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 November 21, 2023  Posted by at 9:33 am Finance Tagged with: , , , , , , , ,


Walter Langley Never morning wore to evening but some heart did break 1894

 

Israel’s War on Hospitals (Chris Hedges)
The Campaign for the Destruction of the West Has Succeeded (Paul Craig Roberts)
US May Want ‘Wider War’ in Middle East to ‘Take Out Iran’ (Sp.)
US Embarks On Proxy War Against Iran (Bhadrakumar)
‘Russia Should Be More Active In Palestine Peace Efforts:’ Iranian FM (Cradle)
Sexism Thwarted Prevention Of Hamas Attack – Haaretz (RT)
Ukraine ‘Concerned’ About Western Push For Russia Talks – Security Chief (RT)
US Media Acknowledges True Situation in Ukraine Special Op Zone (Sp.)
Why Murdoch Rushed to Meet Zelensky in Kiev (Sp.)
US Offers ‘Sedative Pill’ To Collapsing Ukraine – Moscow (RT)
US Financial Death Spiral – John Rubino (USAW)
Biden Donors, Advisers Struggling Over How to Address President’s Age (Sp.)
McCarthy: GOP ‘Even Closer’ to Biden Impeachment (Sp.)
The Blob and Its Mobs (Kunstler)
As Elon Promised, X Files Suit Against Media Matters (ZH)

 

 


Mr. Fish

 

 

Nap/Crooke

 

 

All made up – Larry Johnson

 

 

Nap/Ritter: Nukes

 

 

Ritter: Israel will not exist

 

 

Macgregor – Ukraine is defeated | A disaster for Israel

 

 

 

 

“It speaks of Palestinians as a dehumanized mass. There are no mothers, fathers, children, teachers, doctors, lawyers, cooks, poets, taxi drivers or shopkeepers. Palestinians, in the Israeli lexicon, are a single contagion that must be eradicated.”

Israel’s War on Hospitals (Chris Hedges)

Israel is not attacking hospitals in Gaza because they are “Hamas command centers.” Israel is systematically and deliberately destroying Gaza’s medical infrastructure as part of a scorched earth campaign to make Gaza uninhabitable and escalate a humanitarian crisis. It intends to force 2.3 million Palestinians over the border into Egypt where they will never return. Israel has destroyed and nearly emptied the Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. The Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahia is next. Israel is deploying tanks and armored personnel carriers around the hospital and has fired rounds into the building, killing twelve people. The playbook is familiar. Flyers are dropped by Israel over a hospital telling people to leave because the hospital is a base for “Hamas terrorist activities.”

Tanks and artillery shells rip away parts of the hospital walls. Ambulances are blown up by Israeli missiles. Power and water is cut. Medical supplies are blocked. There are no painkillers, antibiotics and oxygen. The most vulnerable, premature babies in incubators and the gravely ill, die. Israeli soldiers raid the hospital and force everyone out at gunpoint. This is what happened at Al Shifa hospital. This is what happened at Al Rantisi Children’s Hospital. This is what happened at Gaza’s main psychiatric hospital. This is what happened at Nasser Hospital. This is what happened at the other hospitals that Israel has destroyed. And this is what will happen at the few hospitals that remain. Israel has shut down 21 of Gaza’s 35 hospitals, including Gaza’s only cancer hospital. The hospitals still operating have severe shortages of basic medicine and supplies. One by one the hospitals are being picked off. Soon there will be no health facilities left. This is by design.

Tens of thousands of terrified Palestinians, forced to evacuate by Israel, their homes blasted into rubble, seek refuge from the relentless bombing by camping out in and around Gaza’s hospitals. They hope the medical centers will not be targeted by Israel. If Israel abided by the Geneva Conventions they would be correct. But Israel is not carrying out a war. It is carrying out a genocide. And in a genocide, a population, and all that sustains a population, is obliterated. In an ominous sign that Israel will turn on the Palestinians in the West Bank once it is done flattening Gaza, armored vehicles have surrounded at least four West Bank hospitals. The Ibn Sina Hospital has been raided by Israeli soldiers along with the East Jerusalem Hospital.

Israel’s settler colonial state was founded on lies. It is sustained by lies. And now, when it is grimly determined to carry out the worst slaughter and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians since the 1948 Nakba, or “catastrophe,” that saw 750,000 Palestinians ethnically cleansed and some 50 massacres by Jewish militias, it spits out one grotesque absurdity after another. It speaks of Palestinians as a dehumanized mass. There are no mothers, fathers, children, teachers, doctors, lawyers, cooks, poets, taxi drivers or shopkeepers. Palestinians, in the Israeli lexicon, are a single contagion that must be eradicated.

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“Christian” Evangelical ministers claim that with genocide of the Palestinians, Israel is only taking what God gave them..”

The Campaign for the Destruction of the West Has Succeeded (Paul Craig Roberts)

Over the course of my life I have watched the American people, indeed, the peoples of the West, abandon civilization and civilized behavior. Today nothing is important throughout the Western World except money. Even people with money don’t care what they look like. People dress like slobs. They behave worse. Four-letter words are common parlance in conversations between men and women. There is no longer such a thing as “polite society.” Feminism taught women to throw away chastity and to be promiscuous, and with chastity went female modesty. When I walk on the beach, females from young girls to grandmothers are sporting the stripper’s G-String, Their entire buttocks are displayed. The tiny patch in front gets smaller and smaller. Not long ago I saw a young women without a top. She had two strips of tape across her nipples.

It wasn’t that long ago that feminists were claiming the men had turned women into sex objects. What nonsense. What man wants his 14,15,16, 17, 18 year old daughter or his wife displaying their nakedness to the public? Not long ago there was a news report that a young woman had offered her virginity for sale on the Internet. I have been trying to imagine what my mother and my aunts’ reaction would have been to such a report. It is now common for attractive young women in naked provocative poses to advertise online: “I am selling my pussy.” Is this a prostitute soliciting customers? What has become of women? How did American girls get turned into harlots?

Wherever you look, all standards have come down. It wasn’t that long ago that American women would not appear in pubic or in a department store without being in a suit or a dress with stockings and high heels. Now you can’t tell by looking the rich from the poor. Sin spreads like contagion when sexual perversion is normalized and when the accumulation of money is the social goal, no matter how it is acquired. The result is that the social resistance to sin and depravity weakens. Today the governments of the Western World cheer on Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians. “Christian” Evangelical ministers claim that with genocide of the Palestinians, Israel is only taking what God gave them. The fact that God dispelled the Jews for their wickedness is left out of the discussion.

This is so sick that it shows that Christianity is no longer a force for moral, humane behavior. If Israel can exterminate Palestine, anything goes. For decades the main function of education in the West has been to demonize the West and to present the West as an exploiter of the non-white world. This long-established campaign against the West was intended to destroy the West, not to reform it. The gentile agnostic liberals and the Zionists led the campaign to discredit and undermine the West. The campaign for the destruction of Western Civilization has succeeded. Will the neoconservative delusion that Washington is independent of reality and can purchase US hegemony while showing itself to the world as the enabler of Palestine genocide come crashing down?

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“..control of the full extent of territory ruled by the Biblical Israelites, which would include portions of modern-day Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia..”

US May Want ‘Wider War’ in Middle East to ‘Take Out Iran’ (Sp.)

The United States may be hoping for a broader conflict to break out amidst Israel’s military campaign in Gaza in order to damage Iran and other foes, according to author Jeremy Kuzmarov.The claim was made on Sputnik’s Political Misfits on Monday as Kuzmarov discussed the geopolitical situation in the Middle East with hosts John Kiriakou and Michelle Witte.“The leadership in the United States and Israel are hardline neoconservatives,” said Kuzmarov, who also serves as the managing editor of CovertAction Magazine.“I think they have their own desires in the Middle East,” he added. “They may want to draw in other countries and have a wider war so they can finally take out Iran.”While Kuzmarov suggested US President Joe Biden may be slightly less hawkish than politicians such as former US Vice President Dick Cheney, he insisted the US commander-in-chief should still be considered a “neoconservative,” a political movement traditionally associated with an interventionist foreign policy.

Kuzmarov said the Israeli government also favors an aggressive military stance in the region. “Israel wants to control southern Lebanon,” he said. “I think they have plans for ‘greater Israel,’” the military analyst added, referring to the belief by some in the country that Israeli land should extend into Gaza and the West Bank. Some Israelis use the term to advocate for control of the full extent of territory ruled by the Biblical Israelites, which would include portions of modern-day Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia. Israel currently occupies a portion of Western Syria known as the Golan Heights and frequently engages in bombing campaigns in the country. The Middle Eastern nation has been involved in periodic wars with its neighbors since its founding in 1948.“I think they [Israel] feel emboldened that the US is behind them and they can go forward with their plan until the Palestinians are crushed,” said Kuzmarov.

“I think they’re excited, this is their moment they’ve been waiting for for years, to crush the Palestinians and take over everything. And that’s what they’ve always wanted, certainly the Likud Party.” “They have plans for how they can transform the whole area economically,” Kuzmarov added. “And I think they’re pursuing those goals.” Biden also spoke of “a better future for the Middle East” during his recent Oval Office address, referring to a US-led plan to build a rail corridor through the region. Some analysts have suggested Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would like to formally annex Gaza in order to ensure control over natural gas discovered off the coast of the disputed territory, which would be transported via a new pipeline. Access to the deposits would increase exports to the United States and other allies, where energy costs have soared due to sanctions on Russia and Venezuela.

“The Iranians in my view have played this whole thing over the last six weeks perfectly,” said Kiriakou, noting the country’s restraint after the Israeli prime minister called for an attack on their historic foe in the hours after Hamas’ October 7 operation. Kiriakou also praised China’s attempts to broker a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, claiming the Asian superpower is “serious about being the peacemakers in the Middle East.” “The likes of Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan appreciate that, with the US… not seen as an honest broker in the region,” he added. Kuzmarov agreed that China is “starting to build its stature in the world arena” by attempting to navigate tensions between world powers, such as when they negotiated an historic agreement between Iran and Saudi Arabia earlier this year.

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“The hardline opinion in the US is that the militant groups attacking the US forces are acting at Iran’s behest. This allegation is an old US-Israeli bogey..”

US Embarks On Proxy War Against Iran (Bhadrakumar)

A massive US naval deployment in a wide arc of the so-called Greater Middle East is under way — stretching from Crete in the Eastern Mediterranean, into the Red Sea and the Bab el Mandeb and into the Gulf of Aden and all the way into the Gulf of Oman. This deterrent display may transform as large scale offensive operations and aims to rework the geopolitical alignments and bring them back to the traditional grooves of intra-regional rivalries in the Gulf region. Ship spotters first said that as of Thursday, the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and its escorts were sailing just outside the Strait of Hormuz in the Gulf of Oman, and were approaching the Persian Gulf. A Pentagon official confirmed the location but would not say whether the carrier will enter the Persian Gulf passing through the Strait of Hormuz.

The US naval build-up in the region consists of another carrier strike group as well — USS Ford and its escorts — which last week moved away from Israeli coast and is now re-positioned to the south of Crete, according to ship spotters, apparently beyond the missile reach of Lebanon’s Hezbollah. Apart from the two carrier strike groups, the US deployment also includes a three-ship Bataan Amphibious Ready Group with the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit and several guided-missile destroyers — USS Bataan and USS Carter Hall operating in the northern portion of the Red Sea, and USS Mesa Verde in the Eastern Mediterranean along with the command ship USS Mount Whitney. Additionally, there are some number of US attack submarines in the region, but the Pentagon does not typically disclose their locations — except for a rare disclosure recently by the US Central Command of the transit on November 5 of nuclear guided-missile submarine USS Florida to the east of Suez.

The most obvious explanation for such a formidable naval buildup is that it is part of the US effort to keep the current conflict in southern Israel and Gaza contained. Hezbollah continues to fire rockets and anti-tank missiles into Israel from Lebanon; Iran-backed Shia militant groups are attacking US bases in Iraq and Syria; and Houthi rebels in Yemen are firing missiles towards Israel. During the period since October 17, there have been at least 58 attacks on US bases, mostly in Iraq. The hardline opinion in the US is that the militant groups attacking the US forces are acting at Iran’s behest. This allegation is an old US-Israeli bogey and keeps surging whenever Iran is in the crosshairs and/or there is requirement of a blame game. Expert opinion, including in the US, has always been wary of it.

Longtime observers estimate that while Tehran is openly helping the various resistance groups operating in the Middle East to push back the US and Israel, that does not exactly make these groups “Iranian proxies”. Thus, it transpired that Iran was taken by surprise by the Hamas attack against Israel on October 7. According to Reuters, at a recent meeting in Tehran with Ismail Haniyeh, the chairman of the group’s political bureau, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei brought this up. At any rate, it is a known fact that the US establishment is well aware of the ground realities of its state of play with Iran and has not hesitated to use back channels to lean on Tehran to use its good offices with the Shia militant groups operating in Iraq to exercise restraint. But the bottom line is that Iran too has its limitations in such extraordinary times such as today when hatred and anger towards the US and Israel has risen to a crescendo in the Muslim countries.

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“..due to the approach adopted by the US and Israel in the region, if the crimes against the people of Gaza and the West Bank are not stopped, any possibility could be considered, and a wider conflict could prove inevitable.”

‘Russia Should Be More Active In Palestine Peace Efforts:’ Iranian FM (Cradle)

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian held a phone call with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, on 19 November to discuss regional developments and attempts to end the war in Gaza. Amir-Abdollahian stressed that significant efforts are needed to stop the violent displacement and killing of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank and voiced his wish for Moscow to play a more active role in trying to bring an end to Israel’s ethnic cleansing campaign. “Resistance will determine the final outcome,” Amir-Abollahian noted. The two foreign ministers also spoke about the US role in the war, saying that Washington was planning on extending theviolence rather than taking action to bring it to an end.

“The [US] claims to be seeking an end to the war, but in practice, it escalates the intensity and spreads the sphere of the [US]-Zionist war,” Amir-Abdollahian said. For his part, Lavrov expressed that he was disappointed with Israel’s refusal to stop the attacks on Gaza and made note of the need to continue discussions set to put an end to the war and free captives. “The schedule of upcoming contacts and a number of other topical issues on the bilateral and international agenda of mutual interest were also touched upon,” the Russian foreign ministry media brief said, noting that the Iranian side that initiated the call. The two nations have been prominent in their attempts to bring the war between Palestinian factions and Israel to an end.

Amir-Abdollahian previously revealed that Iran has been holding back-channel communications with the US to bring peace to the region. “We said that Iran does not want the war to spread,” Amir-Abdollahian said in an interview with the Financial Times on 16 November. “But due to the approach adopted by the US and Israel in the region, if the crimes against the people of Gaza and the West Bank are not stopped, any possibility could be considered, and a wider conflict could prove inevitable.” On 15 November, Lavrov said Russia told Israel: “You cannot buy security, which we are convinced you need, by delaying the creation [of a] Palestinian state, and by [criminally] reducing the territory which was designed for the Palestinian state by the United Nations.”

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“..female surveillance troops said months before the incursion that something unusual was about to happen..”

Sexism Thwarted Prevention Of Hamas Attack – Haaretz (RT)

The deadly Hamas attack on Israel could have been prevented if an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) unit made up of women and tasked with monitoring Gaza had been listened to, an unnamed soldier told the newspaper Haaretz, citing sexism as the reason for the lack of attention paid to their reports. In an article published on Friday, the women, speaking on condition of anonymity, said they had repeatedly reported recent activity by the Palestinian militant group. According to the outlet, female surveillance troops said months before the incursion that something unusual was about to happen. They reportedly saw militants briefing near the border fence, training to hit tanks and disable cameras, and increased drone activity in the area.

“It’s a unit made up entirely of young girls and young female commanders,” one interviewed soldier told the outlet. “There is no doubt that if there were men sitting at those screens, things would look different.” The women said that on the day of the Hamas raid, “no one told us there was such a high level of vigilance,” referring to claims by senior security officials that they had warned of possible infiltration into border communities. According to one soldier, three or even two hours would have allowed them to prepare. “The IDF left us like sitting ducks” she said, noting that combat troops “at least had weapons and were killed like heroes” while the female observers “were abandoned by the army and simply slaughtered without having any chance to defend themselves.”

In late October, the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu posted on X (formerly Twitter) that he had been warned of Hamas’ intentions “under no circumstances and at no stage.” He apologized and deleted the statement shortly after a wave of criticism from Israeli officials and politicians. The New York Times has reported that both Netanyahu and top Israeli security officials underestimated the threat from Hamas and did not devote the resources necessary to counter it, in the belief that Iran and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah posed a greater danger. Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, killing some 1,200 and taking about 240 people hostage, according to Israeli officials. In response, Netanyahu declared the country to be at war, and the IDF launched massive air strikes and a ground operation in Gaza. Palestinian officials say the death toll on their side has exceed 13,000, with most casualties being children and women.

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“..Ukraine needs more Western funding and support to restore its 1991 borders and become an economic powerhouse once more..”

Ukraine ‘Concerned’ About Western Push For Russia Talks – Security Chief (RT)

The government in Kiev is worried that its Western backers are calling for peace out of an irrational fear of Russia, Aleksey Danilov, the head of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, said on Monday. Danilov spoke via video link to the annual conference of the Halifax International Security Forum, a Washington, DC-based NGO funded in part by the Canadian government. “Ukraine is concerned by the fact that discussions among certain partners have intensified regarding the need for negotiations, consultations, meetings with the Russians to discuss the issues of the war in Ukraine, a ceasefire, etc,” Danilov said, according to a transcript posted by his office. He attributed this to a “rudimentary fear” of Russia and argued that the West should follow Ukraine’s example instead, as Moscow “only understands the language of force.”

According to Danilov, the current conflict is “a struggle between democracy and tyranny,” with the West and Ukraine on one side, and Russia, China, Iran and North Korea on the other. If Russia is not defeated, the world should expect a new “axis of evil” within 15-20 years that would include “some European countries” as well, he insisted. “Ukraine and the Ukrainian people will fight to the end. We are sure of our victory.” President Vladimir Zelensky’s top security official described Ukraine’s ideal of victory as “controlled decomposition of Russia into several parts” leading not just to “regime change” in Moscow but the “de-sovereignization… denuclearization and demilitarization” of the neighboring country. Meanwhile, he said, Ukraine needs more Western funding and support to restore its 1991 borders and become an economic powerhouse once more.

“Ukraine has every chance to become a strategic project of the West, which will demonstrate the full power of the vitality of democracy and the defense of universal values,” Danilov insisted. “The West must confirm that it is and remains the First, and a victorious Ukraine will serve as a convincing narrative in the modern confrontation between slavery and freedom!” Earlier on Monday, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin arrived in Kiev to offer moral support for Ukraine, but had no new military assistance to announce. Meanwhile, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told the outlet CNBC that Ukraine is “utterly dependent” on US funding to keep paying the salaries of government workers, calling the continued funding of Kiev a “critical priority” for US national security. Washington has blown through most of the congressionally approved funding for Ukraine and the White House has been trying to pressure Congress to pass more, so far with no effect.

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“..the Kiev regime is drafting people over 40 years old, as the Ukrainian youth has already been “successfully” sacrificed for the NATO interests..”

US Media Acknowledges True Situation in Ukraine Special Op Zone (Sp.)

Russia will liberate about 20 percent of the current Ukrainian territory, approaching Kiev, Peter Van Buren, editor at The American Conservative, wrote on Monday. More and more Western media outlets have acknowledged the true situation on the ground in the special operation zone, realizing the scale of Western propaganda, which has managed to cover it up for almost two years. “Amidst a flood of propaganda, the story was always the same: Ukraine was pushing back the Russians with weapons provided by a broad range of agreeable NATO benefactors. Between Ukrainian jet fighter aces with improbable kill ratios to patriotic female sniper teams with improbable hair and makeup, Russia was losing,” the journalist clarifies. It is all the more surprising to see common sense coming from an article in a US media outlet which points out that the conflict itself could have been avoided had it not been for US meddling.

Van Buren cites former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, who outright stated the simple fact that: “The only people who could resolve the war over Ukraine are the Americans. During the peace talks in March 2022 in Istanbul, Ukrainians did not agree to peace because they were not allowed to. They had to coordinate everything they talked about with the Americans first. However, nothing eventually happened. My impression is that nothing could happen because everything was decided in Washington.” Now, after almost two years of bragging about the constant supply of “almighty” Western weapons to Ukraine, it is becoming a new trend among US and European journalists to talk about a stalemate in the conflict and peace negotiations. It took only about two months for the NBC News to come from “Ukrainian counteroffensive is making ‘tangible progress’ against Russia, Blinken tells NBC News,” to “U.S., European officials broach topic of peace negotiations with Ukraine, sources say,” underscoring a significant change in public opinion on the crisis.

At the same time, the situation in Ukraine is getting worse, regardless of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s dreams. Time reports that the Kiev regime is drafting people over 40 years old, as the Ukrainian youth has already been “successfully” sacrificed for the NATO interests. Van Buren emphasizes the “manpower gap” as the main issue hindering Ukrainian success. The editor is both surprised that the Russian military has been destroying the “all-powerful” NATO equipment and unwilling to believe it, putting it down to the poor training of the Ukrainian soldiers. “It didn’t hurt that Russia’s capability versus NATO equipment was surprisingly good, or perhaps the Ukrainians’ handling of sophisticated Western arms was surprisingly bad,” the article says. Unfortunately for the US government, as the Palestine-Israel conflict rages on, Americans have been losing interest in the Ukraine crisis, which has become “boring,” Van Buren argues.

Americans like simple pictures: the good guy vs the bad guy, just like in a comic book. The events should take place far away, as usual for the US, just so there is no danger for the spectator; however, footage should be top-notch, and the map should be easy to follow, as simple as possible, just like in American football, the article clarifies. “Americans, both the people and their government, distracted by the greatest propaganda tools ever imagined (the media), seem capable of focusing on only one bright shiny object at a time. In the case of wars, a new bright shiny object must include two clear sides, one good and one pure evil, with one preferably an underdog, daily combat footage which can be obtained without too much danger, and a football game-like progression across a map that is easy to follow. It should not be boring,” the newspaper clarified.

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“..the media he now owns remains the most powerful source of information for Republicans,” a majority of whom have recently become highly skeptical on continuing to fund the Ukrainian military..”

Why Murdoch Rushed to Meet Zelensky in Kiev (Sp.)

Lachlan Murdoch, who took the reins of Fox Corp. and News Corp. last week, met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kiev over the weekend. So what exactly prompted this trip? Lachlan, 52, is the eldest son of now-retired Rupert Murdoch, an Australian-born American media mogul, who announced his retirement in September. Last week, Lachlan Murdoch officially became the sole chair of News Corp and the executive chair and chief executive of Fox. Remarkably, the first foreign leader the new head of the media empire hastened to meet was none other than Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. According to Axios, Lachlan Murdoch traveled to the Ukrainian capital over the weekend, accompanied by two reporters – Benjamin Hall from Fox News and Jerome Starkey from the Sun.

Hall conducted an interview with Zelensky that is expected to be aired on Tuesday night’s episode of “Special Report with Bret Baier,” according to the media outlet. The report suggested that Lachlan Murdoch’s visit with Zelensky is of importance given that the media he now owns remains “the most powerful source of information for Republicans,” a majority of whom have recently become highly skeptical on continuing to fund the Ukrainian military. Indeed, a new survey by Gallup has indicated that 62% of Republicans believe that the US is “doing too much” to help Kiev, a surge from 50% in June. Likewise, the Ukraine aid issue is losing GOP support in the US Congress.

The trend is apparently driven by Ukraine fatigue, Kiev’s failure to succeed in its counteroffensive attempt, and, most notably, Israel’s war against Hamas, declared by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the wake of the Islamist surprise attack on October 7. Zelensky mentioned his meeting with Lachlan Murdoch in a Facebook* post on Monday, while the newly appointed media chairman declined to comment on his Kiev tour via his spokesperson, as per Axios. Meanwhile, it is known that Lachlan used to talk to Zelensky previously. According to the US mainstream press, media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his son reportedly held a telephone conversation with the Ukrainian president in March, weeks before they ousted Tucker Carlson, the American political commentator and writer who hosted the eponymous nightly talk show “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Fox from 2016 to 2023.

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“The situation on the front and in the Ukrainian state institutions is on the verge of complete collapse..”

US Offers ‘Sedative Pill’ To Collapsing Ukraine – Moscow (RT)

Washington has announced yet another military aid package for Ukraine worth some $100 million, after the Pentagon warned earlier this month that it was running critically low on funds allocated for Kiev and will be forced to begin reducing the tranches. The latest package, announced on Monday, will include one High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) with additional ammunition, as well as Stinger anti-aircraft missiles and an unknown number of 155mm and 105mm artillery rounds. On top of that, the US military will supply Kiev’s forces with cold weather gear, TOW missiles and small arms ammunition. US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin paid an unannounced visit to Kiev on Monday, during which he had held talks with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and once again promised “the United States’ steadfast support for Ukraine.”

Russian officials called Austin’s visit a “mission of moral support,” while Moscow’s ambassador to Washington Anatoly Antonov said that the newly-announced “deadly gift” is designed to convince Ukrainian offficials that “they are still in the game and masters count on them.”“The message about another American arms supply to the regime is nothing more but a sedative pill prepared by overseas ‘benefactors’ for Zelensky. The situation on the front and in the Ukrainian state institutions is on the verge of complete collapse,” Antonov noted.

Ukraine is completely reliant on US aid for the functioning of both its military and civil society, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen admitted on Monday, claiming that military aid to Ukraine was a “critical priority” for US national security. However, the Pentagon has already spent most of more than $60 billion allocated funding for Kiev, with only around $1 billion dollars left. “We have had to meter out our support for Ukraine,” Department of Defense deputy spokeswoman Sabrina Singh told reporters earlier this month, adding that, although the Pentagon will continue sending military aid packages, they are “getting smaller.” Both the Pentagon and the White House urged Congress to pass a new spending bill on Ukrainian aid so supplies can continue, but no such legislation has been adopted so far.

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“The debt goes up, the interest on the debt goes up and that raises the debt even further, and you just spiral out of control. We are there right now.”

US Financial Death Spiral – John Rubino (USAW)

Analyst and financial writer John Rubino has a new warning about being fooled into thinking the economy is improving because inflation and interest rates have fallen some recently. Rubino says, “If the U.S. government is running crisis level deficits, which it is right now, borrowing money and paying interest on it means we are in a financial death spiral. The debt goes up, the interest on the debt goes up and that raises the debt even further, and you just spiral out of control. We are there right now. The official U.S. debt is $33.5 trillion. It’s growing by $1.7 trillion a year, and $1 trillion of that is interest costs. Interest costs are rising as the overall debt goes up. Then throw in this incredibly reckless military spending in the guise of foreign aid, and you get a society that has completely lost control.

That’s where we are now. We are in the blowoff stage of a 70-year credit super-cycle. Those things do not end with a whimper, and they certainly do not end with a soft landing. They end with a bang, and the bang is going to be centered on the currency. People are going to look at this and say, ‘Do I really want to hold the currency or bonds of a country that is destroying its finances at this trajectory and this scale?’ The answer will be ‘No.’ At that point, it is game over for a deeply indebted economy. We are headed that way fast, and these wars are taking us that way even faster.” If the Fed keeps raising interest rates, the economy tanks, but you protect the dollar. If you cut interest rates, you spike inflation even more, and the U.S. dollar tanks.

Rubino says in the end, we get a “massive reset,” and the everything bubble explodes. Rubino says the dollar is going to decline and, at some point, it starts to go into freefall in terms of buying power. Rubino explains, “If a currency starts to decline in a disorderly way, then you have a massive financial crisis on your hands. That is definitely where Japan is right now. The U.S. is headed that way fast. So, once we reach that point, there is no fix. Then it is only a matter of time that everybody realizes that there is no fix, and they just bail on the whole experiment, and that’s where we are headed.” Rubino talks about plunging home prices, more trouble coming in the commercial real estate market and why you need gold and silver as core assets during a currency reset.

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“Literally everyone is talking about it, even amongst donors. But the response is always: ‘What are you going to do?’”

Biden Donors, Advisers Struggling Over How to Address President’s Age (Sp.)

Advisers to Joe Biden are reportedly considering a number of strategies to address concerns about the American president’s advanced age.“The one number in the polling that was concerning… had to do with age, and that is one thing you can’t reverse no matter how effective Joe Biden is behind the scenes,” said Democratic adviser David Axelrod, referring to polling showing the majority of Americans believe Biden is too old to serve another term as president.“In front of the camera, what he’s projecting is causing people concerns, and that is worrisome,” said Axelrod. Biden’s advisers have reportedly acknowledged the president sometimes appears frail in public appearances. They’ve responded to the issue by considering minimizing the distances the president walks on camera and having him wear more comfortable shoes.

Advisers are also attempting to prevent the president from climbing stairs when possible. Biden generated attention early in his term when he was filmed stumbling while ascending the stairs to Air Force One; the octogenarian president has slipped while walking up the steps to the presidential plane as recently as September. Biden also attracted attention last year when he fell from his bicycle while exercising in his home state of Delaware, turning an attempt to demonstrate the president’s physical fitness into another gaffe. While Biden allies admit he occasionally appears physically weak, they insist he’s still mentally capable of fulfilling responsibilities. But the president has been widely known for being gaffe-prone throughout his career. Some worry his propensity towards verbal flubs is only exacerbating worries over this age.

Donors are advising Biden’s team to “lean in” on the issue, portraying the president’s age as a source of wisdom and encouraging them to portray him as an affable “Grandpa Joe” in contrast to his likely rival, former US President Donald Trump. “I think the strategy is not to even address it, to consider questions like that stupid or silly,” said one anonymous donor who took issue with the campaign’s strategy thus far. “Literally everyone is talking about it, even amongst donors. But the response is always: ‘What are you going to do?’” One political operative worried the campaign has become defensive over the issue, claiming, “They bristle in ways that aren’t helpful.”

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“No one in America would have known that President Biden has lied, that they did receive money from China…that he did get involved in the business dealings..”

McCarthy: GOP ‘Even Closer’ to Biden Impeachment (Sp.)

Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy recently offered an update on Republicans’ impeachment inquiry against US President Joe Biden, revealing officials were inching ever close to a potential presidential ouster.“We have systematically followed every place the facts have taken us each and every day,” McCarthy said in a Sunday interview with US media. “And now it’s moved even closer because now we’ve got the subpoenas going in to get the bank statements.” McCarthy claimed a number of alleged revelations stemming from Republicans’ investigation. “No one in America would have known that President Biden has lied, that they did receive money from China…that he did get involved in the business dealings,” said McCarthy, referring to long-running claims of the US president’s involvement in his son Hunter Biden’s controversial business dealings in foreign countries.

Biden has denied the accusations, saying he lacked knowledge of his son’s business ventures – a claim seemingly contradicted by recent evidence. Hunter Biden is currently being tried on federal weapons charges.“We found all of this, the shell companies no one knew about prior,” added McCarthy. “This is important.” Biden has criticized House Republicans’ efforts, which in recent days led to the issuing of subpoenas to the president’s friends and family members. Special counsel Richard Sauber responded in a letter obtained Friday, calling the subpoenas “harassment to the president to score political points.”

“You appear so determined to impeach the president that you have misrepresented the facts, ignored the overwhelming evidence disproving your claims, and repeatedly shifted the rationale for your ‘inquiry,’” wrote Sauber to House Oversight Chair James Comer (R-KY) and House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH). Sauber claimed House Republicans’ efforts lack “constitutional legitimacy” because the inquiry was launched without a full vote of House members. Comer responded to the letter also claiming Republicans’ investigation “has unearthed new facts that contradict the White House’s and President Biden’s personal attorney’s narrative of the events.”

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“Perhaps they’ll be drawn to the church basements in town. That might be us next year.”

The Blob and Its Mobs (Kunstler)

Perhaps the anxious gloom pervading this year’s Thanksgiving is due to the dread of what comes next. No one in the public arena says that 2024 will be anything but much worse than what we’ve already lived through in this ongoing crackup of our country, and their expressed utterances are probably not as dark as their private, inner thoughts. The gang behind “Joe Biden” has successfully jacked our country into chaos. Something similar has got Europe and the rest of the Anglosphere in its thrall. Half of the public is grossly misinformed by The News, and swallows every proffered lie. The other half can’t get traction to storm this slippery slope of blob despotism.

So, the table is set. You have probably commenced the preparations for the ritual meal. We started with the cranberries last night, since the condiment has only two ingredients and would store well for four days. It came out badly. There was some rot in the berries that we couldn’t detect just by looking and sorting out some obviously bad ones. I hear a lot of chatter that the fresh food supply chain in America is broken. The bad link in the chain is apparently the trucking system. The truck lines can’t get enough workers to load the refrigerator trailers, so the fruits and vegetables spend too much time sitting on the loading dock, where they start to . . . turn. You have to wonder if this is a harbinger of greater disruptions to come, maybe widespread hunger, and you know what that leads to.

We’re going all out for the Thanksgiving feast here, a big fresh turkey, of course, and way more side-dishes than necessary for a dozen friends at the table. I live in a relatively poor county in deep upstate New York and I have to wonder how many people around here will go without a Thanksgiving feast this year, how many are suddenly mired in misfortune, default on a home mortgage, car sliding into the re-po zone, no job, no prospects, in despair, hungry. Perhaps they’ll be drawn to the church basements in town. That might be us next year.

Those of us outside the blob and their mobs know that our country has to be rebuilt somehow, and that rebuilding it must include assurances of personal liberty. I’m grateful and thankful this year that there are enough of us who understand what’s at stake and are prepared to fight against slithering tyranny. Do you see where things stand this Thanksgiving? It feels like the edge of something because it is the edge of something.

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Picked the wrong target.

As Elon Promised, X Files Suit Against Media Matters (ZH)

Early Saturday morning, Elon Musk posted that his social media platform X will be “filing a thermonuclear lawsuit” against left-leaning non-profit Media Matters and “all those who colluded” for “completely misrepresenting” the real user experience on X. Musk added that X would file the lawsuit on Monday, which prompted even more malarkey on X as the day wore on with so many pro-censorship leftists clinging to the hope that Musk was not going to follow-through, with one CNBC reporter going so far as claiming “Musk may have been lying, like he has done before.” Well, he wasn’t lying, and time’s up for the Media Matters manipulators… The lawsuit, just filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas Fort Worth Division, alleges the organization’s tactics were manipulative and deceptive. The suit claims:

Media Matters has opted for new tactics in its campaign to drive advertisers from X. Media Matters has manipulated the algorithms governing the user experience on X to bypass safeguards and create images of X’s largest advertisers’ paid posts adjacent to racist, incendiary content, leaving the false impression that these pairings are anything but what they actually are: manufactured, inorganic, and extraordinarily rare. Media Matters executed this plot in multiple steps, as X’s internal investigations have revealed. First, Media Matters accessed accounts that had been active for at least 30 days, bypassing X’s ad filter for new users. Media Matters then exclusively followed a small subset of users consisting entirely of accounts in one of two categories: those known to produce extreme, fringe content, and accounts owned by X’s big-name advertisers. The end result was a feed precision-designed by Media Matters for a single purpose: to produce side-by-side ad/content placements that it could screenshot in an effort to alienate advertisers.

But this activity still was not enough to create the pairings of advertisements and content that Media Matters aimed to produce. Media Matters therefore resorted to endlessly scrolling and refreshing its unrepresentative, hand-selected feed, generating between 13 and 15 times more advertisements per hour than viewed by the average X user repeating this inauthentic activity until it finally received pages containing the result it wanted: controversial content next to X’s largest advertisers’ paid posts. Media Matters omitted mentioning any of this in a report published on November 16, 2023 that displayed instances Media Matters “found” on X of advertisers’ paid posts featured next to Neo-Nazi and white-nationalist content. Nor did Media Matters otherwise provide any context regarding the forced, inauthentic nature and extraordinary rarity of these pairings.

However, relying on the specious narrative propagated by Media Matters, the advertisers targeted took these pairings to be anything but rare and inorganic, with all but one of the companies featured in the Media Matters piece withdrawing all ads from X, including Apple, Comcast, NBCUniversal, and IBM—some of X’s largest advertisers. Indeed, in pulling all advertising from X in response to this intentionally deceptive report, IBM called the pairings an “entirely unacceptable situation.” Only Oracle did not withdraw its ads. The truth bore no resemblance to Media Matters’ narrative. In fact, IBM’s, Comcast’s, and Oracle’s paid posts appeared alongside the fringe content cited by Media Matters for only one viewer (out of more than 500 million) on all of X: Media Matters. Not a single authentic user of the X platform saw IBM ’s, Comcast’s, or Oracle’s ads next to that content, which Media Matters achieved only through its manipulation of X’s algorithms as described above. And in Apple’s case, only two out of more than 500 million active users saw its ad appear alongside the fringe content cited in the article—at least one of which was Media Matters.

[..] Texas AG Ken Paxton has officially opened an investigation into Media Matters for potential fraudulent activity: “The Office of the Attorney General (“OAG”) is opening an investigation into Media Matters for potential fraudulent activity. Under the Texas Business Organizations Code and the Deceptive Trade Practices Act, the OAG will vigorously enforce against nonprofits who commit fraudulent acts in or affecting the state of Texas. Attorney General Paxton was extremely troubled by the allegations that Media Matters, a radical anti-free speech organization, fraudulently manipulated data on X.com (formerly known as Twitter). “We are examining the issue closely to ensure that the public has not been deceived by the schemes of radical left-wing organizations who would like nothing more than to limit freedom by reducing participation in the public square,” said Attorney General Paxton.

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    Walter Langley Never morning wore to evening but some heart did break 1894   • Israel’s War on Hospitals (Chris Hedges) • The Campaign for the De
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle November 21 2023]

    #147050
    Red
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    “Hell is Empty and the Devils are All Here”. William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, 1623

    Peter Koenig’s Contemporary Analysis of “The Tempest 2020-2030”

    From 5G to 6G
    We, the People, are in a race against the Globalists committed to Depopulation; control the survivors, exploit us, dehumanize us, and ultimately digitize us, so that we can be remotely controlled by 5G;

    And, now, just “launched” by China, 6G. See China launches ultra-high-speed next-generation Internet backbone – SHINE News.

    Nobody really knows, or at least has not publicly said what 6G is meant to do, what 5G cannot already do. Incidentally, has the health impact of 6G been studied? Maybe. But nobody divulges the results.

    This is how Qualcomm describes 5G:

    5th generation mobile network. It is a new global wireless standard after 1G, 2G, 3G, and 4G networks. 5G enables a new kind of network that is designed to connect virtually everyone and everything together including machines, objects, and devices. See this.

    Nobody has openly spoken about the health impact of 5G, though, that has been studied. Yet, the studies are not revealed to the public.

    Beyond George Orwell’s 1984
    There is “guessing”; and scientists who come forward with the truth depicting the impact caused on wildlife and humans by these ultra-microwaves, are most often labeled “conspiracy theorists.”

    This is the “shut-up” phrase for everything the mainstream, the Cabal, the Matrix, the Globalists do not want the public to know. We are way beyond George Orwell’s “1984.”

    The 6th Generation Mobile Network or 6G is about 100 times faster, more powerful, than 5G. It will be able to digitize everything.

    This is what RantCell has to say about 6G:

    Beyond Orwell’s 1984, 5G and the Launching of 6G: “Easy to Take Down a Society that Is Digital”. 
 UNCTAD Attempts Accomplishing this Doom Scenario

    #147051
    oxymoron
    Participant

    Mandelbrot fractals – you cannot control, create or contain infinity. This is my biggest fear.
    No control.
    Seriously – who want NO control?

    Paul Craig Roberts – I mean – I get it, but loosen up kinda…
    Might be an age thing but if we go where he is recommending then we are back to no swimming on beaches in Sydney for christs’ sake (illegal for 60 years on possibly the worlds most stunning beaches). The act of swimming was morally bankrupt to “Christian values/morals”, but the British said boo hoo when the Native Americans showed em how, competitively and whipped their arse so they just said ‘when you splash so much it is unseemly! so we will ban that style so we can win at what WE are good at’.
    Come on PCR a bit of skin is not killing anyone and any one not originally from Europe wore bugger all because it was hot – not because we had lost our soul on the way to hell.

    The West is largely made up of confused wage slaves and debt-serfs who just want some agency and if getting your socks blown and tattoos or a huge ‘online presence’ lifts the spirits, well – it might be misguided, but it works if only temporarily.

    #147052
    Dr. D
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    Ritter has lost his cool and is responding emotionally now. Israel might not exist, but more probably it will, but no one can foresee what’s going to happen right now. No surprise, but that’s no good to listen to. If I want to hear emotional screaching, I’ll turn into the Left, they had an official “Scream Day” this year. I see the world is much better since.

    “Palestinians, in the Israeli lexicon, are a single contagion that must be eradicated.”

    Yes, uniting all individuals into one, erasing all differences.

    “It intends to force 2.3 million Palestinians over the border into Egypt where they will never return.” Once suggested, it Seems very clear now. Many clear actions in this regard. At the least: Push from North to South, then from South to out of Israel, leaving Israel very nicely ethnically cleansed.

    “Israel is only taking what God gave them..” — Christian Right

    But also what God TOOK from them, for denying Christ then scattering them over Rome? Make up your mind.

    Sin spreads like contagion when sexual perversion is normalized and when the accumulation of money is the social goal,”

    Ah yes, but this ALWAYS happens from the corruption of the money. Always. So…you’re going to blame US for YOU poisoning the well? Clean up your own room. And why? Because work is no longer rewarded, and lack of work is rewarded: the criminal’s creed. Why else would they set it up? So THEY, the lazy non-productive can be punished? Heck no. But every stupid idea is funded, so every stupid person is rewarded, but randomly. Therefore every smart, hardworking person is punished, but randomly. The randomness drops the “Time preference” in economic terms, PCRs dress code just reflects ever-increasing short term-ism. I can get $50 today for a handjob, which people don’t do because it’s dangerous. But that’s LONG-term. Erase the long term and there is no morality. All morality (basically) is applying INTELLIGENCE to observations, where we forego hedonistic pleasure this hour to not have a hangover (or to be stabbed, strangled, OD, pregnant) LATER.

    The people doing this, know it and capitalize and profit on the social arc it creates. For the record I’m in favor of women being as naked as possible. Right? Now when I say that they’ll want to cover up.

    The United States may be hoping for a broader conflict to break out amidst Israel’s military campaign in Gaza in order to damage Iran and other foes,”

    Yes, but why not invade Saudi Arabia? MBS was NOT the man the CIA Derp State planned to install, as failing failures who fail, another nation got away from them, Saudi then dropped the US$ and heavily substantiated the BRIICS. “Cut off Israel’s oil”? Yeah, and then the U.S. would use its “Land based aircraft carrier” to invade and remove MBS, and reinstall, I-forget-who. Puppetman. Who was hanging in the basement of the Ritz like a puppet.

    AND Iran too, of course. AND Egypt or at least to “regime change” them too.

    So Hezbollah attack? Again, that’s what they WANT. At the very minimum don’t give them what they want. Russia and China constantly slowing the pace and using General Time to fight. As they didn’t react, Israel is in the spotlight, doing this all as the villain. Wide open on display to the world, along with U.S. Congress, Europe, and the UN.

    It’s tough to take, but I see this.

    “disclosure recently by the US Central Command of the transit on November 5 of nuclear guided-missile submarine USS Florida”

    Arrest I say. Weren’t they going to arrest Trump in Australia for saying much less than this about our subs?

    “There is no doubt that if there were men sitting at those screens, things would look different.”

    Hahahahaaha! I have ALL the doubts. I hear this constantly while men DO say the same things and are ignored the same. Astonishing female fantasy. Total lack of self-awareness. IF ONLY it were sexism, that would be less-bad than Nuts who ordered a 7-hour standdown INTENTIONALLY, getting a lot of those women kidnapped and killed. On purpose. …They’re better on camera, as ain’t nobody give a s—t if men die. It’s their JOB, their only purpose in life so shut up about the draft and the ever-declining life expectancy rate. If we women want to hear out of you, we’ll insult you until you talk.

    Anyway: NOT related to being women. Related to being TRAITORS.

    “..Ukraine needs more Western funding and support to restore its 1991 borders”

    Um…yes? In the sense that the Entire West must mobilize and have a Total War, WWIII of nuclear annihilation with Russia as the only possible way to restore the 1991 borders? On a crispy, crunchy, black earth? They need “Some support” the NeoCons say. …As McCain says we’re going to be there for 100 years, have 100 years’ war. THAT kind of “some support.”

    How about this: Ain’t Gonna Happen. You don’t have the balls, so shut your stupid-hole and quit embarrassing yourself.
    Russia is going to to ANYTHING they want, any TIME they want, for AS LONG as they want, and you’re not going to do anything about it. Because: You and Whose Army?

    …It does not make me happy to say that. I’m now living in a country even dumber than the 12-year-olds I grew up with. “Why you punching yourself?”

    “It didn’t hurt that Russia’s capability versus NATO equipment was surprisingly good, or perhaps the Ukrainians’ handling of sophisticated Western arms was surprisingly bad,”

    Ugh. RUSSIA wasn’t good: Ukraine was bad. Russia dogged down moving forward, not thrilled with the casualty rates of 21st c warfare. Dilemma SOLVED when Ukraine decides to take their whole army, all 20 million people, and MARCH THEM INTO A MINEFIELD, while Russians drink tea on base. Okay, I guess??? Please don’t, but I’ll let you??? Still doing it for 2 years solid? The Lemmings video from Disney was fake, but this is real???

    Then as said before, NATO arms STOP the Ukrainian military. They’re the greatest obstacle. And that’s ABOVE how NATO weapons are 30 years old and sucked even then. Patriots stopped nothing and were a scandal in Gulf War ONE. Nope: PR just brushed itself off and carried on.

    “Why Murdoch Rushed to Meet Zelensky in Kiev (Sp.)

    There’s a lot going on there. Is Fox News the main source for Republicans? Yes, embarrassingly, probably yes. Everyone up there is illiterate and 1,000 years old.

    “Family Makes Tough Decision To Put Aging Grandpa In US Senate” –BBee
    “Karine Jean-Pierre Claims Biden Is Youngest President Of All Time” –BBee

    However, no one is watching Fox News anymore. Following pretty close on no one watching CNN, MSDNC, Maddow, Colbert or Kimmel. No one watches TV at all unless you’re over 60. With Tucker gone, a huge section of viewers left with him, and Fox’s ratings now match CNN (not really) which were below reruns of Yogi Bear.

    He’s rushing to Ukraine? Okay, but why would the editor if the DesMoines Pennysaver in Ukraine be relevant to me? Fox has ceased to exist, and will slowly decline without end from now until their bankruptcy. Too bad it takes so long.

    “another military aid package for Ukraine worth some $100 million,”

    Oh, I’m sorry, I think you slipped a zero. THREE zeros. $100 FIFTY THOUSAND MILLION didn’t make a dent in Russia. But $100 Million will. Liberals: bad at math. I’m S-M-A-R-T, S.M.A.R.T. He gave me four nickels for my three dimes, And four is more than three!

    ““The debt goes up, the interest on the debt goes up and that raises the debt even further, and you just spiral out of control. We are there right now.”

    Yeah, except it never happens. The same was true in 2001 and Rubino said it then, as did I. Being wrong in timing is the same as being wrong. Sure it can happen. Will it?

    “A terrorist organisation is one that uses fear and intimidation to achieve their radical political objectives.”

    Um. That’s like “All governments”? Words have meanings. They have removed the meaning of “terrorism” after 2001 so they could apply it to “all things I’m mad at”. This means you. Stop your car in the street without hazard lights? Terrorism. Or is that not what he jut said about climate protests.

    Supporting the Constitution and rule of Law? …Don’t get me started. DEFINITELY terrorist. It’s the agents who do NOT believe in uniform law that are the legitimate government. People = Law, Government = No law. Simple!

    #147053
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Keeping up with random articles, https://www.wired.com/story/you-need-a-heat-pump-soon-youll-have-more-american-made-options Obviously being “Wired” it’s retarded, for the short bus kids, and sucks.

    Very standard non-political format though: “The US Department of Energy is … $169 million in federal funding for domestic heat pump manufacturing. Funded by the Inflation Reduction Act—the huge climate bill passed last year that also provides tax credits for heat pumps—the awards will go toward nine projects across 13 states, creating 1,700 jobs.”

    Okay, so the price of one jet as a bone to all Americans combined. Domestic manufacturing? Why? You’re against that like cancer in everything else. Oh, it’s to kill OUR natural gas and LNG and make it THEIR gas and sell it to Europe! So we’ll get nothing and like it. Above, they say “Instead of generating heat by burning natural gas, like a furnace…” And then acts as if Pumps don’t use any energy at all. They do: it’s ELECTRIC, which we have no plants, no transmission, on a grid already overwhelmed, which is asked right now to be crippled by electric cars. So gas = bad, but gas>electric (-20%) > transmitted to your house (-20%) then used in a heat pump (-10%) = good and efficient. Science!!!

    …Say all the reporters at Wired who failed math which is why they were hired.

    So this is a Biden Politboro Central Party Office 5-Year-Plan, which shows we have every active intent of extorting natural gas purchases out of Europe at 4x 10x cost ‘til they’re white and it’s not an accident. Moving on:

    $169M, a pittance, the size of a city’s highway budget, spread over 13 states. Why? Political payoffs and districts. This candy is then held up elsewhere to make sure the “Right” people are paid that $169M and not Cleetus who wants to move up out of that trailer. This is 1,700 jobs, which isn’t the size of a small town anymore. For instance Garrison Keillor had a contest not for talent, not for “Small town” talent, but for MICRO town talent, “TTT: Towns Below 2,000”. As liberals are bad at math, 1,700 is as close to “zero” in America as possible to be. 170,000 would barely turn the dial.

    …Spread out over 10 states. Less than 200 jobs per state. Like for instance in a real factory, there are 200 jobs per WING. Per SHIFT. Go on….

    “The president is using his wartime emergency powers under the Defense Production Act to turbocharge US manufacturing of heat pumps for a multitude of reasons,” says Ali Zaidi, assistant to the president and national climate adviser.”

    So in order to add a single additional factory SHIFT, Biden had to invoke a tyrannical wartime powers act? Couldn’t he just ask? Reduce taxes by 1%? That would have added 1,700,000 jobs nationwide instead. Wartime? I was unaware we were at war, sir, who are we at war WITH? Isn’t there usually a person? When did Congress authorize this war?

    What does Mr. Zaidi say? “And because heat pumps are electric, they aren’t subject to swings in fossil fuel prices.” Ah. A Liberal who failed math and science. Heat pumps use magic elven fairy dust to run, and not, you know, “fuel” like everything else in the universe uses. Being generous, Suppose he means to say “Nuclear”: ARE we opening non-fossil fuel nuclear plants anywhere? No. They are trying tooth and nail to PREVENT the very few (two I think, in the SE, so they can mock and hate southerners) newly commissioned nuclear plants and closing all the others. Which are now creakingly dangerous and need major $100B renovations or decommissioning. It goes without saying that every wind farm won’t recover the BTUs used even in their construction, while solar may have a minor 10% EIOEI but BY STOPPING ALL FOOD PRODUCTION. …At least in half the states they’re being installed in prime corn fields. Great “National Security”! We have electric, so we have light bulbs burning hot to see that empty plate in the kitchen for your kids. Socialism! Everywhere it’s been tried! S.M.A.R.T grid, I’m S.M.A.R.T.!

    Moving on: “US secretary of energy Jennifer Granholm wrote in a Department of Energy statement provided to WIRED.”

    Department of Redundancy Department. Thanks, Wired. You’re fired wired. I fail essays like that in the 5th grade. “secretary of energy” is also capitalized, as you already know since “Department of Energy” was capitalized. Pick one although you should have the MLA Grammar Reference on the edge of your desk.

    “These investments will create thousands of high-quality, good-paying manufacturing jobs and strengthen America’s energy supply chain.”

    Uh, whut? YOU JUST SAID it was exactly 1,700. Not 1,500, not 2,100, but 1,700 jobs EXACTLY. If all the installers are going to add more jobs, why not toss those in for Biden? If not, where are they coming from now? Liberal math:
    Did you know 1,700 = is the same as = 2,000, 5,000, 7,000? Thousands and thousands? I did not know that numbers = other, different numbers, Jen.

    “The funding will also be used for manufacturing geothermal heat pumps, a neat twist on the device that essentially turns a backyard into a battery.”

    No. For the love of GOD, it doesn’t. Question: when it gets hot are you putting the cold back IN to your back yard, to pull it out later in July? No, you are not. It is totally, completely, unlike a “Battery”. Battery = Not-Battery. In Ecoscience. Liberal Science. “Wired” Science.

    “Climate and energy nerds love heat pumps, because exchanging heat is much more efficient than generating it”

    Okay, I give up. Thanks to heat pumps, all we have to do is leave sugar cookies for the Heat Pump Fairies who will them generate the heat for us with their frenetic dancing. Same way car engines work, actually.

    “more broadly to retrofit the aging electrical grid that powers them. That’s going to require huge training programs. “The green transition is going to generate upwards of 25 million new jobs [in the US] in the next 15 years—this is just going to be a tremendous transformation of the US workforce,” Mark Paul, an environmental economist at Rutgers University,”

    Rutgers. Really. I don’t insult Universities enough to fit them all in and will have to go on rotation. Okay, “Environmental Economist”, two of the most discredited occupations worldwide now COMBINED with the magic of Synergy into one: you’re saying ONE IN TEN Americans will be working in Green energy? Isn’t that about 100x the number of energy workers we have now? Wouldn’t refocusing them all from their present jobs be a net DROP to U.S. productivity, same as if we brought back horses blacksmiths, and stable boys?

    And we’re going to “retrofit the aging grid”? Last I looked the average age of a lineman was 55. They’re retiring out with no replacement, no initiatives, and um, thanks to you dummies all the solar and wind projects are exclusively grid-tied, neither local (to a factory) nor independent (to a city). If the grid goes down, your renewables go down faster. Yes you DO need 25 million new jobs in America, and they are probably all standard 220v residential electric linemen. You’ll also need that many trucks, transformers, poles, and particularly, copper. None of which we have either, nor have the slightest intent of getting, even under a War Act, with a attacking nation we can’t define.

    Who is this sub 5th grade writer at “Wired”? A freshman intern? Nope, “Matt Simon is a senior staff writer covering biology, robotics, and the environment”, who looks about 50 and is old enough to know better. Where do they find these guys? How can they do this for even a year and not get even adequate at math? Clearly they’re incapable of shame or they’d call a tutor just to stop looking stupid.

    This is the level of the Trusted “Experts” coast to coast. And you wonder why Americans don’t know anything and can’t think straight.

    Yeah, I had a math teacher who said “1,000 = 10,000, or close enough, whatevah” and a science teacher who said “A lot of new green energy devices don’t use energy” In fact they’re perpetual motion machines! And this is my fault how? I “Was born”, therefore I’m guilty?

    Reminds me of making fun of Zoomers for not writing cursive or using a rotary phone, or Millennials for participation trophies. Whose fault is that??? Millennials didn’t give THEMSELVES that trophy: their parents and town elders did. And so with picking on Americans who “We’ll know our campaign has worked when everything Americans believe is a lie” CIA Director Casey.

    #147054
    tboc
    Participant

    “Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.” ~ Marshall McLuhan

    Where, might i ask, has Mr. Rubino been since January 2020?
    and Greg Hunter – “Rubino talks about plunging home prices, more trouble coming in the commercial real estate market and why you need gold and silver as core assets during a currency reset”

    Never heard of asset seizure, never heard of frozen bank accounts, never heard of sanctions, never heard of BRICS+, never heard of a $945bn trade deficit, never heard finance, real estate, business services and government comprise 44% of the US economy, never heard manufacturing is 11% of the US economy, never heard agriculture, fishing and hunting take a 1.1% share of the US economy

    In the midst of a global financial meltdown gold and silver assets will be safe? Which of the two is more deluded, Zelensky or John Rubino? London and New York will not set the exchange rates and when the tide goes out The FED and Fort Knox will be seen wearing a G string and pasties.

    “No Way to Delay that Trouble Comin Every Day” – Zappa 1966 Trouble Every Day

    Zionist Israel is a Terrorist Organization. It’s Shake and Bake and guess who is holding the bag.

    “A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion.” ~ Marshall McLuhan

    #147056
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    Dr D is back to promoting “anemotional” Vulcan-logic masters over the rare Scott Ritter giving in to his emotions. I’ll oppose both sides of Ritter’s and Dr D’s premise(s). The least of Ritter’s problems is giving in to his emotions which probably have very little to do with Ritter’s animation. Sort of like a psychopath’s visible absence of emotional expression has anything to do with being shrewd or clear-minded. Yet, wide swaths of society openly admire obviously psychopathic ppl for being cold, unemotional. Hell, those wide swaths also vote for unemotional psychopaths. Do you think Obama’s or Trump’s or Hillary’s pulse rose above 60 bpm when they remotely watched the murders of 8yo Nawar and 16yo Abdulrahman.
    D, how did you ever get to the point of worshipping someone else’s emotional impoverishment as a trait worth admiring?

    D, try John Ralston Saul’s “Voltaire’s Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West”. Too bad Saul proved disloyal to his own thesis when it became inconvenient.

    For Rubino, as in John’s advice on money…I can tell you who John Rubino thinks is going to get paid in the end. Why, of course, John Rubino!

    #147057
    zerosum
    Participant

    Never heard … Peace is the enemy

    Demonstrators are against the killers and the enablers.

    Stop the killing the destruction, the slaughter, the ethnic cleansing, the catastrophe, the genocide.

    Those who are ignoring the killing/the genocide are an enabler and guilty.
    ————
    You know … you are guilty ….
    Ignoring the war preparation against Iran.

    US embarks on proxy war against Iran


    • US Embarks On Proxy War Against Iran (Bhadrakumar)

    This allegation – acting at Iran’s behest. “Iranian proxies”.

    Washington was planning on extending the violence rather than taking action to bring it to an end.
    ———–

    #147058
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Considering “Experts” and “Authorities” and the President can do things like put the nation under house arrest or force experimental injections, why doesn’t the President declare:

    This overrides all levels of government. All private authorities such as HOA’s. Penalties for interfering with individual citizens will be $10,000 per instance per day will apply to the individuals, not their organizations, who interfere with the following:

    1. No one can stop you from adding overhangs to the southern side of your building
    2. No one can stop you from planting shrubs, bushes, on trees on the western side of your building.
    3. No one can stop you from putting in a metal roof.
    4. No one can stop you from painting your roof white.
    5. No one can stop you from collecting rainwater
    6. No one can stop you from gardening on your own property
    7. There shall be ZERO interference. No qualifications, requirements, forms to fill out, etc. No one can interfere in any way with these activities. $10,000 per day per instance of acting under colour of authority to block, frustrate, slow, regulate, apply fees, or in any way impede these activities.

    No government program needed at all to implement far greater energy savings than a heat pump program — the only thing the government has to do is what it’s good at – extract money.

    #147059
    kultsommer
    Participant

    Greg Hunter offers his Friday service to polish David star and trash Iran, without exception, then holds his slice of bread for butter spread.
    What an awkward moment when Catherine Austin was the guest while ago, as I recall.

    #147060
    Noirette
    Participant

    Dr. D wrote, prev. thread. So if we stand up, then what? People ARE protesting. Then what? People DID go to prison without trial for protesting. Then what? I have ideas and they’re not necessarily violent, but I want YOU to consider. The political process as we’re presently using it, isn’t “Political”. If it were, it would have some effect. If it has no effect, it’s strictly theatre, a sham.

    Yes, in the main. I protested in ‘all’ protests against the invasion of Iraq, see V. Arnold same, and those demos were the ‘biggest’ the World had ever seen. Effect? Zero. I swore, Never Again.

    —> Interesting experience though, the Black Block, and the Police (in CH) play a huge role in demos.

    We have seen many pre-emptive moves against ‘opinions’ / ‘free speech’, mostly scattered and unfocussed, but they do weigh heavily, e.g. bank accounts sequestered for protesting (Can. truckers), being arrested for waving a flag, wearing a kehfia (GB, very set on symbols..), being prosecuted for anti-semitism, hate speech (France loves that path), and that’s without the Gilets Jaunes being shot w. rubber bullets and maimed, etc.

    The TV and the MSM continue to stigmatise ‘consp theorists’, ‘anti vax’ etc. etc. COV provided a novel and horrendous breach: Ppl could be fired, prevented from working, not be paid, stopped from entering shops and public venues, from travelling, etc. etc. if they did not submit to the Gvmt-MegaCorp-MSM dictats. Although the COV measures were legitimised by ‘medical emergency’ discourse, ppl instinctively or directly understand that all is part of the same agenda.

    So, alternatives must be considered. Voting in X vs. Y amongst the ‘candidates’ approved by the PTB->MSM won’t change anything. The US is a prime ex., with a Prez. elected by ‘direct suffrage’, Bush Junior, Obama, Trump, Biden – they have their favorite killing grounds with the other party mumbling about we don’t like it…to then do ‘their’ thing.. they are figure-heads or just part of the same system…

    Boycotts can have an effect, imho. in any case are better than protests. That is why the BDS movement is so repressed.

    Leaving it there for now.

    #147061
    anticlimactic
    Participant

    One of the worst things the Catholic church was to include the ‘old testament’ as part of the bible.

    It has nothing to do with Christianity and can be used to justify very un-Christian things – like okaying genocide because the [Jewish] old testament says it’s God’s will.

    #147062
    poppie
    Participant

    In the early 70’s when software was on punch cards in a shoebox, I wrote a program to count to a large number where every digit could have a different modulus. Each digit was a class of heating factors. It started counting and with each count it multiplied out the relative impact of the set of factors. A few of the winning combinations were stored to put to the tty when done. The school paid for the ops and I am sure wondered what happened. I finally got some good runs and the first answer never changed. Insulation. It doesnt matter what you do. If you insulate, nothing else matters. Today I have 24 inches in my ceiling and heat pumps. The heat pumps are good at sitting idle, mostly used as dehumidifiers.

    #147063
    zerosum
    Participant

    Listen…..call for cease fire
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/xi-urges-immediate-gaza-ceasefire-brics-meeting-beijing-hosts-summit-muslim-nations

    Xi Urges Immediate Gaza Ceasefire In BRICS Meeting, As Beijing Hosts Summit Of Muslim Nations

    Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and other leaders joined United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres for an ‘extraordinary’ meeting of the BRICS bloc of developing countries to discuss the Israel-Hamas war Tuesday.

    Leaders of Brazil, India and South Africa were present for the virtual meeting along with countries which are set to soon join BRICS (in January), including Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates.

    China’s foreign ministry the day prior echoed the same, with FM Wang Yi saying the world “must act urgently” in Gaza and establish a ceasefire. “The international community must act urgently, taking effective measures to prevent this tragedy from spreading. China firmly stands with justice and fairness in this conflict.”

    He made the remarks while greeting visiting leaders of Arab and Muslim majority nations who gathered in Beijing. This included the top diplomats of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, the Palestinian National Authority, and Indonesia. The Organization of Islamic Cooperation is also represented for the two-day meeting in Beijing.

    Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud agreed, saying: “The message is clear: the war must stop immediately, we must move to a ceasefire immediately, and relief materials and aid must enter immediately.”

    As expected, the participants in Beijing have tended to place blame on soaring civilians deaths squarely on Israel. FM Wang voiced this in the following statement: “Israel should stop its collective punishment on the people of Gaza, and open up a humanitarian corridor as soon as possible to prevent a humanitarian crisis of a larger scale from taking place,” he told the summit delegates. (polite way of calling it a genocide)

    (diplomatic way of warning of “Oil embargo”)

    #147064
    zerosum
    Participant

    Tail wagging the dog.
    Who did not call for an immediate Cease fire.
    (His initials J.T.)

    #147065
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @DrD

    Ritter has lost his cool and is responding emotionally now. Israel might not exist, but more probably it will, but no one can foresee what’s going to happen right now.”

    It’s a rare day indeed when I disagree very much with what is posted by our deservedly respected resident genius, but in this case I must, because he is seriously wrong about a serious matter. It’s the sort of thing that can get you dead if you get it wrong, so I really do feel that it’s necessary to point it out.

    By every measure that I know of Scott Ritter is a man whose words should be taken very seriously because he has walked the walk to a degree that few others could match. He’s the kind of scholarly warrior that Thucydides recommended, and as such should be respected in the same way that you should respect a friendly silver back gorilla. Yes, he is friendly, and ALSO yes he can rip your arms and legs off, and WILL DO SO if one does not pay attention to clear signals regarding the gorilla’s boundaries of acceptable behavior.

    When a guy like Ritter calmly states in a cogent and civilized manner that there are certain red lines which must not be crossed (as he has done in regard to Israel’s treatment of Hamas, non combatant Palestinians in general and minor children in particular ) it is highly advisable that his words be taken very very seriously by all concerned.

    When those words of warning are NOT taken as meaning exactly what they say, and if one is very very lucky and he likes you very very much (as is the case with Israel) then he MIGHT give one last warning before ripping arms and legs off.

    That last warning might be emotionally charged, or even screechy, because as a tested warrior who knows himself well, Ritter KNOWS what happens next if the warning is not heeded, and he really does not want to go there, because violence and killing are very bad.

    Personally, I would not want to be Scott Ritter’s enemy but I also think that the Israelis have done just that. They have made themselves his (and many others’) enemy. Consequently, Zionist Israel as a nation state is about to come to an end, and those who support it are going to die. My own advice is to not be one of them.

    Does that sound more convincing if one says it dispassionately?

    When the killing starts that won’t matter at all, and THAT stark and deadly fact is why Scott Ritter is so emotional about it. He is trying his damnedest to convey that this is a final warning to stop. Not recognizing a FINAL warning can getcha dead.

    I’m with Ritter on the Israel thing. The whole idea of an exclusively “Jews Only” Homeland for Zionist colonizers has been criminally insane bullshit from the start. It’s time to end it.

    #147066
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Ukronaziland is over.

    What remains is for Nazilensky to meet his Maker, along with the other criminals associated with this genocide to the north of the genocide in Gaza

    The last thing seen by Nazilensky

    .

    #147067
    zerosum
    Participant

    Calling someone a liar or accusing someone of lying is a no-no in the house of common.
    However, now, they are allowing work around words/expressions.

    Here are some synonyms for lying and misinformation:

    Lying: misrepresenting, falsifying, distorting, misstating, exaggerating, equivocating, deceiving, misleading, perjuring, prevaricating, fibbing, fabricating, inventing, trumping up, concocting, making up, telling stories, not telling the truth, not being honest 12.

    Misinformation: false information, gossip, disinformation, misleading information, false rumor, bum steer, misreport, misstatement, calumny, deception, falsification, obfuscation, chicanery, distortion, inaccuracy,

    #147068

    World War New needs lots of people- people who can run on hate.
    Entertained by hunting sheeple, warriors wired into the State.

    World War New will kill civilians- that’s its purpose, after all.
    Humans dying by the millions: just the devil’s margin call.

    #147069
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Yes insulation. Carter probably did more for national oil security and CO2 with the one cheap initiative than all other Presidents combined. Pay attention to air quality though, you may have to do that more manually. Somebody who rebuilt train system again could probably win the Bronze and everybody knows it.

    Surprised so much about Ritter. He can go ahead and have his emotions, I don’t mind. It’s just well known that before you issue tactical predictions, you should take a deep breath and let the emotions go because you’ll get more accurate results that way. I agree with him.

    And more: I forgot, but I had the same impression, NOT that he isn’t actually mad or faking it, but like many men I’m sure he can control his emotions if he feels like it. But he DOESN’T feel like it, because as you say, he has taken a conscious decision to warn Israel he and/or the rest of the former sympathetic world is about to rip their arms and legs off. We’ve put up with their nonsense and given them an ASTONISHING amount of leeway and understanding. Like him, don’t care: had enough. He is revealing HIMSELF over the edge to communicate that OTHERS are over the edge.

    <i>That IS the warning.</i> Naturally Israel won’t heed it, but good and just men still give it if they can. He has and I would too if anyone paid attention to Demosthenes on the Internet. (Ender’s Game, 1985) Although I feel for Gaza, I hope Israel won’t follow any warnings since then it would limp on again and they wouldn’t get the smacking they so richly deserve.

    Still, I need to now double check his dispassionate analysis for being bent now. I was only checking once before.

    #147070
    WES
    Participant

    This will be interesting to see how it plays out or not.

    US agreement incapable, suddenly wants to negotiate peace.
    They know there will be no negotiations, so it is safe for them to pretend to negotiate.
    They have no plans to stop fighting.
    Meanwhile Russia will continue fighting to end the fight the other side started.

    Israel is doing it’s best to get the US to fight Iran.
    Russia and China have probably told Iran to sit tight to win.
    If everybody just sits on their hands, the US loses.

    The bankers will not be happy.
    They want a banker’s war.

    #147071
    John Day
    Participant

    Scott Ritter is being clear, as clear as he can be, and different from usual. I get that.

    @WES
    : I hope the bankers are not happy, but devastated this time.

    Poppie says “insulation is everything”, and I have built a properly insulated house, well sealed, with a smallish heat-pump downstairs, a window unit upstairs, capacity for flow through and a gas stove and upstairs/downstairs vented gas heaters.
    Insulation is really a lot, and should be everywhere, so no surface gets hot or cold compared to the internal ambient temp.
    The smallish heat pump does very well. I actually put R-12 insulation between the downstairs and upstairs, with a small stairwell, which makes the downstairs alone super-insulated in the summer, and even the winter. Each sub-space is well insulated, and can be warmed or cooled, or ventilated.

    The gas stoves provide 100% heat efficiency into the space, but also provide CO2, and maybe a trace of CO. We lived with open propane heaters when I was a kid, in a drafty little old house.
    The externally vented natural gas (or propane) heaters are 65% to 75% efficient at transfer of heat into the room. I put in the 65% efficient kind, because they are so much easier to put in structurally, one hole to the outside behind the wall unit, no tubing going up through the wall and out through the roof.

    So the heat pump is whatever efficiency it is rated at, if well set up, which mine is, and is not much good when it is much below freezing outside, but I can feel a little warm air from it when it is down to 26F outside. Burners on the stove are 100% efficient, but you don’t want to use heavily, and wall units are 65% of natural gas burn, and really only necessary for a period of time, unless it is really cold and windy outside.
    The insulation is always good, and has been a voyage of discovery for me.

    I designed the house with all of this thought out, and have now used it all through a full year. I am happy with that, but this is the first time I got to design a living space, and I’m 65.
    Re-doing insulation is probably not going to happen much, except in attics, and maybe double paned window replacements. Heavy curtains help, and are depressing in the daytime.

    #147072
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Free insulation from heat on the north side of the house in the summer is often neglected.

    Bushes and trees block the sun coming from due west in the afternoon and evening. In winter, the leaves fall off and the sun warms the house as evening approaches. Set it and forget it.

    Not often thought of insulation since it is external to the house. No need to rip out the walls or anything and way easier than a heat pump. Looking around in Colorado, practically every structure could use it.

    And then there’s setting up cooler microclimates surrounding the house with trees or pergolas covered in white sun shade fabric which can be taken down seasonally.

    Reflection or absorption of radiant heat seems (to this call center rep who did a few deep dives on the subject) to be more easily addressed in existing structures than other types of heat/coolth. Even painting a dark roof white makes a significant difference.

    #147073
    jb-hb
    Participant

    correction – free insulation from heat on the WEST side of the house. der.

    #147074
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    @dr-d

    …Spread out over 10 states. Less than 200 jobs per state. Like for instance in a real factory, there are 200 jobs per WING. Per SHIFT. Go on….

    Let me interpret that for you Herr Doktor 😉

    Electrical based heating is presently 50-80% *more* EXPENSIVE than heating with Natural Gas or Fuel Oil.

    So, not only will the Deplorables in flyover country slowly freeze to death (as they are *totally* cut off from any & all economic activity), *even* if they gather as a community in Heating Centers

    Surprising how few people can see the 2030 Agenda playing out in real-time 🙄

    Of course, once everyone is forced into this Brave New Green World, electricity will become sporadic (at best), with prices rising exponentially, all approved by UniParty GlobalCap sanctioned Utility Commissions, with jobs created in Animal Human Control Enforcement.

    Ka-Ching!

    I think you can know The Rest of the Story. 😐

    *FICTIONS* are animated at such breakneck velocity since Trump 2016, that 1984’s Ministries of Truth, Peace, Love, and Plenty seem liker pikers by comparison ~ Bernays could only dream.

    The People that have been indoctrinated by CNN/MSDNC/FOX will never know what hit em’…

    GLWTS.

    #147075
    Celticbiker
    Participant

    Chews wont rest until we are all driven insane, are bankrupt and/or dead. These shitbirds control the money. 911, never forget.

    #147076
    John Day
    Participant

    Business Of War https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/business-of-war

    Ed Curtain , The United States government exists to wage war. In its present form, it would crumble without it; and in its present form, it will crumble with it. Only a radical structural change will prevent this. For war-making is at the core of its budget, its raison d’être – 816.7 billion for the Fiscal 2023 National Defense Authorization Act alone – a deficit-financed sum that tells only part of the story. This amount that finances the military-industrial complex and its blood money is for a country that has never been invaded, is bordered by friendly neighbors, and is oceans away from the multitude of countries its leaders attack and call our enemies. The U.S. wages wars around the world because killing is its lifeblood, its structural essence.

    The Roots of Radicalism and the Structure of Evil

    ​ She lost her entire family in an airstrike, but no one has told her yet
    ​ Ayah Sha’ban was among 14 of her martyred family members in Gaza City. She was presumed dead and wrapped in a white shroud, but a security guard at Al-Shifa’ noticed her breathing and saved her. She still doesn’t know about her family’s fate.

    She lost her entire family in an airstrike, but no one has told her yet

    ​ Influential Israeli national security leader makes the case for genocide in Gaza
    ​ In an Op-Ed titled “Let’s Not be Intimidated by the World,” Israeli ret. Major General Giora Eiland argues that all Palestinians in Gaza are legitimate targets and that even a “severe epidemic” in Gaza will “bring victory closer.”

    Influential Israeli national security leader makes the case for genocide in Gaza

    ​ Chris Hedges, Israel is carrying out a campaign to make Gaza uninhabitable. This campaign includes destroying all of Gaza’s hospitals. The message Israel is sending is clear – Nowhere is safe. If you stay you die.
    https://scheerpost.com/2023/11/20/chris-hedges-israels-war-on-hospitals/

    #147077
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ ‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 46: Israeli tanks besiege Indonesian Hospital as bombardment of Gaza continues
    ​ Israeli forces besiege Indonesian Hospital in north Gaza. Meanwhile, two Lebanese journalists were killed by Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon, and Palestinian prisoners continue to face humiliation, abuse and torture inside Israeli prisons.

    ‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 46: Israeli tanks besiege Indonesian Hospital as bombardment of Gaza continues

    ​ Hamas Expected To Release 50 Hostages Over 4-Day Ceasefire If Netanyahu Cabinet Approves​
    ​ In the first phase of the two-phase deal, Hamas is expected to release 50 Israeli women and children held in Gaza, while Israel is expected to release around 150 Palestinian prisoners, mostly women and minors. Some of the Israeli hostages are dual citizens.
    ​ The release of hostages and prisoners in the first phase of the deal would take place over four days of ceasefire in Gaza, one of the sources told Axios.
    As part of the deal, Israel would allow around 300 aid trucks per day to enter Gaza from Egypt.
    A potential second phase of the deal could see 50 more released, and the ceasefire would be extended for multiple more days
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/gaza-ceasefire-deal-mass-release-hostages-closer-ever

    ​ Hamas says at least 5,500 children killed in Gaza since October 7
    According to it, over 1,800 minors are still missing after Israeli shelling. The statement also pointed out that 80% of the 30,000 people affected by the fighting in Gaza are women and children.​ (“Affected means “killed or seriously wounded”. “Missing” means “missing under rubble”.)
    The movement called on the UN to protect the children of Gaza and to take “serious measures” to stop their “massacres.”
    https://tass.com/world/1708711

    Israel-Palestine war: Settler attacks and Israeli restrictions paralyse West Bank economy
    Daily raids by Israeli settlers and forces, increased checkpoints and a clampdown on travel permits for Palestinian workers have devastated the local economy
    https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-war-west-bank-economy-paralysed

    Craig Murray: Activating the Genocide Convention
    There is no room to doubt that Israel’s bombing of Palestinian civilians and depriving them of food, water and other necessities of life are grounds to invoke the 1948 Genocide Convention.

    Craig Murray: Activating the Genocide Convention

    #147078
    John Day
    Participant

    Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and other leaders joined United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres for an ‘extraordinary’ meeting of the BRICS bloc of developing countries to discuss the Israel-Hamas war Tuesday.
    ​ During Xi’s address, he urged an immediate Gaza ceasefire toward realizing “lasting peace and security,” according to Xinhua. He further asserted in the virtual remarks that without a “just settlement” on the Palestinian question, there will remain “no enduring peace and stability in the Middle East.”
    ​ He called for all parties to immediately agree to ceasefire and stop all violence, including attacks which target civilians. Xi additionally said that all civilian detainees must be released to “avoid more loss of lives and suffering.” Xi further emphasized China’s desire to ultimately see a two-state solution provide a lasting peace…”China will provide more support and assistance to the people in Gaza, and is calling for humanitarian corridors to protect civilians. The root cause of the Palestine-Israel crisis is that the right to existence and the right of return of Palestinian people have long been ignored.”
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/xi-urges-immediate-gaza-ceasefire-brics-meeting-beijing-hosts-summit-muslim-nations

    Israel army hits surgery floor of Indonesian Hospital in Gaza​ (the last hospital in Gaza City, and under Israeli army siege)
    https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20231120-israel-army-hits-surgery-floor-of-indonesian-hospital-in-gaza/

    ​It may not be “sexism”. What if the Netanyahu regime was intent on letting the attack happen, exposing the Israelis, and even killing some Israelis with choppers?
    ​ Female IDF Soldiers Blame ‘Sexism’ For Early Warning of Hamas Activity Being ‘Ignored’
    ​ “In the past two months, they started sending up drones every day, sometimes several times a day, right near the border, some 300 meters from the fence, and sometimes less than that,” one of the soldiers told Haaretz, clarifying that Hamas were believed to be training to “take over an observation post.”
    ​ “A month and a half before the war, we saw that in one of the Hamas training camps they had built an exact, scaled model of an observer’s position, like the one we operate. They started training there with drones to hit the [machine gun] shooter,” the female soldier, known only by the name Ilana, said.
    https://sputnikglobe.com/20231120/female-idf-soldiers-decry-sexism-as-early-warning-of-hamas-activity-was-ignored-1115067774.html

    ​Another front of the war opens: Watch Houthis Seize Israeli Billionaire-Owned Cargo Ship Using Chopper, Speedboats
    https://sputnikglobe.com/20231120/watch-houthis-seize-israeli-billionaire-owned-cargo-ship-using-chopper-speedboats-1115082434.html

    ​ The ADL is leading the attack against free speech on Palestine
    ​ The Anti-Defamation League’s call for the FBI and IRS to surveil, investigate, and possibly prosecute student activists is a new level in its McCarthyite campaign to silence any and all criticism of Israel.

    The ADL is leading the attack against free speech on Palestine

    #147079
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ “Don’t Be Manipulated, Stand With X” – As Elon Promised, X Files Suit Against Media Matters​ [Musk has filed in a “favorable jurisdiction”, and should prevail.]
    ​ The lawsuit, just filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas Fort Worth Division, alleges the organization’s tactics were manipulative and deceptive…
    ​..Update (2015ET): Texas AG Ken Paxton has officially opened an investigation into Media Matters for potential fraudulent activity:
    The Office of the Attorney General (“OAG”) is opening an investigation into Media Matters for potential fraudulent activity.
    ​ Under the Texas Business Organizations Code and the Deceptive Trade Practices Act, the OAG will vigorously enforce against nonprofits who commit fraudulent acts in or affecting the state of Texas.
    ​ Attorney General Paxton was extremely troubled by the allegations that Media Matters, a radical anti-free speech organization, fraudulently manipulated data on X.com (formerly known as Twitter).
    ​ “We are examining the issue closely to ensure that the public has not been deceived by the schemes of radical left-wing organizations who would like nothing more than to limit freedom by reducing participation in the public square,” said Attorney General Paxton.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/dont-be-manipulated-stand-x-elon-promised-x-files-suit-against-media-matters

    ​ Meryl Nass MD, 2 very good shows I did in the past 2 weeks
    ​ One with James Corbett and one with Zahra Sethna. Summaries included below the links. Zahra’s excellent interview with me got quicktaken down by YouTube. Scroll down for the CHD-TV-link.
    https://merylnass.substack.com/p/2-very-good-shows-i-did-in-the-past

    ​Peter McCullough MD, More than Half of Vaccinated Feel Sick a Year Later , Indian Cohort Study Finds Post-COVID-19 Vaccination Syndrome Very Common
    https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/more-than-half-of-vaccinated-feel

    ​I predicted this in December 2021, Alex Berenson , The mRNAs didn’t end Covid, Omicron did , The proof in one amazing chart
    ​ This point can’t be emphasized enough: the soaring deaths in older people came even though nearly every senior in the United States was vaccinated.
    Then, in the spring of 2022… Covid ended. All the cells turned green, all at once! Covid ended for older people, for the middle-aged, and for the young. It ended and it has not come back (except slightly for older people, which is not a point in favor of the jabs).
    https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/the-mrnas-didnt-end-covid-omicron

    Meryl Nass MD, We have added a wonderful feature to the Door to Freedom website: Translated handouts on the WHO in up to 9 languages, with more coming.
    https://merylnass.substack.com/p/we-have-added-a-wonderful-feature

    #147080
    Red
    Participant
    #147081
    Oroboros
    Participant

    #147082
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #147083
    Celticbiker
    Participant

    What happens when you control and print the money, own and control the media, bribe and blackmail the politicians…but the whole world begins to see you as liars, theives and murderers? We are about to find out.

    #147084
    Oroboros
    Participant

    TSA is Ritual Humiliation of Duh’merica writ large.

    TSA is a pathetic joke

    TSA is a control grid

    TSA is a second rate psy-op

    TSA might as well see if Duh’mericans are willing to fly in just their underwear, you know, for National Security’ reasons.

    Fur sure

    Hahahahahahaha

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    #147085
    Veracious Poet
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    #147086
    Oroboros
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    #147087
    Oroboros
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    Everything is broken in Canada

    #147088
    Veracious Poet
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    Coming soon ~ Add Lack of Affordable Heating to the pile of Suddenly Unexplained Deaths:

    Scientists Finally Figure Out Why You’re More Likely to Get Sick in Cold Weather (2022):

    > New research has found that cold temperatures lower immunity in the nose and make us more susceptible to viruses.

    > A drop in nasal tissue temperature of just 5° C reduced immune response by almost half.

    > The findings help explain why we’re more prone to catching colds and flu during winter.

    https://www.healthline.com/health-news/scientists-finally-figure-out-why-youre-more-likely-to-get-sick-in-cold-weather#What-happens-when-viruses-enter-the-nose

    Grandma & Grandpops died “suddenly” from Pneumonia?

    #147089
    Veracious Poet
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    It wasn’t that long ago that feminists were claiming the men had turned women into sex objects.

    There’s no shame, anything goes!

    https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/video-women-grope-males-privates-for-a-good-cause/29744835.html

    What’s next? (Asking for a friend)

    Damnant quod non intellegunt.

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