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Texas Governor Defies Biden (RT)
The United States Has No Borders (Paul Craig Roberts)
Israel Loses Control Of Its Borders (Harb)
Ukraine A ‘Terrorist State’ – Senior Russian MP (RT)
Time For West To Realize It Is Helping Nazis – Top Russian MP (RT)
French Mercenaries Dying in Ukraine (SCF)
The Plan For Reviving Donetsk (Helmer)
US Has Lost Race for Hypersonic, Directed Energy Weapons – Senator (Sp.)
Moscow Won’t Beg ‘Uncle Sam’ For Forgiveness – Lavrov (RT)
Court Declares Trudeau’s Crackdown on the Truckers to be Unlawful (Turley)
70% of Nikki Haley Voters Not Registered Republicans (BB)
Alaska Airlines Finds Loose Bolts On “Many” Boeing Jets (RT)
Satan’s Agent: The World Economic Forum (Paul Craig Roberts)

 

 

 

 

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He appears to defy the Supreme Court as well.

“Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, and Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte all announced that they stand with Texas and Gov. Greg Abbott.”

Note: immigration is now the no.1 issue for US voters.

Texas Governor Defies Biden (RT)

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has refused to back down in his border-security row with US President Joe Biden’s administration, arguing that regardless of this week’s Supreme Court ruling in Washington’s favor, his duty to protect his constituents “supersedes” any federal laws. “The federal government has broken the compact between the United States and the states,” Abbott said on Wednesday in a statement. “The executive branch of the United States has a constitutional duty to enforce federal laws protecting states, including immigration laws on the books right now. President Biden has refused to enforce those laws and has even violated them.” As a result, Abbott claimed, more than 6 million illegal aliens have crossed into the US since Biden took office three years ago – exceeding the populations of all but 17 states – causing “unprecedented harm on the people all across the United States.”

The federal government’s failure to fulfill its constitutional duty has triggered a constitutional right of self-defense reserved to the state, he added. “I have already declared an invasion… to invoke Texas’s constitutional authority to defend and protect itself,” the Republican governor said. “That authority is the supreme law of the land and supersedes any federal statutes to the contrary.” Abbott issued the statement two days after the Supreme Court ruled that federal Border Patrol agents must be allowed to remove the concertina wire that the state had installed to prevent illegal aliens from crossing its border. The dispute escalated earlier this month when the Texas National Guard seized control of a park at a key border-crossing point and blocked federal officers from accessing the site.

The Texas National Guard and state troopers will continue working to secure the border, based on the state’s right to defend itself in lieu of the federal government doing its job, Abbott said. The Texas Military Department, which includes the state’s National Guard units, issued a statement on Tuesday pledging to “hold the line” to prevent illegal border crossings. “We remain resolute in our actions to secure our border, preserve the rule of law and protect the sovereignty of our state.” US Representative Chip Roy, a Texas Republican, applauded Abbott’s decision to fight Biden on the border crisis. “Washington is forcing our hand,” he said of Monday’s Supreme Court ruling. He added, “Consider that we are a nation so unserious and broken that we are paying Border Patrol to secure the border but will pay them instead to cut razor wire… to stop Texas from trying to do what Border Patrol’s core mission is.”

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“..We often hear that the Supreme Court is a Republican court, but in actual fact it is a Tower of Babel Court committed to the total destruction of the United States as a nation..”

The United States Has No Borders (Paul Craig Roberts)

I don’t know if Americans have any comprehension of what is happening to their country. I think not. I think most Americans are lost in their insouciance and in their comfortable myths about the greatness and freedom of their country. Flag waving patriots who can believe no evil of their country are the easiest to tyrannize. A plethora of July 4ths and Memorial Days have done the job. Americans are upset about foreign borders such as Ukraine’s and Israel’s, but even those few who try can do nothing about America’s own totally undefended borders. Texas tried to do something, but the US Supreme Court just ruled that Texas cannot protect its borders or the borders of the United States. The Supreme Court, ruling of course in line with the tyrant Abe Lincoln’s destruction of states rights, said the Biden Regime can destroy the fence Texas built to protect Texas’ and America’s borders.

There you have it. The so-called “civil war” did not only destroy the Confederate States of America. Lincoln’s war also destroyed the United States of America when it destroyed states’ rights. The 5-4 decision by the Supreme Court forbids Texas from protecting its borders, and thereby the borders of the United States, from being overrun by immigrant-invaders. We often hear that the Supreme Court is a Republican court, but in actual fact it is a Tower of Babel Court committed to the total destruction of the United States as a nation. What the Supreme Court, like the Biden Regime, the whore media, the anti-American Woke universities, The Rino Republicans, and the Democrat attorneys general and prosecutors are creating is a non-nation, a tower of babel that has no common interests, no common morals, no common religion, and no common agenda. This is the SATANIC CURSE of “diversity and multiculturalism.”

How did Americans fall for a program designed FOR THEIR OWN DESTRUCTION?! They fell for it because they are generous and weak-minded. The Daily Caller reports: “federal Border Patrol agents began cutting wire fences that, among other uses, helped channel individuals— unlawful migrants and U.S. citizens alike—to a lawful border crossing at a port of entry,” Texas Solicitor General Aaron Nielson wrote. “Border Patrol began this practice of destroying Texas’s property, according to the district court’s findings, in order to ‘facilitate the surge of migrants into Eagle Pass,’ using boats to ‘literally usher’ people across illegally.” In other words, the Biden Regime cut the fence in order to allow entry into the US that could not be monitored. The fence was in place to insure that immigrant-invaders had to pass through lawful border crossings, where their numbers are allegedly recorded.

But this is not enough for the Biden Regime which is intent on replacing America’s white population, which once constituted a nation, with a Tower of Babel. Why are the Biden Regime, the Democrats, the Rino Republicans, the universities, the media, the corporations, and alleged human rights organizations so determined to deprive Americans of a cohesive nation and to replace the American nation with a Tower of Babel in which there is no common culture and no common values? If white Americans are actually sufficiently braindead to have voted Biden Democrats into office, the dumbshits have committed self-suicide. People this stupid cannot expect to survive. Yesterday I got a message from the US Department of Health and Human Services. It was about Medicare. It was in 30 foreign languages.

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“..widely spun myths of a “promised land,” a “land without a people,” the “only democracy in the Middle East,” and the “only secure place for Jews in the world.”

Israel Loses Control Of Its Borders (Harb)

Israel once reigned supreme on the back of some immovable narratives: widely spun myths of a “promised land,” a “land without a people,” the “only democracy in the Middle East,” and the “only secure place for Jews in the world.” Today, those lofty soundbites lie in tatters, with the occupation state reeling from an unprecedented blow to its foundational ideas. This transformation has unfolded with unexpected intensity since the 7 October Al-Aqsa Flood resistance operation and Israel’s devastating, genocidal war on Gaza. But it is not just the challenge of narratives that has Israel on its back feet. For the first time in its 76-year history, Israel’s entire security calculations have been turned upside down: the occupation state is today grappling with buffer zones inside Israel. In past wars, it was Tel Aviv that established these “security zones” inside enemy territory — advancing Israel’s strategic geography, evacuating Arab populations near their state border areas, and fortifying its own borders.

This shift can be attributed to various factors, including vulnerabilities within the so-called “Arab Ring States” (Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon). Throughout its history, Israel has consistently exerted military and political dominance, enforcing security measures on neighboring states, with the unconditional backing of allies like the US and Britain. But in this current war, Tel Aviv is slowly understanding that the equations and calculations of military confrontation have fundamentally changed — a process that began in 2000 when the Lebanese resistance, Hezbollah, forced Israel to withdraw from most occupied territories in southern Lebanon. Today, Israel is horrified to find itself retreating from direct confrontation lines with its arch-enemies in Gaza and Lebanon. The formidable capabilities of the resistance now include drones, rockets, targeted projectiles, tunnels, and spanking new shock tactics, casting doubt on the feasibility of Israeli settlers remaining safe in any of Israel’s border perimeters.

There is now one common refrain among settlers in the north and south of occupied Palestine: “We will not return unless security is restored on the border.” But prospects for their return appear elusive at present. The Israeli Defense Ministry, which pledged a swift and decisive war to safeguard its settlers over 100 days ago, is now actively devising plans to shelter approximately 100,000 people along the northern border, deeper inside its territory. This measure could involve evacuating settlements that may come under fire during any future military escalation with Hezbollah in Lebanon. This situation implies three critical outcomes: any immediate return of settlers remains unlikely, additional evacuations are anticipated, and numerous Israeli families – in the interim – may establish permanent settlements in other, more secure locations at a much further distance from the borders with southern Lebanon and the Gaza envelope.

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“..there had been another IL-76 carrying 80 more Ukrainian POWs in the sky at the time of the incident. This plane was turned around after the crash..”

Ukraine A ‘Terrorist State’ – Senior Russian MP (RT)

Ukraine should be designated as a terrorist state, and the government in Kiev should be branded a terrorist cell, the head of the State Duma Defense Committee Andrey Kartapolov has said, following the crash of an IL-76 military aircraft in Russia’s Belgorod Region. Earlier on Wednesday, the Russian military transport plane crashed near the village of Yablonovo, around 90km from the Ukrainian border. It was carrying 65 captured Ukrainian military personnel for a prisoner swap, as well as six crew members and three people accompanying the POWs. It is believed that there were no survivors.

According to Kartapolov, Kiev was well aware of who this plane was transporting and accused the Ukrainian forces of shooting down the aircraft using what he claimed were “three Patriot or Iris-T air defense missiles.” He also noted that there had been another IL-76 carrying 80 more Ukrainian POWs in the sky at the time of the incident. This plane was turned around after the crash, the MP said. Regarding the exact details of the incident, Kartapolov said “specialists will figure this out later,” but noted that Kiev had demonstrated an unbelievable degree of cynicism by destroying its own soldiers.

“There can be no negotiations with these ‘people,’” he said, calling on the international community to open its eyes and realize who it is trying to help. Ukrainian media have also reported that the country’s military destroyed the plane, citing government sources. Ukrainskaya Pravda, however, claimed that the aircraft had been transporting S-300 air defense missiles rather than prisoners. Some time after its initial report, the newspaper removed the reference to Kiev’s role in the incident, stating only that its military sources had confirmed the crash.

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The Ukrainskaya Pravda newspaper first said the plane was filled with missiles. That piece was swiftly deleted.

Time For West To Realize It Is Helping Nazis – Top Russian MP (RT)

US and German lawmakers must finally realize that by sending weapons to Kiev, they are helping a “Nazi regime” that has stooped to knowingly killing dozens of its own prisoners of war, Russian State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin said on Wednesday. The lawmaker’s comments came shortly after the Russian Defense Ministry reported the crash of an IL-76 cargo aircraft carrying 65 captured Ukrainian service members, as well as several crew and accompanying personnel, in Belgorod Region bordering Ukraine. The soldiers were being transported to the area to be exchanged, officials said. Russian MP Andrey Kartapolov claimed that Kiev knew about the impending exchange and the flight route, but attacked the plane anyway.

He stated that the IL-76 had been downed by three missiles fired from either a US-made Patriot or German-made IRIS-T air defense system, and suggested that further prisoner exchanges were out of the question for the time being. Commenting on the tragedy, Volodin advised the Russian parliament to draft an appeal to the US Congress and German Bundestag, so that those lawmakers could “finally understand who they are funding.” “This is a Nazi regime, nurtured by [US President Joe] Biden, [French President Emmanuel] Macron, [German Chancellor Olaf] Scholz… they must understand their responsibility,” he added, urging Western legislators to impeach the aforementioned leaders.

Volodin claimed that Kiev had shot down its own troops in mid-flight: “Their mothers, wives, and children were waiting for them. They also killed our pilots… defenseless, who were on a humanitarian mission, using American and German missiles.” Russia has repeatedly condemned Western arms deliveries to Ukraine, arguing that they only prolong the conflict. Officials in Moscow have also said that Kiev is actively using Western-supplied munitions to target civilian infrastructure both in Donbass and elsewhere.

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“..these non-Ukrainian citizens are not protected by international humanitarian law and that Moscow has already made it clear that, if captured, they will be judged as neo-Nazi mercenaries..”

French Mercenaries Dying in Ukraine (SCF)

Recently, Russian forces bombed military facilities in Kharkov, killing more than sixty foreign mercenaries, most of them French. The case gained great attention in the media for showing the high participation of foreign troops in hostilities against Russia, which makes it clear that NATO countries are participating in the conflict in an intense way, not only with the mere sending of money and weapons.The incident in Kharkov resumed discussions on the topic of the presence of foreign mercenaries on Ukrainian soil. Since the beginning of the special military operation, non-Ukrainian citizens have often died on the battlefield when fighting on Kiev’s side. Russia has already made it clear that eliminating enemy mercenary troops is one of its top priorities, which is why attacks like this recent one will continue to happen until foreigners stop arriving in Ukraine.

There are several reasons why mercenary soldiers enlist to fight in Ukraine. There are those militants who are ideologically committed to the ultranationalist ideology of the Kiev regime, who join the Ukrainian forces in “solidarity” with the neo-Nazi dictatorship. There are those ordinary citizens, mainly from emerging countries, who are attracted by the opportunity of a job in the military field, being induced to enlist. And there are also professionals from the private military sector who are hired by the Ukrainian state or Western countries to conduct operations in Ukraine. All these foreign troops play a vital role in the Western-Ukrainian war efforts. Foreigners help compensate Kiev for its losses, as they replace native fighters who perish in combat. At the same time, these soldiers, especially those from NATO countries, help the Western bloc acquire real direct combat experience with Russian forces – preparing the alliance for a possible future scenario of total war.

Currently, the Atlantic military alliance cannot send official troops to Ukraine, as this would represent the start of a direct war with Moscow. The real meaning of the conflict in Ukraine is precisely the use of Kiev as a proxy to wage war against Russia, however this could change in the future. As Ukraine rapidly loses and anti-Russian paranoia in the West continues to grow, it is possible that the situation will become out of control at some point. In this sense, one way for Western countries to prepare is by sending unofficial troops to the Ukrainian battlefield, where frictions with the Russians are already occurring. These soldiers tend to pass on field experience and data to officers in their countries, which is why they must be considered especially dangerous, with their elimination being a priority for Moscow.

However, one detail that draws attention in the recent case of Kharkov is the strong presence of French citizens among the mercenaries. In fact, there are undoubtedly many French nationals fighting for the Ukrainian regime. Last year, Paris’ intelligence admitted that at least 400 French fighters were on the Ukrainian front – around thirty of them being known neo-Nazi criminals. Considering that these are public data exposed by the French government itself, it is possible to say that the real number may be much higher. Paris is believed to be secretly encouraging large numbers of mercenaries to join Kiev’s forces, especially after political events in the African Sahel. With the recent wave of pro-Russian revolutions in African countries, the French sphere of influence on that continent has been severely diminished.

Paris appears to be trying to “compensate” for its frustration in Africa with massive support for Kiev, sending large numbers of mercenaries to defend the regime. This is also the opinion of Stevan Gajic, an analyst at the Institute of European Studies in Belgrade, who recently said in an interview that Macron is “hysterical” about Russia. Gajic believes that the French president’s recent speeches in Paris and Davos, calling for a “victory” against Russia, show how fanaticized he is in his anti-Russian hatred. Gajic stated that Paris is “especially frustrated” after the wave of revolutions in Africa and that he thinks “that’s another motive for such feverish support of the Ukrainian cause, and NATO’s cause against Russia”.

However, any kind of support for the Ukrainian regime is becoming embarrassing for the West itself. Just as NATO’s weapons are destroyed every day on the battlefield, foreign mercenaries are frequently targeted and neutralized. Instead of “wearing down” Russia or training its citizens for direct war in the future, the West is only losing influence and being demoralized. Furthermore, with massive deaths on the front lines, the tendency is for fewer and fewer mercenaries to accept fighting for Kiev. It is also important to remember that these non-Ukrainian citizens are not protected by international humanitarian law and that Moscow has already made it clear that, if captured, they will be judged as neo-Nazi mercenaries – in the same way that has happened with militants from fascist organizations such as the Azov Battalion.

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“..the sources are considering importing North Koreans to fill the manpower gap..”

The Plan For Reviving Donetsk (Helmer)

There is no lack of confidence in Donetsk that the war will be won, but no conviction when exactly that will be. A Ukrainian heavy artillery salvo hit the Kirovsky district market, on the western outskirts of Donetsk city on Sunday, killing at least 27 people, and wounding about as many. The New York Times reported falsely “it was not possible to independently confirm which side launched the strike.” The reaction in Donetsk, and also in Moscow, is that the incident triggers serious questioning of how the Russian military operations can be failing still to drive long-range Ukrainian artillery, rockets and missiles far enough westwards to protect the civilians of Donetsk region; and also the three other accession regions of expanded Donbass; as well as the Russian border regions to the north of Belgorod, Bryansk, and Kursk.

The daily operations briefing and bulletin from the Ministry of Defense in Moscow are reporting exceptionally high casualty rates for the Ukrainian side – 860 last Thursday; 1,005 on Monday; 700 on Tuesday. The bulletin, which is blocked on the internet in many of the NATO allied states, also reveals a rising toll on the US and NATO-supplied long-range guns, and a changing ratio for Russian army operations each day from defence to offence. Still, sources in Donetsk and Moscow acknowledge that although the pace and impact of Russian operations along the line of contact have been growing in recent days, the east-to-west depth of the demilitarized zone required for long-term security remains a hope and military ambition — not yet the reality on the ground, or in the economy of Donetsk.

Donetsk business sources say they are actively planning for the reconstruction of the region’s mining and metals fabrication industries, and they are negotiating terms of financial assistance for both with the federal authorities, as well as the regional administration. The sources said this week they are sure that in the plans now being discussed there will be no return of the Ukrainian oligarchs who controlled Donetsk’s economy in the past, especially Rinat Akhmetov, Igor Kolomoisky, and Victor Pinchuk. The Donetsk sources said the most pressing problem at the moment is the lack of manpower to return from the fighting to work; the sources are considering importing North Koreans to fill the manpower gap. For the longer term, the conviction in Donetsk is that there will also be no return of the criminal gangs who had dominated the local economy in parallel with, and accommodated by the oligarchs. “From the Russian side,” said a business figure in the steel industry, “I am sure the recovery and reconstruction will be done with a heavy hand. No mafia.”

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“..That is like using a howitzer to shoot a duck..”

US Has Lost Race for Hypersonic, Directed Energy Weapons – Senator (Sp.)

The United States has already lost the race to develop hypersonic and directed energy weapons to its rivals, Independent Senator Angus King said during a hearing of the US Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday. “We are woefully behind on the issue of directed energy,” King said. “On hypersonics and directed energy, we have lost the race or we are badly losing the race. We have a lot of catching up to do. This should be a hair on fire catching up priority.” In the Red Sea, the US Navy was currently forced to use multi-million dollar missiles to shoot down inexpensive drones fired by the Houthi rebels in Yemen that cost less than 1% of the price of the US systems, King said.

“The missiles we are using are costing $2 million to $4 million each. That is like using a howitzer to shoot a duck,” King added. Earlier on Tuesday, the National Defense Industrial Association and the Emerging Technologies Institute said in a new report that the Biden administration and the Defense Department had failed to give US business and industry the clear direction and leadership it needs to develop directed energy weapons systems and as a result it will not be able to produce such weapons for a long time to come.

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“Moscow bears no responsibility for US-Russia relations reaching an all-time low, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said..”

Moscow Won’t Beg ‘Uncle Sam’ For Forgiveness – Lavrov (RT)

Moscow bears no responsibility for US-Russia relations reaching an all-time low, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said, insisting that the burden of restoring them lies solely with Washington. Relations between the US and Russia went into a tailspin after the start of the Ukraine conflict in February 2022, with Moscow condemning Washington and other Western countries for introducing unprecedented sanctions and sending weapons to Kiev. The Kremlin argues the deliveries will only prolong the conflict but not change its outcome. Another major issue in bilateral relations has been NATO’s creeping expansion toward Russia’s borders, which Moscow views as an existential threat. Russia has said that Ukraine’s desire to join the US-led military bloc was one of the main reasons for the current conflict.

In an interview with CBS News on Monday, when asked about the potential for improving relations between Moscow and Washington amid the stand-off over Ukraine, Lavrov stressed that Russia would not take the initiative to repair them because it was not his country that spoiled them in the first place. We are not going to… run to Washington: ‘Uncle Sam, please forgive us. We were bad boys.’ We have nothing to complain about. The minister stressed that the ties between the two powers were shattered by “those who invented the Russian threat” and “those who ignored huge amount of goodwill shown by President Vladimir Putin during his first two terms.” According to Lavrov, Western policymakers decided that the Russian leader was “so nice,” and tried to “keep him in [their] pocket,” which was a mistake.

Lavrov went on to regret that the current generation of politicians in Washington had seemingly drawn no lessons from what he described as “unacceptable policies which the United States started to promote” in the early 1990s. The minister’s comments come after Putin admitted last month that he was a “naive” person early in his political career because he believed that there was no fundamental reason for Russia and the West to be at odds after the collapse of the Soviet Union. However, he said that he later realized that Western countries were seeking to bring about the partition of Russia into several entities in order to gain more global influence.

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“The characterization of political critics as terrorists has long been a signature of authoritarian governments..”

Court Declares Trudeau’s Crackdown on the Truckers to be Unlawful (Turley)

Two years ago, I wrote a column denouncing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s use of a counter-terrorism law to shut down the Freedom Convoy trucker protests as an authoritarian attack on free speech. Now, a Canadian court has agreed and ruled that the use of the Emergencies Act was unlawful and “unreasonable.” Despite Trudeau’s attacks on civil liberties, he remains a favorite of the media as an iconic figure on the left. Various civil liberties groups have opposed the iron-handed measures of Trudeau, including The Canadian Civil Liberties Association and the the Canadian Constitution Foundation. The characterization of political critics as terrorists has long been a signature of authoritarian governments. The Canadian Parliament actually extended those powers, dismissing civil liberties concerns. Fortunately, despite the actions of Trudeau and the Parliament, there is an independent court system in Canada.

The use of the Emergencies Act allowed the government to arrest the leaders of the Freedom Convoy, freeze bank accounts of protesters, and seize donations of other citizens. Trudeau simply declared that the protesters were “threats to the security of Canada that are so serious as to be a national emergency.” In his ruling, Justice Richard Mosley wrote: “I have concluded that the decision to issue the Proclamation does not bear the hallmarks of reasonableness – justification, transparency and intelligibility – and was not justified in relation to the relevant factual and legal constraints that were required to be taken into consideration.” Trudeau merely cited the potential for violence without any compelling support for an imminent risk of violence. The court declared: “The potential for serious violence, or being unable to say that there was no potential for serious violence was, of course, a valid reason for concern. But in my view, it did not satisfy the test required to invoke the Act particularly as there was no evidence of a similar “hardened cell” elsewhere in the country, only speculation.”

In many ways, the court stated the obvious, but this was an obvious point that other courts and a majority in Parliament ignored: “I agree with the Applicants that the scope of the Regulations was overbroad in so far as it captured people who simply wanted to join in the protest by standing on Parliament Hill carrying a placard. It is not suggested that they would have been the focus of enforcement efforts by the police. However, under the terms of the Regulations, they could have been subject to enforcement actions as much as someone who had parked their truck on Wellington Street and otherwise behaved in a manner that could reasonably be expected to lead to a breach of the peace. [309] One aspect of free expression is the right to express oneself in certain public spaces. By tradition, such places become places of protected expression…To the extent that peaceful protestors did not participate in the actions of those disrupting the peace, their freedom of expression was infringed.”

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“..about 7 in 10 said they were registered as undeclared prior to Tuesday.”

70% of Nikki Haley Voters Not Registered Republicans (BB)

Nikki Haley relied heavily on the support of Independents and Democrats in the New Hampshire primary yet still lost by wide margins. Of Haley voters in the Granite State, CNN said, “about 7 in 10 said they were registered as undeclared prior to Tuesday.” CNN relied on an exit poll to make its shocking statement. New Hampshire’s loose requirements allow for voters to cross over, while future Republican caucuses and primaries will consist overwhelmingly of registered Republicans. Trump crushed Haley in the New Hampshire primary by double digits with results still outstanding. The Associated Press called the New Hampshire results within three minutes. In Iowa, where Trump won by a historic thirty percent, it took the Associated Press 31 minutes to call the race. Trump’s path to the nomination seems all but inevitable after his crushing victory. Sens. John Cornyn (R-TX) and Debbie Fischer (R-NE) endorsed Trump within minutes of his victory.

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How to save Boeing this time? Who still feels safe in a 737 MAX? Also, a few days ago a wheel came off a 757 on a runway just seconds before take off.

Alaska Airlines Finds Loose Bolts On “Many” Boeing Jets (RT)

Alaska Airlines, the US air carrier whose Boeing 737 MAX 9 jet suffered a midair blowout earlier this month, triggering a nationwide grounding of the model for safety inspections, has confirmed that it has found loose bolts on “many” of the planes in its fleet. ”It makes you mad that we’re finding issues like that on brand new airplanes,” Alaska Airlines CEO Ben Minicucci said on Tuesday in an NBC News interview. He added, “I’m more than frustrated and disappointed. I’m angry. This happened to Alaska Airlines. It happened to our guests and happened to our people.” Minicucci was referring to a January 5 flight bound for California from Portland, Oregon, that had to turn back after a door plug blew off at 16,000 feet, injuring several of the 171 passengers aboard.

The outcome could have been far worse, he said, had the seat next to the door plug not been vacant – one of just seven empty seats on the flight. “We had a guardian angel, honestly, on that airplane.” The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) responded to the near-catastrophe by grounding all Boeing 737 MAX 9 jets in the country for safety checks. The latest incident follows the temporary banning of the 737 MAX, Boeing’s top-selling airliner, by aviation regulators around the world in March 2019, after crashes in Ethiopia and Indonesia killed a combined 346 people. The planes were cleared to go back into service around two years later, following repairs to their flight control systems. Minicucci said Alaska Airlines will send auditors to scrutinize the quality-control systems at Boeing to ensure that all of the jets it has ordered from the company are safe to fly. He added that the carrier will reconsider plans to buy a newer version of the 737, the long-delayed MAX 10, from Boeing.

Boeing issued a statement to NBC acknowledging that “we have let down our airline customers and are deeply sorry for the significant disruption to them, their employees and their passengers.” The massive defense contractor added that it’s taking steps to get the 737 MAX 9s back into service and improve its quality performance. Like Minicucci, United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby is rethinking plans to buy more Boeing jets following the latest safety scare. United also detected loose bolts when it performed safety inspections of its grounded 737s. “I think the MAX 9 grounding is probably the straw that broke the camel’s back for us,” Kirby said on Tuesday in a CNBC interview. He added that Boeing needs “real action” to restore its reputation for quality.

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“..Russia, China, and Iran view the WEF as an ally in the destruction of the West. This is a mistake..”

Satan’s Agent: The World Economic Forum (Paul Craig Roberts)

The World Economic Forum is the worst source of disinformation in the world. Even the name is disinformation as it is not a world forum representing the world. It is a group of stupid American and European corporate executives who have been conned by Klaus Schwab, the world’s worst ego-manic, into believing that you don’t count until you are a member and devote of the WEF. Schwab has sold the executive class the line that WEF attendees are members of the most prestigious country club and are members of a privileged caste that exists so far above “useless eaters” that the goal of culling the world population by 7.5 billion people is not shameful. At the recent WEF meeting in Davos, Switzerland, Schwab and his devotees took a hit broadside from Jaier Milei, the newly elected president of Argentina.

Milei told them that the Western world is in danger because the West’s leaders had abandoned freedom and adopted collectivism. Milei was talking about the WEF. Either he is a very brave man or he did not realize to whom he was speaking. I expect that he will have an “airplane accident” or be pushed out of office by some concocted charges from Washington. Washington’s diminishing influence and power has encouraged other long silent voices in Latin America to speak up. The distinguished Peruvian, Dr. Victor Andres Belaunde Gutierrez, took up Milei’s theme and unloaded on the WEA groupies as disgraceful and shameful: “The demonstrations of frivolity and intellectual mediocrity that the famous forum emits are increasingly scandalous. For example, the impression that the prostitute traffickers make during these meetings – why not some orgies while we save the world with 2100 euro-a-night women?”

“The pitiful spectacle of a supposed witch, sorceress, or God knows what, emitting sounds and spitting on the faces of some panelists, is decidedly pathetic. I cannot conceive how a person who has any notion of self-respect, would tolerate being a part of pranks of that caliber. Can people who willingly participate and applaud such farces be recognized as serious?” “Have they no shame? Is it that their need to belong to the cool people of the planet is so powerful? – Is it that the cool and sophisticated is now inevitably ridiculous and shameful?” The WEA is an anti-human cult devoted to the destruction of freedom and human life. In my opinion, it would be wondrous if the next time the collection of stupid and evil beings assemble, Russia, China, or Iran would launch a missile attack that completely destroys the WEF.

They won’t because Russia, China, and Iran view the WEF as an ally in the destruction of the West. This is a mistake, because the Russian, Chinese, and Iranian populations are also fated to be culled. Judging by the effort of the World Health Organization, the WEF’s ally, to centralize in its hands the health protocols of the entire world and its forecast of a doomsday pandemic, the culling device will be a biowarfare pathogen released on the world. No Western legislature is doing anything to shut down the illegal labs. As Russia knows where many of the illegal biowarfare laboratories are located, Russia should take them out with missile strikes. Evil has to be confronted and overcome or evil will prevail. Evil has already recruited the corporate and political leadership of the Western world. How much more advantage shall we permit Evil before we are overcome?

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  • #151139
    Oroboros
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    At the point in the derangement of the world, I think I despise ‘do gooders’ more than outright evil phuckers.

    The Road to Hell is Paved with Good INTENTIONS

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    THE ROAD OF GOOD INTENTIONS

    (John Gorka)

    There’s addition and subtraction, but division overall;
    Hope, once in fluid motion, is slowed behind a crawl.
    The images are strong and the words are pretty good,
    But there’s more fiction out of Washington than out of Hollywood.

    chorus: On the road of good intentions, all gets justified to hell,
    The price revealed in stories too short, too sad to tell.

    Is this permanent improvement through abbreviated lives,
    Or another tragic venture, shocking when the bill arrives?
    By the rubble where the house was, there are markers in the dirt.
    Children with no need of freedom, they can no longer be hurt.

    chorus: On the road of good intentions, all gets justified to hell,
    The price revealed in stories too short, too sad to tell.

    The soldiers and their families, with life and limb they pay,
    While the ones who sent them marching get to dance the night away.
    I always come back to the soldiers with their courage and ideals.
    I’ve seen them smoking in the airports. There’s no telling how it feels.

    chorus: On the road of good intentions, all gets justified to hell,
    The price revealed in stories too short, too sad to tell.

    #151165
    thomasjkenney
    Participant

    @Dr D and tboc re: fuel injection at elevation

    I’ve had a Ford 5.0 V8 up to 3700m/12,500ft with little noticeable effect. Back ~35 yrs when I had my first car, I recall driving it up to about 3400m and it was chugging and wheezing and coming to a begrudging agreement with gravity.

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    @mpsk re: kindly doctor

    That’s my wife’s doctor to a T.

    #151166
    Oroboros
    Participant

    • French Mercenaries Dying in Ukraine

    The more ‘cheese eating surrender monkeys’ Russia kills in Ukronaziland, the better off the world will be…

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    The French Army Last Time They Tried to Conquer Russia

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    #151167
    zerosum
    Participant

    Training Mercenaries!
    US military operations in Somalia are shrouded in secrecy.

    https://www.africom.mil/pressrelease/35375/federal-government-of-somalia-africom-target-al-shabaab
    U.S. Africa Command, headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany, with partners, counters malign actors and transnational threats, responds to crises, and strengthens security forces in order to advance U.S. national interests and promote regional security, stability and prosperity.

    Federal Government of Somalia, AFRICOM target al Shabaab
    At the request of the Federal Government of Somalia, U.S. Africa Command conducted two collective self-defense airstrikes against the al-Shabaab terrorist group on Dec. 20.
    ———–
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-launches-airstrikes-southern-somalia-1st-time-year
    US Launches Airstrikes In Somalia For First Time This Year

    BY TYLER DURDEN
    WEDNESDAY, JAN 24, 2024 – 02:00 PM
    Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com,

    #151168
    zerosum
    Participant

    OLD NEWS
    Training Mercenaries!

    https://www.sott.net/article/488152-BBC-documentary-on-Western-Death-Squad-in-Yemen-Israeli-Security-Firm-Hired-by-UAE-Paid-American-Mercenaries-to-Carry-Out-Political-Assassinations#
    BBC documentary on Western Death Squad in Yemen: Israeli Security Firm Hired by UAE Paid American Mercenaries to Carry Out Political Assassinations
    Nawal al-Maghafi
    BBC
    Mon, 22 Jan 2024

    Training provided by American mercenaries – hired by the UAE in 2015 – has then been used by Emiratis to instruct locals, sparking a surge in targeted killings, a whistleblower says.

    The killing spree in Yemen – more than 100 assassinations in a three-year period – is just one element of an ongoing bitter internecine conflict pitting several international powers against each other in the Middle East’s poorest country.

    #151169
    Dr. D
    Participant

    About Orlov and Israel, already Luongo interview has Crytpo Rich who interviewed a Rabbi on this subject at Christmas. He said exactly this thing. Soon as he saw this behavior from the Israeli government, that was the last straw and they left immediately.

    Nor was that the only story. But at my distance, anecdotes are going to trickle in slowly. So score for Orlov AND the end of Israel, as people can put up with a lot, and all governments are mafias and pretty corrupt. Nevertheless, there’s a limit. As Ukraine knows with half the country in W. Europe and ain’t coming back.

    They have 100,000 Israelis displaced. …And no war in Lebanon to justify it. So…100k ppl not going to their day job. Like what 3M Americans in proportion? Aaaaand all the people they stay with will get sick of it. Aaaaand the lost GDP. Aaaaand the territory has little chance of settling soon, like w/i 5 years. Aaaaaand they have dual citizenship. Aaaaaand they are likely to be 1) shot and 2) conscripted. What would you do?

    Aaaaand if all the people of that sort — well to do, motivated, moral — all leave, then what happens to the remaining state? Yeah, it will be rolled under, but very, very slowly. Tide of history stuff.

    Al-Shabaab: Oh we just SAAAAAY they’re Terrorists, and then we can bomb anyone, any where, at any time, for any reason. Like all Africa, all Asia, all Europe, all Americas… Well I’m sure in THAT case, Yemen and all Africa will just know we’re the good guys and lie down…

    (::eyeroll::)

    #151170
    zerosum
    Participant

    SOTT Team

    “Comment:
    So, as in Iraq, Libya, Syria and Afghanistan, the West – working closely with Israelis – have been running a death squad in Yemen.

    What the above text description doesn’t mention, but which is clear from the above BBC documentary video, is that these assassinations were reported in Western media as having been done by ‘ISIS’. And so, once again, we see that ‘ISIS’, like ‘al-Qaeda’ before it, is Western-Israeli military-intelligence assassinating political figures it believes pose a challenge to their influence over the ‘management’ of global energy supplies coming from the Middle East.”

    #151171
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    How to save Boeing this time? Who still feels safe in a 737 MAX? Also, a few days ago a wheel came off a 757 on a runway just seconds before take off.

    Boeing is lost, in a slow motion collapse, now accelerating towards it’s coups de grâce, for the *exact same* reasons that the vast majority of Western Civ is now circling going-down-the-drain:

    Collective EG0ic Madness (aka Mass Formation Psychosis) choosing, supporting and/or cowering to pathologically driven rape, plunder, pillage & butchery “performed” by Spiritually Insane defectives obsessed with pushing the envelope of *open brigandage* against “Normal”, “Productive” family-based humanity.

    Why?

    Because “They” hate The Loving, Healing, Creative Power of Life itself, which has driven them into an *outer* darkness of madness, hate & nonstop destruction.

    Child EG0s run amok, insatiably thirsty for knowledge of what’s within Pandora’s Box, which no longer can be guarded by Spiritually Sane *MEN* from their filthy grasp…

    To understand The WEF you have to understand their language.

    Every panel is a masturbatory pseudo-intellectual labyrinth filled with finely tuned corporate HR slogans. They speak in the type of code that you’d expect from unimaginative milquetoast metropolitan pencil pushers:

    “Rebuilding trust”

    “Global collaboration”

    “Misinformation and disinformation”

    “Private public partnership”

    “Population sustainability”

    “Sustainable development goals”

    “The fourth industrial revolution”

    “Build back better”

    And of course…

    “The great reset”

    There are many more. Every sentence is packed with this garbage. It’s hard to maintain focus because all of the buzzwords eventually run together and create some unrecognizable hum that doesn’t fully register to a conscious mind. I constantly found myself rewinding to listen again, and then again, and then again, because what intellect I have was rejecting the invasive stupidity. It’s like watching the cast of Sex and the City read an encyclopedia. The seconds evaporate from your life and curse you for wasting them as they disappear forever.

    Liars lying to each other, knowing they’re both lying, getting aroused by their sociopathic delusions.

    That’s all I see. It’s three degrees more pretentious than a Ted Talk and what the Third Reich would’ve sounded like if it was headquartered in a yoga studio.

    These are the people in charge.

    These are the ones who are going to censor the internet, unleash Disease X, force us back inside, enslave us with digital ID’s and central bank digital currencies, shove us into fifteen minute ghettos.

    https://bravenewnormal.substack.com/p/highlights-4

    Thus, the crux of the fatal illness now enveloping “Modernity”, which has declared World War Idiocracy against “Normal”, “Productive” family-based humanity:

    When you *FAIL* to take the trash out, eventually *everything* that was once good, fair & balanced becomes a putrid pile of death & decay, with the only solution available to burn *everything* to-the-ground, so that perhaps
    “Normal”, “Productive” family-based humanity can reemerge, restart, reconvene…

    This is all, of course, blatantly apparent in 2024 to *Everyone* with a zip-code in reality 🙄

    The UniParty GlobalCap Imperial think tanks and/or *experts*, unable to repent from their CULTure of Corruption, Careerism & Cowardice, still somehow believe they kind find a solution to save *Modernity*, but The Beast has grown to unwieldy for even the Mighty Uncle Sam to vanquish, after all how long could this type of *insanity* be realistically expected to last?

    Do you see what I see?

    https://www.flightradar24.com/38.19,-107.54/4

    There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.”
    — Neil Gaiman

    Be careful what you wish for.

    #151172
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    Check out what’s happening in EU > Ukraine:

    https://www.flightradar24.com/48.22,25.81/4

    Don’t throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass ~ Benjamin Franklin

    Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades ~ Frank Robinson

    So much taken for granted.

    #151173
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Inside World’s First, $3 Billion Underwater Submarine Superyacht

    Don’t get your knicker in a knot, it’s just another “let them eat cake” moment design to rub-it-in that I can go on a luxury cruise underwater and you little peasant can’t.

    “The 36-seat dining room has glass walls to watch the sea life drift by during gourmet dinners and extras like a swimming pool, wine cellar even a cinema …..”

    A swimming pool on a submarine, Sweet!

    Top that Sheeple!

    Choke on your cake chattel!

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    Good place to be on in a nuclear apocalypse

    .

    “It’s been compared to the submarine used by James Bond supervillain Karl Stromberg in The Spy Who Loved Me.”

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    #151174
    John Day
    Participant

    Last Minute Changes https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/last-minute-changes

    Charles Hugh Smith , The Template of National/Imperial Decay and Collapse
    The point is the good times of seemingly endless expansion are never permanent yet human regimes become accustomed to managing only expansion.
    ​ Climate change is cyclical in nature, and these cycles can be exacerbated by disturbances such as volcanic activity. As covered by several of the books listed below, it is not entirely chance that the tumultuous 1600s in Europe coincided with The Little Ice Age, which happened to occur during the Maunder Minimum, a solar cycle likely made worse by The 1600 AD Huaynaputina Eruption in Peru, one of the largest volcanic eruptions in the past 2,000 years.
    ​ The Taiping Rebellion in China (1850 to 1864) may overlap with the Gleissberg drought cycle and other solar cycles that are associated with drier, cooler weather.
    ​ The point is the good times of seemingly endless expansion are never permanent yet human regimes become accustomed to managing only expansion. Lacking the institutional structure and motivation to undertake risky, fundamental adaptations that require cooperation, shared sacrifices and the accelerated evolution of trial-and-error, the regimes decay and collapse, overwhelmed by their own sclerosis and hubris and the mutually-reinforcing storms of a polycrisis.
    https://charleshughsmith.substack.com/p/the-template-of-nationalimperial

    ​ Paul Craig Roberts , Satan’s Agent: The World Economic Forum
    ​ The WEF is an anti-human cult devoted to the destruction of freedom and human life. In my opinion, it would be wondrous if the next time the collection of stupid and evil beings assemble, Russia, China, or Iran would launch a missile attack that completely destroys the WEF. They won’t because Russia, China, and Iran view the WEF as an ally in the destruction of the West. This is a mistake, because the Russian, Chinese, and Iranian populations are also fated to be culled. Judging by the effort of the World Health Organization, the WEF’s ally, to centralize in its hands the health protocols of the entire world and its forecast of a doomsday pandemic, the culling device will be a biowarfare pathogen released on the world.
    ​ No Western legislature is doing anything to shut down the illegal labs. As Russia knows where many of the illegal biowarfare laboratories are located, Russia should take them out with missile strikes. Evil has to be confronted and overcome or evil will prevail.
    ​ Evil has already recruited the corporate and political leadership of the Western world. How much more advantage shall we permit Evil before we are overcome?

    Satan’s Agent: The World Economic Forum

    ​ Simplicius, Iranian Axis Grinds Down US’ Will as Israel Suffers Stunning Setbacks [Can the US act rationally if controlled by AIPAC? Asking for a friend.]
    ​ There are some very strange happenings in the Middle East which underscore the historic shifts grumbling just beneath the surface, ready to break through.
    ​ Firstly, to set the stage we turn to Israel, which appears to be concealing an operation that has gone off the rails, and is not yielding any of the expected results—and in fact has done little more than turn the world against them, creating a shockwave of anti-Israeli fervor that will steer sentiment for generations.
    ​ As we now know, Israel has withdrawn many of its brigades from the north, citing ‘rest and rotation’ when in reality it appears to be ‘reconstitution’, as the brigades took major attritional losses. Now in the wake of that, the latest bombshell reports state that resistance fighters have re-infiltrated the entire north…
    ..During the entire time, there have been increasingly urgent secret talks between the US and Israel, with the Biden administration pleading with Netanyahu to curb his assaults…
    ..Israel has continued to press into Khan Younis in the south. But yesterday they suffered what was unanimously called the biggest ‘tragedy’ of the entire conflict thus far. During one of the IDF’s routine mining operations, consisting of rigging explosives on civilian buildings, resistance fighters were able to trigger a detonation with dozens of IDF still inside the building…
    ..Al Jazeera artificially reconstructs the epic Al-Qassam operation that led to the death of 24-28 IOF soldiers near Al-Maghazi, 2 days ago.​ Netanyahu calls it ‘the most difficult day’…
    ..Israel obviously can’t pull out now to save face, so it almost leaves one with the impression they’re floundering around, secretly panicking internally as to what to do because they’ve reached the conclusion that ‘Hamas’ is an intractable shadow they cannot brute-force their way through…
    ..The UN and the world increasingly call for a two state solution, but Netanyahu has vocally rejected this as impossible. In fact, his Likudniks continue to call for outrageous relocations and forced ethnic cleansing of Palestinians; for instance, Foreign Minister Eli Cohen proposed dumping all Palestinians onto an artificial island…
    ..Now, at the worst possible time, Iran has decided to turn the screws on Israel, creating extremely unfavorable conditions by locking down the maritime chokepoints, as well as putting unprecedented pressure on Israel’s top ally of the US, militarily, all across the region.
    ​ Even as of this writing, a new US-flagged ship, the Maersk Detroit, was said to be attacked by the Houthis in the Red Sea, though US CENTCOM claims the three missiles were all repulsed. The US Navy has been relegated to a glorified escort, but since the al-Mandab strait has effectively become a warzone, it has nonetheless crippled commerce…
    ..Two days ago came a rumor that the US was considering talking its Kurdish allies in Syria into ‘working with Assad forces’ to combat ISIS.’ This immediately set off speculation that the US was getting ready to abandon Syria once and for all, and was looking for a way to securely fill the vacuum. Naturally, many scoffed at this, and refused to believe US would possibly withdraw from the region. But then came today’s Charles Lister-penned bombshell for FP… The shockwaves the article sent are still doing their laps through the world. As usual, it cites unnamed sources in the DOD and White House:
    ​ While no definitive decision has been made to leave, four sources within the Defense and State departments said the White House is no longer invested in sustaining a mission that it perceives as unnecessary. Active internal discussions are now underway to determine how and when a withdrawal may take place.​..
    ..Most shocking of all are new reports that US is in discussions to end its occupation of Iraq entirely:
    ​ Reuters, citing sources: Initial talks between America and the government in Baghdad about ending the presence of coalition forces in Iraq against the backdrop of developments that took place as a result of the war in Gaza…
    ..The US ambassador to Iraq, Alina L. Romanowski is reported to have delivered a memo today to the Iraqi Foreign Ministry regarding ‘preliminary steps’ to begin the withdrawal of US and Coalition Forces from the country. This comes amid public calls by members of the Iraqi government for US forces to depart the country due to the war in Israel and continued attacks by Iranian-backed forces.​ The US claims these are long-planned talks and have nothing to do with the recent attacks, but that is clearly not the case… On January 10th, the office of Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said they would soon begin the process “to end the presence of the international coalition forces in Iraq permanently.”​
    ​ So just what in the world is going on, exactly? At this most critical of times, why is the US thinking of tucking tail and running from the region?
    ​ My take is this: in short, the US is being run out of town by Iran. Their bluff was called and US knows their puny strikes can do nothing to truly degrade Iran’s highly decentralized hybrid warfare systems and groups. Iran has risen to become a hegemon verging on a Great Power of the region. The US has a few obsolete fleets which cannot keep up blow for blow with Iran in exchanged rounds of ammo. Iran can saturate them forever with drones and cheap rockets which the US is spending millions per every fired shot to intercept.​ Furthermore, the US cannot produce its most important strike weapons in enough quantity to ever win a long endurance standoff.​.
    .. The US is currently at a precipice where it can still somewhat save face by retreating early and pretending it never intended to commit in the first place. But if it goes on and overcommits, it stands to get militarily exposed. The world will see the US as utterly weak and beatable.​.. I believe US is in precisely this position. It sees itself as nearing the “point of no return”​…
    ..Each day that passes and each new strike on US bases in Iraq and Syria brings the US closer and closer toward the brink…
    ..Russia will begin aerial patrols of the Golan Heights corridor… This may be a tactic to block the US in with a one-two punch. Russian planes deter Israeli strikes, which helps Iran build strength and deliver arms to its militias in Syria; then those militias increase pressure by hammering US bases in the region. Seeing the writing on the wall, the US knows the situation is untenable and unsustainable.​..
    ..Of course there’s always the chance that US may end up totally doubling down, but at this point, its position has never been weaker. And the longer things go, the more economic damage is done to the West and its allies. Russia and China continue to have free passage through the straits, as well as cheap energy, while the West is taking all the hits…
    ..The longer it goes, the larger the political storms that will engulf Europe. The AfD in Germany, for instance, is already now calling for a DeXit or German exit to leave the EU…
    ..As a last note, circling back to Israel: if things are so dire, why is Israel still talking about potentially opening up a new front against Lebanon? One popular theory is that they want to use a new even larger war against Hezbollah to hide their failure in Gaza. How would that work if the war against Hezbollah could be an even bigger failure?
    ​ It’s hard to say for certain but one idea is simply that by doing so, they would hope to somehow draw in the US into a larger total war against Iran in order to ‘cut the head off the snake’, in their eyes…
    ​..There’s a great new article written by Patrick Theros, ex-US ambassador to Qatar. He brings up some good points about how Biden appears to be caged in by the Israeli lobby, contrasting that with previous presidents who managed to show a little more dignity and gumption in standing up to Israel’s control over the US…
    ..He brings up the turning tide in the US, with the young population increasingly at odds with Israel; which includes a lot of young Jewish, liberal, and Democrat people…
    ​..He ends on a similar conclusion to my own—that there is a small window remaining:
    ​ “Biden has a very short window within which he can cut off Netanyahu before he can carry out his apparent war aim to depopulate Gaza and carry the conflict to Lebanon and possibly beyond — a conflict, in other words that could very well drag American forces into another endless Middle Eastern war. A quick and decisive decision, combined with real diplomacy to exploit the crisis and craft a workable solution to 75 years of Israeli-Palestinian conflict, would recover America’s reputation.​” … ​ This brings up one last potential explanation for the new bombshell announcements that the US may leave Syria and Iraq: it could be a threat to Israel. Since Israel does not take any other type of plea into consideration, the only remaining avenue for the US may be to simply threaten to ditch the region, with the attendant loss of direct regional military support to Israel. In short: stop your escalations or we’ll leave you hanging to fend for yourself against this emergent Iran. And some within the state department and military may be outright pushing for the total withdrawal simply to keep the US from being embroiled in a larger war they know is unwinnable.
    ​https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/iranian-axis-grinds-down-us-will

    ​ Yemeni Armed Forces spokesperson reveals that a two-hour battle ensued with a US battle ship.
    ​ Saree confirmed that the results of the confrontation included “directly hitting an American warship and forcing two American merchant ships to retreat and return.”
    The Yemeni armed forces employed “a number of ballistic missiles” in the operation that lasted for more than two hours, Saree revealed
    He added that during the confrontation “a number of our ballistic missiles reached their targets, despite the attempts of the warships to intercept them.”
    https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/yemeni-armed-forces-confront-us-warships-in-a-2-hour-battle

    #151175
    John Day
    Participant

    Israel loses control of its borders​ , In past wars, Israel was able to establish buffer or security zones inside enemy territory. But Tel Aviv’s adversaries have flipped the map today, forcing the occupation state to evacuate its own borders — perhaps permanently.
    ​ Today, Israel is horrified to find itself retreating from direct confrontation lines with its arch-enemies in Gaza and Lebanon. The formidable capabilities of the resistance now include drones, rockets, targeted projectiles, tunnels, and spanking new shock tactics, casting doubt on the feasibility of Israeli settlers remaining safe in any of Israel’s border perimeters.
    ​ There is now one common refrain among settlers in the north and south of occupied Palestine: “We will not return unless security is restored on the border.”
    ​ But prospects for their return appear elusive at present. The Israeli Defense Ministry, which pledged a swift and decisive war to safeguard its settlers over 100 days ago, is now actively devising plans to shelter approximately 100,000 people along the northern border, deeper inside its territory. This measure could involve evacuating settlements that may come under fire during any future military escalation with Hezbollah in Lebanon.
    https://new.thecradle.co/articles/israel-loses-control-of-its-borders

    ​ Compensating? ‘Israel’ demolished 1,100 buildings to create ‘buffer zone’ in Gaza
    Amos Yadlin, former head of Israeli military intelligence, said he expected “Israel” would enforce a “perimeter” of 500 metres to 1km inside Gaza.
    https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/-israel–demolished-1-100-buildings-to-create-buffer-zone-in

    ​ ‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 111: Hospitals under siege, UNRWA shelter bombed in southern Gaza
    Israeli forces bomb Gaza’s perimeter to prepare for a “buffer zone” as medical staff in Nasser Hospital dig graves in anticipation of a large number of fatalities due to Israel’s ongoing siege on the hospital.

    ‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 111: Hospitals under siege, UNRWA shelter bombed in southern Gaza

    ​ London Jewish youth club helps ‘teenagers in crisis’ join Israeli army​ [No Israeli parents will complain if the​se boys get killed or maimed.]
    Boys Clubhouse, which last week hosted Levi Simon, a British man who fought in Gaza, runs project in Jerusalem which supports boys it helps to enlist for Israeli military
    https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/london-jewish-youth-centre-helps-teenagers-crisis-join-israeli-army

    ​Genocide in the age of cellphone video. State Department Refuses to Condemn Israel Shooting Group of Palestinians Waving White Flag
    ​ The State Department on Wednesday refused to condemn the shooting of unarmed Palestinian men waving a white flag in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, a scene that was captured on video by the UK’s ITV News.

    State Department Refuses to Condemn Israel Shooting Group of Palestinians Waving White Flag

    #151176
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Guterres describes humanitarian situation in Gaza Strip as “horrifying”, calling for aid entry
    ​ United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said on Tuesday, “The clear and repeated rejection of the two-state solution at the highest levels of the Israeli government is unacceptable.”
    ​ He called for more aid to be allowed into the entire Gaza Strip.
    ​ Guterres added before the UN Security Council: “The entire population of Gaza is suffering from destruction on a scale and speed unprecedented in modern history… There is nothing that can justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people.”
    https://en.ypagency.net/317010

    US condemns shelling of Gaza UN shelter, continues to support ‘Israel’​ (Is this a ploy for AIPAC, while secretly withdrawing actual​ diplomatic “support”?)
    The spokesperson for the White House’s National Security Council says “Israel retains a responsibility to protect civilians, including, humanitarian personnel and sites.”
    https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/us-condemns-shelling-of-gaza-un-shelter–continues-to-suppor

    ​ EU THREATENS ‘CONSEQUENCES’ FOR ISRAEL OPPOSING PALESTINIAN STATE, BUT STILL NETANYAHU DEMANDS “ABSOLUTE VICTORY”​ [Bibi-Bus-Under!]
    ​ EU diplomats said on Monday in Brussels that a two-state solution is the only credible path to peace between Israel and the Palestinians, after earlier threatening “consequences” if Israel continued to oppose the plan.

    EU Threatens ‘Consequences’ for Israel Opposing Palestinian State, But Still Netanyahu Demands “Absolute Victory”

    ​ ICJ says to rule on ‘Israel’ Gaza genocide case on Friday
    ​ The International Court of Justice in The Hague is set to announce its verdict on Friday in a pivotal case accusing the Israeli occupation of genocide in Gaza.
    South Africa has brought “Israel” before the court, alleging violations of the UN’s Genocide Convention. The case revolves around the Israeli occupation’s military campaign in Gaza ongoing since October 7, which has thus far killed more than 25,000 people and wounded over 63,000 others.
    ​ The International Court of Justice has the authority to issue “provisional measures,” emergency orders aimed at safeguarding Palestinians in Gaza from potential breaches of the convention. These orders are legally binding and cannot be appealed, though enforcing them poses a challenge.
    This is what the ICJ will be issuing a ruling on instead of the genocide allegations, which could take years to come to fruition.
    https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/icj-says-to-rule-on–israel–gaza-genocide-case-on-friday

    ​ On Thursday The Washington Post is reporting a hugely unexpected development related to the Israel-Hamas war, writing that President Biden will send CIA Director William J. Burns in the coming days to help negotiate a ceasefire.
    ​ Unnamed officials speaking to the publication described that “Burns is expected to travel to Europe for the talks and meet with the Israeli and Egyptian intelligence chiefs, David Barnea and Abbas Kamel, and Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani.”
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/biden-dispatches-cia-director-negotiate-major-gaza-ceasefire-deal

    #151177
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ More Paul Craig Roberts , The United States Has No Borders
    ​ The 5-4 decision by the Supreme Court forbids Texas from protecting its borders, and thereby the borders of the United States, from being overrun by immigrant-invaders. We often hear that the Supreme Court is a Republican court, but in actual fact it is a Tower of Babel Court committed to the total destruction of the United States as a nation. What the Supreme Court, like the Biden Regime, the whore media, the anti-American Woke universities, The Rino Republicans, and the Democrat attorneys general and prosecutors are creating is a non-nation, a tower of babel that has no common interests, no common morals, no common religion, and no common agenda. This is the SATANIC CURSE of “diversity and multiculturalism.”
    ​ How did Americans fall for a program designed FOR THEIR OWN DESTRUCTION?!​ They fell for it because they are generous and weak-minded.
    ​ The Daily Caller reports: “federal Border Patrol agents began cutting wire fences that, among other uses, helped channel individuals— unlawful migrants and U.S. citizens alike—to a lawful border crossing at a port of entry,” Texas Solicitor General Aaron Nielson wrote. “Border Patrol began this practice of destroying Texas’s property, according to the district court’s findings, in order to ‘facilitate the surge of migrants into Eagle Pass,’ using boats to ‘literally usher’ people across illegally.”
    ​ In other words, the Biden Regime cut the fence in order to allow entry into the US that could not be monitored. The fence was in place to insure that immigrant-invaders had to pass through lawful border crossings, where their numbers are allegedly recorded.

    The United States Has No Borders

    ​ Texas Governor Greg Abbott has refused to back down in his border-security row with US President Joe Biden’s administration, arguing that regardless of this week’s Supreme Court ruling in Washington’s favor, his duty to protect his constituents “supersedes” any federal laws.
    ​ Abbott issued a statement two days after the Supreme Court ruled that federal Border Patrol agents must be allowed to remove the concertina wire that the state had installed to prevent illegal aliens from crossing its border. The dispute escalated earlier this month when the Texas National Guard seized control of a park at a key border-crossing point and blocked federal officers from accessing the site.
    ​ “The federal government has broken the compact between the United States and the states,” Abbott said on Wednesday. “The executive branch of the United States has a constitutional duty to enforce federal laws protecting states, including immigration laws on the books right now. President Biden has refused to enforce those laws and has even violated them.”
    https://swentr.site/news/591235-texas-governor-defies-biden/

    ​ Why is the West’s mainstream media ignoring the farmers’ revolt?
    The farmers’ protests are akin to the peasant wars that have deep roots in European history, writes economist László Bogár for the Magyar Hírlap daily​ (Hungarian)
    ​ “No fuel, no food, no future” — that is the slogan most often used by German farmers, obviously in English because it was the only way to get mass exposure of their current plight.
    ​ However, you’d be forgiven for missing the protests raging across Germany — and in many other countries this past week, including Romania and France — due to the mainstream media’s apparent disinterest in the farming revolution, with producers seemingly given particularly strict instructions on what to, and what not to report.
    The existence of protests unfolding throughout Europe appeared to be under some form of media embargo. Perhaps it might be worth considering why.
    ​ It is true in general, but in post-WWII Europe in particular, which was in a rather dire situation, it has proven true many times over that food supply is perhaps an even more delicate and important strategic sector than heavy industry.

    Why is the West’s mainstream media ignoring the farmers’ revolt?

    French Mercenaries Dying in Ukraine: The West Encourages the Enlistment of Militants to Fight on Kiev’s Side
    Paris is believed to be secretly encouraging large numbers of mercenaries to join Kiev’s forces, especially after political events in the African Sahel
    ..Recently, Russian forces bombed military facilities in Kharkov, killing more than sixty foreign mercenaries, most of them French. The case gained great attention in the media for showing the high participation of foreign troops in hostilities against Russia, which makes it clear that NATO countries are participating in the conflict in an intense way, not only with the mere sending of money and weapons…
    ..These soldiers, especially those from NATO countries, help the Western bloc acquire real direct combat experience with Russian forces – preparing the alliance for a possible future scenario of total war.
    ​ Currently, the Atlantic military alliance cannot send official troops to Ukraine, as this would represent the start of a direct war with Moscow. The real meaning of the conflict in Ukraine is precisely the use of Kiev as a proxy to wage war against Russia, however this could change in the future. As Ukraine rapidly loses and anti-Russian paranoia in the West continues to grow, it is possible that the situation will become out of control at some point. In this sense, one way for Western countries to prepare is by sending unofficial troops to the Ukrainian battlefield, where frictions with the Russians are already occurring…
    ​..With the recent wave of pro-Russian revolutions in African countries, the French sphere of influence on that continent has been severely diminished. Paris appears to be trying to “compensate” for its frustration in Africa with massive support for Kiev, sending large numbers of mercenaries to defend the regime.​ This is also the opinion of Stevan Gajic, an analyst at the Institute of European Studies in Belgrade, who recently said in an interview that Macron is “hysterical” about Russia.

    French Mercenaries Dying in Ukraine: The West Encourages the Enlistment of Militants to Fight on Kiev’s Side

    ​ Looking thinner and tireder, Schrodinger’s… Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin made his first public appearance virtually Tuesday after being released from the hospital following complications from prostate cancer treatment. Austin spoke in a Department of Defense livestream video before the Ukraine Defense Contact Group…
    ​..He did not comment on his recent hospitalization, and instead focused on bridging a gap in funding for Ukraine.​ “So, I urge this group to dig deep to provide Ukraine with more lifesaving ground-based air defense systems and interceptors,” Austin said.
    https://www.wfla.com/news/washington-dc/lloyd-austin-makes-first-appearance-since-being-released-from-hospital/

    #151178
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Gilbert Doctorow, ‘Sputnik Globe’ on the shoot-down of a Russian transport jet carrying Ukrainian POWs yesterday
    ​ The Ilyushin-76 was carrying 65 Ukrainian POWs to what should have been their exchange for Russians held by the Ukrainian side when it was hit by several ground to air missiles launched by the Ukrainian armed forces. The flight details of this plane had been provided to Kiev by the Russians in advance and there can be little doubt that its destruction was premeditated and ordered at the highest levels of the Kiev regime.
    https://gilbertdoctorow.substack.com/p/sputnik-globe-on-the-shoot-down-of

    ​ That Sputnik article: Il-76 Provocation ‘Setting Zelensky Up for Fall at Time of US’s Choosing’
    ​ Russian emergency services personnel on the ground confirmed Thursday that they found what appeared to be fragments of an anti-aircraft guided missile at the crash site, along with wreckage punctured by hundreds of entrance holes from the missile’s striking elements…
    ​..“The case in particular puts Zelensky in difficulty. This case could be an element that internal opponents could [use] against the current leadership,” Graziani suggested.​
    ​ Russian military analyst Alexei Leonkov agreed, saying Ukraine’s ‘Western partners’ may have been involved in the attack in an attempt to break off one of the last communication links between Kiev and Moscow in the form of prisoner exchanges.​ “I believe this was an operation prepared ahead of time. Because the Ukrainian air defense system fired without turning on its radar, that is, fired using external target designation means. Such means are possessed by the Americans and the British, who are now factually managing the conflict in Ukraine,” Leonkov told Sputnik.​..
    ..“Zelensky will survive this, but it is setting him up for a fall at any time the USA chooses,” international relations and Russian affairs analyst Dr. Gilbert Doctorow said, agreeing that the shootdown undermines Zelensky’s position.
    https://sputnikglobe.com/20240125/il-76-provocation-setting-zelensky-up-for-fall-at-time-of-uss-choosing-1116387322.html

    ​ Ukraine should be designated as a “terrorist state,” and the government in Kiev should be branded a “terrorist cell,” the head of the Russian State Duma Defense Committee Andrey Kartapolov has insisted, following the attack on an IL-76 military aircraft in Russia’s Belgorod Region.
    ​ Earlier on Wednesday, the Russian military transport plane crashed near the village of Yablonovo, around 90km from the Ukrainian border. It was carrying 65 captured Ukrainian military personnel for a prisoner swap, as well as six crew members and three people accompanying the POWs. It is believed that there are no survivors.
    ​ According to Kartapolov, Kiev was well aware of who this plane was transporting and accused the Ukrainian forces of shooting down the aircraft using what he claimed were “three Patriot or Iris-T air defense missiles.”
    https://swentr.site/russia/591199-ukraine-terrorist-state–russian-deputy/

    ​Dima at Military Summary Channel has details on the crumbling of Ukrainian defenses and surrender of Ukrainian soldiers in Adviivka after Russian soldiers cleared out 2 miles of sewer tunnel to move underground to well behind Ukrainian defensive lines. He has other updates, and looks at the Texas border-control dispute with the Biden administration.
    The Russians Are About To Launch Assault | Political Crisis In The USA. Military Summary 2024.01.25

    ​ US Has Already Lost Race for Hypersonic, Directed Energy Weapons – Senator​ (Lahaina​, Hawaii was undefended, so it doesn’t count as a war zone.)
    ​ “We are woefully behind on the issue of directed energy,” King said. “On hypersonics and directed energy, we have lost the race or we are badly losing the race. We have a lot of catching up to do. This should be a hair on fire catching up priority.”
    ​ In the Red Sea, the US Navy was currently forced to use multi-million dollar missiles to shoot down inexpensive drones fired by the Houthi rebels in Yemen that cost less than 1% of the price of the US systems, King said​. “The missiles we are using are costing $2 million to $4 million each. That is like using a howitzer to shoot a duck,” King added.
    https://sputnikglobe.com/20240124/us-has-already-lost-race-for-hypersonic-directed-energy-weapons—senator-1116344107.html

    #151180
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ This seems like industrial sabotage of some kind. They use pre-set pneumatic torque-wrenches on these bolts.
    US air carrier finds loose bolts on multiple Boeing jets​ Safety inspections of the 737 MAX 9 planes operated by Alaska Airlines have revealed more quality-control failures
    https://swentr.site/news/591224-alaska-airlines-finds-loose-bolts-on-boeing-planes/

    ​It’s a Ponzi-scheme, isn’t it? Can it run until mid-November? Stocks’ Perpetual Motion Machine Can’t Run Forever
    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/stocks-perpetual-motion-machine-cant-run-forever

    Meryl Nass MD , Let’s start looking at some contradictions in the latest draft of the Pandemic Treaty.
    This draft was named “pandemic agreement” to keep us guessing whether it is really the same document or something else
    ​ This is the official version, the latest draft of the pandemic treaty dated October 30, 2023 that both the developing nations and Pharma did not like. But is there much for we the people to like?
    https://merylnass.substack.com/p/lets-start-looking-at-some-contradictions

    ​ The Ethical Skeptic points out excess deaths and disabilities among young people and under-54 age group, in specific categories like cancers, heart attacks, and strokes, all starting about week-14 of 2021 in the US. (These are statistically less likely than “monkeys might fly out of my butt”, except if caused by some widely dispersed toxic agent.)
    ​ The State of Things Pandemic – Week 2 2024
    ​ A summary regarding the various types of alarming excess mortality, for week 2 of 2024, our 202nd week of the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic in the United States.
    This is the ‘Houston We Have a Problem (Part 3 of 3)’ article. Count yourself as fortunate in getting to this page, as it is actively censored by Apple, LinkedIn, YouTube, and FaceBook.​ Both I and my family have been threatened for my doing this work. It comes at a heavy cost. Please employ wisely.

    The State of Things Pandemic – Week 2 2024

    ​Steve Kirsch, 22% of households who took the shots have a COVID vaccine injury ,The CDC’s unstated goal is to get 100% of households having a COVID vaccine injury.
    https://kirschsubstack.com/p/22-of-households-who-took-the-shots#poll-139924

    #151181
    jb-hb
    Participant

    “Looking thinner and tireder, Schrodinger’s… Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin made his first public appearance virtually Tuesday”

    thinner ’cause he’s a doppelganger. virtual so they can do a custom AI face overlay. Googling “how long does it take to recover from elective plastic surgery…” and then will check to see how long he only appears in zoom meetings….

    I feel like this is Schrodinger’s commentary as well. I realize I’m both just kidding and not completely kidding.

    #151182
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    One of the conscience questions weighing upon my soul today was the recent advent of The Rise Of Techno Homo Sapiens, who are becoming more & more too preoccupied with gadgets, news/blog articles & web streams about the latest *thing* to actually have the time & energy to participate in real reality life…

    This week I adopted a kitten to a family & their 10yo daughter was basically live streaming the *event*, too involved with her iPad & audience to meet & experience the kitten in real reality 🙄

    I almost took the furbaby up in my arms & left, but the mother was actually “present” & connected in a very loving way with the confused feline (who is the last member of litter #3 that we raised from birth in the last year), which is a *very* special little soul that craves real reality relationship, not techno-gadgets…

    The future’s so bright I gotta wear a VR glasses!

    Then there’s the daily barrage of John’s “info” that I barely have the desire/need to skim through 😐

    It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man’s fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone…

    Okey dokey, back to taking a break for me then…

    P.S. When I wrote Boeing is lost I was talking about the commercial division, of course 😉

    FWFS.

    #151183
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    #151198
    those darned kids
    Participant

    funny how truth looks just like my ex…

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