Nov 142023
 
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Piet Mondriaan The Flowering Apple Tree 1912

 

State Department Memo Blasts Biden Over ‘Misinformation’ on Gaza War (Sp.)
The Unspoken Elephant in the Room of Netanyahu’s Intent in Gaza (Crooke)
Behind Closed Doors US Calls on Israel to Speed Up Gaza Operation (Sp.)
Pentagon Asks Israel Not to Expand War to Lebanon (Sp.)
Billionaires Are Teaming Up For Pro-Israel, Anti-Hamas Media Drive (AlJ)
The War for Greater Israel and US Hegemony Is About to Begin (PCR)
Zelenskyy Is In Conflict With Ukrainian Military – Arestovych (RT)
Nord Stream ‘Sideshow’ Conceals Zelensky vs Zaluzhny Infighting (Sp.)
The Rise of Evil as the Determinant Force in the Western World (PCR)
Canada Is A Hostage To Nazi Ideology – Moscow (RT)
Light in the Darkness (Kunstler)
Suella Braverman Sacked As Home Secretary After Article Criticising Police (G.)
David Cameron Returns To UK Government As Foreign Secretary (G.)
The Sacking of the Beltway by Good Intentions (Turley)
Whistleblower David McBride Declares ‘Today I Serve My Country’ (G.)

 

 


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“..accuses the president of being “complicit in genocide..”

State Department Memo Blasts Biden Over ‘Misinformation’ on Gaza War (Sp.)

One hundred State Department and USAID employees have signed a memo accusing the Biden administration of “spreading misinformation” about the war in Gaza and charging Israel with carrying out “war crimes” by cutting off electricity to the enclave, limiting aid deliveries and mounting attacks which have displaced hundreds of thousands of civilians.The five-page memo, excerpts of which were obtained by US media, accuses the president of being “complicit in genocide,” attacks him for questioning the number of lives lost in Gaza amid Israel’s campaign, and demands that the US government “advocate for the release of hostages by both Hamas” and by Israel, including “thousands” of Palestinians it says are being held by the Israelis “without charge.”

Accusing the administration of “doubl[ing] down on our unwavering military assistance [to Israel] without clear or actionable redlines,” the memo argues that the White House and members of the National Security Council have “displayed a clear disregard for the lives of Palestinians, a documented unwillingness to de-escalate, and, even prior to October 7, a reckless lack of strategic foresight.” The cutting memo appears to be the second of its kind since the media publication of excerpts from a separate letter by staffers on the Biden administration’s handling of the Gaza crisis last week. “We must publicly criticize Israel’s violations of international norms such as failure to limit offensive operations to legitimate military targets,” the earlier memo, excerpts of which were reported on Saturday, said. “When Israel supports settler violence and illegal land seizures or employs excessive use of force against Palestinians, we must communicate publicly that this goes against our American values so that Israel does not act with impunity,” it added.

The memos are the latest sign of widespread internal dissent in the State Department over the US handling of the Gaza crisis. Last month, Josh Paul, a director at State’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, publicly resigned and warned in a letter that the US is “repeating the same mistakes we have made these past few decades” by “blindly” supporting the Israelis, and saying he would not “be a part of it for longer.” Last week, more than 500 former Biden 2020 campaign staffers signed a letter “imploring” the president to “step up” and “be a leader we can be proud of in the face of injustice” in the Palestinian-Israeli crisis. Expressing “horror” over the October 7 Hamas attacks, the staffers stressed that their violence did not justify what Israel is doing in the Gaza Strip.

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“For now, the IDF are staying in their tanks. But sooner or later, they will have to engage with Hamas on foot. So, the fight with Hamas has barely begun.”

The Unspoken Elephant in the Room of Netanyahu’s Intent in Gaza (Crooke)

What is the ‘elephant’ (or elephants) in the room? Blinken’s recent regional diplomacy was ‘a bust’. None of the regional leaders that Blinken met would talk further about Gaza beyond demanding stridently, ‘no Palestinian population displacement into Egypt’ a ‘stop to this madness’ – the carpet bombing of Gazans – and the demand for an immediate ceasefire. And Biden’s calls for a ‘pause’ – softly, at first, and the more strident now – is being bluntly ignored by the Israeli government. The spectre of President Carter’s impotence during the Iran hostage crisis hangs ever more soberly in the backdrop. The truth is that the White House cannot force Israel to do its will – the Israeli lobby holds the more clout in Congress than any White House team. Thus, ‘no exit’ from the Israeli crisis is readily to be seen. Biden ‘made his bed’ with the Netanyahu cabinet and must live with consequences.

Impotence then, as the Democratic Party fractures beyond the simplistic division between centrists versus progressives. The polarisation emanating from the ‘no ceasefire stance’ is having stark destabilising effects on politics, both in the U.S. and Europe. Impotence then, as the shape of the Middle East crystallises into sharp antagonism towards the West’s perceived accommodation of the mass slaughter of Palestinian women, children and civilians. The die may be too far ‘cast’ to brake the ongoing tectonic reset already underway. Western double standards are just too inescapably obvious now to the Global Majority. The large ‘elephant’ is this: Israel has dropped more than 25,000 tons of high explosives since 7 October (the 1945 Hiroshima nuke was 15,000 tons equivalent). What exactly is Netanyahu and his war cabinet’s aim here?

Ostensibly, the earlier military operation in Jabalia Camp was about targeting a Hamas leader suspected of lurking under the camp – but six 2,000 lb bombs for one Hamas ‘target’ in a crowded refugee camp? And why too the attacks on water cisterns, hospital solar energy panels and hospital entrances, roads, schools and bakeries? Bread has almost disappeared in Gaza. The UN says all bakeries in northern Gaza have closed following the bombing of the last bakeries. Clean water is desperately short, and thousands of bodies are slowly decomposing under rubble. Disease and epidemic are appearing, whilst humanitarian supplies are being tightly restricted as a bargaining tool toward further hostage releases.. Editor of Haaretz, Aluf Benn, puts the Israeli strategy very plainly:

“The expulsion of the Palestinian residents, transformation of their homes into piles of construction rubble, and the restriction of the entry of supplies and fuel into Gaza are the “tiebreaking move” employed by Israel in the current conflict, unlike all previous rounds of fighting in the Strip”. Of what are we talking here? This clearly is not about avoiding collateral civilian deaths occurring as the IDF battles with Hamas. There have been no street battles in Jabalia, or in and around the hospitals – as one soldier commented: “All we’ve done is ride around in our armored vehicles. The boots on the ground stuff will come later”. The pretext of a ‘humanitarian evacuation’ therefore is bogus. Hamas’ main forces are sitting deep underground, for the right moment to engage the IDF (i.e. when they are on foot amidst the rubble). For now, the IDF are staying in their tanks. But sooner or later, they will have to engage with Hamas on foot. So, the fight with Hamas has barely begun.

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For Sleepy Joe’s re-election.

Behind Closed Doors US Calls on Israel to Speed Up Gaza Operation (Sp.)

The United States is calling on Israel to accelerate its operation in the Gaza Strip behind closed doors as it may negatively affect President Joe Biden’s reelection bid in case of prolongation, Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) said on Monday. “The truth, however, is that Americans are having very different conversations behind closed doors with Israeli leadership. The Israelis are being encouraged to speed up the operation in order to prevent it from being delayed, as this would negatively affect Biden’s election positions,” the SVR said in a statement. The US has managed to secure the support of the United Kingdom and Germany in promoting the operation to destroy the Palestinian Hamas movement despite the rising death toll among Gaza Strip residents, the SVR added.

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“.. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, who wrote on social media late Sunday [..] the “Israeli regime” had “collapsed on October 7 and is now alive” only thanks to “American artificial respiration.”

Pentagon Asks Israel Not to Expand War to Lebanon (Sp.)

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah stopped short of opening a second front against Israel in a long-anticipated speech last week, saying that tying up substantial numbers of Israeli troops along the border was sufficient, while warning that “all options are on the table” if Israel continues it provocations. Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin ‘expressed concern’ to his Israeli counterpart Yoav Gallant about Israeli actions serving to escalate tensions along the Israeli-Lebanese border. That’s according to a report by US media citing three Israeli and American sources briefed on the Austin-Gallant phonecall, which took place Saturday. The unusually blunt request comes amid reports of concerns in Washington that Tel Aviv is deliberately trying to draw Lebanon’s powerful Hezbollah militia into the Palestinian-Israeli crisis to drag the United States and other powers into the conflict.

Israel has dismissed such claims. The official readout of the Austin-Gallant call did not mention Lebanon or Hezbollah, paraphrasing Austin as having “reaffirmed Israel’s right to self-defense,” while emphasizing “the need to contain the conflict to Gaza and avoid regional escalation.” But in private, the report indicated, Austin specifically asked Gallant not to take ‘steps that could lead to an all-out war between Israel and Hezbollah,’ and for details on Israeli strikes against Lebanon, which Israeli media have indicated have proven increasingly ineffective against Hezbollah’s fighters. Austin’s remarks come amid concerns expressed Monday by Amir-Ali Hajizadeh, a top commander in Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, that Israel’s continued war in Gaza has already spilled over into Lebanon, and threatens to expand further.

“Today, we can see that the war has expanded and Lebanon is embroiled in it. It’s probable that the extent of clashes will grow even further. The future is uncertain, but Iran is prepared for all circumstances,” Hajizadeh said. The brigadier general, who commands the IRGC’s powerful Aerospace Force, went on to stress that Iran is not afraid of the United States, which has parked two aircraft carriers and at least one cruise missile sub in the Middle East and shored up its bases in the region with thousands of additional troops and warplanes. “The US is not threatening Iran…Iran is not in a position where anybody would seek to threaten it, as we are currently at the peak of our military strength,” Hajizadeh assured. The commander’s remarks were preceded by Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, who wrote on social media late Sunday that he had informed his Egyptian counterpart, Sameh Shoukry, that the “Israeli regime” had “collapsed on October 7 and is now alive” only thanks to “American artificial respiration.”

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“We must get ahead of the narrative.”

Billionaires Are Teaming Up For Pro-Israel, Anti-Hamas Media Drive (AlJ)

A billionaire real estate tycoon in the United States is rallying support for a high-dollar media crusade to boost Israel’s image and demonise the Hamas armed group amid global pro-Palestinian solidarity protests.The media campaign — called Facts for Peace — is seeking million-dollar donations from dozens of the world’s biggest names in media, finance and technology, according to an email seen by news website Semafor. More than 50 individuals are being courted, including former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Dell CEO Michael Dell and financier Michael Milken. They have a combined net worth of around $500bn, Semafor said. Some of the individuals, such as investor Bill Ackman, have publicly threatened to blacklist pro-Palestine students who are critical of Israel.

On October 10, Ackman wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that he and other business executives wanted Ivy League universities to disclose the names of students who are part of organisations that signed open letters criticising Israeli policies in Gaza.US billionaire Barry Sternlicht, who started the project, said the campaign would help Israel “get ahead of the narrative” as the world has reacted to the intensive Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip. “Public opinion will surely shift as scenes, real or fabricated by Hamas, of civilian Palestinian suffering will surely erode [Israel’s] current empathy in the world community”, Sternlicht wrote in an email soliciting contributions from the wealthy figures shortly after Hamas’s October 7 attacks on Israel, according to Semafor. “We must get ahead of the narrative.”

[..] Sternlicht’s media drive aims to brand Hamas as a “terrorist organisation” that is “not just the enemy of Israel, but of the United States”, he wrote. The goal is to draw $50m in private donations, paired with a matching contribution from a Jewish charity. Hamas is already designated as a “terrorist” organisation by the US and the European Union for its armed resistance against Israeli occupation. It is unclear which figures have donated, but the campaign has raised at least a few million dollars already, Semafor reported, citing “people familiar with the matter”. It is being advised by Josh Vlasto, a communications strategist who previously worked for US Senator Chuck Schumer and former Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo, Semafor reported.

The US is Israel’s strongest global ally, providing it with billions of dollars of aid annually and staunch diplomatic backing. Despite the mounting humanitarian crisis in Gaza, the US government has continuously rebuffed global calls for a ceasefire and reiterated that Washington will not give Israel “red lines” in the war. On November 2, the US Congress passed a $14.3bn emergency military aid package for Israel. However, public support for the US’s position appears to be ebbing, with nearly half of US Democrats disapproving of how Joe Biden has handled the conflict, according to a recent poll by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

Social media giants such as Instagram, X, YouTube and TikTok have been accused of censoring pro-Palestine voices by reducing their reach, a practice known as shadowbanning. Axios reported last month that pro-Palestine posts on TikTok were being viewed four times more than pro-Israel posts. This came as people around the world have reacted with horror to the mounting death toll in Gaza where most of the killed are civilians. Facts For Peace, the media campaign launched by Sternlicht, aims to win back public favour for Israel, posting videos on its social media pages blaming Hamas for the plight of Palestinians and denying claims of Israeli rights violations.

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“How can the extraordinary situation be explained that the US, a country that demonizes its own white population, is led by neoconservatives who assert that the American people are exceptional and indispensable?”

The War for Greater Israel and US Hegemony Is About to Begin (PCR)

Putin could have prevented the coming world war by quickly dispatching Ukraine in 2014 and by providing air defense systems for Syria, Lebanon, and Gaza against Israel and Washington’s air strikes.I would be more optimistic that we have a future if Russian media and foreign affairs analysts, such as Fyodor Lukyanov, chairman of the Russian Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense policy, could dispense with their rose-colored glasses that protect them from reality, and face up to facts. The massive amounts of aircraft, air defense systems, warships, troops and nuclear missile submarines the US is pouring into the vicinity of Israel is not intended for use against Hamas. The intent is to open up the Middle East for Greater Israel and to use Iran as a base from which to cause problems for Russia in Central Asia. If this agenda succeeds, nuclear war is inevitable. An agenda that leads to ashes should be denounced and avoided.

The neoconservatives who control US foreign policy have had their sights on Syria, Iran, and Hezbollah before the US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. These countries have been American targets since Norman Podhoretz wrote in Commentary that the US should overthrow the Middle Eastern governments. Prior to the George W. Bush regime’s invasion of Iraq, General Wesley Clark was shown a Pentagon memo that the US intended to overthrow 7 Middle Eastern countries in 5 years. The neoconservatives completely controlled US defense and foreign policy then, as they do today. This project is still the agenda, and it is unfolding before blind Russian and American eyes as I write. I often wonder if Russia, despite its overwhelming nuclear and military superiority over the West, has the ability to survive.

Russian intellectuals, media, and foreign policy analysts seem to be incapable of comprehending that the neoconservatives regard Russia as an enemy to be eliminated. Alienated by the Soviet regime, Russian intellectuals see the West as the touchstone of rationality and freedom. Can Russia survive such a delusion? Fyodor Lukyanov, for example, who is also the director of the Valdai International Discussion Club where Putin always shines, dismisses WW III as “inadmissible” because of nuclear weapons. Perhaps he was influenced by the decades of American propaganda and cannot reconcile his brainwashing with the Wolfowitz doctrine. Indeed, in my many years of being interviewed by Russian media, it is rare to come across a Russian journalist who is even aware of the Wolfowitz doctrine that the principal goal of US foreign policy is to prevent the rise of Russia or any other country capable of constraining US unilateral action.

The entirety of Putin’s travails in Ukraine is due to his inability to comprehend the agenda of the US neoconservatives. He sat there for 8 years while the US built a Ukrainian Army capable of destroying Russian Donbas before he, belatedly, acted. Putin is again sitting on his butt in the Middle East. He does nothing while the US builds up massive military power in the region except aid Washington by preventing Iran and Hezbollah from acting when they had the initiative and would have succeeded. Meanwhile his foreign policy analysts tell him that the Third World War is far off in the future, beyond his life time. How can the extraordinary situation be explained that the US, a country that demonizes its own white population, is led by neoconservatives who assert that the American people are exceptional and indispensable?

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“..the military is not satisfied with the failed counter-offensive, the misuse of Western assistance and the low level of competence in Kyiv..”

Zelenskyy Is In Conflict With Ukrainian Military – Arestovych (RT)

Oleksiy Arestovych, a former adviser to the head of the office of the Ukrainian president, has said that Volodymyr Zelenskyy is in conflict with the Ukrainian military due to the failure of the counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). “The president’s speech is becoming increasingly emotional because of the criticism he is receiving,” Arestovych said in an interview with El Mundo According to him, the military is not satisfied with the failed counter-offensive, the misuse of Western assistance and the low level of competence in Kyiv. Arestovych said that the position of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valerii Zaluzhnyi differs from the position of Zelensky. “Now we are faced with a situation where the commander in chief says one thing about the war and the prospects for victory, and the president says something completely different. This is not a normal situation,” the former adviser concluded. Earlier, the head of Zelenskyy’s office, Andrii Yermak, said that the Ukrainian leader and Zaluzhnyi are not in conflict and are united on key issues.

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“..The fact that he was featured in The Economist to me indicates that this is British intelligence signaling that they think this Zaluzhny is their boy..”

Nord Stream ‘Sideshow’ Conceals Zelensky vs Zaluzhny Infighting (Sp.)

US legacy media has added another layer of obfuscation and complexity to the Nord Stream cover story attempting to take the heat off Washington to blame Ukraine for the September 2022 attacks. Building on reports from earlier this year that an enigmatic “pro-Ukrainian group” rented a sailboat to carry out the attacks, released after Sy Hersh’s bombshell reporting implicating the US Navy for the acts of terrorism, the Washington Post story Saturday indicated that Ukrainian special operations forces colonel Roman Chervinsky coordinated the “brazen sabotage operation.” Chervinsky, WaPo’s story goes, “was the coordinator of the Nord Stream operation,” “managing logistics and support for a six-person team that rented a sailboat under false identities and used deep-sea diving equipment to place explosive charges on the gas pipelines.”

But in a new twist on an old narrative, the newspaper ‘revealed’ that Chervinsky, who is presently rotting in a Kiev jail on abuse of power charges, “took orders from more senior Ukrainian officials” reporting to Ukrainian Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief Valery Zaluzhny. The twist, coming amid the very public spat between Zaluzhny and President Volodymyr Zelensky over the commander’s comments earlier this month that Ukraine’s counteroffensive had reached a “stalemate,” differs radically from previous MSM reporting on the Nord Stream attacks, which stressed that the alleged Ukrainian perpetrators had no affiliation whatsoever to Ukraine’s government or military. Sources cited by WaPo in its Saturday piece similarly stressed that “the Nord Stream operation was designed to keep Zelensky out of the loop.”

Russian officials haven’t bought the new take on the story, with Duma lawmaker Alexey Chepa characterizing the newspaper’s story as an attempt by the United States and NATO to whitewash their own culpability for the Nord Stream attacks. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the report’s suggestion that Zelensky was kept out of the loop should be “a very alarming sign” not only for Russia, but for the collective West as well. “Because if the Kiev regime no longer controls the situation in the country, this is alarming and should also be taken account.” Retired CIA intelligence officer and former State Department official Larry Johnson also dismisses the new take on the ‘Ukraine did Nord Stream’ story, stressing that it must be viewed using a much broader lens.

“Since the Washington Post normally is the preferred mouthpiece of the CIA, you have to take this as an example of CIA propaganda to identify this individual, who has zero experience in underwater demolition operations, as sort of the mastermind of an underwater demolition operation, as just silly beyond belief,” Johnson told Sputnik. “All of this has to be viewed in the context of the growing conflict between General Zaluzhny and President Zelensky,” Johnson emphasized. “He basically has been seen as a competitor to Zelensky. The fact that he was featured in The Economist to me indicates that this is British intelligence signaling that they think this Zaluzhny is their boy. And the CIA is pushing back, saying ‘no, no, no, it’s got to be Zelensky.’ So Chervinsky is just a sideshow. When you look at the picture here, there’s nothing at all about him that would suggest an operative with any kind of competence.”

Attempts by Washington to deflect the blame for the Nord Stream attacks onto Ukraine makes sense in the context of Kiev’s gradual “abandonment” by the Biden administration, Johnson believes. “This has happened to Afghanistan. It happened in Vietnam. It’s going to happen to Kiev. They’re not winning the war. The United States is preoccupied with the war in Israel. And the United States does not have the money nor the weapons to keep Ukraine in the fight. So we’re looking for exit strategies. And right now the question is whether or not Zelensky will survive. Will he be replaced by Zaluzhny? Will there be a military coup? I think that we’re into that territory now because Ukraine has experienced absolutely zero success on the battlefield,” the observer explained.

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“Western civilization has to go,” as the students chanted, and it has. In its place evil has risen.”

The Rise of Evil as the Determinant Force in the Western World (PCR)

Normally when there is a school shooter, the media goes on and on about the right-wing gun nut who killed the kids. We learn all about him and his politically incorrect ideas and associations. No stone in his life is left unturned. But if the shooter is not a rightwing gun nut, we hear nothing about it. Moreover, as Glenn Greenwald points out, the police and the media suppress the information as it doesn’t fit the narrative. This time the shooter, or rather, murderer, was a trans woman, Audrey Hale, who shot and murdered three teachers and three nine-year olds in a Christian school in Tennessee. Her motives were political, her ideology was left/liberal, and her victims were white in a private Christian school. She left a manifesto, interest in which was non-existent among the presstitutes. The FBI and Tennessee police refused to release the manifesto. When a court ordered the manifesto’s release, the FBI and Tennessee police appealed and the appellate court stayed the court’s order.

Greenwald contrasts this behavior with what happens when the shooter is a white male who can be described as rightwing. Not only are conservative beliefs blamed, but also prominent conservative people who are alleged to have inspired the shooter. Greenwald writes: “Rumble host Steven Crowder announced he had obtained several pages of the manifesto. He published them on Twitter and his online show. The Nashville PD acknowledged their authenticity, expressed rage, and ordered an investigation to find the leaker. The pages published by Crowder of Hale’s writings contained vicious and hateful anti-white and anti-Christian sentiments, prompting the question: who in media or politics radicalized Audrey Hale to go murder people in the name of these bigotries? Yet immediately, Big Tech platforms—including Google’s YouTube and Facebook—censored Crowder’s publications. We know about them—and were able to read them—only because Twitter (X) and Rumble refused as usual to censor, highlighting yet again the vital importance of these free speech platforms.”

For many years I have documented that the overriding purpose of media, universities, the public school system, Hollywood, and the Democrat Party has been to demonize white, traditional Americans as racists, white supremacists, gun nuts, anti-semites, Russian agents, insurrectionists, domestic terrorists, and whatever else. It is extraordinary that the backbone of the United States–the white normal citizen–has been demonized, while sexual perverts and anti-Americans prevail in setting the agendas. The qualities, such as integrity, that comprised the virtues of Americans in my lifetime are no longer passed forward by education, literature, and entertainment. “Western civilization has to go,” as the students chanted, and it has. In its place evil has risen.

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“Neo-Nazi ideology or nationalist ideology, unfortunately, has a very strong influence in Canada. I think this is obvious..”

Canada Is A Hostage To Nazi Ideology – Moscow (RT)

The recent honoring of a Waffen-SS veteran in Canada’s House of Commons was hardly surprising, given the country’s history of harboring Nazi collaborators after World War II, a senior Russia diplomat told RIA Novosti on Monday. The descendants of these people lobby the government to have their ancestors whitewashed and celebrated, Dmitry Polyansky, Russia’s first deputy permanent representative to the UN, explained, referring to an incident in September involving an elderly Ukrainian-Canadian man named Yaroslav Hunka. “Neo-Nazi ideology or nationalist ideology, unfortunately, has a very strong influence in Canada. I think this is obvious,” the Russian official said. “The [Justin] Trudeau government is somewhat a hostage [to the situation].”

Polyansky noted that the large number of Nazi war criminals that entered Canada after World War II had children and grandchildren in the country, and so the situation in which Hunka, a 98-year-old veteran of the SS Galicia Division, was honored in the Canadian parliament earlier this year was hardly “surprising.” Last September, a scandal erupted when Hunka, who served with the notorious 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS, which is known to have committed atrocities against Jews and Poles during World War II, received a standing ovation in the Canadian parliament with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky in attendance. The Waffen SS veteran was introduced as a “hero” who fought “for Ukrainian independence against the Russians” during World War II.

At the time, Canada’s immigration minister, Marc Miller, admitted that the country has “a really dark history with Nazis,” saying that at one point, “it was easier to get in [to Canada] as a Nazi than it was as a Jewish person.” Following backlash from Jewish organizations, House Speaker Anthony Rota, who invited Hunka to the event, accepted full responsibility for the incident and has since resigned. Trudeau offered “unreserved apologies” for applauding the Nazi veteran. In October, Russia’s Investigative Committee charged Hunka in absentia with genocide, claiming that archive documents serve as evidence that he and fellow SS Galicia members killed at least 500 civilians between February 23 and 28, 1944. Russian media outlets later reported that the country’s Interior Ministry placed him on its official database of wanted individuals.

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“..a blatantly corrupt and ignorant attorney general in New York state can get away with bringing a politically-motivated nonsense case against the leading presidential candidate in a courtroom ruled by a judge who acts like a jester in a Shakespeare play..”

Light in the Darkness (Kunstler)

The sun is low on the horizon all day long now, and darkness creeps in like a home invasion of your mind. Demons descend through a red and black sky and no help is on the way. Our country is so mentally hog-tied trying to unravel the twisted events of just a few years past that it has no mojo left for rationally anticipating the events of just a few years ahead. Have you ever felt more alone? This is the end-process that we’ve been softened up for: the inability to think and plan. The gigantic “intel community” evolved from something intended to act as sensitized antennae for detecting threats against our republic into what is now a remorseless mind-fucking operation against our republic. That word, by the way, derives from the Latin res publica: the public thing, a society that literally belongs to the people, who decide its affairs. Now, so much is mysteriously decided for us, and not in any good way.

It’s no wonder more than half the country can’t think straight, and it’s a whopping irony that this group comprises most of our country’s thinking class —the bureaucratic managers, the professors, the curators, the editors, the reporters lost in mis-reporting. This group used to play a critical role in the res publica: to earnestly determine what is true and what is real, and to present us with a way of understanding all that so we can think and plan. They appear to be captured by malign forces. The scribes are hard at work defending every act of official malice. The dishonesty at work is epic. You need a decoder ring to keep your mind right. You are probably desperate to understand why this is happening — how, for instance, a blatantly corrupt and ignorant attorney general in New York state can get away with bringing a politically-motivated nonsense case against the leading presidential candidate in a courtroom ruled by a judge who acts like a jester in a Shakespeare play. New York AG Letitia James gets away with it because the flagship organ of the thinking class, The New York Times, is in on the gambit. But why?

We struggle to sort this out. One explanation is that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has infiltrated the management of our country at every level so as to eventually conquer our territory for its resources while eliminating or enslaving the population? Surely, the CCP has made significant inroads, starting with the successful bribery and compromise of “Joe Biden,” probably other elected officials, too, in placing many CCP agents in the vast array of university research departments, NGOs, PACs, and lobbying gangs, and extending to the purchase of vital businesses and farmland to prepare the gameboard for eventual takeover. My opinion is they’ve accomplished a good bit of this, but it’s not the answer you’re seeking.

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In UK politics, incompetence is a job requirement.

Suella Braverman Sacked As Home Secretary After Article Criticising Police (G.)

Rishi Sunak has sacked Suella Braverman as UK home secretary after she was blamed for inflaming tensions over Armistice Day protests, immediately replacing her with James Cleverly, the foreign secretary. A No 10 announcement said Cleverly was becoming home secretary following “the departure from government” of Braverman. A government source earlier said that Sunak “asked Suella Braverman to leave government and she has accepted”. David Cameron, the former prime minister, was later confirmed as replacing Cleverley as foreign secretary. Braverman’s dismissal is being used by Sunak as the trigger for a wider reshuffle, with Thérèse Coffey, the environment secretary, and Steve Barclay, the health secretary, believed to be also likely to go.

Jeremy Hunt, who had been tipped to be moved as chancellor, was also confirmed as staying in post. Two junior ministers, the schools minister Nick Gibb and the health minister Neil O’Brien, announced they were stepping down from their roles. After being sacked, Braverman said “it has been the greatest privilege of my life to serve as home secretary”, adding: “I will have more to say in due course.” Jess Phillips, part of Labour’s shadow home affair team, called Braverman the “worst home secretary in living memory”, adding: “Putting aside obvious ghoulish divisions, she simply didn’t understand her job.” Ed Davey, the Liberal Democrat leader, said: “Suella Braverman was never fit to be home secretary. Rishi Sunak knew this and he still appointed her. It was the prime minister’s sheer cowardice that kept her in the job even for this long.”

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Blair is back, AND Cameron is back. That’s the best Britain can do.

David Cameron Returns To UK Government As Foreign Secretary (G.)

David Cameron has returned to government as UK foreign secretary, in a stunning comeback for the former prime minister that highlighted Rishi Sunak’s willingness to take risks as he looks to revive his political fortunes. Downing Street announced on Monday that Cameron would join the government, accepting a peerage in order to do so, as part of a wider reshuffle in which Suella Braverman was sacked as home secretary and replaced by the foreign secretary, James Cleverly. A spokesperson also confirmed Jeremy Hunt would remain as chancellor. Cameron posted on X, formerly known as Twitter: “We are facing a daunting set of international challenges, including the war in Ukraine and the crisis in the Middle East. At this time of profound global change, it has rarely been more important for this country to stand by our allies, strengthen our partnerships and make sure our voice is heard.

“While I have been out of front-line politics for the last seven years, I hope that my experience – as Conservative Leader for eleven years and Prime Minister for six – will assist me in helping the Prime Minister to meet these vital challenges.” Cameron stood down in 2016 after losing the Brexit referendum, but reportedly told friends in 2018 he wanted to return to frontline politics, preferably as foreign secretary. Since then he has maintained a relatively low profile, though he became embroiled in scandal two years ago when he lobbied government ministers to provide financing for the now-insolvent financial services company Greensill Capital.

He returned to the headlines last month when he said Sunak’s decision to cancel the HS2 high-speed train line between Birmingham and Manchester was wrong, adding: “We are heading in the wrong direction.” Cameron has also been a strong supporter of the UK retaining its commitment to spending 0.7% of gross national income on international aid, a commitment Sunak has since junked. Cameron said in his online statement: “Though I may have disagreed with some individual decisions, it is clear to me that Rishi Sunak is a strong and capable Prime Minister, who is showing exemplary leadership at a difficult time. I want to help him to deliver the security and prosperity our country needs and be part of the strongest possible team that serves the United Kingdom and that can be presented to the country when the General Election is held.”

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“..the “newly elected Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) does not have a bank account” and apparently “lives paycheck to paycheck.”

The Sacking of the Beltway by Good Intentions (Turley)

There is a palpable level of panic that seems to have taken hold of Washington this week. Establishment figures are raising the alarm over the rise of dangerous figures as if they are the barbarians at the gate before the sacking of Rome in 410. The threat is coming from both parties in the form of the new Speaker Mike Johnson and Democratic presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. They may be the worst type of barbarians because they came to this city with the best of intentions. For some in Washington, there may be nothing more unnerving than the best of intentions. This is a one-industry town where fortunes are made the old-fashioned way with influence peddling, special dealing, and pork barreling. In that world, the rise of Johnson and Kennedy are about as welcomed as a priest among the Pirates of Penzance.

Johnson is the ultimate buzz kill. Many were aghast that Johnson used his first speech as speaker to thank God and to say that he believes that God has a plan for him. That is a view shared by millions of religious Americans and it is not the first time that a politician has made such public expressions of devotion. Bill Clinton used to invoke God and salvation continually as he set physical records for debauchery. Even after his Monica Lewinsky scandal, Clinton would rally liberals to “politics and political involvement dictated by faith.” The problem is not that Johnson said it but he actually seems to mean it. I likely do not share Johnson’s views on legislating morality or the separation of church and state. However, he has always been viewed as a honest man with deep convictions. Of course, this is a city that can more easily forgive actual convictions than religious convictions.

This is a city where professed socialists and populists unapologetically give their husbands or children huge amounts of campaign funds. Rep. Maxine Waters has reportedly given her daughter over a million dollars. Confronted with millions of dollars in alleged influence peddling by the Biden family, the media has continued to maintain a lack of interest, often excusing the practice as common in Washington. Indeed, this month, NBC compared Hunter Biden tapping shady foreign figures for millions to the controversy over Nikki Haley’s daughter using TikTok. The panic over the appearance of an honest man in Congress was evident in an article by the Daily Beast when senior political reporter Roger Sollenberger declared that the “newly elected Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) does not have a bank account” and apparently “lives paycheck to paycheck.”

Of course, surveys show that over sixty percent of Americans live paycheck to paycheck and fewer than half of Americans can cover a $1000 emergency expense. However, those are average Americans, not one of us. In this city, hard-working members of Congress plan for the future with gold bars and cash stuffed in a closet or millions transferred from corrupt foreign figures through a labyrinth of shell companies and accounts. In this city, the appearance of Johnson left people dumbfounded like seeing a Triceratops strolling down Pennsylvania Avenue. The Daily Beast’s Mike Fuller noted: “Mike Johnson doesn’t have any retirement savings, own a single stock, or have any assets at all. He has less than $5,000 in his bank account. He’s got a 250-500K mortgage, a home equity loan, and a personal loan. So what’s his retirement plan? To lobby?”

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“Today I serve my country,” he said. “The question I have for you, Anthony Albanese, is who do you serve?”

Whistleblower David McBride Declares ‘Today I Serve My Country’ (G.)

David McBride has declared “today I serve my country” as he entered an ACT court to face trial for the alleged leaking of material later used to expose Australian war crimes in Afghanistan. McBride faces five charges, including the unauthorised disclosure of information, breaches of the Defence Act and the theft of commonwealth property. His trial started on Monday in the ACT supreme court. The former military lawyer, who is represented by leading criminal law barrister Stephen Odgers SC, has pleaded not guilty. Supporters gathered in front of the court on Monday to hear speeches from the Human Rights Law Centre senior lawyer Kieran Pender, Julian Assange’s Australian lawyer Stephen Kenny and the Medical Association for Prevention of War’s Sue Wareham, among others.

McBride spoke briefly to the crowd as he entered the court with his support dog, Jakey, who will stay beside him during the proceedings. “Today I serve my country,” he said. “The question I have for you, Anthony Albanese, is who do you serve?” McBride allegedly leaked material to the ABC about the investigation of Australian special forces operating in Afghanistan. ABC reporters later used the documents as the basis of a 2017 series on Australian war crimes titled The Afghan Files. The court on Monday was dealing with preliminary legal issues before a jury was to be empanelled later this week. The preliminary arguments related to whether McBride had a duty not to disclose the material. Commonwealth prosecutors, led by Trish McDonald SC, argue McBride’s role within the Australian Defence Force, and the military disciplinary system he was operating within, imposed a duty on him not to disclose the material.

McBride’s defence says he had a separate duty to act in the public interest and that the military disciplinary regime – and any duty it imposed on McBride not to disclose such material – could only be considered by military tribunals, not by courts of criminal law. “If the jury is satisfied that what was done was in the public interest, even though it was in breach of orders, then, in my respectful submission, you’re not in breach of your duty for the purposes of a criminal offence,” Odgers said.

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    Piet Mondriaan The Flowering Apple Tree 1912   • State Department Memo Blasts Biden Over ‘Misinformation’ on Gaza War (Sp.) • The Unspoken Elepha
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle November 14 2023]

    #146636
    oxymoron
    Participant

    Noting Dr D’s scathingly accurate analysis of modern Journalism yesterday – one gets the sense that we will be finding older and older pieces of political satire, info and analysis (such as the Israeli puppet-head)

    The new desert expands across the horizon like Europes arriving ships to the new world, leaving no trace of the lore of last of us.

    Orwell was right but not as right as Jesus/Buddha.

    The void is looking attractive…

    #146637
    Dr. D
    Participant

    So if your IDF tank is on fire, you died in it, or at a minimum you left the tank while the enemy had rockets pointed at you. So when I see that burned out column, I ask where are the bodies, the important part.

    “• State Department Memo Blasts Biden Over ‘Misinformation’ on Gaza War (Sp.)

    You do know that the State Dept, always compliant, has ALSO been purged 1,000 times to now, and twice as much since 2001, and they STILL get resistance like this? Must be very disheartening.


    “What we have here is a failure to communicate. Some men you just cain’t reach.”

    Is there some level of purge, some campaign of fear, some penalty we failed to illustrate? What will it take for you all to get the message???

    Anyway, why does it exist? What if Trump were in charge? Wouldn’t they have to support it then because he opposed it? Or would they have to oppose him too? Or does that mean the State Department now opposes all Presidents? And are their own policy-making organization? And what happens now? Quite a number of options here.

    “Joe Biden has long been, and continues to be, one of the most devoted, stalwart and unflinching supporters of Israel money in all of DC, in either party”

    I see how that money’s really worked out for him and his family. Thankfully, having gotten paid in a booming stock market of 30 years, they never had to go back to the well for more but compounded their winnings into a legitimate private fortune. Oh wait, what? They took all that money which would be tens of millions compounded from 1989, and STILL had to take millions more last year from China and Moscow?

    Geez, they are SUPER bad at investing. Good thing they’re not involved with the national budget. What’s that?…

    “Israel has dropped more than 25,000 tons of high explosives since 7 October (the 1945 Hiroshima nuke was 15,000 tons equivalent). What exactly is Netanyahu and his war cabinet’s aim here?”

    Not to bring up Ritter, but he’s one of the only running war commentators. Does that mean most of the other Colonels and Generals are cowards? But muh pension. When the U.S. goes down from your dereliction of duty, there will be no pensions. Anyway, he points out that you don’t do war just to do some war and be killin’ some folks. We’ve being doing that so long under the neocons, we forget. War is politics by other means. — Clausewitz His illustration was Russia, said, and like why do you make Ayn Rand right, why are we looking to RUSSIA for how to do things, and who to imitate?
    https://i.imgflip.com/7q3o2t.jpg CoachClass

    https://media1.tenor.com/images/cce98e0d01c720b6a4f697761721e526/tenor.gif?itemid=14607839

    Russia has a PLAN, a task, an act they would like to accomplish. And shockingly, forbiddingly, this is often a help to the Russian people and to Russia at large. They then take steps that combine to accomplish this task, which are material, economic, diplomatic, and largely by communicating honestly what they are doing and why. Because doing so helps accomplish the task. Should the need arise, the military is also engaged to accomplish this goal. Not to smash things out of frustration of failing diplomatically and every other way. Not merely to punish people. The military, war, is an outgrowth of existing policy and withdrawn as early as possible as militaries are expensive material, credibility, and economically. This is why Russia always runs diplomacy with everyone, even while they are at active war with them. This may go hot and cold, but all wars end in diplomacy, in treaties, with political means, so why wait? Like we did in Vietnam. You’ll only discredit and embarrass and bankrupt yourself. Like we did in Vietnam.

    Back the point at hand: so “What exactly is Netanyahu and his war cabinet’s aim here?” The only thing I can think is “genocide”, like America clearing the continent, or Australia. “Possession is 9/10th of the law.” “Nonny-nonny pee-pee”.

    And there are lots of “reasons”. Gas may be one of them, but they had more gas than they could deal with without Gaza. They’re just on autopilot, having paved the way for 50 years. The other “reasons” have to be economic, but it may not be someone took a phone call that said, “Bonds are collapsing, go to Cabinet C and pull out war Plan #4234.” But the overall stress leads 1) Nuts to be arrested 2) a civil war when there’s not enough payola to go around 3) Therefore, if things are pivoting, you may want to act before the U.S. is missing altogether and you have no allies at all. Etc.

    Adds up to the same thing so I present it loosely, as if all things are conscious and intended, but I’m aware. I don’t have all day to equivocate and suppose some choices are conscious and others are not fully conscious. You get the idea.

    “Tel Aviv is deliberately trying to draw Lebanon’s powerful Hezbollah militia into the Palestinian-Israeli crisis to drag the United States and other powers into the conflict.”

    Sucks to be Gaza, but you can’t just do what your enemy wants and has planned. Hezbollah would have enforced the narrative that Iran was the cause. I’d say a thing the Neocons want, but “You and whose army”? I’d say it drives a wedge in the new fragile Iran-Saudi axis under BRIICS, but how? Maybe they’re just that bad at it. They’re so delusional and suck so bad sometimes it’s hard to tell what they’re doing.

    “Facts for Peace — is seeking million-dollar donations from dozens of the world’s biggest names”

    Soooooo…it’s an extortion racket. Like Elon just showed.

    “disclose the names of students who are part of organisations that signed open letters”

    Um. “Open” Letter? As in “public”? Help me understand what you’re saying here. Are you so retarded you don’t know that “open” signatures are “open”, too lazy to collect them yourself, or do you want “Are you now or have you ever been” hearings where all people associated with the associates of associations are Blacklisted? …And their families too?

    Not sure I care as all three options make you a retard, but it’s good to know.

    “the American people are exceptional and indispensable?”

    Yes, but only the Black, Brown, and Gay ones. Everyone else should be shot. It has been rumored that Blinken, Biden, and Newsom are white, and therefore first to go, but I don’t see the evidence.

    “Russian intellectuals see the West as the touchstone of rationality and freedom.”

    Yes, that’s because like here, and like all nations, “Intellectuals” are always retards and traitors. Has there ever been a war where intellectuals didn’t flock to the other side like flies? Certainly did for WWII, Eugenics, and Stalinism. Not only DID they support him, and that, and Ptomkin tours by the NY Times, but they are STILL doing it after we know.

    “The entirety of Putin’s travails in Ukraine is due to his inability to comprehend the agenda of the US neoconservatives”

    Speaking of retarded intellectuals, PCR is using his “PutinTelepathy” again. Really? So, Russia should have undertaken this same war but with no Kinzals, no S400s, and being 8 years shorter on tanks and missiles? Or should he have waited, used Trump’s illegal blockade, rotated the economy, stockpiled the arms, while he could and nothing was lost by waiting except 14,000 Donbass? PCR is smarter than everyone, he knows best.

    Newsflash: the war isn’t over. Europe is perfectly capable of committing total suicide by sending F16s, a NATO army, and nuking Sevestapol or something. If that happens, will you still say Russia shouldn’t have waited, shouldn’t have taken cautious time to create factories and stockpiles and 21st century tech? At a 10:1 they’ve still lost 60,000 men in two years and that hurts.

    “He does nothing while the US builds up massive military power in the region”

    Actually, we haven’t. That’s a lie. Remember Iraq? It took most of a year and we moved like 250,000 men. Aaaaand where is that exactly in M.E. right now? We floated in a couple carriers that can be sunk in 30 minutes. They’re only like 5,000 apiece AND they can’t leave the ship. That’s very similar to no military power in the region at all.

    ““..the military is not satisfied with the failed counter-offensive, the misuse of Western assistance and the low level of competence in Kyiv..”

    The difference between BEING a general and ACTING like one on TV. People say, “What’s the difference?” No really, I mean, stupid is as stupid does, right? If you act a general, then if people take your orders, you’re a general. Er, not really. ACTUAL Generals have a number of intangibles. They have the disposition for it. They have a long interest in it. Instead of goofing off in Secondary school and playing piano with their penis, they were reading books on Clausewitz and Rommel. They give their lives, that is, their interest and attention to it. So when a decision arises, they have all this come to bear on the question, the experience, the expertise, the need, the drive, etc. Therefore they are simply better at it, all the time, always. ...Which is why we say Milley isn’t a General, either, although officially, technically, functionally, he is. He’s just so badly lacking in all Generalship except for his Hollywood glamour shot that no one can mistake him for being a real General.

    I’m sure there’s always a broad back-bench of pretend generals in every military.

    ““..The fact that he was featured in The Economist to me indicates that this is British intelligence signaling that they think this Zaluzhny is their boy..”

    Yup. And what will they get from that? Well, more Slavic genocide, I expect. There’s nothing the Anglos like more. They’re really going to have to circle behind and double cross Poland though.

    “just silly beyond belief,” Johnson told Sputnik.”

    Yes it is, but where do you start? Or with your friends, if you tell them, they think YOU are silly beyond belief, although given 5 minutes to make your case with a debate clock, you could do it easily. So…a boat of no size, with no diving bell? Where do I start?

    “For many years I have documented that the overriding purpose of media, universities, the public school system, Hollywood, and the Democrat Party has been to…”

    Yes but it’s really to create a communist revolution and Soviet government, as was successful worldwide and as they themselves freely admit. “Racism” all that rot is just “Critical Theory”, and excuse to do what they wanted to do anyway: kill people, take their stuff, and run everything. Joke’s on them of course: they’ll be shot against the wall first and the oligarchs will run things as always. But they’re intellectuals and therefore retards, childish in every way and advising everyone on violence although they have zero experience.

    “..a blatantly corrupt and ignorant attorney general in New York state can get away with bringing a politically-motivated nonsense case against the leading presidential candidate”

    You aint seen nothin’. They are collecting all data to attack and purge the average NYer statewide.

    “It’s no wonder more than half the country can’t think straight,” Kunstler says. Which half?

    “One explanation is that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has infiltrated the management of our country at every level”
    A third theory is that the USA has somehow gone “communist.” The universities have, for sure, but in a most half-assed way imaginable that presents more as a case of collective mental illness than a true political ideology.”

    That’s for sure. Even we here have to re-iterate and re-define what “Communist” means just to keep our minds straight, as the CCP isn’t “Communist”, The DNC isn’t “Communist” (they’re fascist) and even the Communists were never communists. (1950’s Russia and China were oligarchs and insiders with big PR Teams.) Yeah, I know that but I have to use some word, so generally use THEIR word. THEY say they are, like AOC. She SAYS she is a Democratic Socialist. Should I disbelieve her?

    “These actions-and-effects are “communistic” only insofar as they induce some Marxist-Gramscian overthrow of normality (i.e., a coherent cultural consensus) in order to usher in

    …Usher in The discrediting of the present government and present culture so that it “must” be destroyed and replaced…with ME! No, it’s perfectly logical, in all the textbooks, and it is always done just like this. They actually don’t care WHAT discredits the government, in fact the loonier the better, as long as all existing things are destroyed. As Alynski’s Rules For Radicals says, their textbook. Then we “Build Back Better”...with ME in charge. Everyone does what – I – say. A dictatorship! The perfect form of government. If you disagree, I shoot you, so it’s Perfect for Me! Simple.

    That’s what ACTUAL Socialism has always been, as played out and observed on the ground, however well-meaning it started, or however many well-meaning people begin. Ultimately people don’t want to do the dead #Opposite of their nature and all sense, so you have to MAKE them. With force. By shooting them in the face. Even that doesn’t work, but it does extend the calendar a lot.

    So are Universities “Socialist”? Yes, have you never been to one? They’ll TELL you they are. Are they “Socialist” under the Russia-China revolution sense? Yes, they also behave exactly as these began and along each step as far as we’ve gotten to this point. And by any logical process, would the CONCLUSION be at the same destination? Yes, absolutely it would.

    “The counter-revolution has begun. You are not alone.”

    The good guys can lose though. That happens in history. Unlike the movies, you don’t just win because you are good, although it helps.

    “• Suella Braverman Sacked As Home Secretary After Article Criticising Police (G.)

    The amazing thing about this was the level to which she was just saying the obvious. Like saying 100 years of medical textbooks say you can’t lockdown a pandemic over 1%? Nope! Today is #Opposite Day!

    “it is clear to me that Rishi Sunak is a strong and capable Prime Minister,”

    Wait, Rishi Sunak is Prime Minister? Who is this guy? I’ve forgotten already.

    “This is a city where professed socialists and populists unapologetically give their husbands or children huge amounts of campaign funds.” Ding Ding Ding! You’ll own nothing and be happy. I’ll own YOU and your daughters and be very happy.

    Q: How can you tell how Socialist someone is? A: By the number of mansions they own. Ask BLM.

    “So what’s his retirement plan? To lobby?”

    No, probably about the same as all 300 million Americans who don’t work for Government: Nothing.

    “McBride” the only crime is “Embarrassment”. Why? Not just for ego, although that’s a big [sic] part. It’s because under Socialism, money doesn’t buy anything. Popularity, social credit, being a “pal” or insider buys everything, including gold bars, Ukrainian hookers and Swiss shopping trips. So people who suck at creating things voluntarily but are insufferable suck-ups and sycophants obviously prefer a world like that. “Embarrassment” in that world is a version of social “Bankruptcy”.

    Such that “Socialism” isn’t a better system, they just changed currencies. They use ChuckeeCheez tokens and not Subway tokens — hardly a revolution or a change. THEY want to run things, instead of those OTHER guys who want to run things. Such. Wow. Behind the glam and PR, that is just SO. Pathetic. So really if I join the worldwide revolution I’m backing YOUR oligarchs instead of THEIR oligarchs? Sign me up today!

    “Calling recording: This has to be true, but what? Someone has a fingerprint of your voice pattern? That’s too easy to get to bother calling. And? Where would they use it? My ATM doesn’t have one and neither does anybody else. Okay, they get a “Yes” on tape; who are they hacking next and using it with?

    Wow, Duffy is pretty in the Spanish way. Sign me up.

    #146638
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    Paul Craig Roberts is a plagiarist and it’s done by surveying blog and website comments, but PCRinc’s rhetoric is true to the data mined

    #146639
    Red
    Participant

    Dr Peter McCullough recently gave a speech at the European Parliament during a hearing hosted by five Members of the European Parliament (“MEPs”). The hearing was to raise awareness about the World Health Organisation’s (“WHO’s”) power grab.

    Dr. McCullough gave evidence of the enormous wave of harms the covid “vaccines” have caused. There’s a false narrative that it’s COVID causing all these illnesses. Don’t fall for the false narrative. It’s the vaccines causing this enormous wave of illness, he said.

    “The path forward is, clearly, for no one to take another shot – no one,” Dr. McCullough said. “The COVID-19 vaccines and all of their progeny and future boosters are not safe for human use.”

    “The WHO is standing behind these vaccines,” he added. “It’s my belief that the European Union, the United States and all major stakeholders should actually completely pull out of the WHO.”

    They can’t “pull out”! They’re right in the middle of their orgasm.

    Dr Peter McCullough: No one should take another Shot, COVID vaccines are not safe for Human use

    #146640
    Red
    Participant
    #146641

    I recently withdrew my Patreon support for James Kunstler. I just couldn’t abide his support for the unmitigated slaughter of Palestinians by the Israeli government, military and US ( government and citizens ).

    It seems he is more intent on throwing the spotlight on China … “ We struggle to sort this out. One explanation is that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has infiltrated the management of our country at every level so as to eventually conquer our territory for its resources while eliminating or enslaving the population?“

    I certainly don’t pretend to know whether this is a classic “look over there !” head fake.

    But I DO think there is a huge consensus worldwide that the Israeli lobby holds IMMENSE power in the good ole US of A. A power word smiths and influencers like James downplays significantly.

    #146642
    poppie
    Participant

    The Flowering Apple Tree. Its upside down.

    #146643
    Ian Graham
    Participant

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    “I made a new graph of global 2-meter surface temperatures that includes data back to 1940.

    “Just stunning.

    “We now live on a planet that human civilization has never experienced before.”

    #146644
    Michael Reid
    Participant


    They can’t “pull out”! They’re right in the middle of their orgasm.

    Thank you for putting it in perspective

    #146645
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Ritual Humiliation No. 39

    Pedophile Gangster MonsterJo-Joe publicly rubs in the fact that the Empire of LiesLiesLies

    is a total “has-been” loser country that can’t even properly honor it’s sacred fallen.

    What is pitiful sack’o’shit Duh’merica presents as it’s Figurehead.

    #146646
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Andrei Martyanov recently had a tfunny comment about Russia developing a land bridge to Hungry, Serbia, Slovakia and Romania by taking and cutting off Black Sea access to Ukronaziland.

    “Romania, Hungary, Slovakia and Serbia have a combined population of roughly 42 million. This is substantial, it is also a promising market–make your own conclusion.

    As I already stated many times, Russia doesn’t need love or obedience, Russia is interested in trade with people who still recognize that there are only two genders.

    Hahahahahaahahahahaha

    Stop, yur killin’ me!

    The Collective West summarized in one chart

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    #146647
    Oroboros
    Participant

    The Land of Milk n’ Honey

    Hahahaha

    Great headline

    Trading one shithole for another

    Surprise Bitchez

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    #146648
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    What have we learned about society over the last three and a half years?


    Prior to Covid, I had a mental map of how society worked. Covid destroyed that picture. Covid revealed society as it really is and it’s shocking. Here’s what I’ve learned about society over the last three and a half years:

    https://tobyrogers.substack.com/p/what-have-we-learned-about-society

    #146649
    Oroboros
    Participant

    This mind you is in our Nation’s Capitol, Land of the Brave, Home of the, well, Not So Free

    I wonder if in the condom section, they put a picture of Hunter boning his hookers

    Who let the dogs out!

    Who put the ‘Duh’ in Duh’merica

    It’s been said by the Mediawhores that nothing will return to ‘normal’ after the Plandemic.

    Ya think?

    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F-yIgrAbIAAxzoh?format=jpg&name=small

    #146650
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #146651
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Climate Twat Walkback

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    #146652
    kultsommer
    Participant

    Just in case if weekly schedule on the wall in the hospital, from “Not a Borat sketch” video above, does not work here is some more:

    #146653
    Oroboros
    Participant

    So if your IDF tank is on fire….

    Hamas wants IDF bodies dead or alive for show n tell

    I’ve read a number of reports that the IDF reservists are refusing to leaving their armoured vehicles because they know they will be toast from snipers.

    Yes, Hamas are excellent snipers and RGP virtuosos

    The bodies are evidence

    Stack them up somewhere for Show n Tell later

    IDF running armor in GAZA without proper infantry protection

    Armor without infantry

    Hamas has double charge RGPs

    PG7-VR rounds have tandem charges to defeat reactive tank armor and can penetrate 750mm of armor or 1.5 meters of reinforced concrete.

    #146654
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Just a note on urban warfare perfected by Russians in Stalingrad 80 years ago this year.

    Any armored column trying to advance through rubble can be isolated by detonating building in front and in back of said column, trapping it where it can’t maneuver or advance or retreat.

    Without accompanying infantry to root out snipers and RGPs, the armored column is Dead Fucking Meat

    The IDF don’t know history

    #146655
    Oroboros
    Participant

    These is why Wagner did not use that many tanks clearing Bakhmut block by block

    You loose a Lot in infantry accompanying armor.

    Hamas also has drones

    Gotta watch for those

    #146656
    zerosum
    Participant

    the narrative.

    Million of people are advocating for “peace” .
    Therefore, Peace activates makes you an enemy of Israel/USA that need to be eliminated.

    “… complicit in genocide..”
    “…. spreading misinformation … ”
    ” … act with impunity,”
    “… repeating the same mistakes made these past few decades …”

    • State Department Memo Blasts Biden Over ‘Misinformation’ on Gaza War (Sp.)
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    “Today, we can see that the war has expanded and Lebanon is embroiled in it. It’s probable that the extent of clashes will grow even further.
    The future is uncertain, but Iran is prepared for all circumstances,” Hajizadeh said.
    ———–
    “We must get ahead of the narrative.”

    • Billionaires Are Teaming Up For Pro-Israel, Anti-Hamas Media Drive (AlJ)
    A billionaire real estate tycoon in the United States is rallying support for a high-dollar media crusade to boost Israel’s image and demonize the Hamas armed group amid global pro-Palestinian,(Peace), solidarity protests.
    The media campaign — called Facts for Peace

    The media campaign launched by Sternlicht, aims to win back public favors for Israel, (genocide), posting videos on its social media pages blaming Hamas for the plight of Palestinians and denying claims of Israeli rights violations.

    ———-

    The War for Greater Israel  and Reassertion of US Hegemony Is About to Begin


    The War for Greater Israel and Reassertion of US Hegemony Is About to Begin

    It is rare to come across a Russian journalist who is even aware of the Wolfowitz doctrine that the principal goal of US foreign policy is to prevent the rise of Russia or any other country capable of constraining US unilateral action.
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    A Planned US-Israeli Attack on Iran is Contemplated


    A Planned US-Israeli Attack on Iran is Contemplated
    The U.S. led War on the People of Palestine and the Middle East is a Criminal Undertaking

    READ MORE FOR THE TRUTH ….

    What is required is a grass roots network, a mass movement at national and international levels, which challenges the legitimacy of the military and political actors, and which is ultimately instrumental in unseating those who rule in our name.
    ( It’s called VOTING)
    War criminals occupy positions of authority. The citizenry is galvanized into supporting the rulers, who are “committed to their safety and well-being”. Through media disinformation, war is given a humanitarian mandate.

    To reverse the tide of war, military bases must be closed down, the war machine (namely the production of advanced weapons systems) must be stopped and the burgeoning police state must be dismantled.

    The corporate backers and sponsors of war and war crimes must also be targeted including the oil companies, the defense contractors, the financial institutions and the corporate media, which has become an integral part of the war propaganda machine.

    Antiwar sentiment does not dismantle a war agenda.
    The war criminals in the US, Israel and Britain must be removed from high office.

    What is needed is to reveal the true face of the American Empire and the underlying criminalization of US foreign policy, which uses the “war on terrorism” and the threat of Al Qaeda to galvanize public opinion in support of a global war agenda.

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    • Whistleblower David McBride Declares ‘Today I Serve My Country’ (G.)

    the unauthorised disclosure of information, breaches of the Defence Act and the theft of commonwealth property
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    #146657
    Michael Reid
    Participant
    #146658
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Here’s my impression from trying to find out what is going on militarily in Gaza. Very hazy, but an overview might be possible

    Israel has completely cut off the northern half of Gaza from the southern half (how can anyone leave it?)

    They are attempting to take the entire coast of northern Gaza and are, I would estimate, 60-70% done with that goal.

    Given their entire military effort is to cut off northern Gaza, the attacks near the southern border, the attacks on columns of people trying to comply and leave, the whole “leave northern Gaza” was an empty request. Requested for what then? Get people out of their bomb shelters?

    Some rumors of Israeli infantry not being actively aggressive, armor forward. Reminds me of, in Donald Burgett’s memoirs from 101st airborne in Bagstone, he noted the American and German use of armor differed – Americans tended to keep their armor back as support, Germans seemed to use it as a shield for the advancing infantry. They’d let the tanks pass through their lines, then pop up and get the following infantry.

    So now there’s rumors of vehicle destruction on the Israeli side. Hard to tell if it’s just the cost of a best-possible doctrine in humdrum use or something going wrong. Can they get tanks where they need them? Are there zones they can’t get tanks into for support? Can their infantry go where the tanks can’t or are they operationally limited by staying close to the armor? Tank attrition as a conscious planned trade-off for infantry attrition?

    It’s really impossible to tell if internally, competent Israeli military people are calling the operation a success or a failure so far. From a top-down view hey, we cut off the northern half, success?

    #146659
    Alexander Carpenter
    Participant

    “[Prof. Eliot Jacobson] made a new graph of global 2-meter surface temperatures that includes data back to 1940.

    “Just stunning. We now live on a planet that human civilization has never experienced before.”

    Well, it looks like Ian Graham is replacing AFKTT as our pet climate-idiocy troll.
    Of course, there was no climate before 1940. There: how’s that for climate-denial?

    #146660
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Disney’s 300m movie (The Marvels) has flopped. Looking like it won’t make it to 100m revenue. The numbers are deceptively optimistic because the equivalent of the movie budget has to be spent on marketing. And cinema revenue gets split with the venues.

    Somehow, people didn’t want to see 3 intersectional girlbosses fight the patriarchy (they do yell the word patriarchy etc) in a disjointed fever-dream of current year marxist thought embedded as “symbolism” we learned from our marxist sociology professors who hate us. You fooled us the first 10 times but we know it will be a miserable schlockfest. not fun. Not made for the purpose of delighting us. The writer’s room would be revolted at the very thought of the viewers walking out of the theater cheerful, happy, untroubled, entertained, mood lifted. Nooooo.

    Nothing new. Audience was wise to it years ago, writing on the wall, just more people giving up on new movies. another 2/3 of a billion thrown away – consciously, knowingly. Multi-trillion dollar worth intellectual property horribly devalued. But this has been going on for years. Many TRILLIONS in losses on individual movies, missed revenue, and destruction of value if the IPs have occurred 2016-2023.

    And the money keeps pouring in from somewhere. What else could the money have done? Or if we imagine we convert all the losses into physical buildings, housing and such, how many city blocks worth of it in $ was destroyed? Like whole cities worth? How many cities worth?

    “Asked about the movie’s performance in the context of woke backlash, DaCosta told Variety she focuses her attention on fans who provide “civilized critique.” The director said she turns away from “pockets that are really virulent and violent and racist — and sexist and homophobic and all those awful things.””

    Right. Just keep doubling down and never stop. I have had a pretty continuous finger on the pulse of criticism of marxist de-colonization of (ie exploitative colonization of) geek culture since 2016, since I got sick of hearing about politics all the time and decided to turn off NPR and try going back to some of the stuff I liked when I was younger as a break – only to find Evergreen Collage in the process of happening to everything I liked.

    “We know the film is resonating with female audiences,” Disney EVP of theatrical distribution told the New York Times. We’re going to keep the pressure up and fight the good fight into Thanksgiving.”

    Inverted of course. The purpose of the movie is to “resonate.” That’s what the 2/3 billion was for, not profit. Therefore, for the purpose of “resonating” we’ll keep hammering away with it. Why not, the movie enjoys the same enthusiasm from women audiences as women’s soccer and women’s basketball. That means we need to do it more, not less.

    #146661
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Oh but anyway, being embedded somewhat in that “criticism culture” or whatever they would call it for years, I have yet to see any “pockets that are really virulent and violent and racist — and sexist and homophobic and all those awful things.” except for obvious plants posting like that to degrade the image of the fans.

    They do periodically send waves of internet trolls and hit pieces in media to “defend” each losing release. Almost more like they’re more concerned with publicizing fans as evil than pleasing them and taking their money. (by almost, I mean exactly like, emphatically like)

    As if at this point, the entire multimillion production and release of the movie is really about denigration of their erstwhile customers after the fact.

    #146662
    jb-hb
    Participant

    …and I might add multiple ACTUAL cities HAVE gone to total crap at the same time as entire cities worth of money went to tone deaf indoctrinaton-tainment.

    Money is a rationing system. You COULD have coupon books or government allowances or what have you, but that would suck and currency usually works better. Money is an implicit claim on all available products and services. performs the same function as rationing, deciding who gets what and what amount.

    Watching cities crumble while cities worth of money goes to disliked miserable indoctra-tainment is evidence that the economy is already effectively centrally planned.

    #146663
    thomasjkenney
    Participant

    @poppie re: “The Flowering Apple Tree. Its upside down.”

    Perhaps a reflection in a pond or river?

    #146664
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Demolition of America by ‘Ideological Subversion’

    Over at Larry Johnson’s blog

    Demolition of America by ‘Ideological Subversion’

    Substitute ‘Ideological Subversion’ with my favorite ‘Ritual Humiliation’.

    “Demoralization’ also works for me.

    Boy howdy is the Empire of Lies demoralized.

    But just wait, the main course of demoralizing Ritual Humiliation’ has yet to be served.

    “Liquid circling the drain is slow initially, but the vortex accelerates as it approaches the drain—a metaphor for the rapid deterioration of American society. The cause for the descent? Ideological subversion. The symptoms are American institutions hollowed out, brainwashing, and demoralization.

    In 1984, Yuri Bezmenov, an ex-KGB defector, revealed the Soviet Union’s plan for gradual ideological subversion of the United States political system and society. The KGB’s psychological warfare method had four stages: demoralization, destabilization, crisis, and normalization.”

    .

    Presented in 1984 by Yuri Bezmenov, former Soviet journalist for Novosti Press Agency (APN) and a former KGB informant who defected to Canazida.

    .

    #146665
    kultsommer
    Participant

    Re: “….gradual ideological subversion of the United States….”
    I am not trying to dispute the wishful thinking of USSR, but how in the world they would do that? They were brown-bag accounting economy and without huge money influence things hardly move in the USA.
    Ask AIPAC.

    #146666
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Interesting comment from the article Oroboros


    Carlton Meyer says
    ”So there is a Russian plot to destroy America”

    My comment:
    Who financed the inventor of Communism Carl Marx?
    The Russians? or the Ashkenazi Jewish Dynasty of Rothschild?

    Who destroyed the Russian society by Communist infiltration?
    The Russians? or the Ashkenazi Jews?

    Who promoted and financed the erection of the UN and Israel?
    The Global population? or The Ashkenazi Jewish Dynasty of Rothschild?

    Who financed the infiltration of Neo-Conservatives and Neo-Liberals in America?
    The Americans? or the Ashkenazi Jews?

    How did they do it?
    By using the well tested Jewish KGB-book of subversion, by placing Agents within important societal functions in order to make those institutions fail. This scheme has now seceded in the UN, US, UK, and EU.
    Take a good look at the first picture of this article and see how many societal functions in these traitors has had the responsibility of sabotaging during 9/11, The war on terror, The financial crisis, The Migrant crisis, The Health Crisis, The Lock downs, The Energy crisis, and WWIII.

    Why would these Agents betray their own Nation?
    Because they have been brainwashed into a Utopian dream, or has been corrupted by money.

    Do the Global Elite want Communism?
    No, they want to control all aspect of human life on earth.
    For them both communism and Fascism are OK as long as it gives the desired result: Totalitarian control.
    Does the Global Elite care about us?
    No, they want 2/3 of the Global population killed because people want better living conditions.

    Why is there no Picture of Lord Rothschild and the Royalty of Europe in this article?
    Because the one you can’t criticize is the one who controls you.

    Demolition of America by ‘Ideological Subversion’

    #146667
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Another interesting comment from the previously linked article


    The Rothschilds and the old families want to control the world. They are using communism/democracy, predatory capitalism and zionism to accomplish that – using communism/democracy to destroy from within, using predatory capitalism to transfer wealth, and using zionism to destroy world peace via a vast zionist network influencing governments across the Western Alliance.

    People do not understand that the real enemies are hidden and attract no attention whilst they do their work and whilst the public’s attention is directed elsewhere. Russia, China, Iran and North Korea are standing against that. I don’t relish being unpatriotic, but I have to admit that I hope they win.

    #146668
    Red
    Participant

    “@poppie re: “The Flowering Apple Tree. Its upside down.”


    @thomasjkenney

    Perhaps a reflection in a pond or river?

    Now you’re getting somewhere, looks like a school of fish to me.

    #146669
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    Don’t worry, it’s only Fiction

    Trans CEO of women’s health charity believes biological sex, age are ‘constructs,’ demands access to female-only spaces…

    A man who identifies as a trans woman has been named CEO of an endometriosis charity in the UK. Steph Richards, 71, identifies as having “a female brain,” believes it is his right to access women’s changing rooms in shops and locker rooms, and believes that “‘men’, ‘women’, ‘child’ are social constructs.”

    https://humanevents.com/2023/11/14/trans-ceo-of-womens-health-charity-believes-biological-sex-age-are-constructs-demands-access-to-female-only-spaces

    Science fiction isn’t just thinking about the world out there.

    It’s also thinking about how that world might be—a particularly important exercise for those who are oppressed, because if they’re going to change the world we live in, they—and all of us—have to be able to think about a world that works differently ~ Samuel R. Delany

    #146670
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    Filed under Oops…Too Late!

    Ālea iacta est.

    #146671
    Red
    Participant

    CCP’s social credit score just might be the blue print? All the conditioning from covid on preparing for the “great reset”. This is t be in place by the end of ’25.

    Latest news about the European Digital Identity Regulation

    8 November 2023 – The European Commission welcomes the final agreement on EU Digital Identity Wallet

    The Commission welcomes the final agreement reached by the European Parliament and the Council of the EU at the final trilogue on the Regulation introducing European Digital Identity Wallets.

    This concludes the co-legislators’ work implementing the results of the provisional political agreement reached on 29 June 2023 on a legal framework for an EU Digital Identity, the first trusted and secure digital identity framework for all Europeans.

    This marks an important step towards the Digital Decade 2030 targets on the digitalisation of public services.

    All EU citizens will be offered the possibility to have an EU Digital Identity Wallet to access public and private online services in full security and protection of personal data all over Europe.

    In addition to public services, Very Large Online Platforms designated under the Digital Services Act (including services such as Amazon, Booking.com or Facebook) and private services that are legally required to authenticate their users will have to accept the EU Digital Identity Wallet for logging into their online services.

    In addition, the wallets’ features and common specifications will make it attractive for all private service providers to accept them for their services, thus creating new business opportunities.

    The Wallet will also facilitate service providers’ compliance with various regulatory requirements.

    In addition to securely storing their digital identity, the Wallet will allow users to open bank accounts, make payments and hold digital documents, such as a mobile Driving Licence, a medical prescription, a professional certificate or a travel ticket.

    The Wallet will offer a user-friendly and practical alternative to online identification guaranteed by EU law.

    The Wallet will fully respect the user’s choice whether or not to share personal data, it will offer the highest degree of security certified independently to the same standards, and relevant parts of its code will be published open source to exclude any possibility of misuse, illegal tracking, tracing or government interception.

    The legislative discussions have strengthened the ambition of the regulation in a number of areas important for citizens.

    The Wallet will contain a dashboard of all transactions accessible to its holder, offer the possibility to report alleged violations of data protection, and allow interaction between wallets.

    Moreover, citizens will be able to onboard the wallet with existing national eID schemes and benefit from free eSignatures for non-professional use.

    Where is the final text? Which is the next step?

    The agreement reached by the co-legislators is now subject to formal approval by the European Parliament and the Council.

    Once formally adopted, the European Digital Identity framework will enter into force on the 20 th day following its publication in the Official Journal.

    Member States will have to provide EU Digital Identity Wallets to their citizens 24 months after adoption of Implementing Acts setting out the technical specifications for the EU Digital Identity Wallet and the technical specifications for certification.

    More:
    https://www.european-digital-identity-regulation.com/

    #146672
    Celticbiker
    Participant

    Thank God for the animals. They dont need schools or tv to understand decency, integrity or honesty.

    #146673
    jb-hb
    Participant

    I am not trying to dispute the wishful thinking of USSR, but how in the world they would do that?

    They only had a space program, nukes, thousands of tanks, a massive industrial base, a large cradle to grave indoctrination system, and a camp system for those who didn’t take to it. How could they possibly have the money for an espionage system?

    #146674
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Another comment from the linked article

    it wasn’t Larry who wrote this tripe. It was Bob Bishop.

    so apparently the linked article is tripe but the comment section has interesting information

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