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Debt Rattle November 16 2023

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• US Will Take Massive Hit In Global Standing Over Israel (RS)
• Rights Group Sues Biden For ‘Complicity’ In Gaza Genocide (Cradle)
• Why The US Needs This War In Gaza (Pepe Escobar)
• All Telecoms Services In Gaza To Halt In Coming Hours — Russian Envoy (TASS)
• US Secretly Increased Weapons Supplies To Israel – Bloomberg (RT)
• US Sabotaged Balanced UN Security Council Resolution On Mideast – Envoy (TASS)
• Biden Calls Xi a ‘Dictator’ Hours After Meeting (Sp.)
• Washington Raises Stakes On ‘Losing Hand’ In Ukraine – Jeffrey Sachs (RT)
• Ukrainian Officials Embezzled 20%-36% Of All Western Financial Aid (TASS)
• Germany’s Energy Woes Spark ‘Deindustrialization on Considerable Scale’ (Sp.)
• Hunter Biden Asks Judge for Trump, Barr Subpoenas (Sp.)
• Lawyer Admits To Leaking Witness Videos In Georgia Election Case (JTN)
• Michigan Court Rejects Effort to Disqualify Donald Trump (Turley)

 

 

 

 

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“..the ongoing war in the Middle East has raised the threat of an attack against Americans in the United States to a whole ‘nother level.”

• US Will Take Massive Hit In Global Standing Over Israel (RS)

This past weekend saw the publication of a disturbing report from Axios, following a phone call between Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and his Israeli counterpart. According to unnamed sources, the outlet reports, there are growing fears within the Biden administration that the Israeli government wants to provoke Hezbollah into starting a wider regional war that would envelop Lebanon and other nearby countries, as well as the United States. It’s a powerful reminder that the Biden administration’s current policy of unconditional support for the Israeli government’s war on Gaza carries with it no upsides and only downsides in regards to U.S. interests. Avoiding another Middle Eastern war is a core priority for President Joe Biden, who both campaigned on ending “forever wars,” and has expressed concern about the U.S. capacity for a future military confrontation with China.

In fact, according to Axios, Austin’s weekend phone call was precisely to register his concern over the Israeli attacks in Lebanon and “the need to contain the conflict to Gaza and avoid regional escalation.” U.S.officials have been reportedly trying to prevent this outcome from the start of the conflict. Short of a full-blown war, Washington’s support for the war is already leading to U.S.casualties. As of Monday, U.S. and coalition forces have suffered at least 52 attacks since October 17, injuring 56 troops in Iraq and Syria. In a classic case of tit-for-tat, four of those attacks took place this past Sunday alone in response to U.S. airstrikes on Iran-linked facilities, which were themselves a response to earlier militia attacks on American targets in the region over Washington’s backing for Israel. At one point, a drone launched by an Iran-backed drone crashed into the U.S. barracks at an Iraqi air base, failing to kill U.S.troops only because it was defective.

There are few greater interests of a nation than ensuring the safety and security of its citizens. The Biden administration certainly thinks so, since it has repeatedly invoked the U.S. citizens taken as hostages by Hamas and made clear the importance it places on their safe return. Yet U.S. citizens remain trapped in Gaza, their lives threatened by not just Israel’s relentless bombing campaign, but by the siege that has created a devastating humanitarian crisis in the territory. The longer the war goes on, the bigger the risk to these Americans’ lives. At the same time, administration officials are already warning the war is going to inflame terrorism, the very thing the United States spent the past two decades, thousands of lives, and trillions of dollars trying to combat. The U.S. State Department issued an alert early on in the war that there was an increased “potential for terrorist attacks, demonstrations or violent actions against U.S. citizens and interests.”

A leaked intelligence bulletin around the same time warned that Hezbollah and Al Qaeda affiliates were calling for attacks on U.S. citizens and interests over the conflict, and that the October 17 blast at al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City — responsibility for which is still undetermined — would “likely continue to draw public backlash and organized responses.” (The Israeli military has since repeatedly attacked multiple hospitals in Gaza). Similar warnings abound. The Department of Homeland Security has cautioned that the United States is “in a heightened threat environment” as a result of the war. FBI Director Chris Wray told Congress that “multiple foreign terrorist organizations have called for attacks against Americans and the West,” and that “the ongoing war in the Middle East has raised the threat of an attack against Americans in the United States to a whole ‘nother level.”

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“I paid for Israel to kill my cousins and my aunt, there’s no two ways around it..”

• Rights Group Sues Biden For ‘Complicity’ In Gaza Genocide (Cradle)

US President Joe Biden and two of his cabinet members are being sued in a US federal court for aiding and abetting genocide in Gaza, Al-Jazeera reported on 14 November. A federal complaint filed on 13 November against President Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, accuses them of “failure to prevent and complicity in the Israeli government’s unfolding genocide.” Israel, which receives $3.8 billion in military support from the US each year, has killed over 11,200 Palestinians, the majority women and children, since the beginning of its bombing campaign in Gaza on 7 October.

The New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed the suit on behalf of Palestinian human rights organizations, Palestinians in Gaza and US citizens with relatives trapped in the besieged enclave. The bombing campaign has been accompanied by statements from Israeli military and political leaders claiming that all 2.3 million residents of the Gaza Strip are legitimate targets, rather than just members or fighters of Hamas, the group that attacked Israel on 7 October. “Numerous Israeli government leaders have expressed clear genocidal intentions and deployed dehumanizing characterizations of Palestinians, including ‘human animals’,” the CCR wrote in its complaint. It said those “statements of intent”, when combined with the “mass killing” of Palestinians, reveal “evidence of an unfolding crime of genocide.”

Numerous legal scholars and human rights groups have also called Israel’s actions in Gaza genocide, including Israeli historian and Holocaust scholar Raz Segal, who has called the Israeli bombing campaign, “A textbook case of genocide.” As the Palestinian death toll continues to mount, the Biden White House has escalated its financial and military support to Israel and refused to set limits or redlines on how US weapons may be used in Gaza. “Immediately after the launch of Israel’s unprecedented bombing campaign on Gaza, President Biden offered ‘unwavering’ support for Israel, which he and administration officials have consistently repeated and backed up with military, financial, and political support, even as mass civilian casualties escalated alongside Israeli genocidal rhetoric,” the CCR said.

Because the US is Israel’s closest ally and largest supplier of military assistance, the US could have a “deterrent effect on Israeli officials now pursuing genocidal acts against the Palestinian people,” the complaint said. Instead, the group said, Biden, Blinken, and Austin “have helped advance the gravest of crimes.” Speaking to Al-Jazeera, Astha Sharma Pokharel, a lawyer at the CCR, said: “They have a significant responsibility under customary international law, under federal law, to prevent this genocide, to stop supporting this genocide. At every step of the way, at every opportunity, they have failed. They have continued to provide cover to Israel; they have continued to provide material support to Israel; and currently, they intend to send more money and more weapons to Israel.”

Laila al-Haddad, a US citizen represented by CCR in the complaint, has lost five relatives to Israeli bombing in Gaza since 7 October. “I paid for Israel to kill my cousins and my aunt, there’s no two ways around it,” she told Al-Jazeera. “It was my tax dollars that did that, that sent those bombs to Israel to kill my family. And so I feel I and all other American taxpayers have a very unique responsibility to hold our government and our elected officials responsible.”

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“Wars in Europe and West Asia may be its last chance (it will lose) to subvert the emergence of a prosperous, connected, peaceful Eurasia Century.”

• Why The US Needs This War In Gaza (Pepe Escobar)

The catastrophic debacle of Project Ukraine and the revival of an intractable West Asian war are deeply intertwined. Beyond the fog of Washington’s “worry” about Tel Aviv’s genocidal rampage, the crucial fact is that we are right in the thick of a war against BRICS 11. The Empire does not do strategy; at best, it does tactical business plans on the fly. There are two immediate tactics in play: a US Armada deployed in the Eastern Mediterranean – in a failed effort to intimidate Resistance Axis behemoths Iran and Hezbollah – and a possible Milei election in Argentina tied to his avowed promise to break Brazil-Argentina relations. So this is a simultaneous attack on BRICS 11 on two fronts: West Asia and South America. There will be no American efforts spared to prevent BRICS 11 from getting close to OPEC+.

A key aim is to instill fear in Riyadh and Abu Dhabi – as confirmed by Persian Gulf business sources. Even vassal leaders at the OIC show would have been aware that we are now deep into The Empire Strikes Back. That also largely explains their cowardice. They know that for the Hegemon, multipolarity equals “chaos,” unipolarity equals “order,” and malign actors equal “autocrats” – such as the new Russian-Chinese-Iranian “Axis of Evil” and anyone, especially vassals, that opposes the “rules-based international order.” And that brings us to a tale of two ceasefires. Tens of millions across the Global Majority are asking why the Hegemon is desperate for a ceasefire in Ukraine while flatly refusing a ceasefire in Palestine. Freezing Project Ukraine preserves the Ghost of Hegemony just a little bit longer.

Let’s assume Moscow would take the bait (it won’t). But to freeze Ukraine in Europe, the Hegemon will need an Israeli win in Gaza – perhaps at any and all costs – to maintain even a vestige of its former glory. But can Israel achieve victory any more than Ukraine can? Tel Aviv may have already lost the war on 7 October as it can never regain its facade of invincibility. And if this transforms into a regional war that Israel loses, the US will lose its Arab vassals overnight, who today have a Chinese and Russian option waiting in the wings. The Roar of the Street is getting louder – demanding that the Biden administration, now seen as complicit with Tel Aviv, halt the Israeli genocide that may lead to a World War. But Washington will not comply. Wars in Europe and West Asia may be its last chance (it will lose) to subvert the emergence of a prosperous, connected, peaceful Eurasia Century.

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Good to remember: “..Hamas views its attack as a response to Israeli authorities’ steps against the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem..”

• All Telecoms Services In Gaza To Halt In Coming Hours — Russian Envoy (TASS)

Residents of the Gaza Strip are about to find themselves without any communications to the outside world due to fuel and electricity shortages, Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya told the UN Security Council. “Any humanitarian action requires an immediate cessation of hostilities. One cannot clear the debris and evacuate people when under fire, and also it is impossible to bring in much-needed fuel, without which Gaza’s hospitals are about to run out of energy. Besides, without fuel supplies, in the coming hours (according to UNRWA forecasts on November 16), the residents of Gaza will find themselves without any communications, without Internet and in a complete isolation from the outside world,” the Russian diplomat said, addressing the UN Security Council which has just adopted a resolution on the Middle East.

A total of 12 countries in the 15-member council voted in favor of the document, aimed at helping children in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict zone. The United States, the United Kingdom and Russia abstained. “There will be no telling what happens there at all. The Gaza Strip will be completely plunged into darkness and chaos, and coordination among emergency services will be disrupted,” Nebenzya continued. s”At this very moment, while delegations to the Security Council are exercising in eloquence, the Israeli army is raiding Al-Shifa hospital, bombing UNRWA schools, and there are alarming reports of medical staff being shot, medical equipment and medical depots being destroyed,” he added. “I stress once again: humanitarian pauses are not and cannot be a substitute for a ceasefire or even a truce. It is only a short-time halt, after which hostilities resume with renewed vigor.”

The resolution, obtained by TASS, has seven provisions. It contains a call for establishing extended humanitarian pauses and corridors in the Gaza Strip “for a sufficient number of days to enable, consistent with international humanitarian law, the full, rapid, safe and unhindered humanitarian access” for United Nations, the International Committee of the Red Cross and other impartial humanitarian organizations enabling them to deliver humanitarian aid, repair essential infrastructure and organize “urgent rescue and recovery efforts, including for missing children in damaged and destroyed buildings.” The humanitarian pause should be long enough to conduct “evacuation of sick or injured children and their care givers.”

Tensions flared up in the Middle East after Hamas militants from the Gaza Strip attacked Israeli territory on October 7, when many Israelis living in the settlements near the border were killed and more than 200 people, including children, women and the elderly, were taken hostage. Hamas views its attack as a response to Israeli authorities’ steps against the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. Israel declared a total blockade of the Gaza Strip and launched bombardments of the enclave and some areas in Lebanon and Syria. Clashes are also reported in the West Bank.

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“..since Gaza is “one of the world’s most densely populated places, 155mm artillery shells are inherently indiscriminate.”

• US Secretly Increased Weapons Supplies To Israel – Bloomberg (RT)

The US Department of Defense has allegedly ramped up weapons deliveries to Israel without making any public announcements, Bloomberg has reported. The media outlet claimed that the deliveries of artillery shells, which supposedly feature prominently on Israel’s wish list, continue despite protests by dozens of relief organizations. The US has for decades been Israel’s closest ally and a major supplier of weapons. Following Hamas’ surprise attack on the country on October 7, Washington quickly came to Israel’s rescue, providing it with Iron Dome air defense missiles and smart bombs. In its report on Wednesday, Bloomberg, citing an internal Defense Department list dated late October, claimed that the Pentagon had been dipping into its stocks at home and in Europe to furnish Israel with 36,000 rounds of 30mm cannon ammunition and approximately 2,000 Hellfire Laser Guided missiles for the AH-64 Apache attack helicopter.

The list also included 57,000 155mm High Explosive artillery shells, as well as mortars, rifles, and night vision devices, among other items. Israel reportedly requested 200 armor-piercing Switchblade 600 strike drones, which the US military does not have in its inventory. When asked for comment, the Defense Department said in a statement that it was “leveraging several avenues — from internal stocks to US industry channels – to ensure Israel has the means to defend itself.” Officials added that “this security assistance continues to arrive on a near-daily basis.” Bloomberg pointed out that the deliveries have apparently continued despite the Biden administration publicly calling on Israel to exercise restraint and try to avoid civilian casualties during its ongoing operation against Hamas in Gaza.

On Monday, thirty relief groups sent a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, urging him to halt the deliveries of 155mm shells in particular. They argued that, since Gaza is “one of the world’s most densely populated places, 155mm artillery shells are inherently indiscriminate.” On Tuesday, the US House of Representatives approved a bill proposed by Speaker Mike Johnson over the weekend to avoid a looming government shutdown this Friday. Aid for Ukraine and Israel is conspicuously absent from the stopgap legislation, which aims to secure funding for US government agencies through mid-January and early February. The Biden administration originally asked Congress last month to approve a massive $106 billion assistance package for Ukraine and Israel. However, Republicans opposed the plan, leading to a political deadlock.

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“The Council does not even demand humanitarian pauses, but only calls for them, which is a mockery of the Council’s prerogative..”

• US Sabotaged Balanced UN Security Council Resolution On Mideast – Envoy (TASS)

Since the Israeli-Palestinian conflict escalated in early October, the United States has been sabotaging a balanced UN Security Council document on the issue, Russia’s Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya said. “From the very beginning of the current escalation in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict zone, the US delegation has sabotaged any attempt to develop a balanced and depoliticized document aimed at taking real and urgent measures to de-escalate the situation. Our American colleagues on the Council justified the collective punishment and annihilation of the Palestinians, first of all the civilian population, under the slogans about the fight against terrorism and Israel’s right to self-defense, effectively paralyzing the work of the main UN body for the maintenance of international peace and security,” Nebenzya told the UN Security Council after it adopted a resolution on the Middle East.

In his words, Washington has consistently rejected draft resolutions demanding a humanitarian ceasefire. The diplomat expressed his regret over the fact that “under pressure from Washington, the language of the resolution has been emasculated.” “The Council does not even demand humanitarian pauses, but only calls for them, which is a mockery of the Council’s prerogative,” Nebenzya said.

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The Chinese simply do not understand such poor manners.

• Biden Calls Xi a ‘Dictator’ Hours After Meeting (Sp.)

Hours after a meeting designed to restore US-Chinese relations between US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping, Biden called the Chinese leader a dictator during a press conference about the meeting. Biden and Xi met in San Francisco during the APEC Leaders’ Summit on Wednesday. The highly anticipated meeting was hyped as a critical opportunity to restore Chinese-US relations following years of heightened tensions between the two countries. During a press conference following the meeting, Biden touted the progress made, saying that they reached a deal to combat fentanyl precursor chemicals from China entering the United States, resuming direct communications between the world’s two largest militaries and a plan to have experts from both countries meet on the dangers of AI. He said they also discussed Ukraine, Gaza, Taiwan and the South China Sea.

After Biden stated he would take no more questions he started walking towards the exit but then stopped and announced that he would take another question, “Who can holler the loudest?” the President asked the crowd of supporters. The reporter, whose name and outlet were not clearly audible in the video, first asked if Biden could share the evidence he had that Hamas hid a headquarters in Al-Shifa hospital, something Biden said was a “fact” earlier in the press conference. Biden said he was confident in the evidence he saw, but declined to provide it. “No, I can’t tell you. I won’t tell you.” The same reporter then asked if Biden still calls Xi a “dictator” as he did earlier in the year. Biden confirmed that he still does.

“Well look, he is. I mean he is a dictator in the sense that he is a guy who runs a country that is a communist country that is based on a form of government that is totally different from ours,” Biden stated before leaving the press room. The Chinese government has not yet responded to Biden’s latest description of the Chinese President as a “dictator.” In June, one day after Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Beijing in an effort to ease tensions between the countries, Biden harmed those discussions by calling Xi a dictator and implying that he did not know what was going on in his country. “The reason why Xi Jinping got very upset in terms of when I shot that balloon down with two box cars full of spy equipment is he didn’t know it was there,” Biden said at a fundraiser. “That’s a great embarrassment for dictators.”

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“The US has played a losing hand badly for 15 straight years..”

They’ve raised the stakes for 15 years on a losing hand, and they can’t get it,” [..] “And this is our team. They failed.”

• Washington Raises Stakes On ‘Losing Hand’ In Ukraine – Jeffrey Sachs (RT)

Washington has continually escalated a failed foreign policy in Eastern Europe since at least 2008, driving Ukraine to the brink of total destruction by failing to address Russia’s legitimate security concerns in the former Soviet republic, US public policy analyst Jeffrey Sachs has argued. “The US has played a losing hand badly for 15 straight years,” Sachs said on Wednesday in an interview with independent journalist Glenn Greenwald. “This is really important to understand if one wants to learn a little bit about geopolitical poker, which is, we keep raising the stakes on a losing hand.” Sachs, an award-winning economist who advised the Russian and Ukrainian governments following the Soviet Union’s breakup, detailed how at various points in the past two decades, Washington could have forestalled a military conflict without Kiev losing any territory.

He pointed out that Moscow was demanding that NATO not expand onto its doorstep, which US officials refused to concede. When Ukraine’s then-president, Viktor Yanukovych, chose neutrality over aligning with the West and agreed to extend the Russian Black Sea Fleet’s lease of its naval base in Crimea, that wasn’t good enough for US leaders, Sachs said. US State Department official Victoria Nuland “and friends” then helped overthrow Kiev’s democratically elected government in 2014, leading to Ukraine’s loss of Crimea, he said. Even then, Russia wasn’t demanding more territory. Rather, Sachs said, Moscow wanted Ukraine to refrain from shelling ethnic Russians in the breakaway Donbass region and to grant them a degree of autonomy. Those terms were included in the Minsk II agreement, which was unanimously endorsed by the UN Security Council, but US officials told Ukrainian leaders that they didn’t need to comply with the deal, the analyst said.

In December 2021, Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed a security pact pledging no further expansion of NATO and negotiations on placement of US missile systems in Eastern Europe. The US reply came in January 2022. “We don’t have to discuss any of that with you,” Sachs said, summing up Washington’s stance at the time. “That was the reply. We don’t have to discuss NATO with you. It’s none of your business.” Just three days after Russian forces launched a military offensive against Ukraine in February 2022, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky sought to resolve the conflict by pledging neutrality, Sachs said. However, he suggested that, when Zelensky reached a preliminary agreement with the Russians on a peace settlement a few weeks later, US President Joe Biden’s administration torpedoed the deal.

Washington has since approved $113 billion in aid to Ukraine, essentially prolonging the fighting, the analyst argued. Earlier this year, the Biden administration goaded Kiev into a major counteroffensive against Russian forces that was “clearly an impossibility,” Sachs said. “They’ve raised the stakes for 15 years on a losing hand, and they can’t get it,” the economist said. “And this is our team. They failed.” ” We need a new foreign policy team, and we need a new foreign policy approach, and we need to negotiate before Ukraine is completely destroyed.”

Sachs noted that he and other observers predicted the Ukraine debacle in the early days of the conflict. “This one was not very hard to see,” he said. “Like you said, how can you beat Russia? It was very obvious. These people just are not very clever. Biden, Nuland, [National Security Advisor Jake] Sullivan, [Secretary of State Antony] Blinken – they’ve been at this since 2014.” Kiev’s much-anticipated offensive campaign, launched in the summer, failed to achieve any significant victories or win back much territory. Valery Zaluzhny, Ukraine’s top general, said in a recent interview that the fighting has reached “a stalemate.” The Economist reported this week that Western officials “increasingly think” that the conflict could last for another five years.

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“I’m talking about former senior officials of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry.”

So this is just the defense guys. But the rest want their cut, too.

• Ukrainian Officials Embezzled 20%-36% Of All Western Financial Aid (TASS)

Between 20% and 36% of all financial aid, provided to Kiev by the West, has been misappropriated by Ukrainian officials, the Russian Foreign ministry’s official spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said. “Based on our information, between 20% and 36% of all financial aid from the West was misappropriated by Ukrainian officials,” the diplomat said. “I’m talking about former senior officials of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry.” Corruption scandals at various sectors of economy and state governance are a regular occurrence in Ukraine. Former Ukrainian Defense Minister Alexey Reznikov was sacked in September amid numerous corruption scandals. He was succeeded by Rustem Umerov.

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“..two out of three German companies have partially relocated their operations abroad due to ongoing energy issues in Germany..”

• Germany’s Energy Woes Spark ‘Deindustrialization on Considerable Scale’ (Sp.)

Germany’s automotive, mechanical engineering, and industrial goods companies are prioritizing moving less complex processes overseas to secure their business futures. Berlin’s chances of reversing such a trend are in doubt, as companies have expressed disappointment in the current government’s actions to forestall their departure. Consultancy firm Deloitte reports that two out of three German companies have partially relocated their operations abroad due to ongoing energy issues in Germany. Previous reports indicated that nearly half of the country’s small-to-midsized companies were considering moving abroad or ceasing operations. According to Deloitte, 67 percent of German companies have moved some operations abroad, and every third industrial company plans to relocate high-quality areas such as production and preassembly.

Investments in infrastructure, digitalization, and cost-effective energy pricing are essential for securing business locations. The situation is particularly acute in Germany’s mechanical engineering, industrial goods, and automotive sectors, where 69 percent of companies report moderate to large-scale relocation. Currently, companies are primarily moving less complex aspects like component manufacturing abroad. Florian Ploner, a partner at Deloitte and industry sector expert, remarked, “Deindustrialization is already taking place on a considerable scale here. If the general conditions remain the same, it is very likely that more companies will follow and more and more important parts of the value creation will migrate.”

When considering relocation, one-third of respondents focus on high-value areas like general production (33 percent) and preassembly (34 percent). Currently, companies are relocating evenly across the EU, Asia, and the US, with only 10 percent of companies planning to move to other Asian countries and eight percent considering returning to Europe from Asia.

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“Dammit, Mr. President, I am not going to talk to you about Hunter Biden. Period!”

• Hunter Biden Asks Judge for Trump, Barr Subpoenas (Sp.)

Lawyers for Hunter Biden asked a federal judge on Wednesday to issue subpoenas for several federal law enforcement officials, including former Attorney General Bill Barr and former US President Donald Trump, in the case against the first son. According to the recent filing, Biden is seeking the testimony of Trump, Barr, and two other Justice Department officials in an effort to prove that the federal investigation of him was politically motivated. “Mr. Biden seeks specific information from three former DOJ officials and the former President that goes to the heart of his defense that this is, possibly, a vindictive or selective prosecution arising from an unrelenting pressure campaign beginning in the last administration, in violation of Mr. Biden’s Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution,” Biden’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, wrote in the request to US District Judge Maryellen Noreika.

Hunter, who is the son of US President Joe Biden, is facing a trio of federal gun charges after a plea deal collapsed over the summer that also included misdemeanor tax fraud charges. While it was Hunter’s lawyer who scuttled the deal, he has since tried to argue that the filing of new gun charges since then is part of a political campaign against him and his father, who is standing for reelection next November. “In the lead up to the 2020 election, IRS case files show certain investigative decisions were made ‘as a result of guidance provided’ by, among others, ‘the Deputy Attorney General’s office,’” Lowell’s filing said. Lowell also specifically pointed to a comment by Barr published in his 2022 memoir “One Damn Thing After Another,” in which he said he told Trump in October 2020: “Dammit, Mr. President, I am not going to talk to you about Hunter Biden. Period!”

“These confirmations of communications give more than a mere appearance that President Trump improperly and unrelentingly pressured DOJ to pursue an investigation and prosecution of Mr. Biden to advance President Trump’s partisan ambitions,” Lowell’s note to the judge said. Lowell also claimed that Republican pressure on special counsel David Weiss compelled the attorney into “changing course” to file the indictment against Hunter Biden in September, “charging three felony counts for the same gun and same facts that just a few months prior Mr. Weiss had agreed to divert under a pre-trial diversion agreement.”

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“Miller’s provision of the footage to the media was not illegal..”

• Lawyer Admits To Leaking Witness Videos In Georgia Election Case (JTN)

An attorney representing one of the defendants in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s election case admitted on Wednesday to releasing video footage of several proffer sessions involving defendants who entered plea agreements. A proffer session is a meeting between a defendant and prosecutors to provide information to prosecutors. Footage from those of attorneys Kenneth Chesebro, Jenna Ellis, and Sidney Powell became public this week, along with that of co-defendant Scott Hall. “In being transparent with the court and to make sure that nobody else gets blamed for what happened — and so that I can go to sleep well tonight — Judge, I did release those videos to one outlet,” Attorney Jonathan Miller told Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee, according to The Hill. “And in all candor, I need the court to know that.”

Prosecutors ultimately filed a request for a protective order on how defendants may disseminate materials from the case. Miller’s provision of the footage to the media was not illegal. Miller represents defendant Misty Hampton, one of former President Donald Trump’s 18 co-defendants in the case stemming from efforts to challenge the 2020 election results. The original publication of the videos prompted several rounds of finger-pointing within the courtroom, with attorneys for the myriad defendants and Willis’s office denying any involvement until Miller came forward.

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“These challenges are spreading uncertainty on the choices that will be allowed for voters — a dangerous and dysfunctional effort.”

• Michigan Court Rejects Effort to Disqualify Donald Trump (Turley)

We have been discussing the nationwide effort to disqualify former President Donald Trump from ballots in key states under a novel theory using Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. Yesterday, a Michigan judge was the latest to dismiss the effort to prevent voters from being able to vote for Trump. As many of you know, I have been a vocal critic of the theory as unfounded and dangerous. While figures like Harvard Professor Laurence Tribe have assured the public that Trump is clearly disqualified under the theory, it is based on unsustainable historical and legal interpretations in my view. For that reason, I have welcomed rulings to allow these claims to be reviewed on appeal. It has not fared well. While some have misrepresented past rulings, Tribe and others are still seeking a favorable judge.

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State Judge James Robert Redford rejected the challenge and found that the courts lack the claimed authority under the theory. Judge Redford also rejected the effort of Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D) under state law to remove candidates from the ballot based on that provision. An appeal is now expected to proceed and the matter could well end up in front of the Supreme Court. Last week, the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled in a similar case that Trump could not be removed from the primary ballot in that state. Another ruling is expected soon out of Colorado. I have previously addressed the constitutional basis for this claim. It is, in my view, wildly out of sync with the purpose of the amendment, which followed an actual rebellion, the Civil War.

As previously discussed, the 14th Amendment bars those who took the oath and then “engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same.” It then adds that that disqualification can extend to those who have “given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.” According to these experts, Jan. 6 was an “insurrection” and Trump gave “aid and comfort” to those who engaged in it by spreading election fraud claims and not immediately denouncing the violence. But even the view that it was an “insurrection” is by no means a consensus. Polls have shown that most of the public view Jan. 6 for what it was: a protest that became a riot. One year after the riot, CBS News mostly downplayed and ignored the result of its own poll showing that 76 percent viewed it for what it was, as a “protest gone too far.” The view that it was an actual “insurrection” was far less settled, with almost half rejecting the claim, a division breaking along partisan lines.

Advocates of this theory like Benson are arguing that they are protecting democracy by denying the ability of tens of millions of Americans to vote for their preferred candidate. Nothing says democracy like barring the choice of voters. It is a practice that is common in nations like Iran where the government scrubs the ballots of unacceptable candidates. Hopefully, these courts will expedite these rulings to allow the matter to reach the Supreme Court for a final and definitive ruling. These challenges are spreading uncertainty on the choices that will be allowed for voters — a dangerous and dysfunctional effort.

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  • November 16, 2023 at 10:17 am #146785
    Raúl Ilargi Meijer
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    Jackson Pollock Reflection of the Big Dipper 1947   • US Will Take Massive Hit In Global Standing Over Israel (RS) • Rights Group Sues Biden For
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle November 16 2023]

    November 16, 2023 at 11:36 am #146786
    oxymoron
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    no upsides and only downsides in regards to U.S. interests.
    I believe the upside is a huge gas field with no body left to claim it so they can then also use 512 small nukes to make a new Suez canal allowing for power/ control is most definitely an upside.
    ‘Kill them all”
    #killinmostfolks

    November 16, 2023 at 11:43 am #146787
    Dr. D
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    Is the Pollack upside down too? How could you tell? I’m sure this sort of joke is now 100 years old.

    “Israeli Legislators: Western Nations Should ‘Welcome Gaza Refugees’

    You are totally right!, and I had not thought of this. The nearest western nation is Israel. So Israel should take them. In a move that seems ordained by God, they are already there! So there’s really no possible reason for Israel NOT to take them.

    I mean, if they’re all scum, animals, and born terrorists, why would they be any better in Canada? It’s only logical to murder them all, methodically, by ethnicity, if that’s true. While if they’re not, then there’s no reason Israel should need to move them. After all, why are they refugees in the first place? What’s that? Our Western Allies SHELLED them? Why?
    Okay, so if Spain just shells the Basques or the Catalans, then France should have to take all 2 million of them, just ‘cause? I don’t see why YOUR genocide should be MY problem, and when you do that, you make me want to arm the other side so they can stay put and not BE my problem. Savvy?

    But Jimmy Dore helpfully explains why:

    (we here already knew that, and there are yet more reasons)

    “Owner of Chinese Biolab Busted in California Linked to CCP Military Program: House Report

    China is enormous and you can’t expect everybody knows everything through every chain of command. So don’t go nuts. However, I also don’t care. You can’t run biolabs out of a storage container which seem to have – everything – laying around in them. So you get the full sentence and prosecution of the law.

    ‘Bidenomics’ Media Blitz Failed: “Democrats can’t just hammer people over the head with an insistence that the economy is great.”

    …Or so says Bernays anyway.

    “In High-Stakes Gamble, Toyota Will Make 2025 Camry Hybrid-Only
    Consumer be damned:

    Well, not exactly. The EPA regulation, which is Central Planning and “Government Controlling the Means of Production” demand certain arcane results. That probably means that Toyota cannot meet these standards by selling the cars people want. In fact, that is absolutely lead-pipe certain. So the EPA – and not Congress, as there is no law – just SAYS Toyota can only sell cars that cost 2-5x as much, of the type nobody wants to buy. Like Ford E-Trucks, where they just lost (another) billion dollars. ($6B?) Losing money: that’s Capitalism! Giving the people what they don’t want? Capitalism. FORCING them to buy it, like it or not? Capitalism. Then going bankrupt because of it and either getting more 0% fiat loans or being actively bailed out? Capitalism. Central Planning? Definitely Capitalism. With Byzantine regulations delivered by a locust swarm of harassing officials minus all solid definition of law, which is applied with total favoritism (VW)? …Well you can ask the Founding Fathers about that part.

    Erdogan: It’s very difficult to understand Turkey (Turkish peoples) and their rhetoric. As they wax hyperbolic. Yet they are not just talking, Turkey is happy to act and militarily at times as well. But when and why is a mystery. Sometimes seems they overreact like to Greece. Sometimes take over a whole nation like Cyprus or Syria. Sometimes don’t act at all. Why? From the outside, it seems reasons must be internal to themselves. So if say France were saying this it would have quite a different meaning. But the gravity and meaning of Turkey saying it is probably only known by regional experts. Like: I don’t think they plan to invade with NATO’s largest army. But they might under regional circumstances.

    Blinken. I’m sorry, when he started speaking I forgot who he was again. He works for the government or something?

    Sachs: Well I do appreciate Sachs coming out and saying what he thinks. So many are cowards. And although we may disagree on meaning and details, in general he is merely saying the obvious, and supporting very run of the mill, average American values, which is enough to get you in prison right now.

    “”It’s not just blind rage, it’s a political agenda.”

    They don’t have blind rage because it’s an emotion and they don’t have those.

    Their logic matrix looks like Chess board changes each day > Is there anything new I can steal? > If yes, then .: steal it.

    “These are, by all accounts, war crimes.”

    Er…there’s a bunch here but of course it’s illegal either way. Israel occupies then it’s a war crime. If Gaza is Israeli – where of course under liminalism it both is and isn’t – then they are genociding their own people, Israeli citizens of a certain ethnicity.

    This of course was the same as Ukraine. So I guess the overall view of people and reporters is if governments kill their own people by the ten-thousands, that’s totally normal and nothing to be bothered about. What else is new? So they all are as one with the mind and ethos of The Joker:

    “Nobody panics when things go “according to plan,” even if the plan is horrifying! If I tell the press that a gang banger will get shot, or a truckload of soldiers will be blown up, nobody panics, because it’s all “part of the plan”.”

    So, killing ordinary civilians is now “Part of the Plan” according to their reactions. Theirs, the press, and ours, the people. Killing us is good, and right, and legal, and moral. I guess because The Government owns the People, not that the People own and run The Government? That’s what I hear: ask anyone on the street.

    “Biden has done more to damage the standing in the region than Bush”

    Gosh I hope so. Does that mean we can go home now?

    “administration officials are already warning the war is going to inflame terrorism, the very thing the United States spent the past two decades, thousands of lives, and trillions of dollars trying to combat.’

    …Er…by creating more terrorists in every country we go to, like Israel is and like Ron Paul warned us for 20 years? Oh and “Nobody Knewd”! Right. Just like “That giant sucking sound” EVERYBODY knew, and like 100 million of us tell you EVERY day.

    “The Roar of the Street is getting louder … halt the Israeli genocide … But Washington will not comply.”

    That’s democracy! When we all tell them to do something and they say no. Then it’s our fault, see? It’s like magic! Magic for psychopaths. “I kill people and it’s your fault if I do.” Sound familiar? Every abusive household, every day. How about this: GFY. I’m not going to comply so you won’t because it’s YOUR action and YOUR crime. Has nothing to do with me besides extortion.

    “extended humanitarian pauses and corridors”

    Not having them is an open war crime and the paperwork has been filed worldwide.

    ““..since Gaza is “one of the world’s most densely populated places, 155mm artillery shells are inherently indiscriminate.”

    You mean the 155 shells we ran out of and don’t have? We seem to have plenty to drop on civilians.

    BTW, there’s a general media blackout but Israel has lost 160 tanks and has gained essentially nothing. So they’re sitting on top of a corridor and the coastal road, but unlike usual, they don’t control them. So they’re merely surrounded. They have apparently dispersed no troops outside of vehicles, and approached no tunnels. So it’s a general starve them out system, I guess.

    “The Chinese simply do not understand such poor manners.
    • Biden Calls Xi a ‘Dictator’ Hours After Meeting (Sp.)

    I’m sure he understands it perfectly well. It’s meant to be inflammatory, personal, national, insult. And it is.

    “Ukrainian Officials Embezzled 20%-36% Of All Western Financial Aid (TASS)

    Sure, but that’s only of the 30% that reached Ukraine. So 10% of $150B. The U.S. embezzled the 2/3rds, or $100B. For political campaigns and suppression of speech, a Federal and Civil Rights Crime.

    “Germany’s Energy Woes Spark ‘Deindustrialization on Considerable Scale’ (Sp.)

    And here Kunstler said Japan would go Medieval first. Nope, the prize for NeoFeudalism, or just “feudalism” is going to Germany. But England has to be top-tier contender. It’s hard to imagine they’re not further along as they’ve had no industry but banking for a generation.

    “Biden is seeking the testimony of Trump, Barr, and two other Justice Department officials in an effort to prove that the federal investigation of him was politically motivated.”

    In an amazing feat of Irony.

    “misdemeanor tax fraud charges.” Really? Misdemeanors? For hundred million dollars and FARA violations? For booking appointments for testimony then blowing them off? Where do I sign up?

    ““These confirmations of communications give more than a mere appearance that President Trump improperly and unrelentingly pressured DOJ to pursue an investigation and prosecution of Mr. Biden”

    Maybe. But we appear to know Hunter Biden was indeed plausibly guilty of the crimes. And that quote says quite the opposite. Maybe Trump was pressuring, but Barr was stalwart in defending Hunter such that no political influence got through. Right? From what we know now, does that not mean Barr was the real political actor, and it was in Hunter’s favor?

    But go on: the more this is in the news, the better. The trial isn’t for Hunter but the FBI, IRS, DoJ, and America. That is, this “Trial” exists for US. WE are the jury, and the ones who need to see.

    “• Lawyer Admits To Leaking Witness Videos In Georgia Election Case (JTN)

    I saw this, but wasn’t it public footage given to them by the State of Georgia itself? Therefore it’s not “leaked”, it’s just “Information.” And he knows it was so illegal that he got up and said he did it. …Because it’s not illegal, and he’s at no risk to be disbarred.

    So I guess the headline is “Government actually provided facts instead of marking them “Top Secret” and denying everything as usual”? Yes, that would be Front Page, as the first time in 20 years they were honest. Ask the Shooter Manifesto people in KY. We still don’t know why, how, or who defied a direct court order for release.

    Michigan: Again, the law is just far out here, all innuendo. So Trump is guilty of “Insurrection”? Without a finding or trial, anywhere, including Michigan? And that’s because of J6? Where not a single person was charged with “Insurrection”? So Trump is guilty of robbing a bank that according to prosecutors wasn’t robbed? That’s what I’m getting here. Surely in order to even ATTEMPT such a thing, you’d need one or two prosecutions, to say nothing of convictions, of his minions in order to establish that any “Insurrection” happened at all?

    N. O. P. E. We only do innuendo, never law. Okie-dokey then!

    “denying that any duty outside of following orders even exists.”

    I imagine the exact same military code exists as here: It is illegal to follow out illegal orders. The problem being “Who decides” but that’s okay we have a lot of experience with that issue over centuries. Covering up is also an illegal order.

    So it has nothing to do with the People of Australia, arcane “Public good” arguments, although those are all true. He just has conflicting orders, and picked one of the two. Soldiers do this all the time, and it’s clearly of direct courtroom relevance.

    November 16, 2023 at 11:52 am #146789
    Dr. D
    Participant

    I’m not being mean or sarcastic when I say I don’t understand Kultsummer’s position at all. It is probably a language and culture difference, but it does seem cryptic to me. Overview: Kultsummer lives in Switzerland, and is from, or has interactions with, the Eastern bloc both then and now. He is probably circa 70yo. Correct me if I’ve mixed people up and it’s relevant here.

    Great. And I do understand that in general we are not very Socialist, and not considered Socialist, and what Socialism we have is a pale version to say, Europe’s overall “Democratic Socialism”. Except of course Americans don’t accept it, so our leaders just installed it anyway and lied about it. A much worse version, as I think we pay higher taxes in several ways, and yet have no health care either.

    I think the grump here is that when Socialism is brought to a country, and the agitators and promoters of Socialism go about their business of promoting their views – which is their right – they have always done it in a series of very specific, predictable ways, which are written down both by them, and by the historians who come after. We are following exactly this pattern as laid out for 100 years. Their pushes, the people’s or government’s responses, and so on. But why look for shadows? The people involved openly TELL you they are. BLM SAID they were “trained Marxists”. If I go to College, ask kids or college graduates, they will TELL me they are Marxists and love Marxism, and want it installed today. They have to work for a few years before they realize what a load of bollocks it all is and deprogram themselves back to reality. Now granted their brains are whipped cheez, but where would they get such an idea? They haven’t talked to anyone or been in contact with anything that wasn’t A) the Media or B) The Schools until they’re 25. Since it’s not their parents, um, we can be pretty sure where they get such ideas from. Schools which are themselves a form of GOVERNMENT here.

    Such ideas as they progress in a given nation that is later converted, or attempted to be converted to Socialism run along these lines. I doesn’t happen overnight, they set the stage, and take whatever power they can get away with when the opportunities present themselves. Eventually, — and perhaps only maybe – they feel safe enough to have an “emergency” and stop government altogether. Like the National Socialist Worker’s Party did. Or take over, kill everyone, and sort it out with a running civil war like the Bolsheviks did. Or not. If people are getting everything they want without the bother – like the UK stealing all the national wealth while her people are white with hunger – then why rock the boat?

    Nor is it “Actual Socialism” which has never been tried. You know what I’d like to see? Actual Capitalism. Socialism ends up AGAINST all the PR about Workers, sharing, etc and is run by the insiders and oligarchs. …Just like what we CALL Capitalism in the West, which is against all PR about “Competition”, “Markets”, “Bankruptcy” etc. and is also run by the – gasp, insiders and oligarchs.

    What’s the difference? Follow a good example of it in the USSR, and Us, both of us through our ups and downs. I prefer our style, which is my right, and I find it to be less bad in that you can agitate and give them a hard time much more easily. Other than that, it’s not like I just make them a bogeyman, “’Merica!” and all that. Socialism provided a lot of stuff to a lot of people just like “Capitalism” or our form of non-capitalism does, but it also provided a storm of intractable problems just like our form of non-capitalism has.

    But what I see most is that we either A) already solved all these problems decades ago or B) the problems we have are easily solved now. In either case, the people are going out, trying to fix them, and are stopped by the government. They are regulating, that is, “Controlling the Means of Production” in every corner, in every way over every line and screw. That they don’t CALL it “[Centrally] Controlling the means of Production” makes no difference, because it’s what they ARE doing. If you track back to the people who created, promoted, installed, and operate these plans, they are Socialists, generally from Universities and Think Tanks, who are happy to tell you so. Maybe they’re not but THEY say they are, at the same time they want “Government to Control the Means of Production” and are in favor of all 10 planks of the Communist Manifesto. What can I say? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Communist_Manifesto

    However, your approach is most peculiar in stating people who do these things, write, promote, enact the things directly from textbooks, directly from history, are NOT Socialists when they themselves say they are. Take it up with them, I guess? I can’t put up an handrail without a central planner’s permission in When, How and IF; I can’t have a Church Social without central planner’s certification, oversight, and permission? But this is Free-market Capitalism where the people decide in a Wild West manner, the government not interfering at all. Both? Neither?

    Very confused. Because I thought, sure, you were soft on Communism, having experienced the good it can do, which is has. Being European, you’re just responding to our overblown American rhetoric, as our way of life is extinguished, but that’s okay because then we’ll merely be as blight, happy, and prosperous as Scotland. But you seem very firm in saying when historical patterns are happening in headline news, BY people who openly say they are Socialists, enacting Socialist theories, laws, ways, governments, norms, that it’s still not actual Socialism. What is it then? Does what we see have any name at all? If it’s “Capitalism” now, then what was it before? since the change is a revolutionary alteration from our former legal and social norms. What markers would indicate that 1) Something, anything, is happening here at all? And 2) What markers would occur that would indicate they are Socialist? Since them SAYING so, and creating parties, and funding them, and marching signs, and waving flags, and burning things, and taking over courts, police, and laws, is not enough?

    Perhaps they are Spaghetti Monster people, or Moon Bat people. Or the Mole People Party, I dunno. Can you clear this up?

    November 16, 2023 at 12:19 pm #146790
    oxymoron
    Participant

    Student debt in the us revisited. Raul the numbers are where you predicted they would be…

    https://open.substack.com/pub/boriquagato/p/how-higher-education-became-a-cargo?r=nv8me&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

    November 16, 2023 at 2:49 pm #146792
    Raúl Ilargi Meijer
    Keymaster

    There’s a lot of questions about the Israel videos of the hospital. But scores of Kalashnikovs and ammo in the MRI room? Really, magnetic resonance and metal objects?

    November 16, 2023 at 2:51 pm #146793
    Mr. House
    Participant

    @oxymoron

    I’m beginning to Think El Gato is controlled opposition. Not that his articles aren’t good, but he omits quite a bit when recounting history.

    November 16, 2023 at 3:00 pm #146794
    zerosum
    Participant

    innuendo
    Evidence or hearsay
    Information received, out of court, from other people, that have a reputation of truth telling or that one cannot adequately substantiate not to be lying, or to be a fact. and not to be a rumor).
    ————
    https://new.thecradle.co/articles/rights-group-sues-biden-for-complicity-in-gaza-genocide
    • Rights Group Sues Biden For ‘Complicity’ In Gaza Genocide (Cradle)
    ———
    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/14/us-president-biden-sued-for-complicity-in-israels-genocide-in-gaza
    US President Biden sued for ‘complicity’ in Israel’s ‘genocide’ in Gaza
    ——-
    The reporter, whose name and outlet were not clearly audible in the video, first asked if Biden could share the evidence he had that Hamas hid a headquarters in Al-Shifa hospital, something Biden said was a “fact” earlier in the press conference. Biden said he was confident in the evidence he saw, but declined to provide it. “No, I can’t tell you. I won’t tell you.” The same reporter then asked if Biden still calls Xi a “dictator” as he did earlier in the year. Biden confirmed that he still does.
    ———–
    Wisdom for everyone. Do the math.

    “There is no surer way to fail to become a rich person than by aping the expenditures of rich people at a time when you cannot afford to.
    Buying a ferrari with a $400k car loan is not the path to prosperity. neither is eating at places you cannot afford or taking posh vacations.
    These may make you look like a rich person to an uninformed observer, but they are, in actuality, a poverty traps.

    Avoid student loan debt.”

    https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/how-higher-education-became-a-cargo?r=nv8me&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

    how higher education became a cargo cult
    ———
    WHAT ! Journalist are trying to do their jobs?

    There’s a lot of questions about the Israel videos of the hospital.
    ———-

    November 16, 2023 at 4:13 pm #146796
    tboc
    Participant

    D pattern recognition is not all it is cracked up to be. Jamie Dimon says he is a capitalist. Blinken and Biden say they are defending and protecting the Constitution. The EU says they are staunch defenders of free speech.
    “where of course under liminalism it both is and isn’t” Dr. D 11/16/23
    kind sir you wish me to view the present moment in terms of thought generated in 1848.
    highly charismatic, amoral, spiritually depraved humans rise to the surface from time to time and declare they are using one system or another. After a time another such rises to the surface and everyone declares the presence of the same system. No, another charismatic and depraved personality has risen to the surface and the less charismatic sociopaths and psychopaths are drawn like moths to the flame.
    Discovery of value precedes price discovery. When both of these mechanisms are absent in an economic system the system is organized theft, capitalism has nothing to do with it.
    Either there is transparency or there is not. The economic system without transparency is not capitalism. Of course as you so readily note, it is and it isn’t.
    even a cracker can see that

    November 16, 2023 at 4:44 pm #146797
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Yes, I an Atheist have defended, to some extent, Christendom when Christianity is accused of every evil in a 1000+ year period. Evils that happened while Europe was Christian. The same people accusing Christianity of every evil will, in the same breath, accuse Christianity of hypocrisy for the same exact evils.

    This is confirmation that the actions are at odds with the belief. Ergo, Christianity’s detractors inherently agree that the beliefs of Christianity are contrary to evil. Else no hypocrisy.

    When it comes to Communism, you have a system created BY highly charismatic, amoral, spiritually depraved humans tailored FOR highly charismatic, amoral, spiritually depraved humans. It is intrinsically unhealthy. Ruins things, makes people miserable. The strategies and tactics to bring it about ruins things, makes people miserable. The underlying theology/superstition is dehumanizing.

    There’s a stark difference between doing x while ostensibly being y in contradiction to y as opposed to doing A while ostensibly being A.

    November 16, 2023 at 6:19 pm #146799
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://www.newsweek.com/apec-ceo-summit-xi-jinping-dinner-business-leaders-china-us-biden-1844228
    Update 11/16/23, 8a.m. ET: This article was updated with further details of those said to have attended the event.
    Full List of Business Leaders Said to Have Spent $40K To Dine With Xi
    Nov 16, 2023 at 5:04 AM EST

    Kate Plummer
    According to The New York Times, tickets for a dinner and reception after the summit while executives could spend $40,000 to sit on Xi’s table, although that price also included eight seats at another table.

    As per a Bloomberg News report, the top executives who sat at the Chinese leader’s table included:
    ————

    November 16, 2023 at 6:31 pm #146800
    Mr. House
    Participant

    OMG they’re finally going to stop lying on this topic!

    https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/its-time-to-end-magical-thinking-about-russias-defeat-f6d0b8de

    November 16, 2023 at 6:33 pm #146801
    Mr. House
    Participant

    “Putin has withstood the West’s best efforts to reverse his invasion of Ukraine, and his hold on power is firm. The U.S. and its allies need a new strategy: containment.”

    Nah we don’t need containment, we don’t need to be enemies with Russia. What we need is new leadership, at all levels. Local, State, Federal, Corporate. Until the mass of society can admit that, nothing will change.

    November 16, 2023 at 6:36 pm #146802
    tboc
    Participant

    the following word salad is a musing on The Zeroeth Law of Thermodynamics, Thermal Equilibrium and the Permeable Connection. Of course the laws of phyics don’t apply to human beings. Language is wonderful!

    The thought that US tax dollars are being used to purchase anything needs some serious abuse. In 2022 total US tax revenue was $4.71 trillion and the 2023 budget deficit is $1.71 trillion. The budget deficit is equal to 36% of tax revenue. The 2022 outstanding value of US financial corporate and non-financial corporate debt securities can be presented as $24 trillion. The 2022 GDP of the US economy can be presented as $27 trillion. The Federal Reserve holds 25%± of the $33 trillion US debt and the balance is debt liability. The $24.75 trillion dollar debt, as an unfunded liability, represents 92% ± of the 2022 US GDP. As i am not a member of the Chicago school i can organise the above this way: $24 trillion in corporate debt plus $24.75 trillion in national debt, $48.75 trillion of debt, carries a GDP valued at $27 trillion. I will attempt to be discreet and only give passing mention to unfunded state and US federal pension liabilities. The recent announcement that interest on the US debt reached $1 trillion and is in the neighborhood of 20% of tax revenue did not cause Mrs. Yellen to lose any sleep. One wonders if she is awake. US federal and US corporate debt is the punch bowl not US tax dollars. The value of the back window at the FED is unknown. No audit please.

    now put this into context within the current geopolitical debacle. To make the numbers easier to handle let us use 8 billion as the global population. The global south contains about 80% of that population or 6.4 billion human beings. What would be the result of 6.4 billion humans withholding $0.01, a penny, from western goods and services each day for a single year? No boycot, no divestment and no sanctions just a little grassroots demand side economics. The amount that would be withheld is $23.01 trillion. Want to ring the margin call bell? One less Coca Cola or Pepsi per week, one less cup of Starbucks coffee, one less trip to McDonalds at the global level. A moderately secure family decides to purchase four scooters valued together at $5000 versus a used car. There goes a large percentage of a $1.5 trillion dollar market and the compound interest generated. Will the Global South continue being the pipeline and the medium of it’s own demise?
    Will there be equilibrium, will all of the world’s value be financialized to the point that there is no differentiation of asset value and entropy overtakes the human experiment? Or will the connection to western debt be broken and entropy reign supreme in the west?
    ask a socialist or a communist or a capitalist i’m sure they know and each knows why the other is wrong. and humanity continues to murder children for profit. and i am encouraged to take this foolishness seriously. i have been and will continue to be disadvantaged because i do not take any of this seriously. angels on the head of a pin in the 21st century. and we continue to murder children for profit. and declare with all of the joyous pomposity of an idiot “I’m A Capitalist”. and we continue to murder children for profit – thermal equilibrium, count on it

    November 16, 2023 at 6:49 pm #146803
    Maxwell Quest
    Participant

    A couple thoughts on communism that come to mind whenever the subject is broached…

    Firstly, I am against central planning, since it always seems to be the case that the further you are located from a problem, the more out of touch you are in respect to its causes and solutions. I saw this play out in my own technical field, where the higher one was in management, the more they lost touch with the day-to-day realities of production and support. What is the job of management then? How about providing a vision, employee cohesion, morale, finance, legalities, PR, etc. – those things that pertain to the level of management and its associated business abstractions, and NOT determining how many squares of toilet paper an employee may use during bathroom breaks, or how much to charge for a yogurt cone in the cafeteria.

    What often comes to mind are the New Testament verses that describe how some communities of early Christians “had all things common” and “parted them [their possessions] to all men, as every man had need.”

    It seems to me that this is the utopian ideal that most communists aspire to. One which promotes brotherhood and provides for the least and most vulnerable of its members. However, it is wholly unsuited for a humanity at its current stage of development, where love is in short supply and self-interest dominates the ego. Where the community team of oxen will be returned to the barn overworked and unfed so that Farmer Gates can rise in rank by foisting these externalities on the rest of the community. True communism requires an abundance of love, so that the “other” is considered as “oneself,” the community children are as one’s own. It will quickly morph into a sick tyranny wherever fear, hatred, and greed predominate.

    November 16, 2023 at 6:49 pm #146804
    hexadec
    Participant

    “…Er…by creating more terrorists in every country we go to, like Israel is and like Ron Paul warned us for 20 years?”

    Saw this headline yesterday:
    Pentagon Admits Failure in ‘War on Terror’ in Africa, as Attacks increase 75,000%

    November 16, 2023 at 7:03 pm #146805
    zerosum
    Participant

    The Israelis are disobeying the wishes and directives of the USA. Orders to follow rules of war engagement and humanitarian rules
    ( Israel would obey if USA would threaten to stop delivery of military aid)

    November 16, 2023 at 7:15 pm #146806
    John Day
    Participant

    Arguments For Genocide https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/arguments-for-genocide

    Israeli civilian, military and religious leaders make their clear case for the genocide of all Palestinians within Occupied-Palestine here in a 3 minute video compilation.

    ​ Israel, then and now: ‘kill, kill them all’
    ​ On 7 October, the armed Palestinian resistance smashed through the Gaza border fence to carry out an unprecedented surprise assault on Israel, in which some 1,200 civilians and security forces were killed.
    ​ While Israel attributes its entire death toll to the resistance fighters, in particular Hamas and its military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, evidence has emerged that Israeli forces bear responsibility for a significant number of deaths…
    ..But would Israeli forces willingly kill their own – and why?
    ​ The key lies in understanding that the primary goal of the resistance operation was the capture of prisoners of war (POWs)— both soldiers and settlers — to be taken back to Gaza. These captives were intended as leverage to press Israel to meet Hamas’s demands, including ending the 17-year siege on Gaza and releasing thousands of Palestinians held without trial in Israeli prisons.
    ​ It is equally key to understand that Israel, doctrinally, will go to the most extreme lengths imaginable to prevent the taking of captives – including killing them. In an attempt to prevent Hamas from taking POWs, Israeli forces took drastic measures, including launching airstrikes on their own military base, firing tank rounds at civilian homes, and using overwhelming firepower to enforce the highly controversial Hannibal Directive.
    ​ This infamous military policy – which was altered but not removed in 2016 – allows commanders to sacrifice their own soldiers to prevent them from being captured, aiming to deny the enemy any leverage over the occupation state. A notable case was in 2006, when Hamas captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit on the Gaza border. After holding him captive for five agonizing years, Hamas was able to exchange Shalit for 1,027 Palestinians held prisoner in Israel.​..
    ​..Palestinians targeting Israeli civilians is understandably a controversial talking point, especially in the west. However, Hamas justifies this by claiming all Israelis are settlers living on land stolen from Palestinians in 1948 during what is known as the nakba or “catastrophe.”
    ​ That year, Zionist militias employed rape and massacre as tools to effect the forcible “transfer” of some 750,000 Palestinians from the land needed to establish Israel. Future Israeli Prime Minister David Ben Gurion and other Zionist leaders understood that the majority of the indigenous population of British Mandate Palestine, the Christian and Muslim Arabs, needed to be “cleansed” from the land to create a state with a Jewish demographic majority.
    ​ Today, many Israelis — civilians and politicians alike — are loudly calling for their army to “complete the job”.
    https://new.thecradle.co/articles/israel-then-and-now-kill-kill-them-all

    ​ ‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 41: Israel ignores legally binding UNSC resolution, saying ‘it will not happen.’
    ​ Following Israel’s refusal to comply with a new UNSC resolution, the Israeli military stormed Al-Shifa Hospital for the second time, terrorizing civilians and finding no evidence of a Hamas command center.
    ​ Israeli forces violently stormed Al-Shifa Hospital twice within 24 hours, destroying the inside of the medical complex despite finding no Palestinian fighters inside.
    ​ The UN Security Council passed a legally binding resolution calling for “urgent and extended humanitarian pauses,” unrestricted aid delivery, including fuel and medical evacuations, and the release of captives inside Gaza; however, Israel says “it will not happen.”​
    ​ UNOCHA: Those fleeing to the South using the Israeli force’s “so-called safe corridors” face arrest, and the UN has received reports of “beatings and people being stripped of their clothes by Israeli soldiers.”

    ‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 41: Israel ignores legally binding UNSC resolution, saying ‘it will not happen.’

    ‘Chaos & Power Vacuum’ in WH is Why Israel Snubs US Advice on Gaza – Sy Hersh​ (or “because they CAN​”​, or “it’s only for show”)
    ​ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not been listening to the “waffling” of the Biden administration, the US investigative journalist wrote on Substack.
    The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have been intensifying their Gaza operation to eliminate Hamas amid global protests over the spiraling Palestinian civilian death toll.
    https://sputnikglobe.com/20231114/chaos–power-vacuum-in-wh-is-why-israel-snubs-us-advice-on-gaza—sy-hersh-1114939951.html

    November 16, 2023 at 7:16 pm #146807
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Rights group sues Biden for ‘complicity’ in Gaza genocide
    The US president and members of his cabinet have escalated their support for Israel’s brutal bombing of Gaza even as Israeli leaders have ‘expressed clear genocidal intentions’
    https://new.thecradle.co/articles/rights-group-sues-biden-for-complicity-in-gaza-genocide

    ​ Biden Calls Xi ‘Dictator’ Hours After Meeting Meant to Repair Relations with China
    The reporter, whose name and outlet were not clearly audible in the video, first asked if Biden could share the evidence he had that Hamas hid a headquarters in Al-Shifa hospital, something Biden said was a “fact” earlier in the press conference.
    ​ Biden said he was confident in the evidence he saw, but declined to provide it. “No, I can’t tell you. I won’t tell you.”
    The same reporter then asked if Biden still calls Xi a “dictator” as he did earlier in the year. Biden confirmed that he still does.
    ​ “Well look, he is. I mean he is a dictator in the sense that he is a guy who runs a country that is a communist country that is based on a form of government that is totally different from ours,” Biden stated.
    https://sputnikglobe.com/20231116/biden-calls-xi-a-dictator-hours-after-meeting-meant-to-repair-relations-with-china-1114991684.html

    ​ US will not restrain Israel in Gaza: Lavrov​ , The Russian foreign minister says Iran and Hezbollah do not want a wider war
    ​ The US does not want to restrain Israel’s ongoing military campaign in Gaza, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview to RT on 15 November.
    Russia has proposed several UN Security Council resolutions seeking a ceasefire to the all out conflict that erupted between the Israeli military and Hamas on 7 October.
    https://new.thecradle.co/articles/us-will-not-restrain-israel-in-gaza-lavrov

    ​ Knesset members mull Netanyahu impeachment​ , As the war against Gaza enters its second month, two-thirds of the Israeli public say they want Netanyahu out of office as he has refused to take responsibility for his role in the crisis
    https://new.thecradle.co/articles/knesset-members-mull-netanyahu-impeachment

    ​ Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been very clear thus far in condemning Israel’s ongoing military operation in Gaza … He told members of his hardline Justice and Development Party (AK Party) in a speech before parliament: “I say clearly that Israel is a terror state.”​ …
    ​..”While we curse the Israeli administration, we do not forget those who openly support these massacres and those who go out of their way to legitimize them,” he continued, in a clear reference to the United States and Western allies of Israel. And not for the first time, he denounced “genocide” unfolding.
    ​ “We are faced with a genocide,” Erdogan emphasized, perhaps in reference to the broader Muslim world. He also personally lashed out at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying he’ll soon be a “goner” from his office, amid growing Israeli domestic anger at his failure to protect citizens, in the wake of the Oct.7 terror attacks.
    ​ Erdogan also once again pressed Israel to formally declare its secret nuclear arsenal: “Your end is nigh, anyway, whether you have nuclear weapons or not” – and in response he drew loud applause.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/nato-member-turkey-rachets-anti-israel-rhetoric-terror-state

    November 16, 2023 at 7:17 pm #146808
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Why the US needs this war in Gaza​ , Washington needs to win its Gazan war against Iran because it failed to win its Ukrainian war against Russia.​ Pepe Escobar
    ​ Arab leaders were forced to take some sort of action beyond suspending a few ambassadorships with Israel, and called for a special Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) summit to discuss the ongoing Israeli War Against Palestinian Children.
    ​ Representatives of 57 Muslim states convened in Riyadh on 11 November to deliver a serious, practical blow against genocidal practitioners and enablers. But in the end, nothing was offered, not even solace…
    ..History, even if written by victors, tends to be unforgiving towards cowards.
    ​ The Top Four Cowards, in this instance, are Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, and Morrocco – the latter three having normalized relations with Israel under a heavy US hand in 2020. These are the ones that consistently blocked serious measures from being adopted at the OIC summit, such as the Algerian draft proposal for an oil ban on Israel, plus banning the use of Arab airspace to deliver weapons to the occupation state.​ Egypt and Jordan – longtime Arab vassals – were also non-committal, as well as Sudan, which is in the middle of a civil war. Turkiye, under Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan, once again showed it is all talk and no action.​..
    ​..Riyadh and Abu Dhabi are supposed to reinforce the energy clout of the BRICS sphere and be key players, further on down the road, in the de-dollarization drive whose ultimate aim is to bypass the petrodollar.
    ​ Yet, at the same time, Riyadh and Abu Dhabi also stand to benefit immensely from the not-so-secret 1963 plan to build the Ben Gurion canal, from the Gulf of Aqaba to the Eastern Mediterranean, arriving – what a coincidence – very close to now devastated northern Gaza.
    ​ The canal would allow Israel to become a key energy transit hub, dislodging Egypt’s Suez Canal, and that happens to dovetail nicely with Israel’s role as the de facto key node in the latest chapter of the War of Economic Corridors: the US-concocted India-MidEast Corridor (IMEC).​..
    ..That was also the logic behind Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s UN charade in September, where he flashed the whole “international community” a map of the “New Middle East” in which Palestine had been totally erased.
    All of the above assumes that IMEC and the Ben Gurion Canal will be built – which is not a given by any realistic standards…
    ​..Beyond the fog of Washington’s “worry” about Tel Aviv’s genocidal rampage, the crucial fact is that we are right in the thick of a war against BRICS 11.
    ​ The Empire does not do strategy; at best, it does tactical business plans on the fly. There are two immediate tactics in play: a US Armada deployed in the Eastern Mediterranean – in a failed effort to intimidate Resistance Axis behemoths Iran and Hezbollah – and a possible Milei election in Argentina tied to his avowed promise to break Brazil-Argentina relations.
    ​ So this is a simultaneous attack on BRICS 11 on two fronts: West Asia and South America. There will be no American efforts spared to prevent BRICS 11 from getting close to OPEC+. A key aim is to instill fear in Riyadh and Abu Dhabi – as confirmed by Persian Gulf business sources​…
    ..Tens of millions across the Global Majority are asking why the Hegemon is desperate for a ceasefire in Ukraine while flatly refusing a ceasefire in Palestine.
    ​ Freezing Project Ukraine preserves the Ghost of Hegemony just a little bit longer. Let’s assume Moscow would take the bait (it won’t). But to freeze Ukraine in Europe, the Hegemon will need an Israeli win in Gaza – perhaps at any and all costs – to maintain even a vestige of its former glory.
    ​ But can Israel achieve victory any more than Ukraine can? Tel Aviv may have already lost the war on 7 October as it can never regain its facade of invincibility. And if this transforms into a regional war that Israel loses, the US will lose its Arab vassals overnight.
    https://new.thecradle.co/articles/why-the-us-needs-this-war-in-gaza

    ​I have been seeing this same story for weeks.
    Israel considering deal with Hamas for temporary Gaza cease-fire in exchange for release of some hostages
    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-hamas-war-negotiations-gaza-cease-fire-deal-for-some-hostages/

    ​ Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said, on Monday, that an ambulance and the patients inside came under attack near the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza, Anadolu Agency reports.
    ​ When we sent the ambulance to bring the patients, a few metres away, they attacked the ambulance. There are injured people around the hospital, they are looking for medical care, we can’t bring them inside​, the French-based humanitarian organisation said on X, quoting one of its surgeons in the hospital.
    There’s also a sniper who attacked patients, they have gunshot wounds, we operated on three of them.
    https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20231113-ambulances-patients-struck-near-gazas-al-shifa-hospital-doctors-without-borders/

    ​ On Monday, the United States directed the United Nations and its bodies, including the World Food Program in Yemen, to completely stop the aid granted to beneficiaries in Yemen.
    ​ According to the source, the complete suspension of food aid comes within the framework of US pressure following the Yemeni stance in support of the Palestinian resistance in Gaza.
    https://en.ypagency.net/310332

    ​ The United States was forced to scale back its global military-biological programs in the wake of Russia’s revelations about their extent, Radiological, Chemical, and Biological Defense Troops chief Igor Kirillov has said…
    ..Kirillov and the RCBD Troops have spent 20 months briefing Russians, Ukrainians and the world community on the extent of the US military-biological programs in Ukraine, revealing work on a dizzying array of dangerous pathogens, from hepatitis A and E to typhoid fever, cholera, and a host of viruses, as well as programs seeking to utilize local flora, fauna and waterways to spread disease, including using pathogens which target specific ethnic groups. Along with Ukraine and Eastern Europe, the RCBD Troops also revealed the extent of American military biological research in other countries and regions across the globe, from Africa to Asia.
    ​ Russia’s revelations, based on thousands of seized documents, also uncovered some of the minutiae of the intricate workings of bureaucratic mechanisms and US big pharma involvement in funding pathogen research​…
    ​..Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland confirmed in Senate testimony in the spring of 2022 that there were “biological research facilities” in Ukraine, and expressed fears that these facilities might fall into Russian hands.
    https://sputnikglobe.com/20231113/russias-revelations-on-ukraine-biolabs-force-us-to-curtail-global-biowarfare-research-1114924367.html

    November 16, 2023 at 7:18 pm #146809
    John Day
    Participant

    Surge in Vaccine Lawsuits Forces Biden Admin to Hire More Attorneys​ NEWSWEEK
    https://www.newsweek.com/surge-vaccine-lawsuits-forces-biden-admin-hire-more-attorneys-1843385

    ​ A COVID-19 vaccine reckoning is coming for the DOJ over federal mandates​ N.Y. Post
    ​ The Justice Department has just posted a new jobs ad — it’s looking for eight new attorneys to defend the federal government in vaccine injury cases.
    Presumably, the hiring spree is in anticipation of a surge of COVID vaccine lawsuits, as people who were forced by government mandates to take the jab, and suffered serious side effects as a result, try to extract compensation from a system that is stacked against them.
    https://nypost.com/2023/11/12/opinion/a-covid-19-vaccine-reckoning-is-coming-for-the-doj-over-federal-gov-mandates/

    ​Meryl Nass MD , Better organized New World Dis-Order chart
    better
    https://localresistance.org/merylChart.pdf

    November 16, 2023 at 9:07 pm #146810
    kultsommer
    Participant

    Jb – from yesterday
    Profits at any cost for a few private hands, jb. Profits at any cost for a few private hands.
    As for DR D
    I am wrapping up a huge project so can not answer at the moment and clarify/define an enigma called kutsommer.

    November 16, 2023 at 9:30 pm #146811
    Rototillerman
    Participant

    @DrD: love your stuff, but I have to correct you regarding Toyota’s decision to switch all Camry production to hybrids. Full disclosure: I bought a 2018 Camry hybrid new in, well, 2018. The price difference was not 5X, it was not even 2X… it was about a $2.5k difference on a $26k car (now a $28.8k car in 2024). So a little less than 10%. To me the astounding fact is that ANYBODY buys the standard gas version. The hybrid’s gas mileage is 36% higher, even on the highway (53 vs 39mpg); in the city it is 82% higher (51 vs 29 mpg). My almost-six-year-old Camry hybrid routinely hits 60 mpg over a tank cycle in the summer.

    Yes, a hybrid is more complex. No, I didn’t buy it to save the planet. At 10k driving miles per year I’m saving 120 gallons of fuel per year, easily $500 at $4+ gas (thanks, Joe Biden!). I would guess that I will have saved that $2.5k already, even allowing for Trump’s lower gas prices. I think Toyota is making the logical decision to consolidate into a single drivetrain, a single bill of material, and a single assembly workflow.

    Your point about the EPA acting as a version of Central Planning still stands, however.

    November 16, 2023 at 9:32 pm #146812
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Thank you. It’s a big topic and a big ask.

    Note our Capitalism has a decided LACK of profits at any cost. Aside from the constant and certain bailouts, we’ve been discussing all year about how not a single company that does anything has a stock price. While every company that loses money, Tesla, Meta, WeWork etc, was making multiples, some for decades. Some of that has reversed, but it’s still every top stock in the index: they do nothing practical at all and most have no profits at all.

    And that’s aside from Disney, Netflix who torch billions as a double down on the LAST billions. Right now Facebook subscribed me (don’t ask) to a pro-gay site. What? I subscribed to zero sites as policy. …Nope! THEY subscribed me, and I cannot BE unsubscribed. You’re GOING to eat these bugs, and you’re GOING to like it. Infuriating. So…now all my friends think this is the think I like the bestest of all ever, my one and only interest, my true love, since it’s my only subscription. Good thing I don’t actually care that much, but THAT is the level of the antagonizing of customers. When people drop and boycott them en masse, don’t care. Why? Money means nothing. Profits mean nothing. They’ll go to a bank who will print the money FOR them. Like Hunter, a 0% loan with no terms, never paid back.

    Wot a crock.

    November 16, 2023 at 9:34 pm #146813
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Rototiller: that’s awesome. I wonder on the battery cycles and life. We were all amazed at getting 50 on diesels and now they’re 20% over that.

    November 16, 2023 at 10:49 pm #146814
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Walmart Locks Up Their Jeans

    I guess too many were just walking off.

    Pretty soon you won’t be able to go into the stores.

    Pick up or delivery only.

    Which is probably what they want.

    Brick and mortar stores are expensive.

    A pure online model is probably the future we are moving towards.

    Total Surveillance

    .

    November 16, 2023 at 10:59 pm #146815
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Once they move everything online, then the fun will begin.

    Digital id to use the Internet, social credit score to spend and buy online.

    Gen z (The Worst Tard Snowflake Generation Ever=TWTSGE) is already primed to buy online stuff and eat only delivered food.

    Locked n’ Loaded

    .

    .

    November 16, 2023 at 11:01 pm #146816
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    November 16, 2023 at 11:04 pm #146817
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Loose Lips Sink Ships

    .

    November 16, 2023 at 11:25 pm #146818
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Ukronazis Send Their Women to the Met Grinder

    Nazilensky wasn’t satisfied with exterminating the male population,

    now he’s sending girls to slaughter too.

    Before and shortly after

    the First Women Are Finally Seen on the Front…Russian Forces Storm Trench, find it’s all women

    November 16, 2023 at 11:27 pm #146819
    Celticbiker
    Participant

    Liars, theives and murderers, the happy merchant mask is off. Take a good look at what you see.

    November 17, 2023 at 12:00 am #146820
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    D says he doesn’t understand and then goes on to explain it: “I’m not being mean or sarcastic when I say I don’t understand Kultsummer’s position at all. It is probably a language and culture difference”

    “Covering up is also an illegal order” sayeth Dr D but that is exactly The Talent rewarded by the system particularly when this skill is coupled with guile, propensity and willingness to deflect the blame onto a 3rd party, the designated scapegoat.
    In my example from yesterday, those two Jew surgeons and the Jew colleague author took full credit for “fixing” the disaster (if you open that journal article you’ll see a genuine medical malpractice disaster for that patient and his family). Those three “cover-uppers” despite being contacted never arrived amidst the crisis, a crisis dumped on a 4th party not party to the first part. The 4th party surgeon at the time of The Dump was engaged in 2 compatable crises simultaneously at a 3rd medical center:
    A. Fellow employee with mental status changes and vision loss from undiagnosed and widely metastatic breast or lung cancer to the eyes (choroid) and brain.
    B. 59yo Asian American female status post cataract surgery (by a 5th party not party to the first part) gone awry and evidence of permanent vision from the same.
    How would you humans “cut short” the care, counseling and treatment for those last 2 patients with bilateral retrobulbar hemorrhages staring your career in the eyes?

    Deflection, scapegoating and cover-up ARE the coins of the realm

    None of those 4 ophthalmologists, 3 authors and one unskilled cataract surgeon, lost their jobs, ad their reputations maligned or ever enjoyed complaints against their professional practice.

    Cover-up and acquiring credit dishonestly

    November 17, 2023 at 12:05 am #146821
    ₿oogaloo
    Participant

    I did not think Blinken was intelligent enough to realize that the dictator comment was a gaffe.

    November 17, 2023 at 1:33 am #146822
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Dr. Michael Palmer MD was a biochemistry professor at
    University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada,

    one of the universities that I went to

    and his thinking reflected mine with covid

    CV19 mRNA Vaccines Were Meant to Harm & Kill People – Dr. Michael Palmer

    November 17, 2023 at 2:01 am #146823
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    ”
    Renowned radio host, filmmaker, book author and archeological dig expert Steve Quayle says just about every aspect of American life is under attack by Deep State demonic globalists who want to “take down America.” Let’s start with the U.S. banking system that is teetering on insolvency and locked in a growing liquidity crisis. Quayle explains, “This is a watershed moment in the world today. In the world of financial happenings and events, we are watching the takedown, breakdown and total onslaught by multiple nations, namely the BRICs nations with total abandonment of the U.S. dollar. World War III is underway. . . . It’s happening before our eyes, and the mainstream media, which is an accessory to genocide, do not report anything accurately. . . . For the first time in the history of federal banking, the ACH (automated clearing house) problem happened . . . multiple millions of people, from my sources, were waiting to get paid their paychecks. For the first time in history, you know what the Fed said to the banks? ‘It’s your problem. You deal with it.’ I believe the Fed is in survival mode. It’s treading water. There is simply no more money to back up the big 5 or the big 12 banks. We are seeing a focused liquidity crisis in the United States of America. Our T-Bonds, T-Bills and T-Notes are selling at horrific discounts. What people need to understand is banks of all sizes park their excess capital or their client’s funds in T-Bonds, Bills and Notes . . . and when the value goes down, that puts them into a position of financial jeopardy. . . . We are watching a breakdown, a takedown and a meltdown of the Federal Reserve Bank. . . . You need to get out of the big banks, and you need to get out of online banking because of cyberattacks and hacks . . .and the U.S. dollar is being vomited out by other nations.”

    Another huge ongoing attack is at the southern border. Quayle says, “I think what we are watching is the displacement of the American citizen and replacement by everyone else. You can’t deny this. The people orchestrating this are demon possessed, supernatural evil people, hellbent on destroying the United States from within.”

    Quayle says there is a covert move by Deep State globalists that are wanting to shut down alternative news and conservative websites. Quayle says, “They not only want to shut us down, but they want to shut us up. Remember, ladies and gentlemen, when they shut down free speech and shut down free thinkers and speakers, then the world you thought you lived in has come to an ultimate crash with reality.”

    Quayle says the coming war will see the need to “reinstate the draft” because Lucifer hates humanity and wants more to die. Look for a new techno feudalism to control society. Quayle also predicts a massive loss of jobs, and at some point, you will see a million jobs disappear in a single day because companies will have to cut costs quickly as the economy implodes. He also contends there will be a continued takedown of Donald Trump throughout 2024. The evil Deep State will continue to do anything and everything to stop Donald Trump from running for president again.

    In closing, Quayle says, “This is the reality of Biblical, End Times. . . . Resist evil . . . Never believe the lie ‘aliens made us.’ They did not make us. . . . and put your faith in Jesus Christ. He’s the real Savior of the world.”

    There is much more in the 1-hour and 13-minute interview.
    ”

    America Attacked on All Fronts, WWIII Underway – Steve Quayle

    November 17, 2023 at 4:43 am #146824
    zerosum
    Participant

    I think that the MSM has been ordered not to keep showing/repeating the news from Gaza.
    BTW is Ukraine still winning against Russia. /s

    The cease fire demonstrations are demonstration on bridges in different cities.

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