unprecedented in the last 30 years. There’s nothing like it,” Greg Crowther, the director of programs at British NGO Mines Advisory Group, told the Washington Post.

According to UN data, almost 300 civilians, including 22 children, died in Ukraine in incidents linked to unexploded ordnance between February 2022 and July 2023, the Post reported. Mines and other unexploded munitions also resulted in 632 civilian injuries over the same period, it added. Both sides of the conflict actively use mines in their operations, the media outlet noted. The US also contributed to the mining of Ukrainian territory by supplying Kiev with 155-millimeter artillery rounds that create temporary minefields, although their submunitions are technically supposed to self-destruct, the Washington Post reported. Another US-made ordnance that was sent into Ukraine was the M21 anti-tank mine, which does not self-destruct, it added.

Washington’s decision to provide Kiev with US-made “cluster munitions, which are known to scatter duds that fail to explode, can only add to the danger,” the media outlet said. According to some estimates, it could take 757 years to clear all of the unexploded ordnance scattered around the country, even if 500 demining teams were tasked with the mission, the Washington Post reported. World Bank estimates show that the cost of these operations could reach $37.4 billion in just the next ten years, it added. Washington has so far committed just around $95 million to demining operations in Ukraine, according to a 2023 State Department report.

On Friday, UN Under Secretary General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs Rosemary DiCarlo warned the UN Security Council that huge swathes of Ukrainian territory have been covered in mines and cluster bombs that will “continue to pose danger to civilians for years to come.” Earlier this week, Russia’s ambassador to the US, Anatoly Antonov, blasted Washington for turning Ukraine into a “burial ground” for lethal waste.

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“..there is no longer any use in continuing the ‘grain deal’ as it has failed to serve its original humanitarian purpose.”

Putin Says Grain Deal Used to Enrich US, Europe, Lost Its Meaning (Sp.)

The grain deal did not justify its humanitarian purpose and was used only to enrich the United States and Europe, Russian President Vladimir Putin wrote in an article titled “Russia and Africa: Joining Efforts for Peace, Progress and a Successful Future” published by the Kremlin on Monday. The Black Sea Grain Initiative, commonly known as the grain deal, which provided for a humanitarian corridor to allow exports of Ukrainian grain over the past year, expired on July 18, as Russia did not extend its participation. Moscow has been repeatedly critical of the fact that the deal’s provisions pertaining to Russia had not been fulfilled.

“Many have probably heard of the so-called ‘grain deal,’ whose initial purpose was to ensure global food security, reduce the threat of hunger and help the poorest countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America – the reason why Russia undertook the obligation to facilitate its implementation in the first place. This ‘deal,’ however, while it was publicly advertised by the West as a gesture of goodwill that benefited Africa, has in fact been shamelessly used solely for the enrichment of large US and European businesses that exported and resold grain from Ukraine,” Putin said. The Russian president emphasized that, in almost a year, a total of 32.8 million tonnes (metric tons) of supplies were exported from Ukraine under the grain deal, with over 70% of the exports ending up in high- and upper-middle-income countries, while countries such as Ethiopia, Sudan and Somalia, as well as Yemen and Afghanistan, received less than 3% of the supplies.

“In the meantime, none of the ‘deal’ provisions relating to the exemption from sanctions of Russian grain and fertiliser exports to world markets, were fulfilled,” Putin wrote. The Russian president stressed that barriers have been mounted to Russia’s attempts to supply free of charge mineral fertilizers to the poorest countries in need. “Of 262,000 tonnes of goods blocked in European ports, only two shipments were delivered – one of 20,000 tonnes to Malawi and one of 34,000 tonnes to Kenya. The rest is still unscrupulously held by the Europeans. And this is a purely humanitarian initiative we are talking about, which should be exempt from any sanctions as such,” Putin said, adding that, considering all these facts, “there is no longer any use in continuing the ‘grain deal’ as it has failed to serve its original humanitarian purpose.”

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“is a purely humanitarian initiative we are talking about, which should be exempt from any sanctions as such.”

Russia Prevented From Giving Free Fertilizers To Poorest Nations – Putin (TASS)

While Russia has been sending fertilizers to the world’s poorest countries free of charge, the West has been mounting barriers by blocking a substantial portion of supplies and holding it `unscrupulously’, Russian President Vladimir Putin wrote in his article for the 2nd Russia-Africa Summit to be held in St. Petersburg later this week. “Barriers have been mounted even to our attempts to supply free of charge mineral fertilizers to the poorest countries in need. Of 262,000 metric tons of goods blocked in European ports, only two shipments were delivered – one of 20,000 metric tons to Malawi and the other of 34,000 metric tons to Kenya. The rest is still being unscrupulously held by the Europeans,” Putin lamented.


And this, the Russian leader said, “is a purely humanitarian initiative we are talking about, which should be exempt from any sanctions as such.” The second Russia-Africa Summit and Economic Forum is slated for July 27-28 in St. Petersburg. The first such event was held in Sochi on October 22-24, 2019 under the slogan “For peace, security and development.”.

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“22 countries have formally applied to join the group..”

More Than 40 Countries Willing To Join BRICS –Official (RT)

More than 40 countries have shown an interest in joining BRICS, Anil Sooklal, South Africa’s ambassador-at-large responsible for ties with the economic alliance and Asian countries, has said. The diplomat told reporters in Johannesburg on Thursday that 22 countries have formally applied to join the group, while “an equal number” of states “have been informally asking about becoming BRICS members.”= Speaking with RT on Sunday, Sooklal described BRICS as an “inclusive” organization that has always been open to dialogue with the larger global community. The group currently comprises Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, and accounts for over 40% of the global population and nearly a quarter of the world’s GDP.

Sooklal said that BRICS does not distinguish between the Global North and Global South and is ready to talk to any country that “has the same vision for a more inclusive and equitable global order where we do not marginalize large parts of the world,” including many developing nations. The diplomat went on to point out that while the United Nations has yet to embark on comprehensive reforms that would give emerging countries a greater voice, BRICS has charted its own path to remedy the situation. However, he stressed that the bloc “does not seek to become a dominant economic force,” but rather wants to have “a major influence in an inclusive manner to work for change.”

“We don’t want a world where we have one or two global hegemons,” he added, explaining that such a distribution of power sows division in the global community. Sooklal had earlier said in comments to journalists that Argentina, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates were among those countries looking to join the bloc. South Africa will host the BRICS annual summit this year, which will take place in Johannesburg from August 22-24, with President Cyril Ramaphosa having sent invitations to nearly 70 global leaders.

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Never talked to Hunter about his business…

Hunter Phones A Friend (Miranda Devine)

Hunter Biden would dial in his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, on speakerphone into meetings with his overseas business partners, according to testimony expected before Congress this week from Devon Archer, the first son’s former best friend. Archer, 48, who is facing jail for his role in a $60 million bond fraud, is scheduled to testify to the House Oversight Committee about meetings he witnessed that were attended by Joe Biden either in person or via speakerphone when Hunter would call his father and introduce him to foreign business partners or prospective investors. “We are looking forward very much to hearing from Devon Archer about all the times he has witnessed Joe Biden meeting with Hunter Biden’s overseas business partners when he was vice president, including on speakerphone,” says Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the committee chairman.

One such meeting was in Dubai late in the evening of Friday, Dec. 4, 2015, after a board meeting of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma, which was paying Hunter $83,000 a month as a director. Archer, who also was a director, is expected to testify that, after dinner with the Burisma board at the Burj Al Arab Hotel, he and Hunter traveled six miles north to the Four Seasons Resort Dubai at Jumeirah Beach to have a drink with one of Hunter’s friends. While they were sitting outside at the bar, Vadym Pozharskyi, a senior Burisma executive, phoned to ask where they were because Burisma’s owner Mykola Zlochevsky needed to speak to Hunter urgently. Soon afterward, the two Ukrainians joined Hunter and Archer at the Four Seasons bar and Pozharskyi asked Hunter: “Can you ring your dad?” At the time it was early afternoon, Friday, in Washington, DC.

Hunter then called his father, put him on speaker, placed the phone on the table, and introduced the Ukrainians to Joe Biden by name as “Nikolai and Vadym.” He also said words to the effect that the Burisma bigwigs “need our support.” VP Biden greeted the Ukrainians but spoke only in vague pleasantries during the short call, and in other such interactions with Hunter’s overseas business partners, Archer is expected to testify. Congressional investigators are expected to probe the reasons for Zlochevsky requesting the urgent phone call with Joe Biden. They will note the context, that three days after the speakerphone call, the then-vice president, who was the Obama administration’s point man for Ukraine, was due to fly to Kyiv to address the Ukrainian parliament, known as the “Rada,” on Dec. 9, 2015, about the “poison of cronyism, corruption, and kleptocracy.”

Ten weeks before the call, on Sept. 24, 2015, US Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt had given a speech about corruption in Odessa, in which he targeted Zlochevsky by name. By then, Ukrainian prosecutor general Viktor Shokin was investigating Burisma for corruption and, within two months, on Feb. 2, 2016, would seize four houses in Kyiv, two plots of land and a Rolls Royce belonging to Zlochevsky, who was living in exile in Dubai. A month later, Shokin was fired, after Joe Biden threatened to withhold $1 billion in US aid to Ukraine.

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Not Biden but Trump faces trial.

Trump To Face Trial Before Election (RT)

Former US President Donald Trump is to stand trial on charges of mishandling classified documents in May 2024, a court order issued on Friday suggested. The date pushes the court hearings deep into the 2024 US presidential race. US District Judge Aileen Cannon ordered the trial to start on May 24. A pretrial hearing in Trump’s case is to be held on May 14. The dates place the hearings after most state primaries that are scheduled to be finished by mid-May, the US media report. Nebraska, Maryland and West Virginia are expected to hold their primary votes right on May 14, according to CNN. Oregon is to do it a week later and a few states, including New Jersey will vote on June 4, the network added.

According to AP, the Republican presidential nominee might be already clear by the time Trump is to arrive before the court, even though the official nomination would only take place at the Republican National Convention in July 2024. Two weeks ago, Trump’s lawyers demanded his trial be delayed until after the 2024 presidential election. The prosecutors also requested a four-month postponement and called on the trial to be moved to December 2023. Cannon ruled on Friday that “the Government’s proposed schedule is atypically accelerated and inconsistent with ensuring a fair trial,” adding that the amount of evidence that needs to be examined in this case is “voluminous and likely to increase in the normal course as trial approaches.”

“The Court finds that the interests of justice served by this continuance outweigh the best interest of the public and Defendants in a speedy trial,” she added. Trump’s campaign already hailed the decision as a “major setback to the DOJ’s crusade to deny President Trump a fair legal process.” The “extensive schedule” would allow Trump and his legal team to “continue fighting this empty hoax,” it added. Trump pleaded not guilty last month to 37 felony counts regarding his alleged mishandling of classified documents following his departure from the White House.

The 300-plus documents were recovered by the FBI, including during a controversial raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate last August. They reportedly included classified national security material related to nuclear secrets and the country’s defense capabilities. Trump repeatedly argued he had “every right” to keep the documents in question. He also told Fox News earlier that he had no time to return them when asked by the federal officials. The indictment saw Trump’s polling lead double over his closest rival for the Republican 2024 nomination, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. The former US president was also polling ahead of the incumbent one, Joe Biden.

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“Look at all the money we’re giving to Ukraine and yet Ukraine was paying the Biden family a fortune..”

Trump Calls Biden ‘Stupid’ For Revealing US Has Run Out of Ammo (Sp.)

President Biden revealed earlier this month that the Ukrainian army was “running out” of 155mm artillery ammunition and that the US was “low on it,” and that this played a role in his controversial decision to send cluster munition to Ukraine. Biden’s talking points were echoed by Pentagon and White House officials. Former President Donald Trump has lashed out at Joe Biden for revealing that the United States is running low on ammunition amid its failing proxy-war with Russia in Ukraine. “We have a man that doesn’t understand what he’s doing. We have a man that yesterday stood up and told the whole world that we have no ammunition. You know I had every ammunition building full to the brim three years ago. We’ve given it all away. But if you gave it all away…the only thing worse than that is to tell the world that we have no [ammunition]. He has told China and these other places that are hostile that we have no ammunition,” Trump said in a TV interview Sunday.

“By the way you talk about classified documents – that’s worse than any document that you could give. So now these people are sitting back, in China and other places that hate us including North Korea where I had a very good relationship with Kim Jong-un and kept our country safe – they’re talking about the United States of America has no ammunition, think of it. How stupid can somebody be to say that?” Trump asked. Trump, who is currently leading in polling for the Republican nomination in 2024, and is five points ahead of Biden in polling for the general election, accused the sitting president of corruption in Ukraine. “Look at all the money we’re giving to Ukraine and yet Ukraine was paying the Biden family a fortune,” Trump said, presumably referring to reports that Biden and his son Hunter allegedly received millions of dollars from a Ukrainian businessman while Joe Biden was serving as Barack Obama’s vice president in an alleged pay-to-play corruption scheme.

Asked if he would cut off funding to Ukraine, Trump answered “I’d get the war settled. The money is – number one I’d tell Europe ‘you’re about $100 billion+ short. You gotta pay.’ Because Europe is smiling all the way to the bank…Europe is doing very little compared to the United States and it affects them more. No matter how you look at it, they’re right there, we’re an ocean apart. Why are we at $150 billion and they’re at $20 [billion]? You know their economy is almost exactly our size if you add it all up…They should be at the same number that we’re at if not more.” Trump also repeated his earlier warnings about the dangers of the current Russia-NATO proxy conflict in Ukraine owing to the existence of nuclear weapons.

“This is the most dangerous time in the history of our country because of weaponry. The nuclear power is so enormous – this isn’t two army tanks going and shooting each other in World War I, World War II, or soldiers standing behind a bunker and shooting people,” Trump said.

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Local news :-). Makes the work on TAE a challenge.

Greece Heatwave Likely To Become Longest Country Has Ever Recorded (RT)

A heat wave baking Greece is likely to become the longest the country has ever recorded, experts say, as the country battles wildfires and restricts access to its popular tourist sites, Report informs via CNN. Visiting hours for the Acropolis and other archaeological sites have been revised with temperatures soaring. Staff at some sites are on strike to protests working conditions. “We will probably go through 15 to 16 days of a heat wave, which has never happened before in our country,” the Director of Research at the National Observatory of Athens Kostas Lagouvardos told CNN.


He told CNN that the streak could go beyond those days, but at the moment “it’s hard to predict.” The longest continuous heatwave that Greece has faced was 12 days long, back in July 1987, Lagouvardos said. Lagouvardos said temperatures in Athens this summer could possibly break the city’s all-time record, which was set in June 2007, when Athens registered 44.8 degrees Celsius (112.64 degrees Fahrenheit). The authorities have been battling wildfires in several areas, including the island of Rhodes where Reuters said hundreds have been forced to evacuate.

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    Jackson Pollock Number 31 1949   • Weird That NATO Failed to Foresee Botched Counteroffensive – Larry Johnson (Sp.) • West Knew Ukraine Wasn’t Re
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle July 24 2023]

    #139683
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    Too good to miss, so reposting on the new thread:

    #139684
    Red
    Participant

    “World’s Biggest Wind Power Projects Are in Crisis Just When World Needs Them Most.
    “A unit of Spain’s Iberdrola SA agreed to cancel a contract to sell power from a planned wind farm off the coast of Massachusetts. Danish developer Orsted A/S lost a bid to provide offshore wind power to Rhode Island, whose main utility said rising costs made the proposal too expensive. Swedish state-owned utility Vattenfall AB scuttled plans for a wind farm off the coast of Britain, citing inflation…

    “Soaring costs are derailing offshore wind projects even as demand for renewable energy soars. Extreme heat driven by climate change is straining electric grids all over the world, underscoring the need for more power generation — and adding urgency to calls for a faster transition away from fossil fuels.”

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-22/biggest-offshore-wind-power-plans-in-crisis-iberdrola-orsted-vattenfall-hit

    #139685
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    The war porn is flooding the intertubes.
    The dark side of humanity is titillated by all the real time murder and mayhem, the inevitable result of a system that glorifies all sides in ongoing conflict…
    What’s forgotten is that for every televised bomb/missile strike, somebodies brother, son, husband or friend is killed or maimed in that realtime, surrealistic “entertainment”…
    Be careful out there; your mental health/humanity is being torn assunder in that very same realtime reportage’…………

    #139686
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

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    #139688
    Dr. D
    Participant

    If you think the Pollocks are so easy, try making a forgery…

    “Higher Military Spending Will Save Democracy, Says NY Times
    Record military spending in the USA as yearly Pentagon budgets approach $900 billion…”

    Core values of the Left: Unlimited war, no accounting.

    “”Nobody Understands Where Bottom Is” for Commercial Real Estate
    “The biggest problem right now is because of that, the capital markets nationally have frozen.”

    That’s odd, history is very clear: the bottom is down 90-95% from here. If you take the taxes, you can own the property, essentially free. Let’s say a Main Street location is $300,000. Bottom is $15,000. Easy!

    “Democratic intent”. Oh their cities are far worse than that. But the question is, “Why?” Clearly they are bad at practical, logical things, or noticing. Why? Everyone is hurt and killed every day they do that. Don’t they care?

    ““I wonder was everybody asleep over the last six-seven months?”

    Far worse: they’re all psychotic, and lost in violent delusions no one can break them from. Howso? They were violent against anyone who even attempted to rouse or warn them. Julian Assange. Gonzalo Lira. RFK.

    “US Special Forces engineer as saying that Russia’s minefields are unlike anything he has ever seen”

    Um. They’re MINES. They’ve been around since the Civil (or Crimean) War? How “unlike” can they possibly be?

    “These Russians are using GUNPOWDER! Well I say sir! That’s just not cricket!”

    P.S. they have a satellite picture of every single mine being laid. Still surprised! “Your Honor, I did not realize that Reality existed.”

    “Poland plans to launch an operation. …No longer able to maintain the image that Ukraine is winning”

    Remember, they only believe in Bernays. He’s their only method, only weapon, their only plan. They have no mines, no steel, no ammonia, no gunpowder, no shells, no men. They only have The Narrative™, Holy be thy name, Amen. If starting WWIII maintains The Narrative™, they will do it. Otherwise they’d have to return out of delusion back to reality, like in AA.

    “but allowed Kiev to launch its disastrous operation regardless, the Wall Street Journal reported”

    Headline: “Wall Street Journal Declares United States Declared Direct, Aggressive War with Russia and Ukraine Is Not a Country, But Just a Fully-Controlled Subordinate to Our War.”

    Thanks WSJ, that wasn’t so hard, was it? Oh wait: every American reads this and is too stupid and illiterate to understand? Right.

    In other news, NATO member Poland has also declared direct war on Russia and is attacking the Russian Army in Russian territory (Donbas and the four Oblasts) with tens of thousands of men. No one notices. No one cares.

    “There is a risk of Ukrainian lives and equipment being lost without any shift in momentum, as per a US mainstream media outlet.”

    But because: “Journalists”, they do not know what “Time” is. “Reality.” This happened IN THE PAST, sir. It’s not in the Future, it’s in the PAST, that’s why you have the information about it to report. Because it’s not in the FUTURE.

    …But such things are hard to describe to the impossibly mentally-ill. “Time Exists.” Time is not flexible and does not expand or contract to your convenience. Shells take a certain amount of time to build, to ship, and men are conceived, gestated, born, raised, trained, and armed over a period of not less than 17 years, including 17 years of high-quality food. And high-quality time.

    This might have come to your attention somewhere. Say at a Taco Bell in college, when your chalupa is slow because there is only one drive-thru clerk. Time. Manpower. Scarcity. Santa didn’t’ come and give you a free SNAP card then, either. When I say they’re delusional and mentally ill I’m not being hyperbolic or metaphorical.

    “Still, US war planners claimed the Kiev regime was well-equipped.”

    Well equipped with promises. But not well equipped with tanks, planes, jeeps, shells, and everything that matters. In this Ze is not wrong in his blame and complaints. However, IT’S HIS FAULT. He knew exactly how many were in warehouses at every time.

    “We know this is going to be a hard fight. We know this is going to take TIME.”

    Do you? Do you know that? Because TIME is something that’s not flexible and not on your side in any war. TIME showed you make ZERO tanks per month and the Russians have collected 900 tanks in the north, carefully parked in rows in plain view, and no one can touch them. Plus 100,000 men you gave them TIME to fully-train and collect.

    “much-touted Leopard tanks. Shortly after, images of burned and damaged NATO-grade weaponry started to pop up in the media and social networks.”

    “Pop-up” meaning “not officially reported.” But leaking out despite a media blackout on the subject. Also Leopard Tanks are a zero. Because of effective countermeasures they blow up just as easily as a 1939 M2. Might as well send out a Lexus or a Smart car, and it’d be cheaper.

    “Wagner says” … Yanking NATOs chain. The idea was to tie down Poland, and this enhances that. They COULD – technically – have these “Independent” people attack and claim they are not Russian nor Belarussian soldiers. They’re SUPER MAD about it and will give them what-for if you deport them back home, yes sir. Why not? That’s what we’re doing to Russia 100,000 times a day.

    “These are hardliners who tend to think the Kremlin has been too restrained”

    NATO doesn’t care WHO starts WWIII. They would be happy TO assassinate Putin and have the hard-liners take over. That would be good for them, and London. It’s the only way to keep the debt-control system running.

    And arresting him? Sorry, but Russia is not the United States. As a culture they want Authoritarianism and not free speech. I do not agree with them on this, but it’s their country and their culture, not mine. They are “Monarchists” and find that works for them. Well Putin is the present “Monarch” and has wide latitude and the people will support this.

    “journalists and military pundits …, have finally convened and appear to have collectively decided…”

    Don’t be ridiculous: they are Minions and incapable of human thought. They got “The Memo”. Now WHERE they got the memo and WHO sent it is another question.

    You saw this hinted last week as a trial balloon that America was going to cut off Crimea in Zap then sue for peace, telling Russia ‘how it’s gonna be.’ Or, “Step two: ??? Step Three: Korea DMZ and “Backsies! Profit!”

    Say, did anyone ask Russia if they WANTED to stop fighting? Or did you just decide? A: Who? There is nothing else in the Universe except my colossal Ego. Who would I talk to? I am God.

    Again, instead of Ukraine’s counteroffensive, in #OppositeLand we live in, Russia has tediously created a bridgehead in the north with 900 tanks and 100,000 men behind it, waiting to come through. Not being reported.

    “Russia Prevented From Giving Free Fertilizers To Poorest Nations – Putin (TASS)

    “Free” is a war crime throughout the Capitalist world. “Competition is a Sin.” – JD Rockefeller, anti-capitalist. However, Ukraine using their grain revenue to buy weapons (Obviously) is copacetic.

    “has the same vision for a more inclusive and equitable global order where we do not marginalize large parts of the world,”

    That is, commodity producers vs financial colonialists and price-fixers. Look out because they only way for them to express power and get this settled is to cut off everything you need to live. They’d rather you just pay for it but we won’t let them.

    ““We are looking forward very much to hearing from Devon Archer about all the times he has witnessed Joe Biden meeting with Hunter Biden’s overseas business partners when he was vice president”

    They feel safe enough to pop up these IRS, FBI whistleblowers who won’t get Wack’d as McAfee would say. So what’s the DNC plan since clearly they’d all like to Whack Kamala? Aka Captain Kneepads, Cackler-in-Chief. That will be most entertaining to see how the media whacks a “black” woman (not really) and installs a Great White Failure like Newsom ahead of her. (again) Nice optics. I’m sure they won’t notice and it won’t bother them a bit, just like everything else. You’re racist if you support Cornell West over Great White Joe. Great White Anderson Cooper and Great White Lester Holt. I was going to use NPR as an example but 100% of their people are women. As #AntiDiverse as it’s possible to be. I had a hard time even finding them as I Googled “News Anchor” 100% of the pictures listed were women. No joke, try it yourself. Just like, what was it, “Scientists” or something and Google had only women and minorities as every search result for the first two pages? Good to know with all these lies we’re certain to win. When have lies ever lost a war? Not in medicine, surely.

    “Donald Trump is to stand trial on charges of mishandling classified documents”

    WHICH classified documents? Maybe documents related to Joe Biden’s bribery and Milley committing treason with China to start a war in Iran? It will be greatly entertaining, since it’s all fake, all a show, and nobody has the slightest interest in the truth.

    “Greece Heatwave Likely To Become Longest Country Has Ever Recorded (RT)

    That’s a problem since it seems clear this is an actual record heatwave in many places, the U.S. as well, at the same time they are ALSO lying about it for their agenda. That makes people want to deny data that is real and accurate (for a change). What have you done that when the Sun comes up the in East, now people want to suspect you and argue over it? ‘Cause that’s the biggest scientific failure since…well, yesterday, since AGW and Covid science are still going on.

    “Soaring costs are derailing offshore wind projects even as demand for renewable energy soars.”

    This is exactly what every engineer – and human who looked – said. To build an alternative grid – even if it works – you’d have to have two grids: the one doing what it does now, AND a second commodity stream that builds out Green Grid II. Duh. “You can’t have your cake and eat it too” ring a bell?

    So here we are. People drew on the Commodity Stream I and prices rose as there was zero effort to create Green Commodity Stream II. Every mine is still shut, every factory and mill still shuttered. Just as every person ever born knew would happen except Media, Politicians, and Global Warming Science Deniers. They think the world is made of fluffy cotton candy in infinite amounts if we click our heels and tell it to exist.

    …Or they wish to murder all humans on the planet with great joy, your choice. One or the other. By saying they’re dumber than a bag of hammers and twice as useless as tits on a boar, I’m picking the interpretation that makes them look good.

    Video “Cheese”: yes. I see ACTUAL people do ACTUALLY this, almost every day. And they wonder why I live under a bridge instead of on it.

    BTW it’s not peaked yet. People are still acting MORE insane in their daily lives than I’ve ever seen. Broad-based, internal, therefore expressing in every thought and action they take.

    #139689
    Dr. D
    Participant

    * Anderson Cooper and Great White Lester Holt said so. –edit.

    #139691
    zerosum
    Participant

    TAE also knows how to communicate with the illiterates/sheep/rif-raf/workers/taxpayers/critical thinkers/snobs/elitists.
    (Include pictures/videos that are done with crayons/funny/factual/age appropriate/censored/talking trash).

    • Wagner Fighters Want To ‘Visit’ Poland – Lukashenko (RT)
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    #139692
    Dora
    Participant

    Peter McCullough: Serious Neurologic Syndromes after COVID-19 Vaccination

    https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/serious-neurologic-syndromes-after

    #139693
    Formerly T-Bear
    Participant

    Does anyone subscribe to the idea that Germany signed their economic suicide note when they pulled the German gold reserves from the vaults in London and New York? The reaction of global finance was slow but assured, striking at Germany’s economic Achilles heel, the North Stream I and II at the time Germany’s policy was NOT to send weapons of any sort into a conflict zone. That got changes on the quick. Germany no longer has the economic or financial resources to rebuild or the social imperative to rebuild given the conditions exacted by the EU (aka lack of national sovereignty) and will result with permanent loss of its industrial base and the population qualified to provide the labour needed – just like the United States.

    #139694
    tboc
    Participant

    “”they’re all psychotic, and lost in violent delusions no one can break them from.

    When I say they’re delusional and mentally ill I’m not being hyperbolic or metaphorical.

    It will be greatly entertaining, since it’s all fake, all a show, and nobody has the slightest interest in the truth.

    They think the world is made of fluffy cotton candy in infinite amounts if we click our heels and tell it to exist.

    BTW it’s not peaked yet. People are still acting MORE insane in their daily lives than I’ve ever seen.
    Broad-based, internal, therefore expressing in every thought and action they take.”

    and every single one of “they, them, those” were told by one of them “capitalists” that a service economy was the golden path to the future. “The renaissance man is dead” is how George Will phrased it, “we have reached the age of specialization”. Modern monetary policy indicates that a nations productive capacity can be reduced to zero, have no marketable exports and expand comfortably at 2.5% per annum indefinitly. Wasn’t it the communists and their planned economy that started shutting down United States manufacturing capability and borrowing to finance manufacturing in Bangladesh, Southeast Asia and China? I’m sure it was the Soviet Style economists that derailed all sense of mark to market, that allowed corporations to borrow based on the value of manufacturing plants that were idled. I’m sure it was those scheming Chinese who put laws through the US congress to allow the mingling of funds between private and commercial banking. You know the opening of the casino and the explosion of derivatives markets.

    “It will be greatly entertaining, since it’s all fake, all a show, and nobody has the slightest interest in the truth.” – D
    D, bro do you have any context for the following? “and their hearts were hardened” Are you counting on a second passover? “…..nobody has the slightest interest in the truth.” Fair enough.
    Hope you understand that i love my fellow citizens, don’t like the culture a tinker’s damn worth, and i do not hold them in contempt. I understand that from the moment that tax dollars were supplied to the televison industry to provide “Public Service Information” the citizens of my nation have been encouraged to look to television to find accurate information about the worlds movement into the future. I have in my personal live been lied to and betrayed and i struggle to achieve empathy and compassion for every human being that finds themself in similar circumstance.
    Just how many words does it take to say “black is black”?

    #139696
    jb-hb
    Participant

    “Greece Heatwave Likely To Become Longest Country Has Ever Recorded (RT)”

    fdsfsafdsa

    Bombshell! Last Week’s Record High Temperatures Were FAKED!

    #139697
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    There is a class of lurker on TAE that never has and never will comment. Those are the one’s I’m talking to now. Henceforward in this comment I will refer to them as “you”. Everyone else can either bail out now or come along for the ride, suit yourself.

    When provided with reasonably factual information the vast majority of people come up with reasonably correct answers. The species would not even have survived if that were not true, and indeed it IS true. It is SIMPLY true, and everyone who believes otherwise is a god damned fool . . . literally.

    That’s why the only way to guide people into making decisions that are bad for themselves is to lie to them, and to muzzle the truth sayers among them and then “classify” everything else that can’t be shredded or murdered. It’s also why hitman, gifted liar and gatekeeper are such high paying jobs. THOSE jobs are the jobs that get THE job gets done (the job of deceiving large numbers of people into hurting themselves).

    The hierarchical structure which is enabling the HIGHLY organized effort to deceive the entire human species into hurting itself has a name. It is called The Government, and it is composed ENTIRELY (top to bottom and with no exceptions) of those people who are deceiving large numbers of people into hurting themselves. A frequently omitted element in this structure are the un-elected self selected (and often unrecognized) owners of the publicly official layers below them. No definition of “government” is complete (or even makes sense) without including that ownership layer at the top as being ALSO a crucially important component part of “the government”.

    Perhaps you are (or have been) one of them. That’s fine. Nobody is perfect. Just stop doing it right now and repent that crime and all will be forgiven after any truly necessary restitutions are paid.

    But anyone who continues to engage in the collaborative effort to lie in order to deceive people into hurting themselves had better look out, because when they are found they shall be compelled to stop that nonsense, and if they get sort of accidentally maimed or killed in the process, well that’s going to just have to be on them, isn’t it?

    We’re coming to get you. There is no chance whatsoever that we will fail to apprehend you, and there is no chance whatsoever that you will not stop doing those crimes.

    We will now return to normal programming and let ol’ D Benton Smith get back to business trying to explain his sudden lurch into mental illness, which happens often enough of late that to most it just seems like business as usual. DBS is off his rocker. Ho hum, another typical day on TAE.

    #139698
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Fighters from the private military company (PMC) Wagner want to “visit” Poland, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko told his Russian counterpart,

    Re-enacting WW2? The dumb Poles – now I understand why they are a category of jokes, all on their own – think they can change their historical ineptitude, so it is popcorn time. A few ay poles versus the battle hardened Russians, it is a fight over the lipstick.

    #139699
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Red said

    World’s Biggest Wind Power Projects Are in Crisis Just When World Needs Them Most.

    “When the world needs them most”, a total lie, a USA style lie, the sort of thing the greens – supporters of the Ukraine war – want for us. These people are whores, they used to believe in the environment, now they pucker their arses for war, letting his tiny sausage roast in the sun.

    #139700
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Telegraph admits Ukraine is dead: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fnews%2F2023%2F07%2F21%2Fukraines-counter-offensive-is-failing-with-no-easy-fixes%2F
    (Example)

    “Compare the glacial but costly progress today to the lightning victories at Kharkiv and Kherson last autumn.” Wow! Starts with a lie. “Kyiv’s forces were advancing against a withdrawing enemy that was pulling back to redeploy” That is, lightning victories against a retreating enemy willingly handing them the field. …A different kind of lie. Like when they say (always!!!) “Unprovoked” attack. “Aggressive” invasion. (is there another kind?) Etc. That’s odd. Why do you feel the need to add that 100% of the time, in every communique, in every NATO release, and by every reporter Left or Right? Do I usually say “would you like a cola that I totally own and didn’t steal at all”? No. Because there is no need UNLESS the statement is suspicious and false.

    Anyway, he recites the liturgy and 3 Hail Marys as an article of faith indicating that he’s ALSO a true believer, totally, and you can tell by this funny hat, or coat, or slogan, that “I’m one of YOU” a fellow cult member, and it’s safe to listen to him.

    But this is an example of “The Memo” that Ukraine is lost and HOW they are releasing it. Note this again begins in London. They are the epicenter of the ripples as with The Telegraph, not the L.A. Times, not the Post.

    Quotes: “Mark Milley, has already pointed out, “The Russians have 1,000 fourth-generation fighters. If you’re going to contest Russia in the air, you’re going to need a substantial amount of fourth and fifth generation fighters.”

    That’s odd. If Milley’s been saying that it’s against all his actions and official releases as reported before today. And suddenly reporters notice that he said that? When it’s been true also for +10 years? Huh.

    “The West, meanwhile, should focus on providing the right practical equipment … It will take a focus on grubby land warfare – and not sky-high dreams – to tip the balance.”

    Like with what “Equipment” and what men, as you yourself declare this is a front equal or greater than WWI? A: Handwave. “#I’m not going”, “#They’ll Think of Something.”

    #139701
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    Yikes, Raul — it sounds like the temps there are nearly up to Phoenix temps. But here, we expect it, and I know that every year my electric bill in July/August will be quadruple or more what it is in December. Is air conditioning ubiquitous in Greece? And what is the humidity like?

    #139702
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Afewknowthetruth – you were warned to start using percentage signs as part of

      your new policy of honesty

    .

    Instead, you decided to lie even more by using a percentage sign. So here it comes.

      Afewknowthetruth said:

    An unusually high annual difference today (normally around 2.7 ppm [a fancy way of saying 0.00027%] year on year, up substantially from the below 1 ppm [a fancy way of saying 0.000001] year-on-year increase initially reported by Keling in the late 1950s.)

      Afewknowthetruth said:

    Jul. 22, 2023 422.64 ppm [a fancy way of saying 0.0422%]
    Jul. 22, 2022 417.10 ppm [a fancy way of saying 0.0417%]
    1 Year Change 5.54 ppm (1.33%)

    You are saying “a change of 1.33% when 0.0422% – 0.0417% = 0.0005%

    You are a lying innumerate superstitious asshole who thinks 0.0005% –

      ie five ten thousandths OF a percent

    – equals 1.33%.

      You are OFF by (LYING BY) 2,660%

    Were you attempting to give a RELATIVE percentage change… JUST LIKE THE METHOD FOR SAYING A FRACTION OF A PERCENTAGE IMPROVEMENT BY THE NOT-A-VAX TRANSLATES TO 98% EFFECTIVENESS???

    You’re so “pro science” n “anti vax” that you use the SAME LYING METHODS to sell Climate Meltdown that is used for the Not-A-Vax???

    You lying, unscientific, religious nutjob

    #139703
    aspnaz
    Participant

    D Benton Smith said

    There is a class of lurker on TAE that never has and never will comment. Those are the one’s I’m talking to now. Henceforward in this comment I will refer to them as “you”. Everyone else can either bail out now or come along for the ride, suit yourself.

    Were you a policeman in your youth? So many of your posts remind me of the shit I used to get from my neighbour, a policeman of 20+ years, back in the 90s, who was so sure of his moral framework that he would put a black peron in jail simply for being black, if it were not for his boss who has had his eye on James for a very long time. Are you another James, an ex cop? Are you constable Savage?

    #139704
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @aspnaz

    A Pollack, a pun and a Knock-knock joke walked into a bar and after a very confusing 3-way here is what walked out:

    After stealing Russian territory the Poles stroll up to Russia’s door, and tap, Knock knock
    Russia answers, “Who’s there?”
    The Poles answer, “Poland.”
    Russia then asks, “Do you remember that we are the ones that you stole your Poland from and that we are 10 times bigger and stronger than you right now?”
    And the Poles answer, “Naw, we don’t remember anything like that.”
    So Russia says, “Yeah, we thought so. No wonder you’re called poles.”

    #139705
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @aspnaz

    You just can’t quite peg me can you? You keep throwing out guesses like a blind guy casting a net trying to catch SOMETHING, anything, even if he can’t see where he’s throwing it.

    Keep trying. You’ll get it. I have great faith in you.

    #139706
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Hey, at least they’ve solved the autism caused by vaccines problem

    Dutch Doctors Now Euthanizing Patients with Autism

    .

    Dutch Doctors Now Euthanizing Patients with Autism

    #139707
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Biden Blames White House Cocaine On Black Guy Who Lived There Before

    Hahahahahaahha

    .

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — With the rumor mill still churning despite the Secret Service closing its investigation, President Joe Biden blamed the presence of cocaine in the West Wing of the White House on a black man who used to live there.

    https://babylonbee.com/news/biden-blames-white-house-cocaine-on-black-guy-who-lived-there-before

    #139708
    jb-hb
    Participant

    sorry , Afewknowthetruth, I was too hasty there

    You claimed CO2 had gone up by 1.33%

    You stated CO2 went from 0.0417% to 0.0422%

    That’s a change of 0.0005%

    I erroneously said you lied by 2,660% because I was a bit too hasty in posting

    your claimed 1.3% change divided by the 0.0005% by your claimed ppm figure DOES equal 2,660, but I forgot to express the fraction as a percentage

    You were lying, not by 2,660%, but by 266,000%

    Sorry about the error

    #139709
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Things Couldn’t Be Worse for Joe Biden

    It’s all Fake in the Empire of Lies, every day in every way, fake, fake, fake

    Pedo Presidementia Joe’s expiration date is coming up fast.

    Dump him in the MediaWhore© trash compactor.

    Hahahahahahas

    #139710
    Oroboros
    Participant

    A Net-Zero electric car burning as bright in a suburban parking lot as an M2 Bradley does on the Ukronaziland steppes after a direct hit from an ATGM.

    Sweet

    Burn Baby feel the Burn

    .

    #139711
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Hope they got the kids and the dog out they left there while grabbing a quick latte

    #139712
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Turdeau

    Hang him from a lamppost, please, pretty please you Canuckistanites

    .

    #139713
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    Alastair Crooke writes this a.m.:

    Ukraine has served as the solvent to the old order and has become the Albatross hanging around the neck of the Biden Admin: How to spin the looming Ukraine debacle as somehow ‘mission achieved’. Can that be done? Because the escape route of a ceasefire and a frozen line of contact is unacceptable to Moscow. In short, ‘Biden’s war’ cannot continue as it is, but nor can it do ‘other’ without facing humiliation. The myth of American power, NATO competence and the reputation of U.S. weaponry hangs in the balance. […]

    … Fireworks are coming for Europe – but slowly. It has already begun (governments are falling); but the U.S. is the vanguard for radical change as the West loses its grip on the meta-narrative of its ‘vision’ being uniquely the paradigm through which the world’s ‘vision’ must be shaped too. A shift that changes everything.

    Counter-Revolution – ‘Do You Know What Time It Is?’

    #139714
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Jimmy Dore: “Oooooh! I mean the temperature inside a PIZZA OVEN in Sicily! Not the airport AIR temperature like we usually report. Sorry for the mixup. I’m sure it’s all your fault.”

    #139715
    Oroboros
    Participant

    The Ghost of Edward Bernays, Sigmund Fraud’s nephew

    Oy vey (oi′ vā′)

    Genocide Is Us

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    #139716
    Oroboros
    Participant

    And who could go without their daily dose of “Expert’

    .

    #139717
    Dr. D
    Participant

    And I notice it’s world-wide, what I call “Space weather”. Everyone is cranky and attacking anyone they see. Worldwide. Even old friends we see and read every day, like here.

    Take a breath, it is indeed better if you know the agitation is coming from outside, like someone putting uppers in your coffee.

    #139718
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    That little ungrateful bitch!

    #139719
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Look on the bright side UFO Aliens

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    #139720
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Atlantic City

    Well, they blew up the Chicken Man in Philly last night
    And they blew up his house too
    Down on the boardwalk they’re ready for a fight
    Gonna see what them racket boys can do

    [Verse 2]
    Now there’s trouble busin’ in from outta state
    And the D.A. can’t get no relief
    Gonna be a rumble on the promenade
    And the gamblin’ commissioner’s hangin’ on by the skin of his teeth

    [Chorus]
    Everything dies, baby, that’s a fact
    But maybe everything that dies some day comes back
    Put your makeup on, fix your hair up pretty
    And meet me tonight in Atlantic City

    [Verse 3]
    Well, I got a job and I put my money away
    But I got the kind of debts that no honest man can pay
    So I drew out what I had from the Central Trust
    And I bought us two tickets on that Coast City bus

    [Chorus]
    Everything dies, baby, that’s a fact
    But maybe everything that dies some day comes back
    Put your makeup on, fix your hair up pretty
    And meet me tonight in Atlantic City
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    Bruce Springsteen
    All Of The Girls You Loved Before
    Taylor Swift
    K-POP
    Travis Scott, Bad Bunny & The Weeknd
    [Bridge]
    Now our luck may have died and our love may be cold
    But with you forever I’ll stay
    We’ll be goin’ out where the sand turns to gold
    But put your stockings on, ’cause it might get cold

    [Chorus]
    Oh, everything dies, baby, that’s a fact
    But maybe everything that dies some day comes back
    Put your makeup on, fix your hair up pretty
    And meet me tonight in Atlantic City

    [Verse 4]
    Now I’ve been a-lookin’ for a job, but it’s hard to find
    There’s winners and there’s losers and I’m south of the line
    Well, I’m tired of gettin’ caught out on the losin’ end
    But I talked to a man last night, gonna do a little favor for him

    [Chorus]
    Well, everything dies, baby, that’s a fact
    But maybe everything that dies some day comes back
    Put your makeup on, fix your hair up pretty
    And meet me tonight in Atlantic City
    Oh, meet me tonight in Atlantic City
    Oh, meet me tonight in Atlantic City

    #139721
    zerosum
    Participant

    The biggest attraction to Trump, why people support Trump, why so many people enjoy his speeches,
    Trump has mastered “Trash Talk” and made it entertaining.

    #139722
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    The recent resignation of Stanford president Marc Tessier-Lavigne is a mile wider and 10 miles deeper than the media are letting on to. I have never seen a more air-tight censorship clamp-down and coordinated misdirection of attention onto the WRONG details.

    The news is that he was forced to resign last week when it was forensically proved that he had falsified and caused to be falsified data in published scientific papers he had published. ALL of the media attention is being placed on the tiniest granular physical details of how the counterfeit data was entered and concealed. There is ZERO attention on what the faked studies were about, or who he was working for, or how the published studies were crucially important to the criminal agenda of his employer at the time.

    Long story short, the papers were about the safety and efficacy of genetically engineered drugs being developed by his employer, at the Genentech, for the treatment of neurological disorders like Alzheimer’s Disease. Oh, and did I mention that prior to Stanford Tessier-Lavigne was the Chief Scientific Officer of that company, in control of pretty much all of its drug development Research.

    And one last thing, Tessier-Lavigne’s early life and entire personal, educational and professional “back trail” resume’ reads like the Biography of Henry Kissinger and Klaus Schwab rolled into one. There’s that.

    If you’re interested you can start down the rabbit hole here: https://stanforddaily.com/2023/07/19/stanford-president-resigns-over-manipulated-research-will-retract-at-least-3-papers/

    #139723
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @DrD

    And I notice it’s world-wide, what I call “Space weather”. Everyone is cranky and attacking anyone they see. Worldwide. Even old friends we see and read every day, like here.

    Take a breath, it is indeed better if you know the agitation is coming from outside, like someone putting uppers in your coffee.”

    Yup, on steroids, and it ain’t no accident neither. The paychecks, grift and bribery needed to keep all that chaos churning is being bankrolled by none other than the usual suspects. Without the artificially injected (and EXPENSIVE!) bullshit things would quiet down pretty quick. When the lies and media hype slow down and the truth is at least available, then smart people figure things out pretty quickly & explain it to the less smart until they figure it out, too. One of the first things they figure out is that people who break laws in public should not be in positions of authority, and that it’s the people now in authority who are breaking all the laws in public & then hyping that up every which way so that their opposition (the aware people) can be identified and shot.

    We could go head to head and kinetic, and it might come to that in some places, so be it, BUT there’s a much easier and less violent way to take them out.

    That way is to just keep on spreading the truth. When the certain (but unknowable) “critical mass” of broad base public awareness is reached, then the perps get jugged. Bam! Over.

    #139724

    BloombergTelevision: “Ukraine Economic Recovery Depends on Millions of Women Returning”.
    (In a news box).

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