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Gaza Civilians ‘Are Being Killed at Historic Pace’ – NYT (Jones)
American Pravda: Gaza and the Anti-Semitism Hoax (Ron Unz)
‘Drowning Gaza In Blood’ Will Not Achieve Israel’s Goals: Russia (Cradle)
Biden Administration Split Over Gaza Conflict (Sp.)
How A Slogan Became Bigger News Than The Murder Of Babies In Gaza (Cook)
Musk Touring Ravaged Kibbutz With Netanyahu (ZH)
Media’s Fatal Compromises (Patrick Lawrence)
West ‘Screwed Over’ Ukraine – Arestovich (RT)
Who is Responsible for Kiev’s Looming Defeat? (Sp.)
Political Dysfunction in Ukraine May Cost Zelensky His Job (Sp.)
US Weaponizing The Dollar – Lavrov (RT)
Deripaska Expects EU To Cave In On Gas Purchases From Moscow (RT)
An Alt Christmas Carol (Kunstler)
Ex-WH Doctor: Biden Can’t Do the Job, Cognitive Decline Happening Quickly (Sp.)
Greek PM Fumes After UK Abruptly Scraps Talks (RT)

 

 

 

 

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“After initially questioning the death toll in Gaza, the Biden administration now concedes that the true figures for civilian casualties may be even worse..”

Gaza Civilians ‘Are Being Killed at Historic Pace’ – NYT (Jones)

The New York Times reported on Saturday that “experts say that even a conservative reading of the casualty figures reported from Gaza shows that the pace of death during Israel’s campaign has few precedents in this century.” ScheerPost publisher Robert Scheer commented on the importance of the piece, stating, “The so-called paper of record finally acknowledges the unprecedented degree of violence visited upon civilians in Gaza by the Israeli government.” Using U.S.-made bombs that weigh 2,000 pounds “that can flatten [apartment towers],” Israel has killed “roughly 10,000 women and children” according to the Times. Women and children make up almost 70 percent of all deaths reported in Gaza. According to Rick Brennan, the regional emergency director for the World Health Organization’s Eastern Mediterranean office, the opposite is typically expected. “In past clashes between Israel and Hamas, for example, about 60 percent of the reported deaths in Gaza were men,” according to the Times.

Further, “U.S. military officials often believed that the most common American aerial bomb — a 500-pound weapon — was far too large for most targets when battling the Islamic State in urban areas like Mosul, Iraq, and Raqqa, Syria,” according to the Times. As the Times reported: “‘It’s beyond anything that I’ve seen in my career,’ said Marc Garlasco, a military adviser for the Dutch organization PAX and a former senior intelligence analyst at the Pentagon. To find a historical comparison for so many large bombs in such a small area, he said, we may ‘have to go back to Vietnam, or the Second World War.’” The paper also reported that “People are being killed in Gaza more quickly…than in even the deadliest moments of U.S.-led attacks in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, which were themselves widely criticized by human rights groups.”

Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus, the Israeli military spokesperson, claims that civilian casualties are inevitable because of Hamas’s strategy of deliberately embedding itself within the civilian population of Gaza. There is no evidence that Hamas intentionally hides among the residents of Gaza as a military strategy. Gaza is, however, one of the most densely populated cities on Earth, standing 25 miles long and 5 miles wide. The Israeli military claims that the numbers of dead Palestinians reported by the Palestinian Health Ministry cannot be trusted because the Ministry operates under Hamas. Conricus claims “We do a lot in order to prevent and, where possible, minimize the killing or wounding of civilians.” As the Times reported, international experts do not share the same skepticism of the Palestinian Health Ministry’s numbers that the Israeli government does:

“[Brian Castner, a weapons investigator for Amnesty International and a former explosive ordnance disposal officer in the U.S. Air Force,] said Israel appeared to be moving too quickly to reduce harm to civilians…” “After initially questioning the death toll in Gaza, the Biden administration now concedes that the true figures for civilian casualties may be even worse. Barbara Leaf, the assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs, told a House committee this month that American officials thought the civilian casualties were ‘very high, frankly, and it could be that they’re even higher than are being cited.’” s“While the experts urged caution around public statements about the specific number of people killed in a particular strike — especially in the immediate aftermath of a blast — they said the aggregate death tolls reported by the Gaza Health Ministry have typically proved to be accurate.”

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“Students at our most elite universities have been threatened with permanent employment blacklisting if they supported the Palestinian cause, and a long list of Jewish billionaires have mounted similar attacks against the academic institutions themselves..”

American Pravda: Gaza and the Anti-Semitism Hoax (Ron Unz)

Back in 2015, the widely broadcast image of a single, accidentally-drowned Syrian toddler led European governments to open their borders to millions of migrants, both from Syria and from everywhere else in the world, mostly young men in the prime of health. Greater Syria had traditionally encompassed Palestinian Gaza, so if a single accidental victim from the former had such enormous, nation-transforming political impact throughout Europe, surely the images of the many thousands deliberately killed in the latter must at least be raising a few personal concerns, though since some of these countries have prohibited expressions of pro-Palestinian sentiment, it’s difficult to be sure. Many European Jews have wholeheartedly backed the Jewish State even as it commits this gigantic public massacre, and this has naturally provoked a certain amount of popular criticism.

Deeply concerned by this latter situation, the New York Times last week ran yet another major article on the desperate need to combat such “anti-Semitic” sentiments in Europe, obviously one of the world’s most dreadful problems. A few days ago, I’d asked an American academic friend of mine how his colleagues were reacting to this astonishing situation and he replied: People are too scared to broadcast their views, I think…But I think a good fraction of even normie academics realize there is something monstrous going on. This sounds plausible to me, and another senior academic I know reported a roughly similar situation. Fear stalks the land.

Students at our most elite universities have been threatened with permanent employment blacklisting if they supported the Palestinian cause, and a long list of Jewish billionaires have mounted similar attacks against the academic institutions themselves, something I cannot recall ever happening in the past. As a result, a legal analysis article commissioned and approved for publication in the prestigious Harvard Law Review was scrapped at the last moment. From its earliest roots in the terroristic Irgun, Israel’s ruling Likud party has always endorsed the creation of a Greater Israel—“From the River to the Sea”—proclaiming that territory must be placed under Jewish rule, with all non-Jews subjugated, expelled, or killed.

But in recent decades, progressive anti-Zionists have co-opted that same ambiguous slogan, using it to symbolize their goal of a unified country of Palestine, a secular democratic state providing equal rights for both Jews and non-Jews, two populations of similar size. This would naturally involve the dissolution of the existing Jewish state, absolute anathema to committed Zionists. Propelled by the horrific images of dead babies in Gaza, this controversial phrase soon began trending among anti-Zionists on Twitter along with talk of “decolonizing” the Israeli settler-state. Wilting under intense Zionist attacks, owner Elon Musk—the world’s wealthiest man—declared that these rather vague and innocuous progressive slogans constituted incitement to “genocide,” with their use being grounds for an immediate ban from his platform. By contrast, I haven’t heard that Musk has banned any of the Israeli politicians or activists publicly calling for the total annihilation of all Palestinians.

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“Even by decapitating Hamas and even by drowning the Gaza Strip in blood, it will hardly be possible to ensure Israel’s security..”

‘Drowning Gaza In Blood’ Will Not Achieve Israel’s Goals: Russia (Cradle)

Russian presidential aide Yury Ushakov said on 27 November that Israel will not achieve its security goals by “drowning the Gaza Strip in blood.” “Even by decapitating Hamas and even by drowning the Gaza Strip in blood, it will hardly be possible to ensure Israel’s security. After some time, the tide of hatred and terrorism may rise again with renewed force. This cannot be ruled out,” the aide said in comments quoted by Russian news agency TASS. Ushakov added that “the Palestinian problem is unrivaled in terms of its ability to spread to the global level.” His comments come 52 days into the Gaza-Israel war and on the final day of a four-day truce mediated by Qatar and Egypt, which has seen a daily exchange of Israeli and Palestinian prisoners.

The truce was reached on 22 November and went into effect the following morning. US, Qatari, and Egyptian mediators are reportedly discussing a possible extension of the truce. Israel has said it would be willing to extend the truce by one day for every 10 additional captives released by Hamas. The Russian presidential aide also condemned “the monopolization of the mediator’s mission by the United States.” His comments come just days after Russian President Vladimir Putin urged the international community to join forces to find a solution to the Palestinian-Israeli issue.

“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 said while addressing a summit of BRICS countries. Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 20,000 people, nearly half of whom are children, according to an updated count of victims released by Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor (Euromed). On 1 November, Russia’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzya, blasted “the hypocrisy of the US and its allies, who in other, completely different situations call for compliance with humanitarian law, establish investigative commissions, [and] impose sanctions.” Nebenzya also said that Israel has “no right to self-defense” as an occupying power.

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“..the Department of State said the United States had sent a “very clear message” to Israel that settler violence in the West Bank was unacceptable..”

Biden Administration Split Over Gaza Conflict (Sp.)

Earlier in November, some 20 White House staffers requested a meeting with the president’s top advisers to discuss the current administration’s plans to reduce the civilian death toll in the Gaza Strip, the newspaper reported. Commenting on a meeting with White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients, Senior Advisor Anita Dunn and Deputy National Security Advisor Jon Finer, one of the officials was cited as saying that the aides resorted to familiar talking points despite listening to the staff. The administration reportedly had to be careful not to openly criticize Israeli operations. US officials were pushing Israel to minimize civilian casualties, while Biden and his advisors advocated a two-state solution to the ongoing conflict, the report said.

The previously unreported meeting underscored that Biden’s handling of perhaps the biggest foreign policy crisis of his presidency has divided the White House that prides itself on running a disciplined and united operation, media said. Earlier this month, the Department of State said the United States had sent a “very clear message” to Israel that settler violence in the West Bank was unacceptable and that those responsible would be held accountable. In late October, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told a congressional hearing that they were closely monitoring Israeli settler violence in the West Bank and had raised the issue in talks with their Israeli counterparts.

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“The protest chant ‘From the river to the sea’ rejects not Israelis or Jews but the apartheid nature of Israel. This is why pro-Israel western politicians and media want to criminalise it..”

How A Slogan Became Bigger News Than The Murder Of Babies In Gaza (Cook)

The lead foreign story for the BBC on 13 November should have been a no-brainer. As Israeli soldiers surrounded al-Shifa hospital in northern Gaza, preparing to storm it, dozens of premature babies inside the facility had been removed from their incubators. The hospital no longer had any power to run the machines. Distressing footage showed the babies huddled together in a makeshift, foil-lined pen, shivering from cold. Several had already died. The symbolism was hard to miss. Gaza’s civilians were huddled together, too, after Israel had bombed their homes to rubble and ordered them to move south. They were exposed and vulnerable against Israel’s wrath. And growing numbers were dying.

The babies story was both heart-wrenching and infuriating. Israel had been repeatedly warned by the United Nations that this would be one of the terrible consequences of its collective punishment of Gaza’s population, denying the fuel needed to generate electricity. Israel simply ignored the warnings. But editors at the BBC’s News at Six decided to lead the foreign coverage not with the babies being killed by Israel’s withholding of fuel but with a story from the other side of the divide. It must have been one of the most perverse news judgments on record. Instead, the BBC led with the brother of a British-Israeli man who had been killed during Hamas’ attack on 7 October. The attack itself was by then more than a month old, which even the BBC seemed to understand could not justify demoting the dying babies from the top foreign news slot.

A better angle was needed. And it was this: the BBC reported that the brother was increasingly wondering whether it was safe for him to remain in Britain. This was a sentiment shared by many other Jews, according to the report. Paradoxically, the implication was that for British Jews it might be a safer alternative to move to Israel, despite weeks of western coverage highlighting Israelis’ fears about their vulnerability following Hamas’s attack. Did this British man really think he would be more secure in the same state in which his brother had just been killed in a mass atrocity? The BBC’s reporter did not pose the question.

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While trying to shake the “anti-semitic” label, Musk puts his foot knee-deep in the doo-doo. This will hurt him badly.

Musk Touring Ravaged Kibbutz With Netanyahu (ZH)

Elon Musk showed up in southern Israel on Monday at the personal invitation of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, where he was given a tour of an Israeli kibbutz left desolate by the Oct.7 Hamas terror raids. Musk while on a tour of Kfar Aza heard details from Israel Defense Forces (IDF) troops of the massacres in the kibbutz. Israeli media has described it as a scene of “horrors”—one among more than 20 communities ravaged, where in some cases entire families were butchered. Musk later in the day said it was “it was jarring to see the scene of the massacre.” Musk heard briefings and personal stories both of tragedy and heroism, including the story of kidnapped Israeli-American toddler Avigail Idan, who turned 4 in captivity but was released Sunday as part of the third round hostage swap between Hamas and Israel.

Her parents were murdered directly before her eyes, with accounts saying her dad was holding her when he was shot. After also being shown a short film of the Hamas attacks, Musk commented that it was “troubling” to see the “to see the joy experienced by people that were killing innocent civilians.” As part of Musk’s visit, he and PM Netanyahu held a live talk via X Spaces (recently known as Twitter Spaces) wherein the prime minister repeated his call for Hamas to be destroyed. Musk responded, “There’s no choice,” and said after touring ravaged kibbutzes: “I’d like to help as well.” The full section of that exchange is below:

Netanyahu laid out that his main priority is to neutralize Hamas, after which he will turn to rebuilding Gaza: “You first have to get rid of this poisonous regime.” Musk agreed and offered to be involved in the post-war recovery. “I think that makes perfect sense that those who are intent on murder must be neutralized, then the propaganda must stop … and then making Gaza prosperous,” Musk said. “Well, I hope you’ll be involved,” Netanyahu responded. “I’d love to help,” Musk said. I n statements which are likely to prove controversial, particularly to the pro-Palestinian side, Musk also voiced that civilian casualties are “unavoidable” and generally appeared to back Israel’s position that it is trying hard to avoid them while seeking to target only terrorists.

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“..Biden’s people fret about what the slaughter of Palestinians will look like once it resumes — appearances being not quite all but nearly..”

Media’s Fatal Compromises (Patrick Lawrence)

Last week Politico published a lengthy piece on the Biden regime’s argument that the current “pause” in Israel’s merciless murder spree in Gaza and the exchange of hostages proves the policy cliques in Washington have done the right thing. It does not take much for these dangerously unqualified people to fool themselves. But the White House remains “‘deeply, deeply worried’ about Israel’s longer-term strategy and what the next phase of the war may look like,” Politico reported. Then this: “And there was some concern in the administration about an unintended consequence of the pause: that it would allow journalists broader access to Gaza and the opportunity to further illuminate the devastation there and turn public opinion on Israel.”

In plain English, Biden’s people fret about what the slaughter of Palestinians will look like once it resumes — appearances being not quite all but nearly. But if there was no one there to see and report the savagery, there would be no appearances to worry about. Trita Parsi at the Quincy Institute brought this quotation to my attention, and I cannot do better than his comment on it: “I’m speechless.” It is interesting that at least some people in the Biden regime seem to consider relations between power and the media to be adversarial in the old-fashioned way. And how fine it would be were the corporate press and broadcasters to get their correspondents into Gaza on their own and report what they see as they see it. This seems to me perfectly possible. The BBC, Al Jazeera, and various wire services — Reuters, The Associated Press, Agence France–Presse — are among the news organizations with bureaus in Gaza City.

But the record to date indicates that cowardice and supine compliance will prevail over the aforementioned bravery and principle. This is how embedding journalists got started in the post–1975 years. The defeat in Vietnam spooked the Pentagon and the political leadership, which blamed the media for turning Americans against the war. By the Gulf War, August 1990 to February 1991, embeddedness was s.o.p. among American media. A reporter named Brett Wilkins published a well-reported piece in Common Dreams a month into the Israel Defense Forces’ war crimes in Gaza. In “U.S. Corporate Media Outlets Allow IDF to Vet ‘All Materials’ from Embedded Reporters in Gaza,” Wilkins laid out the whole disgusting nine. His lead: “U.S. corporate media outlets have granted Israeli military commanders pre-publication review rights for ‘all materials and footage’ recorded by their correspondents embedded with the Israel Defense Forces during the invasion of Gaza, a precondition condemned by press freedom advocates.”

Wilkins goes on to name a few of the names — among them CNN and NBC — who indulge their spinelessness in this manner. And he quotes the feckless Fareed Zakaria offering the boilerplate excuse for this gross breach of professional ethics. “CNN has agreed to these terms in order to provide a limited window into Israel’s operations in Gaza,” Zakaria deadpans. Speechless a second time. A photojournalist named Zach D. Roberts gets my award for the pithiest summation of this daily travesty. “What CNN is doing here is creating ad b-roll [supplementary video footage] for the IDF,” Roberts said. “It’s nothing resembling news and the CNN employees that participated in it aren’t anything resembling journalists.”

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Candidate to take Zelensky’s place?!

West ‘Screwed Over’ Ukraine – Arestovich (RT)

The West has essentially thrown Ukraine under the bus in its conflict with Russia by failing to provide Kiev with the necessary amount of military aid, Aleksey Arestovich, a former aide to President Vladimir Zelensky, has claimed. Writing on Telegram on Sunday, Arestovich weighed in on the differing views of Ukrainian officials as to why Kiev’s conflict with Moscow is still in full swing despite several major attempts at peace. According to the former presidential aide, the West bears most of the blame for the situation. The real responsibility lies with those who promised Ukraine real support for waging a real, big war and did not provide it. In other words, they screwed us over. Arestovich claimed that Ukraine “had won its war” by managing to survive in the first few months of the conflict.

“This war of ours could have well ended with the Istanbul Agreements,” he suggested, referring to the talks in the Turkish city in the spring of 2022, which initially made some progress but stalled after then-British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s visit to Kiev. The negotiations collapsed but Russia maintains it is open to diplomatic engagement with Kiev. After the Istanbul talks, the conflict entered another phase in which Ukraine had no chance of winning without securing massive Western arms supplies, including warplanes and long-range missiles, the former official continued. “But nothing came. We paid a huge price for that.” Arestovich suggested that the West would now try to force Ukraine to accept the loss of several regions, which overwhelmingly voted to join Russia in a series of public referenda last autumn.

He also suggested that, while Kiev found itself in a tough spot mostly due to the West’s inaction, the Ukrainian leadership’s “stupidity and corruption has given them many formal and informal reasons to screw us over.” Arestovich’s remarks came amid Ukraine’s faltering counteroffensive, which has been underway since early summer but has failed to gain any significant ground. Last month, Moscow said Kiev had lost more than 90,000 troops since the start of the push, with Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu claiming that Ukrainian casualties had reached more than 13,000 soldiers in November alone. Earlier this month, Valery Zaluzhny, Ukraine’s top general, admitted that hostilities had reached a stalemate, an assessment rejected by Zelensky. Meanwhile, on Sunday, Mariana Bezuglaya, a senior Ukrainian MP, blasted Zaluzhny over the lack of a strategic plan for 2024 and called on the military leadership to step down.

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“Zelensky’s ambitions are understandable because he’s a mercenary. They were hired to fight with Russia, to fight for a long time, but it doesn’t work..”

Who is Responsible for Kiev’s Looming Defeat? (Sp.)

The Ukrainian leadership is coming face-to-face with not only the failure of its counteroffensive but also seemingly imminent defeat in the more than 20-month-long conflict with Russia – despite months of triumphalist rhetoric from Kiev. While Western leaders appear to be seeking a face-saving exit from their proxy war, past and present Ukrainian officials are busy finding someone to blame. How come Ukraine is losing? Wasn’t it clear from the outset that Ukraine had considerably less troops, military equipment and resources to prevail? So who is to blame? According to Sergey Kryvonos, a retired general of the Ukraine Armed Forces and former deputy secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, it’s President Volodymyr Zelensky’s fault that Ukraine is losing.

The president’s promises of victory to Ukrainians have never turned into reality, Kryvonos said on air at the “Pryamoy” News Channel. “Last year and in the first half of this year, we were told about victory, that the Russians were already exhausted, that they no longer had missiles, that their economy had fallen. Did they say that? Yes, they did. (…) But did all this really happen? No”, the retired general said, adding that the Kiev regime’s words about a “powerful counteroffensive” were also just hot air. Kyvonos argued that Zelensky “must think not only about himself but also about training the population [in security],” which is not happening. He recommended that the Ukrainian president hire professionals instead of mere speechwriters who “write speeches for him to read.”

“When it comes to the complaints against Zelensky, he promised victory, access to the borders of 1991 and the liberation of Crimea, if the equipment, money and all other equipment he needed were delivered,” Andrey Suzdaltsev, an assistant professor and deputy dean at the School of the World Economy and International Affairs at Russia’s State University–Higher School of Economics, told Sputnik. “Let me remind you that in June of this year, Washington claimed that Zelensky had received everything he needed for a successful offensive. The army was mobilized, and it launched a counteroffensive in early June and stalled. That’s the problem. This is a general miscalculation. Zelensky’s ambitions are understandable because he’s a mercenary. They were hired to fight with Russia, to fight for a long time, but it doesn’t work. This is where the grievances of both the West and [Zelensky] originate from,” he continued.

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“..constant purges of relatively high ranking military officers during war would seem to perhaps have a negative effect on your war effort.”

Political Dysfunction in Ukraine May Cost Zelensky His Job (Sp.)

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is on thin ice. That’s the conclusion of international affairs and security analyst Mark Sleboda, who joined Sputnik’s Political Misfits crew Monday to discuss the ongoing political drama in the country in the wake of the country’s failed counteroffensive this year. “He fears another Maidan… he fears a coup,” said Sleboda, referring to the 2014 protests that saw far-right mobs drive elected president Viktor Yanukovych out of Ukraine. The unrest, openly backed by Western powers, was supported by only a minority of the Ukrainian population but succeeded in firmly shifting the politics of the country towards a Russophobic stance.
Sleboda believes the primary challenger to Zelensky’s power is Valerii Zaluzhny, the current commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian military.

Political forces inside and outside the country may be coalescing around Zaluzhny as an alternative to Zelensky’s leadership, according to Sleboda. Aware of the threat, Zelensky “has replaced several of Zaluzhny’s generals in the past weeks – fired them – without any consultations with him,” said Sleboda. The analyst also noted the recent death of Major Gennadiy Chastyakov, a top aide to Zaluzhny, who was killed earlier this month when a grenade given to him as a birthday gift exploded. Sleboda speculates that the strange incident may have been a “political hit by Zelensky’s administration.” “Most of the Ukrainian social media channels believe it was a political hit, a warning to Zaluzhny,” said Sleboda.

Sleboda discounted a story that has recently re-emerged chiefly blaming former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson for Ukraine’s unwillingness to seek peace with Russia in early 2022, calling it a “salvo in the quite opaque political infighting that is now going on in Kiev.” “I don’t think they [the Ukrainian government] were ever more serious about this than they were about the Minsk accords,” said Sleboda, noting the “ideological nature” of the country’s firmly anti-Russian leadership since 2014. [..] Host Michelle Witte noted the damage to morale in the Ukrainian armed forces caused by the chronic political dysfunction, saying “constant purges of relatively high ranking military officers during war would seem to perhaps have a negative effect on your war effort.”

Sleboda agreed, claiming President Zelensky’s western backers are looking for a way to replace the Ukrainian leader. “It seems quite obvious to me that the US and in general the West has lost confidence in Zelensky and they’re trying to find a way to replace him with Zaluzhny without another blatantly obvious US-backed coup in the country so soon after the last one,” said Sleboda, referring to widely-reported evidence of US involvement in the 2014 ouster of Yanukovych.

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“Such fundamental legal foundations of world economic relations as free competition and the immunity of property have been destroyed..”

US Weaponizing The Dollar – Lavrov (RT)

The US is using the dollar to unleash trade wars worldwide, while international economic cooperation is also being weaponized, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday. The US and its allies in the EU are using a wide range of “geopolitical engineering” tools, which include, among other things “unleashing trade and economic wars,” Lavrov stated, speaking at the Primakov Readings International Forum. “The activities of the World Trade Organization, primarily for settling disputes, have been blocked by Western countries. Such fundamental legal foundations of world economic relations as free competition and the immunity of property have been destroyed,” the Russian diplomat noted. Lavrov went on to assert that the American currency has long been used as a weapon, adding that “destructive actions” by Western nations have resulted in producing the opposite effect to the intended one.

The diplomat argued that US-led sanctions aimed at isolating Russia and crippling its economy in reality have stimulated the “strengthening of multipolarity in international affairs.” According to Lavrov, there is a growing awareness in the world that “no one is immune” in the face of the “aggressive actions of Washington and Brussels.” He noted that not only Russia but many other countries are now “consistently” reducing their dependence on Western currencies by switching to alternatives for foreign-trade settlements. The global trend towards using national currencies in trade instead of the US dollar began to gain momentum last year after Ukraine-related sanctions saw Russia cut off from the Western financial system and also saw its foreign reserves frozen. As multipolarity takes shape, more nations are working on creating new transport corridors and supply chains. Meanwhile, an “unfair” and “unbalanced” model of globalization has become outdated, Lavrov said.

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“..in about a year and a half.”

Deripaska Expects EU To Cave In On Gas Purchases From Moscow (RT)

EU nations will have to return to Russian natural gas supplies within a year and a half, Russian businessman Oleg Deripaska predicted on his Telegram channel on Monday. According to the billionaire, the lack of gas deliveries from Russia is currently forcing the bloc’s lawmakers to make “the only correct decision and change the main focus from the green transition to nuclear energy.” “However, this is not a quick process, meaning that it’s necessary to end the Ukraine conflict and agree on gas supplies with Gazprom,” according to Deripaska. The tycoon highlighted that the terms of a potential agreement with Moscow will not be favorable to the EU, as the bloc will have to return frozen assets to the Bank of Russia, compensate for the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines, and cover sanctions-related losses for Russian businesses.

“It’s serious compensation [the bloc will have] to pay for American adventures, but it’s still cheaper and more profitable than buying unnecessary weapons worth trillions of euros, and, in addition, losing such a sweet Russian market,” he argued. Deripaska, the founder of the world’s second-largest aluminum company, Rusal, also said the about-turn would not happen immediately, but that “cold winters will make the ‘Eastern Compromise’ acceptable” to the EU much faster, “in about a year and a half.” “Nuclear energy has returned after almost 20 years of useless debate with the so-called greens,” he concluded, adding that the return to reliable sources of fuel is inevitable.

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“Did I manage to pardon my family? And myself? “Uh, well, sir, you were in a coma. Anyway, your attorneys wish to see you now. . . .”

An Alt Christmas Carol (Kunstler)

“Joe Biden” awakens yet again as more cold wind bearing the fetid odor of swamp blows through the still-opened window. He is yet muttering “yu-yuh-yuh-yessir, yessir,” when a shrouded, hooded figure materializes in the gloom. “You are… Cuh-Cuh-Christmas Future,” “Joe Biden” says. “You’re catching on,” says the ghost, holding out his fleshless, bony hand. “Come!” They are transported to the hearing room of a House committee. Hunter Biden sits at the witness table, tears streaking his face, apparently in mid testimony. “. . . and then my dad says to Mr. Zlochevsky, ‘one-million? C’mon man, I’ve got a beach house to renovate’. . . and Mister Z says, ‘okay I give you one-point-five-mil’. . . and my dad cracks up laughing. . . . ‘that won’t even cover the area rugs I ordered from Iran’ he says. . . .”

Suddenly the room vaporizes and “Joe Biden” stands next to the inaugural dias on the US Capitol’s west-facing front. Tucker Carlson has just stepped away after being sworn in as vice president and the massive, gold-headed, once-and-future president lumbers up to the Chief Justice, placing his hand on a Bible. “Oh, n-n-n-no-o-o-o-o. . .” “JB” wails and wakes up in the presidential bed, panting and sweating. “Are you all right sir? A marine standing at his bedside says. “I had a terrible dream. Trump got back in.”n “That was no dream, sir. You’ve been in a coma since just before Christmas last year when you stroked out on ice cream. It’s Wednesday, November 6, 2024. Welcome back to reality, sir.”

“Reality?” “Joe Biden” says. “We make our own reality.” “Not anymore, sir,” the lance corporal says. “Tell me, son, please! Did I manage to pardon my family? And myself? “Uh, well, sir, you were in a coma. Anyway, your attorneys wish to see you now. . . .”

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“.. just unbelievable how much he’s degenerated just during his time in office.”

Ex-WH Doctor: Biden Can’t Do the Job, Cognitive Decline Happening Quickly (Sp.)

US President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline is “happening quickly,” Texas GOP Congressman Ronny Jackson, a former White House physician, told a US broadcaster. “I’ve taken care of three presidents… so I know firsthand what it takes to be the commander-in-chief and the head of state. It’s a grueling job, both mentally and physically. This man can’t do the job. He’s proven to us every single day that he can’t do the job, but this is going to get worse,” Jackson said. Referring to the 46th US president, the ex-White House physician added that it’s “just unbelievable how much he’s degenerated just during his time in office.” “We cannot afford to have this man in office for the remainder of this term and then [for] another four years after that. He’s already putting us at great risk right now,” Jackson pointed out.

The GOP Congressman also singled out a series of concerns he has regarding his country, pointing to the crisis at the US southern border, international tensions and the economic issues that have arisen under Biden. “[Look at] the wars that we’re getting drawn into. Things that wouldn’t happen if Donald Trump were there because our enemies don’t fear us anymore. They have no respect for us anymore and our adversaries don’t trust us anymore, and it’s because we don’t have the leadership in the White House that we need,” Jackson added. He insisted that Biden, “even if he wanted to, cannot provide that leadership.” According to the former White House physician, POTUS is “not physically and cognitively fit for office anymore, and somebody in his inner circle needs to step up to the plate and make him aware of this, and he needs to move on for the safety and security of this country.”

The remarks come a week after Jackson told a US news network that Biden does not have “cognitive ability” to serve another term. “He’s got these people that surround him that are inappropriately encouraging him to continue to run because it builds up who they are and what they do. […] And it’s just on display every day that he’s not capable of doing this job anymore,” Jackson stressed.

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It’s like Israel selling off Palestinian art.

Greek PM Fumes After UK Abruptly Scraps Talks (RT)

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has criticized his British counterpart after Downing Street axed a planned meeting in London, where the leader was expected to request the return of Greek antiquities held in UK museums. Mitsotakis addressed the canceled talks while visiting the UK on Monday, lamenting the missed chance for dialogue, while noting his country’s “well known” desire to reclaim ancient Parthenon sculptures kept by Britain. “I [want to] express my annoyance at the fact that the British prime minister canceled our scheduled meeting a few hours before it was due to take place,” he said. “Whoever believes in the correctness and justice of his views is never afraid of opposing arguments.” The Greek prime minister was set to speak with his UK counterpart, Rishi Sunak, following a meeting with Labour Party leaders on Monday, though the talks were scrapped with little notice.

Mitsotakis’ aides called the move “wrong and undignified.” The Greek prime minister rejected an alternative meeting with the deputy prime minister, according to the BBC. Officials traveling with Mitsotakis argued that the decision to cancel the meeting was linked to recent comments from the Greek leader to the BBC, in which he restated Athens’ longstanding demands for the return of the ancient artifacts. He added that the sculptures should be “reunited” with the Greek temples they were originally taken from, saying the division of the artwork between Greece and the UK was like “cutting the Mona Lisa in half.” The 5th century BC marble antiques were removed from the Greek Parthenon temple in the early 1800s by British diplomat Lord Elgin, who served as the ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, which ruled over Greece at the time. They have remained in UK possession since, with most of the sculptures kept at the British Museum in London.

While unnamed sources at 10 Downing Street initially told The Guardian that a scheduling conflict was to blame, the outlet reported that Mitsotakis’ remarks “seem to have irritated Sunak to the point that he had felt there was no reason to hold the talks.” Publicly, a spokesperson for Sunak said the UK-Greece relationship is “hugely important,” but did not address the row over the 2,500-year-old antiquities. Though Mitsotakis has repeatedly stressed the importance of returning the treasures since taking office, Sunak has said he would never support changes to 1963 legislation that bars the British Museum from ever handing over the ancient carvings. The Greek government first requested their return in 1983, but the UK has repeatedly declined, even rejecting an offer by the United Nations to mediate the dispute.

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    Salvador Dali Madrid. Drunk man 1922   • Gaza Civilians ‘Are Being Killed at Historic Pace’ – NYT (Jones) • American Pravda: Gaza and the Anti-Se
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle November 28 2023]

    #147476
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Sorry folks, nobody has driven me away, I am just letting the Jews do the talking. What can I add to the behaviour of the Jews in the Good ol USA and the Jews in Israel? And now Musk is kicking off, defending his businesses by kissing Netanyahu’s ring. It is hillarious, the world’s richest man grovelling. Wow, what a scam the Jews have pulled on the western world, the biggest scam being the holocaust fantasy.

    But sure, Dr D will defend them to the end. At last we see that there are a vast majority of Jews that support the idea of Israel, so do all these Jews also believe in the genocide of Palestinians? Of course they do, but I know that will upset some; so fragile.

    Dr D, I understand your position, sorry to disappoint but I am not coming round to your position where life is a movie with goodies and badies.

    DBS, there is nothing I can add, Celticbiker said it all, your response was the icing on the cake.

    #147477
    WES
    Participant

    I am unconvinced that the banker’s Ukrainian war will end anytime soon, despite talk of peace.
    Bankers don’t give up easily and are it for as long as it takes.
    Much more likely the bankers will try to move the war to their desired next phase.

    Anyone watching Russia, will notice Russia is in this war until they win.
    There will be no negotiated peace with the bankers as they are agreement incapable.
    The war will only end when Ukraine does what Russia says.

    #147478
    wwoofbum
    Participant

    Re: “All guitars must be electric by 2030″…
    All a**holes must be equipped with methane recovery systems by 2030.

    #147479
    WES
    Participant

    War is all that bankers do.
    The US Fed raising interest rates quickly is a declaration of war.
    Against US domestic borrowers.
    Against the rest of the world’s borrowers too.
    And against central banks not owned by the bankers,
    Like Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela, N.Korea, the axis of evil!
    The war against China’s has already begun in case you hadn’t notice!
    All wars are banker’s wars.

    #147480
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    If one has no debt, as in zero debt; then the bankers have no hold on that one…

    #147481
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “Media Outlet Criticized for Trying to Normalize ‘The Death of Trump’

    2nd or 3rd trial balloon. Hey, they’re following standard, courteous mafia procedure: he’s been warned, and he can avoid this at any time. The fake indictments didn’t work, since the people know the courts are more corrupt than the people are, which is really saying something. So avoid small planes. They didn’t want to make him a martyr, and Trump has probably gone round the bend into being a myth and legend, so

    “You can’t win, Darth. If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.” — Obi-Wan Kenobi

    Why do I quote movies and comics? Because the wrong class are so uppity and high on themselves and their superiority it antagonizes them to no end that not only can you be right all the time, and beat them, but do it quoting “Dora” and the “Tellebubbies”. Okay, not the last one.

    Anyway, assassinating Trump even despite his secret service and military protection, AND that the White Hats will retaliate behind the scenes, is now in the cards. Well good! Crikey I though you guys were just going to stare at each other all day. Get a room.

    So, if you murder one or all of the opposing candidates, is that still considered a fair election? Asking for a friend.

    “Chris Christie Says Trump To Blame For Rising Antisemitism,

    Yes, him and his Jewish family and Jewish-Israeli donors. That must be uncomfortable at Thanksgiving! or since they work with him, every day of the year since ever. In other words Being Jewish = Antisemitic. According to a white Christian guy.

    And the great part about this is nothing matters: he can be criticized by the Right for being Jewish, AND equally savaged by the Left for being anti-Jewish. Neither notices, cares, or checks. Why? Reality-optional, a Post-Reality world. OMB: if I don’t like you, you are therefore racist. Why would I check? Racist = Bad, so if you don’t give me a free fries, or cut me off in traffic, you’re racist. QED. “Idiocracy” logic.

    In reality of course he’s neither. But he has no problem with it and it’s incidental to him by his actions of yes, Jewish donors and (orthodox) Jewish son in law. So? He’s also a tepid, barely-there Christian like most of the country. I didn’t hire him to be my pastor or rabbi.

    Copenhagen Benches:

    Well, they’ve been wrong every year so far. Since 1989 apparently. Here we are 23 years later and not an inch of water on Battery Park. More polar bears than ever. Snow in England, Saudi Arabia, and Mexico. Dams bursting with water in the American West. Oh. Noes. We’z all gonna die now!!!

    ““..the Department of State said the United States had sent a “very clear message” to Israel that settler violence in the West Bank was unacceptable..”

    …Sent the message in an envelope wrapped in $100 bills with another check for $6B inside. You know: like Iran.

    Could we pick at least ONE side we’re not funding? The house needs a roof and the school bus is up on blocks here.

    “• How A Slogan Became Bigger News Than The Murder Of Babies In Gaza (Cook)

    Jeff Sachs has covered that the UN could stop all four wars right now with UN resolutions and “Volunteer” peacekeeping forces, say from Qatar. That would and could be from the LAST 100 “resolutions” they made that haven’t been enforced either. They won’t.

    So what is the purpose of the UN except as eyewash to Western NeoCon NeoLiberal colonialism?

    Oh well, disband it. The Global South, with 2/3 of the planet, can make a “NU” instead. I guess I’m saying here in the West, everybody started TALKING in response to a war and crisis. We’re still TALKING. Talk talk talk. And nobody DID anything. …I mean except provide more bombs and (barely) deny it. In which case, they all might as well not exist, you can save your time, money, and talent. But why do you think the UN HQ is in Rockefeller Center?

    “..Biden’s people fret about what the slaughter of Palestinians will look like once it resumes — appearances being not quite all but nearly..”

    Well thank God we won that PR war. Meanwhile, in Ukraine:

    “Putin’s Pride Leads to Huge Casualties at Avdiivka” – Times Radio.

    Wow, casualties in a war? I guess Putin was down there at the slag heap, running this personally. Well, I guess we showed him! It’s only a matter of time before all Russia falls and we take (those gas wells at) Vladivostok.

    Oh btw: “Southeast Avdiivka Has Fallen” – Weeb Union (a bullet-by-bullet war follower) Yup! Winnin’ that war on Reality! Just like we won the war on Poverty, Drugs, Racism…

    I mean, if you were wondering why it’s near-impossible to hear anything about Ukraine anymore.

    And btw, pretty sure from ACTIONS, not talk, that the “Peace negotiations” of the West are another “ceasefire” like Minsk and Kiev were. That is, not the slightest intention of following, just need a break to re-arm. So needless to say, Moscow is like “whatevah”. Sure: surrender any time you want. We’ll watch!

    “The West has essentially thrown Ukraine under the bus in its conflict with Russia by failing to provide Kiev with the necessary amount of military aid,”

    Which lie should I cover first here? So, $150B wasn’t enough? No? Pulling 50,000 Poles in without activating NATO wasn’t enough? (And contrarywise, only 1/3 of the “money” got there, and all equipment that did was obsolete)

    Well, you know my position: The U.S. punk’d them into it to hang Europe out to dry. However, before that, WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR FIRST ARMY, sir? We DID give that one everything, you DID have 200,000 trained over 10 years you DID have tanks, jets, missiles, copters. Largest Army in Europe, (except Turkey), larger than ten Britains. Where’s my Army, Brian? Where is it?

    You’re on your third or fourth army. Roshambeau for it? Best out of twelve?

    “The president’s promises of victory to Ukrainians have never turned into reality, Kryvonos said”

    This might come as a shock to some of you, but Promises don’t “Magic” themselves into reality with the power of positive thinking. Somebody has to do this thing called “Work”. Having never seen any, I understand why you don’t know what that is.

    “the Kiev regime’s words about a “powerful counteroffensive” were also just hot air.”

    Er…it depends. For example, Ukraine is training TEN-THOUSAND men in Europe right now. 10,000 MORE. Do you have any idea how large that is and what ten-thousand men can do to you? Ukraine has KILLED more men than the entire British Army has on staff. TEN TIMES more. (75,000 vs 750k or 1.1M) So I’m not sure I want to call that NOT a “powerful counteroffensive”. They could have taken all Ohio and Kentucky perhaps. (or perhaps not, we’re better armed). Problem is Ukraine is a very, very large place.

    However, that doesn’t discount that the Russian army is larger, stronger, and has this thing we invented called “Airplanes”. If you take all 10,000…or 700,000 doesn’t matter…and just RUN THEM INTO A MINEFIELD then yeah, your “Powerful counteroffensive” is going to fail. But that’s not the Russian’s or the dog-faces’ fault. Doesn’t make it not powerful. It just makes you a moron. A failing failure who fails, directed by failing failures who fail: midwit middle management from ‘Merica. I’d say like Blinken and Nuland but they’re clearly below Midwit.

    Now let’s all join in their new #1 hit: “I Wrote It on a Spreadsheet.”

    “• Deripaska Expects EU To Cave In On Gas Purchases From Moscow (RT)

    I mean, yeah, but they never stopped in the first place. They just keep flappin’ their yap.

    Don’t you know you fight wars by giving your enemy billions? I mean, that’s what we do here with China. “China, we were thinking about attacking and bombing you, can we borrow $100 Billion dollars?” “Sure pal, here you go: need some socks and Army boots with that?”

    “• Ex-WH Doctor: Biden Can’t Do the Job, Cognitive Decline Happening Quickly (Sp.)

    Actually, I can’t tell the difference between Biden and the last four Presidents. As I say constantly, all the platform, the actions, the borders, everything is the same. They started these agendas, and they move forward increasingly without hesitation, regardless of who is in or what they do. Will anyone ever notice? Was Obama taking all of Bush’s cabinet, keeping all of Wall St, and opening 5 new Bush wars until he ran out of bombs not a signal to anyone?
    So since nothing changes with any vote, ever, in 100 years, we’re in a Democracy how?

    NullVoid

    I was thinking, people have trouble with Ritter, MacGregor, whoever, get yourself on the radio circuit and start doing interviews talking about Ukraine, and I’ll quote you instead of him. As an outsider (presumably, now) he doesn’t have any special information. He’s just a sports commentator, following it closely, as a former pro player.

    I had a more practical and helpful idea though: since Jews are naturally evil by birth, shouldn’t we stake out their delivery rooms and just kill them all at birth? I mean, that’s only logical, right? Sorry but my schedule is a bit tight this week and I don’t think I have time to help you guys do that. ‘Tis a Modest Proposal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal

    Aspnaz: Well that’s good then. I’ve changed nothing, as that is the Internets. God’s in his heaven and all’s right with the world.

    #147482
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Never thought I’d have to leave such a suggestion on a intelligent, thinking-man’s site. Yet here we are. I doubt even that will shake anyone’s convictions; they’ll probably say: good idea!

    What is a amygdala and how did mine get hacked? Say the word “XXXXX” and everyone goes off like a pack of hounds, “Aaaaarruuuuuuuuoooooo!!!!!!”

    What word is your Pavlov-Bernays’ word?

    #147483
    tboc
    Participant

    The truth is a photon carries information. The information, as electromagnetic energy, is absorbed at the atomic level and transformed into internal energy. As energy is emitted and absorbed and emitted information flows.

    Consider a blackbody maintaining 0° Kelvin in an energetic environment. Energy is absorbed and none would be emitted, no flow of information. Ross Perot’s great sucking sound is an apt metaphor.

    Zionism is a blackbody maintaining 0° Kelvin. No light is emitted, no flow of information, no truth.

    Darkness within Darkness
    The Gateway to all Mystery – circa 400 BCE

    “Each man’s death diminishes me,
    For I am involved in mankind.”
    for each child lost i am the less
    moral posturing is getting out of hand. No discipline – no courage – no Honor = no duty to humanity – a walking death. The measure that i use is the measure that will be used for me. The Enlightenment finds it’s home in darkness.

    #147484
    tboc
    Participant

    V. Arnold i believe we are friends. My debt is not to bankers but to you. I hope to fulfill my obligation.

    #147485
    John Day
    Participant

    “It’s A Powder Keg”: Steve Bannon Warns Tucker Ireland’s Post-Stabbing Anti-Immigration Crisis Is “Coming Here, At Scale”
    “Actually, the man was an immigrant,” Carlson continued. “He was from Algeria and as it turns out he’s been living in Ireland for 23 years at public expense, he has never had a job.”
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ireland-powder-keg-tucker-carlson-and-steve-bannon-ireland-stabbing-insanity-and

    #147486
    John Day
    Participant

    I have viewed the “Elgin marbles” with my family in London. The Parthenon does seem to be the more “authentic” venue…

    Publicly, a spokesperson for Sunak said the UK-Greece relationship is “hugely important,” but did not address the row over the 2,500-year-old antiquities. Though Mitsotakis has repeatedly stressed the importance of returning the treasures since taking office, Sunak has said he would never support changes to 1963 legislation that bars the British Museum from ever handing over the ancient carvings. The Greek government first requested their return in 1983, but the UK has repeatedly declined

    #147487
    anticlimactic
    Participant

    It strikes me that there will only be one candidate in the US presidential election, and that is Trump.

    People can vote FOR Trump or AGAINST Trump. There is really no other choice.

    That is why Biden can garner so many votes, but very few will be voting FOR Biden. He could be replaced with a block of wood [Which may actually get more votes!]

    #147488
    Oroboros
    Participant

    So the Algerian immigrant who stabbed the children and precipitated the riots in Dublin has been living in Ireland for 23 years at taxpayer expense, has never had a job.

    Boy, that’s quite an immigration strategy.

    It deserve wide public support.

    So to all the supporters of unvetted immigration, to any country, I’d love to hear the rationalizations and pathetic excuses for allowing people into a country who don’t even work but just sponge off the rest of the working citizens.

    Please give me the cost benefit analysis for immigration in general.

    Is it purely for ‘diversity’, like horror of horrors that Ireland is mostly white, for like millennia, and that travesty of justice must be corrected with unlimited immigration, both legal and illegal?

    Seriously?

    Give me your best shot.

    Is it like Turdeau the Traitor volunteering to take in all of Gaza into Canazida, you know for ‘diversity’, even though it’s the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, it’s helping get rid of ‘white privilege in Canazida?

    It that the new ‘immigrants are great’ thinking in the Collective West?

    The Irish were quite savage among themselves during ‘The Troubles’

    Remember that?

    Well, there’s a new ‘Troubles’ percolating up over ‘immigration’, let’s see how that goes down as the Western economies swirl down the toilet into a global depression.

    Canazida supporting the ethnic cleansing of Gaza by using Palestinians to ethnically cleanse white citizens of Canazida.

    Sounds like a plan.

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    #147489
    zerosum
    Participant

    media covering up (bought and paid for)

    there is something monstrous going on

    Fear stalks the land.

    “genocide,” ( the slaughter of Palestinians )

    Lies and Power Corruption ( hypocrisy )

    PATRICK LAWRENCE: Media’s Fatal Compromises


    ATRICK LAWRENCE: Media’s Fatal Compromises
    November 28, 2023
    Devastated Credibility
    nothing can be said without the risk of retribution or condemnation or banishment.

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    triumphalist rhetoric
    proxy war
    finding someone to blame
    just hot air

    https://sputnikglobe.com/20231127/ukraines-blame-game-begins-who-is-responsible-for-kievs-looming-defeat-1115235705.html

    Kyvonos argued that Zelensky “must think not only about himself but also about training the population [in security],” which is not happening. He recommended that the Ukrainian president hire professionals instead of mere speechwriters who “write speeches for him to read.”
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    #147490
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Pepe Escobar & Michael Hudson: Russia is Ready to Finish Off Ukraine as BRICS Faces Coming War with West

    Pepe stumbles on word ‘September’, he meant December, as the month that Russia will finally crush the life out of Ukronaziland and it’s jewish penis piano playing clown comedian Nazilensky before the Jan BRICS launch.

    That will be interesting to watch, the Total Humiliation of NATO=NAZI=ZATO

    Just in time for the New Year.

    #147491
    Oroboros
    Participant

    An interesting rumor from Avdeevka where large surrenders of Ukronazis are taking place.

    Seems in this one group of POWs their were over 30 Polish mercenaries and two Duh’merica “instructors”.

    Rumor has it they are being taken to Moscow as a special delivery.

    Show trial?

    Ritual humiliation of the Empire of Lies and Eurotardistan?

    Mercenaries are not covered by the Geneva convention.

    #147492
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Lookin’ Good Ukronaziland, looking good!

    87 Year Old Ukrainian Woman Sent Mobilization Papers

    #147493
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Young Russian soldier tells truth about Ukraine

    It’s going to be the new Neverland

    https://www.bitchute.com/video/G3xqrizLn1EP/

    #147494
    Oroboros
    Participant

    In the final analysis, this is the only lesson the Collective West can glean from the Ukraine Project©

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    #147495
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Can someone define for me what SPECIFIC position Dr D holds that we’re arguing against, in terms of Jews or Israel?

    He thinks Jews don’t have a hive mind linked to Israel? He doesn’t believe in group guilt/shame?

    I don’t get it. Seriously, what? Tell me “He’s for ____” or “he’s against ____” or something. If you can’t articulate what you believe or understand, then you actually don’t believe or understand it yet.

    If you handed me a magic wand right now, I would not just kneejerk wipe Israel out of existence without a second thought. Am I a zionist now?

    Wave a wand and move all Israeli citizens to an empty depopulated country? Just get them out of the Middle East, fresh start, clean slate? But where oh where would we find a depopulated country? At this time of night?

    In A Clockwork Orange, the protagonist stops being a gangbanger – why? Because it got BORING. But also because there were other options. If he was blocked at every turn, then he’d have lived and died a gangbanger.

    If Israel had allowed Gaza to have a port, an airport, trade, run themselves, who knows what Gaza could have been. Monaco of the Eastern Med? If Israel had resolved to beef up their internal security, stay hands-off, and just take it on the chin, posture as the kind tolerant victim over and over, it WOULD have made a difference over the next 20-40 years. Gaza would have grown up, got a job and a wife, had other things to do. Hobbies and civic events and backyard barbeques and whatnot.

    But Gaza can’t ever be anything else. (we won’t allow it!) Therefore it must be destroyed. Abusive parent that won’t allow their child to develop writ extremely large. Narc parent says “Well, they’ve always been a bad kid” Ok, so the kid turned on you when, at 7, at 4? They started it? THEY should have had a good think at 5, drawn up a plan to address it? Who created whom/what? And Gaza is ACTUALLY full of children. And the adults who grew up in this Israel-imposed environment. Isn’t the parent supposed to be thinking of the next oh, 15-20 years? Oh not your kid now? Is/Isn’t a territory and people under your autocratic control? Since when?

    And what has the US done to Latin America for the past half century or longer? And are there lots of US citizens and expats all over the globe who cheer on US foreign policy or feel patriotism for the USA? How many times has Argentina got the shaft? As an extension of US business/3-letter agency/foreign policy?

    We can’t even protest for a government that might turn its attention more towards school busses, hospitals, roads, jobs, housing, food that isn’t poison. You protest for a government a LITTLE more like that, you get lambasted through all media as nazis and might end up in solitary confinement for infinite years.

    And we know Jews were protesting IN Israel. And got quashed. Israel being way more of a security state than the US. If Latin America is fucked, I know it’s the powers in charge of the US that did it. And what can I do? Surely I did not benefit – if Latin Americans could freely solve problems and make things better for a half century straight without interference, who knows what awesome thing they might do that I could benefit from. Same in Gaza. Maintaining a ghetto next door is REALLY to the benefit of the average Jew in Israel?

    I’m not COMPLICIT, I do not silently BENEFIT from the past half century. You can just look at the graph of US worker productivity vs inflation adjusted pay. Productivity went up. No pay raise. Charts show a flatline but we know a guy working down at the plant could afford a family with a stay at home wife a few children and a house 50 years ago and now he can’t. And the entire social structure has been “fixed” and “improved” and “made fair” in such a way that it is hostile to household and family creation – and we’re still animals, primates, hominids, whose nature is still to reproduce and live in families. What’s even more poisonous and hostile to human life, Monsanto Roundup or the new things, new ideas, new customs and new habits.

    Meanwhile bad things were perpetrated outside the US in my name as well. If benefit=complicit, then no, I lost all the potential that would have made the world more awesome in all those ordinary folks like me out there around the world. Freely deciding, each for themselves. Unmeasured incalculable loss. To US and what could we do? Did you see what happened to Occupy Wallstreet? Everyone should have just turned it up to 11?

    Slavery was an intolerable institution. But hundreds of thousands of lost lives and millions of casualties were not negligible costs. The lost years of peoples’ lives, all the resources that could have gone to something better than war, not negligible losses. Everyone should have instantly started foaming at the mouth and enraged, like they were zombies in 28 Days Later or they were complicit?

    #147496
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Classical Greek art went through revival after revival over 1,000’s of years.

    The Romans made new greco-roman statues, but they also had a copying mania – after developing extremely accurate copying techniques. This is the ONLY way a lot of more-ancient greek works came to us at all, through Roman copies. There was also an egyptian mania that brought us a lot of ancient egyptian stuff via copy. The Alexandrian successor states did similar copying before the Romans.
    Plenty of classical copying in the 1700’s. And of course the Victorians did it all over again.

    Idunno why the British Museum can’t do a micrometer accurate laser copy and send the stuff back – it WAS nice being 1 foot away from 4,000 year old winged sphinx things from Persepolis and walking through 1/8 of the Parthenon in London. Absolutely and I’m grateful

    There are copies that are roughly 2000 years old that are now themselves priceless antiquities. Just copy everything and be proud that you put the antiquities in 2 different places, twice the chance of surviving into the next era.

    #147497
    John Day
    Participant

    Ukraine could only recruit 10% of the meat they needed for the grinder, because everybody knows who the recruiters are, and they rightly live in a bit of fear. The answer is to hire foreign-mercenary-recruiters who don’t live with the locals, and can engage in recruiting-atrocities without fear.
    The Polish border is still blocked by working Poles, against Ukrainian truckers. Both are cold. The weather is bad.
    Ukraine Forces Mobilization | Poland-Ukraine Conflict. Military Summary And Analysis For 2023.11.28

    #147498

    They want us to suffer, they want us to cry.
    They want us to fight and they want us to die.
    They have an agenda- there can be no doubt:
    They really prefer that we take ourselves out.

    And just exactly who are “they”?
    The folks who think we’re in the way.

    #147499
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    Simon Hunt interview!

    Folks, if you going to view – end to end – just one uTube vid today, this probably is it. This interview touches just about everything including all issues discussed on this forum. Enjoy, … or not, but hear it all out!

    F.S.

    #147500
    John Day
    Participant

    Musk is hard to read. Musk has his own ideas… Musk likes developing canals for industry.

    Israeli Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi announced on Monday that he had reached a preliminary agreement with US billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk to deploy Starlink satellite communication services in the Gaza Strip.
    In late October, Musk said that his company SpaceX, which operates Starlink, would support communications with internationally recognized aid groups in Gaza amid a telephone and internet blackout in the enclave.
    https://sputnikglobe.com/20231127/israel-elon-musk-agree-on-starlink-operation-in-gaza-1115229234.html

    #147501
    Mister Roboto
    Participant

    WRT Biden’s cognitive decline: As much as I detest Joe Biden personally, I also feel bad for him because the stress of occupying the Oval Office is exactly the sort of thing that makes dementia much worse. Making him be the figurehead of a decrepit and dying Democratic Party regime is one of the most blatant and public displays of elder abuse I think I have ever witnessed.

    #147502

    jb-hb: You said it better than I was going to- precise copies can be made!
    I think an awful lot of museum pieces are copies, anyways.
    One never knows when someone is going to throw soup on them.

    #147503
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Ah, @aspnaz ! Welcome back. You remind me of the customer (John Cleese) in the Monty Python skit where he was trying to buy 5 minutes worth of argument and accidentally entered the wrong door and got several minutes worth of abuse before realizing the mistake and proceeded to the next office down the hallway to receive the argument services he had paid for.

    Pleased to oblige. Which one are you here for today?

    #147504
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    My basic problem with both @aspnaz and @Celticbiker about “The Jooze” is that the cognitive cubby holes in their narrow minds are too few and too small to hold more than ONE overly generalized category of thing at any one time. A bunch of Jews are easily proven to be key members of an obvious global conspiracy to crash the world and feed off the carcass and BAM! they stuff the entire complex mess into ONE cubby hole and that’s that. End of story, and end of rational thought and further investigation along with it.

    As far as solutions go, well they don’t even bother. The “Jew” cubby hole is already crammed full to capacity with the hodge podge of crap they’ve already stuffed into it. No room for anything as detailed as questions like, “Well, which Jews are you talking about in particular ?”, or “Are there different flavors of Jewishness, and what exactly does Jewish actually mean?”

    One thing the two haters have in common, though, and this should come as no surprise, is that when they don’t understand something (like Jews) that they don’t like (such as people like me who try to make them think) , their solution is simply to hate it. I guess they think that if enough people hate the same uselessly broad generalized labels (like Jews or thinkers) that they do then the people maligned by that pejorative label will just magically go away and the world will be a better place.

    I’m tempted to call out that kind of mental and moral retardation as being childish bullshit, except that the consequences are hardly childish. The blood soaked depravity of the actual consequences are too grisly to be easily contemplated, so adjectives such as like childish, stupid or lazy just don’t quite cut it.

    Better trolls and agents provocateurs than they are have been trying (and failing) for YEARS to drag TAE into such evil stupidity, and it is extremely unlikely to work this time either.

    On the positive side, schooling these foul mouthed nitwits into saner modes of thought and behavior continues to provide us with plenty of grist for the mill. So please do continue.

    #147505
    John Day
    Participant

    Clarifications https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/clarifications

    ​ Musk Offers To Help Rebuild A Deradicalized, “Prosperous” Gaza After Touring Ravaged Kibbutz With Netanyahu
    ​ Netanyahu laid out that his main priority is to neutralize Hamas, after which he will turn to rebuilding Gaza: “You first have to get rid of this poisonous regime.” Musk agreed and offered to be involved in the post-war recovery. “I think that makes perfect sense that those who are intent on murder must be neutralized, then the propaganda must stop … and then making Gaza prosperous,” Musk said. “Well, I hope you’ll be involved,” Netanyahu responded. “I’d love to help,” Musk said. In statements which are likely to prove controversial, particularly to the pro-Palestinian side, Musk also voiced that civilian casualties are “unavoidable” and generally appeared to back Israel’s position that it is trying hard to avoid them while seeking to target only terrorists.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/musk-offers-help-rebuild-deradicalized-prosperous-gaza-after-touring-ravaged-kibbutz

    ​ Israeli tank gunner reveals orders to fire indiscriminately into kibbutz
    New disclosures add to the growing body of evidence indicating many Israelis who died on October 7 were killed by the Israeli military.
    Meanwhile, the Israeli government has muzzled captives freed from Gaza to prevent further damage to the official narrative.​..
    ​..“The soldier points and tells me, “shoot there — the terrorists are there,”” the captain recounts in the newly-released footage, noting that when she asked “are there civilians there?,” her compatriot simply replied, “I don’t know,” and ordered her to “just shoot” a tank round into the buildings anyway.

    Israeli tank gunner reveals orders to fire indiscriminately into kibbutz — report

    ​ Israel-Palestine war: How a slogan became bigger news than the murder of babies in Gaza​ , Jonathan Cook
    ​ The protest chant ‘From the river to the sea’ rejects not Israelis or Jews but the apartheid nature of Israel. This is why pro-Israel western politicians and media want to criminalise it.
    https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-palestine-war-gaza-slogan-bigger-news-murder-babies

    ​ Israel deports human rights defender documenting Palestinian home demolitions
    ​ Alison Russell was detained by Israeli forces while documenting home demolitions in Masafer Yatta in the occupied West Bank. She was deported following a perfunctory hearing where Israeli police accused her of “supporting terrorism.”

    Israel deports human rights defender documenting Palestinian home demolitions

    #147506
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ “Jewish Voice For Peace”, again …
    ​ Pro-Palestine rally shuts down Manhattan Bridge calling for ceasefire
    Pro-Palestine demonstrators have vowed not to leave the bridge on the busiest travel day of the year until the US President demands a permanent ceasefire in Gaza.
    https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/pro-palestine-rally-shuts-down-manhattan-bridge-calling-for

    Israel-Palestine war: Three Palestinian students shot in US in critical condition
    ​ Rights group says students were wearing keffiyehs and speaking in Arabic when shot by unidentified gunmen in Burlington, Vermont, amid fears anti-Muslim violence in US is growing
    ​ The three 2​0-year-old students, identified as Tahseen Ahmed of Trinity College, Connecticut, Kinnan Abdel Hamid of Haverford College in Pennsylvania, and Hisham Awartani of Brown University, Rhode Island, are graduates of the Ramallah Friends School in the West Bank.
    https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-war-palestinian-students-shot-us-vermont-critical-condition

    ​ Israeli occupation forces violated terms of the Gaza truce again​ (after killing some farmers and people returning to their homes over Thanksgiving weekend)
    ​ He revealed that the occupation forces fired artillery and smoke shells west of the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood during their withdrawal, aiming to cover their retreat from the central part of the neighborhood towards Rashid Street.
    https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israeli-occupation-forces-violated-terms-of-the-gaza-truce-a

    Water delivered to northern Gaza Strip for 1st time since beginning of escalation — UNRWA
    According to the agency, this was the first delivery of clean water that reached people sheltering in the north since the war began
    https://tass.com/world/1712525

    UN estimates 43,000 Gaza housing units wiped out, 80% of population displaced
    https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2023/11/un-estimates-43000-gaza-housing-units-wiped-out-80-population-displaced

    #147507
    John Day
    Participant

    chums

    #147508
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ PM lobbying Likud MKs, saying only he can prevent a Palestinian state in Gaza, West Bank
    “I am the only one who will prevent a Palestinian state in Gaza and [the West Bank] after the war,” the Kan public broadcaster quotes Netanyahu as having told the lawmakers.
    https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/pm-lobbying-likud-mks-saying-only-he-can-prevent-a-palestinian-state-in-gaza-west-bank-report/

    ​ Russian Embassy Asks UK to Clarify Its Role in Disrupting Peace Talks With Ukraine
    ​ The Russian Embassy in London is asking the United Kingdom to comment on the statement by a senior Ukrainian lawmaker who said that former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson was the one who convinced Kiev in 2022 not to negotiate with Moscow and continue the fighting instead.
    https://sputnikglobe.com/20231126/russian-embassy-asks-uk-to-clarify-its-role-in-disrupting-peace-talks-with-ukraine-1115219899.html

    European country imports ‘banned’ Russian gold​ , Switzerland is reportedly using loopholes to bypass its own sanction​ (Quick, melt it down!)
    https://www.rt.com/business/587743-switzerland-russian-gold-imports/

    North Korean satellite takes pictures of White House, Pentagon
    https://tass.com/world/1712693

    ​ Korean dog farmers threaten to release 2 million hounds
    Owners of canines raised for meat have reportedly threatened to release the animals if the government bans consumption
    ​ South Korean dog meat farmers have threatened to release 2 million canines onto the streets as controversy continues over plans to ban consumption in the country, Reuters has reported. Parties across the political spectrum are working together to outlaw dog meat as part of a bill backed by the country’s first lady, Kim Keong-hee.
    https://www.rt.com/news/588075-farmers-threaten-release-dogs-seoul/

    #147509
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ A South Korean writer has been slapped with a prison term for praising North Korea in a poem, the Korea Herald newspaper has reported.
    Seoul Central District Court handed the 14-month sentence, his fourth such conviction, to the wordsmith on Monday, according to the outlet.
    The author, identified by the media as 68-year-old Lee Yoon-seop, was found guilty of violating the National Security Act, which prohibits citizens from glorifying North Korea.
    The poem in question was titled “Means of Unification” and in it Lee urged the two Koreas to reunite under the leadership of the socialist government in Pyongyang.
    https://www.rt.com/news/588072-korea-poem-sentence-pyongyang/

    ​ Inside The UN Plan To Control Speech Online
    The UN plans to control speech online by imposing international laws through organizations like governments and corporations.
    ​ Proponents of free speech and prominent US legislators are alarmed by a United Nations agency’s proposal to control social media and internet communication while pursuing a tough stance against what it refers to as “false information” and “conspiracy theories.”
    ​ The U.N. Educational, Cultural, and Scientific Organisation (UNESCO) detailed a number of “concrete measures which must be implemented by all stakeholders: governments, regulatory authorities, civil society, and the platforms themselves” in a 59-page report that was made public this month.
    ​ This strategy entails imposing international laws through organizations like governments and corporations, with the goal of preventing the spread of other kinds of expression while advancing goals like “gender equality” and “cultural diversity.”

    Inside The UN Plan To Control Speech Online

    ​ Meryl Nass MD , The International COVID/CRISIS Summit #4 at the Romanian Parliament is now fully posted
    You can watch the whole event, or just me or certain talks. All my slides are posted below: my 20 minute version on the WHO-globalist coup (involving all the major multinational organizations)
    https://merylnass.substack.com/p/the-international-covidcrisis-summit

    Unvaccinated account for just 5% of COVID-19 Deaths since beginning of 2023 but 3 & 4x Vaccinated account for Shocking 95%

    DEADLY SECRETS: Unvaccinated account for just 5% of COVID-19 Deaths since beginning of 2023 but 3 & 4x Vaccinated account for Shocking 95%

    Peter McCullough MD , Why Vaccine-Pushing Cardiologists Never See Myocarditis​ , Twitter Poll Reveals Giant Shift in Doctor Preference after Complications
    https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/why-vaccine-pushing-cardiologists

    #147510
    John Day
    Participant

    stuff

    change cardiologist

    #147511
    John Day
    Participant

    How Sugar Fuels Cancer In The Body
    For cancer patients, “sugar intake can indeed nourish cancer cells,” Mingyang Song, associate professor of clinical epidemiology and nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health…​
    ​..A study published in PLoS One involving 1,011 colon cancer patients with a follow-up period of over seven years found that compared to patients consuming less than two servings of sugar-sweetened beverages per month, those who consumed two or more servings per day experienced a 67 percent increased risk of colon cancer recurrence or mortality.
    ​ Another Spanish study published in Clinical Nutrition in 2021 involving over 7,000 participants found that for every additional 5 grams of sugar consumed in liquid form per day, cancer incidence increased by 8 percent. People with the highest intake experienced a 46 percent increase.
    ​ A can of soda usually contains 30 to 45 grams of sugar.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/how-sugar-fuels-cancer-body

    ​ Honeybees Suffer Unnecessarily in Human-Made Hives, Study Finds​ ​, Derek Mitchell, PhD Candidate in Mechanical Engineering, University of Leeds
    ​ Honeybees in man-made hives may have been suffering the cold unnecessarily for over a century because commercial hive designs are based on erroneous science, my new research shows.
    ​ The thin wooden walls of commercial hives act as little more than a boundary between the air gap and the outside world. This means that for hive walls to be effective, they have to be substantially insulating, such as 30mm of polystyrene.
    ​ This misunderstanding of the complex interaction between the colony enclosure, thermofluids (heat, radiation, water vapour, air) and honeybee behaviour and physiology are a result of people not recognising the hive as the extended phenotype of the honey bee.
    https://www.sciencealert.com/honeybees-suffer-unnecessarily-in-human-made-hives-study-finds

    #147512
    WES
    Participant

    Russia is not going to do big any big arrow movements simply because they are causality adverse.
    Also Russia does not want to end this war too soon.
    Russia will end this war when they win, and not before.
    Remember, it is the bankers the Russians are fighting, not the Ukrainians.

    Ukrainians are now reaping the benefits of using cluster ammunition. The Russians have started using cluster bombs on the Ukrainians causing a large spike in Ukrainian casualties.

    Ukrainians are losing the EW and drone wars. EW is one area the US/NATO are not helping the Ukrainians very much. They don’t want to tip off Russia about their own capabilities or the lack of, but are very happy to data mine Russia’s EW capabilities.

    Russia’s EW capabilities are causing most US/NATO GPS guidance munitions, like laser guided shells, Himar missiles, and glide bombs, to go off course. Ukrainian drones are routinely hijacked until their batteries run low, dropping out of the sky. Ukrainians are using about 2,000 cheap $1,000 drones a week, in a Stalin quantity verses quality battle.

    Russia is so short of drones and missiles that they are routinely hitting targets with 2 missiles instead of just one. They now use one drone to blow open the door to a bunker, then send the second drone inside the bunker to do an Amazon delivery. Russians now use drones to take out a single Ukrainian soldier. Russia has added night vision drones so they now have 24hr/7 days survalence of the battlefield.

    #147513
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    Fauci, NassNich Taleb et al said 25,000,000+ and Fibonacci progression with or without treatment.
    The Nurses and Math majors didn’t protest too much.
    My sister, an RN, took up the Cross of Unity and said to me recently “didn’t you know bodies were stacked like cordwood and Putin killed people”.

    Well, without state of the art medical treatment that death rate easily changed from a Chinese 2.3 % to an Italian 7.2% . No one had the guts to estimate what the % became with ZERO medical treatment. 10% ? More? I sure never wanted to find out.

    Show me a math Whiz who didn’t sweat bullets and I’ll show you a Heroin, PCP, peyote, mescaline, MDMA or LSD user.

    #147514

    wwoofbum-
    You’re onto something. People eat bean burritos and watch football and the sofa sucks up the emissions which power the tv and the microwave which cooks the burritos. Almost a perpetual motion system.

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