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Hersh Reveals US Motive For Destruction Of Nord Stream Pipelines (MoA)
Biden Planned On Blowing Nord Stream Before Ukraine Conflict Began – Hersh (RT)
Nord Stream Blast: Why the West Still Can’t Name the Culprit (Sp.)
Canadian Parliament Speaker Resigns After Honoring Ukrainian Nazi (RT)
Russian Foreign Ministry Responds To Canada Honoring Nazi Veteran (RT)
Nazi Hunter: Canada Failed Miserably in Bringing Nazis to Justice (Sp.)
Russian Black Sea Fleet Commander Seen Alive and Well (Sp.)
Nothing Is Off Table To Get Ukraine Into EU – Parliament President (G.)
How Russia Will Deal With American Tanks in Ukraine (Sp.)
US Judge Finds Trump Committed Fraud by Inflating Wealth, Assets (Sp.)
Hunter Biden Sues Rudy Giuliani for Spreading Contents From Laptop (Sp.)
Hunter Biden Used Dad’s Classified Doc House For $250K China Wire Transfer (ZH)
EU Warns Elon Musk After X Found To Have Highest Rate Of Disinformation (G.)

 

 

 

 

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On the first anniversary of the Nordstream blast, lots of articles. Also about “alternative explanations”. But Sy Hersh doesn’t make things up. That’s not his MO at all.

“And thus followed the ultimate fear: that America would lose its long-standing primacy in Western Europe.”

Hersh Reveals US Motive For Destruction Of Nord Stream Pipelines (MoA)

It was no surprise to the agency’s secret planning group when on January 27, 2022, the assured and confident Nuland, then undersecretary of state for political affairs, stridently warned Putin that if he invaded Ukraine, as he clearly was planning to, that “one way or another Nord Stream 2 will not move forward.” The line attracted enormous attention, but the words preceding the threat did not. The official State Department transcript shows that she preceded her threat by saying that with regard to the pipeline: “We continue to have very strong and clear conversations with our German allies. … The German leader was considered then—and now—by some members of the CIA team to be fully aware of the secret planning underway to destroy the pipelines.

What I did not know then, but was told recently, was that after Biden’s extraordinary public threat to blow up Nord Stream 2, with Scholz standing next to him, the CIA planning group was told by the White House that there would be no immediate attack on the two pipelines, but the group should arrange to plant the necessary bombs and be ready to trigger them “on demand”—after the war began. “It was then that we”—the small planning group that was working in Oslo with the Royal Norwegian Navy and special services on the project—“understood that the attack on the pipelines was not a deterrent because as the war went on we never got the command.” After Biden’s order to trigger the explosives planted on the pipelines, it took only a short flight with a Norwegian fighter and the dropping of an altered off-the-shelf sonar device at the right spot in the Baltic Sea to get it done.

By then the CIA group had long disbanded. By then, too, the official told me: “We realized that the destruction of the two Russian pipelines was not related to the Ukrainian war”—Putin was in the process of annexing the four Ukrainian oblasts he wanted—“but was part of a neocon political agenda to keep Scholz and Germany, with winter coming up and the pipelines shut down, from getting cold feet and opening up” the shuttered Nord Stream 2. “The White House fear was that Putin would get Germany under his thumb and then he was going to get Poland.”

All of this explains why a routine question I posed a month or so after the bombings to someone with many years in the American intelligence community led me to a truth that no one in America or Germany seems to want to pursue. My question was simple: “Who did it?” The Biden administration blew up the pipelines but the action had little to do with winning or stopping the war in Ukraine. It resulted from fears in the White House that Germany would waver and turn on the flow of Russia gas—and that Germany and then NATO, for economic reasons, would fall under the sway of Russia and its extensive and inexpensive natural resources. And thus followed the ultimate fear: that America would lose its long-standing primacy in Western Europe.

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“We realized that the destruction of the two Russian pipelines was not related to the Ukrainian war..”

Biden Planned On Blowing Nord Stream Before Ukraine Conflict Began – Hersh (RT)

US President Joe Biden initially planned on destroying the Nord Stream gas pipelines to deter Russia from launching its military operation in Ukraine, American journalist Seymour Hersh reported on Tuesday. However, Hersh alleged that the sabotage operation went ahead later not to deter Russia, but to harm the German economy. The Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines, which connected Russia and Germany under the Baltic Sea, were destroyed in a series of underwater explosions exactly a year ago on Tuesday. Competing theories have emerged as to who was to blame, with mainstream media in the West blaming a Ukrainian commando unit and Seymour Hersh claiming that the CIA carried out the operation under direct orders from Biden.

In a blog post on Tuesday, Hersh alleged that US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan convened a series of meetings in late 2021, tasking intelligence officials with coming up with a means of deterring Russian President Vladimir Putin from sending troops into Ukraine. “The White House’s policy was to deter Russia from an attack,” an intelligence source told Hersh. “The challenge it gave to the intelligence community was to come up with a way that was powerful enough to do that, and to make a strong statement of American capability.” By January, as Russian forces were massing on the Ukrainian border, the CIA had “solved the problem,” the source said. With a plan in place to plant remotely-detonated explosives on the pipelines under the Baltic Sea, Biden warned in early February that in the event of military action by Russia, “there will no longer be a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it.”

Following Biden’s statement, which was delivered alongside German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, the CIA team tasked with sabotaging the pipelines received new orders, Hersh claimed. Instead of immediately destroying Nord Stream, the team was instructed to plant the explosives for detonation at a later date. “It was then that we understood that the attack on the pipelines was not a deterrent because as the war went on we never got the command,” a member of the team told Hersh. “We realized that the destruction of the two Russian pipelines was not related to the Ukrainian war,” the source continued. “But was part of a neocon political agenda to keep Scholz and Germany, with winter coming up and the pipelines shut down, from getting cold feet and opening up.”

According to Hersh’s earlier reporting, CIA divers planted the explosives last summer with the help of the Norwegian navy, using a NATO exercise in the region as cover. By the time the bombs were triggered in September, the flow of Russian gas to Germany via Nord Stream 1 had already been slowed to a trickle by Russia in response to Western sanctions, while Nord Stream 2 was never certified to begin operation by Scholz’s government. However, with the German economy heavily dependent on Russian gas, Biden reportedly feared that Scholz would choose reproachment with Moscow over support for Ukraine. “The President of the United States would rather see Germany freeze than [see] Germany possibly stop supporting Ukraine,” Hersh declared earlier this year.

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“Giraldi said that he feels that Hersh’s narrative is “correct in every detail.”

Nord Stream Blast: Why the West Still Can’t Name the Culprit (Sp.)

Gas leaks from the Nord Stream pipeline system were detected on 26 September 2022, with the EU leadership admitting that this could be the result of a “deliberate attack”. Two days later, on 28 September, the Kremlin announced that Russia was ready to consider applications from EU countries for a joint investigation into the Nord Stream incident. However, not only did the West snub Moscow’s request but also blamed Russia for destroying its own pipelines. Later, European and American officials backtracked on their accusations but fell short of naming a potential perpetrator. On 12 October 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin called the incident “an act of international terrorism”. Meanwhile, as gas prices soared and US energy producers secured lucrative LNG contracts with European countries, it became clear that Washington had been the major beneficiary from the Nord Stream destruction. Furthermore, the US leadership had previously issued several threats that it would destroy the pipelines.

“We know that the United States President Joe Biden, threatened openly that he would stop Nord Stream 2 if the Russians were to militarily intervene in Ukraine,” Philip Giraldi, former CIA station chief and now an executive director of the Council for the National Interest, told Sputnik. “That was repeated by Victoria Nuland, who was Number Three at the State Department. She said basically the same thing. So we had the President and a senior official both saying that they would stop the pipeline if this were to happen. So we have a statement coming from the government itself saying it would do this.” “And then I would say on top of that, the United States – given its military capabilities – had the capability to do this. They sent divers down to attach explosives and to arrange for a drone satellite that would ignite the charges and blow up the pipelines.

“It had the capability to do it. And it also had the motive, which was basically to weaken Russia’s ability to use its energy resources to affect politics in Europe. So this is what it was all about,” Giraldi continued. On 8 February 2023, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh dropped a bombshell, detailing an apparent plot by Team Biden and the US intelligence community to blast the Nord Stream pipelines with the help of Norwegian operatives. Reflecting on Hersh’s version, Giraldi said that he feels that Hersh’s narrative is “correct in every detail.” “And I can confirm to you that Sy Hersh, whom I know somewhat, has excellent sources inside CIA and inside the Pentagon. So what he’s telling us comes straight from people who know about it,” the CIA veteran said.

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Scapegoat.

Canadian Parliament Speaker Resigns After Honoring Ukrainian Nazi (RT)

Canadian House Speaker Anthony Rota stepped down on Tuesday after a Nazi veteran was his invited guest at a speech by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky. The invitation has faced widespread condemnation. Rota apologized on Monday for the presence of 98-year-old Yaroslav Hunka at Zelensky’s address to Canadian lawmakers on Friday, but refused to resign. Although lawmakers from all parties – including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau – cheered and applauded Hunka at the event, calls for Rota’s resignation grew over the weekend as the incident drew worldwide attention, particularly from the governments of Russia and Poland. Rota eventually announced his resignation on Tuesday afternoon, stating that he would leave his position at the end of Wednesday’s session.

“The work of this house is above any of us. Therefore, I must step down as your speaker,” Rota said. “I reiterate my profound regret for my error.” Politicians from the opposition New Democrats and Bloc Quebecois parties issued the loudest demands for Rota’s resignation, with New Democrats leader Peter Julian describing the invitation as “an unforgivable error which puts the entire House in disrepute.” Trudeau, who leads the Liberal Party, of which Rota is a member, did not call for the speaker’s resignation, but described the ceremony as “deeply embarrassing for the House and for Canada.” During the event, Rota hailed Hunka as “a Ukrainian hero, a Canadian hero… who fought for Ukrainian independence against the Russians.”

Rota did not mention that Hunka fought in Hitler’s elite Waffen SS, but the nonagenarian was identified by the Associated Press as a member of the First Ukrainian Division, a volunteer unit created by the Nazis in 1943. Also known as the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS, the unit is known to have committed atrocities against Jews and Poles during its campaign on the Eastern Front. “There should be no confusion that this unit was responsible for the mass murder of innocent civilians with a level of brutality and malice that is unimaginable,” the Toronto-based Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center (FSWC) said in a statement on Sunday.


The Ukrainian Postal Service is now issuing stamps of Waffen SS Nazi Galicia Yaroslav Hunko

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“..the ultra-liberal ideology propagated in Canada and permeated with hatred for Russia, its culture, religious and traditional values, essentially has the same roots as Nazism.”

Russian Foreign Ministry Responds To Canada Honoring Nazi Veteran (RT)

The Canadian Parliament’s public celebration of a Ukrainian Nazi veteran last week is a cynical abuse of the memory of the victims of Nazism and an example of the blatant Russophobia embraced by the Canadian government, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement published on Tuesday. The message comes after the Canadian House of Commons on Friday gave a standing ovation to 98-year-old Yaroslav Hunka, a member of the 14th Waffen Grenadier division of the SS, which was responsible for countless war crimes during the second half of World War II. The commemoration took place during a visit by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky. The Russian Foreign Ministry stated that the incident was “the best possible way to characterize the regime of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who has embraced unbridled Russophobia.”

After facing backlash from Jewish and Polish communities over the incident, House Speaker Anthony Rota apologized for inviting the Nazi veteran, while Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described the situation as “profoundly embarrassing.” The Russian ministry stressed, however, that despite Canada’s apologies, “the fact remains that the ultra-liberal ideology propagated in Canada and permeated with hatred for Russia, its culture, religious and traditional values, essentially has the same roots as Nazism.” Moscow added that it was “no coincidence” that Canada has monuments to Ukrainian nationalist leaders while the government allows the overwhelming majority of Nazi veterans like Hunka, who was granted asylum in Canada after the end of World War II, to live out their days “in safety, honored and cared for (in particular, by Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland) as ‘fighters against Russian Communism.’”

The ministry concluded its statement by stressing that the “hostile actions” of the Canadian government, such as the continuous expansion of anti-Russian sanctions and blacklists of Russian nationals will not be left unanswered and that Moscow will not tolerate the fact that “Canadian liberals are flirting with Nazism.” “We expect that healthy forces in Canadian society will speak out against the ‘Nazification’ of history and daily life encouraged by the country’s officials, which goes hand-in-hand with aggressive Russophobia,” it said.

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“Canada is not a unique situation. Ten thousand Nazi war criminals emigrated to the United States, thousands to Australia, Great Britain, and in fewer numbers to New Zealand.”

Nazi Hunter: Canada Failed Miserably in Bringing Nazis to Justice (Sp.)

Ninety-eight-year-old Ukrainian Nazi veteran Yaroslav Hunka, who fought in the ranks of the Schutzstaffel’s (SS) 14th Waffen Grenadier Division, was enthusiastically hailed by Canadian lawmakers and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The incident triggered a wave of fierce criticism, prompting House of Commons Speaker Anthony Rota to apologize for featuring a Nazi soldier in the Canadian legislature. Sputnik reached out to Dr. Efraim Zuroff, a legendary Nazi hunter of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the director of its Israel Office, to ask why the scandalous honoring of a Nazi became possible in a modern Western state. “It’s no secret that hundreds, at least hundreds, if not thousands of people who committed Holocaust crimes and/or collaborated with the Nazis were able to emigrate to Canada,” Dr. Zuroff told Sputnik.

“And by the way, Canada is not a unique situation. Ten thousand Nazi war criminals emigrated to the United States, thousands to Australia, Great Britain, and in fewer numbers to New Zealand.” Dr. Zuroff is unfamiliar with the particular case of Yaroslav Hunka, but it is still well known that the Waffen SS Galicia Division was “very involved in the mass murder of Jews and Poles in eastern Poland and Galicia,” he pointed out. “And it’s a very sad thing that the heroes, the leadership of the Ukrainian nationalists during World War II, which was headed by Stepan Bandera, for example and the UPA*, the army raised by the Ukrainians to fight with the Germans, with the Waffen SS, which was led by Roman Shukhevych, these are the heroes of Ukraine,” the Nazi hunter highlighted.

It is common knowledge that Nazi Germany played the lead role in the Holocaust – the systematic state-sponsored killing of European Jews in the Second World War. Still, Westerners are not fully aware of the incredibly important role played by local collaborators in the mass murder of the Jewish people, according to Dr. Zuroff. Nazi Germany’s Einsatzgruppen, mobile killing units organized by the SS (tasked with the “final solution of the Jewish question, i.e. the genocide of the ethnic group), “covered an area from Tallinn in the north of Estonia, all the way down to Odessa, near the Black Sea, a front of 1,500 kilometers, and murdered 1.5 million, primarily Jews, in less than two years,” the expert said.

“There were only several thousand people who served in the Einsatzgruppen, and they were working in territory, which they didn’t know the language, they didn’t know the topography. They needed help from the locals,” he explained, adding that this help was provided. “And they’re [locals] the ones who carried out these murders, in many cases without any Germans present. We know in Lithuania, for example, that there were less than a thousand Germans in Lithuania. In Lithuania, there were 220,000 Jews who lived under the Nazi occupation, of whom 212,000 were murdered, 90% of them by shooting near their homes.”

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Russian Black Sea Fleet Commander Seen Alive and Well (Sp.)

Western media reported that Russian Black Sea Fleet commander Admiral Viktor Sokolov was killed in Ukrainian attack on Sevastopol, citing Ukrainian officials, without verifying the information. Ukraine used several British-sourced Storm Shadow cruise missiles to target the HQs building of the Russian Fleet in Sevastopol, Crimea last Friday. Russian Black Sea Fleet commander Admiral Viktor Sokolov has turned up alive and well, taking part in a Defense Ministry board meeting alongside Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu on Tuesday. Sokolov’s appearance follows claims in dozens of Western media outlets quoting Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces claiming that he had been killed in last week’s strike on the Black Sea Fleet’s HQ in Sevastopol.

The Russian Defense Ministry said six people were injured in the September 22 attack, with one person unaccounted for and the HQ’s historic building suffering damage. These figures are a far cry from estimates made by Kiev – which claimed that dozens of servicemen and officers were killed and over 100 injured. US reconnaissance forces were spotted in the area near the HQ two days prior to the attack, prompting Russian and US military observers to tell Sputnik that they suspect direct NATO involvement in the strike. The UK approved the delivery of Storm Shadow cruise missile systems to Ukraine in May, with Ukraine’s armed forces subsequently using them liberally, including to attack built-up civilian areas in the Donbass. Despite generous arms deliveries, intelligence and other support to Kiev, the United States and most of its allies refuse to admit that the Ukrainian crisis is a NATO proxy war against Russia.

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Where do they find these people?

Nothing Is Off Table To Get Ukraine Into EU – Parliament President (G.)

The European Union must begin a major wave of change to prepare for the arrival of Ukraine as a member state, the leader of its parliament has said, with “nothing off the table”, including removing trade tariffs and giving Kyiv access to internal markets before full membership. Speaking exclusively to the Guardian, Roberta Metsola, an MEP from Malta who became the European parliament’s youngest ever president last year, said she expected member states to begin formal negotiations with Ukraine as soon as December. “If they are going fast, we should match that speed,” she urged. Metsola was the first political leader to visit Ukraine after Russia’s invasion, meeting the country’s president, President Zelenskiy, in Kyiv on 1 April 2022, when the capital was still under curfew and surrounded by tanks.

She has made the images of that encounter a symbol of her presidency: a poster of the pair in military green, shaking hands, hangs over the Parliament courtyard. Defying caution and outright antagonism from some member states, she has given unequivocal support to Ukraine’s attempt to join the EU, a process which has advanced even as the country’s attempts to join Nato have stalled. Ukraine is one year into a what many expect will be four or five year journey. But Metsola reflects fresh thinking among some EU leaders that the bloc needs to accelerate access to Ukraine- and the Balkan states that have also applied- in order to curb the risk of Russian interference in these former Soviet territories.

“Pushing the can down the road” on enlargement will only fuel nationalism and the far-right, she warned. “It increases the extremes on the political spectrum, the Euroscepticism. Campaigns in accession countries are fought, and lost or won, on the basis of the dream and hope of the EU.” Metsola wants formal talks to begin before Christmas. The decision rests with EU ministers, who will meet formally in December after a public report in October on Ukraine’s progress in reforming its judiciary, curbing corruption and opening its markets. “I expect a concrete outcome because the worst signal could be that we have given these people targets and deadlines which we can’t meet ourselves,” said Metsola.

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They strip off the protective parts before shipping them to Kiev.

How Russia Will Deal With American Tanks in Ukraine (Sp.)

Ukraine has received some of its long-promised Abrams tanks, with the rest scheduled to be delivered later this fall. The long wait began in January, when US President Joe Biden announced that a battalions’ worth of America’s best tanks would be sent to “improve” Ukraine’s “ability to maneuver in open terrain.” The Abrams are the last of three NATO heavy tank platforms to be delivered to Ukraine to date, with Washington using promises about their deployment to get the alliance’s European members, particularly Germany, to approve the sending of their Leopard series MBTs (hundreds of Leopard 1 and Leopard 2 tanks have been sent to Kiev since then). The UK also joined in, sending 14 of its fearsome Challenger 2s – boasting the status of one of the only major MBTs in NATO armies’ service never to have been destroyed by the enemy in battle.

Russian forces taking on Ukraine’s NATO-equipped army during the summer counteroffensive soon changed all that, with dozens of Leopard 1 and Leopard 2s knocked out, and at least two of Britain’s “unbeatable” tanks taken out in fierce fighting in Zaporozhye after finally appearing on the battlefield earlier this month. [..] The Abrams tanks that Ukraine is getting aren’t up to the same standard as those used by the US military. While its tanks are receiving the same controversial depleted uranium munitions which the US and NATO have already successfully used to poison vast swathes of the former Yugoslavia and Iraq, they are not equipped with the same layer of ultra-thick DU armor plates for enhanced protection of the tank and its crew that US Army Abrams have.

Ukraine’s Abrams are made from refurbished hulls and turrets from California’s Sierra Army Depot, with their DU armor plating removed for secrecy reasons. With the tanks proving vulnerable to enemy anti-tank systems even with the DU armor installed, Russian forces should have no problem using any or all of the above-mentioned weapons systems to target them.

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Wonder what’s in the tax filings (not inflated numbers!). Wonder if the banks saw those. And if not, why.

US Judge Finds Trump Committed Fraud by Inflating Wealth, Assets (Sp.)

A New York state judge on Tuesday found former US President Donald Trump liable for fraud in a civil lawsuit that accuses the one-time commander of intentionally inflating his wealth and asset value. The 35-page ruling, brought forward by the New York Attorney General’s Office, determined Trump and company submitted multiple misleading valuations for real estate assets in official statements to insurers and other financial institutions in order to secure favorable loans and lower insurance premiums throughout the years. Properties listed in the suit included Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Florida resort, his golf course in Scotland, Trump Park Avenue, and his Seven Springs property in New York’s Westchester County, among other sites.

“In defendants’ world, rent-regulated apartments are worth the same as unregulated apartments; restricted land is worth the same as unrestricted land; restrictions can evaporate into thin air,” Judge Arthur Engoron wrote in the decision. “That is a fantasy world, not the real world.” In granting a partial summary judgement to NY Attorney General Letitia James, Engoron outlined that such business maneuvers violated the law and as such canceled the business certificates of Trump and listed defendants, including those of his sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump. Also named were Allen Weisselberg, who served as the chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, and company executive Jeff McConney. Additionally, Engoron ordered individual sanctions of $7,500 against lawyers who represented the listed Trump defendants and required that within 10 days’ time each defendant submit three independent receivers to manage the dissolution for the business certificates.

The Trump camp has argued claims laid out in the civil filing are barred due to the statute of limitations, with lawyer noting banks involved in the Trump-affiliated deals were far from victims as the same entities turned profits. The former president has also rejected committing any wrongdoing, instead claiming James’ suit is a politically-driven attack. The Tuesday ruling, which denied a request by Trump to end the civil fraud lawsuit, did not settle six other claims at the center of James’ lawsuit. In fact, a non-jury trial set to start on October 2 will address the remaining key points. The New York attorney general is seeking about $250 million in damages and is looking to enforce a ban on Trump doing any business in the Empire State.

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He should have given the laptop to WikiLeaks.

Hunter Biden Sues Rudy Giuliani for Spreading Contents From Laptop (Sp.)

The lawsuit, which relies on the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, was filed in the Central District of California. Neither Rudy Giuliani nor Hunter Biden live in that district and the alleged crimes took place in Delaware. Whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld told Sputnik the choice was the result of “venue shopping.” Embattled first son Hunter Biden is continuing to file lawsuits against individuals he blames for the release of the contents of a laptop he reportedly abandoned at a Delaware computer repair store. The lawsuit is against former New York City mayor and Donald Trump lawyer, Rudy Giuliani. The suit, filed in the Central District of California, accuses the former mayor of “looking for, hacking into, tampering with, manipulating, copying, [and] disseminating … data that was taken or stolen,” thereby violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

It is the latest string of lawsuits brought by Hunter Biden against individuals surrounding his laptop. He also sued the owner of the non-profit Marco Polo, which has been publishing the contents of the laptop, the owner of the computer repair shop where Biden reportedly abandoned the laptop and the FBI for allegedly violating his privacy when two FBI agents told Congress and the media they were concerned the agency was slow-walking the investigation. The laptop in question first made headlines in October 2020, shortly before the 2020 presidential election. Reportedly, the computer repair shop owner had given the laptop to the FBI months before, but after not hearing anything about it on the news, contacted Giuliani’s lawyer at the time Bob Costello and provided him a copy of the computer’s hard drive. Costello is also a defendant in Biden’s latest lawsuit.

Contents of the laptop were published by the New York Post, showing the future first son smoking what appears to be crack cocaine, fornicating with suspected prostitutes and other salacious details. Further reporting on the laptop revealed emails related to Hunter Biden’s foreign business deals and financial records showing the Biden family received millions of dollars from foreign businesses, including those in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, China and Russia. Some of the email and text messages found on the iPhone backup implied that current US President Joe Biden may have joined in on some business calls with his son and references to payments made to “the big guy” have been pointed to by critics as proof the elder Biden was more involved in his son’s business deals than the president claimed. As recently as August, the US president has reiterated he “never talked business” with his son.

The laptop was originally called “Russian disinformation” by multiple media outlets in the United States, and more than 50 former senior intelligence officers signed a letter saying it had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” One by one, the various outlets who discredited the laptop as disinformation quietly admitted it was legitimate and a former CIA official testified to the House Judiciary Committee that former Biden campaign adviser and now-Secretary of State Antony Blinken “played a role in the inception.” Giuliani’s spokesman Ted Goodman pointed to the changing story of the laptop’s detractors when responding to the lawsuit. “Hunter Biden previously refused to admit ownership of the laptop. I’m not surprised he’s now falsely claiming his laptop hard drive was manipulated by Mayor Giuliani, considering the sordid material and potential evidence of crimes on that thing,” Goodman said.

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My son is the smartest man I know.

Hunter Biden Used Dad’s Classified Doc House For $250K China Wire Transfer (ZH)

Hunter Biden used his Dad’s Delaware home where classified documents were found strewn about the garage to receive more than $250,000 in Chinese wire transfers, according to the House Oversight Committee. The wires were from Wang Xin and Jonathan Li, the latter of whom ran a Chinese private equity fund (BHR) which Hunter was listed as being on the board of directors. Hunter also arranged for a meeting between Li and Joe Biden while Joe was VP, while Joe allegedly gave Li’s son a letter of recommendation. Here’s the breakdown of events from the Committee:

• 2009-2017: During his time as Vice President and prior to later payments to Hunter Biden, evidence shows Joe Biden developed a familiar relationship with Jonathan Li. Devon Archer, a Biden business associate, described how Joe Biden met with Jonathan Li for coffee in Beijing, China, had a phone call with him, and wrote college recommendation letters for his children.
• April 25, 2019: Joe Biden announced his candidacy in the 2020 presidential election.
• July 26, 2019: Wang Xin wired $10,000 with Joe Biden’s home listed on the wire.
• August 2, 2019: Jonathan Li wired $250,000 with Joe Biden’s home listed on the wire.
• October 13, 2019: George Mesires, who served as Hunter Biden’s lawyer, stated, in part, that Hunter Biden served with BHR “only as a member of its board of directors,” which was purportedly an “unpaid position.”
• October 22, 2020: During a presidential debate, Joe Biden said, “My son has not made money […] in China.”

Of note, Hunter was living at the Wilmington house while he was raking in millions of dollars from CCP-linked business dealings. Hunter was living there… Seamus Bruner (researcher for legendary bombshell-dropper Peter Schweizer), reports via Breitbart News, that “While addicted to drugs, cavorting with prostitutes, and making deals with businessmen tied to the highest levels of Chinese intelligence, Hunter Biden lived in the house where Joe Biden stored classified documents.” Second, the Washington Free Beacon reported in January that photos from Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop place him at the Wilmington House in July, 2017. Of note, the classified documents were reportedly brought to the house in January of that year. The photos ‘are the most concrete evidence to date’ that Hunter – who was actively negotiating a deal with a CCP-linked Chinese energy company – had access to areas of his father’s home where classified documents were stored.

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I know there’s the EU’s Code of Practice on Disinformation, and I know there’s the Digital Services Act, but I don’t know who decided that Musk is violating either.

Oh, and it’s basically all Russia Russia. Ring a bell? It’s like Trudy reacting to the Nazi he celebrated by saying we should all be wary of Russian disinformation. Same thing. Diversion. Squirrel!

EU Warns Elon Musk After X Found To Have Highest Rate Of Disinformation (G.)

The EU has issued a warning to Elon Musk to comply with sweeping new laws on fake news and Russian propaganda, after X formerly known as Twitter was found to have the highest ratio of disinformation posts of all large social media platforms. The report analysed the ratio of disinformation for a new report laying bare for the first time the scale of fake news on social media across the EU, with millions of fake accounts removed by TikTok and LinkedIn. Facebook was the second worst offender, according to the first ever report recording posts that will be deemed illegal across the EU under the Digital Services Act (DSA), which came into force in August.

Nevertheless, Facebook and other tech giants, including Google, TikTok and Microsoft, have signed up to the code of practice the EU drew up to ensure they could get ready in time to operate within the confines of the new laws. Twitter left the code of practice but it is obliged under the new law to comply with the rules or face a ban across the EU. Mr Musk knows he is not off the hook by leaving the code of practice, said the European commissioner Vera Jourova, who is responsible for the implementation of the new anti-disinformation code. There are obligations under the hard law. So my message for Twitter/X is you have to comply. We will be watching what you do.

X, formerly Twitter, is the platform with the largest ratio of mis/disinformation followed by Facebook, she told reporters. The 200-page report is an account of the work the large platforms have done in the first six months of 2023 to prepare for compliance with the new law and lifts the lid on the behind-the-scenes efforts made by Facebook and others to crack down on Russian propaganda, hate speech and other disinformation. The Russian state has engaged in the war of ideas to pollute our information space with half truth and lies to create a false image that democracy is no better than autocracy, said Jourova.

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    Very, very strange times we live in…

    When I encounter people in public they seem subdued, hopeless, almost zombiefied 😐

    Even during the cold war people, when nuclear Armageddon was always a potential outcome, *most* people seemed genuinely cheerful, friendly, motivated, ready to enjoy life…

    In America the last bit of “good” news I can recall was when Billary lost the election, and we all know how that turned out (still unfolding, actually).

    Perhaps the real reality of The People surrendering *everything* to the UniParty GlobalCap Empire is finally registering, but somehow facetiously the (D) & (R) charade is still running the show, The People’s *choice*…

    Sometimes you really can’t teach ol’ dogs new tricks 😐

    Too bad, so sad, The People should have listened to Spiritual Sanity while the sun was still shining…

    We now return you to your regularly scheduled whinging, utter profanities, chest beating & barren “intellectual” wasteland.

    #143772
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    #143773
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “JPM’s Dimon Warns: World Not Ready For Fed’s Stagflationary Response
    “I am not sure if the world is prepared for 7%…We urge our clients to be prepared for that kind of stress”

    Luongo: Fed and NY Banks are on the same page. Obviously, as the Fed is a cartel of NY banks and always has been. Dimon here is backing up Powell on raising “higher for longer”. This will destroy Europe and Davos utterly. Like John Wick 4, NY issues the challenge to old Europe: pistols at dawn. One or the other will be carried off the field.

    Fair warning though: “And then a miracle happened.”

    “For example, we are likely to see a third consecutive loss in US Treasuries in 2023, which has never happened since US independence. Most would therefore have told you that it ‘could not happen’; history is laughing at the bond bulls who are crying.”

    “…how unprecedentedly low rates during the New Normal were: the lowest for 5,000 years, or all of recorded history. It made some sense at the time, but the lowest rates in history **for the rest of history** was only logical if, Fukuyama fashion, history was over…”

    Yes under fascism, One World where markets were never priced fairly again, Soviet Markets in a Brave New Technocracy. That does not seem to be going well. And if there are no markets, what would NY do? Evaporate? It ain’t a port, and they don’t do any work. I don’t think so.

    “our Fed-watcher Philip Marey sees the floor in Fed Funds as no lower than 3.5%, lifting short-end bond yields.”

    As yields un-invert slowly across the board. Herr Docktor, you said the whole system would implode if they tied this. Yes. And it did: more banks have failed than all of 08, by cap. The Fed no longer has any rules, what rules there are aren’t enforced, and Congress is MIA. So JPow bailed them out, is bailing out more right now, and has the balance sheet to bail out possibly everyone. Remember when they used to have to ask to get a mere $700B? So quaint. Those were the days.

    In this weird world we’re in he’s also saying something else: we are normalizing pricing risk. Infinitesimally slow, but slowly he is trying to re-introduce the concept of “Markets” back into NY after Greenspan. How? There’s an open bail window at the Fed: take all you want. Wait, that’s not pricing. Oh yes it is: the “Panic” window is now very expensive, not a free lunch like before. If you need it, you’ll survive. If you don’t, you’ll have to go work for your lunch like in “Capitalism” by selling loans that will repay you, I.e not Silicon Valley who were all four “S” banks who he executed and handed to NY.

    Is this great? No, it sucks. They should all be bankrupted and scattered to the winds. Every trader should be arrested and fined and jailed. However, I’m an adult and understand that cure is worse than the disease. How about we set up incentive structures that just make us MORE honest and MORE market-based each year, just the #Opposite of the last 60 years since Kennedy.

    “Polish Minister Has ‘Taken Steps’ To Extradite Ukrainian Nazi Veteran Honored By Trudeau Govt
    Still crickets from the ADL…”

    Well they’ve paid their extortion vig for the month. It’s when you DON’T pay that things start to happen…

    “German FM Admits Some Of Berlin’s Weapons To Ukraine Are Outdated, “Not Really Functioning”
    Several deliveries of Leopard tanks have been “faulty & defective”…

    Oh is THAT why every Leopard blew up, no better than an old Soviet rig? So which is it: you knew these tanks were s—t and weren’t working and you gave them to Ukraine without telling them to sabotage them and get them killed. OR: the Leopards really aren’t defective much, just not the latest tech, and aren’t special kryptonite at all, just a well made, average rig?

    I’ll wait.

    “A Kennedy Libertarian Party Run Could Tilt Election: Officials”

    He will pull mostly Republicans, taking out Trump. However, if Trump should have an “Accident” and go to Ken Lay island, both parties will pull behind him and have a totally new party appear, like in 1845 or 1860. That’s the kind of “Point to” change that we need to make an impact.

    Speaking of, Cheeto at a rally just said, “We’re going to take out Joe Biden in 5 months.” 5 months? That’s March 1. The election is November 13 months from now. Whatever do you mean, sir?

    Speaking of Presidents, Newsom is a top runner in the Vegas odds, who isn’t running and just said he wouldn’t. Uh-huh. Sure, and Vegas boys don’t know nothin’. They’re all babes in the woods.

    “FBI Sued After ‘Losing’ Valuable Rare Coins It Seized During Raid

    Like Civil Forfeiture, they, government, police, apparatchiks, are the top thieves. Since they run all the drug cartels, they may be the ONLY thieves. Everybody else is too small to matter. Civil Forfeiture is what? 3x burglary nationwide?

    “’Missing’ Biden Whistleblower (Who Garland Indicted) Offers Dirt On FBI ‘Mole’ Who Tipped Off Hunter
    new evidence to the House impeachment inquiry about an FBI mole who tipped off Hunter Biden that his Chinese partners were about to be indicted, according to the NY Post”

    “Biden DOJ indicts Dr. Gal Luft, a Biden corruption whistleblower, for not registering as an agent of CEFC China Energy, while Hunter, James, and Sara Biden simultaneously collected millions from CEFC China Energy without registering, also violating FARA”

    P.S. this was the one with the direct bribery/extortion threat: ““I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction. I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father.” They wired $5M shortly.

    “Ho was [then] arrested by the Trump DOJ on charges of bribery and money laundering.
    Ho’s first call? Jim Biden, looking for Hunter.”
    Hunter reached out to lawyer Edward Kim, who asked Hunter in an email the afternoon of Ho’s arrest to “find the names of the FBI agents you spoke with, that would be helpful.”
    “Working on it,” Hunter replied.” etc

    I’m sure they wanted the names just as an FYI and nobody talked to anyone. Did any of their kids go missing?

    Hunter is also suing over the laptop, a move certain to keep it in the news for months. Odd unless you WANT to inform those last pig-headed Americans that everything is real.

    “Tens of Thousands of Armenians Flee Their 2,000-Year Heartland In Karabakh, Facing Genocide

    America killin’ some folks, doin’ more genocide wherever we can. Busy busy! Yes, the place where the North-South BRICS rail line has to go. What a coincidence there should be a genocide there where the UN and NATO now need to get involved!

    Presidential Net Worth: Of course that’s OFFICIAL net worth, not including gold bricks, diamonds, and speaking engagement favors.

    AOC: $6,000 to Multi-millionaire in one term. …With lifetime gold-plated health insurance too. Would be worth it just for that.

    NY Hotels:

    Tim Pool pointed out that they’re promising Black reparations. But they are ACTUALLY giving all that reparation money to NON-Blacks, who aren’t even citizens. So worse than doing or not doing, they’re taking out $100 bill, waving it in front of your face, then if you grab, snatching it away and laughing.

    Ukraine: Apparently the Polish extradition is happening. And the SPEAKER took a political hit, not Trudeau. Why?

    “described the ceremony as “deeply embarrassing for the House and for Canada.”

    …But not for him. Because Justin is beyond all shame.

    “a level of brutality and malice that is unimaginable,” the Toronto-based Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center (FSWC) said in a statement on Sunday.”

    ADL still MIA. How odd. I thought there was never a minute they wouldn’t shake people down and pearl-clutch over the smallest thing. But a live SS member getting like a Victoria Cross by a primary nation on national TV? All good with them! So apparently it’s clearly NOT Nazis and not muh Jews that drives you. Huh. So what is it then?

    “Canada is not a unique situation. Ten thousand Nazi war criminals emigrated to the United States, thousands to Australia, Great Britain, and in fewer numbers to New Zealand.”

    …and were put in the highest positions, including top secret access and clearance. So the Bush’s “Businessman’s Coup” to kill FDR and install Fascism here failed, so they killed FDR in 1945 (Churchill said) and back-doored the coup by installing fascist moles everywhere. Got it. And Truman watched.

    Dore is amazing and gets more clever, concise, and accurate each week. The ability to say the exact thing in few words is stellar. Brand is equally good, with a fresh, precise line of open questioning with each day, whereas I can’t avoid the conclusions I could only draw yesterday, but which can close off new entrants and new ideas.

    “Hersh Reveals US Motive For Destruction Of Nord Stream Pipelines (MoA)

    Did we not know this? Yes it was killing Germany’s dog in front of them so they couldn’t back out. I’m waiting for the new information.

    “the destruction of the two Russian pipelines was not related to the Ukrainian war..”

    I don’t know what they mean, it is very obviously about the Ukraine war, or rather the offensive and entirely voluntary war on Russia.

    “Nord Stream Blast: Why the West Still Can’t Name the Culprit (Sp.)

    And apparently still hasn’t investigated? Are we the only nation that didn’t feel the need? That’s odd. Does that mean we know who did it already?

    “estimates made by Kiev – which claimed that dozens of servicemen and officers were killed and over 100 injured.”

    Military Summary points out that Kiev doesn’t do itself any favors by estimating and releasing what is totally wrong all the time. However, since 100% of the pliant and obsequious press will report it with a big slurpie, I guess it doesn’t matter. Wrong 100% of the time = Right. True. Fair and Balanced. Most Trusted. …At being always wrong.

    “Nothing Is Off Table To Get Ukraine Into EU – Parliament President (G.)

    Well if the full power of MALTA is on their side, the war will shortly be over.

    ““Pushing the can down the road” on enlargement will only fuel nationalism and the far-right, she warned.”

    Uhhh. Whut? Whutty, whut whut? The “Far-Right” IS Ukriane. Everyone else was outlawed, legally and literally. Ukraine and the Azov – the poster child of an actual “Far Right” – have merged. There is no more “Nationalist”, prejudiced nation on the Planet we call “Earth” than Ukraine, leaving even Israel behind. If you stopped “Nationalism” and “The Far-Right” you would be Russian and AGAINST Ukraine. Tricky-tricky.

    “Campaigns in accession countries are fought, and lost or won, on the basis of the dream and hope of the EU.”

    They did fight this battle indeed. Russia won and Ukraine had voted to stay in the Russiosphere. Then the U.S. openly paid $6B on camera to create an illegal coup and install an anti-democratic government that wanted the #Opposite of what they people just and so painfully had decided. When that wasn’t adequate, they started killing everyone they could find who had voted the “Wrong way.” 100 kids a month for years.

    What pierces the armor of an Abrams? A: Everything. We saw them burn from nearly nothing in Yemen. Just your average, outdated anti-tank round.

    Trump: “instead claiming James’ suit is a politically-driven attack.” Which she publicly said it was. 1,000 times. That is not grounds for a mistrial or recusal because muh Trump.

    “Whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld told Sputnik the choice was the result of “venue shopping.

    This is illegal, it is specifically written in the Constitution, but that’s our foundational law, so we don’t follow that.

    Same as the ‘16 election – and every minute since – no matter what happens, we’re not worried about “Who did what 10,000 treasonous crimes to whom”, but “How did you find out about my crimes???” Finding OUT about the crimes is the illegal part, not the crimes themselves. See Hunter whistleblower on Cyprus. If you lobby for foreign nationals, taking $5M from the Chinese, that’s okay. TALKING about it to the press can get you a FARA charge.

    Don’t worry, not a single DNC voter will change their mind.

    Digital currencies, 6 miles. Yes, they have all kinds of plans. We’ll just go around them. Duh, de-duh duh duh. Hey Doc? Do people do drugs and own guns in your home town? They do? But that’s impossible.

    “. Existing evidence of the drug effectiveness is therefore inconclusive.”

    We have exciting new evidence of cancer curing drugs. …That is why we will never, ever test them.

    Actually, it would be against the whole POINT of the thing. I have heard that, what seems to be on accident, Salk’s polio vaccine was generated using monkeys and during the process a cancer cause was instilled across species. Rather than cover this up as they used to, by 1950 they were HAPPY about it and made certain this was in every remaining vaccine even today. So they are CAUSING cancer as a way of containing population on Spaceship Earth, a fact they are proud of and tell us so every day. So why would anyone be surprised their open, stated beliefs and goals have turned to action?

    Anyway, then finding a cancer CURE undoes all that hard work. Right now, the very rich can visit alternative treatments in Mexico and elsewhere and get anything they want. But that is only to keep them out of the hands of the masses. Monoclonal antibodies was one of those treatments, now more common here.

    These things are part of a system. If you know the system and its origins, how far along in corruption now makes a lot more sense.

    #143774
    Michael Reid
    Participant


    But Greg Reese has just revisited the issue,
    and so compellingly that I am moved to post this warning after all.

    His case is strengthened by Todd Callender’s elucidation of
    precisely what that 5G signal would let loose inside the bodies of the “vaccinated”
    —i.e., the Marburg virus,
    among other pathogens,
    in order to bring on that “zombie apocalypse”
    which has been cinematically foretold for many years,
    and which the military has, in fact, been planning for.
    (Reese’s video also includes the gist of Shurka’s warning.)

    https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/is-something-wicked-coming-at-us

    #143775
    zerosum
    Participant

    Zelensky’ and the 1.5 million Ukrainians have been handed a blackmail trump card.

    Fear of the truth being told to the voters.

    How/why/when/where/many Nazi veteran and sympathizers are hiding in Canada?

    • Canadian Parliament Speaker Resigns After Honoring Ukrainian Nazi (RT)
    https://www.rt.com/news/583604-anthony-rota-resigns-nazi/

    (The Ukrainian Postal Service is now issuing stamps of Waffen SS Nazi Galicia Yaroslav Hunko?)

    • Nazi Hunter: Canada Failed Miserably in Bringing Nazis to Justice (Sp.)

    —————–

    #143776
    Oroboros
    Participant

    “Meanwhile, we are surprised that Jonathan Greenblatt and the ADL have not been vociferously attacking the honoring of one of Hitler’s henchmen.

    OMG Canazidians!

    .

    That seems like an “anti-semitic” action being taken by Trudeau and Zelenskyy that should demand widespread condemnation from an organization that prides itself on rooting out anti-semitism…”

    #143777
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #143779
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Hey, Greta you posing twat,

    go to China and whine about fossil fuels

    They’ll beat your little ‘inner child’ with a bamboo cane til it has to crawl home on all fours.

    China Says Fossil Fuel Phase-Out Is Unrealistic

    In your face Greta, you’re a sock muppet with someone else hand up your ass.

    “Phasing out fossil fuels is unrealistic as oil, natural gas, and coal will continue to play a crucial role in global energy supply and energy security”, China’s special climate envoy Xie Zhenhua said this week.

    “It is unrealistic to completely phase out fossil fuel energy,” Xie, who will represent China at COP28 in Dubai in November, told ambassadors in Beijing ahead of the climate summit.

    .

    #143780
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Notice the bottom of the graph

    Japan Germany UK

    ALL DYING ECONOMIES

    Fossil fuel is the Master Resource for all modern economies

    #143781
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson flips parties to become a Republican

    Black big city mayor Bitch Slapping the Demorats

    “The Democratic mayor of one of the country’s largest cities announced that he is switching political parties on Friday, saying that cities in the United States need more Republicans.

    Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson said he believes the future of the United States’s “great urban centers depends on the willingness of the nation’s mayors to champion law and order and practice fiscal conservatism” and that he was leaving the Democratic Party because it was not committed to making the country safer.

    “Our cities desperately need the genuine commitment to these principles (as opposed to the inconsistent, poll-driven commitment of many Democrats) that has long been a defining characteristic of the GOP,” Johnson wrote in an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal. “In other words, American cities need Republicans — and Republicans need American cities.”

    Amen Brother!

    .

    #143782
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Trudeau Attempts To Distract From Nazi Controversy By Growing Cool New Mustache

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    #143783
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #143784
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #143785
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Do people do drugs and own guns in your home town? They do? But that’s impossible.

    asfsddfwd

    #143786
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    I notice that New York City is suffering the consequences of being a Sanctuary City and that the gen pop in that fair Camelot are beginning to really notice what consequence feels like, and object to it strongly.

    Of course the folks to whom they are expressing those objections are the self-same criminal lunatics who the self-same gen pop voted into office quite some time ago and have tolerated from way back then all the way up until now (and will probably tolerate for a little while longer, too …… but not very much longer.)

    I also couldn’t help but notice the broadly displayed schadenfreude at their predicament, along with the unexpressed attitude (especially among the more ardent conservatives) of “Hurrah and Alleluia! You had it comin’ to ya!”

    Well, yes and no. In point of plain and incontestable fact the vast, vast, VAST majority of that gen pop have done nothing wrong in that regard except get on with their own lives for day after day, year after year, for generations,while letting other people get on with theirs in the same way. For the most part, and for most of them, their only failure has been a failure to predict consequences, and EVERYBODY has just got to know that predicting consequences is a helluva lot of thankless and time consuming HARD WORK that is very very hard to get right.

    Cut them some slack! The VAST majority of them haven’t done anything worse they you have…. truly! ….. so don’t be happy when they suffer!! Help the poor bastards. Help them with all of the mercy and good will that you better hope strangers treat you with when YOUR “unintended” consequences come back around to bite YOUR ass. And don’t think they aren’t coming around, buddy, because they sure as hell ARE.

    That civilization crashing down around your ears is YOURS. When it is all total wreckage you (me, we, all of us) are going to be right there in the middle of it. If that ain’t a consequence then will somebody kindly tell me what is?

    So let’s skip most of that “evil joy”* [see * below] and get back to work. Keep telling people what the consequences are going to be if they keep fucking up like they have been. And don’t let that mirror-mirror-on-the-wall get too far away from your field of view while you’re at it.
    * [ the etymology of the schadenfreude. The word is derived from the ancient Greek “epi” (meaning upon); “kharis” (meaning joy) and “kakos” (meaning evil)]

    #143787
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    Incredibly open and honest view – expression of disapproval – of the U.S. presented in this interview by Matt Piepenburg.

    … fwiw,

    F.S.

    #143788
    jb-hb
    Participant

    I’m going to need to witness climate changers, climate meltdowners, and global warmers spend the next few years exclusively complaining about China’s pollution and how communist systems seem to allow for the most pollution to consider them anything but some sort of clownish pathetic joke – weird, years of posts, many thousands of words of text, keyword search for China… no results.

    asdfsfs
    asdsdsdf

    #143789
    Mr. House
    Participant

    The charges Trump was just found guilty of NY prove that they could have prosecuted all the bankers and banks in 2008. They only just charge their political enemies though. Ain’t life grand in a banana republic? On that note does anyone ever remember a banana republic that won a war? Prob shouldn’t instigate any.

    #143790
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @FigmundSrued

    That was a fascinating video, for at least two BIG reasons. First is that their financial analysis was exquisitely accurate, and their predictions just inescapable. Yup, the money world is headed for an unprecedented collision of fact vs fiction. No doubt about it, and for the reasons stated.

    But the second BIG reason (conspicuous in its absence from the conversation) was the one that gobsmacked me. Neither of these guys gave explicit voice to the fact that the crisis in money/commerce is both superseded and replicated by the crisis in spirituality and wisdom. In fact, I’m pretty sure (from listening to them closely) that the two of ’em were simply unaware of it. They actually do not see any “layers” of the onion above the materialist layer that they’re fixated on. . . . . and yet it is testimony to their intelligence that they understand the layer that they’re on pretty damned well.

    Somebody needs to inform them that the abstraction known as “wealth” has deeper meanings that are not merely far more important than “money”, but which fully explain how and why the money world got so screwed up in the first place.

    #143791
    Dr. D
    Participant

    If I’m hearing this right, one judge just erased Trump’s company in one minute. One judge.

    No rule of law = no wealth. Morons.

    Okay, geniuses, now EVERYONE IN NYC sees that their businesses aren’t safe. Not. One. Think anybody’s going to make that final decision to depart for Miami now?

    #143792
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Speaking of not safe: Philly had mass “Teen” in quotes, “riots” in quotes. As in, we know the exact ages of everyone involved when they all escaped? It was a “Riot” in the sense that they went on a shopping spree, sacking an open Apple store WITH THE EMPLOYEES INSIDE? That’s not a protest. That’s not a riot. That’s looting.

    I guess they’re on the Iraq war plan: WHO is the person literally LEAST involved with this event of a police shooting? I know! AutoZone! I’m going to create social justice by getting brake pads for a 1999 Hyundai I don’t own. Loot away, good citizen!

    Meanwhile, on the Island of Staten, residents were annoyed with them having to pay for non-citizens — that is criminal felons — to the tune of $1B while they get shafted. Well, since they’re white, we all know what happened: The NY Police ARRESTED THE CITIZENS. Not the illegals, who have been legally classified “an invasion” in some jurisdictions, and who are exclusively all felons, having just committed a major international crime only yesterday.

    In Brave #OppositeLand, if innocent: arrested. If guilty: paid cash money and free 4 star hotels. Yesssss!!! Nirvana at last!

    (In the sense that they’re shooting themselves in the head. Too Soon?)

    #143793
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Oh yeah, I forgot to observe:

    Overestimating real estate values is criminal

    Overestimating assets on a balance sheet is criminal

    Holy. Fuck. IS it?!???!1!?!!1!??!eleventyone!???1!?

    That’s actually a THING?

    What will people exclaim when they see the new prison we built to house all the lying, colluding real estate agents, appraisers, regulators, bankers, ratings agencies, government officials, housing websites, traders, investment brokers that we have suddenly begun finding guilty of this crime, “THAT”S NO MOON!!!”???

    #143794
    zerosum
    Participant

    Trudeau just spoke. Trudeau is a liar. Did not do an apology. Did a Russia. russia. russia. Misinformation.

    Zelensky’ and the 1.5 million Ukrainians have been handed a blackmail trump card.

    Fear of the truth being told to the voters.

    How/why/when/where/many Nazi veteran and sympathizers are hiding in Canada?

    #143795
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    So I guess that the most pertinent question to ask is whether each one of us as individuals is going to wait until the unacceptable consequences actually ARRIVE, or if we can some way or other stop those consequences BEFORE they land on one’s PERSONAL doorstep and we are forced by factual circumstances to decide , “Nope. That is unacceptable, and I say NO, that is not going to happen in THIS place, and especially not at THIS time.”

    #143796
    Mr. House
    Participant

    At this point i’m not even sure what you could do to avert total disaster……. I mean you could gain total control over the government and then you’d still have to fight all the corporations that currently own it. And any “fix” would still hurt alot of people. How many people work for the federal and state governments? They’re just about the entire economy these days.

    #143797
    jb-hb
    Participant

    So I guess that the most pertinent question to ask is whether each one of us as individuals is going to wait until the unacceptable consequences actually ARRIVE, or if we can some way or other stop those consequences BEFORE they land on one’s PERSONAL doorstep

    Agreed, hugely important. And then I look at what already happened. And I’m not arguing per se, but just musing down one of the darker paths – you’ve got me thinking…

    We’re just waiting for the results to come in, the casualty count. Millions, surely. Billions? Wait and see. Aside from global thermonuclear war, ELE comet strike, or highly deadly plague, haven’t we kind of maxxed out already, discovered what we will stand for?

    As the notavax mandates were coming out, I was seeing posts all over discussions on the internet – youtube, wherever – things like “I am an atheist, I have no child, but I will stand shoulder to shoulder with you christians and you parents” when it was coming to church closures and child injection.

    What do you do when they sneeringly do it to themselves, to their children, as you warn them and pledge your life to their life?

    What if you lived in a polyglot city in the Mediterranean basin in antiquity, one with a large Phoenecian or Carthaginian population? They’ve built a Topet – an institutional building specifically for sacrificing their own children. (to Moloch or possibly Baal) You watch them practice their worship, their religion, and you tell them they shouldn’t do it, they don’t have to do it, you’ll stand with them, but they sneer at you, persecute you, and try to get access to YOUR children for this and other of their objectionable religious observances.

    If the parents bow to moloch and sacrifice their children, if the christians bow to woke and stop going to church services on command, intervention starts to feel like a very strange prospect. How far out of civil society do I go, physically take children away from their parents and what, go on the run for as long as my call center worker resources last? Certainly NOT. Wouldn’t do it. Know already how disastarous that would be in all respects. How else though, to save the kid from their idiot parent, with all the civil authorities you would normally summon for child abuse on the side of the abuse? Hey man, they’re YOUR children. Heartbreaking. Do I go to church FOR them?

    Like the Bill Burr bit about women’s sports. Women are angry at men that the women soccer players dont make so much money. Also women won’t go to the women’s soccer games nor watch them on tv nor buy their tshirts and other merch. Women won’t give the women a dime. Were the MEN supposed to attend your women’s soccer FOR YOU?

    Why didn’t Lincoln declare Civil War is on, day one? Why all this pussyfooting around with promising not to abolish slavery, trying to negotiate with the slave states before and after secession? Maybe because the hundreds of thousands of lives to be lost were surely worth something. To save all those children from being taken to the local Topet, especially with the local authorities endorsing it, things would have to fall apart, and THEN how many children suffer?

    They had a Topet in the Bible as well. In 2 Kings, Josiah has to eliminate a Topet and liquidate the associated priests, bureaucrats, and so on. Sounds like it was basically a war. They refer to the place AS “Topet” thinking, I suppose, that the word meant a unique place not an institutional structure. Probably the only place the religion made inroads in Isreal at the time.

    “The handle they use on you is your wistful need to pick up your life again right where it was interrupted, to be allowed to go in peace. When you decide that you do not give a damn about your own continuity, then you can even win a hand, and sometimes you can break the house.”
    John D Macdonald The Long Lavender Look

    “The life they knew is gone.
    The world they fought for is dead.
    They know – that the fight itself has stolen from them everything they ever would have fought for.
    Their lives, as they have lived them, are over…
    …When the men who wanted to be left alone fight back-
    It is a form of suicide.”

    (from the mysterious The Man Who Just Wanted To Be Left Alone poem that circles the internet nowadays)

    Idunno. idunno. There is personal sacrifice. There is the far from costless costs to society when things begin to turn. I like our peaceful decadent society, well sort of, maybe a little.

    #143798
    Formerly T-Bear
    Participant

    That judge finding against Trump sits on their brain. The value of anything is established only when it is sold, never at any other time. Estimates of value are not value. Estimates can entail any number of factors such as cost of replacement, scarcity, productivity, desirability, etc., all ephemeral. That judge should be sent to Guantanamo for an extended education about reality. Another example of the adage: The Law is an as. Too bad law doesn’t work anyway, think of the problems that could be solved.

    Just in Turdeau has blamed Russia, Russia, Russia again. New day, same shite.

    #143799
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    @dbentonsmith

    I notice that New York City is suffering the consequences of being a Sanctuary City and that the gen pop in that fair Camelot are beginning to really notice what consequence feels like, and object to it strongly.

    Of course the folks to whom they are expressing those objections are the self-same criminal lunatics who the self-same gen pop voted into office quite some time ago and have tolerated from way back then all the way up until now (and will probably tolerate for a little while longer, too …… but not very much longer.)

    Buh bye Gotham, we hardly knew ye.

    #143800
    jb-hb
    Participant

    So I guess that the most pertinent question to ask is whether each one of us as individuals is going to wait until the unacceptable consequences actually ARRIVE, or if we can some way or other stop those consequences BEFORE they land on one’s PERSONAL doorstep

    Agreed, hugely important. And then I look at what already happened. And I’m not arguing per se, but just musing down one of the darker paths – you’ve got me thinking…

    We’re just waiting for the results to come in, the casualty count for what people have already injected. Millions, surely. Billions? Wait and see. Aside from global thermonuclear war, ELE comet strike, or highly deadly plague, haven’t we kind of maxxed out already, discovered what we will stand for?

    As the notavax mandates were coming out, I was seeing posts all over discussions on the internet – youtube, wherever – things like “I am an atheist, I have no child, but I will stand shoulder to shoulder with you christians and you parents” when it was coming to church closures and child injection.

    What do you do when they sneeringly do it to themselves, to their children, as you warn them and pledge your life to their life?

    What if you lived in a polyglot city in the Mediterranean basin in antiquity, one with a large Phoenecian or Carthaginian population? They’ve built a Topet – an institutional building specifically for sacrificing their own children. (to Moloch or possibly Baal) You watch them practice their worship, their religion, and you tell them they shouldn’t do it, they don’t have to do it, you’ll stand with them, but they sneer at you, persecute you, and try to get access to YOUR children for this and other of their objectionable religious observances.

    If the parents bow to moloch and sacrifice their children, if the christians bow to woke and stop going to church services on command, intervention starts to feel like a very strange prospect. How far out of civil society do I go, physically take children away from their parents and what, go on the run for as long as my call center worker resources last? Certainly NOT. Wouldn’t do it. Know already how disastarous that would be in all respects. How else though, to save the kid from their idiot parent, with all the civil authorities you would normally summon for child abuse on the side of the abuse? Hey man, they’re YOUR children. Heartbreaking. Do I go to church FOR them?

    Like the Bill Burr bit about women’s sports. Women are angry at men that the women soccer players dont make so much money. Also women won’t go to the women’s soccer games nor watch them on tv nor buy their tshirts and other merch. Women won’t give the women a dime. Were the MEN supposed to attend your women’s soccer FOR YOU?

    Why didn’t Lincoln declare Civil War is on, day one? Why all this pussyfooting around with promising not to abolish slavery, trying to negotiate with the slave states before and after secession? Maybe because the hundreds of thousands of lives to be lost were surely worth something. To save all those children from being taken to the local Topet, especially with the local authorities endorsing it, things would have to fall apart, and THEN how many children suffer?

    They had a Topet in the Bible as well. In 2 Kings, Josiah has to eliminate a Topet and liquidate the associated priests, bureaucrats, and so on. Sounds like it was basically a war. They refer to the place AS “Topet” thinking, I suppose, that the word meant a unique place not an institutional structure. Probably the only place the religion made inroads in Isreal at the time.

    “The handle they use on you is your wistful need to pick up your life again right where it was interrupted, to be allowed to go in peace. When you decide that you do not give a damn about your own continuity, then you can even win a hand, and sometimes you can break the house.”
    John D Macdonald The Long Lavender Look

    “The life they knew is gone.
    The world they fought for is dead.
    They know – that the fight itself has stolen from them everything they ever would have fought for.
    Their lives, as they have lived them, are over…
    …When the men who wanted to be left alone fight back-
    It is a form of suicide.”

    (from the mysterious The Man Who Just Wanted To Be Left Alone poem that circles the internet nowadays)

    Idunno. idunno. There is personal sacrifice. There is the far from costless costs to society when things begin to turn. I like our peaceful decadent society, well sort of, maybe a little.

    #143801
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    #143802
    Celticbiker
    Participant

    it wasn’t the Nazi’s who injected 1/2 the worldwith some dismal poison, oh no that was someone else. The1you dare not mention.

    #143803
    jb-hb
    Participant

    PS someone was asking a week or two ago which god was it in antiquity they would sacrifice children to – in the context of what happened in Hawaii.

    The sacrifice method used at the Topet was fire. It appears the word was also used to reference fire based sacrifice of children. So both the building and the verb for the thing done in the building.

    The bible mentions Josiah defiling the local Topet to put it out of action. Defiling, presumably, from the point of view of the practitioners of that faith.

    #143804
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @jb-hb

    The line that each person draws is a deeply personal choice and for most of us involves much serious grappling with all of the many factors. Stating the questions outright, and clearly, seems to help.

    #143805
    Oroboros
    Participant

    The Russians are dismantling the Ukronazi grain infrastructure to cut off a Major source the funding to the Nazilensky government, grain shipments.

    Ukronaziland will eventually lose all access to the Black Sea because they will no longer have a coastline.

    The Grain deal was just another Collective West Big Lie.

    It was meant to feed poor African countries, it was meant to suppress food prices in inflation ravished Eurotardistan. Now the Poles and Czech and Hungarians and many other countries don’t want cheap, tainted low quality Ukronazi grain fucking their farmers.

    So yeh, blow the fucking Ukro grain silos up, nobody wants them except Eurotard’ss want corrupt country.

    Kaboom, and it’s all gone

    Russian Bombs Hit Ukraine Grain Silos

    #143806
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    #143807
    Oroboros
    Participant

    On the G20 trip to India, Turdeau’s shitbox plane broke down, it’s always breaking down.

    Former Indian diplomat Deepak Vohra claims Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s plane was apparently ‘full of cocaine’. He further claimed that Trudeau missed the G20 dinner because he was high as a kite.

    When fixing the plane. Indian authorities scanned the inside of the plane with sniffer dogs to check for explosives but found cocaine instead.

    Hahahahahahahaahahaha!, oh Trudy, Oh Canazida!

    #143808
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Meanwhile back in DUH‘merica, the Darwin Awards is accepting nominations.

    Jack-in-the-Box worker shoots at customer over curly fry order

    #143809
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Woke ‘Judge”

    This female judge needs to be violently raped, multiple times before she actually ‘wakes up’ to moral Reality

    I mean it.

    .

    #143810
    Oroboros
    Participant

    She goes by A M Hiltz-Simmons in Halifax

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