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Explaining the $18 Million Mar-a-Lago Valuation by NY Trump Case Judge (ET)
Georgia Senate GOP Ousts Senator for Trying to Remove c from Office (BB)
Fulton County DA’s Charges in Trump Case ‘Unnecessary’: CNN Legal Analyst (ET)
Sparks Fly on Day One of US House’s Biden Impeachment Hearing (Sp.)
House Committee Files Subpoena for Hunter, James Biden Bank Records (Sp.)
Turley Testifies at Biden Impeachment Hearing (Turley)
Russia ‘Making A Fortune’ – Trump (RT)
House Removes Ukraine Aid From Defense Spending Bill (Sp.)
West Pays for 70% of Kiev Expenses as Ukraine’s Debt Hits New High (Sp.)
Ukrainian Troops Surrendering En Masse – TASS (RT)
How Long Does It Take to Train an Abrams Crew and Who Will Be Manning Them? (Sp.)
Ukraine Dependence on NATO Intel Further Embroiling West in Conflict (Sp.)
America Needs Regime Change – John Rachel (Cunningham)
The Rape of Europa (Pepe Escobar)
Canada Must Face Up To Nazi Legacy – Immigration Minister (RT)

 

 

 

 

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This is truly shocking. Watch out.

 

 

 

 

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The judge cherry-picked the lowest appraisal and used that to accuse Trump of fraud.

“Valuing Mar-a-Lago at $425 million–$612 million was “appropriate and indeed conservative,” Mr. Moens told the court. The property is currently worth $1.51 billion, he opined.”

Explaining the $18 Million Mar-a-Lago Valuation by NY Trump Case Judge (ET)

Former President Donald Trump and two of his sons have criticized a New York judge for suggesting his Mar-a-Lago Palm Beach resort is worth between $18–28 million. “If Mar-a-Lago is worth $18 million … I’ll take 10 please!!!” Donald Trump Jr., an executive vice president of Trump Organization, wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. Judge Arthur Engoron implied the market value of the property in a Sept. 26 summary ruling that found President Trump’s business empire liable for fraudulently inflating property values in loan paperwork. He revoked the Trump Organization’s business licenses in the state and ordered it dissolved. President Trump’s lawyers argued that the banks providing the loans didn’t care about the valuations produced by the company because they do their own.

All the loans have or are being properly repaid with interest, they noted. The judge ruled, however, that under New York law the state can sue for inflated property values even if nobody was harmed by them. Mar-a-Lago was overvalued by “at least 2,300%” because the Palm Beach County Assessor assigned it a market value of $18 million to $27.6 million between 2011–2021, while the Trump Organization valued it at $426,529,614–$612,110,496 on its Statements of Financial Condition (SFC) in those same years, the judge said There are problems with using either of the valuations. The county’s website says that “the estimate of Total Market Value is for tax assessment purposes only” and “the Total Market Value estimate may be less than the actual market value of the property.”

Meanwhile, the SFCs include a disclaimer that the asset values are “determined by Mr. Trump in conjunction with his associates and, in some instances, outside professionals” and “the estimates presented herein are not necessarily indicative of the amount that could be realized upon the disposition of the assets or payment of the related liabilities.” President Trump referred to the disclaimer as a “worthless clause,” saying it indicated to him that the documents were more an enumeration of his assets, rather than their actual market valuation. The judge rejected that reasoning, arguing the disclaimer is itself “worthless” as a defense because it “does not use the words ‘worthless’ or ‘useless’ or ‘ignore’ or ‘disregard’ or any similar words.” The actual market value of Mar-a-Lago is unclear.

President Trump’s lawyers presented a real estate expert, Lawrence Moens, “who they purport is ‘the most accomplished and knowledgeable ultra-high net worth real estate broker in Palm Beach, Florida,’” the judge said. “His dominance of one of the country’s richest real estate markets is total,” a 2022 Real Deal profile of the secretive realtor said, noting that he closed perhaps $1 billion worth of deals in just the 18 months of the COVID-19 pandemic real estate mania. Valuing Mar-a-Lago at $425 million–$612 million was “appropriate and indeed conservative,” Mr. Moens told the court. The property is currently worth $1.51 billion, he opined. The judge rejected the opinion as “speculative” and made as “without relying on any objective evidence.” The property isn’t currently for sale and the family has indicated it doesn’t plan to ever sell it, according to the Trump family.

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Kemp and State Senate Republicans apparently oppose working to investigate, defund, and impeach Willis, and instead ousted Moore..”

Georgia Senate GOP Ousts Senator for Trying to Remove Fani Willis from Office (BB)

The Georgia Senate Republican caucus voted on Thursday to remove State Sen. Colton Moore from the caucus for taking a first step in August to defund, investigate, and possibly impeach Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who levied 13 counts against former President Donald Trump. In a letter to Gov. Brian Kemp (R), Moore announced an initiative in August to begin an emergency session to conduct a thorough investigation into the actions undertaken by Willis. An emergency legislative special session can come about two ways in Georgia: The governor can call an emergency session, or one can be called if 3/5 of both legislative chambers sign a letter demanding it.

Kemp and State Senate Republicans apparently oppose working to investigate, defund, and impeach Willis, and instead ousted Moore. “Today’s removal is a direct result of me calling on my Republican colleagues in the Senate to do their job and sign onto an emergency session to investigate Fani Willis,” Colton said in a statement exclusively obtained by Breitbart News: The Georgia Constitution clearly outlines the legislature’s power to call an emergency session to investigate a judicial officer. After urging my Republican Senate colleagues to join me — they responded by acting like children and throwing me out of the caucus.

I stand by my Republican principles. I stand by the Republican platform. I will continue to serve as a Republican Senator from the great state of Georgia. Unfortunately, now I will be forced to refer to my colleagues, who ran on being “Trump conservatives,” as the RINO caucus. The people of Georgia are 100 percent with me. This is the fight of our lifetime, and I will continue to double down to defend the rule of law and do what is right. Recent Rasmussen polling shows that 82 percent of Georgia Republicans say Trump is unfairly prosecuted by Willis. Seventy-seven percent of Republicans also say they are not satisfied with tax dollars being used to prosecute Trump. Another 74 percent of Republicans support the Georgia legislature convening a special session to stop Willis from prosecuting Trump.

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“If that’s the only goal, all seven states: Michigan, New Mexico, and on down the line, should be charging him too, but that would be ludicrous..s”

Fulton County DA’s Charges in Trump Case ‘Unnecessary’: CNN Legal Analyst (ET)

A prominent media analyst and former prosecutor suggested this week that the charges made by the district attorney in Fulton County, Georgia, against former President Donald Trump under the state’s racketeering law are “unnecessary” and only add to Mr. Trump’s allegations of a “Democratic Party pile on.” Elie Honig, a former federal prosecutor and now a media legal analyst, told a podcast this week that federal special counsel Jack Smith already charged the former president with alleged election-related offenses “and in seven states in particular, including Georgia.” Notably, Mr. Honig, a former assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, has been publicly critical of the former president, and he is now a senior legal analyst for CNN.

He’s also penned a critical book about former Trump Attorney General William Barr called “Hatchet Man.” He asked whether Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ indictment is for the “greater good and why is it promoting public confidence in the fairness of this [process] to have one of those seven state prosecutors pile on with a charge of her own? I don’t think it serves any greater good,” he stated, adding that Ms. Willis indicted him on partisan grounds. “I disagree with the exercise of prosecutorial discretion by an elected county prosecutor, a partisan, with a D next to her name,” he said, referring to the Democratic Party. There are differences between the Georgia and the federal election cases, he then claimed, saying they essentially serve the same purpose.

“I think it makes Trump’s chances of being convicted and punished higher if that’s the only goal here. If that’s the only goal, all seven states: Michigan, New Mexico, and on down the line, should be charging him too, but that would be ludicrous,” the former prosecutor said. Last month, the Fulton County District Attorney’s office indicted President Trump and 18 co-defendants under Georgia’s expansive anti-racketeering law, claiming that he and the others engaged in efforts to illegally overturn the 2020 election results in the state. All have pleaded not guilty and some defendants have attempted to get their charges thrown out.

Federal Judge Steve Jones last week rejected the attempt by Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to move his case to federal court and sent it back to state court, but Meadows is appealing that ruling. The four others who have already filed notice to move their cases have hearings before Jones scheduled for next week. It came after a Fulton County grand jury last month accused them of participating in an illegal scheme to keep the incumbent Republican president in power after the election against President Joe Biden. Republicans in her state and in Congress have accused Ms. Willis’s office of engaging in a politically motivated attack on the former president as he ramps up his 2024 presidential campaign as the leading GOP candidate.

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Well, they didn’t fly very high then…

Sparks Fly on Day One of US House’s Biden Impeachment Hearing (Sp.)

Members of the House of Representatives convened in the nation’s capital Thursday for day one of impeachment hearings against US President Joe Biden. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy initiated the inquiry last week after a monthslong campaign from conservative Republicans, but Democrats have dismissed the hearings as a political stunt. Sputnik has summarized and contextualized some of the key claims from today’s proceedings to help separate fact from fiction and innuendo from actuality. A combative atmosphere prevailed throughout the proceedings, with Democrats questioning the very basis for the inquiry. Early on in the day, Democratic representatives held up large placards featuring quotes from various Republicans casting an unflattering light on Speaker McCarthy’s management of the chamber’s Republican majority.

“These folks don’t have a plan,” read one sign quoting Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) blasting Republican Freedom Caucus members who insisted on the hearing. “This is a whole new concept of individuals that just want to burn the whole place down,” read another quoting McCarthy. “It’s hard to grasp the complete derangement of this moment,” proclaimed Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), the highest-ranking Democrat on the House’s oversight committee, calling the inquiry a “baseless impeachment drive against President Biden.” Republicans were equally feisty, if not more so. Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) adopted Trumpian language when she proclaimed Democratic attempts to exonerate President Biden were “complete and total bullshit.” “Hunter Biden referred to access to his father as the keys to his ‘family’s only asset,’” said Mace. “Those words are going to come back and haunt Hunter Biden and his family forever.”

Republicans have pointed to exotic financial arrangements on the part of the Biden family, including the establishment of over 20 shell companies to manage income. Although his family’s accounting maneuvers may seem alien to most Americans of average means, observers point out the GOP has not yet uncovered smoking gun evidence of any crime by Biden. Republicans’ own witnesses admitted as much. “I am not here today to even suggest that there was corruption, fraud or wrongdoing,” said Bruce Dubinsky, a forensic accountant and founder of Dubinsky Consulting. “More information needs to be gathered before I can make such an assessment.” “I do not believe that the current evidence would support articles of impeachment,” said Jonathan Turley, a noted legal analyst and professor at George Washington University Law School. “That is something that an inquiry has to establish.”

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“..the Bidens and their associates established more than 20 shell companies, amassing more than $24 million from sources in China and other countries..”

House Committee Files Subpoena for Hunter, James Biden Bank Records (Sp.)

The US House Oversight Committee said in a news release that Chairman James Comer issued subpoenas for President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, and his brother James Biden seeking to obtain their personal and business records. “As part of the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-KY) today issued three subpoenas for Hunter and James Biden’s personal and business bank records,” the committee said. According to copies of the subpoenas, the panel is giving Hunter and James Biden until October 12 to provide the requested documents or they may risk facing criminal contempt of Congress charges. The Oversight Committee has disclosed since January that the Bidens and their associates established more than 20 shell companies, amassing more than $24 million from sources in China and other countries.

The investigation also identified nine Biden family members linked to these business operations and affirmed the president interacted with the business affiliates on at least 24 occasions. Thursday was the first day of impeachment inquiry hearings against the president. During the GOP-led House Oversight Committee hearing, Congressman James Comer announced his intention to subpoena the bank records of President Joe Biden’s son and brother, Hunter and James, as well as the records of their affiliated companies. “What we need to understand is where it [the money] goes next. That is the question this committee seeks to answer and the evidence supports that next step,” Comer said at the time. Citing bank records, the House Oversight Committee earlier revealed that Hunter in 2019 received two payments wired from China totaling $260,000 with President Biden’s Delaware home listed as the beneficiary address.

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“If we want to combat the deterioration of political discourse in our society, it begins here and now as we discuss these issues..”

Turley Testifies at Biden Impeachment Hearing (Turley)

As a law professor, there is no more solemn responsibility than advising the House in an impeachment. I come to this question as someone who has served both as lead counsel in the last judicial impeachment trial in the United States Senate and testified in two prior presidential impeachments. Roughly, twenty-five years ago, I appeared before Congress as an expert witness in the impeachment of former president William Jefferson Clinton. Four years ago, I appeared as an expert witness in the only impeachment hearing held in the first impeachment of former president Donald J. Trump. In the second impeachment just roughly three years ago, there was no hearing at all.

The shortening intervals between impeachments is alarming and calls for circumspection and caution on both sides. My testimony addresses the historical baseline of past inquiries and what I consider to be “best practices” in the investigation of a sitting president. Some of those practices and presumptions work to the benefit of the President. That is as it should be. A presidential impeachment should not be a close question or a rush to judgment. Finally, I encourage members to consider the common article of faith in this constitutional process and to rise above the petty and personal attacks that characterize these times:

“There are constitutional moments that demand the best from each of us in transcending the passions and politics of time. These are moments when people of good faith can bring a solemnity and clarity to a national debate. We are living an age of rage where ad hominem attacks have replaced civil discourse. This toxic environment starts here with how members treat different views of our constitutional history and standards. As Justice Louis Brandeis stated “Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill it teaches the whole people by example.”

While Brandeis was speaking of criminal conduct, it is equally true of our public discourse. The license that some feel to engage in hateful rhetoric and personal attacks are the result of how members treat this moment. We can discuss these issues as Americans who may disagree but remain bound by a common faith in our constitutional system. We can disagree, but we need not hate each other. If we want to combat the deterioration of political discourse in our society, it begins here and now as we discuss these issues. Members can choose to be either potent teachers for civil discourse or political rage. I hope that this testimony will assist the Committee in offering the public an array of different viewpoints on how an impeachment inquiry should ideally progress under Article I.”

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“The shift to EV will kill jobs at America’s biggest carmakers and eventually make them obsolete, Trump warned. “For auto workers, Biden’s transition to electric is a transition to hell..”

Russia ‘Making A Fortune’ – Trump (RT)

Soaring energy prices have boosted Russia’s revenues, while the US is facing major economic threats due to its transition to clean energy, former President Donald Trump claimed on Wednesday. Addressing supporters at Drake Enterprises, a non-union auto parts manufacturer near Detroit, Trump condemned the administration of President Joe Biden for its policies on electric vehicles (EV) and clean energy, branding them a danger to the US auto industry. The shift to EV will kill jobs at America’s biggest carmakers and eventually make them obsolete, Trump warned. “For auto workers, Biden’s transition to electric is a transition to hell,” the former president declared. “A transition to unemployment.”

According to Trump, the US was “more energy-independent” than Russia and China during his tenure as president, while now “we are begging countries to give us gasoline.” “We are going to lose our country,” Trump warned, arguing that Moscow has “made a fortune” and continues to benefit from high oil prices. Global oil prices have surged by 30% since June after voluntary production cuts by OPEC and allies led by Russia. On Thursday, prices reached their highest level in over a year, with benchmark Brent rising above $97 a barrel. US West Texas Intermediate futures touched $95 per barrel, marking the highest price since August 2022. Experts predict that prices will remain high for the rest of the year.

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“All 117 votes against the bill came from Republican members, but 101 Republicans joined all Democrats in supporting the measure..”

House Removes Ukraine Aid From Defense Spending Bill (Sp.)

GOP leaders have stripped Ukraine funding from a defense spending bill, in a move that came amid two separate votes. The House not only approved the 2024 Defense Department spending bill of $826 billion, but also passed another bill with a 311-117 vote on Thursday night. This separate bill aims to allocate a generous sum of $300 million to enhance security assistance for Ukraine. Included in the 2024 Defense Department spending legislation is an additional document that arranges $20 million for the establishment of a new Special Inspector General for Ukraine Assistance office to thoroughly review and conduct aid audits. All 117 votes against the bill came from Republican members, but 101 Republicans joined all Democrats in supporting the measure. The bills now move to the Senate for consideration.

Republican Senator Marjorie Taylor Greene commented on the developments, tweeting that “for weeks” she has been “calling for taxpayer funding for Ukraine to be removed from OUR [US] appropriations bills.” “On Tuesday, I protested on the steps of the Capitol. Tonight the House answered my call, we successfully voted to strip $300 million to Ukraine from the Defense Appropriations Act. This is a victory for the American people and for peace,” Greene added. Following House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s recent statement to the press, where he expressed his intent to remove the $300 million from the defense bill and schedule a separate vote specifically for the funding, the remarks were made. Shortly after, however, he backtracked by claiming that it would be “too difficult” to remove the Ukraine aid from the Department of Defense legislation. These developments unfold amid reports of an increasingly likely US government shutdown that could occur as early as October 1, temporarily furloughing thousands of non-essential federal workers.

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“Long-shot hopes of entry into the European Union to get access to hundreds of billions of euros in loans and subsidies..”

West Pays for 70% of Kiev Expenses as Ukraine’s Debt Hits New High (Sp.)

Ukraine’s Ministry of Finance revealed on Thursday that the nation’s national debt levels had grown by another billion dollars and reached a historically-unprecedented $133.93 billion, equivalent to more than 84 percent of the country’s projected 2023 GDP. Emerging from the rubble of the USSR in 1991 with a debt of $0, Kiev’ staggering obligations today are the result of successive governments’ liberal borrowing policies, including of cash loaned by the IMF in exchange for economic reforms, and the year-and-a-half long NATO proxy conflict with Russia. Debt ballooned by some $77 billion since the start of 2022 alone, with Kiev’s Western partners ignoring requests to write it off.

Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Nikolai Azarov recently predicted that the country’s debt may reach $173 billion (107 percent of GDP) by the end of the year, while the IMF expects this to occur only in 2025. The Zelensky government recently began brainstorming new ways to collect cash to try to put a dent in next year’s predicted $40 billion deficit amid hikes in defense spending, and as money owed to Western vulture funds including BlackRock and Fidelity come due, with proposals including selling government bonds to foreigners.

Long-shot hopes of entry into the European Union to get access to hundreds of billions of euros in loans and subsidies also prevail, although European Parliament President Roberta Metsola warned this week that the EU’s economy wouldn’t be able to survive another enlargement. As Kiev’s financial troubles mount, a growing number of officials from the country’s top patron, the United States, are becoming increasingly weary of the idea of continuing to prop up the nation’s economy, particularly amid a steady stream of scandals of corrupt Ukrainian officials purchasing fleets of luxury cars, and reports of US aid sponsoring everything from Ukrainian designer knitwear companies to private equity firms that don’t even have anything to do with Ukraine, as Americans feel the squeeze of inflation, spiking energy costs and a debt crisis threatening to shut down the government.

The Biden administration has asked Congress to authorize an additional $24 billion in assistance to Ukraine, including $13 billion in military aid. However, GOP fiscal conservatives in Congress and some presidential candidates have sought to stop or at least reduce further assistance, so far to no avail. “I don’t know who can keep track of these figures anymore,” Dr. Nicolai Petro, an international politics professor at the University of Rhode Island, told Sputnik, commenting on the current battle in Congress over additional Ukraine aid.

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“..using a special radio frequency designed for fighters willing to lay down arms..”

Ukrainian Troops Surrendering En Masse – TASS (RT)

Large numbers of Ukrainian troops have surrendered to the Russian military in recent weeks, using a special radio frequency designed for fighters willing to lay down arms, TASS reported on Wednesday. The frequency, 149.200 call sign ‘Volga’, was set up by the Russian military during the summer. Thus far, it has been used by more than 10,000 Ukrainian servicemen who were subsequently taken into Russian custody, according to a source with knowledge of the situation cited by TASS. The person added that the radio frequency is active along the entire front line. “More than 10,0000 Ukrainian soldiers have chosen life and used the 149.200 ‘Volga’ frequency to surrender. The prisoners are well-fed and are provided with all the necessary medical care,” the source stated. The process has seemingly accelerated recently as Ukrainian troops have surrendered in groups rather than individually, particularly around Rabotino, according to the TASS source.

The village in Zaporozhye Region has become the scene of intense fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces in recent weeks. Rabotino remains one of the major flashpoints of the conflict, with the area repeatedly subjected to attacks during the long-heralded Ukrainian counteroffensive launched in early June. The push has thus far failed to yield any tangible results, while reports have indicated that Ukrainian forces are sustaining heavy personnel and materiel losses in the process. According to Moscow’s latest estimates, Kiev has lost more than 17,000 servicemen this month alone. The total number of Ukrainian troops killed since the counteroffensive began has now surpassed 83,000, with over 10,000 pieces of heavy military hardware also destroyed, according to the Russian military.

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“It’s supposed to be eight months of training, but they want to do it in 12 weeks – three months. This is something out of the realm of fantasy..”

How Long Does It Take to Train an Abrams Crew and Who Will Be Manning Them? (Sp.)

The delivery of the first batch of American-made M1 Abrams to Ukraine has been met with a flurry of expert opinion on just what impact the tanks will have on the battlefield, with military experts from both Russia and Western countries pointing to numerous problems with the armored juggernauts, from their weight, size and complexity, to the ubiquitous threat of Russian drones, airpower, artillery and tanks. Speaking to French media this week, former Leclerc battalion commander Yann Boivin pointed to the Abrams’ finicky nature, emphasizing that the tanks could quickly turn into 70-ton armored coffins if not maintained properly and in a timely fashion. “The real drawback of the American tank is the high level of maintenance and logistics required.

Servicing turbine engines requires a far better trained personnel than servicing diesel ones,” the French officer warned. Issues with seals in ammunition chambers, and their vulnerability to enemy fire, are two more major problems, Boivin said General Mark Hertling, a decorated Gulf and Iraq War veteran and former commander of United States Army Europe, warned that if the Abrams’ engines are used improperly, the tanks could simply explode.Ukraine’s 31 Abrams have been modified and downgraded from the ones operated by the US Army, refurbished and rebuilt from the ground up, with their secrecy-laden Chobham composite ceramic, steel, and depleted uranium-laced armor swapped out, presumably due to fears that Russia might capture the tanks and drag them back behind Russian lines to hand them over to military engineers. ]

Russian social media is already flooded with videos and photos of trophy Leopards, Bradleys, and other advanced Western military hardware seized by the Russian military, so the probability of Abrams falling into Russian hands is not insignificant – if they’re ever deployed on the battlefield, that is. Training is another problem, with US media reporting this week that NATO countries’ crash course approach to instructing Ukrainian servicemen to operate alliance equipment has led to poor maintenance, a higher-than-expected incidence of breakdowns, and malfunctioning of heavy weapons’ onboard systems. About 200 Ukrainian tankers are reported to have received 10-12 weeks of training to operate and repair Abrams, far below the 22 weeks the US Army takes to train a crewman, and the up to 34 weeks to teach a maintenance operator to repair the complex tanks.

In the US military, becoming an Abrams repairman requires applicants to score within the top 99th percentile of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) test, or the top 88th percentile of the Mechanical Maintenance and 92nd percentile of the General Technical test. Whether and how these issues have been addressed for Ukraine’s tankmen is unclear. “It’s supposed to be eight months of training, but they want to do it in 12 weeks – three months. This is something out of the realm of fantasy,” Viktor Litovkin, a retired Russian Army colonel and veteran military observer specializing in tanks, told Sputnik, when asked just how realistic it is to train an Abrams tanker in such a short time frame.

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“..collecting intelligence is part of carrying out an armed conflict which makes the US, the UK and others participants in this conflict already.”

Ukraine Dependence on NATO Intel Further Embroiling West in Conflict (Sp.)

With the failure of its summer counteroffensive, the Kiev regime is stepping up revenge attacks on high-profile targets in Russia’s Crimea and other regions — with help from NATO. Former US Marine, independent geopolitical researcher and writer Brian Berletic has warned that the West was sailing dangerously close to the wind. NATO members are drawing dangerously close to direct involvement in the Ukraine conflict, a former US Marine told Sputnik, noting that when it came to the military bloc’s stand-off approach to hostilities, “the ten foot pole is now two feet long.” “We saw this all throughout the US proxy war in Syria until they ended up invading Syria themselves, occupying the eastern part of the country east of the Euphrates River,” independent journalist and commentator Brian Berletic said.

“And they continued participating in the hostilities, which included against Russia in a more or less indirect way. But they did get closer and closer to direct confrontation, and there were some close calls.” The webcast presenter said the same situation was now playing out in Ukraine, where last Friday’s attack on the headquarters building of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol were carried out with British and French-supplied cruise missiles — allegedly guided by US surveillance aircraft flying off the Romanian coast. The Ukrainian armed forces “don’t have their own satellites. They don’t have their own long range intelligence gathering capabilities,” Berletic pointed out. “They have throughout the entirety of this conflict depended on the West for intelligence — and collecting intelligence is part of carrying out an armed conflict which makes the US, the UK and others participants in this conflict already.”

He warned that NATO was “creeping even further into direct conflict with Russia,” a situation he called “very dangerous.” “The West trying to goad Russia into some sort of escalation,” Berletic said, “because you can see how disinterested the general West is in this conflict.” He cited the ongoing international scandal after the Canadian parliament gave two standing ovations to 98-year-old Yaroslav Hunka, an immigrant from Ukraine who fought for the Nazis in the Second World War as part of the 14th Waffen SS Grenadier Division, during a visit by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. “People are growing tired of this, and the West needs something extreme to stir everyone up and galvanize them to supercharge this, to give them the political capital they need to escalate,” Berletic said, because “Russia has more or less won this.” Those who are aware of NATO’s push to escalate the conflict are “increasingly appalled” by them, he said.

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“The entire U.S. capitalist economy needs to be demilitarized..”

America Needs Regime Change – John Rachel (Cunningham)

Author and writer John Rachel warns in this interview that the United States needs to undergo regime change if the country is to have any chance of restoring its democracy. Not only for restoring democracy and a decent society for the majority of its people but also for adhering to peaceful diplomatic relations and avoiding a nuclear world war with Russia and China. This urgent need for regime change in the United States has been building for decades, as John Rachel explains in his latest book, Electing a Kennedy Congress. The great irony is that the U.S. establishment has for decades been engaging in illegal regime change around the world, sabotaging countless other nations and sowing chaos and violence. The people of the U.S. need their own regime change to get rid of the imperialist national security state.

The U.S. political system has become endemically corrupted by powerful corporate dominance over the White House and Congress (and media). Both the Democratic and Republican parties have become “the War Party” whose politicians are bought and sold by corporate power. Believing that one political figure can deliver the necessary change is a futile aspiration. The necessary change must be systemic involving mass mobilization of people and radical overhaul of the Congressional members as well as the future occupant of the White House. The entire U.S. capitalist economy needs to be demilitarized. That means challenging the very essence of the U.S. power structure. And that is what makes democratic change in the U.S. so dangerous and fraught with difficulty. The vested power structure is determined to prevail over any challenge… even to the point of assassinating anyone who threatens it. It really is a horrific reflection on the barbaric nature of U.S. politics and power.

Robert Kennedy Jr. is only an initial sign of what is fully needed, says Rachel. Getting behind Kennedy could be a way to mobilize people and to confront the systemic corruption. However, Rachel warns of the constant pitfall of a “sellout” as with previous figures like Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump. Preventing a sellout requires a critical mass of people and a Congress of new members who also share the vision of radical overhaul. The overhaul must be centered on meeting the needs of ordinary people and workers (the majority), such as decent jobs, education, healthcare and housing. Meeting such needs is what a democracy should do, by definition. But meeting such needs is incompatible with trillion-dollar military budgets and endless wars. In short, it is either democracy or imperialism. That is the stark choice.

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“The remixed Rape of Europa comes complete with ancillary financial bulls BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street totally controlling the spot market for anything the EU wants to buy..”

The Rape of Europa (Pepe Escobar)

The abuse of Europe is never-ending. In geoeconomics, German industrial exports – which were a key factor in its positive balance of payments – are going down the drain. Germany and assorted EU nations are now dependent on ultra-costly American LNG. An enslaved EU was forced by the American “ally” to simply give up on the Russian market for its own auto and other exports that paid for cheap energy imports. In a matter of months, balanced trade Looking East was turned into deficit trade with the Hegemon. That is the key legacy of the tactical victory obtained by the Hegemon with the bombing of Nord Stream 1 and 2 – exactly a year ago. Seymour Hersh’s sources inside the U.S. Deep State revealed who did it. The whole Global Majority with an IQ over room temperature knows who did it – and who ordered it. And still the current Straussian neo-con psychos controlling U.S. foreign policy are able to get away with it.

The bombing of the Nord Streams was the Rape of Europe Remixed – now performed by an American bull. As the indispensable Michael Hudson has detailed, domestic budgets of Germany and other EU/NATO nations are already in deficit territory – with the added “incentive” of the non-stop militarization of the EU. That will “force cutbacks in domestic government programs – just as Germany and its NATO neighbors are moving into a post-industrial depression in which families and businesses need subsidies to cover their rising heating and energy costs, and unemployment insurance.” Moreover, the euro will continue to plunge against the U.S. dollar, and may soon fall to 90 cents, or lower. Prof. Hudson’s conclusion is stark: “So what seemed to be a U.S./NATO war against Russia in Ukraine has been a stunning U.S. military victory to lock European NATO members into the U.S. orbit and block their plan to turn East for trade and investment with Russia and China.”

Meanwhile, the Hegemon is making a killing – literally – with its proxy war in Ukraine. The basics: over half of agro-Ukraine is now owned by Monsanto, Cargill and Dupont, bought for a pittance and profiting from the most corrupt environment in any country in the world. Ukraine seeds were destroyed: Monsanto now runs the whole GMO racket. Ukraine cereals going to raped Europa equal full control of the EU’s agriculture and food market. On the military front, the U.S. weapons matrix and its satellites continue to profit immensely from what is in effect money laundering of public funds. Ukraine simultaneously became: 1. The graveyard for outdated weapons in need of recycling. 2. A privileged “laboratory for military innovation” (like Afghanistan and Iraq, previously) – as admitted by the Pentagon’s number two, Mara Carlin, at the Ronald Reagan University. 3. A show room for global exports (well, Abrams tanks about to be incinerated by the Russians don’t exactly qualify as a strong selling point).

On the energy front, it’s all about the Nord Streams, all over again. The remixed Rape of Europa comes complete with ancillary financial bulls BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street totally controlling the spot market for anything the EU wants to buy, with prices occasionally 20 times higher than before. This is just the short version of what “helping Ukraine” is really about.And still the wunderwaffen keep coming: F16s are next in line. Andrei Martyanov summed it all up, concisely: “The combined West failed at war”. As in NATO’s utter humiliation will be cosmic. And that comes with a – possible – punchline – for which obviously one cannot have direct confirmation in the corridors of power in Moscow: “Russians did plan for that, they just couldn’t anticipate that the West would self-annihilate itself that fast”.

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“There was a point in our history where it was easier to get in as a Nazi than it was as a Jewish person. I think that’s a history we have to reconcile.”

Canada Must Face Up To Nazi Legacy – Immigration Minister (RT)

Canada may declassify records of Nazi war criminals admitted to the country after the Second World War, Immigration Minister Marc Miller said on Wednesday. Canada’s liberal government is currently mired in controversy over the veneration of a Ukrainian veteran of the Waffen SS in parliament last week. “Canada has a really dark history with Nazis,” Miller told the National Post. “There was a point in our history where it was easier to get in as a Nazi than it was as a Jewish person. I think that’s a history we have to reconcile.” A report commissioned by the Canadian government in 1985 found that there were almost 900 Nazi soldiers, scientists, and their associates living in Canada at the time, including around 600 members of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS.

Also known as the First Ukrainian or First Galician Division, this unit was formed in 1943 and staffed by Ukrainian volunteers, and is known to have committed atrocities against Jews and Poles during its campaign against the Soviet Union. The report recommended that individual members of the division not be prosecuted for their unit’s war crimes. It also stated that members of the division should not be deported, as “Canadian authorities were fully aware” of their wartime activities when they entered the country after the conflict. The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish organization that tracks down fugitive Nazis, claimed in 1997 that the true number of war criminals hiding in Canada was closer to 3,000 than 900. While Jewish immigrants were detained as “enemy aliens,” Nazis could freely enter Canada “by showing the SS tattoo,” historian Irving Abella told ‘60 Minutes’ in 1997, explaining that this distinguishing mark proved that its bearer had served in the elite outfit and was a committed “anti-Communist.”

Miller, a member of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party, suggested that the government could declassify the names of Nazis known to have entered Canada after the war. Justice Minister Arif Virani, however, refused to say whether he backs this idea. Instead, he told the National Post that Canadian war crimes investigators should only prosecute those who committed “crimes like genocide.” Canada’s relationship with the Third Reich made international news last Friday when 98-year-old Yaroslav Hunka, a veteran of the First Ukrainian Division, was invited to a meeting of parliament with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and given a standing ovation. House Speaker Anthony Rota, who invited Hunka to the event and introduced him as “a Ukrainian hero, a Canadian hero… who fought for Ukrainian independence against the Russians,” resigned on Tuesday, and Trudeau offered “unreserved apologies” on Wednesday for applauding the Nazi veteran.

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    Rene Magritte Memory 1944   • Explaining the $18 Million Mar-a-Lago Valuation by NY Trump Case Judge (ET) • Georgia Senate GOP Ousts Senator for
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle September 29 2023]

    #143882
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    Rene Magritte Memory 1944

    I love Magritte; a good friend gifted me a gorgeous coffee table book of Magritte’s work.
    “Memory” seems a study in Red…with a really bad vibe for the right side eye of the woman…

    #143883
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “observers point out the GOP has not yet uncovered smoking gun evidence of any crime by Biden.”

    Sputnik, still writing for NPR. So…the open and public statement by the Congressman above, that A) Biden met with B) Was paid by C) Received money from ‘Russia’ and D) every ‘Russian’ in the room was notably thereafter benefited by the Obama and Biden administrations is not “smoking evidence”? Biden, on camera, SAYING he did this to the WEF is not “smoking evidence”? Hunter, SAYING he and his father did this, corroborated by Bobulinski and a dozen whistleblowers is not “smoking evidence” of any kind?

    …Not according to Sputnik. They have higher standards. Being on camera SAYING you did it, then checking the records and corroborating that he did, and the event happened, is not solid enough sourcing for these paragons of journalism.

    “Republicans’ own witnesses admitted as much.”

    Did they now? Witnesses such as Bobulinski? Oh you mean SOME witnesses? Some said yes, some said no? And the one you quoted as “no”, is NOT A WITNESS? …He’s just a Congressman, investigating, with a gracious introductory court statement any prosecutor would use to open a trial. NOT A WITNESS. Witnesses “Witness” things. In other words: a bare-faced lie. Told exclusively to promote a larger lie.

    Turley does the same thing here: ““I do not believe that the current evidence would support articles of impeachment,“That is something that an inquiry has to establish.”

    Yes, and that’s why they DID open the inquiry TO establish. If there is nothing, they’ll find nothing, right? But filing appropriate standard legal processes now are crimes and explosions, “burning it all down.” Geez, I hope I never have to file for a housing permit or the like. God knows half the town would be razed into the ocean or something.

    Filing paperwork: The most dangerous, most illegal action in the universe!

    “Long-shot hopes of entry into the European Union to get access to hundreds of billions of euros in loans and subsidies..”

    Again and again and again: so many lies we don’t stop, we forget to overlook the obvious ones. “Loans” means that Ukraine isn’t “Liberated”, it is merely occupied and conquered by the West instead of the East. Is that an improvement? We’re “Giving” Ukraine nothing (overall). We are expecting repaying of every nickel with interest, out of Ukrainian property and the hides of Ukrainian people. That’s what “Loans” and in a trickier way, “subsidies” means.

    As many have said, including former Ukrainian government officials, this is what has ALREADY happened. Ukraine is ALREADY looted by the West, not just the war. Poverty and hardship means all the saleable assets, all the lumber, all the coal they had, all sold for pennies to “Europe” meaning not the German TAXPAYER, who is fronting fresh money, but to Europeans OLIGARCHS, private billionaires. So the Oligarchs are paid twice: once by the poor German worker, and again by Ukrainian looting.

    Etc. This is just ONE level of ONE day of lying and looting going on. Stop the lying, call things by their name and you can see the looting clearly. …And all the solutions.

    “The real drawback of the American tank is the high level of maintenance and logistics required Reality.” he said.

    “Training is another problem, with US media reporting this week that NATO countries’ crash course approach to instructing Ukrainian servicemen”

    Trying not to bring up arcana even if it’s relevant, but Scott Ritter pointed out that the more NATO equipment you send, the FASTER Ukraine collapses. Because you’re dividing your time, men, and resources chasing 5 tanks here, 10 tanks there which are all distracting, incompatible, and not better. So they blow the Challenger, guy escapes and joins a T-64 crew. NOPE! He’s of no use at all there. He joins the new Abrams crew. NOPE! Of no use at all there either. He’s of no use anywhere, and his 12 weeks – what should be 40 or 80 weeks – of training are lost, when he could have been applied to something decent and useful…like making coffee.

    Again, the Pentagon is constantly insuring the Ukraine LOSES. Every day in every way. And therefore Europe – or rather Davos – loses. Because “Europe” won’t “lose” they are not in any danger of being conquered except by their own continuing bad decisions. Only the present leadership and financial structure will be erased – the PEOPLE will still be there, doin’ Europe like 1,000 years.

    “the West needs something extreme to stir everyone up and galvanize them to supercharge this, to give them the political capital they need to escalate,”

    PCR and others can’t understand why Russia refuses to “Shock and Awe” from Day One. Refuses to “End the war” with a nice little “Pearl Harbor” of I dunno, rolling into Poland like that guy with the funny mustache Turdeau can point to and say “See? I’m not the only one!”

    Meanwhile, through no action on Russia’s part whatsoever, Ukraine is running their own men, naked only Russian minefields like the Palestine Liberation Front Suicide Squad:

    I mean, okay, I guess. We’ll tell you not to but…

    ““The entire U.S. capitalist economy needs to be demilitarized..”

    That’s ridiculous. That’s just what Eisenhower said, and what did he know about anything? He was only America’s top General, America’s top President, and America’s Commander in Chief. Ask Chad at Facebook if you want to know how the world REALLY works. Or now Chaddette at NPR.

    But that was 65 years ago. I’m sure it all worked out and everything’s better now. There’s no way we’d print $1 Trillion every 10 weeks to pay for it.

    “An enslaved EU was forced by the American “ally” to simply give up on the Russian market for its own auto and other exports that paid for cheap energy imports.”

    Really? How did they do that? Didn’t Europe just say “No, I guess they called our bluff?” No? Huh. That happened every time before but I guess the laws of physics are different now. Just like all laws of medicine suddenly reversed after 100 years, just a few years ago. …Such that only the Anglo West has no idea medically what a “Woman” is. Such a mystery!

    “Moreover, the euro will continue to plunge against the U.S. dollar, and may soon fall to 90 cents, or lower.”

    Sure, and who does that benefit? As JB would say, if “We” “Enslaved” Europe then they are OUR continent. So therefore you make Germany give us MORE free car parts, not less. We’re doing the opposite. Apparently like Tony Soprano we’re claiming all Europe as our restaurant now and then BURNING IT DOWN? Rather than have it hand money to us, you know, the way “Slaves” do?

    That’s odd. Okay then, so E goes <90. Great. Except then the USD goes 120. Great right? We buy more? Yes…except the USD120 will Roman Candle as 100% of the Global South will flee to BRICS and default. USD120+ will collapse them all. …Ending the USD altogether. Zero extortion. Zero extraction.

    …And who does that benefit? Not America.

    So the only conclusion here is that there is a group in the US who is NOT enslaving Europe, they are Ending the Empire. And therefore battling the Empire-runners. Who are on both sides of the Atlantic, clearly. The Empire-fighters put Europe in this position: End the “U.S.” influence over you that makes us an Empire…or die. So far Europe is dedicated to dying but the people aren’t and will have the last word. How odd! That’s exactly what Trump told them. To their face. When he was there.

    WHO specifically are they throwing off with Empire? Precisely all the people named: Cargill, Blackrock, Vanguard, etc, except they’re not “American” duh. They damage America everywhere they go with everything they do or they wouldn’t be equally hated here in “America” their supposed beneficiaries.

    “Giant honeybees use a defense known as “shimmering” to deter predators.”

    How do they know to do this? And as like Octopus, they must have an abstract, outside awareness of what they look like to other people, and what those other’s people’s motives are. Then can check that when they do this, they look like THAT, to other people. Muh molecules moving. Tiny rocks. Rocks + lots of time.

    You’re sure that’s really Occam’s solution here? That sounds an awful lot harder case to me than that “consciousness exists”.

    Speaking of Trump and Ken Lay island…with the F35, in the Study…why not Biden? That would work way better. Take out Biden, BLAME Trump and MAGA, boom problem solved. No Biden, no Trump, no impeachment. Whole nation distracted again, and you can kill your enemies without process. …You know, even MORE than now. Could not be more perfect, especially if Kamala happens to be on the same plane somehow. Shift the timeline, throw up the board again, tossing all the pieces like 9-12 and Dec 2019, hoping wiggling randomly does something good for your position.

    Reminds me of Revelation 13, all metaphorical: “I saw one of his heads as if it had been fatally wounded, and his fatal wound was healed. And the whole earth was amazed and followed after the beast”

    The “Head” is basically leaders of these relevant core nations. And the “Beast” is more like a “Beast system”, that is, hard for 0 AD men to fathom a world where nations themselves are transcended and run by…systems? Where nations are both the same, but also still exist? Anyway, so the leader of one of the top nations of the Beast system, based on the Babylonian system, appears to be killed – by someone – and is “resurrected”. How that would possibly be credited or amazing to anyone in THIS day and age is the real unbelievable part. Almost no one would believe he died,and no one would believe he was restored today. They’d just think it was a scam.

    But it’s out there. Speaking of the Big Book, it ends with “A rock never created by human hands” smashing it all. Darn Asteroid! We would totally have paid back our $1T/month in debts and held a fair election too!

    #143884
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    …but the woman is a statuesque bust…not apparently, a living being…??????
    Magritte mystifies….

    #143905
    Dr. D
    Participant

    From the article on the German soul, including a great quote on fleeing one’s country:

    “To illustrate the difficulty, consider these two scenarios: a) You live in a Soviet-style system that severely limits some of your outer freedoms and ability to speak in public, but where most people don’t buy the propaganda; where you are part of a vibrant underground cultural scene, organize cool things, meanwhile cracking jokes about the regime among your friends to your heart’s content. b) You live under a democratic government that lets you do whatever you want. But the spirit is dead; nobody actually does anything interesting or uplifting. Everybody is just a fat, dumb consumer with freedom rights. Now, who’s more free? “

    https://luctalks.substack.com/p/the-german-soul

    #143906
    Dr. D
    Participant

    What is that other quote? Want to know what smart people sound like instead of the (media) morons we hear all day?

    “At some point after Hitler took power, Werner Heisenberg went to visit Max Planck. The much younger Heisenberg asked Planck for advice: one of his Jewish colleagues just lost his university chair, despite him having been a highly decorated war veteran. Heisenberg and some of his colleagues thought about stepping down in solidarity, to make a statement that they won’t tolerate this anymore. Furthermore, he asked whether he should emigrate to escape the madness? He had offers from prestigious universities abroad. What should he do in the face of the Nazi tyranny both men knew perfectly well would eventually leave Germany in shambles?

    Whatever you think of it, Planck’s answer is remarkable, and perhaps very German. I quote it in full here; it is well worth it:17

    I am glad that you, as a young person, are still optimistic and believe that you can stop the disaster with such steps. But unfortunately, you vastly overestimate the influence of the universities and the intellectually trained people. The public would know practically nothing about your step. The newspapers would either report nothing at all or only talk about your resignation in such a gloating tone that no one would think of drawing any serious conclusions from it. You see, you cannot influence the course of an avalanche once it has started moving. How much it will destroy, how many human lives it will destroy, that is already decided by the laws of nature, even if one does not know it yet. Even Hitler can no longer really determine the course of events; for he is to a much greater extent a man driven and possessed than a driver. He cannot know whether the forces he has unleashed will finally lift him high or destroy him miserably.

    So, until the end of the catastrophe, your step would only have repercussions for yourself—perhaps you were prepared to put up with a lot here—but for life in our country, everything you do will at best have an effect after the end. So that’s what we have to focus our attention on. If you resign, in the most favorable case it would probably only remain for you to seek a position abroad. What would happen in less favorable cases I would rather not imagine. You would then be counted abroad among the large number of those who have to emigrate and seek a position, and perhaps indirectly take a job away from someone else who is in greater need than you. You could probably work there quietly, you would be out of danger, and after the end of the catastrophe you could return to Germany, if you had the wish—with the good conscience that you never compromised with the destroyers of Germany. But by then many years may have passed, you will have become different, and the people of Germany will have become different; and it is very doubtful how much you could then affect in this changed world.

    If you don’t go and stay here, you have a task of a very different kind. You cannot stop the catastrophe and, in order to survive, you will even have to make some kind of compromise again and again. But you can try to form islands of continuance together with others. You can gather young people around you, show them how to do good science, and thereby also keep the old correct values in their minds. Of course, no one knows how much of such islands will be left at the end of the catastrophe; but I am sure that even small groups of gifted young people who can be brought through the time of horror in such a spirit will be of the greatest importance for the reconstruction after the end. For such groups can represent crystallization nuclei from which the new forms of life will be formed. For the time being, this will only apply to the reconstruction of scientific research in Germany. But since nobody knows what role knowledge and technology will play in the future world, it may also become important for other areas. I think that all who can do something and who are not simply forced to emigrate, for example by their race, should try to stay here and prepare a more distant future. This will certainly be very difficult and not without dangers; and the compromises that must be made will later be rightly held up and perhaps punished. But perhaps it has to be done anyway. Of course, I cannot blame anyone if they decide otherwise; if they emigrate because they find life in Germany unbearable, because they simply cannot stand by and certainly cannot prevent the injustice that is happening here. But in such an appalling situation as we now find in Germany, one can no longer act properly. With every decision one has to make, one participates in some kind of unrighteousness. Therefore, in the end, everyone is also on his own. There is no point in giving or taking advice anymore. Therefore, I can only say to you as well, don’t get your hopes up that whatever you do, you could prevent a lot of misfortune until the end of the disaster. But when you make your decision, think of the time that will come afterwards.18

    And that’s what Planck did, keeping a low profile under the regime, inevitably making concessions, certainly. But in a sense, he kept his word: he worked diplomatically behind the scenes to protect colleagues and German science, even though it turned out he couldn’t do much. After the war, the founding of the “Max Planck Society” and its various institutes, a victory of German science against the allied forces—the US in particular—who wanted to dismantle German elite scientific institutions, can be seen as a symbol for his success.” etc

    #143907
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Reminds me of Gerald Celente, who was planning to move to Europe and had the means to do so. Checking out Germany and Italy he realized and decided, “No. I’M not going anywhere. YOU go somewhere.” Why just concede and abdicate your whole nation? What and just exit with all your assets without a fight? How does that work? Why not just STOP them by saying NO instead?

    …And he’s been chewing holes on them like a rabid chihuahua ever since. A tireless minority lighting brushfires of the mind a mere 60 miles from both NY and Albany, the center of American corruption and attacks.

    #143908
    Oroboros
    Participant

    The Rape of Europa

    Tommy Podcast CanadaWaffen Cast James Kunstler, Dave Collum, Tom Luongo

    Tom Luongo goes on epic rant about the Eurotard mafia squaring off against the Wall St mafia.

    Powell being the Kingpin and the FED interest rate increases being the Cudgel with which to beat the Davos Deviants to Death with.

    The final touch is the ‘Necklacing of the Euroturds’

    Ukronaziland© being the flaming set of tires full of Russian low grade high sulfur diesel fuel around Eurotardistan’s scrawny de-industrialized neck.

    Spoiler Alert:

    It ends very poorly for the Euroturds.

    Ukronaziland is on the Cusp of Collapse

    The Russian Duma leader flat out said the other day that Ukronaziland either unconditionally capitulates or “it ceases to be a country”

    Well, that says it all.

    The Russians say what they mean, and mean what they say.

    Unlike the Empire of Lies Gangster Nation which ‘speaks with Forked Tongue.

    Say, is that a flashlight in your trousers or are you just happy to see me.

    .

    #143909

    Senator Diane Feinstein has died. We were wondering if she’ll step down now.

    #143910
    zerosum
    Participant

    You’re too late, I’ve already made up my mind
    About Trump
    About Biden
    About the vaccine
    About Freeland and Trudeau
    About Ukraine
    About Russia

    ————–
    If you don’t see the truth/facts/proof/documentation, then your allegations/lies/misinformation, must be accepted/be unchallenged.
    Why are those with the evidence not speaking out? Veterans, jews, journalists

    • Canada Must Face Up To Nazi Legacy – Immigration Minister (RT)
    https://www.azerbaycan24.com/en/canada-must-face-up-to-nazi-legacy-minister/


    “Canada has a really dark history with Nazis,” Miller told the National Post.

    A report commissioned by the Canadian government in 1985 found that there were almost 900 Nazi soldiers, scientists, and their associates living in Canada at the time, including around 600 members of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS.

    “Canadian authorities were fully aware” of their wartime activities when they entered the country after the conflict. The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish organization that tracks down fugitive Nazis, claimed in 1997 that the true number of war criminals hiding in Canada was closer to 3,000 than 900.

    Nazis could freely enter Canada “by showing the SS tattoo,” historian Irving Abella told ‘60 Minutes’ in 1997, explaining that this distinguishing mark proved that its bearer had served in the elite outfit and was a committed “anti-Communist.”

    Miller, a member of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party, suggested that the government could declassify the names of Nazis known to have entered Canada after the war. Justice Minister Arif Virani, however, refused to say whether he backs this idea. Instead, he told the National Post that Canadian war crimes investigators should only prosecute those who committed “crimes like genocide.”
    ———–

    #143911
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Unlike the Empire of Lies Abrams gas guzzling tank

    The Russian T-90 is designed for snow on the Steppes.

    Winter is Coming

    #143912
    Oroboros
    Participant

    “Senator Diane Feinstein has died……”

    How can you tell?

    We were wondering if she’ll …..go straight to Hell or stop for a pedicure first.

    We were wondering if she’ll ……be cremated cause that’s what you do with witches

    .

    We were wondering if she’ll ……donate her ill-gotten fortune to the homeless junkies of San Franshithole

    .

    #143913
    poppie
    Participant

    Thank you for the Planck. I already made the same decision, but this eliminated doubt.

    #143914
    WES
    Participant

    Capitol Theater Production: Pretending To Impeaching Joe Biden

    Notice Joe Biden is so worried about being impeached that he hasn’t even hired a lawyer!

    Goes about his daily business as nothing is happening because nothing is happening!

    No reporters are even bothering to ask Joe about being impeached!

    This is just a Uniparty Theater show to fool the brainwashed masses.

    #143915
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Dr D thanks for the Planck. We need parallelism and continuity.

    Firewalls and firebreaks stop fires from burning through everything and leave a basis for rebuilding/regrowth.

    The Current Thing, the Blob, whatever, specifically hates boundaries. Country borders, mental or linguistic distinctions between one thing and another, identities and definitions, reality and fantasy.

    I think any little innocent thing you do has to, at this point, be practiced AS IF, EVEN THOUGH IT WERE NOT an act of illegal resistance to an oppressive, petty regime where no sparrow falls, nothing is too petty to reach out and squash it. Want to play a completely apolitical game of D&D in your basement with some geeks? It would be better if the arrangements were purely verbal not organized online, with no smartphones brought and alexa not standing close by. On general principle if nothing else. Who knows what sin they might IMAGINE you are committing by having friends and acquaintances, having the gall to hang out and feel ok with yourselves for a few hours, not being obsequiously actively agreeing 24/7=

    #143916
    Michael Reid
    Participant


    Pathophysiologic Support for the Observation of “Turbo Cancer” after Vaccination

    As an internist and specialist,
    it is hard for me to believe that a novel biologic product
    could cause heart, neurologic, thrombotic, and immunologic disease
    but to make matters even worse,
    could also play a role in the initiation and acceleration of oncogenesis.
    In Western countries before the pandemic,
    the leading causes of death were heart disease 40%,
    cancer 40%, and death from other known causes (homicide, suicide, accidents, etc).
    The mRNA COVID-19 vaccines if proven to promote cancer,
    would then be implicated in rises in all-cause mortality being observed world wide.

    https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/multi-hit-hypothesis-for-the-oncogenic

    #143917
    citizenx
    Participant

    A deeper dive into the formation, wartime activities, and post war special treatment from the US/ UK Govt of the –

    14th Waffen SS Grenadier Division (1st Galician)

    Felton is considered a mainstream legit historian of WW2. Interestingly this mini doc was released 3 months ago in June 2023. Very well done and “balanced” for the Western sock muppets. Meaning that even a Western retard can see there are serious problems and questions surrounding the post war whitewashing of an SS division.

    Another from a Dutch historian- from April 2022. Interesting info regarding the early political situation in Ukraine before the SS Galicia Division was formed. Legitimate questions about what those who eventually “volunteered” to join a Waffen SS unit were doing years before joining.

    Certainly seems the US, British and Canadian Govts hid truths from its own citizens (shocker), supporting war criminals and bringing them into our own Military.

    Hey lets build them some monuments too, after all- they are our Nazis now.

    Decide for yourself.

    “Our Govt would never commit war crimes or be murderous scum” Just ask Assange or Snowden or….. maybe your own conscience ?

    #143919
    Michael Reid
    Participant


    here are the 11 assumptions I’m using today to guide my actions.

    1. Less Freedom of movement.
    There will be more effort so to restrict and regulate our freedom of movement.
    From Vax passports to increased visa requirements and 15-min city initiatives –
    a grid is being constructed to regulate our freedom of movement.

    2. A CBDC is coming.
    Cash will be eliminated.
    How restrictive it may end up being, I don’t know.
    But, CBDC is a foregone conclusion. Timing?
    BIS publishes estimates of 14 retail CBDC and 9 wholesale by 2030.
    And there are indications that the major economies are working to be ready to deploy by 2025.

    3. The digital ID is already here.
    Biometrics are the future.
    If you have a government issued ID associated with your photograph, you are in the system already.
    How the ID is deployed and enforced is the only question.

    4. GFC 2.0 and/or the Greater Depression.
    Timing is hard.
    But, can any thinking person imagine how the outcome can be avoided altogether.
    Simon Hunt suggests a market pullback of up to 30% between now and early 2024
    followed by a pump and a deflationary wipeout in 2025.

    5. Most of my financial assets will disappear at some point.
    Inflation, bank bail-in, market wipe out, or Great Taking.
    I don’t know the cause, but I assume physical assets are where I need to be, ultimately.

    6. Increasing crime & disorder.
    You’ve seen the videos.
    Whether, driven by economic desperation, mass migration, the inversion of law, or in the name of social justice. Crime and disorder will grow and lead to greater physical threats to our lives and property from our fellow man. This makes urban environments, especially but not exclusively, a real risk.

    7. Supply constraints are increasing around all commodities – from food to energy.
    Tight supplies are showing up everywhere.
    Live Cattle, long dormant, hit an all-time high recently.
    Oil Prices are up 30% in the last three months.
    40% of Argentina’s wheat crop is in poor to fair condition and protectionist policies are on the rise globally.

    8. WW3 is coming.
    A good case can be made that it’s already begun.
    The Army War College recently published a study suggesting that
    the All Volunteer Force had reached the end of its useful life.
    With the military struggling with recruiting, conscription is likely at some point.

    9. Censorship and Digital Control will enter a new phase.
    Deplatforming, de-banking, shadow banning, and social media account suspensions will increase.
    Centralized digital services of all kinds should be considered suspect and,
    very likely, dangerous to use in the future.

    UN Chief calls “dis-information” a clear and present global threat.

    10. The US election – regardless of the outcome – is an inflection point and potentially a flash point.
    IF it happens, the outcome will not be accepted by half of the country. I’ve heard from more than one source, publicly and privately, that there may not be a 2024 election.
    Who knows?
    We can be sure of is that running up to and shortly after the election, things could get wild.
    In advance of the 2020 election we had Covid and BLM.
    Shortly after, J6 and state overreach.
    What will 2024 bring

    11. There is a war happening today.
    It’s a war on us.
    The primary battleground is within the sphere of 5GW – informational/psychological.
    Where I’ve been wrong in the last three years,
    it’s been in my assumption that kinetic coercion would be utilized.
    As we can see, much progress has been made in the Great Reset without the need for kinetic tactics.
    For most of this cycle, they will rely on this same approach.
    If/When we see a move toward kinetic force,
    we should be alarmed because we will have entered a new and more dangerous phase.

    11 Assumptions About The Future

    #143920
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “Senator Diane Feinstein has died. We were wondering if she’ll step down now.”

    No! If she’s dead she can still vote. (Cue 60 years of jokes here. Forward them to Chicago)

    #143921
    Dr. D
    Participant

    I looked but I said the same thing about leaving. If America goes down, where would you run to?

    Since Americans like fighting, are experienced, rural, and also armed, this seems like a fairer odds.

    #143922
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    I can see some aspects of the war playing out for months and years, but the BASIC situation on the ground is that the cities and their satellites (down to a certain unknown size) are all command and control strongholds of the enemy. Note that the primary weapons of the enemy are ALL pretty much one aspect or another of that self-same “command and control”, which are decidedly NOT physical goods themselves, but merely command and control of goods that physically reside elsewhere. This immutable fact makes the cities and their inhabitants EXTREMELY vulnerable to siege tactics, because EVERYTHING they need comes from the outside. Their only “export” is “command and control” directives . . . which are pretty thin gruel on a cold dark night.

    Food, fuel, energy, durable goods and materials for manufacturing can be withheld (in many many many different ways!) as leverage in all transactions with the enemy which has locked itself into cities, from which they cannot safely escape.

    Truckers (and farmers, and hosts of other suppliers) could bring ANY city to the bargaining tables on its knees in less than a week. It will take some time for the supreme advantage this gives to the yokels really sinks in to minds of the negotiators of the two sides, but even the kindest and gentlest yokels will quickly discover that even the meanest and cruelest villain and moronic minion will make bigger and faster concessions when they are starving and freezing in the dark.

    It’s a good day for yokels. Holed-up despots and denizens, not so much.

    #143923
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Say, I just heard that New York City basement storage facilities, apartments, garages, subways, etc. are coming on to the market really cheap. All you need to claim the soggy properties and their contents is scuba gear and a BIG pump.

    #143924
    Celticbiker
    Participant

    For America, 1913 was the starting point, complete control of the money. If Deagel was correct, 2025 is the end point, 70% of us dead, with complete conttrol over whoever remains. Sattellites, 5G and DEWS will keep the cattle in their pen. This dystopian plan is more than a 100 years in the making.. We trap ourselves in the daily freakshow, they’ve been poisoning, sterilizing. vaccinating and sending us to war for a 100 years, a 1000, 2000? We stare at the end of our nose, they see the horizon.. Use cash, throw out the cellphone, the television. Nothing is written in stone, fuck em, why make it easy for them. Contempt is all they deserve.

    #143925

    RFK,jr goes independent,

    #143926
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    Peak Doom Voyeurism ~ Enjoy The Madness.

    #143927
    zerosum
    Participant

    Our leaders are acting Blind to the facts.
    Nazis/corporates history in Ukraine

    Corporate Interests Behind Ukraine Putsch


    Corporate Interests Behind Ukraine Putsch
    March 16, 2014
    Behind the U.S.-backed coup that ousted the democratically elected president of Ukraine are the economic interests of giant corporations from Cargill to Chevron which see the country as a potential “gold mine” of profits from agricultural and energy exploitation, reports JP Sottile.

    #143928
    zerosum
    Participant

    Smart phone makes everyone/audience look like they are saluting Hitler.

    #143929
    zerosum
    Participant

    The GAYZONE is not afraid to tell the facts.

    Nazigate: Canada’s top general won’t apologize for applauding Ukrainian Waffen-SS vet


    Nazigate: Canada’s top general won’t apologize for applauding Ukrainian Waffen-SS vet
    WYATT REED·SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

    As Canada’s top officials express embarrassment for honoring a WWII Nazi collaborator in parliament, the leader of the country’s military, Gen. Wayne Eyre, refuses to apologize for his standing ovation. The Canadian military has trained Ukraine’s notorious neo-Nazi Azov Battalion for years.

    The notion that the Nazi proclivities of figures like Hunka could have escaped Eyre’s notice now appears increasingly remote. In 2017, Ukraine’s Azov Battalion published photos on their website publicizing their meeting with high-level Canadian military officials, who had arrived in Ukraine to help train the notoriously neo-Nazi infested unit, which was officially incorporated into the Ukrainian National Guard.

    Just four months before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, The Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies sent a letter to then-Acting Chief of the Defense Staff Gen. Wayne Eyre and Defense Minister Harjit Sajjan demanding an investigation into the decision to train Ukrainian neo-Nazis. The Jewish group urged them to ensure that such instruction did not continue.

    “If Canada is going to be providing military training to foreign forces, then it is our responsibility to know we are not training neo-Nazis,” said Jaime Kirzner-Roberts, policy director of the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center. “It is our obligation to our Canadian veterans who sacrificed so much defeating fascism in Europe.”

    Canada’s scheme of funneling weapons to Kiev and coaching Ukrainian forces officially began in 2014, just months after anti-Russian forces toppled the democratically-elected government of Viktor Yanukovych in a brutal US government-backed coup d’etat. Under the auspices of “Operation UNIFIER,” more than 33,000 Ukrainian troops received “advanced combat instruction by Canadian soldiers,” Canada’s state-affiliated CBC reported in 2022.

    Azov — which has since expanded to a full-fledged brigade under Kiev’s official command — retains as its leader Andrey Biletsky, who once described Ukraine’s role on the global stage as helping to “lead the white races of the world in a final crusade … against Semite-led Untermenschen.”

    Zelensky holds court with Ukraine’s most notorious neo-Nazi


    ALEXANDER RUBINSTEIN·AUGUST 16, 2023

    Zelensky holds court with Ukraine’s most notorious neo-Nazi

    Western media has dismissed evidence of neo-Nazi influence in Ukraine by citing President Zelensky’s Jewish heritage. But new footage published by Zelensky shows the leader openly collaborating with a fascist ideologue who once pledged to “lead the white races of the world in a final crusade…against Semite-led Untermenschen.”

    ———–
    https://askeptic.substack.com/p/the-msms-ukraine-amnesia
    It is a narrative that is easily unraveled by the MSM’s own past articles. So far, no MSM outlets are willing to discuss this ugly truth today. Anyone interfering with the narrative is said to be ‘Speaking Putin’s Talking Points’.

    ————

    #143930
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Gas hit 6.20 a gallon in parts of Californacate

    Average prices under different admins

    .

    #143931
    citizenx
    Participant

    If America goes down, where would you run to?

    Since Americans like fighting, are experienced, rural, and also armed, this seems like a fairer odds.

    Damn straight.

    America spent 50 years fighting the USSR- just to become a gay retarded version of it…

    America has slipped into some quasi-melting pot of communist, fascist, capitalist, rainbow clown dystopia- this will not stand. Far too many good, honest people are fed up with this shit.

    April 21, 2022
    The Ukrainian Army’s Azov Battalion is controversial due to its use of symbols associated with the Waffen-SS. In this video, we will examine the unit’s history and what those symbols mean.

    Even a Nazi dick sucking retarded faggot like Zelensky and his handlers know they are going to eat shit for their crimes against humanity.

    They are not leaders-

    #143932
    citizenx
    Participant

    Russel Brand eviscerates the Clinton/ Psaki propaganda hour.
    Gee I wonder why the Liberal scum “establishment” is trying to take him down?

    10/10 and damn funny. Oh the hypocrisy of Liberal Democrats….

    Psaki is a rotten whore.

    Cankles- will she end with a bayonet rammed up her rotten asshole ? Cackle cackle…

    “we came, we saw, he (gaddafi) died”

    Oh you are soooo funny Cankles. There is a special place in hell just waiting for you.

    #143933
    WES
    Participant

    Oroboros:

    Your graph clearly shows why they got rid of Trump!

    #143934
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Looks like Sweden is suffering from allowing war refugees (fighters) into their country as one big virtue signal to the world. Dumb Swedes … https://www.rt.com/news/583801-sweden-child-hitmen-gang-violence/ … you got to laugh, the soldiers are recruiting children to do the killing, kind of reminds me of Africa.

    #143935
    aspnaz
    Participant

    How long until we see black African soldiers paying American kids to do their killing … with that open border it surely will not be long. I wonder how many trained soldeirs will cross the border from Africa, not couch potatoes polishing their dicks guns, thinking that ownership buys you instant warfare talent. Americans think they are so tough because they own guns, it is easy to be tough when you have no local enemies, once the real soldiers arrive and the real fighting starts, the American tough guys will not know what hit them and they too will be calling for the military to come save them.

    #143936
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Aspnaz There certainly is some truth to that and it’s difficult to understand. Here people who are capable, able, suspicious, understand much of the territory, nevertheless this believe that merely owning a gun infers some magic talisman, like garlic or wearing a cross? Then get rolled in school broad meetings, grump about it, and disappear? With the local board getting 110% of the taxes asked and their kinds indoctrinated, AND their kids treated like prisoners of Nazo overlords AND also not educated? And yet they put down their “rifles” and called a truce?

    It’s like those mask-cards or something. Where there’s an open space, they see right through to the horizon: good! Then a second later, someone holds up a picture of the horizon, or a puppy, and they’re totally fooled. So they have the weirdest, most random collection of actually being capable and willing to tangle, and also not tangling with anything relevant, and being diverted from anything, everything, their own ammo dump, by a jangling key ring. I have no explanation. They are acutely, across the board bad at tactics then, and also bad at strategy. Also bad at planning and pacing. Also bad at working with others. Also bad at trusting the right people.

    But owning a gun that you bought on a visible registry, that you can’t use because it would make more trouble than, I dunno, starting a community watch, or locking your doors, is the answer to all that. Too much TV I guess.

    If you got out of this liminal war and into real trouble would it fix? Yes, like our whole military, aircraft carriers being the top example, we can only win if we’re not in a ‘real’ war but merely bullying people around without them shooting back, for they would sink you all in 10 days. Same here. If the police, etc really went no-show, courts really no help, would their position work and make sense? Probably. But because they have no family, no values, no standards, no culture, they would be battered to a pulp first. Having a core family, culture, neighborhood, connections and loyalty (and church) are what really works, and they have almost none of it. The Latinos do. That’s why they succeed although they’re much slower about it than the Jamaicans or Chinese.

    So although right, you’re also wrong here. Everything you say is correct, but Americans are “tough”, personally tough at least. Tough as old woodchucks and are used to any abuse you can throw at them. Or at least the 95% of counties who’ve been punched in the d–k for 30 years are. And they won’t cry or whine for help, or at least those outside of cities or media Tiktok won’t. But that’s not the point either. …And that being said, you’d still have the 50% of population that is IN cities, and lost, and will whine, and in fact, die, rather than lift a feather.

    It’s a very weird situation.

    #143947
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Thinking about it, I think the issue is that they are so uneducated – having nothing but TV – that response is either: “Is it shooting time?” or “Is shooting everyone a bit too much right now?” And unsurprisingly, it’s never shooting time. Since it’s never time to shoot other live humans dead in the course of your daily life, then it must and can only be time to just keep tolerating their bulls—t. You know, like an Eastwood movie.

    The alternatives are just like the masking-cards, where IF they should happen to know you can go to School Board Meetings, they go, but having no familiarity with any of it. Then going, well…fresh out of ideas. IF they know something like – hey my buddy is thinking of running for town Super or Sheriff – they sign. But if they don’t, well, there’s nothing to do whatsoever.

    They could really stand to sit down with five lawyers and list options, or maybe 20 cross-sections of town, or maybe – Hey, that’s exactly what a Church is! Where you’re with them anyway and so cross the floor and talk to the plumber, or the teacher, or some guy you already know tangled with them last year. Then you get ideas, options, approaches that wouldn’t occur to you because you’re only one man, busy with a job.

    So therefore THEIR job is to keep you ignorant, separated, and bickering so you never CAN find out you have options and allies also wronged by these retards. And as we see daily now, and as is reported in the paper, at this point even if you show up with a lawyer and the law on your side, without the population as allies they will just have you illegally arrested, and have the judge illegally charge and convict. Without allies, no one cares if the law is upheld or follows the rules or not. You’re just one guy, who cares what happens to you? Not from the Town Judge straight to the Supreme Court, not a one will care and be happy to uphold any s—t ruling sent them unless someone can make it inconvenient or embarrassing for them.

    WHO makes it inconvenient? WHO makes it embarrassing? Other people. The public. Allies.

    This is why businessmen are a problem for them. They talk to lawyers and collect options all day then have no choice but to act on it to protect things. They have to destroy independent business because those are the same as their enemies.

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