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“If You Go After Me, I’m Coming After You” – Trump (RT)
Washington ‘Terrified’ Trump May Defeat Biden in 2024 Election (Sp.)
The Second Trump Indictment is a Threat to Free Speech (Turley)
Bolton Claims Trump Would Quit NATO (RT)
Hunter Biden Netted Big Money From Ukraine – Court Documents (RT)
Judge Napolitano: Biden Doesn’t Have Coherent Strategy in Ukraine (Sp.)
Zelensky’s ‘Formula’ Disregards Future Of Millions Of Russians – Lavrov (TASS)
US Has ‘No Illusions’ About Ukrainian Counteroffensive – Pentagon (RT)
There Is No Magic Wand To Conjure A Ukrainian Victory (Scott Ritter)
Desperation Creeps In (Kunstler)
Russia Was Doing Utmost To Prevent War, Protect Donbass People – Kremlin (TASS)
Niger Coup Represents European ‘Failure’ – Ex-French Ambassador (RT)
MMA Star Khabib Refuses Offer From Musk (RT)

 

 

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New charges every day. 40 in total now? The idea seems to be that each time something about Hunter comes out, Trump gets a new charge.

“If You Go After Me, I’m Coming After You” – Trump (RT)

Former US President Donald Trump has set off a social media firestorm by issuing an apparent threat against unidentified enemies just one day after he was indicted for the third time in four months. “If you go after me, I’m coming after you,” Trump said on Friday in a post on his Truth Social platform. He offered no context or explanation for the statement, letting supporters and critics alike infer his meaning for themselves. Trump pleaded not guilty on Thursday to the latest criminal charges against him, four felonies related to an alleged conspiracy to overturn Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election. After leaving the federal courthouse in Washington, he claimed that politically motivated prosecutors were going after him because Biden couldn’t beat him in a 2024 election rematch.

“This is a very sad day for America,” Trump told reporters before boarding his plane. He added, “This was never supposed to happen in America. This is a persecution of the person that’s leading by very, very substantial numbers in the Republican primary and leading Biden by a lot, so if you can’t beat him, you persecute him. We can’t let this happen in America.” Trump issued his cryptic threat on the same day that his campaign released a new ad alleging that Biden had assembled a “cast of unscrupulous accomplices to get Trump.” That group, which the ad called “the fraud squad,” includes Jack Smith, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) special counsel who’s handling the two federal cases against Trump, and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who filed charges against Trump in April for allegedly making false claims in his New York business filings.

While Trump supporters interpreted his latest message to mean “the gloves are off,” and that he will take revenge on his enemies when he’s elected president again in 2024, detractors suggested that he was trying to scare anyone who would try to punish him for his alleged crimes. Magistrate Judge Moxila Updadhyaya warned Trump on Thursday that the most important condition of his release on bond was that he mustn’t commit “any new crimes” while awaiting trial, which could lead to him being jailed or sentenced more harshly if convicted. According to NPR, she told Trump that it’s a crime to “influence a juror or try to threaten or bribe a witness or retaliate against anyone connected to the case.”

Smith also filed dozens of felony charges related to Trump’s alleged mishandling of state secrets. On Friday, Trump waived his right to appear at an arraignment for the updated indictment in that case. Smith slapped Trump with three additional charges late last month for allegedly plotting to delete potentially incriminating security camera footage before FBI agents raided his home to gather evidence in the classified documents case. He pleaded not guilty in June to the 37 previously filed charges in that case. Friday’s filing said he will also plead not guilty to the new charges.

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“It isn’t Trump that poses an ‘existential’ threat to Democrats, It’s democracy itself, and that’s what they are trying to snuff out.”

Washington ‘Terrified’ Trump May Defeat Biden in 2024 Election (Sp.)

Former US President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty on Thursday to four federal charges related to his alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The first hearing for the trial is expected on August 28. The ex-POTUS was indicted earlier this week as part of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into Trump’s purported push to reverse the results of the election, which was followed by the January 6, 2021 US Capitol breach. “The case brought against Trump on Thursday is another example of judicial intervention in the electoral process,” Dr. Harvey Schantz, professor of political science at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh, said. He added that the 45th US president’s indictment “goes to the core of the American political system because it involves the transfer of power” from a Republican Party president to a Democratic Party president.

According to Schantz, such a change is “more momentous than ever because the two parties have very alternative views of public policy and markedly different supporters.” The political scientist argued that the Trump indictment “divides people along party affiliations, exacerbating differences between Democrats and Republicans and between Trump and [US President Joe] Biden voters.” Schantz pointed out that “the multiple cases” against the former American president “have strengthened his hold on the Republican presidential nomination, and contrary to conventional wisdom, have not as yet hurt Trump in the 2024 general election contest, in which polls have Trump and Biden running neck and neck.” Dr. Nicholas Waddy, political analyst and Associate Professor of History at SUNY Alfred State College, for his part, told Sputnik that Thursday’s arraignment of Trump “[…] represents a new low for the Biden Administration, progressives, and the Deep State,” who he said “are, in effect, trying to criminalize dissent, criticism, differences of opinion, and political opposition.”

Waddy insisted that ex-US president “isn’t being charged because of his actions, or his words, but because of who he is and what he represents.” “The Deep State, including [Attorney General] Merrick Garland and [Special Counsel] Jack Smith, hates Trump with every fiber of its being. They are terrified that he might be able to defeat [President] Joe Biden in the 2024 election and win a second term as president, and thus they, and numerous other state and federal prosecutors, have decided on a strategy of ‘lawfare’ to kneecap him as a candidate,” the political analyst claimed.According to him, these officials “would love to imprison Trump for the rest of his life, but their primary aim is to tie him up in legal knots throughout 2024 so that he cannot campaign effectively, and so that the entire election revolves around a debate about Donald Trump’s criminality, rather than Joe Biden’s performance in office.”

“The goal here – to interfere with the electoral process itself – is so transparent that no fair-minded person could deny it,” Waddy added. He claimed that “It isn’t Trump that poses an ‘existential’ threat to Democrats, It’s democracy itself, and that’s what they are trying to snuff out.”

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“The problem is that Trump had lawyers and others telling him that the claims were true. Smith is indicting Trump for believing his lawyers over his other advisers.”

The Second Trump Indictment is a Threat to Free Speech (Turley)

Special counsel Jack Smith made history on Tuesday. It wasn’t just the federal indictment of a former president. Smith already did that in June with the indictment of Donald Trump on charges that he mishandled classified documents. No, Smith and his team have made history in the worst way by attempting to fully criminalize disinformation by seeking the incarceration of a politician on false claims made during and after an election. The hatred for Trump is so all-encompassing that legal experts on the political left have ignored the chilling implications of this indictment. This complaint is based largely on statements that are protected under the First Amendment. It would eviscerate free speech and could allow the government to arrest those who are accused of spreading disinformation in elections.

In the 2012 United States v. Alvarez decision, the Supreme Court held 6-3 that it is unconstitutional to criminalize lies in a case involving a politician who lied about military decorations. The court warned such criminalization “would give government a broad censorial power unprecedented in this Court’s cases or in our constitutional tradition. The mere potential for the exercise of that power casts a chill, a chill the First Amendment cannot permit if free speech, thought, and discourse are to remain a foundation of our freedom.” That precedent did not deter Smith. This indictment is reminiscent of the case against former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell. His conviction on 11 corruption-related counts was unanimously overturned by the Supreme Court in 2016, with Chief Justice John Roberts writing that federal prosecutors relied on a “boundless” definition of actions that could trigger criminal charges against political leaders.

Smith is now showing the same abandon in pursuing Trump, including detailing his speech on Jan. 6, 2021, before the riot while omitting the line where Trump told his supporters to go to the U.S. Capitol to “peacefully” protest the certification. While the indictment acknowledges that candidates are allowed to make false statements, Smith proceeded to charge Trump for making “knowingly false statements.” On the election claims, Smith declares that Trump “knew that they were false” because he was “notified repeatedly that his claims were untrue.” The problem is that Trump had lawyers and others telling him that the claims were true. Smith is indicting Trump for believing his lawyers over his other advisers.

I criticized Trump’s Jan. 6 speech while he was still giving it and wrote that his theory on the election and the certification challenge was unfounded. However, that does not make it a crime. If you take a red pen to protected free speech in this indictment, it would be reduced to a virtual haiku. Moreover, if you concede that Trump may have believed that the election was stolen, the complaint collapses.

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Mothafu**ing roach! What damp dark spot did he crawl out of?

Bolton Claims Trump Would Quit NATO (RT)

Former US President Donald Trump will likely withdraw the world’s biggest military superpower from NATO if he wins the 2024 election, ex-White House aide John Bolton has claimed. “In a second Trump term, we’d almost certainly withdraw from NATO,” the former US national security advisor said on Thursday in an interview with US media outlet NewsNation. Bolton was ousted as Trump’s top national security aide in September 2019, after failing to persuade the president to launch regime-change wars in Iran and North Korea. Bolton — a notorious war hawk who also has pushed for regime changes in Cuba, Libya, Venezuela, Syria and Yemen – argued that Trump has an “erratic” and ineffective approach to national security.

“Donald Trump doesn’t really have a philosophy as we understand it in political terms,” the ex-advisor said. “He doesn’t think in policy directions when he makes decisions, certainly in the national security space. It’s all connected with how things benefit Donald Trump.” Despite being indicted three times on criminal charges in the past four months, Trump is polling as the top candidate for the Republican Party’s 2024 presidential nomination. He and President Joe Biden are currently tied at 43% voter support in a hypothetical rematch of their 2020 battle, according to a New York Times poll released this week.

Biden has led NATO and other US allies in imposing sanctions on Russia over the Ukraine conflict and supplying billions of dollars’ worth of weapons to Kiev. Trump has claimed that if elected again, he would end the bloodshed in 24 hours by forcing Russian and Ukrainian leaders to the negotiating table. Bolton called Trump’s agreement with the Taliban to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan a “disastrous mistake for America and for national security in the world.” He also faulted the then-president for failing to “squeeze the Iranians” after quitting the Iran nuclear deal in 2018. “He did not deal with the threat of terrorism from Iran effectively.”

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Indict Trump!

Hunter Biden Netted Big Money From Ukraine – Court Documents (RT)

Court documents stemming from Hunter Biden’s failed plea-bargain deal on federal criminal charges have revealed that US President Joe Biden’s son brought in income of more than $4.4 million, mostly from China and Ukraine, while paying no taxes in 2017 and 2018. In 2017 alone, Hunter Biden netted nearly $2.3 million from foreign sources, including over $1.6 million from his Chinese business interests and $500,000 in director’s fees from a Ukrainian energy company, according to a filingreleased documents, which Noreika released in response to a request from NBC News. Biden became addicted to crack cocaine in 2016, contributing to the collapse of his marriage and his most significant business relationship the following year.

Despite his escalating drug use, “Biden successfully entered into business ventures and landed legal clients, earning millions of dollars.” Republican lawmakers have accused the Biden family of soliciting bribes through Hunter Biden’s overseas business forays, including a stint serving as a director for Ukrainian energy firm Burisma Holdings. Burisma founder Mykola Zlochevsky reportedly urged Hunter Biden, whose father was then the US vice president, to help end a corruption investigation against the company in 2015. Zlochevsky later told an FBI informant that he was coerced into paying a $10 million bribe to the Bidens and that he had multiple recordings to verify his claims.

Hunter Biden’s substance abuse worsened in 2018, when he moved to Los Angeles for a “spring and summer of nonstop debauchery,”according to the plea agreement. Weeks before his 2017 tax return was due to be filed, he received a $1 million payment for legal services to Chinese business associate Patrick Ho, but he spent almost all of the money over the next six months on travel, entertainment and other expenses. Similarly, around the time his 2018 return was due, in April 2019, he received $758,000 and spent almost all the money by the end of May. The documents showed that an unidentified third party paid Biden’s nearly $2 million in combined tax liabilities for 2017 and 2018 in October 2021.

That same person also paid about $243,000 on Biden’s behalf for unresolved tax liabilities from 2016 and 2019. Media outlets have identified that backer as Kevin Morris, Hunter Biden’s “sugar brother” lawyer in Los Angeles. Noreika refused to accept the plea agreement last week, saying she had concerns about the terms granted to Biden. Republicans had accused prosecutors in the Biden administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) of giving the president’s son a “sweetheart”deal on the tax charges against him and a separate case involving an illegal gun purchase. Republican lawmakers launched an investigation this week of the DOJ’s handling of the plea and diversion agreements in Hunter Biden’s cases.

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“There’s no goal and there’s no off ramp. His internal goal is to run for reelection as a wartime president like his hero, Franklin Delano Roosevelt did in 1940. But this is not a war like World War Two.”

Judge Napolitano: Biden Doesn’t Have Coherent Strategy in Ukraine (Sp.)

“Joe Biden cannot articulate what the goal of the American military involvement [in Ukraine] is,” Judge Andrew Napolitano, former New Jersey superior court judge and host of the Judging Freedom podcast, told Sputnik. “The neocons around him just love the concept of war, particularly war against Russia, particularly against Russia while Vladimir Putin is in office.” The US has been involved in the Ukraine conflict for 17 months and has already transferred over $68 billion. Nevertheless, Kiev cannot boast any considerable progress on the ground with their much-discussed counteroffensive having eventually stalled. As the conflict is continuing to drag on, Biden administration officials and the US president are still asserting to Kiev that Washington will support it “as long as it takes.”

“If you ask him, as long as it takes to do what he can’t answer the ‘To do what?’ As long as it takes to produce a stalemate? As long as it takes to produce a cease fire? As long as it takes, if you ask Victoria Nuland, to drive President Putin from office? I mean, they can’t answer that question,” Napolitano noted. The Ukraine conflict has been presented in the Western mainstream press as a way to bleed Russia dry and drain President Vladimir Putin’s “political standing with the Russian people,” the judge opined. In February 2023, President Biden made a claim in front of a Polish crowd that suggested he wanted to see the Russian president deposed: “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power,” Biden stated. The White House later downplayed this rally cry as a gaffe.

Still, what Team Biden and their neocon allies “don’t understand is that President Putin is enormously popular, that he’s fighting a patriotic war for a return of land, for which there is a valid legal argument, it has always been a part of Russia, culturally a part of Russia, linguistically a part of Russia,” according to Napolitano. “They think they can use Ukraine as a battering ram to drive President Putin from office. They’re crazy. It’s not going to work. Joe Biden does not have an off ramp. He doesn’t have the ability to say, okay, we’ve we’ve succeeded. It’s time for us to stop. There’s no goal and there’s no off ramp. His internal goal is to run for reelection as a wartime president like his hero, Franklin Delano Roosevelt did in 1940. But this is not a war like World War Two.

This is not a war that the American public perceives as a threat to American national security. All the politicians will argue that. But they’re so tied up with the military industrial complex that, you know, you have a majority in the Congress, Republicans and Democrats, that like all wars because it enriches the military industrial complex and keeps people working in the factories.” What’s more, there is no American national security interest at stake in Ukraine, despite US neocons arguing to the contrary, according to the judge. US war hawks are continuing to claim that Washington’s military aid to Kiev is a great investment since Russia is being bashed without American lives being lost. “The Russians are dying. The best money we’ve ever spent,” as US Senator Lindsey Graham said back in May. As long as no American body bags are coming home, the public is buying into this argument.

Still, it’s no longer a secret that a limited contingent of US servicemen has been operating on the ground in Ukraine. “We know the US military is there in Ukraine out of uniform. We know it is there in Poland, operating equipment that is shooting projectiles at Russian boys,” noted the judge. US mercenaries have also joined Ukrainian battalions on the battlefield. And these Americans are dying in Ukraine: a sad statistic has already found its way out, indicating that dozens if not hundreds of US citizens have been killed in the conflict zone since February 2022.

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“Zakharova earlier stressed that Zelensky’s so-called peace plan was nothing more than another US-created manual on how to fuel the conflict in Europe..”

Zelensky’s ‘Formula’ Disregards Future Of Millions Of Russians – Lavrov (TASS)

Those countries that the West is “courting” in its efforts to promote the peace formula put forward by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky need to understand that the future of millions of Russians is at stake, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said. “All the countries that the West is courting to push ‘Zelensky’s formula’ definitely need to understand that these people’s future is at stake as the Kiev regime has openly threatened to destroy them,” Lavrov said in response to a question from International Affairs magazine about initiatives aimed at resolving the Ukrainian crisis. “The need to put an end to these neo-Nazi threats is clear. However, initiatives ‘on Ukraine,’ whose number is growing, are silent about this issue, while actions violating the rights of Russian speakers continue unabated,” the top diplomat noted.

According to Lavrov, given numerous initiatives for resolving the situation in Ukraine, Russia reaffirmed that it appreciated all efforts to achieve a fair and sustainable peace. “Clearly, it’s impossible to find justice in any conflict without making sure that everyone fully respects the rights of ethnic minorities. Especially because there is no alternative to that for Ukraine, where Russian has always been the mother tongue for most of the population,” he maintained. “Why don’t his Western impresarios ask him [Zelensky] to publicly present another ‘formula’ to the international community, clarifying how Kiev envisions the status of Russians and other ethnic minorities in the country after Ukraine secures the ‘victory’ for the sake of which NATO and the EU have spared neither money nor weapons?” the Russian foreign minister asked rhetorically.

He added that this would help many countries in the Global South, which are not indifferent to the situation, to better understand what’s going on. “We could see during numerous discussions and talks at the second Russia-Africa Summit in St. Petersburg that they are really interested in fully sorting out the root causes of the crisis and the prospects for finding a way out of it,” Lavrov emphasized.While addressing the G20 summit via video link in November 2022, Zelensky put forward a ten-point plan “to achieve peace.” The document stipulates the need to ensure nuclear, food and energy security; carry out an “all-for-all” exchange of “detained persons”; and restore Ukraine’s territorial integrity. Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova earlier stressed that Zelensky’s so-called peace plan was nothing more than another US-created manual on how to fuel the conflict in Europe. Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov, in turn, noted that Zelensky was making statements about a peaceful solution without taking the actual situation into account.

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“..since launching the counteroffensive, Kiev has lost over 43,000 troops..”

US Has ‘No Illusions’ About Ukrainian Counteroffensive – Pentagon (RT)

The Pentagon realizes that Ukraine’s counteroffensive will not be an easy task given the strong defensive positions established by Russian forces, US Defense Department Press Secretary Pat Ryder said on Thursday. Speaking to reporters, Ryder was asked to respond to criticism that the US has been too slow in supplying Kiev’s forces with tanks, long range missiles and other weapon systems, which in turn has held up Ukraine’s counteroffensive. The press secretary stressed that the US and its allies have been “very aggressive in providing Ukraine with a variety of capabilities” but admitted that the Pentagon holds “no illusions that this – this fight that Ukraine finds itself in – is an easy fight.” Ryder suggested that the real issue was that Russia has had time to build up strong defenses in the territories it controls.

“Ukraine is taking the fight to them and it’s going to be a tough fight,”the official said. He noted that the US has been“training the Ukrainians since 2014” and that Washington is “confident” that Kiev’s forces have “significant combat capability available to them and that they’re going to employ that at a time and place of their choosing.” Ukraine’s forces launched a series of major attacks on Russian positions in early June, in what is believed to have been the start of Kiev’s much-touted counteroffensive. However, met with formidable Russian defenses and vast minefields, Ukraine has so far suffered heavy casualties, while failing to achieve any significant territorial gains.

On Friday, Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed that since launching the counteroffensive, Kiev has lost over 43,000 troops, more than 4,900 pieces of heavy weaponry, including German-made Leopard tanks and US-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, and some 747 artillery guns.] The slow pace of the operation and Kiev’s heavy losses have reportedly become a point of frustration for Ukraine’s backers in the US and NATO, with several Western media outlets reporting that further military support to the country could be contingent on the counteroffensive’s success. Meanwhile, the head of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, Aleksey Danilov, admitted on Wednesday that Kiev does not have an exact timetable for progress in its counteroffensive, and insisted that “no one but us can impose deadlines.”

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“..nothing – not even the provision of the requested weapons systems – can reverse the trajectory of strategic defeat that Kiev currently finds itself on..”

There Is No Magic Wand To Conjure A Ukrainian Victory (Scott Ritter)

In Japanese, the term Kamikaze, or ‘Divine Wind’, has taken on a dark interpretation, linked as it is to the suicidal pilots who flew their aircraft into enemy ships in the closing months of the Second World War. The original meaning of the phrase, however, was much different, drawn from Japan’s history when, in 1274 and again in 1281, powerful typhoons destroyed the fleets of the invading Mongols, saving the Japanese islands and their people from the wrath of the Mongol leader Kublai Khan. Ukrainian presidential adviser Mikhail Podoliak appeared to be invoking a modern-day manifestation of the ‘Divine Wind’ of 13th century Japanese history when, in response to a statement made by the Italian Minister of Defense Guido Crosetto, he advocated for a political solution to the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine by calling on the West to provide F-16 fighters, ATACMS long-range artillery rockets, and modern missile and air defense systems to Ukraine.

According to Podoliak, these weapons are needed by Ukraine to forcibly evict Russian forces from territory Ukraine claims is illegally occupied by Russia (including Crimea). Anything less than this, he contends, “will result in the collapse of the global security order and the triumph of bloody cannibals around the world.” Putting aside Podoliak’s twisted analysis of the political reality on the ground in what Russia today calls Novorossiya, or ‘New Russia’ (the territories of Kherson, Zaporozhye, Donetsk, and Lugansk, which became part of the Russian Federation following referendums held at the end of September 2022), the emphasis placed by the Ukrainian politician on the impact the requested weapons would have on the outcome of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine is telling. On its face, Podoliak’s statement at once reveals the depth of Ukraine’s military difficulties, and the reality that nothing – not even the provision of the requested weapons systems – can reverse the trajectory of strategic defeat that Kiev currently finds itself on.

[..] Zaluzhny’s American counterpart, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley, disagrees. Following a virtual meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, which coordinates the supply of weaponry to Ukraine, Milley told the press that the provision of F-16s made no sense from a financial perspective. “If you look at the F-16, 10 F-16s [cost] a billion dollars, the sustainment cost another billion dollars, so you’re talking about $2 billion for 10 aircraft,” Milley said, noting that if the US had provided F-16s earlier, Ukraine would not have gotten much of the equipment Zaluzhny claimed he needed to carry out the Ukrainian counteroffensive. “There are no magic weapons in war,” Milley said. “F-16s are not and neither is anything else.”

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“..when everyone comes back from the beach or the lake after Labor Day. Banks will resume failing, too, followed by bail-out efforts that will open a trapdoor under the dollar. The country will finally learn what Bidenomics means..”

Desperation Creeps In (Kunstler)

So, the best they could do was to charge Mr. Trump with objecting vocally to an election that looked as rotten as Hunter’s uncapped teeth? We all saw what happened overnight November 3 and 4, 2020: what the numbers looked like in the swing precincts at midnight and the magic mathematics that swapped tens of thousands of votes over from the Trump column to the Biden column (say, whu?) … the shutdown of the Fulton County State Farm Arena due to a supposedly leaking toilet and the ensuing monkey business with rolly-bags full of ballots under the tables captured by the closed-circuit cameras… the miraculous wee-hour harvest of ballots in Milwaukee… US Postal Service truck full of completed ballots out of Bethpage, Long Island, that turned up in Philadelphia… Mark Zuckerberg’s $419-million-dollar operation using two front orgs, the Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL) and the Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR) to staff precinct election boards with party shills and buy votes… the thumb drives and modems in the vote-counting machines….

Special Counsel Jack Smith may find it difficult to prove that expressing an opinion about all that is some kind of crime. Meanwhile, he’s turned Mr. Trump into the poster boy for the many other aggrieved victims of a government weaponized against its own people. More than half the country sees exactly what’s going on and no amount of video footage showing “JB” and Jill holding hands on the beach is going cover for that. We are on the threshold of a king-hell national crisis.

Consider: a 27.4 percent drop in goods of all kinds “roaded-in” on semi-trucks to the northeast USA this summer. That’s everything from auto parts to lumber, clothing, and food. What else do you think sent the Yellow Corp trucking company, one hundred years old, spinning into sudden bankruptcy this week? Yellow won’t be bought and reorganized, either. It owes three quarters of a billion dollars in loans to the federal government (i.e., to us taxpayers) and untold pension obligations. Next, 22,000 Yellow Corp workers will hit the unemployment rolls. Yellow Corp had a special role in the supply chain: the LTL (less-than-truckload) niche, often the final journey of a product to the customer. It was also the cheapest. Whoever picks up the work — FedEx, ABF Freight? — will cost more, and so will everything you have to buy.

Behind this crumbling economy looms the fragile financial system of banks, securities markets, a wilderness of derivatives trades, and currencies. How long do you think it will take before that clockwork of debt obligations and ownerships in failing enterprises breaks down? Think: four to eight weeks, starting with when everyone comes back from the beach or the lake after Labor Day. Banks will resume failing, too, followed by bail-out efforts that will open a trapdoor under the dollar. The country will finally learn what Bidenomics means.

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It still is that simple.

Russia Was Doing Utmost To Prevent War, Protect Donbass People – Kremlin (TASS)

Russia was doing its utmost to prevent war and defend the rights of Donbass residents when the coup d’etat took place in Ukraine and nationalists came to power, Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told a youth audience at the Terra Scientia forum. “When the coup happened in Ukraine in 2014, and it was exactly a coup d’etat, when the nationalists began to take over and when Donbass refused to co-exist with them when it realized that the power of the nationalists was being established, it was a very dramatic moment,” Peskov said. “Russia [then] did its utmost to prevent war. Russia did everything in a bid to reach a peace settlement of this problem and to defend the rights of Donbass and its residents by political and diplomatic methods.”

Peskov recalled that “as a result of very difficult, titanic negotiations” the Minsk agreements were signed. “It was the product of a very complex balance of agreements and a diplomatic success of our country,” he noted, pointing out that the step-by-step implementation of the agreements at that moment “would have prevented war and would have allowed the people of Donbass to live under special conditions with special rights and to determine their future themselves through elections and referendums.”Peskov also recalled that France’s former president, Francois Hollande and former German Chancellor Angela Merkel said late last year that “they were not going to fulfill anything” under the Minsk agreements.

“But we did not know that, we were on the way to implement these agreements, we were trying to force Ukraine to follow the path of the agreements in order to avoid war,” the Kremlin spokesman stressed. He drew attention to the fact that “2019 was the time when we (Russia – TASS) adhered to these Minsk agreements, and then it was really an intra-Ukrainian problem.” “Yes, it was really so,” Peskov emphasized. “But then, when it became clear that no one was going to implement the Minsk agreements, when it became clear that Ukraine was preparing for war, when it became clear that NATO military advisers were already there, when it became clear that Kiev was actually a puppet in the hands of, first of all, Washington, when it became clear that this very war could not be avoided, then the events took the current course,” he said.

The Minsk agreements were supposed to be the basis for a settlement in Donbass. They were signed on February 12, 2015. However, Kiev delayed the peace process for years and refused to implement them. Later it declared the unacceptability of the political part of this package, as well as categorically refused to enter into a direct dialog with the Donbass republics. The agreements were mediated by the OSCE, Russia, Germany and France. In December 2022, in an interview with the German newspaper Die Zeit, former German Chancellor Angela Merkel described the conclusion of the Minsk agreements as an attempt to give Ukraine time to become stronger. She said it was clear to everyone that the conflict was frozen and the problem was not solved, it just let Ukraine gain time. Later, Hollande, who was also involved in agreeing a set of measures to implement the Minsk agreements in 2015, confirmed Merkel’s words.

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“every liberating army becomes, after a while, an occupier.”

Niger Coup Represents European ‘Failure’ – Ex-French Ambassador (RT)

The military coup in Niger is an aftershock of the neocolonial relationship between France and various countries on the African continent, according to former French ambassador Gerard Araud. The crisis in Niger, which began last week when army general Abdouramane Tchiani toppled democratically elected President Mohamed Bazoum, is a “rejection of the French presence in the country,” Araud told news website Euractiv in comments published on Thursday. The 70-year-old diplomat added that the coup could be seen as a rejection of the so-called ‘Francafrique’: a term used to describe Paris’ sphere of influence over former colonies in sub-Saharan Africa. The absence of a concerted African strategy is a “failure” of Europe, Araud added.

Araud, who was previously France’s ambassador to the United States, has held various high-profile diplomatic positions on behalf of France and the United Nations, as well as previously serving as the director general for political and security affairs in France’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He said France’s colonial past had ushered in a “revolt of the youth” in the sub-Saharan region, with many taking that view that national governments are increasingly being seen as Paris’ puppets in Africa. He added to Euractiv that population growth and increasing levels of poverty has also fomented distrust by Africans in their established systems of government.

Despite increases in foreign security in Niger, particularly from France and the United States, insurgent attacks from Al-Qaeda and Islamic State-linked groups have continued; a factor also generally considered to be contributing to Niger’s political instability. On July 28, Tchiani, the head of Niger’s presidential guard, declared himself head of state of the African nation which has a population in excess of 25 million people. In 2021, there was a coup attempt around 48 hours before Bazoum’s inauguration as president of the West African state after he defeated opponent Mahamane Ousmane at the polls. The coup attempt was thwarted by the presidential guard.

French influence in Africa dates back to the 17th century but increased substantially in the 19th century with the invasion of the Ottoman Algiers in 1830. France took control of some areas of Niger in the 1890s. Ethnic groups in the African country rebelled against French rule before it was conquered as a colony in 1922. Niger later declared independence in 1960. However, France has maintained a stance of activity in the Sahel region of Africa – with Araud telling Euractiv that French forces were regarded as “freedom fighters” for repelling insurgents in North Mali in 2012 and 2013. However, he added that “every liberating army becomes, after a while, an occupier.”

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MMA Star Khabib Refuses Offer From Musk (RT)

Former UFC champion Khabib Nurmagomedov has reportedly refused to train American billionaire Elon Musk for his fight with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, according to TASS news agency. A person familiar with the situation told the outlet that the undefeated Russian fighter had rebuffed an approach by Musk, who wanted him to prepare him for the bout. It is not known why Nurmagomedov turned down the offer, but the source claimed the event was being organized by UFC Eurasia CEO Andrey Gromkovsky. Earlier, the New York Times reported that Musk and Zuckerberg were in talks with the UFC about the fight. UFC president Dana White has even suggested that the proposed cage match between the two billionaires could become the most profitable fight in history.

While it has yet to be officially confirmed that Nurmagomedov has refused to train Musk, a number of MMA promoters have come out in support of his reported decision. In a statement to TASS, Russian sports manager Vladimir Khryunov said that “Khabib is a man of his own convictions” and is very serious about the sport to which he has dedicated his life. “I consider his decision to be the right one and it causes great respect for Khabib,” he added. President of the promotional company Fight Nights Global, Kamil Gadzhiev, also told the agency that Nurmagomedov’s decision was to be expected considering he has announced his retirement from MMA and is currently not even training anyone close to him. “For Khabib, it must be something super-principled to return to MMA. And Elon Musk’s fight definitely doesn’t belong to this category,” Gadzhiev added.

Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, the richest and 10th-richest men in the world, have been trading barbs on social media for several weeks now, following the announcement and subsequent launch of Zuckerberg’s Threads – a rival to Musk’s Twitter (now called X). In June, Musk challenged Zuckerberg to a “cage match,” which drew the response: “Send me location.” Musk then tweeted: “Vegas Octagon” – the famed arena that hosts UFC fights. While many have been exicted by the prospect of seeing the two billionaires thrash it out in the ring, the probability of the bout actually happening doesn’t appear to be very high. Last week, Zuckerberg stated that he is “not sure” the cage match will “come together.”

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    John Koch Conversation 1962   • “If You Go After Me, I’m Coming After You” – Trump (RT) • Washington ‘Terrified’ Trump May Defeat Biden in 2024 E
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle August 5 2023]

    #140610
    Red
    Participant
    #140611
    Red
    Participant

    India accounts for about 40 per cent of the global rice trade but is struggling to control food prices domestically.

    Prior to India banning exports, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) was forecasting it to be the largest exporter in the global trade of milled rice, as it has been for many years.

    In its most recent rice outlook, the USDA said India was expected to ship a record 23.0 million tonnes in 2024, exceeding the combined shipments of the next two largest exporters — Thailand and Vietnam.
    …more:

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-05/global-rice-crisis-el-ino-ukraine-war-cause-food-security-fears/102660990

    #140612
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Listen in on journalists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH2Z1URrRwk ABC live mic, long discussion on Covid.
    They can’t believe Covid came from Wuhan, because, as they say, they never looked. And they can’t believe “Those people” that is, other news agencies, got it immediately right because they DID look. It’s probably luck or magic or something. In any case (like Scott Adams) they’re still wrong because they’re the Bad People.

    Really entertaining after yesterday’s Op-Ed that they can remain totally clueless, unworried, in the tower as we slowly inch toward the window to chuck them out of. Because the only fact that remains for them is their own perfection and arrogance.

    I imagine we’re re-defining “coup” in Africa right now. The NeoLiberal process is all soft power – like their censorship and “wrongthink” at home – such that we “extract”, I mean, “Make business deals” in Niger where uranium ore is what $30, is sold to France for transport and refining and Pop! It’s suddenly worth $300. Now IS that actual value-added? Or IS that straight-up colonial extraction? In the world of liars: Both. Neither. At the same time. To make this happen, the West is just a bunch of colonialists? Heavens no! That would be far too simple. In the Land of Liars, in the Mind of Liars, in the Empire of Lies, they look at that and say “Tough shakes, rube, and we’d really love to help you out. Here’s a B I L L I O N dollars of foreign aid.” …From the taxpayers. Note that the price spread – from rigged pricing worldwide – goes to corporations. So like WalMart, if wages are too low, get food stamps from the government! And we’ll help you fill out the forms at work!

    So those billions in aid make up for the losses from extraction, which are essentially price-rigging? Heavens no! In the land of liars, that would be FAR too simple. The Billions don’t actually arrive, they’re only promised. They’re also LOANS and no help at all but a COST. They also go to only a FEW people who can make sure the $30/$300 price-spread to Paris stays intact. And 4) they are only given so they can buy weapons only from Raytheon and re-invest in Wall Street or Miami real estate.

    Who owns them? Just a couple hand-picked leaders. That’s why they call them “Pro-Western”. WITHOUT the Western gifting, they couldn’t compete in an election, so they are fundamentally election-rigging, establishing Satraps, without the messy need for assassinations all the time – although we do those too, but deny them. The Liar Class never believes such things since they’re done near-weekly, but out of another department.

    Back to African Coups, so what does the government look like in such a case? Well the people are colonial poor, desperate black slaves to the Great White West. Perfect! And more cobalt is mined by children who die of it, the better the Left Liberals like it. The military is no fool, they know what is going on, but are embedded with French Mercenaries whose true allegiance is to the Empire, and report back, subverting all moves with lakes of blood, literally. The PMC class also knows most of this, but what are you going to do? Die on the streets a colonist, or get a job that provides a house for your (extended) family? They might be happy to help, but what’s the point when nothing worked before? And we have the upper leaders of various kinds, hand-picked compliant Pro-Westerners, hand-picked and placed Rebels, from the “other side”, Russia, China, …or the West itself, the best enemy is one you create, all in a tangle at the upper 25% level.

    That’s the structure, so if the Military removes disliked, traitorous, election-fraud leaders who impoverish the whole nation, is that really a “Coup”? Is it? Because you see, if the Military and their values and intentions have the actual support of the people, it’s not really a “coup” is it? It’s law enforcement. Since they can’t just call back on one election, the last election or whatever, it gets more complicated, but they CAN call for a general election and a fair one, and thereby establish the “Self-determination” of the UN. …That the UN also opposes constantly.

    So whether it’s a “Coup” or not depends entirely on WHETHER WE LIKE THEM. That is, we decide BEFORE WE KNOW, before we look, whether it’s legal and appropriate or not. …Which is perfect for our World of Liars, the Media Class.

    We can tell that it’s against US, colonial extraction of the West, BECAUSE they reported it, and BECAUSE they called it a “Coup”. You don’t hear that of the illegitimate, aggressive war-crime, installed “coup” government of Ukraine, do you? How about Italy, when the EU “removed” their leader? How about Greece when essentially taken under receivership? “Coup”? No, because those are OUR friends, we like. Remember kids: “It’s Not Fascism When We Do It!”

    That is, use Military and State Dept power and money. To illegally interfere abroad and/or kill literally everyone. To make sure to establish illegal pricing and extraction. That only benefits corporations. Like Smedley Butler said of bananas and United Fruit Company in 1910. Using the full force of government to insure risk-free profits without competition is “Capitalism”! Darn that Capitalism! Popping up as a full merger with government almost every day.

    Now for Wagner, when Putin said he was sorting them into Pro and Con Russia, and sending participants to wealthy contracts in Africa, I didn’t grasp it, but I’m sure our Derp State did: it was a signal from Russia to our DoD they were opening that second front on us (NATO, primarily France) in Africa.

    “No one in Washington is interested in ending this war. Everything that’s going on is delusional nonsense and somebody needs to put a stop to it!”

    Remove the entire PMC class and replace them with…well, anyone. Cleetus from Swamp Holler. They can’t do worse.

    ““If You Go After Me, I’m Coming After You” – Trump (RT)

    So much here it can’t be covered. Yes, asking someone to look into whether there was election fraud, and thereby do their d—d jobs, is now a felony. You can’t ask the PMC to do work! That’s a hanging offense mister. Don’t you know who I am, third-VP-of-Executive-Paper-Clips?

    But an important example is the latest indictment on Trump causing J6, a coup where there were no guns and no plans – according to the FBI. Who had 100 guys out there. Actively breaking in. …But I think it was really to provide security for the D.C. police tours for the winner of Today’s Funny Hat Contest, right?

    No. Jack posted Trump’s Twitter, and his speech, as evidence of intent to have a Coup, or at least a riot. He then EDITED THE MATERIAL. That is, Jack entered KNOWN FALSE evidence into court, into the public, not incidentally, but as a foundational act IN ORDER to have an indictment at all. There is no “Walk peacefully and patriotically to let yourselves be heard”. And also Twitter itself prevented Trump from getting the stand-down. He gave it and they actively and intentionally erased it.

    …All so they could get Shaman-boy into the Rotunta, get the photo-op, call an emergency, then remove all Congress to a secret location under military law – forever if necessary dun dun dun – so they would “vote right.” …When there was essentially no coup, no danger, and no need for security at all.

    Anyway, how do you think that case is going to hold up when the initial and only act is false evidence? A: Who cares? We’re rigging elections here, not prosecuting cases.

    ““It isn’t Trump that poses an ‘existential’ threat to Democrats,”

    No, Democrats are the existential threat to Democrats. And Democracy. THEY are the ones who applauded when Bernie was actively and publicly shut out of the nomination he would have won and the election thereafter.

    Like this: “Every one of these crises traces back to the Democratic Party’s obsession with taking and holding power more or less indefinitely to suit its hubristic, end-of-history “narrative” of righteous liberal triumph.” — Patrick Lawrence (From Kunstler)

    That is, WE are history’s – in fact, the universe’s – GOOD guys. Therefore everything we do is de facto, prima fascia GOOD. If we kill every Black person in Africa, then move on to foreclose on every Black home, well that’s GOOD. The only known GOOD is for us to be in power, since we are the GOOD people. And the only BAD thing that could ever happen is for ANYONE ELSE to be in power, even slightly, or have any voice at all, because they are the BAD people. Because they’re not us! I mean, I’m using my little baby words here, how much simpler do I have to make it for you Deplorables to understand?

    Oh no honey. We understand just fine. Loud and Clear. 5/5

    Or put in a less caustic way, “The End justifies the Means.” PMC Democrats MEAN well – as David Brooks said yesterday. So that makes killing all their enemies wherever they are found OKAY, and not like they will do anything back, because, well duh, they’re the BAD guys. Murder everyone you want, everyone who opposes you: we all know that is the certain sign of Perfect GOOD.

    And you see, as Mr. Nobody, when you reach that level, you’re a-gonna have some trouble rallying recruits to your side. …Although a lot fewer left and protested this than we hoped, much to our American embarrassment. I guess that’s why you attack the Church and Morality FIRST. And in fact, replace them. All their behavior is identical to Fundamentalist Christianity.

    Smith is indicting Trump for believing his lawyers over his other advisers.”

    The same everywhere. I am indicted and fired for believing DOCTORS. Those Doctors, expert MDs, disagreed with OTHER Doctors and expert MDs. Ah but you see the PMCs and Chad at Twitter decide WHICH Doctors are right and wrong. THEY are the arbiters of reality. THEY are the voice of God and Justice. THEY are the Courts, without evidence. As we see with the opening video of ABC reporters FINALLY suspecting that – although NOBODY KNOOD, and nobody could ever have knood, even when millions did (repeat image of Scott Adams, PMC) – THEY KNOW. Without bothering to look or research, as that reporter admitted. They’re so smart they know BEFORE LOOKING which is true! It’s magic! Whatever I believe in my head is real! I read it right here in the paper! (Which I wrote because I’m the journalist/editor of that paper.) Proof! QED.

    RFK has been saying the same thing because it comes up a lot with the questions they ask him. In EVERY environmental case he brings, there are experts. BOTH experts are experts. BOTH experts are from Harvard. BOTH experts are for hire. BOTH experts use the same data. And BOTH experts 180° disagree. Roundup is safe as water. Or it isn’t safe as water. Simple questions, not complex at all.

    So Trump’s fault is to believe an expert. An EXPERT THE PMCs DON’T LIKE. And that, to them, IS in fact, a literally hanging crime. They did this 100,000, 100 MILLION times over the last three years, with 100% compliance, down to a man. EXACTLY and only this.

    If you say you have a religious exemption? OUR experts say you don’t. And our Experts are from Pfizer and the CDC. Why would they lie? OUR experts say Pfizer would never lie to sell product, even though it’s Trump’s rushed vaccine and they’re the most felony-fined corporation in the history of the universe. And OUR experts are from Pfizer, so ha ha ha – joke’s on you. They’re right and would never lie. Or I don’t care if they WOULD lie, you bug me and it’s funnier that way.

    That’s the pathway to this process, to water down and shortcut all thinking until we reach the narcissistic level of “It’s true BECAUSE I SAID SO.” And the beatings will continue until you figure that out.

    “It’s all connected with how things benefit Donald Trump.” Despite being indicted three times on criminal charges in the past four months…”

    Right! I can see how losing a few billion of his company in bad publicity, not being able to go anywhere or do anything due to Secret Service, being hated nationwide thanks to HRC’s PR the day after his declaration for candidacy, then being indicted three times in four months, Boy that REALLY is all how things benefit Donald Trump and he REALLY only thinks of himself and what he can do to make his life easier today.

    …It’s true BECAUSE I SAID IT. With my mouth. Bolton said it, the world’s greatest war-monger under 60, so therefore all PMCs must agree. It’s the Rules. He just gave you The Memo. Now do what Bolton, top NeoCon says, all you Democrats. Zig Heil!

    “Joe Biden cannot articulate what the goal of the American military involvement [in Ukraine] is,”

    Well, yeah, but he means “The Government” can’t articulate it. But they CAN. They know exactly what they’re doing. They just know the American people won’t agree, will think they’re diabolical, psychotic, evil, stupid supervillains, and in fact never stand for it. That is, to start WWIII to chop up Russia to take over the world, install a one world government run by Euro-commies out of Davos, and subjugate us all forever to live in the pods and eet ze bugs. With no gas stoves. THAT is what they can’t – or rather won’t – articulate.

    Gee, I wonder why? Is it because if they told us the truth we wouldn’t all go along and shoot ourselves in the head on their behalf?

    “Zelensky’s ‘Formula’ Disregards Future of Millions of Russians – Lavrov

    Like that. Our Peace Plan: You Unconditionally surrender and then we kill every Russian forever. Right? Hey, where you goin’? We’re only going to treat you like New Ohio!

    “The Pentagon realizes that Ukraine’s counteroffensive will not be an easy task”

    Once again reporters are so psychotic they don’t have a sense that TIME EXISTS. It moves FROM the past, INTO the future. Sir, this Offensive ALREADY HAPPENED. In the PAST. We can’t now opine on how it will occur in the FUTURE. You might have noticed, but I guess we don’t have a column in Excel for “Time”.

    “these weapons are needed by Ukraine to forcibly evict Russian forces from territory Ukraine claims is illegally occupied by Russia (including Crimea). Anything less than this, he contends, “will result in the collapse of the global security order”

    That’s quite true but when you’re a psychotic PMC and every decision you ever made is stupid and wrong, there’s no helping it. You screwed up, now NATO dies and Europe collapses. Sorry. Britain worst of all. Not sorry. The U.S. “collapses” but in a different way. Yes, when Europe banks fail, NY banks halt 24 hours later. That means the Federal government halts and Congress is hauled out and indicted. However, here we’ll just “devolve” into State-level activity, having lots of people, oil, and borders. Or borders that can be installed in 5 minutes after they fall. That’s not great but it’s better than being in Europe where – and I imagine he’s not kidding – without food or energy and 200 million people packed in, they really could be cannibalism in places. Well thank God Ireland killed all those cows just to make sure. IF ONLY there had been a historical event in Ireland in the past to warn them not to do this!

    “and it was exactly a coup d’etat, when the nationalists began to take over and when Donbass refused to co-exist with them”

    Again, I don’t know why I have to bring this up and emphasize it. Donbas is the Oblast that behaved LEGALLY. They supported the ACTUAL legally-elected leader of Ukraine. They are the only ones. The rest of Ukraine and the Western world supported the ILLEGAL leader. The one put in as a non-UN ordained, active public paid war crime. According to general law, Donbas should therefore attack and conquer all of Ukraine and thereby move the LEGAL election, law, and process to the nation as a whole. The UN and West should be helping. And Russia helped, but once you referendum to change nations, all that becomes moot.

    ONLY DONBAS WAS EVER LEGAL. Remember that.

    Benton: A lawyer laid it out for me: THEY, the Prosecutor, the Defense, and the Judge, all have to be in court tomorrow and work together the rest of their careers. YOU are just some tourist that will come and go. So OF COURSE they don’t care what happens to you. They have it all worked out ahead of time, mostly depending on how much they like you and how much of a pain you are to the three of them. To get around this you have to inject novelty, a new jurisdiction, an outside lawyer, or some unknown legal approach.

    “Many Republicans who are against arming Ukraine say the US should be focused on arming Taiwan instead.”

    All this tells me is money laundering for Democrats is in Ukraine, and for Republicans it’s in Taiwan.

    “The Ingredients of a Serial Epidemic of Crime Fraud in the Case of Four Coutts Protesters Kept in Jail Without Any Conviction for Over 500 Days on the Bogus Charge That They Conspired to Kill Cops”

    Canada runs their own Guildford Four. They should be so proud.

    #140613
    Formerly T-Bear
    Participant

    Take note:
    When twitter(sic) is linked to what you wish to convey, it will not be used whenever cookies are demanded to witness what you seem incapable of communicating with your lingual abilities. To wade through all the cookie BS requires a lawyer of twenty years experience capable of discerning the difference between [Accept all cookies] and [Only necessary cookies], they all are necessary are they not?. Where is the cookie monster when needed? If you have to present a video to speak for yourself, use some other vehicle than X. X can X X X my a$$.

    #140614
    Red
    Participant

    Balkanize Russia, is this projection as well? The way things are moving it might well be the U.S. is the one on the cropping block. The EU has been successfully neutered at this point it would seem. NATO is swimming with sharks all of a sudden and seems to be imploding, ’bout time too it’s costing the populace of the participating countries dearly. Africa is slowly being pried from the hands of the colonialists. Perhaps they are walking into a trap, only time will tell. The west rushing in to save their boys in power may well also be a setup to expose their impotence on yet another world stage. Hmm so much to ponder, what say you?

    #140615
    zerosum
    Participant

    it is unconstitutional to criminalize lies

    the indictment of Donald Trump
    interfere with the electoral process
    threat to democracy
    ———–
    Still, it’s no longer a secret that a limited contingent of US servicemen has been operating on the ground in Ukraine.
    “We know the US military is there in Ukraine out of uniform. We know it is there in Poland, operating equipment that is shooting projectiles at Russian boys,” noted the judge. US mercenaries have also joined Ukrainian battalions on the battlefield. And these Americans are dying in Ukraine: a sad statistic has already found its way out, indicating that dozens if not hundreds of US citizens have been killed in the conflict zone since February 2022.
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    USA is Ignoring the past/history/the facts
    My way or the highway does not work in a Democracy.

    A referendum is a direct vote by the electorate on a proposal, law, or political issue.

    1. Mar 17, 2014 · SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine — Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula declared itself independent Monday after its residents voted overwhelmingly to secede and join Russia,

    2. the territories of Kherson, Zaporozhye, Donetsk, and Lugansk, which became part of the Russian Federation following referendums held at the end of September 2022.
    ——
    Blinded by their own perfection and arrogance.
    They never looked. And they can’t believe “Those people” … got it immediately right because they DID look.
    ————

    #140616
    zerosum
    Participant

    Correction

    The BBC is reporting Ukraine just attacked another ship. This one a tanker.

    What is needed to guide a drone to attack a ship.

    1. A trained drone operator
    2, A functioning platform that is within range to send/receive radio signals to/from the drone
    3. 100k of explosive
    4. A launching platform

    Wake up. None of those 4 points are Ukrainians

    #140617
    John Day
    Participant

    I wonder if US AWACS planes are operating those drones that blow up Russian ships.
    A drone with an antenna just sticking up from the waterline would work more reliably if an airplane above was communicating with it. That would keep the channel open despits wavves and the curvature of the earth. They could also be operated wiith longer wavelengths athat ben more easily, like AM radio vs FM.

    #140618
    Noirette
    Participant

    Dr. Day posted in the prev. thread:

    (…) Their internal Medicine board wants to decertify them. 
My Family Medicine board did that to me this spring.
 The Pediatrics board also agreed with the others to do that in July of 2021, for the crime of bad-mouthing-COVID-vaccines, or “advising patients against them”, which used to be “informed consent” and required.


    It’s 1950s East Germany.

    Repression in 1950 – .. in E Germany was aimed at those who were against the Régime, the E G Gvmt, Pol. leaders, Party in Charge, Sovietization, Economic Policies, etc.

    In short, repression was broadly political, actioned to stifle, silence, and punish political dissent, from the top > those at the bottom – ordinary ppl who objected, aspiring political rivals, etc. Politics as a general economic organisation (bowlderized: communism vs. capitalism), yet, there was no question of controlling professional groups such as medicos, engineers, scientists, in agronomy, chemistry, etc.

    Imho, health-care in Soviet Land, e.g. in East Germany (1949 – ..) was so-so fairly distributed, of good quality, taking into account the knowledge, funds available, etc. in those times.

    Not to be picky re. one line of Dr. Day’s post (I appreciate him +++), but to underline the difference between controlling Political dissent -> surveillance -> *massive* imprisonment, horrible, as in GDR …

    Vs. Corporate Control of Gvmt (some call it Fascism), where different Corp. factions pay money to control Pols to become their front men, thus creating Corp. competition at the National State Level, which leads to a Gvmt. that tries to cover up, blanket over, what is really going on, falling back on pablum BS like ‘democracy’, ‘the will of the ppl’ and so on.

    … While at the same time supporting Corpo Numero Uno (made the biggest bribes, worked the longest to manipulate legislation) against Corp. No. 2, and oohh… 3 might get a look in going forward!

    (yes, only one aspect.)

    #140619

    He spoke and was arrested. Now, he visits with his choir.
    In a tale that’s long been tested, that old pal now sports a wire.

    Little songbirds tell the truth when they gather with the flock.
    But one songbird is a sleuth, gathering victims for the dock.

    My brain feels so clean- Like it’s recently laundered.
    Now I feel all brand new- ’twas my past that I squandered.

    Who tells the truth? And who’s an illusion?
    Who’s truly free? And who’s in collusion?

    Why am I allowed to speak?
    Is the radar set so high?
    In this game of hide and seek
    I am here but wonder why.

    Those little inanities being said, my heart goes out to Lira. The predator class is ruthless.
    As for Ritter, he has also been laundered, has he not?

    #140620
    Michael Reid
    Participant


    Consider: a 27.4 percent drop in goods of all kinds “roaded-in” on semi-trucks to the northeast USA this summer.
    That’s everything from auto parts to lumber, clothing, and food.
    What else do you think sent the Yellow Corp trucking company, one hundred years old, spinning into sudden bankruptcy this week?
    Yellow won’t be bought and reorganized, either.
    It owes three quarters of a billion dollars in loans to the federal government (i.e., to us taxpayers) and untold pension obligations.
    Next, 22,000 Yellow Corp workers will hit the unemployment rolls.
    Yellow Corp had a special role in the supply chain: the LTL (less-than-truckload) niche, often the final journey of a product to the customer.
    It was also the cheapest.
    Whoever picks up the work — FedEx, ABF Freight? — will cost more, and so will everything you have to buy.

    I am very thankful Yellow aka (YRC) managed to transport the wire for my wind array construction from the New York city area to me prior to going bankrupt.

    #140621
    John Day
    Participant

    @Noirette comment #140618: Thank you for being ever polite and considerate in debate.

    What I posit is that the methods of control of people, of though, of actions, and of harm to people have broadened in a way that remains invisible to most.
    The actions being taken against physicians who indepentlently advise patients against injections which are more likely to harm or kill them, than to help them, are political actions removing their livelihood, their means of service to society, and libeling them in the media, while removing their credentials.
    Why? Because bodily integrity is a covert political battlefield, with much evidence presented here regularly that the political interventions of lockdowns, media censorship and propaganda, refusal/outlawing of efficacious medical treatments and requirement of harmful injections to maintain employment are a covert political act of physical war upon the bodies of the body-politic.

    My argument is that it is a similar thrust to East German totalitarianism, yet more-sinister, since humans are now targeted for culling, rather than being coerced to comply productively with the power-machine.

    #140622
    zerosum
    Participant

    Shame on our promised “land of opportunity”
    Since immigrants have been coming to North America, by the thousands, by ship loads, I have never heard/seen that those migrant were left to sleep on the streets with only a piece of cardboard.

    #140623

    I look outside at the critters and say:
    How do you manage it day after day?
    Predators lurking in bushes and trees-
    Death in the moment or death by degrees.

    Is it that ignorance keeps you alive?
    Maybe it’s just that you need to survive.
    Still, with exuberance you soldier on-
    ’Til one day I notice you seem to be gone.
    (30 Sept 2021, TAE)

    Fire gave us the hearth. The hearth gave us the arts. The arts gave us treasure.
    Treasure led to the deadly sins.
    Then things got complicated.
    The deadly sinners proffered redemption even as they found the more redemption people sought, the easier it was to to profit from deadly sinning.

    After that, I got nuthin.

    #140624
    Celticbiker
    Participant

    The daily “news” is just jewmindfuck. They want you agitated, offkilter, restless and uneasy…makes for easy pickings. Step away from it, the best you can. Take your money out of their banks, use cash not cards, Throw the jewphone away, same with the talmudvision. They used starvation on the Irish and the Russians, they won;t hesitate to use it again. They got away with murdering JFK, 911 and covid, they’re going to go for it, jeworld supremacy, Prepare yourself for what is coming, dont be a deer in the headlights.

    #140625
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    @dr-d

    Your kindred (daily) thoughts are too hard to abandon…

    Jack posted Trump’s Twitter, and his speech, as evidence of intent to have a Coup, or at least a riot. He then EDITED THE MATERIAL. That is, Jack entered KNOWN FALSE evidence into court, into the public, not incidentally, but as a foundational act IN ORDER to have an indictment at all. There is no “Walk peacefully and patriotically to let yourselves be heard”. And also Twitter itself prevented Trump from getting the stand-down. He gave it and they actively and intentionally erased it.

    …All so they could get Shaman-boy into the Rotunta, get the photo-op, call an emergency, then remove all Congress to a secret location under military law – forever if necessary dun dun dun – so they would “vote right.” …When there was essentially no coup, no danger, and no need for security at all.

    Anyway, how do you think that case is going to hold up when the initial and only act is false evidence? A: Who cares? We’re rigging elections here, not prosecuting cases.

    ““It isn’t Trump that poses an ‘existential’ threat to Democrats,”

    The End Justifies The Means, the ultimate eruption & goel of 50+ years of Damn Lies & Machiavellian CULTural war, prosecuted by The West’s Sibylline Supreme Thinkers (fka Academics/Experts/Scientists), a curse that has de facto contributed to despoiled gen pop’s capacity to experience shame, guilt,remorse for immoral/unethical behavior & actions.

    It’s all the rage! All hail! the new, *NEW* religion!!!

    While gen pop slumbered (we tried to wake you), the Sibylline Supreme Thinkers waged open warfare against Western Civ, during battles rife with decadent, debased and culturally corrosive identity atheism belched nonstop by narcissists, sociopaths, psychopaths & other malcontent professionalized dysfunctionaries (identified by their pathological obsession with poisoning-the-well of “Western” advancement + traditions), typically involved/employed with activist non-profits implicitly infected with fantastical delusions of supremacy (Collective EG0ic Grandeur), one of many concomitants born of We The People’s unethical, immoral imperial CULTure, which has *foolishly* educated the unhinged beyond their intellectual abilities…

    To wit, We The People are *now* prey to a vast technocracy of professional demand-makers, with a host of megalomaniacal narratives spewed forth from multi-generational madness, a bedevilment hellbent on synthesizing & replacing Spiritual Sanity.

    The religion of the Empire of the Child, a unified Mass Formation Psychosis bitterly intent on ignoring, rejecting, rebelling, *cancelling* any reference to The Voice dwelling within, where True Wisdom resides.

    It’s all the rage! All hail! the new, *NEW* religion!!!

    The underlying tenets are a toxic, emotionally charged EG0ic state, violently rejecting any & *all* Spiritual teachings, from the Dead Sea scrolls to the Diamond Sutra, forward…

    FWFS

    #140626
    Veracious Poet
    Participant
    #140627
    Dora
    Participant

    The Forgotten Side of Medicine.
    Healthy Adults are Not the Only Ones Who Have Been Killed by Vaccines
    https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/healthy-adults-are-not-the-only-ones

    #140628
    John Day
    Participant

    This is just kind of fun, “counting coup” on the enemy.

    Republican Vivek Ramaswamy has recorded a victory against the World Economic Forum in court, after the globalist organisation named him one of their ‘Young Global Leaders’ against his will.

    Ramaswamy, who is running a presidential campaign, explained that he “explicitly rejected their ridiculous award,” two years ago and that Klaus Schwabb’s outfit “repeatedly failed to remove my name despite escalating demands. So I sued them. And we just succeeded.”

    He claimed that “I’ve been the leading opponent in America of the World Economic Forum’s agenda.”

    Ramaswamy Wins Lawsuit Against World Economic Forum After Being Labeled A ‘Young Global Leader’

    #140629
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #140630
    Michael Reid
    Participant


    Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
    shocked the world during the NATO Summit in Vilnius, Lithuania when
    he agreed to support the ratification of Sweden’s membership into the military bloc.
    While the Turkish Parliament still needs to vote on
    whether or not to support Sweden’s membership,
    this was viewed as a major victory for NATO, as it ended Sweden’s decades-long neutrality.
    The MO’s Manila Chan discusses with Guy Mettan Türkiye’s decision
    to reverse their opposition to Sweden’s membership
    and what this means with regards to the Scandinavian nation’s relations with Russia.

    https://www.rt.com/shows/modus-operandi/580562-sweden-joins-nato-turkiye-role/

    #140631
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #140632
    Oroboros
    Participant

    The Russians just captured the premier Swedish ‘Bradley’ in Ukronaziland and are busy dissecting the thing to see how better to light it on fire in the Steppes.

    Hahahaha

    The Russian could care less about the Swedes

    Shoigu Visited HQ of Center Grouping, Inspects Captured Swedish CV-90

    The Russians will turn that Swedish CV-90 inside out like a cheap hooker

    hahahahahaha

    #140633
    WES
    Participant

    MPSK:

    You are waxing poetic today! Two great poems!

    Hope you are enjoying the summer weather!

    #140634
    Oroboros
    Participant

    the Czechs bought 152 Swedish CV-90s at $9 million a pop.

    One run-of-the-mill Russian infantry RGP ($1000 at most) put a $9 million dollar Swedish NATOturd Shitbox out of action.

    Do the math

    War is industrial production.

    Can’t wait for the Abrams Wonderweapon to appear

    Great advertising for the Empire of Lies Gangster Nation Military Mafia

    Kiss my ass and choke

    #140635

    Thanks, WES!
    It has been a splendid summer so far- I hope yours has been as sweet.

    #140636
    userzeroid
    Participant

    Regarding Gonzalo Lira, Brian Berletic (The New Atlas) has this to say: https://rumble.com/v346fdt-gonzalo-liras-attempted-escape-from-ukraine-whats-happening-and-how-to-help.html

    There is no need to over think this issue in some sort of spy-vs-spy scenario. Doing so only serves to discredit Lira and his cause.

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