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Israel-Hamas Hostage Deal Delayed (RT)
Stolen Glory: Qatar, Not Biden, Did Leg Work to Secure Gaza Truce (Sp.)
Destroying History to Preserve an Illusion (Lauria)
Putin Thinks ‘Decades Ahead’ – Key Aide (RT)
Zelensky Has Good Reason to be Scared of Regime Change – US Vet (Sp.)
EU Drafting ‘Security Plan’ For Ukraine Amid Bickering Over Further Aid (Sp.)
Western Countries Train 100,000 Ukrainian Troops In Less Than Two Years (TASS)
Ukraine Conscripting Vital Workers (RT)
There Are No Russian-Speaking Ukrainians’ – Kiev (RT)
60% of Americans Believe Joe Biden Helped Son’s Business Dealings (RT)
Majority of American Households Own Guns and Support Gun Rights (Turley)
President JFK: His Life and Public Assassination by the CIA (Curtin)
RFK Jr. Vows To Dismantle ‘Military Empire’ (RT)
Dutch Election: Anti-Islam Populist Wilders Set For Big Win (BBC)

 

 

 

 

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“Let us look at ourselves, if we have the courage, to see what is happening to us.”
– Jean-Paul Sartre

 

 

 

 

“Israel says hostage swap with Hamas won’t begin before Friday..”

Israel-Hamas Hostage Deal Delayed (RT)

A hostage exchange deal between Israel and the Hamas militant group will be postponed until Friday, a senior Israeli official has said. The arrangement was originally set to begin on Thursday, with Israeli forces expected to pause operations for four days to allow aid into the besieged Gaza Strip. Israeli National Security Council Director Tzachi Hanegbi announced the delay in a statement on Wednesday, stressing that the negotiations were still underway and that the deal was set to be finalized. “The contacts on the release of our hostages are advancing and continuing constantly. The start of the release will take place according to the original agreement between the sides, and not before Friday,” Hanegbi said.

An unnamed Israeli official cited by Haaretz added that the four-day pause to Israel’s military operations would also be delayed, suggesting air and ground raids in Gaza would continue until the deal is officially implemented. A spokesperson for the US National Security Council, Adrienne Watson, said the one-day delay did not indicate the deal was in danger, stating that it “was agreed and remains agreed.” “It is our view that nothing should be left to chance as the hostages begin coming home. Our primary objective is to ensure that they are brought home safely. That is on track and we are hopeful that implementation will begin on Friday morning,” Watson said.

Israel’s cabinet agreed to the hostage deal late on Tuesday night. Under terms brokered with the help of Qatari, Egyptian and American mediators, Hamas would release 50 Israeli hostages – all women and children – in exchange for 150 Palestinian civilians currently held by Israel. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) would also halt attacks on Gaza for four days, and would pause operations for one more day for every ten additional captives freed by the Palestinian militant group. According to Hamas, Israel has also agreed to halt all drone flights over the southern portion of Gaza during the four-day pause, and to limit flights over the north to certain times of day.

The IDF has urged Palestinian civilians to evacuate to the south for their own safety, though rights groups have accused Israeli forces of continued strikes in the evacuation zone, including on United Nations shelters. Israel maintains it attacks military targets only. More than 200 people were taken hostage by Hamas during the group’s October 7 attack on Israel, which left some 1,200 people dead. Some of the captives are foreign nationals, including citizens of the US, Thailand, Britain, France, Argentina, Germany, Chile, Spain and Portugal, according to Israeli officials. Israel has launched weeks of airstrikes on Gaza and escalated a ground raid on the territory, killing more than 12,000 Palestinians, including over 5,000 children, according to health officials in the Hamas-controlled Palestinian enclave.

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“..the US only joined in the ceasefire talks because the costs for Biden were “getting extremely politically costly..”

Stolen Glory: Qatar, Not Biden, Did Leg Work to Secure Gaza Truce (Sp.)

Hamas and Israel each confirmed in the early hours of Wednesday morning that a humanitarian pause and prisoner exchange deal had been reached. The surprise agreement, made possible thanks to behind-the-scenes mediation led by Qatar, is expected to include the exchange of 50 Israeli hostages (all of them women and children) and up to 150 Palestinian women, children and teenagers held in Israeli jails. The halt in hostilities is expected to start Thursday morning at 6:30 am local time, with Qatari officials saying the four-day truce could be extended. The deal will allow the delivery of hundreds of trucks-worth of humanitarian and medical aid and fuel to the besieged Gaza Strip, and should see the complete suspension of Israeli military flights over its southern areas and restrictions on flights over the north.

The fragility of the agreement has been exemplified by stern warnings by Hamas that its fighters would “remain at full combat readiness to protect the Palestinian people and resist the occupation,” and by incendiary comments by Tel Aviv that it plans to “continue the war in order to return home all the hostage, complete the elimination of Hamas and ensure that there will be no new threat to the State of Israel from Gaza.” Doha graciously cited Egyptian and US support during the negotiations as a factor in their success, but officials in Washington and US media immediately began a campaign of self-aggrandizement designed to talk up the importance of President Biden’s “secret” role. Biden welcomed the agreement, saying in a statement he was “extraordinarily gratified” over the fact that Israeli nationals held captive by Hamas will be released, and that he “appreciates” the Netanahu government’s “commitment…in supporting an extended pause” to hostilities to “alleviate the suffering of innocent Palestinian families in Gaza.”

[..] “Much of the work was done not by the United States or by Joe Biden personally, but by Qatar,” Dr. Mehran Kamrava, a professor of government at Georgetown University’s Qatar campus, told Sputnik. The negotiations were done by the kingdom’s prime minister, its foreign minister and “personnel on the ground,” in that order, the academic emphasized, adding that it was Doha that was responsible for “much of the difficult negotiations,” not the US. “The US administration involved itself in order to appear as if they are in favor of what they call a ‘humanitarian pause’ or a ‘ceasefire.’ In fact, the US administration has steadfastly refused to put an end to the genocide of Palestinians by the Israeli government,” Kamrava stressed. The scholar believes the US only joined in the ceasefire talks because the costs for Biden were “getting extremely politically costly,” with former president Donald Trump projected to wipe the floor with Biden if elections were held today, according to recent polling, in part due to the incumbent’s loss of support about the pro-ceasefire youth demographic.

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“..to keep Westerners ignorant about what their governments have been up to in the Middle East that has caused so much havoc.”

Destroying History to Preserve an Illusion (Lauria)

On April 9, 2016 Consortium News published an article, republished last Sept. 12, “Why Americans Are Never Told Why,” which sought to explain why the historical context surrounding terrorist attacks on the West is suppressed to whitewash any responsibility Western governments may have for putting their populations in danger. Instead, Western leaders prefer their people believe the illusion that totally irrational actors attack them because “they hate their freedoms” and not because of an aggressive foreign policy towards the Middle East. Making clear that these attacks against civilians were never justified, the article contained links to statements from perpetrators spelling out why they attacked the West, including a “Letter to the American People” from Osama bin Laden, which explained in detail why al Qaeda struck the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001.

The link in the article pointed to the letter’s publication by The Guardian on Nov. 24, 2002. That document has now been removed by The Guardian. It did so last Wednesday, Nov. 15, after 21 years. The newspaper gave this explanation: “The transcript published on our website had been widely shared on social media without the full context. Therefore we decided to take it down and direct readers instead to the news article that originally contextualised it. The clips crossed over to X, formerly Twitter, in a supercut tweeted by the writer Yashar Ali, who wrote that “thousands” of the videos had proliferated across TikTok. Ali’s tweet itself racked up more than 11,000 retweets and 23.8m views. ‘The TikToks are from people of all ages, races, ethnicities, and backgrounds. Many of them say that reading the letter has opened their eyes, and they’ll never see geopolitical matters the same way again,’ wrote Ali.

In a statement on Thursday, the White House said: ‘There is never a justification for spreading the repugnant, evil, and antisemitic lies that the leader of al Qaeda issued just after committing the worst terrorist attack in American history.’” Even after linking to The Guardian article that supposedly gave the letter the “context” The Guardian says was missing, it still did not publish bin Laden’s historical document. With the stated aim of providing “context,” The Guardian instead has destroyed the context that puts Western foreign policy towards the Middle East in a very grim light. It is difficult not to conclude that that was The Guardian‘s and TikTok’s motives: to succumb to Western government’s pressure to run interference for the West and Israel to keep Westerners ignorant about what their governments have been up to in the Middle East that has caused so much havoc.

It also spotlights the disastrous consequences of Israel’s decades-long occupation of the Palestinians. This episode is yet another example of suppressing the historical context of a current event that undermines the West’s interpretation. We saw it in Ukraine, when previously published news by mainstream media of the 2014 U.S.-backed coup and the influence of neo-Nazis in Ukraine was airbrushed from the story in 2022 and made taboo to mention. It is like banning historians from mentioning the Versailles Treaty as one cause of World War II in the grossly misleading contention that it somehow justifies Nazi atrocities. Explaining the historical context of Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine is what journalists are supposed to do, and what Consortium News has done, to explain what happened, not to justify it.

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“The point is that Putin does not make a single decision ‘for elections’, based on a short-term planning horizon. He always thinks in terms of the next generations..”

Putin Thinks ‘Decades Ahead’ – Key Aide (RT)

Unlike the leaders of Western democracies, Russian President Vladimir Putin does not think in terms of the next election but the next generation, his economic adviser Maksim Oreshkin has said. Oreshkin revealed the Russian leader’s time preference in an interview with the outlet Moskovsky Komsomolets (MK), published on the eve of Wednesday’s artificial intelligence conference in Moscow. “Russia compares favorably with individual European countries, which you called democracies,” Oreshkin told MK. “The planning horizon there is short. The main thing is to hold out until the next elections, and then who cares if the grass will grow. We all know very well that President Putin’s planning horizon is not three months, not a year, or even five years. These are decades ahead, generations.”

Oreshkin pointed to how much Russia has changed since 2000, when Putin was first elected, noting the increases in life expectancy, car and home ownership, agricultural production and exports. “The point is that Putin does not make a single decision ‘for elections’, based on a short-term planning horizon. He always thinks in terms of the next generations,” the aide said. Oreshkin denied that the Kremlin was preparing any “bitter pills” for Russians after the March 2024 election. Instead, he said, the government had in mind a development strategy for education and infrastructure. “We all want to see the improvement of societal infrastructure in the country as quickly as possible, to speed up the renovation of schools, kindergartens, roads, and improve primary health care. The question is only how to pay for such rapid change,” he told MK.

According to Oreshkin, Russia has managed to absorb the negative impact of Western sanctions and its economy has grown by 5% in the third quarter of 2023. The budget deficit has turned out to be far smaller than the Kremlin anticipated, and the overall economic situation is quite good, he argued. The only fields that are still hurting are those that had relied on exports to Europe – such as oil, gas and lumber – or were dominated by Western suppliers, such as cars.

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“..he warned his generals to stay out of politics or risk harming the unity of the nation.”

Zelensky Has Good Reason to be Scared of Regime Change – US Vet (Sp.)

Volodymyr Zelensky knows that the writing for him is already on the wall, as the West is looking for a more convenient figure to replace him, says Mark Sleboda, an international affairs and security analyst. Hence, Zelensky has incessantly claimed in recent interviews with the Western press that “the Russians” want to stir up a “Maidan 3” in Ukraine in order to oust him. The president’s words about the third “maidan” (“square”) is a reference to two coups which took place on Independence Square in central Kiev in 2004 and 2014. The latter brought to power Western-backed ultra-nationalists who started an all-out war against Russian-speakers in the east of the country. “One of the important things to remember is that until that putsch, that ‘revolution of dignity’ backed by the US and the EU, in Ukraine’s constitution it was necessitated that they remain a neutral state. They had to remain neutral.

“They could not join NATO. They could not join the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty organization. When the new West-backed regime seized power they, of course, completely got rid of that aspect of the Constitution,” Mark Sleboda told Sputnik. “And it is fascinating that today they’re celebrating the anniversary of the beginning of this Maidan. But just a few days ago, Zelensky was publicly saying that he feared a ‘third Maidan’, tacitly admitting that the Maidan is a fraud, that the original Maidan was a foreign-inspired putsch to overthrow the government, [which was] lacking any legitimacy. And he is now saying that he fears another one of the same, which, you know, is a really interesting commentary of his celebration of what happened now.”

While the Ukrainian president presented zero evidence to back his claims of Russia preparing a coup in Kiev, there are clear indications of the ongoing internal battle between the Zelensky cabinet and Ukrainian top brass, according to Sleboda. One of them was a famous “stalemate” interview given by Commander-in-Chief of Ukrainian Armed Forces Gen. Valery Zaluzhny to the Economist, later scolded by Zelensky. Another one was a mysterious death of Zaluzhny’s aide who was blasted by a grenade on his birthday on November 6. Earlier, on November 3, Zelensky unilaterally dismissed Viktor Khorenko, who was known to be close to Zaluzhny, from the post of commander of special operations forces. Likewise, the commander of the medical forces Tatyana Ostashchenko was replaced with Anatoly Kazmirchuk by the Kiev regime without consulting Ukraine’s top general.

“That’s just become abundantly clear in the recent days as this political rift, as The New York Times has openly referred to it, between the Kiev regime’s political and military leadership, between Zelensky and Zaluzhny, the Kiev regime’s top general. And just today, despite these celebrations and the arrival of multiple Western political figures for this occasion – that they’re still trying to make a big deal out of – Zelensky once again came with a slap down on Ukraine’s military leadership. And it obviously pointed at Zaluzhny. But he warned his generals to stay out of politics or risk harming the unity of the nation.”

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“Originally, the EU sought to allocate a mind-boggling sum of €20 billion ($21.8 billion) [..] now the sum has shrunk to a proposed 5 billion for next year, so it is reportedly hoped that member states might at least agree to that.”

EU Drafting ‘Security Plan’ For Ukraine Amid Bickering Over Further Aid (Sp.)

The futility of continuously propping up Kiev amid its botched counteroffensive, accrued massive manpower and weaponry losses, and reports of escalating government infighting is becoming increasingly impossible to ignore. Hence, the growing chorus of political voices both in the US and in Europe questioning the viability of the Kiev regime. Amid the specter of dwindling military and economic support for the regime of President Volodymyr Zelensky, the European Union has reportedly devised a draft paper containing security guarantees for Ukraine. With Volodymyr Zelensky sounding the alarm right and left about the prospects of Western support to Kiev decreasing to a trickle, the framework document concocted to appease Ukraine’s increasingly snubbed President will reportedly be central to upcoming consultations between the Group of Seven (G7) nations and Kiev.

The assembled proposals are said to be built on the bilateral arrangements that Kiev hopes to wrangle out of some of its Western patrons this year. These draft EU paper purportedly contains commitments that include offering a “predictable, efficient, sustainable and long-term mechanism for the provision of military equipment to Ukraine.” At this point it is worth noting that EU member states have already been fast-depleting their own armed forces’ stocks by arming Ukraine and fueling the proxy war with Russia. Needless to say, the European defense industry will have its task cut out for it if it takes on the afore-mentioned commitment. Furthermore, there are growing divisions within the bloc over long-term aid for Ukraine.

Originally, the EU sought to allocate a mind-boggling sum of €20 billion ($21.8 billion) to cover costs of providing weapons to Kiev. However, that did not go over well with some of the member states, with some, like Germany, reportedly disagreeing with the proposed terms, as per a cited EU diplomat. Accordingly, now the sum has shrunk to a proposed 5 billion for next year, so it is reportedly hoped that member states might at least agree to that.

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And what, two thirds are now dead?

Western Countries Train 100,000 Ukrainian Troops In Less Than Two Years (TASS)

As many as 100,000 Ukrainian troops have received training in Western countries in a little under two years, Daniil Getmantsev, head of the Verkhovna Rada (parliament) financial committee, said. “Our partner countries have trained 100,000 troops for the Ukrainian armed forces. This result was achieved in less than two years, while the initial plan was to train 20,000 to 30,000 service members,” he wrote on Telegram. According to Getmantsev, there is a coalition of 32 countries united in two military missions, the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative and the European Union Military Assistance Mission in support of Ukraine. The coalition is focused on training troops and providing instructors, training grounds and equipment.

The lawmaker highlighted four priorities of troop training. They include a basic military training course aimed at turning recruits into infantry riflemen in 35 days; training in the use of foreign-made weapons and military equipment, as well as the training of high-demand military specialists (combat medics, deminers and snipers among others); the training of commanders and instructors in various specialties who will share their knowledge with troops in Ukraine; and collective training of troops of various levels. Getmantsev emphasized that Ukraine had limited opportunities to train troops on its own training grounds, so Kiev saw Western countries’ assistance as very important.

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Further hollowing out society.

Ukraine Conscripting Vital Workers (RT)

Frontline casualties and conflict-related emigration are set to decimate the Ukrainian labor force, as they take away skilled workers and younger replacements, the German newspaper Die Welt reported on Monday. Ukraine is having problems drafting new troops to fight Russia and intends to address the problem by widening the scope of conscription and cracking down on draft-dodgers. But the country’s long-term economic viability is being undermined by the “bloodletting” on a scope that is hard to estimate, the outlet warned. Citing analysis by Yuliya Kosyakova, a labor market researcher at the University of Bamberg in Germany, who assessed the economic impact of the mass migration from Ukraine triggered by hostilities with Russia, the outlet concludes that the country’s recovery prospects are dire. Many

Ukrainian refugees have enough capital to resettle and have no plans to return, Kosyakova noted. “Those people fled the war or the draft. They have now created a new home abroad, and over 30% want to stay there.” In particular, the loss of middle-aged men – many of whom are experienced workers – has left a gap in the workforce that “will make reconstruction in Ukraine considerably more difficult and delayed,” she added. Kiev ordered mass mobilization right after hostilities with Russia began in February 2022 and barred men aged 18 to 60, who could potentially be called up, from leaving the country without a special waiver. The initial focus was on volunteers and people with military experience, but that pool of manpower has long been exhausted, Ukrainian MP Sergey Rakhmanin, who sits on a parliamentary security committee, said in an interview last month. The Defense Ministry is pushing lawmakers to facilitate conscription of younger men, since the average age of Ukrainian frontline troops has reached well over 40, he said.

The approach to the draft by officials, who regularly use heavy-handed tactics to snatch recruits, as well as corruption that allows dodgers to buy their way out of service, prompted President Vladimir Zelensky to sack all regional conscription chiefs in August. But the move did not address core problems with the system, Rakhmanin claimed. sUkrainian MPs are currently preparing a bill which would strip exemptions for many citizens, including those caring for disabled family members or receiving their second university degree, which are perceived by officials as vehicles for draft dodging. Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu on Tuesday estimated Ukrainian military losses in November alone at over 13,700 people, adding to the more than 90,000 casualties between early June and the end of October. Kiev’s war machine is on the brink of complete collapse, the Shoigu claimed during a ministerial meeting.

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At leasts 50% speak Russian.

There Are No Russian-Speaking Ukrainians’ – Kiev (RT)

Ukraine does not have any Russian-speaking citizens, Taras Kremin, the country’s state language protection commissioner, has declared. Kiev has introduced a frenzy of measures in recent years to sever historical and cultural ties with Russia, as it scrambles to strengthen the status of the Ukrainian language despite accusations of prejudice against national minorities. In an interview aired by the Ukrainian branch of the US state-run Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), Kremin rejected the suggestion that some Ukrainians could be called “Russophones,” describing the term as “a marker introduced by the Russian ideology.” “We are all Ukrainian citizens… Ukrainian is the dominant language in all spheres of public life. Regardless of whether it is national communities or foreigners, everyone in the country must have a command of the Ukrainian language,” the ombudsman insisted.

Earlier this year, Kremin stated that Ukrainians who speak Russian should not be referred to as “Russian-speaking,” claiming that the term had been used for decades by “Russian propaganda”to promote internal divisions in Ukraine. Citing a 2021 Constitutional Court ruling, he also insisted there were only Ukrainian citizens who had been “Russianized.” According to a March 2022 poll by the Sociological Group Rating, about 20% of Ukrainians considered Russian to be their native language. A Social Monitoring survey in 2021 suggested that more than 50% of Ukrainians were willing to read books and watch movies in Russian. Ukrainian authorities embarked on a campaign to push Russian out of all areas of life immediately after the 2014 Western-backed Maidan coup. The measures sparked widespread public outrage and were among the key reasons behind the hostilities in Donbass.

In 2018, the Ukrainian Constitutional Court overturned a 2012 law granting regional status to the Russian language, while at the same time Kiev adopted initiatives seeking to curb its use in education, mass media, business, and culture. Russia has repeatedly denounced Ukraine’s language policies. President Vladimir Putin said that Moscow’s military operation against its neighbor was partly to protect people who consider themselves part of Russian culture. On Monday, the speaker of the Ukrainian parliament, Ruslan Stefanchuk, went as far as to deny the existence of Russian ethnic minorities, arguing that they had no special rights. The statement sparked outrage in Moscow, with Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova saying the remarks came from “the Nazis of the 21st century.”

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And the other 40% are…

60% of Americans Believe Joe Biden Helped Son’s Business Dealings (RT)

Some 60% of Americans think that President Joe Biden “helped and participated in” his son Hunter’s foreign business dealings, according to a Harvard/Harris poll published on Monday. Republican lawmakers are currently investigating Biden’s alleged influence-peddling, and will soon decide whether to impeach the president. According to the survey, 81% of Republicans, 39% of Democrats, and 59% of independent voters agreed that “Joe Biden helped and participated in Hunter Biden’s business.” The president and his son both scored low favorability ratings in the survey, with 55% of respondents having an “unfavorable” or “very unfavorable” view of Hunter Biden, and 48% holding the same view of Joe Biden.

Reports of President Biden’s involvement in his son’s dealings first surfaced before the 2020 election, when the New York Post published files from Hunter’s laptop suggesting that businesspeople from China, Ukraine, Russia, and other countries, paid Hunter for access to his father during the elder Biden’s time as vice-president of the US. Hunter’s former business partner, Devon Archer, told a Congressional hearing in July that Hunter’s position on the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy firm, was given to him solely to guarantee that the company would have influence over US policy. Archer also alleged that Joe Biden dined multiple times with Hunter’s clients, and that Hunter received money transfers immediately after at least two of these meetings.

Earlier this year, the Republican-run House Oversight Committee and House Judiciary Committee released evidence suggesting that Biden and his family received around $20 million in payments through shell companies from business figures and politicians in Ukraine, China, Russia, and Kazakhstan. 150 of these transactions were flagged as “suspicious” by the US Treasury Department, according to the committees. Former US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy opened an impeachment inquiry into Biden’s alleged profiteering in September. Earlier this month, current Speaker Mike Johnson said that the GOP will decide “very soon” whether to formally prosecute the president. Biden denies ever speaking to his son about his businesses, despite being photographed with some of Hunter’s clients. Archer also told Congress that Biden called Hunter at least 20 times during Burisma meetings to impress the Ukrainian company’s potential clients.

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“Almost half of Democrats are gun owners and over half believe gun ownership is necessary. It is one of the greatest disconnects of either party with their membership..”

Majority of American Households Own Guns and Support Gun Rights (Turley)

According to NBC, a majority (52%) now say that they or someone in their household owns a gun. Most notably, the Harvard poll shows that six in ten voters believe owning a gun is a necessary part of protecting themselves from criminals. Despite the strong anti-gun rights message from the White House and the media, the public seems to be moving significantly in the opposite direction. Some 55% of voters now believe that “Woke politicians are to blame for rising crime.” With gun control one of the top issues for Democrats going into this election, the polls show a growing gap with a majority of voters on the issue, particularly as crime continues to rise among the top issues for 2024. The NBC polling shows a record number of Americans are now gun owners. The current level is up six percent from 2019 when 46% of Americans said that they or someone in their household owned a gun. It is now up 10 points in the last ten years.

Notably, that includes 41% of Democrats. If this trend continues, half of the Democratic voters will soon be living in households with gun owners. Some 45% of independents confirm ownership as do 66% of Republicans. The Harvard poll is likely to be more chilling for the Democratic Party. Not only do citizens overwhelmingly blame woke policies on the left for rising crime, but 42% believe that crime and safety is getting worse in their community. Only 21% believe that it has gotten better. Harvard then asked “Do you think you need to have a gun today in case you are attacked by criminals, or do you think owning a gun is unnecessary?” A majority of voters in all three categories (Democrat, Republican, or independent) said that a gun is necessary. That includes 54% of Democrats. (Some 77% of Republicans and 56% of independents agreed).

Consider that for a second. Almost half of Democrats are gun owners and over half believe gun ownership is necessary. It is one of the greatest disconnects of either party with their membership. While Democrats have found a winning issue on abortion in recent elections, it represents a growing separation on one of the other key issues in this election. President Biden has pursued some of the most aggressively anti-gun policies of any president. Legally, the polling shows that the public seems to be moving toward the view of the Supreme Court despite unrelenting attacks in the media. Since the Court declared the right to bear arms to be an individual right in Heller, the media has overwhelmingly decried the decision (and later decisions). Reporters generally quote staunchly critical law professors who portray the Court as “gun-crazy” and disconnected from both the Constitution and reality.

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“President Joseph Biden, like all the presidents that followed Kennedy, is JFK’s opposite, an unrepentant war-monger..”

President JFK: His Life and Public Assassination by the CIA (Curtin)

Why President Kennedy was publicly murdered by the CIA sixty years ago has never been more important. All pseudo-debates to the contrary – including the numerous and growing claims that it was not the U.S. national security state but the Israelis that assassinated the president, which exonerates the CIA – the truth about the assassination has long been evident. There is nothing to debate unless one is some sort of intelligence operative, has an obsession, or is out to make a name or a buck. I suggest that all those annual JFK conferences in Dallas should finally end, but my guess is that they will be rolling along for many more decades. To make an industry out of a tragedy is wrong. And these conferences are so often devoted to examining and debating minutiae that are a distraction from the essential truth.

As for the corporate mainstream media, they will never admit the truth but will continue as long as necessary to titillate the public with lies, limited hangouts, and sensational non-sequiturs. To do otherwise would require admitting that they have long been complicit in falsely reporting the crime and the endless coverup. That they are arms of the CIA and NSA. The Cold War, endless other wars, and the nuclear threat John Kennedy worked so hard to end have today been inflamed to a fever pitch by U.S. leaders in thrall to the forces that killed the president. President Joseph Biden, like all the presidents that followed Kennedy, is JFK’s opposite, an unrepentant war-monger, not only in Ukraine with the U.S. war against Russia and the U.S. nuclear first-strike policy, but throughout the world – the Middle-East, Africa, Syria, Iran, and on and on, including the push for war with China.

Nowhere is this truer than with the U.S. support for the current Israeli genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza, a slaughter also supported by Robert Kennedy, Jr., who, ironically, is campaigning for the presidency on the coattails of JFK and his father Senator Robert F. Kennedy, who would be appalled by his unequivocal support for the Israeli government. By such support and his silence as the slaughter in Gaza continues, RFK, Jr. is, contrary his other expressed opinions, supporting a wide range of war-related matters that involve the U.S.- Israel alliance, which is central to the military-industrial forces running U.S. foreign policy. To say this is dispiriting is a great understatement, for RFK, Jr., a very intelligent man, knows that the CIA killed his uncle and father, and he is campaigning as a spiritually awakened man intent on ending the U.S. warfare state, something impossible to accomplish when one gives full-fledged support to Israel. And I believe he will be elected the next U.S. president.

The Biden administration is doing all in its power to undo the legacy of JFK’s last year in office when on every front he fought for peace, not war. It is not hard to realize that all presidents since John Kennedy have been fully aware that a bullet to the head in broad daylight could be their fate if they bucked their bosses. They knew this when they sought the office because they were run by the same bosses before election. Small-souled men, cowards on the make, willing to sacrifice millions to their ambition.

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“Kennedy said his uncle’s death created a “national trauma,” and the vision that he prized the most – “America as a peaceful nation” – died with him.”

RFK Jr. Vows To Dismantle ‘Military Empire’ (RT)

US presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has observed the anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination by vowing to pick up where his uncle left off in trying to make America a peaceful nation. “If the American people choose me as their president, I will resume the process that my uncle broached 60 years ago of unwinding the American military empire,” Kennedy said in an op-ed published on Wednesday by Fox News. “I will return the military to its proper function of defending the homeland.” John F. Kennedy was murdered on November 22, 1963, while riding in a presidential motorcade in Dallas. His alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was killed two days later at a Dallas police station. Nearly five years after that, Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated at an event in Los Angeles, while campaigning for president.

Like his late uncle and father, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a lifelong Democrat, but he’s running as an independent in the 2024 presidential election. Last month, he dropped his bid to run against incumbent President Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination, saying both of the nation’s major political parties are dominated by “corrupt interests.” He has the highest favorability rating among all 2024 contenders, according to a Harvard CAPS-Harris poll released on Monday, and he’s polling with the strongest support for a US third-party candidate in 40 years. Kennedy said his uncle’s death created a “national trauma,” and the vision that he prized the most – “America as a peaceful nation” – died with him. The then-president defied pressure from within his administration, including the Pentagon and the CIA, to go to war in Laos in 1961 and Berlin in 1962, Kennedy said.

He also faced pressure to invade Cuba and to bomb Russian missile batteries during the Cuban Missile Crisis. “His advisers assured him that the launchpads were not operational,” Kennedy said. “They were wrong, and his defiance quite likely saved the world from nuclear Armageddon.” In the months leading up to his death in 1963, JFK intensified his push for peace, arguing that war wasn’t inevitable. He signed a nuclear test ban treaty with the Soviet Union in August of that year and issued an order in October mandating the withdrawal of 1,000 US military advisers from Vietnam. As his nephew noted on Wednesday, that order was never implemented, and his successor’s ramping up of the conflict in Southeast Asia “set the template for an endless succession of regime-change wars.”

“We lost our identity as a peaceful nation. We began to neglect the real source of our nation’s strength – the vitality of our economy and the health of our people – and drained our finances and our moral authority abroad in a series of wars of questionable justification, none of which have made Americans safer.” Kennedy argued that much of Washington’s $33 trillion debt stems from military spending, including $8 trillion poured into regime-change wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria. He added that 800 foreign military bases add to the financial burden. “Imagine what could have been if we’d devoted those resources toward education, infrastructure, poverty, health or the environment. We would be, paradoxically, a stronger and more secure nation.”

Kennedy also called for ending “reckless, belligerent policies” of provoking Russia and China. He pledged to shut down most overseas military bases and shrink the US armed forces. “It’s not too late to step off the war path and onto the peace path that John F. Kennedy envisioned for our nation,” he said. Kennedy announced a petition drive earlier this week calling for Biden to release secret government documents regarding JFK’s assassination. Congress passed legislation in 1992 requiring the release of all records related to the murder by 2017, but both Biden and former President Donald Trump held back some documents. “What is so embarrassing that they’re afraid to show the American public 60 years later?” the petition asked. “Trust in government is at an all-time low. Releasing the full, unredacted historical records will help to restore that trust.”

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Wilders has been under -increasingly- strict secret service protection since 2004 (fatwa). As MP, that might be(come) overseeable. As PM, not so much. Travel with an extensive detail? Or rely on foreign services?

Dutch Election: Anti-Islam Populist Wilders Set For Big Win (BBC)

Veteran anti-Islam populist leader Geert Wilders has won a dramatic victory in the Dutch general election, according to the latest forecast. After 25 years in parliament, his Freedom party (PVV) is set to win 37 seats, well ahead of his nearest rival, a left-wing alliance. “The PVV can no longer be ignored,” he said. “We will govern.” His win has shaken Dutch politics. But he will have to persuade other parties to join him in a coalition. His target is 76 seats in the 150-seat parliament. Mr Wilders, 60, was in combative mood in his victory speech: “We want to govern and… we will govern. [The seat numbers are] an enormous compliment but an enormous responsibility too.”

Before the vote, the three other big parties ruled out taking part in a Wilders-led government because of his far-right policies. But that might change because of the scale of his victory. The left-wing alliance under ex-EU commissioner Frans Timmermans is set to come second with 25 seats. He made clear he would have nothing to do with a Wilders-led government. It was time to defend Dutch democracy and rule of law, Mr Timmermans told supporters: “We won’t let anyone in the Netherlands go. In the Netherlands everyone is equal.” That leaves third-placed centre-right liberal VVD under new leader Dilan Yesilgöz, and a brand new party formed by whistleblower MP Pieter Omtzigt in fourth.

Freedom party leader Mr Wilders made a direct appeal to his political rivals to work together, and both Ms Yesilgöz and Mr Omtzigt congratulated him on his success. Although Ms Yesilgöz doubts Mr Wilders will be able to find the numbers he needs, she says it is up to her party colleagues to decide how to respond. Before the election she insisted she would not serve in a Wilders-led cabinet, but did not rule out working with him if she won. Mr Omtzigt said initially his New Social Contract party would not work with Mr Wilders, but now says they are “available to turn this trust [of voters] into action”.

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    Pablo Picasso Absinthe Drinker 1901   • Israel-Hamas Hostage Deal Delayed (RT) • Stolen Glory: Qatar, Not Biden, Did Leg Work to Secure Gaza Truc
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle November 23 2023]

    #147224
    Formerly T-Bear
    Participant

    May zionist Occupied Palestine be visited with the same viscous, hateful barbarity the Israeli government has visited upon the Gazan people as well as those Palestinians of the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Israel has no moral credit remaining; once before their god was driven to anger, could happen again and what will the Israelis do then. Maybe those Jews remaining true to their faith and have been good neighbours of the Palestinians remain, all others be driven into the sea, be given direction of Europe from whence they came and be told to swim or die (so says Scott Ritter). Terminate zionist occupied Palestine now. Those sympathies towards Israelis are exhausted; wrecked upon the amassed shoals of propaganda, lies and hate camouflaged in self righteousness and morality. The stables need cleaning again it seems.

    #147225
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    History doesn’t repeat, but it often rhymes…

    Omnis vita sacra aut nulla vita sacra est.

    #147226
    Formerly T-Bear
    Participant

    The only important war ‘America’ never won was the war on Poverty.

    Very little was added to the national debt fighting that war.

    Suppose some are thankful for that – still.

    #147227
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “It’s Official: Geert Wilders and Conservative Freedom Party Win Dutch Election

    So should we call Holland a “Right-Wing Nazi” nation now? That’s what they said he was, and now he’s running the government, right? I mean…unless you were LYING all the time and are still lying now.

    Again, and I have to say this every day of every year of every decade: I don’t know what they do in Europe but in America, what we have is the #Opposite of “Right Wing.” Uncurious, intentional, open, knowing LIE. Leftist Journalists (but I repeat myself) call the GOP “right wing” (but heck they call Bernie a Nazi – literally — so that’s no surprise). Why? Aside from words have no meaning so their thoughts have no structure? THEY, as Leftists and Socialists, believe in the preeminence of the State. State is God. So therefore, logically, but also using nothing but no data, no info, no curiosity and no awareness, they ASSUME that if the Right got in, they would feel and act the same. That the Right also believes in the primacy and preeminence of the State. That’s Parallelism, logical structure. Great! Works perfectly totally rational aside from being totally wrong.

    The Although we have Right Statists here, like Romney, Bush, McCain, Justice Roberts, the “Right” base and 100% of everyone popular, like Reagan, Paul, etc, want a SMALLER State, doing LESS. That is, one that is weak and the #Opposite of Statism, one completely INCAPABLE of pushing around Leftists, Gays, Minorities, all the things they fear and totally make up out of their heads. I believe the phrase is “A government so small you could drown it in a bathtub.”

    In other words, the “Right” they speak of it’s not a “Right”. It’s not a “Right Wing”. But that’s no surprise since what they casually call “Right Wing” like Hitler wasn’t Right Wing either: he was a National Socialist Workers Party. A Bernie Bro. You see that elsewhere, Mussolini, a worker’s organizer, or Allende, etc in South America. Perhaps Franco is an example of such a thing, there are so few once you look for them.

    In any case, therefore the non-GOP insiders, the base, the platform, are not “Right” but really “Libertarian” as we see all over with which politicians and figures shoot to the top. And this is true of “Americanism” and our Constitution as well. Constitutionalists are by definition limited government people and the #Opposite of Statists. Or Dictators for that matter. They cannot, by definition, “Take Power”.

    Anyway, Sideline to Geert, and AfD, and LePen. A McCain can exist, but he can’t get any traction from us. A Bernie or someone can get a culture purge, a Socialist revolution “Burn it all down” from the Progressive Left, but that window has closed with Biden. Who would they rally behind now? We’re all going somewhere else and it’s messy.

    Speaking of, article on Milei: “What Is Anarcho-Capitalism? Myth one: it is not “right-wing…”

    “• Dutch Election: Anti-Islam Populist Wilders Set For Big Win (BBC)

    IS he “Anti-Islam”? “The BBC said it, therefore it is a lie” Maybe he thinks Holland specifically should not be a Muslim country, a tenet of Islam being Theocracy. Fine if you want to be Islamic in Iran, Saudi, or Indonesia, right? Is he planning on invading and stopping THEM? No? Then he’s not actually “Anti-Islam” is he? Maybe you should use words.

    “”Sandwich Shop Monopoly”: Biden’s FTC Probing $10 Billion Subway Merger

    You’re kidding me, right? Every single area of American life is run by government approved, enforced monopolies but a Sandwich “monopoly” – where there’s still millions of convenience store competitors – is a bridge too far?

    “Always trust your gut. If you feel like they’re lying to you, they are.” –Tucker

    Probably. But Feelz. “Truthiness.” Why not if you have suspicions, look into it and get facts?

    “For the last 30 years we have been picking people on the basis of everything but character, competence and intelligence.”

    It’s working out as well as we told them it would. This is why you don’t do this, but I guess a lot of people had to learn that lesson again.

    Dogs: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6gYKLZ5YDzw

    Like the 3-minute mile, once somebody does this, the world opens up.

    ““Let us look at ourselves, if we have the courage, to see what is happening to us.” – Jean-Paul Sartre

    Krishnamurti said the same thing but went further. You know the story of Jiddu? Yeah, born in 1895, he was picked up and made up whole cloth by Blavatski and the Theosophist society – essentially a New Age cult – to be their new Messiah. Spending years cashing in on grooming popularity and very adept at social movements and advertising by that time, they had it all worked out with Jiddu as their capstone project.

    Ah yes, but here’s the Problem: Jiddu ACTUALLY WAS enlightened. How inconvenient. So the rejected their grubbing, world-aspiring nonsense and became an ACTUAL teacher like Gautama, leaving them in the dust and thereafter collapsed. The New Age cults since then haven’t made the same mistake since, being very careful to pick actors like the Mandarin (Iron Man III) to keep on a nice short leash, with a replacement in the wings. You know, like Obama and Olsteen. Or in a different messianic evangelical, Zelenski. (Church of Himmler, I guess)

    Anyway, funny story. Bet Blavatsky and Leadbeater didn’t see that coming. All that hard work for nothing. Their man went legit. “Oh Lord won’t you Give me a Mercedes Benz?”

    “Stolen Glory: Qatar, Not Biden, Did Leg Work to Secure Gaza Truce (Sp.)

    That’s okay, there’s no “Biden” to speak of anyway. Obviously it’s impossible for a non-person to do anything. Just shows the level of lies that this is reported without the slightest hesitation all day.

    “• Destroying History to Preserve an Illusion (Lauria)

    Duran et al ran it on this slower week. Not slower in the sense that Russia isn’t winning, but that it’s nothing new, all objects remain on former trajectory. So they were commenting on the over-arc about “WWII.” Everyone is invoking WWII lately, and worse, by re-writing all known history. Baerbocks (Der Lyin’s?) comment on how Russia dropped the bombs in Japan was of course the top example. But the “Nazis were defeated by Ukraine” is another classic. Er – maybe? But Ukraine was of course the hotbed of Banderites, who were PRO Nazi and of course is today’s government. They invoke the genocides of Ukraine as Putin’s fault, when they were committed by ANTI-Russians and Banderites. On and on.

    Why bring it up, aside from a Post-Truth world? They pointed out the important root of this: Control via corrupting and wrecking all language. The PRESENT – the present CONTROL — depends on a metaphor, a parallelism, that “We are re-fighting WWII”. However, this runs smack into the historical reality that Russia was our ALLY in WWII. AND won the whole war themselves, with the combined West being a minor player, like 25-30%. We then tried to mobilize GERMANY to keep attacking Russia/Stalin but couldn’t get the traction. (but is why we dropped the bomb) As we keep pointing out, you can’t say we’re fighting PutinHitler when Putin and Hitler are historical OPPOSITES. You can’t support Ukraine when Ukraine were the NAZIS. To fight the Nazis in our WWII parallelism metaphor, we should be AGAINST Ukraine.

    This leads to a lot of problems, and among others, the two are not parallel, and therefore how can they manipulate and mobilize? YOU? Steal YOU? Kill YOU? Sacrifice YOUR stuff, not theirs, to increase THEIR power?

    So…what seemed simple, they started with this and not another different PR fabrication, but now it’s all falling apart on them. So they just MAKE IT ALL UP. Rewrite the present. Rewrite the past. Re-write the future. Make up events. Make up different winners and losers, make it all up.

    That is: “Destroying History to Preserve an Illusion (Lauria)”

    Or as Orwell in real time: “Control the Past to Control the Present. Control the Present and Control the Future.”

    So here we are. We actually fought RUSSIA in WWII (which actually was the Anglo intent) and Germans like Hunka were our ALLIES. But that all stopped when Russia dropped that nuke on Nagasaki. Yuppers. That’s how it all went down, no one bats an eye. No one is discredited. As there are no elections, no leaders are removed.

    “Unlike the leaders of Western democracies, Russian President Vladimir Putin does not think in terms of the next election but the next generation,”

    Problem is that’s true but wrong. The LEADERS don’t think to the next election – we’re pretty sure they don’t think at ALL, look at Cornell West lately – but their CONTROLLERS do think generations out. We know because they publish their white papers and we read them, then we see them donating and those policies appearing without variation over any party or person who is in office.

    Don’t be fooled.

    That includes people like Trump who don’t think much either. They’re all mascots, or to be more generous, Teams. Speaking of Hunka, Captain Blackface said “He didn’t know nuffin’”, which was a lie, they all saw him before and in fact knew him years before then on the same basis. But that wouldn’t matter: Moosilini’s JOB is not to know everything but surround himself with people who do. So he failed at his only job: getting good people who would prevent this from happening, at a minimum, in Public PR. TEAMS.

    Remember: the “i” in TEAM is right there in the A-Hole.

    ““Originally, the EU sought to allocate a mind-boggling sum of €20 billion ($21.8 billion) [..] now the sum has shrunk to a proposed 5 billion for next year,”

    Interesting, as YOUR MONEY MEANS NOTHING TO ME. You have no tanks, no shells, and no way to make any, and no intent to try. We already know most of the “Money” doesn’t reach Ukraine and it stays in domestic political “campaigns”. That is, theft and money laundering. So the EU is reducing their own theft and money laundering? What’s going on? They’re losing to Geert and AfD, they need MORE theft than ever, not less.

    Also: And yet no collapse? Wtf is going on out there? No money but no collapse either. What’s keeping it levitated like Wily E.? A clever cartoon signboard?

    Do

    “• Western Countries Train 100,000 Ukrainian Troops In Less Than Two Years (TASS)

    It’s been pointed out that at this point they lack excuses: It’s getting clear that NATO proper would be equally useless or worse against Russia. (they are too weak to tolerate any losses, much less 50% losses) We are RIPE TO BE CONQUERED.

    Although this is known atm, there’s no audience left to receive this knowledge and act on it. The people have no effect and the insiders don’t care.

    “Frontline casualties and conflict-related emigration are set to decimate the Ukrainian labor force,”

    NPR Writers at RT report this, and that’s good. But they fail to report the relevance here: HALF of Ukraine is missing. The nation has ceased to exist. You kind of need to lead with that and not the important details below. Has any nation lost HALF their people and just carried on? If so, where and what happened next? Russia also took 2/3rd of GDP and the people of the nation who “Do work”, not corrupt (corporate) welfare queens.

    “Frontline casualties and conflict-related emigration are set to decimate the Ukrainian labor force,”

    There Are No Russian-Speaking Ukrainians’ – Kiev (RT)

    As they’re all Nazis, so I suspect they speak German.

    “Despite the strong anti-gun rights message from the White House and the media, the public seems to be moving significantly in the opposite direction.”

    Democracy! When you do the #Opposite of the People! Just like Capitalism! When you do the #Opposite of money, like Disney’s been doing.

    To stay away from the gun thing, that’s also the DNC being 100% against Unions. How that can persist so long is a mystery. I can’t think of a single thing they’ve done since 1992 on that, in fact savaging the Rail Union just now as a first order of business, against all PR, against national security, for no logical reason. No one cared, all other Union leaders loved it.

    “Why President Kennedy was publicly murdered by the CIA sixty years ago has never been more important.”

    I’m seeing JFK stories salted all over the place. Who’s salting them? It’s an anniversary, it doesn’t have to be “someone”, but shows it’s not over. And never will be.

    #147228
    Alexander Carpenter
    Participant

    Our host, at Comment 147154:

    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,

    For several years now, I have accumulated an omnibus analysis of, and links to, state-of-the-art “climate science” in a Word document entitled Do You “Believe” in Climate Change?, downloadable from:

    https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/pojb9cc8t8a3zr1q7ujjc/Do-You-Believe-in-Climate-Change.docx?rlkey=fpjj5onaqbj0dxv4a9nfjy73l&dl=0

    The state of that art is changing all the time as real “climate scientists” learn more about how climate-change really works, and why, so this is a moving target. Nonetheless, for a complete understanding of all the complexities, I know of no better source.

    Once again, I offer this compendium for our delectation (and annoyance). Enjoy…

    #147229
    tboc
    Participant

    Today, November 23, 2023, is celebrated as a day of thanksgiving in my home, my nation. As the preparation for the thanksgiving meal begins please let me share some of the things i am thankful for. I am thankful for singularity. I am thankful for the information that created space. I am thankful for clouds of charged potential. I am thankful for fusion. I am thankful for the the stars that forge the material world. I am thankful for the curiosity and intelligence in a precious child’s eyes.

    I am thankful that i am not limited to observation. I am thankful for the greatest of human blessings, the ability to measure. I am thankful for physics, logic and ethics.

    I am thankful for a peace that exceeds understanding. I am thankful for those things i cannot yet understand.

    I am thankful for the one thing, above all others, that I cannot understand. Why is human consciousness not enough? Why is the ability to discern beauty and loving kindness not enough?

    I am thankful for hope and the knowledge that light overcomes darkness.

    I am thankful for all of my sisters and brothers and their children.

    I am thankful that I am blessed with the ability to speak and write. I am thankful i may say, I Love You.

    #147232
    zerosum
    Participant

    Truth … History/illusion … lives in a parallel universe

    Western leaders prefer their people believe the illusion

    Destroying History to Preserve an Illusion


    Destroying History to Preserve an Illusion
    November 21, 2023

    … that totally irrational actors attack them because “they hate their freedoms” and not because of an aggressive foreign policy towards the Middle East.

    Making clear that these attacks against civilians were never justified, the article contained links to statements from perpetrators spelling out why they attacked the West, including a “Letter to the American People” from Osama bin Laden, which explained in detail why al Qaeda struck the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001.

    (… SNIP)

    Little of this long history of Western manipulation, deceit and brutality in the Middle East is known to Americans because U.S. media almost never invokes it to explain Arab and Iranian attitudes towards the West.

    This article was first published in Consortium News on April 9, 2016. republished last Sept. 12.
    Joe Lauria is editor-in-chief of Consortium News

    “kudos to everyone who put the events together”

    #147233
    Ian Graham
    Participant

    “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

    #147234
    zerosum
    Participant

    More … explanation of the truth

    When Netanyahu Accustoms Us to an Inhuman World Without Rights or Rules, the Law of the Jungle Reigns!


    NOVEMBER 22, 2023
    When Netanyahu Accustoms Us to an Inhuman World Without Rights or Rules, the Law of the Jungle Reigns!
    BY GIORGOS MITRALIAS

    kudos for a look at the truth

    #147235
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    A “Thanksgiving Day” gift to you all:
    One of my sons created this interactive digital greeting card as a project for his high school coding class. :). Enjoy!
    https://studio.code.org/projects/gamelab/emojO88drLYBVbCTm7OY2Iepk0GUk8faVNVfNp9GuB4

    #147236
    zerosum
    Participant

    Quick .. hide the truth
    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/23/al-shifa-hospital-director-arrested-by-israeli-army-in-gaza
    Israeli army arrests al-Shifa Hospital director, other doctors in Gaza
    Director Muhammad Abu Salmiya and several other medical personnel detained as Israel continues its Gaza offensive.

    23 Nov 2023
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    #147237
    Oroboros
    Participant

    • Putin Thinks ‘Decades Ahead’ – Key Aide (RT)

    The Empire of LIES is an ADHD cult.

    The entire Duh’merican landscape is geared top to bottom to achieve the attention span of a small rodent.

    It has succeeded beyond the wildest dreams of the propagandists and social engineering cabal run by Satanic Oligarchs.

    Duh’mericans have never cared about anything beyond their borders.

    The vast majority of Duh’mericans can not even find Ukronaziland on a simple global map.

    Many don’t even know where other states of the union are located other than the one they live in.

    Whatever is spoon fed to them by the Media Whores is lapped up like a starving dog.

    They were successfully programed to accept a ‘moon landing’, the majority of Duh’mericans could easily be sold that the Moon is indeed made of green cheese.

    The National Attention Span is probable under 10 seconds on average.

    In 1960 it was measured at 49 seconds, which seems small but not compared to 10.

    The Bastard Bernays is directly responsible for this as is the whole Advertising Industrial Complex.

    You know why most Duh’mericans can discuss any major issues?

    Well when you have the attention span of a gerbil it’s a challenge.

    Putin must be thanking Bejesus that all of Duh’merica’s attention shifted to Gaza.

    The memory hole is a God sent.

    You can’t be an actual ‘adult’ without a good attention span

    And every institution in Duh’merica is geared to shrinking the Sheeple’s attention span.

    Look, squirrel!

    Should be on the National Seal instead of an eagle with arrows.

    A squirrel with a cell phone with this in Latin beneath it…….

    “I thought I dropped my nuts but I realized I never had any”

    .

    Hahahahahahahahaha

    Stop, yer killin me

    Social media can probably can get the national average attention span down below 2 or 3 seconds, firmly into Idiocracy territory.

    Welcome to Costco, I love you!

    #147238
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Ian Graham. Several issues with that statement. So…how to we measure temperature before there were thermometers? To an accuracy of 2c? Daily? They clearly can’t do that even now.

    Suppose we do: Daily Temperatures have been rising since about 1600 out of the solar minimum. How do we know? They said so. We have ground freeze 6ft deep in 1776. We have the Thames frozen over. It comes and goes with the sub-cycle, such that it was hotter than now in 1930, but colder in the war of 1940. So cycles in cycles.

    What was the temperature previous? We know the overall because Greenland froze shut in 1100, the previous cycle. Then we had Medieval Warming. No cars, no coal caused it.

    Before then? We had a Roman warm, then a sudden event that caused Roman cold, overcast, rain, and collapse, seemingly certain to be a volcano. No cars, no coal.

    Before then? We had a Bronze Age warm, where it was not only so warm, but so mild that we can tell by the houses and clothes of the Mediterranean for what seems like 1,000 years. No cars, no coal.

    So wait: it gets within a mere TWO degrees of this temperature EVERY thousand years like clockwork? But this time and ONLY this time it is caused by man? Well, sir we don’t have any warming. All the warming UNTIL NOW is all “normal”, according to the last 5,000 years of cycles. It’s only these last 2c that are out of the norm. That’s so small it’s practically a measuring error, or a cyclical variation. ...Which we can’t be sure of since they don’t have that level of scientific precision back 5 or 10,000 years. “Significant Digits” and all that. I’m sure you’ve heard of but I can give you a refresher course. We also catch them adjusting temperature by putting the thermometers in hot boxes, on pavement, as was reported JUST LAST MONTH. So when their case is so good, why and how do we catch them lying and flipping ground temperatures with air temps all the time?

    Still quoted almost the worst paper published anywhere on “Earth” and still didn’t respond to the base theory: The Antarctic Ice Cores, which appear to be irrefutable, CO2 LAGS temperature. Until this is dealt with all other arguments are pointless. Do you not believe scientists? Quoting “The Guardian” who is merely quoting cherry-picked “Scientists” with no refutation, no “other side” is merely Appeal to Authority, a common logical Fallacy. That is, “fallacious”, i.e. a “lie”, a non sequitur, shameful, embarrassing, totally wrong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority

    We did cover all this for months with a previous poster, but he refused all scientific argument as well. Plus the data. I hope you are better than that.

    #147239
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “On Friday the temperature reached 2.07C above the temperature average for 1850-1900” — Independent.

    Oh my GOD are you kidding me??? They cherry-picked a mere 50 year segment? And didn’t include even ALL years til now??? To say nothing of the 10,000 or 150 Million years before now?

    Okay: whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?

    Why did they feel the need to pick THIS 50 years and no other 50 years ever? AND — in direct contradiction to their reason — it was not really “Pre-industrial.” You’d want to pick an era long before then or perhaps the WHOLE era before then?

    Wow, what level of “Not Science” can we even tolerate here? I thought their scams were running so much smoother, the lies so much stronger, like the totally fraudulent “Hockey stick” they took a hockey stick in the face for lying about.

    Okay, why THIS 50 -year period and no other?

    Easy: just this year they got whacked for LYING about it being “Hottest ever” when everyone trotted out common newspaper articles from the 1930’s, both the Dustbowl, and in Oz. “Boiling Earth”? they said: This was the ordinary temperature IN OUR LIFETIME. Your grandpa knows this must be a lie, to say nothing of earlier.

    So I see the Independent had to find some possible way to get around this and lie without lying. Why stop with 50 years? Why not compare to ONE year? Half a year? One night in winter? One hour?

    But I do have to credit them, the needle is moving at last. They used to just openly lie like fiends, lie about everything, lie about data, lie about HAVING data, lie about agreement, and settled, lie lie lie. But you see here the people are so on to it, and so sick of them and their s–t, the Independent doesn’t dare openly LIE like they have the last 30 years. They’re reduced now to mere weaseling.

    #147240
    thomasjkenney
    Participant

    A Day In The House – Jeff Beck, Terry Bozzio, Tony Hymas

    “Much is being said, My Lords, but nothing, Nothing, NOTHING IS BEING DONE!”

    #147241
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    @Dr D

    Choices made with equanimity CAN be Undone.

    Sartre said the journey to finding your true self goes through Hell or words to that effect.

    Jung advised avoiding wordiness and, I think, also obscure useless references.

    Here are my favorites, simple formulas really:

    “Learn to hide your strikes from your opponent and you’ll more easily strike his hide.”

    “When you can balance a tack hammer on your head, you will head off your foes with a balanced attack.”

    “Do not go there, my son! When you doubt your powers, you give power to your doubts!”

    “When you’re a Rear Echelon Muther F*cker *REMF) like let’s say on Norm Schwarzkopf’s staff in Desert Storm you’re ALWAYS less likely to look and feel unhinged or shit your pants on camera as you order men into the Harm’s Way, the proverbial meat grinder” or words to that effect.

    My absolute favorite because one of my boat school classmates was indeed named Harms. So before him I always announced my intent to go in His Way. It never got old. Still hasn’t.

    “I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm’s way.”
    John Paul Jones, father of The Nuclear and Russian Navies

    #147242
    John Day
    Participant

    Steve Kirsch has this up:
    truth

    #147243
    userzeroid
    Participant

    I am only a quarter of the way through ‘do you “believe” in climate change’ and scanned the rest – nice work AC, solid ground

    #147248
    John Day
    Participant

    Thank You, tboc. I have enjoyed your input here.
    Happy Thanksgiving.

    #147249
    Noirette
    Participant

    Isr. children sing, we will annihilate everyone in Gaza.

    #147250
    WES
    Participant

    Question:
    When it comes to measuring temperatures, no one ever talks about how we measure temperatures has changed over time.

    We have gone from mercury to bi-metal to solid state. How consistent are these methods compared to each other?

    Climate Change:
    Climate believers are actually non-believers in reality! They fully believe in the false climate change religion set up by our slave masters!

    I, kind of, sort of, not really feel bad for TAE’s previous climate believer as he was obviously a university professor who spent his entire working life believing and promoting a false climate change religion, buoyed by the safe space that universities provide where no one is allowed to question their professors for being wrong.

    He retires, steps out of his safe university world space and then tries to continue preaching his false climate change religious beliefs to the real world. Only to sadly discover that he is suddenly being shot full of holes and exposed to the truth by real people who are considerably smarter than he thought he was, those not needing to agree with him to get a passing grade.

    Imagine the rude jolt it must have to him, to finally discover that he had been the big dope, wasting all of the best years of his life believing and promoting the false religion of climate change set up by our masters to enslave us!

    Maybe TAE’s newest false climate believer will take note of the previous climate believer’s fate?

    #147251
    John Day
    Participant

    Preparing Blessings https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/preparing-blessings

    Moon of Alabama: U.S. Is Helping Israel To Commit And Hide War Crimes
    ​ “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.​”
    ​ This isn’t a war against Hamas, but a war against the people of Palestine. The U.S. government knows that it is complicit in the day by day war crimes perpetrated by the IOF. Its defensive instinct is do try its best to hide all evidence that such crimes were committed…
    ​ A note on the hostage deal:
    In the hours before any onset of temporary truces or longer lasting ceasefires Israel will always increase its level of bombing and slaughter.
    Today will likely be the worst day the people in Gaza have ever experienced.
    https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/11/us-is-helping-israel-to-commit-and-hide-war-crimes.html

    ​ Stolen Glory: Qatar, Not Biden, Did Leg Work to Secure Gaza Truce
    ​ Qatar’s Foreign Ministry announced Wednesday that Hamas and Israel had agreed a four-day “humanitarian pause” in the month-and-a-half long Gaza conflict. Within hours, US media reported on the Biden team’s heroic “secret” role in helping to secure the truce. But that’s not the way things really went down.
    https://sputnikglobe.com/20231122/stolen-glory-qatar-not-biden-did-leg-work-to-secure-gaza-truce-1115143166.html

    ​ ‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 48: Ahead of temporary ceasefire, Israeli forces continue to terrorize hospitals
    ​ Israel is taking the opportunity to heavily bomb the Gaza Strip before the temporary ceasefire takes effect, forcibly evacuating the Indonesian hospital, arresting hospital staff, and obstructing ambulances.
    14,100 killed*, including 5,840 children, and 32,850 wounded in Gaza Strip.
    226 Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem

    ‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 48: Ahead of temporary ceasefire, Israeli forces continue to terrorize hospitals

    Israeli army arrests al-Shifa Hospital director, other doctors in Gaza
    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/23/al-shifa-hospital-director-arrested-by-israeli-army-in-gaza

    #147252
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Testimony from prison: unprecedented brutality against Palestinian detainees
    ​ Ever since October 7, Israeli prison authorities have unleashed a brutal campaign of repression against Palestinian prisoners, including severe beatings, humiliation, and the deprivation of food, health care, and basic amenities.

    Testimony from prison: unprecedented brutality against Palestinian detainees

    ​ President John F. Kennedy: His Life and Public Assassination by the CIA , Edward Curtain
    ​ The Cold War, endless other wars, and the nuclear threat John Kennedy worked so hard to end have today been inflamed to a fever pitch by U.S. leaders in thrall to the forces that killed the president. President Joseph Biden, like all the presidents that followed Kennedy, is JFK’s opposite, an unrepentant war-monger, not only in Ukraine with the U.S. war against Russia and the U.S. nuclear first-strike policy, but throughout the world – the Middle-East, Africa, Syria, Iran, and on and on, including the push for war with China.
    ​ Nowhere is this truer than with the U.S. support for the current Israeli genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza, a slaughter also supported by Robert Kennedy, Jr., who, ironically, is campaigning for the presidency on the coattails of JFK and his father Senator Robert F. Kennedy, who would be appalled by his unequivocal support for the Israeli government. ​ By such support and his silence as the slaughter in Gaza continues, RFK, Jr. is, contrary his other expressed opinions, supporting a wide range of war-related matters that involve the U.S.- Israel alliance, which is central to the military-industrial forces running U.S. foreign policy. To say this is dispiriting is a great understatement, for RFK, Jr., a very intelligent man, knows that the CIA killed his uncle and father, and he is campaigning as a spiritually awakened man intent on ending the U.S. warfare state, something impossible to accomplish when one gives full-fledged support to Israel. And I believe he will be elected the next U.S. president.

    President John F. Kennedy: His Life and Public Assassination by the CIA

    ​ European lawmakers vote for abolition of member state vetoes in latest EU power grab
    The plans were passed by a majority of 17 in Strasbourg on Wednesday as MEPs endorsed a further step towards a federalized Europe
    ​ A total of 291 MEPs supported the proposal put forward by the “Verhofstadt Group,” a group of MEPs led by the arch-federalist Guy Verhofstadt to amend the European Union treaties in favor of greater centralization and limiting the sovereignty of member states.
    ​ The vote was only narrowly passed with a majority of just 17 after a faction of conservative parliamentary groups expressed considerable opposition to the move.​..
    ​..Saryusz-Wolski resigned from the working committee led by Verhofstadt in protest at the development of the plan that would further politicize the European Commission, give Eurocrats sole competency over several issues including the environment, education, and public health, and remove the need for unanimity among member states in key policy areas.
    ​ The Polish MEP called the move “a silent putsch with communist roots.”​ …
    ​..The resolution in reality changes little. It gives an insight into the consensus of the parliament but treaty change ultimately remains a matter upon which unanimity among member state governments is required.

    European lawmakers vote for abolition of member state vetoes in latest EU power grab

    ​The Ethical Skeptic “Mentors” Chat GPT , Conditioning a Truly Skeptical AI
    ​ Ethically conditioning your Artificial Intelligence application to produce answers which are salient, critical path, informative, and free from cultivated ignorance.
    It is Narrative, not novelty, which demands our skepticism.​..
    ​..Skepticism, as philosophy, is the complement of sound science method, not the privilege sword of a few pretenders culling and provisionally enforcing conclusions in lieu of science. True skepticism is hungry. It is foolish. It selects from that which is weak in order to confound the things which appear mighty…
    ..Skepticism is the hallmark discipline of those who possess the grace, integrity and acumen requisite in the wielding of great ideas.

    Conditioning a Truly Skeptical AI

    ​ Was Sam Altman’s Sacking By OpenAI’s Board Over ‘Q-Star’ Breakthrough Seen As Threat To Humanity?
    ​ The mystery surrounding the brief dismissal of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman last Friday, who has since been reinstated, might revolve around a Reuters report that suggests Altman’s removal was due to a breakthrough in artificial general intelligence (AGI), which could threaten humanity.
    ​ In the days before Altman was sent off into exile, several staff researchers penned a letter to the board about a significant breakthrough – called Q* and pronounced Q-Star – that allowed the AI model to “surpass humans in most economically valuable tasks.”
    ​ Reuters sources said the AI milestone was one of the significant factors that led to the board’s abrupt firing of Altman last Friday. Another concern was commercializing the advanced AI model without understanding the socio-economic consequences.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/was-sam-altman-sacking-openais-board-over-q-star-breakthrough-seen-threat-humanity

    #147253
    John Day
    Participant

    ​Peter McCullough MD , New-Onset and Flares of Multiple Sclerosis are Associated with SARS-CoV-2 Infection and COVID-19 Vaccination
    National MS Society Pushes Vaccines Increasing Burden of Disease
    https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/new-onset-and-flares-of-multiple

    ​ Meryl Nass MD has the rest of the WHO-threat handouts in 8 more languages here.
    ​ Handouts in many languages: I only gave you the URL for one. I am sorry, cause this was very important. Here are the rest of the handouts and translations.
    Jet-lagged. If it’s Tuesday it must be Belgium. (Actually I leave for Belgium in a couple of hours.) I promise to slow down. Soon.
    https://merylnass.substack.com/p/handouts-in-many-languages-i-only

    ​New research reaffirms the nature of the Milky Way Galactic Current Sheet, which sweeps over our solar system about every 12,000 years to reset our terrestrial magnetic pole, if theory is confirmed in this current sweep, the first that we think has been closely monitored by our species. (3:25 minutes)
    The Galactic Current Sheet & Magnetic Field

    #147254
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    @noirette

    In case you didn’t know, it’s a Holy War & they’re ALL crazy, murderously so…

    Disturbing video shows young Muslim children at a Philadelphia Islamic center singing about ‘chopping off heads’, martyrdom and ‘defending Palestine with our bodies’ (April 2019):

    > Muslim American Society Islamic Center in Philadelphia posted controversial video to its Facebook page last month

    > Video shows group of children singing and chanting about ‘martyrs’ who ‘attained Paradise’

    > They also sing about ‘chopping off heads’ while ‘sacrificing our souls’

    > The children were wearing Islamic headdress and Palestinian nationalist symbols while vowing to ‘liberate Al-Aqsa Mosque’

    > Al-Aqsa, the third-holiest site in Islam, is located in Jerusalem’s Old City, which is controlled by Israel

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6994509/Muslim-children-Philadelphia-school-sing-chopping-heads-army-Allah.html

    After Saturday comes Sunday (Arabic: min sallaf es-sabt lāqā el-ḥadd qiddāmūh, lit. ’When Saturday is gone, one will find Sunday’) is a traditional Middle Eastern proverb.

    According to some journalist accounts, the proverb is prominent among the Maronites with the meaning that the Muslims will do away with the Christians after they have dealt with the Jews, implying the pending elimination or expulsion of minorities living in the Muslim world.

    Many sources register this proverb’s appearance as an Islamic slogan daubed on walls or putatively on the Palestinian flag during the years of the First Intifada (1987–1997).

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

    I could site almost an infinite variety of sources to document the Holy War, but anyone with the awareness of a caveman should “get it” by now…

    The one-sided slant on TAE is getting beyond nauseous, approaching instant *gag reflex* levels 🙄

    Until “humanity” rejects violence laden divisive rhetoric ~ Arising from Collective EG0ic Madness ~ nothing, absolutely NO-THING will change…

    In fact, based on recent history, it will grow exponentially *WORSE* 😐

    Is that what you really want?

    Asking for a friend…

    #147255
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    @dr-d

    You know, like Obama and Olsteen.

    Difference between Obama and Olsteen is that Hussein was *wildly* successful in enlarging & expanding Dumya’s paramilitary branches of government to rape, pillage, plunder & murder on levels that would have caused The Founding Father’s to apologize to King George & Parliament, if they had only known 😐

    Clearly Hobbes was proven right, Locke a wishful dreamer…

    Or in a different messianic evangelical, Zelenski. (Church of Himmler, I guess)

    Generalplan Ost II appears to have been a resounding success, Reinhard Gehlen would be pleased 🙄

    Time for HorrorWood to roll out some more Purge blood-lust fantasy flicks, The People Sheeple are just about primed…

    Ave Imperator, morituri te salutant.

    #147256
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    P x V = n x R x T

    Dr D says “thermometer” refute Ian Graham’s 2 degree rise.

      how to we measure temperature before there were thermometers? To an accuracy of 2c? Daily? They clearly can’t do that even now

    Hahahahahahaha!
    WES refutes Dr D with genuine science-technology–physics but kind of loses the plot.

    Along those same lines there’s no acknowledgement by Dr D that his “thermometer” is an indirect measure, you know, of an expansion of gas or liquid or material as proposed by WES and Boyle the man himself.

    WES hints at deriving temperature from relative composition of isotopes.
    So inferences are made philosophically and temperature is indirectly derived by other methods….very very accurately to address Ds invocation of ‘but what about significant digits’ .

    Amidst Ds discussion with climatist Ian, dr John Day shares this:

    “Milky Way Galactic Current Sheet”

    …with all its accurate measurements accepted at face value.

    Carry on

    #147257
    Dora
    Participant

    Breaking Points.

    #147258
    generic
    Participant

    Perhaps this explains RFK jr’s position on Israel/Palestine.

    Many Politicians Support Israeli Genocide Because They’re Being Blackmailed

    #147259
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    ‘Pullin’ Pipe’, … Polish style! ie., Polish fairy tails

    This secret operation was conducted by keeping the Americans in the dark, who were “indecisive” on approving the additional jets for Ukraine in the first three months of the war in early 2022, according to a new book by Polish journalist Zbigniew Parafianowicz ‘Polska Na Wojnie’ (Poland at War).

    The book tracks the initial diplomacy and exchanges in the run-up and the immediate aftermath of Russia’s Special Military Operation (SMO) launched on February 24, 2022. It mentioned unknown details of what transpired between President Volodymyr Zelensky, his Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda, US President Joe Biden, Germany, France, and the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. […]

    Frustrated By US Delays, Book Claims Poland Dismantled 10 Of Its MiG-29s & Placed Them In Forest For Ukraine

    Frustrated By US Delays, Book Claims Poland Dismantled 10 Of Its MiG-29s & Placed Them In Forest For Ukraine

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