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Israel’s Cabinet Approves Ceasefire, Hostage Deal With Hamas (Sp.)
Gaza ‘Truce’ Won’t Halt The Regional War (Illaik)
Will the Scorpion Sting the US Frog? (Alastair Crooke)
Putin Calls For Joint Global Efforts To End Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (TASS)
Will Russia-China Patience Extinguish the Fire in West Asia? (Pepe Escobar)
Biden Op-ed Likening Russia to Hamas is Result of Dementia – Scott Ritter (Sp.)
Western Leaders Came to Ukraine to Test Kiev Regime Viability (Sp.)
US Mission To NATO Signals Zelensky Must Sit At “Negotiating Table” (ZH)
Rep. Goldman Denounced “Dangerous” Rhetoric Using Dangerous Rhetoric (Turley)
‘All In’ for Trump House Speaker Johnson Pays Visit to Mar-a-Lago (Sp.)
Trump Seeks To Halt Gag Order In Election Meddling Case (BBC)
We Must Demand Justice for the January 6th Protestors! (Ron Paul)
Texas AG Sues Pfizer Over Tainted Children’s Drugs (ZH)
Lawsuit Against Alleged CIA Spying On Assange Visitors (Gosztola)

 

 

 

 

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Scott Ritter: “Israel been defeated on the battlefield! We will not SAVE THEM this time..”

 

 

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Truth Social files defamation suit vs 20 media companies

 

 

The head of the aid organization that runs the Indonesian Hospital in Gaza, now under sustained assault by Israeli forces, wrote a letter to Pres. Biden: “You have destroyed the international rules of the game, insulted the authority of the UN, torn apart the sense of justice, and hurt human values, and tarnished the face of human civilization.”

 

 

 

 

Nobody believes in Israel’s good intentions.

Israel’s Cabinet Approves Ceasefire, Hostage Deal With Hamas (Sp.)

The Israeli cabinet has accepted a deal with Palestinian movement Hamas for a temporary ceasefire and the release of hostages in a vote on Wednesday, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported. The newspaper cited a senior Israeli official as saying that the deal would see Hamas release 30 children and eight mothers, as well as 12 more women, during a four-day ceasefire. The official also said that all the branches of the Israeli security services supported the deal, the newspaper reported. The deal includes only Israelis, but Hamas may release foreign nationals under deals with other countries, the report said. Implementing an agreement between Israel and Palestinian movement Hamas on the release of hostages will start a day after the deal is reached and the US anticipates the freeing of additional hostages, a senior Biden administration official said during a press briefing.

“Even if we get an agreement tonight or tomorrow morning, the implementation would not start until 24 hours after that,” the official said on Tuesday evening. “If we had an agreement tonight, the implementation would probably be Thursday morning Israel time.” Palestinian movement Hamas will release 50 of some 240 hostages being held in the Gaza Strip, women and children first, over a four-day ceasefire that was approved by Israel’s cabinet, the Associated Press reported Tuesday, citing the Israeli government. Israel would publish a list of names of prisoners to be released under a deal with Palestinian movement Hamas within the next 24 hours so that Israelis can appeal the release in court, Axios reported Tuesday, citing an Israeli official. The report added that Israel would extend the truce by an additional day for every ten hostages released.

Palestinian movement Hamas said in a statement on Wednesday that it has agreed with Israel on a four-day truce in the Gaza Strip with the cessation of all hostilities and the release of 50 Israeli hostages in return for 150 Palestinian prisoners. “Following difficult and complex negotiations that lasted for many days, we announce that … we, thanks to the persistent efforts of Qatar and Egypt, have reached an agreement on a humanitarian truce (temporary ceasefire) for four days, according to which a ceasefire on both sides comes, as well as the cessation of all military activities of the occupation army in all areas of the Gaza Strip, as well as the cessation of the movement of its military equipment into the Gaza Strip,” Hamas said on Telegram.

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“..In short, the ground battle in northern Gaza has only just begun, and is gearing up to get even hotter in the weeks ahead.”

Gaza ‘Truce’ Won’t Halt The Regional War (Illaik)

The Israeli military has announced the expansion of its ground operations in the northern Gaza Strip. After seizing territories on Gaza’s coastline, in the western part of the northern strip, Tel Aviv’s actual ground operation is now beginning. For more than three weeks of its ground offensive, the occupation army has been operating in areas close to the shoreline, in places where tunnels cannot be dug, and, therefore, areas where the Palestinian resistance does not have significant defensive capabilities. But now, the occupation army is moving eastward from the Gaza coast, allowing the armed resistance to maneuver far more easily and inflict greater losses on the invading soldiers and their armored vehicles – as has become quite evident in recent days. In short, the ground battle in northern Gaza has only just begun, and is gearing up to get even hotter in the weeks ahead.

In support of the resistance in Gaza, the Yemeni army and Ansarallah fighters seized an Israeli-owned vessel in the Red Sea on 19 November after threatening to target all Israeli ships crossing the Bab al-Mandab Strait. Over the past week, on Lebanon’s border with Israel, the Lebanese resistance Hezbollah has increased the frequency of its military operations. On 20 November, the occupation army monitored more than 40 attacks on its positions, one of which was carried out with four rockets, each with an explosive warhead weighing around 500 kilograms. The salvo destroyed the Israeli ‘Branit’ military barracks near the border with Lebanon. In just the past three days, Hezbollah has carried out an average of 12 military operations against Israeli targets each day. Simultaneously, Iraqi resistance attacks are continuing against US military bases in Iraq and Syria – over sixty operations to date.

The increased pace of clashes across West Asia is, however, being widely ignored by many of Tel Aviv’s western allies, whose attention has been diverted by ongoing prisoner exchange talks between Israel and the Palestinian resistance, mediated by Qatar and the US. These weeks-long negotiations are being treated as evidence that the next phase will necessarily be a de-escalation in Palestine. Those expectations have been fanned by a leak that Israel’s cabinet has discussed the imminent demobilization of a number of army reservists. While the Israeli military may indeed demobilize part of the reserve forces it called up after 7 October, this decision is not based on de-escalatory considerations. The more than 300,000 Israeli reservists initially mobilized was far too great for the capacity of the occupation army, which was unable to absorb these personnel into its fronts in Gaza, Lebanon, and the West Bank.

Despite this, many still optimistically cling to the de-escalation narrative. They are further encouraged by official US statements criticizing – albeit in a watered-down manner – Israel’s targeting of Palestinian civilians, and point to the occasional US-Israel divergences over what they call the “post-Hamas phase” in Gaza as further proof that Tel Aviv will have to scale down its war. But at the current stage of the conflict, these discrepancies and observations are considered totally irrelevant by officials in the region’s Axis of Resistance. They note instead that Washington continues to maintain its pace of arms support for Israel, as it has done since the war’s onset, while sticking to its refusal to entertain any permanent ceasefire.

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“..he manoeuvres to alleviate criticism and to stay in power as long as he can. More importantly, he hopes this will enable him to spread the blame, shedding all and any responsibility and accountability from himself..”

Will the Scorpion Sting the US Frog? (Alastair Crooke)

The allegory is one in which a scorpion depends on the frog for its passage across a flooded river, by hitching a lift on the frog’s back. The frog distrusts the scorpion; but reluctantly agrees. During the crossing the scorpion fatally stings the frog swimming the river, under the scorpion. They both die. It is a tale from antiquity intended to illustrate the nature of tragedy. A Greek tragedy is one in which the crisis at the heart of any ‘tragedy’ does not arise by sheer mischance. The Greek sense is that tragedy is where something happens because it has to happen; because of the nature of the participants; because the actors involved make it happen. And they have no choice but to make it happen, because that is their nature.

It is a story that was deployed by a former senior Israeli diplomat, well versed in U.S. politics. His telling of the frog fable has Israel’s leaders desperately fending off responsibility for the 7 October débacle, with a cabinet furiously trying to turn the crisis (psychologically) from culpable disaster – to present the Israeli public instead with an image of epic opportunity. The chimaera being presented is one that by reaching back to earliest Zionist ideology, Israel can turn the catastrophe in Gaza – as Finance Minister Smotrich has long argued – into a solution that once and for all ‘unilaterally resolves the inherent contradiction between Jewish and Palestinian aspirations – by ending the illusion that any kind of compromise, reconciliation or partition is possible. This is the potential scorpion sting: the Israeli cabinet betting all on a hugely risky strategy – a new Nakba – that could draw Israel into major conflict, but in so doing also sink what remains of western prestige.

Of course, as the former Israeli diplomat underlines, this ploy is essentially constructed around Netanyahu’s personal ambition – he manoeuvres to alleviate criticism and to stay in power as long as he can. More importantly, he hopes this will enable him to spread the blame, shedding all and any responsibility and accountability from himself. [Better still], “it can place Gaza in an historic and epic context as an event that might render the PM as a formative wartime leader of grandeur and glory”. Far-fetched? Not necessarily. Netanyahu may be writhing politically for survival, but he is a true ‘believer’ too. In his book, Going to the Wars, historian Max Hastings writes that Netanyahu told him in the 1970s that, “In the next war, if we do it right, we’ll have the chance to get all the Arabs out … We can clear the West Bank, sort out Jerusalem.” And what is the Israeli cabinet thinking about the ‘next war’? It thinks ‘Hizbullah. As one minister noted recently, ‘after Hamas, we will turn to deal with Hizbullah’.

It is precisely the confluence of a lengthy war in Gaza (along lines established in 2006), and an Israeli leadership seemingly intent to provoke Hizbullah on to, and up, the escalatory ladder, which is causing red lights to flash inside the White House, according to the former Israeli diplomat. In the 2006 war with Hizbullah, the entire urban populated suburb of Beirut – Dahiya – was levelled. General Eizenkot (who commanded Israeli forces during that war and is now a member in Netanyahu’s ‘War Cabinet’) said in 2008: “What happened in the Dahiya quarter of Beirut in 2006 will happen in every village from which Israel is fired on … From our standpoint, these are not civilian villages, they are military bases … This is not a recommendation. This is a plan. And it has been approved.”

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Putin first wants more countries to step up to the plate. He won’t be isolated.

Putin Calls For Joint Global Efforts To End Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (TASS)

The international community should join forces to find a political solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Russian President Vladimir Putin said. “Russia’s position is consistent and does not change with the situation. We urge the international community to join forces in order to ease tensions, ensure a ceasefire and find a political solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” he noted, addressing an extraordinary summit of the BRICS group (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa). According to Putin, “BRICS nations and the countries of the region could play a key role in this work.” “This is why the participation of our colleagues from the Middle East in today’s meeting, who were invited to join BRICS as full members earlier in the year, is particularly important,” the Russian leader noted.

“I would like to use this opportunity to respectfully commend their efforts to improve the situation, particularly by holding the Peace Summit in Egypt and the extraordinary Arab-Islamic Summit in Saudi Arabia,” Putin said. The Russian president highlighted the fact that “all BRICS countries share similar positions on the need to make joint efforts to find a long-term and sustainable solution to the prolonged Israeli-Palestinian issue.” In his view, “this became evident in the UN General Assembly’s vote on a draft resolution on a humanitarian ceasefire, as well as in discussions of a UN Security Council resolution on the Middle East settlement, which was adopted for the first time in seven years.” “Even though the resolution only calls for humanitarian pauses and not for a ceasefire, we see its adoption as a step in the right direction,” the Russian president pointed out. He stressed that “while a full ceasefire would be better, such humanitarian pauses are required for efforts to release hostages and evacuate civilians and foreign nationals from the Gaza Strip.”

The UN Security Council earlier passed a Malta-drafted humanitarian resolution aimed at assisting children in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict zone. The seven-point document particularly calls for long humanitarian pauses and the immediate release of all hostages, especially children. Putin also thanked his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah El-Sisi for facilitating the evacuation of Russian nationals from Gaza. The Russian leader emphasized the need to achieve lasting peace in the Middle East and prevent the conflict from expanding. “By and large, ensuring a long-term and sustainable ceasefire is certainly the most pressing goal,” Putin noted. “It is important to stop other countries from being dragged into the war in the Middle East and prevent the conflict from expanding, as well as to preserve the fragile interfaith peace,” he added.

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“..that’s actually BRICS 10, because after the election of pro-Hegemon Zionist Javier “Chainsaw Massacre” Milei for President, Argentina is now out of the picture, and possibly discarded by January 1st, 2024..”

Will Russia-China Patience Extinguish the Fire in West Asia? (Pepe Escobar)

Everyone familiar with West Asia – from US generals to grocers in the Arab Street – knows that Israel is a landed aircraft carrier whose mission is to keep West Asia in check on behalf of the Hegemon. Of course in a dog eats dog geopolitical environment it’s easy to misunderstand all wag the dog shenanigans. What’s certain is that for hegemonic circles of the US Deep State, and certainly for the White House and the Pentagon, what matters in the current incandescent juncture is the uber-extreme/genocidal Likud-led Netanyahu government in Israel, not “Israel” per se. That projects Netanyahu as the exact mirror image of the beleaguered sweaty sweatshirt actor in Kiev. Quite the geopolitical gift – in terms of deflecting blame away from the Hegemon for a genocide deployed live on every smartphone on the planet.

And all that conducted under a veneer of legality – as in the White House and the State Department “advising” Tel Aviv to act with moderation; yes, you can bomb hospitals, schools, medical workers, journalists, thousands of women, thousands of children, but please be gentle. Meanwhile, the Hegemon has deployed an Armada to the Eastern Mediterranean, complete with two very expensive iron bathtubs, sorry aircraft carrier groups plus a nuclear submarine close to the Persian Gulf. That’s not exactly to survey guerrillas in underground tunnels and to “protect” Israel. The ultimate – neocon and Zio-con – targets are of course Hezbollah, Syria, Hashd al-Shaabi in Iraq and Iran: the whole Axis of Resistance.Iran-Russia-China, the new neocon-defined “axis of evil”, which happen to be the Top Three Actors of Eurasia integration, for all practical purposes have interpreted the genocide in Gaza as an Israeli-American operation. And they have clearly identified the key vector: energy.

The inestimable Michael Hudson has noted how “we’re really seeing something very much like the Crusades here. It’s a real fight for who is going to control energy, because, again, the key, if you can control the world’s flow of energy, you can do to the whole world what the United States did to Germany last year by blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines.” And that brings us to the fascinating case of the OIC/Arab World delegation of Foreign Ministers now on tour of selected capitals promoting their plan for a complete ceasefire in Gaza plus negotiations for an independent Palestinian state. The delegation, called the Gaza Contact Group, includes Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, Indonesia, Nigeria and Palestine.

Their first stop was Beijing, meeting Wang Yi, and the second stop Moscow, meeting Sergei Lavrov. That tells us all we need to know about BRICS 11 in action – even before the fact. Well, that’s actually BRICS 10, because after the election of pro-Hegemon Zionist Javier “Chainsaw Massacre” Milei for President, Argentina is now out of the picture, and possibly discarded by January 1st, 2024, when BRICS previously 11 starts under the Russian presidency. The OIC/Arab League special conference on Palestine in Saudi Arabia had yielded a meek final declaration that disappointed virtually the whole Global South/Global Majority. But then something started to move. Foreign Ministers started to coordinate closely. At first Egypt with China, after previous coordination with Iran and Turkey. That may sound counter-intuitive – but it’s all due to the gravity of the situation. That explains why the Iranian Foreign Minister is not part of the current traveling delegation – which is led, in practice, by Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

The meeting with Lavrov coincided with an extraordinary online BRICS meeting on Palestine, called by the current South African presidency. Crucial point: the flags of new members Iran, Egypt and Ethiopia could be identified behind the speakers. Iran’s President Raisi went no holds barred, calling for BRICS member states to use every political and economic tool available to pressure Israel. Xi Jinping called once again for a two-state solution and positioned China as the mediator of choice. For the first time Xi in his own words laid it all out: “There can be no security in the Middle East without a just solution to the question of Palestine. I have emphasized on many occasions that the only viable way to break the cycle of Palestinian-Israeli conflict lies in a two-state solution, in the restoration of the legitimate national rights of Palestine, and in the establishment of an independent state of Palestine.” And it should all start via an international conference.

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“The story is that Joe Biden, the president of the United States is lacking in such mental capacity that the presidency is being managed by people who weren’t elected to do that job. That’s what people should be worried about.”

Biden Op-ed Likening Russia to Hamas is Result of Dementia – Scott Ritter (Sp.)

US President Joe Biden lacks the mental ability to draw parallels between Russia and Hamas, says a former US Marine. The Washington Post ran an op-ed under Biden’s byline at the weekend, likening the Palestinian Islamic resistance movement Hamas’ breakout from the besieged Gaza Strip on October 7 to Russia’s military operation in Ukraine in defence of the Russian-speaking Donbass region — following eight years of Ukrainian shelling of civilians. Biden “didn’t write this” as he “doesn’t have the mental capacity,” Ritter told Sputnik. “I’m not picking on him, I’m just being honest,” he said. “This was written by his national security staff. It was edited by Jake Sullivan. I believe [US Secretary of State] Tony Blinken came in with a lot of stuff that this was a collaborative effort by the people who are managing Joe Biden.” “This is the story, not the content of the op-ed,” Ritter stressed. “The story is that Joe Biden, the president of the United States is lacking in such mental capacity that the presidency is being managed by people who weren’t elected to do that job. That’s what people should be worried about.”

But he said the words attributed to Biden no longer carry the same weight as comments by previous presidents, thanks to the proliferation of alternatives to the mainstream media. “So when Joe Biden or his managers publish an op-ed of this nature, it no longer has the same cachet, the same impact that it would have ten years ago,” Ritter argued. “Today, it’s immediately cancelled out as ridiculous as absurd.” Ritter wrote for Consortium News last week that Biden and Blinken were being disingenuous in their call for a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict, given that no Israeli leader in decades has been serious about implementing it. “Even if such a governing coalition could be crafted together to politically sustain the idea of a two-state solution that fails to resonate with Israelis and Palestinians alike, there remains the ultimate hurdle that needs to be cleared before any notion of a lasting peace between Israeli and Palestinian states premised on the notion of equality — Israel’s nuclear weapons program,” Ritter wrote.

The former weapons inspector said Israel’s nuclear program had been “shrouded in ambiguity from the moment it was born, back in the 1960s when they actually produced a weapon.” “The United States has been the principal reason why this has happened,” Ritter pointed out. “The Nixon administration was confronted with the fact that Israel had nuclear weapons. We knew it. And they were in violation of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, because even if they didn’t sign the treaty, we signed the treaty. And the treaty only allows five declared nuclear powers. So we would have to sanction Israel.” He underscored the aggressive nature of Israel’s military doctrine known as the “Samson option” after the biblical hero who collapsed the temple of the Philistines, killing them and himself. That doctrine mandates first use of nuclear weapons against neighboring Middle Eastern states if Israel faces military defeat and a return to Palestinian majority rule.

“That’s Israel’s nuclear policy, that if Israel goes, everybody goes,” Ritter explained. “And we went along with it because we believed that we could secure Israel enough so they would never have to use this weapon.” But Biden’s ostensible resurrection of the two-state solution calls that doctrine into question, he said. “A Palestinian state implies that Israel has normalized relations with their Palestinian neighbors and by extension, their regional neighbors.Therefore, there could be no justification for the continuation of this policy,” Ritter said. “Moreover, Palestine could never be considered free and independent so long as it was living next door to a nuclear power, an undeclared nuclear power.”

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“European leaders want to understand whether they will have their say in the process of replacing Zelensky, or whether this political transformation in Kiev will be carried out, as usual, by two powers – London and Washington..”

Western Leaders Came to Ukraine to Test Kiev Regime Viability (Sp.)

European Council President Charles Michel arrived in the Ukrainian capital on Tuesday as well as Maia Sandu, president of Moldova. Separately, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius took the train to Kiev to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on an unannounced visit. US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin landed in Ukraine on Monday to unveil a new US military aid package worth $100 million for the Ukrainian military. Prior to that, new Foreign Secretary David Cameron made his first trip to the Eastern European country last week. “Firstly, we must not forget that today all ‘progressive’ humanity is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Maidan,” Dmitry Evstafiev, political scientist and HSE University professor, told Sputnik with a touch of irony referring to the 2014 February coup in Kiev.

“Therefore, all the main European leaders, in Kiev, in fact, defend the policy that they began 10 years ago to finally turn Ukraine against Russia. This was a very important strategic choice. And this was, first of all, a European choice, not an American one. The Americans simply hijacked the processes that the Europeans launched, hijacked it successfully and effectively in such a way that today’s Europe, while still representing something geopolitically, no longer represents anything in terms of geoeconomics.” Secondly, it has become obvious that the Zelensky regime is becoming “catastrophically toxic” not only for the United States, but also for Europe, Evstafiev continued. “For the United States, the Zelensky regime has become toxic for quite a while, and it was a very difficult story for the Americans, which turned the issue of supporting, in fact, a radical nationalist, almost dictatorial at that time, and now an overtly dictatorial regime, into one of the most important topics of internal political struggle in the United States,” the professor remarked.

Per Evstafiev, Washington is no longer concealing the fact that it wants to turn a Ukraine conflict into a big European war using the desire of the Zelensky regime to somehow survive amid the deteriorating military situation and dwindling US support. The high-profile visits came at a time when the West has shifted focus on the Palestinian-Israeli standoff, which reportedly frustrated Zelensky. The Western mainstream press has also recently changed its coverage of the conflict from lauding Ukraine to admitting Kiev’s failure to proceed with its counteroffensive. Against this backdrop, European leaders are apparently trying to find out to what extent the Kiev regime is viable and whether it is worth continuing to support Volodymyr Zelensky, the expert said.

“And here there is a second layer to this issue: European leaders want to understand whether they will have their say in the process of replacing Zelensky, or whether this political transformation in Kiev will be carried out, as usual, by two powers – London and Washington. In this sense, of course, the outright incapacity of the German government and the virtual absence of political leadership in Germany becomes a huge problem for Europeans. Nevertheless, Europeans may try to seize on some opportunities in Kiev and try to defend their positions and their interests in the process of changing power in Kiev.”

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“U.S. and European officials have begun quietly talking to the Ukrainian government about what possible peace negotiations with Russia might entail to end the war..”

US Mission To NATO Signals Zelensky Must Sit At “Negotiating Table” (ZH)

The official X account of the US Mission to NATO wrote Monday, “In this tough and dynamic battle, Ukraine’s soldiers are fighting bravely every single day, and they continue to inspire the world with their bravery and courage.” “We will continue to support them to be in the strongest possible position at the negotiating table when the time comes,” the statement said. This marks a drastic shift in public messaging. Up to a short while ago, the Biden administration had essentially banished the words “negotiating table” from its public discourse. Journalist Glenn Greenwald has commented of this narrative shift: “The West is now telling Zelensky, more or less explicitly and right out in the open: time to wrap this up.” This significant difference in public rhetoric has also begun to appear more and more in mainstream media, which has also very belatedly reflected the American public’s ‘war fatigue’ – which was already setting in even before Ukraine’s much-vaunted early summer attempt at a counteroffensive…

It’s widely believed that talks could already quietly be happening, and that Washington is finally pressuring the Zelensky government to find compromise. “U.S. and European officials have begun quietly talking to the Ukrainian government about what possible peace negotiations with Russia might entail to end the war, according to one current senior U.S. official and one former senior U.S. official familiar with the discussions,” an early November report in NBC said. “The conversations have included very broad outlines of what Ukraine might need to give up to reach a deal, the officials said.” Certainly, at the very least this will include Kiev permanently giving up any future claims on Crimea. But the question of the four annexed territories is what will determine whether a peace deal is reached or not.

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“He claims, as have other Democratic members, that “you can’t use hate speech.” That is demonstrably and completely wrong. Hate speech is protected under the First Amendment. You cannot commit hate crimes.”

Rep. Goldman Denounced “Dangerous” Rhetoric Using Dangerous Rhetoric (Turley)

Even in his freshman year, Democratic New York Rep. Dan Goldman has proven one of the most controversial members in Congress from attacking witnesses to inadvertently undermining the Biden defenses. The latest controversy involves a call to “eliminate” Donald Trump after accusing him of using “inflammatory rhetoric.” He has since apologized for his own language. Despite being one of the many past targets of Goldman’s wrath, I do not believe that Goldman was calling for violence. It was what I call “rage rhetoric” in my book The Indispensable Right. However, the incident shows the perils of criminalizing political speech. Goldman remains a favorite on MSNBC where he rarely fails to disappoint viewers with his brand of smash-mouth politics and rhetoric. It was, therefore, somewhat ironic for Jen Psaki to interview him on the inflammatory rhetoric in this election on MSNBC’s “Inside with Jen Psaki.”

Goldman responded: “rhetoric is really getting dangerous, more and more dangerous, and we saw what happened on Jan. 6, when he uses inflammatory rhetoric. It is just unquestionable at this point that that man cannot see public office again. He is not only unfit, he is destructive to our democracy and he has to be eliminated.” Some have called for Goldman to be investigated by the Secret Service. Others have called for a censure resolution. I do not agree. It was clearly reckless rhetoric and not a true threat. Yet, the incident shows how inflammatory terms are often used in politics. In the very same sentence in which Goldman denounced “dangerous” rhetoric, he proceeded to use dangerous rhetoric. Rep. Goldman has been one of the most vocal voices for prosecuting incitement based on such language.

In an interview with NPR, Goldman (who was counsel in the Trump impeachment) defended the use of such rhetoric as the basis for impeachment or prosecution: “there’s all sorts of speech that is criminalized. You can’t – you know, you can’t use hate speech. You – people – in all sorts of crimes. You can’t send death threats across, you know, the Internet. There are so many criminal laws that do criminalize speech, and so the notion that the president of the United States somehow has a First Amendment right to be protected by the government for his speech doesn’t make any sense. It’s a backwards argument, and it’s a loser.” As a threshold observation, the interview shows how dangerously ill-informed Goldman is on the First Amendment. He claims, as have other Democratic members, that “you can’t use hate speech.” That is demonstrably and completely wrong. Hate speech is protected under the First Amendment. You cannot commit hate crimes.

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“I have endorsed him wholeheartedly,” Johnson said. “He had a phenomenal first term. His first two years, as you all know, we brought about the greatest economic numbers in the history of the world, not just the country, because his policies work.”

‘All In’ for Trump House Speaker Johnson Pays Visit to Mar-a-Lago (Sp.)

On Monday, US House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) made the pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago, the estate of former US President Donald Trump, who is leading the polls among Republicans in the 2024 race for the presidency. According to US media reports, Johnson attended a fundraiser hosted by Trump for US Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) who, like Johnson, is a close supporter of Trump. It was reportedly the first time Johnson and Trump have spoken since the Louisiana lawmaker became House Speaker a month ago. The previous Speaker, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), had a troubled relationship with the former president, and it was ultimately a strongly pro-Trump faction of the House GOP Caucus that caused McCarthy’s eviction from the Speaker’s seat in early October.

In the fracas of selecting a new Speaker, Trump endorsed Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) instead of Johnson and even floated the idea of him becoming Speaker himself for a time, since the Constitution doesn’t require that the Speaker be a sitting member of Congress. However, Trump did eventually urge Republican lawmakers to rally behind Johnson because he was the leading candidate and the lower Congressional chamber had been without leadership for three weeks. After Johnson was elected Speaker, Trump praised him for being an underdog. “At this time yesterday, nobody was thinking of Mike,” Trump said. “And then we put out the word, and now he’s the Speaker of the House. So I want to just thank all of the supporters that I have, and I want to thank all the supporters that Mike has, and again, he’ll be a great Speaker. I think you’re going to be very proud.”

Johnson has remained loyal to Trump, too. Johnson and Bilirakis were both signatories of an amicus brief to the US Supreme Court in late 2020 that supported Trump’s claim that the November 2020 election had been marred by fraud, invalidating his loss to Joe Biden. While those claims have been widely discredited in the years since, including by many who were part of Trump’s cabinet at the time, Johnson is one figure who has maintained that the 2020 election was “stolen” from Trump. Last week, Johnson told reporters he was “all in” on Trump’s 2024 election bid. “I have endorsed him wholeheartedly,” Johnson said. “He had a phenomenal first term. His first two years, as you all know, we brought about the greatest economic numbers in the history of the world, not just the country, because his policies work. And I’m all in for President Trump.”

Trump has not yet won the Republican National Committee’s endorsement as their presidential candidate, but has led the pack of candidates since announcing his intention to run. The latest poll by Morning Consult found two-thirds of GOP voters ready to pull the lever for Trump in November 2024; however another poll by Harvard CAPS-Harris found that 60% of likely Trump voters said there is “at least some chance” they would support a different candidate. Behind Trump, the Morning Consult poll found just 13% of GOP voters support Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and 9% support former UN ambassador Nikki Haley. However, Trump is also facing down several criminal cases that have levied a wide array of federal offense accusations at him, including related to the January 6, 2021, insurrection by his supporters at the US Capitol and the classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago during an FBI raid in August 2022. Some of the charges could bar him from running for public office if he is found guilty.

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There are so many of these, it’s hard to keep track.

Trump Seeks To Halt Gag Order In Election Meddling Case (BBC)

An appeals court is weighing a bid by Donald Trump to halt the limited gag order he faces in his federal trial on election subversion charges. The order keeps Mr Trump from speaking out against court personnel, potential witnesses or the special counsel’s office. It is currently on hold. Lawyers for the former president and current Republican frontrunner called for the order to be revoked. But a three-judge panel appeared sceptical over lifting the restriction. The trio of Democratic appointees grilled both sides over the most appropriate way to balance free speech considerations with the integrity and safety of those involved in a criminal trial that begins next March. After an initial hearing that was scheduled for 40 minutes but lasted more than two hours, the judges did not issue an immediate ruling.

Attorneys for Mr Trump had challenged what they called an effort to censor his speech in the midst of a hotly contested presidential campaign. But prosecutors with the US justice department argued he has a “well-established practice of using his public platform to target his adversaries”. Mr Trump’s criticism of those involved in the federal case over the 2020 election had occurred most recently this weekend, they noted. At a Saturday campaign rally in Iowa, Mr Trump called Special Counsel Jack Smith, the key prosecutor involved in the case, “deranged” and a “Trump-hating prosecutor”. He also said that Mr Smith’s “wife and family despise me much more than he does”, at “about a 15 on a scale of 10”.

They were the types of remarks that Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is overseeing the election subversion case, has sought to limit since she issued a “narrowly tailored” gag order last month. Her intention, she said, was to prevent “a pre-trial smear campaign”. “The order is unprecedented and it sets a terrible precedent for future restrictions on core political speech,” John Sauer, Mr Trump’s attorney, told the Washington DC appeals court on Monday. Mr Sauer claimed there was no evidence that anybody involved in the case was facing an “imminent, pending threat” because of Mr Trump.

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“Yes, there was an insurrection of sorts. Those in power hated Donald Trump so much that they were willing to torture and even murder their fellow Americans to keep him from the presidency. Unless these people are brought to justice, we will have no Republic left to defend.”

We Must Demand Justice for the January 6th Protestors! (Ron Paul)

New US House Speaker Mike Johnson struck a blow for liberty and justice last week when he finally authorized the release of all the tapes from the January 6, 2021 “insurrection.” We were told by no less than President Biden himself that this was the “worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War.” The FBI was unleashed by the Biden Administration to hunt down hundreds of participants in this “insurrection” and lock them up in the gulag where they awaited trial in torturous conditions – many in solitary confinement. A Congressional Committee was set up under then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi to “get to the bottom” of the “Trump-led insurrection.” It did not include a single Representative nominated by the opposition Republican Party, but rather two “Republicans” – Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger – who could be relied on by Pelosi and the Democrats to toe the line.

In short, the whole thing was an old-fashioned Soviet show trial, where the evidence was kept secret and the pre-determined verdict – guilty – was to be used to tighten the grip of the ruling regime and intimidate any further dissenters into silence. The message was clear: “speak out against the ‘perfection’ of the 2020 election and you may find yourself in the gulag along with the insurrectionists.” It was terrifying and profoundly anti-American. And, as we finally can see for ourselves thanks to Speaker Johnson, it was a huge lie. The new video shows demonstrators shaking hands with police officers once they entered the Capitol Building. They were welcomed into the building by officers who even held the doors for them to enter! They had no way of knowing that they would soon be rounded up and locked away.

Does that mean no crimes were committed on January 6th? Not at all. The tapes already released were carefully chosen to single out examples of violence and other possible criminality. But the full release of the tapes demonstrates beyond a doubt that the endless propaganda that this was a coordinated attempt to overthrow the government was false. And as for that violence and mayhem on January 6th? How much of it was instigated by undercover FBI agents? New footage clearly shows officers outside the building firing on protestors with no warning. That must be why, in hearing after hearing, Biden Administration officials like Attorney General Merrick Garland have refused to tell Congress the number of federal agents present and their roles in instigating violence.

The release of this evidence should immediately result in the release of all non-violent protestors awaiting trial or serving their sentences. Those in power responsible for promoting this lie should take their places in the jail cells. This delayed justice will not help protesters like Matthew Perna, however. Though the new video release clearly shows him calmly walking inside the Capitol in the presence of unconcerned police officers, when Merrick Garland’s Department of “Justice” announced they would seek terrorism charges against him, Perna, in despair, decided to hang himself in his garage. Yes, there was an insurrection of sorts. Those in power hated Donald Trump so much that they were willing to torture and even murder their fellow Americans to keep him from the presidency. Unless these people are brought to justice, we will have no Republic left to defend.

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Texas AG Ken Paxton is busy. He has officially opened an investigation into Media Matters for potential fraudulent activity, and sued Pfizer at the same time.. Both of whom are dealing with the same judge.

Texas AG Sues Pfizer Over Tainted Children’s Drugs (ZH)

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued Pfizer and Tris Pharma “for defrauding the Texas Medicaid program by providing adulterated pharmaceutical drugs to Texas children.” Specifically, Pfizer’s ADHD drug “Quillivant XR” was “knowingly distributed” to children on Medicaid despite the drugmaker’s “pattern of failing quality control tests” due to a flawed manufacturing process by Tris, which Pfizer contracted with to produce the drug, according to the complaint. “I am horrified by the dishonesty we uncovered in this investigation,” said Texas AG Ken Paxton. “Pfizer and Tris intentionally concealed and failed to disclose the issues with Quillivant to receive taxpayer funded benefits through Texas Medicaid, defrauding the state and endangering children.

Our Civil Medicaid Fraud Division has done an outstanding job holding these pharmaceutical companies accountable.” According to the filing, “At no point did Defendants warn Texas Medicaid providers or decision-makers that Quillivant had known manufacturing issues affecting its efficacy, thereby depriving the Medicaid program of the crucial information it relies on.… As a result, thousands of Texas children received an adulterated Schedule II Controlled Dangerous Substance.”The lawsuit, initially filed under seal, was unsealed at the AG’s request.

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“Barnea, who represents the CIA and Pompeo, contended that the Fourth Amendment right to privacy under the U.S. Constitution did not apply at the Ecuador embassy in London..”

Lawsuit Against Alleged CIA Spying On Assange Visitors (Gosztola)

United States court held an extraordinary hearing on November 16, where a judge carefully considered a lawsuit against the CIA and former CIA director Mike Pompeo for their alleged role in spying on American attorneys and journalists who visited WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Judge John Koeltl of the Southern District of New York pushed back when Assistant U.S. Attorney Jean-David Barnea refused to confirm or deny that the CIA had targeted Americans without obtaining a warrant. He also invited attorneys for the Americans to update the lawsuit so that claims of privacy violations explicitly dealt with the government’s lack of a warrant. In August 2022, four Americans sued the CIA and Pompeo: Margaret Ratner Kunstler, a civil rights activist and human rights attorney; Deborah Hrbek, a media lawyer who represented Assange or WikiLeaks; journalist John Goetz, who worked for Der Spiegel when the German media organization first partnered with WikiLeaks; and journalist Charles Glass, who wrote articles on Assange for The Intercept.

The lawsuit alleged that as visitors Glass, Goetz, Hrbek, and Kunstler were required to “surrender” their electronic devices to employees of a Spanish company called UC Global, which was contracted to provide security for the Ecuador embassy. UC Global and the company’s director David Morales “copied the information stored on the devices” and shared the information with the CIA. The agency even had access to live video and audio feeds from cameras in the embassy. On June 4, 2023, the Spanish newspaper El País reported that UC Global director David Morales had a folder on his laptop marked “CIA.” Spanish police initially withheld 213 gigabytes of files in a criminal case against Morales that has unfolded as the U.S. government pursues Assange’s extradition on Espionage Act charges. (Morales and UC Global were sued as well.)

Often a lawsuit—especially one involving allegations of illegal and unchecked surveillance—would end swiftly. A judge would accept all of the “national security” arguments made by the CIA and dismiss the case. However, Koeltl has chosen to be more fair and measured when assessing the stunning allegations. Barnea, who represents the CIA and Pompeo, contended that the Fourth Amendment right to privacy under the U.S. Constitution did not apply at the Ecuador embassy in London. The CIA did not play a “sufficient role in controlling or directing” the actions of Morales and UC Global contractors. When Barnea maintained that CIA access to live video feeds would not necessarily mean that the agency was in control or directing UC Global, Koeltl seemed baffled.

“So U.S. agents were monitoring the feed in the United States, and that’s not sufficient involvement by the government?” “You don’t seem to dispute in your papers that a warrant would be necessary to seize the contents of the electronic devices,” Koeltl said, as Barnea outlined the government’s argument that Americans who visited Assange had no “reasonable expectation of privacy” when they entered the embassy. “You don’t seem to dispute in your papers that a warrant would be necessary to seize the contents of the electronic devices,” Koeltl said, as Barnea outlined the government’s argument that Americans who visited Assange had no “reasonable expectation of privacy” when they entered the embassy. Barnea replied, “I don’t believe that a warrant is ever required outside the United States. The Second Circuit [Court of Appeals] has held that the warrant requirement of the Fourth Amendment only applies within the United States.”


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    Paul Cézanne Young Italian Woman at a Table c1900   • Israel’s Cabinet Approves Ceasefire, Hostage Deal With Hamas (Sp.) • Gaza ‘Truce’ Won’t Hal
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle November 22 2023]

    #147135
    those darned kids
    Participant

    wowsers,

    mornin’ joe is my new favourite show!

    it’s better than “plan 9 from outer space” and “the giant claw” combined!!!!!

    maybe we can double-bill it with “they saved hitler’s brain”..

    #147136
    those darned kids
    Participant

    the pied piper of toronto..

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    to be fair, the dinosaur lady is short.

    #147137
    Dr D Rich
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    As if on cue…Ritter, UN Weapons Inspector, says ‘dementia’ as opposed to delirium, psychosis, schizophrenia.

    Two ortho spine surgeons, one neurologist, 2 psychiatrists and one neurology residency flunkout didn’t notice the mild blepharoptosis and failed to connect it to the cervical spine OR ever order an MRI of the brain and neck.

    Maybe Ritter UN Weapons Inspector and most certainly John Day should be able to tell y’all (sing it with me) how “the neck none is connected to the eye bone”

    No pun intended. doctors got wrong and entirely neglected that cervical spinal stenosis is connected to the eye rarely and frequently major depression.
    The devils are all here.

    #147138
    The Markster
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    Happy to not have this clown-like regime mouthpiece “Morning Joe” person, or Anderson Cooper or Rachel Maddow or the tongue-clicking hag sitting next to “Joe” in the video in my life. Turning off imperial media altogether after Friday November 8th 2020, except when viewed from a place of mockery or critique from afar like on TAE, was one of the healthiest things I have done in recent years.

    Now if I could just find the courage to throw this trance-inducing dumbphone into the trash, I might start getting somewhere.

    #147139
    Dr. D
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    “What If the Constitution No Longer Applied?”

    Yes that sounds incredibly dumb, but thankfully it’s a rhetorical question from Napolitano who already knows it no longer applies.

    “Morris Berman points out in his book Dark Ages America, “70 percent of American adults cannot name their senators or congressmen; more than half don’t know the actual number of senators, and nearly a quarter cannot name a single right guaranteed by the First Amendment. Sixty-three percent cannot name the three branches of government.”

    As I said yesterday: AND? Who taught them? Whose job was it? We have a Dept of Education, since they can’t do these simple acts, or even check they are being done by others, maybe we should disband them? Disband or arrest for fraud the entire Teacher’s Union nationwide? Stop funding every public school at the local level? We have ZERO competency in Maryland. ZERO. But that’s not low enough. When is enough?

    Now granted, after you’re 16, 18, 22, you probably start to be responsible for realizing you’re an ignoramus and start to pick up these things. Many have. But at the age of 9, 12, 15? Sorry that’s YOUR, Parents, society’s fault, not the child’s soon-to-be-adult. And that ALSO means they’re starting from zero knowledge – actively REVERSE knowledge — at the age of 20, 25? Far, FAR harder. Is it child abuse? Truancy laws say it is. So let’s bring a couple hundred to court and find out.

    Oh those stupid Zoomers who “Were born”. Millennials? Well, they’re 30 now, their piss-poor start has worn off. They’re deep in news so yes, they should have realized to go look and fix themselves by now.

    “In First, US Deployed AC-130 Gunship To Attack Pro-Iran Militants In Iraq

    That’s weird: what are we doing in Iraq? Are we at war with them? Iraq doesn’t want us there, so why do we have airports and gunships against their will? It’s sovereign Iraq territory, they have planes, why didn’t we ask THEM to go gunship the “Militants”?

    Back to basics every day: Reality “Exists”. Things have rules, definitions, boundaries, effects. This is all denied. I am God. Thou shalt have no limits before me.

    “New York State AG Suing Pepsi for “Excessive Pollution”

    Guess they didn’t pay their extortion Vig to the Big Guy this month. Notice 100,000 companies NOT liable, INCLUDING especially 50 different pesticides sprayed everywhere. …People don’t generally realize but NY as a State is all farms and forests, size of Pennsylvania. And also pretty sure there’s no “Buffalo River” of which they speak. The River in Buffalo is the Niagara, because: Niagara Falls.

    “Finnish Military Bolsters Border Wall after Charging Russia with Weaponizing Migrants

    But walls don’t work! …Or walls only work if they’re not in North America?

    Crazy Eddie’s Wall of Walls: We’ll pay for any wall worldwide! Need a Wall? Just call! We’ll pay it, for FREE! We got Israeli Walls, Ukrainian Walls, Finnish Walls, Pelosi Walls, our Walls are off the Walls! There’s only one wall we don’t have: any wall that protects YOU.

    “MORNING JOE: “In a 2nd term, Trump will imprison, he will execute whoever he is allowed to imprison, execute, drive from the country. Just look at his past. It’s not really hard to read”

    Yes, it wasn’t hard to read: Trump did none of those things. Ever. Never ever. Not In four years, nor at the election, nor the Biden Inauguration, nor in a recent interview, as Jimmy Dore covers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldaeXexvceY Soooo….when is he expected to finally round up the gays (whose marriage he supports) and put them on cattle cars? He’ll soon be 80. Tick Tock.

    “Scott Ritter: “Israel been defeated on the battlefield! We will not SAVE THEM this time..”

    He’s not in charge. Who is he speaking for? I believe him, but wouldn’t that all rest on votes in Congress, etc, or upper-level military? Is he now getting information from there that indicates our direction? (probably to some small degree) ‘Cause atm, the “U.S.” is supporting Israel totally and wildly.

    ““The story is that Joe Biden, the president of the United States is lacking in such mental capacity that the presidency is being managed by people who weren’t elected to do that job.”

    Yes, but that’s been true since probably Nixon. Not thinking of Reagan, etc, who HW Bush tried to murder and then was running, or later: problem is the Federal government after Carter is SIMPLY TOO LARGE, and doing too much for any man to keep track of it even cursorily. This is GOOD for the secret, unelected “real” government, like other frauds, bank frauds, they NEED a big blizzard of stuff on top to camouflage them, and when something they do occurs, for it to be an “Accident”.

    So there is no “President”, we have a figurehead, a Mascot, including Trump. Also a minor figurehead. Note Trump tried to do THE SMALLEST actions of curtailing the Permanent State, to direct it left or right? Nope. Everyone merely ignored everything he said, did, wanted, nothing happened. Why waste time and attention on the elections then? Or for that matter, why obey any of the laws they pass? We already don’t, so just “don’t” a little more.

    “the presidency is being managed by people who weren’t elected to do that job.”

    The NATION is being managed and run by people who weren’t elected (do do that job). That is to say: We’re not a Democracy. We haven’t been one in 40-50 years. Yes, that started under JFK, but it took a few years to finalize, and now ultimately, metastasize.

    “But he said the words attributed to Biden no longer carry the same weight as comments by previous presidents,”

    I would argue, but essentially this is the first time the White House and Press Sec CONSTANTLY CONTRADICT the President. Joe says stuff, the “White House” says he didn’t, and nobody notices or cares. Soooo….who’s running things if not the President? Jen Psaki? Joe’s Chinese donors? Pfizer? No one knows. No one even asks.

    ““That’s Israel’s nuclear policy, that if Israel goes, everybody goes,” Ritter explained. “And we went along with it because we believed that we could secure Israel enough so they would never have to use this weapon.”

    Okay, great, but you do know THE REST OF THE WORLD IS THE SAME. That is, Russia fell, that was a risk. But right now, the U.S., Britain, France, etc are all collapsing just like Israel. We ALSO have to keep them, us from nuking everyone in an “Everybody goes” scenario. Now you see why they have to be so careful and everything takes so long? And that’s a high threshold. China or more likely us, releasing Ebola from a California lab is easy as pie. Bill Gates said he would.

    “quietly talking to the Ukrainian government about what possible peace negotiations with Russia might entail to end the war..”

    Interesting. Why would Russia say yes? …I think they will, but they think differently than I/we do. They said yes to Minsk knowing NATO/Everyone would break it, then watching them break it. …To prepare, etc. Any remaining NATO will attempt to add any remaining Ukraine. Yet that may take a while? Or NATO may cease to exist? Europe is likely to collapse into a NoKo prison state? Two levels: it may go the way I say, with Russia taking anything they like, BUT Russia may not be in a hurry to make this happen and take it in two bites: one now out to Odessa, and one in 10 years from now taking up to Lviv.

    By then, Europe will be under the Berlin Wall EUROPE built. They are building it now. They are crushing their people now. They are making Socialist “Misery Spread Widely” now. Russia will be increasingly WEST Berlin, where after being run-down, have INCREASING food, leisure, toys. Wheel of Time. By then Ukraine may WANT to join Moscow even as Paris will want to but can’t. See? We’ll watch.

    “While those claims have been widely discredited in the years since, including by many who were part of Trump’s cabinet at the time”

    Ah the NPR Writers of Sputnik. There was just a case YESTERDAY that opened up the issue of the bad electric voting in GA, just as they said. When they finally got “evidence” to “court” instead of “no standing”. This was true in Providence, the week before. PA Supreme Court, SAID it happened (and therefore did nothing about it). Michigan and Wisconsin have multiple cases, but too complicated to remember. At the least that’s 5 key states who supported it, instead of “Discrediting” it, and what like 25 states voted for in the first place? Texas, a state of 27 million, sued them first day on this basis? So The idea here was widely discredited by “New York” and “California” and no where else?

    We see this all over: “Without evidence” in the Floyd trial. Without Evidence? THE CITY CORONER SAID HE WAS OVERDOSING. That may or may not mean Chauvin killed him, but it clearly IS evidence. Nope! I made it all up! Out of my mind! Hahaha!

    This was true of the Psaki segment above. They take a long Trump clip and play it. There is no possible misunderstanding, anyone who listened to the interview knows Trump was 100% the #Opposite of what she was quoting, and they are 100% reporting the #Opposite of what happened. Made. It. Up. And again, why? Not like Trump doesn’t do real things that suck. I guess if they reported that Trump is a pro-Israel maniac who bombed Syria and Afghanistan for no reason, lacking any premise of war, their tongues would turn black and their faces burn off for telling the truth?

    Okay, overall, when it goes down, no one will trust anything. No American, that is. That’s bad in the short term, but it’s a therapy we clearly need. Getting that back is the core of what it means to be an American: to distrust government. And devolving back to the “Constitution”: a UNION of separate STATES.

    “the most appropriate way to balance free speech considerations with the integrity and safety of those involved in a criminal trial”

    I mean good, but remember the Chauvin trial? The JUDGE SAID ON TRANSCRIPT HE CAN’T GET A FAIR TRIAL. Anywhere. Sorry, maybe I misunderstand, but doesn’t that mean you acquit? (So you BETTER make that fair trial happen). AND there were rioters outside the Court all day, attacking the Jurors, tracking them down at their houses to be killed if they “ruled wrong”? I don’t see anyone cared about that, right? Ohhhhhhh, so we only have “fair” trials for one side, and not the other, got it.

    Like Psakis’ “Incite to violence” this week. Inciting to stop the integrity and safety of Trump is laudable, and therefore legal. Trump’s use of similar rhetoric is a hanging offense. I am god.

    “Unless these people are brought to justice, we will have no Republic left to defend.”

    Past tense.

    “speak out against the ‘perfection’ of the 2020 election and you may find yourself in the gulag “

    In the Trump interview above the Journalist let him speak (a hanging offense) and Trump pointed out that all elections are contested. They’re constantly contested. By everyone. It’s not like we had to blow the dust off a recount or something.

    But this has been since…1960? Kennedy-Nixon was famously corrupt, and in Chicago. Just that Joe Kennedy was MORE corrupt so stuffed more votes. Since then, LBJ, not elected. Nixon, election famously corrupt with paid prostitutes on the floor, thus paranoid about Watergate. Why? BECAUSE IT HAPPENED. The DNC WAS doing this. (You just can’t burglarize for it). Ford, corrupt, from Warren Commission, not elected. Carter: new method, who was he running against? Clinton, corrupt, paid 3-way race and used secret service to remove a candidate. Bush: never elected, Supreme Court appointed, turns out illegally and incorrectly. Levels of corruption therefore never before seen in America 220 years to that point, and that’s really saying something after Adams(both). Obama, 100% of votes, not a single vote against in scores, hundreds of locations. Statistically impossible, corrupt. Hillary, corrupt, but no one’s looking since Trump’s people stacked the vote MORE. How do I know? HRC said it was. SHE said it was a corrupt, stolen election. What do we do in such a case, miss Hillary, Lawyer from Yale? Weeeeeeeeeeee……….doooooo……….?????? That’s right: file for an investigation and recount. Now why didn’t she, a Yale lawyer, do that?

    And then didn’t do that AND said it was stolen for 8 years? If it was stolen, you have only yourself to blame since she never filed for the recount!

    ““speak out against the ‘perfection’ of the 2020 election”? Because we have ANY modern baseline that ANY election had been legit in generations? Before I and most people were born? Srs?

    “If you laid all the girls from Yale Law end to end,” Dorothy Parker says, “…my eyes, my eyes….”

    “Both of whom are dealing with the same judge.”

    How does everyone get to Judge-shop all the time? And District-shop as well, as is specifically prohibited in the Constitution?

    ““Barnea, who represents the CIA and Pompeo, contended that the Fourth Amendment right to privacy under the U.S. Constitution did not apply at the Ecuador embassy in London..”

    Sorry, but I believe that is totally correct and not at all controversial. The U.S. Constitution protects the rights of U.S. citizens. No one else. I mean, you did NOT want us with worldwide jurisdiction and world police, right?

    1) Assange is not a citizen
    2) Most of his guests were not citizens
    3) Ecuador nor the nation the embassy was in, was inside the United States
    4) The CIA only has jurisdiction to matters OUTSIDE the United States.
    5) The CIA as an intel agency is mandated to spy on everyone else not a citizen, not on U.S. soil.

    So they did. I would decline on budgetary grounds, but legally I don’t know what case you would make. They’re not supposed to do EVERY thing, they are supposed to do IMPORTANT things, but still, Wikileaks is major so I don’t know how you’d argue that either.

    Keto: Maybe, but people have eaten all kinds of diets worldwide. Farmers used to eat the American diet, with bacon, eggs, toast, smoke 60 years plenty of carbs and vegetables and live to be 100. Removing meat reduces testosterone is my bet. Adding bugs — or rather their shells — is deadly to humans as a replacement.

    Must…Kill…More…Humans. Must…Kill…ALL…

    #147140
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    As if on cue…Ritter, UN Weapons Inspector, says ‘dementia’ as opposed to delirium, psychosis, schizophrenia.

    Two ortho spine surgeons, one neurologist, 2 psychiatrists and one neurology residency flunkout didn’t notice the mild blepharoptosis and failed to connect it to the cervical spine OR ever order an MRI of the brain and neck.

    Maybe Ritter UN Weapons Inspector and most certainly John Day should be able to tell y’all (sing it with me) how “the neck none is connected to the eye bone”

    No pun intended. 6 doctors got wrong and entirely neglected that cervical spinal stenosis is connected to the eye rarely and frequently major depression.
    The devils are all here.

    #147141
    tboc
    Participant

    wonder why Dr. EJ Antoni did not note that interest on the debt will consume two times the amount of corporate tax revenue or an amount equal to sixty three percent of FUTA/FICA withholdings. Personal income tax is ± 50% of total US federal revenue. Spin the narrative doesn’t have the pleasant result found in the game spin the bottle although there is some kissing involved.

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    Oroboros
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    #147143
    Ian Graham
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    When will you start posted better sources on climate/overshoot/energy issues? Maybe some more range of perspectives, not just the clickbait for the deniers?
    Some examples today:

    Economic models buckle under strain of climate reality…

    “”…climate change is fundamentally different to other shocks because once it has hit, it doesn’t go away,” said Thierry Philipponnat, author of a report by Finance Watch, a Brussels-based public interest NGO on financial issues. And if the fundamental assumption is flawed, all the rest makes little sense – if any,” he told Reuters.

    “Another issue is that IAMs have for years used a “quadratic function” to calculate GDP losses that involves squaring the temperature change – while ignoring other methods such as the exponential function better suited for rapid change.

    “Critics say this choice is doomed to underplay the likely impact – particularly if the planet hits environmental tipping points in which damage is not only irreversible but happens at an ever-accelerating rate.”

    https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/economic-models-buckle-under-strain-climate-reality-2023-11-22/

    “Global daily average temperature 2C above pre-industrial norm for first time [and on two consecutive days].

    “On Friday the temperature reached 2.07C above the temperature average for 1850-1900, a larger increase than at any other time in recorded history, while provisional figures show the following day to have reached 2.06C.”

    https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/twitter-antonio-guterres-scientists-copernicus-el-nino-b2450551.html

    “World facing ‘hellish’ 3C of climate heating, UN warns before Cop28…

    “Guterres said: “Present trends are racing our planet down a dead-end 3C temperature rise. This is a failure of leadership, a betrayal of the vulnerable, and a massive missed opportunity.”

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/20/world-facing-hellish-3c-of-climate-heating-un-warns-before-cop28

    #147144
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Mourning Joe:

    “In a 2nd term, Trump will imprison, he will execute whoever he is allowed to imprison, execute, drive from the country. Just look at his past. It’s not really hard to read”

    Pure unadulterated PROJECTION

    Like a phucking four year old telling you that you must have eaten all the cookies from the cookie jar.

    On the other hand imprisoning Media Man-Whores like Mourning Joe and the legions of his follow travelers in Presstitutionland© is a very good idea indeed.

    But first the Empire of Lies needs to locked up the majority of it’s so called ‘judges’, throw the key away, and start from scratch.

    We the people need an unadulterated version of Night of the Long Knives in the legal system.

    Most Empire of Lies,Lies,Lies ‘judges‘ are corrupt hacks, they constitute the worst lawyers climbing up the slimy greasy pole of the so-called ‘law’, nothing more than codified corruption.

    Lawyers lie for a living

    Yeh, I’m shocked, there’s gambling going on, round up the usual suspects…….

    ‘Judges’ spend half their careers obfuscating the Truth for money and the other half revealing the same Truth they hid with Malice Aforethought.

    Lying by omission, same as the Media-whores.

    Lawyers and Presstitutes

    Cut from the same used condom

    Perfect example of Legalize Sleaze®

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    #147145
    Oroboros
    Participant

    So here is an Empire of Lies soldier who was mustering out of the service.

    His paratrooper unit was sent into Afghanistan several weeks before it folded and Duh’merica Cut n’ Run

    There were only two planes left on the runaway and they were packed with the last Empire of Lies troops and were too heavy to take off.

    His commander told him and the other troops to dump most of their gear off the plane and that they would not be held responsible for the lost gear.

    Two years later as he is leaving the service he gets a bill that he owes the government almost $4,000 for the gear he was ordered to abandon on the runway during the bugout.

    Sweet

    This should be the Army’s new recruiting ad

    No wonder they are catastrophically missing recruiting targets.

    The Snowflake Army

    Millions of Snowflakes and they are all so precious and unique.

    #147146
    tboc
    Participant

    one needs something to aspire to:

    The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

    If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.

    There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.

    At birth the Devil touched my tongue.
    Dorothy Parker

    #147147
    zerosum
    Participant

    Bloggers and MSM are selling lottery tickets to the blind.
    The prize, to see the elephant in the room.

    #147148
    tboc
    Participant

    Morning Joe – Mr. Infomercial – before he left to spend more time with his family was from this congressional district. Night after night in the wee hours Mr. Infomercial was there on the moronoscope. Living the life of an insomniac at that time even that lyin bastard couldn’t put me to sleep. Ah the days of the Contract on America. Much like the Civil War the Contract is still active. I had always thought a newt was something one might find under a rock or in a swamp, guess that is correct. Ole Joe never encouraged the dawn surprise. Mika never Maka Bigga

    #147149
    zerosum
    Participant

    I am blind. I want to see. I got a lottery ticket. If I win, I’ll be able to see/understand the truth/reality.

    The price of gas going down. The oil companies making greater profits. Oil reserves are depleting.
    ———-
    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,

    #147150
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

    Newton’s Third Law

    Sheeple often mistake this physical law with Karma

    It’s not

    It is in it’s own class.

    My Karma ran over my Dogma.

    Karma is about being eternally trapped in a loop, a positive feedback in thinking, and never learning from mistakes.

    Keep doing the same thing over n’ over n’ over and expecting a different outcome.

    Diplomacy is suppose to be an antidote to the positive feedback loop of war and grunges and revenge.

    The old saying about if you pursue revenge you better dig two graves.

    I don’t know how you square that circle with being held accountable for your actions.

    NeoConJobs certainly never seem to be held accountable for their actions.

    Their ilk goes on and on for millennia without accountability.

    Where’s that equal and opposite reaction thingy?

    Where’s ‘justice’?

    Where’s that joke of a forgiving loving God horseshit?

    Crickets

    It shows up long after all the principle players are all dead and buried and their off spring and their successors all forget about the original atrocity because of culturally induced ADHD and historical revisionism.

    No justice for you!

    Life is just like the Soup Nazi

    #147151
    Oroboros
    Participant

    BREAKING: HAMAS TUNNEL LIVE FOOTAGE

    #147152

    This man has a talent, and all 40 minutes entertain:

    #147153
    John Day
    Participant

    1) Dr D Rich alluded to a palsy of the third nerve (“oculomotor”) dysfunction being a sign of other dysfunctions in the brain and spinal cord. It can be fairly common and usually self-correcting in diabetes, but worse pathology of various types, like multiple infarct dementia can do it, which actually goes along with diabetes and other vascular disease.

    2) Apologies to Ilargi, but this is too low-grade for me to out on my blog, so I will litter his comments section with it:
    4,000 Dead Palestinian Kids “Wasn’t Enough”: Watch As Former Obama Official Berates Islamic Food Cart Vendor https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/watch-former-state-department-officials-islamophobic-bullying-food-cart-vendors

    3) While I’m at it:
    “Japs, Jewry And Trannies”: Media Matters President’s Bigoted Blogs Resurface Amid Spat With Musk
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/japs-jewery-and-trannies-media-matters-presidents-bigoted-blog-haunts-current-debate

    #147154

    Ian Graham,

    When will you start posted better sources on climate/overshoot/energy issues? Maybe some more range of perspectives, not just the clickbait for the deniers?

    I got tired of the climate “science”, because it feels far too much like the Covid “science”. Clickbait for the deniers, or clickbait for the alarmists, it’s still just clickbait. What are “better sources” depends on opinion.

    We need to restart this issue all the way back to the start. Without pretending we “know” anything,

    #147155
    John Day
    Participant

    Hey, no parasitic pop-up ads this morning!
    😀

    #147156
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Maybe some more range of perspectives, not just the clickbait for the deniers?

    Implicit in your language is that you have the truth which others deny, are automatically wrong.

    The 420ppm figure is YOUR FIGURE. YOU say that CO2 is 0.042% of the atmosphere…. then you say anyone saying this is A Denier. You appear to know just what to be aware of/not aware of and when.

    Followed by a Confession Of Faith – To Make It Fair

    420ppm = 0.042%

    YOU are concerned about a change of what, 417ppm to 420ppm? From 0.0417 to 0.042% (we’ll set aside the validity of the underlying claim for the sake of argument)

    0.042% – 0.0417% = 0.0003% would be the change you are citing

    Since Humans are responsible for 3% of CO2 change:

    0.0003% x 0.03 = 0.000009% CO2 change due to humans

    You’re not a Climate Denier, you’re a Science Person, right? Do you even understand the most basic, fischer price concept in science, the concept of SIGNIFICANT DIGITS?

    I’m not going to even explain to you what you do with a claimed 0.000009% change. I’m just going to let you continue to look like a laughable whacko religious nutjob.

    #147157
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Media Matters, like all cowards, are weak

    Even heard Tucker say that recently.

    Elon has resources, and intellect, and a sense of humor

    Media Matters has none of that

    I hope Musk burns them to the ground and like the ancient Scythians, drink wine from their skulls

    .

    #147158
    jb-hb
    Participant

    One nine millionth of one percent

    9/100,000,000

    #147159
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    I can almost experience sympathy for “Morning Joe” as he delivers his latest “reality-detached” nonsense to the television pseudo-audience which I must assume he imagines to be listening to what he says. It must feel to him like staring down into a bowl of cold oatmeal at the breakfast table, and delivering thereto a long and rambling soliloquy of utter madness, all the while imagining that the oatmeal hears, understands and is thereby moved to agree.

    Of course Joe knows (just as you and I know) that the only audience he needs to worry about is the one that signs his paycheck and helps him pretend to be a media celebrity.

    #147160
    John Day
    Participant

    I recall the AC 130 gunship being called “Puff The Magic Dragon” during the Vietnam War.
    This big bird flies low, slow circles around a target, which it saturated with cannon and missile fire. It should be a good target for spare Stinger missiles from Ukraine.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_AC-130

    #147161
    jb-hb
    Participant

    if the planet hits environmental tipping points in which damage is not only irreversible but happens at an ever-accelerating rate

    Yes we get it. A miniscule amount of human produced CO2 – 9/100,000,000 – will make the earth overheat and turn into Venus.

    CO2 is the most powerful trace gas in the universe. If you went down to the local airsoft shop, got a cannister of CO2, and put the CO2 in an airtight box with a glass to containing a small steam engine and simply placed it in the sun, you ought to have free energy for life, no doubt.

    Since a mere One nine millionth of one percent nano-trace amount can cause the apocalypse. Think what 100% CO2 can do.

    100%/0.000009% = 11,111,111 times as powerful a concentration of CO2 as would make the planet “Hellish” by your own quote.

    Do you have ZERO shame, zero self respect?

    Global daily average temperature 2C above pre-industrial norm for first time [and on two consecutive days

    As measured by the people who put thermometers on hot rooves, on blacktop parking lots, on airstrip tarmac when they aren’t physically inserting the thermometer into the hot ground. Busted over and over again.

    Please explain why, after over a decade of this, you have a right to demand amnesia from all of us? As if you can do the same thing people have been doing with their twitter posts, signs in front of glaciers predicting they will be gone, etc?

    This is Special Pleading on your part. Ask us permission formally if you want it.

    World facing ‘hellish’ 3C of climate heating, UN warns

    There’s this real actual science called geology. It shows us the world was many times hotter with many times more CO2 (1300%) for MILLIONS upon millions of years. Earth’s climate showed as MORE stable and homogenized. Triceratops at 40 degrees south AND tons of plants and animals living at the equator.

    You’d think there’d be what, mega hurricanes and mega polar vortexes from all that 20 degrees hotter global warming killing all the animals and plants, but instead there were MORE. As if a higher CO2 percentage led to more verdant plant growth which led to more of all the animal life that depends on it as the base of the ecology. One weird trick

    #147162
    Mr. House
    Participant

    Todays lesson class, is about gaslighting:

    Wolf Richter
    Nov 21, 2023 at 10:45 pm

    Depth Charge,

    Wait a minute… why didn’t we get this inflation in 2009 or 2010? That’s what I mean. They did a lot of money printing, and consumer prices didn’t react. That was a complete surprise. And then they printed more money (QE2) and consumer prices didn’t react. That was also a complete surprise. And then they did QE3, the huge QE3, and consumer prices still didn’t react to it. That’s what I mean. We don’t know why it didn’t cause lots of inflation back then. We can guess, lots of people have guessed, I have guessed why. But we do not understand all the aspects that go into what causes inflation. Because back then, QE didn’t cause inflation. It didn’t cause inflation in Japan for 20 years. It didn’t cause inflation in any of the QE countries, until suddenly in 2021, inflation explodes. We don’t fully understand, for example why money printing (and deficit spending!) didn’t cause inflation, and then why suddenly inflation explodes almost globally.

    You can guess, and you can cling to simple answers, but they don’t answer the contradictions we have had.”

    Wolfrichter is a gaslighter, also very ugly and rude. Happy Thanksgiving!

    #147163
    Mr. House
    Participant

    Can anyone in the class tell me where all the inflation went that Wolf claims didn’t happen? Shouldn’t be that hard, we’ve only been studying it for the past 15 years. We did have inflation class, but Wolf won’t admit it, come on, where did it happen?

    #147164
    John Day
    Participant

    @Mr. House: All that QE money went into asset-price-inflation, not bacon-price-inflation, because it was a bribe to global rentier-capitalists to keep the “value” of the $US afloat. That Ponzi is long-in-the-tooth now.

    #147165
    Noirette
    Participant

    On Banksy vid. at top post, “The children of Gaza.”

    Cultural reference: The Red Balloon. A short and moving film from 1956, 34 mins. About a young boy in Paris …

    wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Balloon

    you tube (full movie): https://tinyurl.com/ybs433dw

    It won an Oscar and the Palme d’Or etc. Really, worth a watch, for children specially. Idk about the link to the children of Gaza, hmmm, *autre histoire.*

    #147166
    John Day
    Participant

    Europe Plunges Into Chaos After Germany Freezes Public Spending Following Shock Top Court Decision
    https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/europe-plunges-chaos-after-germany-freezes-public-spending-following-shock-top-court

    #147167
    John Day
    Participant

    “This Is Going To Expose Everything”: Mike Lindell Says Georgia Voting Machine Ruling “Opened The Door That No Man Can Shut”
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/going-expose-everything-mike-lindell-says-georgia-voting-machine-ruling-opened-door-no

    #147168
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    CIA spying on Assange visitors…

    The problem is a government that wants *ALL* privileges.

    So, okay, Assange, not being a US citizen, *can* be spied upon by the US government. However, as a non-citizen not on US soil, not only do the US Constitution’s protections not apply, neither do the laws of the US apply — i.e., he cannot be tried in a US court under US laws, because the laws don’t apply to him. The US Government can’t be permitted to have it both ways — applying its laws to persons around the globe Willy-Nilly, but not applying protections to the same people the laws apply to.

    The CIA is tasked to spy outside the US, but it still has to apply Constitutional protections to US citizens outside the border of the US…which means obtaining a warrant PRIOR to spying on US citizens. If the government doesn’t follow its own rules, then the evidence gathered illegally is inadmissible in court. Which means that if the CIA watches a live feed of Assange talking with his US citizen attorney in the bathroom of the Ecuadorian embassy and didn’t bother obtaining a warrant prior to watching the live feed, then any information so obtained cannot be used to prosecute Assange or anyone else. I’d suggest that even if the live video feed was recorded and not watched live by a US person, that what it contains cannot be used in court unless a warrant was obtained prior to when it was recorded. (You can’t record, let a non-US citizen or non-CIA employee/asset physically located outside of US territory watch the live feed, get a synopsis from the third party, obtain the warrant after-the-fact of the recording, and then use the recording in an investigation or trial.). However, if a third party watches the live feed, the third party could be subpoenaed and testify in court, and the testimony of the 3rd party could be used to obtain a warrant for future spying on a US citizen.

    So, yes, by hiring a US citizen attorney, Assange’s private conversations with that attorney should then be confidential unless the US government obtains a warrant to spy on the conversation prior to the conversation taking place. And, any warrant so obtained should hinge upon whether or not there is reason to suspect that the US citizen may be committing a crime, not whether or no the US government dislikes Assange, since US law does not apply to Assange, and therefore the warrant process is irrelevant to Assange’s actions when Assange is not located on US sovereign soil, not engaged in a US-based entity, etc.

    The reason why US constitutional protections don’t apply to non-US citizens not located on US soil, not engaged in interactions with US entities, is because US law doesn’t apply. The US government cannot be permitted to “have it both ways” — it must not prosecute Assange under US law and simultaneously not extend to him the protection afforded to those subjected to US law. In spying on and subsequently prosecuting Assange, the US government is arrogating all privileges to itself. This is but one example of how the US government has “gone rogue.”

    ~~~~

    I had the flu for a week recently. It was not Covid. I hadn’t had a bad bout of the flu for nearly 10 years. Twice now I have had music students who can’t understand why I don’t avail myself of the protection of the annual flu shot. It is difficult trying to explain why, in their view, I don’t want “to keep my immunity up.” I’ve been mulling it over — how to succinctly explain in a manner comprehensible to those who have unwavering faith in the US system of medicine. In my view, getting the flu *is* a means of keeping my immunity up. (I just wish that I’d been more aware that ivermectin could help with the flu, not just Covid, because I need to realize such things when I’m well, not when I’m sick — when I’m sick I’m likely to simply follow whatever my views were when I was well. Which meant taking vitamin C, D, zinc, and quercetin.). I suppose that next time I’ll respond with something about how it comes down to my distrust of the pharmaceutical companies (and others) profiting from the medical system — I trust my own immune system more than I trust Big Pharma. And now I understand better *why* vaccines formulated with bits of disabled viruses are dangerous — the disabled bits are not scary enough for the human immune system to mount a large response, therefore the vaccines are laden with highly toxic adjuvants to kickstart the immune response.

    #147169
    John Day
    Participant

    4 km long straight wall on Mars

    #147170
    Mr. House
    Participant

    Ding Ding Ding!

    Dr. John goes to the head of the class. Now another question for the class, why would Wolf Richter lie about that?

    #147171
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Ian Graham: I’m sure you already know my position, and got an earful from JB. But again, “The Guardian”? Really? The Guardian fabricated whole-cloth stories for the Derp State on Assange. You think they won’t lie when a Scientist is making a few hundred million on climate? In fact, if I had a nickel for every time “The Guardian” was correct, I’d have a nickel.

    Do we need to go back through every story they — and their scientists — have painfully demonstrated one by one? How about that “Covid will kill everyone on earth” story just 3 years ago? I wasn’t there at the time but how about “Weapons of Mass Destruction and ties to Al-qaeda” with Blair? Heroes! How about the head of ISIS, “Gentleman and scholar, a loving family man”? How about how UK’s issues won’t cause inflation or poverty? How about how immigration is no problem? How about it won’t cause unrest in Europe? How about them winnin’ that ther Ukraine war? How about how renewables — the ostensible payoff for the Green Scamola — has utterly destroyed Britain and the Grid?

    How about being wrong everywhere, with snow in Texas, Mexico, Saudi, the Sahara, and Britain yourself out of season?

    Well, anyway, as they say, we had SIX TIMES the CO2 for 130 MILLION years and nothing happened. We have record crops in Russia, feeding the planet better than ever. Parts of the Sahara and Africa, the Silk Road are greening.

    So not only is this not happening, not only do we know it CAN’T happen, but IF it is happening, it appears to be an overwhelmingly GOOD thing. More food? Lower heating costs? Zero ocean rise?

    So let me rephrase your item here: What has already occurred for 130 million years and gave us bigger, better plants and animals than we can dream of, is a catastrophe although there’s no sea level rise, NY and London are fine, food is more abundant than ever, and Germany had no heating costs last winter. The only answer to this catastrophe that involves more, better food and lower heating bills is to tax exclusively the poor in Blackpool and Cardiff. To destroy every home, every business, every farm, every car in Holland and Minnesota.

    …While the rich pay a nuisance tax and fly their jet to Monaco, where they take a Bently to their 5,000sq foot house at sea level where your daughter is waiting. …Because she’s never tasted “Jam” before and came to their house to try it.

    …THIS is the Science and Catastrophe of which you speak? As demonstrated by the full faith and trust of “The Guardian”? The WEF? The Monaco billionaires like Gates and Harry?

    Okay man: stand and deliver. We always read any and all scientific papers you present. So I’m from Missouri: Show Me. I’ll start: 130Million years of CO2 6x todays level, better climate than ever, no runaway. 2) Ice core data shows heating LEADS and CO2 LAGS. Complete refutation of the claim on like day 20 of their Climate Campaign.

    Your move. But please, any source but “The Guardian”. Unless I can use the National Inquirer and “Mars Attacks”.

    #147172
    tboc
    Participant

    @MOA
    “The Biden administration has been providing Israel with the location of humanitarian groups in Gaza for weeks to prevent strikes against their facilities. But Israel has continued to hit such sites.

    The information included GPS coordinates of a number of medical facilities and information on movements of aid groups in Gaza to the Israeli government for at least a month, according to three people familiar with the communications. All were granted anonymity because they feared speaking publicly would make it more difficult for aid groups to operate in Gaza.

    Still, Israel has launched operations against Hamas in or near aid sites, including hospitals, leading to the destruction of buildings and the blocking of fuel and other critical supplies.”

    time has finally driven a wedge between Mr. Jefferson and myself. Mr. Jefferson feared for our nation, that divine justice would not sleep forever. I no longer fear for our nation, I anticipate the meting out of divine justice. The capitalist sphincters will not buy themselves out of this one. My hope is to go with the martyrs. Take the empire and the empirical model with you, vainglorious minions of capitalism.

    Starve, poison, maim and murder children for profit – It’s the American Way

    #147173
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Resource depletion is real.

    Humans and cows blowing gas out their ass is not The Problem.

    Nuclear power plants in the Empire of Lies were designed to support weapons fabrication by producing plutonium and other products.

    Had you designed nuclear power plants to produce cheap electricity you would have designed a different and far, far safer system of plants.

    Empire of Lies nuclear plants are for the profit and convenience of the War Whores© of the MIC, not to make secure, cheap, safe energy for the Sheeple.

    Standardized nuclear plant designs could be built safely and relatively cheaply in large numbers compared to fossil fuel plants but the War Whores© have permanently closed off that avenue.

    Russia and China will in fact build such safe standardized nuclear plants and economically crush the Collective West like cockroaches.

    If fact the Russian have a test reactor that burns nuclear waste and plutonium from the old primitive nuclear plants thus safely disposing of the long half life stuff that has piled up in the West in cooling ponds like so much toxic cord wood, presenting a large long range potential danger to the Sheeple and their health.

    The Collective West is the new Second World Shithole due to never again having cheap energy.

    Russia will offer to safely dispose of the Collective West’s highly toxic nuclear waste, but only for a price.

    That’s right, the Collective West will have to pay Russia to take this toxic nuclear waste off it’s hands.

    And then Russia then gets free fuel for it’s industrial juggernaut.

    Hahahahahahahahahaha!

    Like taking candy from a baby.

    The Collective West is now a backwater going forward into the Brave New Multipolar World.

    It’s industrial production is at a permanent disadvantage price wise regarding energy cost to run it’s pitiful industrial base.

    Russia and China will have the cheapest energy on the planet due to smart modern nuclear plants and fossil fuel that can be moved about on land routes through pipeline, not sea lanes, another disadvantage for the Collective West.

    An “I told you so” moment

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