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Trump Slams Judge After $364 Million Verdict; Vows To Appeal (ZH)
Trump Responds To Judge Engoron’s Decision (ZH)
Speed. . . and. . . Action (Jim Kunstler)
Musk Decries US Government Censorship (RT)
‘Want to Get ‘Radicalized’, See Russia’- Scott Ritter (Sp.)
An Anti-Russian Europe Is a Europe That Destroys Itself (Dionisio)
Russian Space Nukes and Navalny’s Death… U.S. Psyops Go Ballistic (SCF)
Ohio Rep. Part of Shadowy Cabal Aiming to Destroy Russia – Scott Ritter (Sp.)
Russian Media Thrilled By Biden’s LNG “Gift” To Putin (ZH)
Axis of Resistance: from Donbass to Gaza (Pepe Escobar)
Why Israel’s War on UNRWA is so Sinister (Cradle)
Political, Economic Indicators Not Promising for Biden (Gallup)
How the CIA Destabilizes the World (Jeffrey Sachs)
Bombing Muslims for Peace (Bill Astore)

 

 

 

 

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FANI Grand Jury Foreman

 

 

 

 

 

 

The judge and AG are essentially saying they know more about banking than the “defrauded” bankers, who made a hefty profit. This will never pass in the Supreme Court.

But: “He is expected to launch an appeal, which would put the verdict on hold until a higher court reviews the case. But if he wants to avoid paying the fine or have personal assets seized while the appeal process plays out, he still has to deposit the full amount to be held by the court within 30 days.”

For people like Letitia James and Fani Willis, “get Trump” is a career move. As promised in their White House talks.

Trump Slams Judge After $364 Million Verdict; Vows To Appeal (ZH)

New York Judge Arthur Engoron has ordered former President Donald Trump to pay $364 million for allegedly defrauding banks in order to acquire loans and other benefits – loans which the banks themselves testified they were satisfied with after doing their own due diligence. Trump is also barred “from serving as an officer or director of any New York corporation or other legal entity in New York for a period of three years,” while his sons have been barred from serving as New York executives for two years. New York Attorney General Letitia James had sought $370 million from Trump, his company, and its top executives for what she claimed was “repeated and persistent fraud” – which included allegations of falsifying records and financial statements to the tune of as much as $2.2 billion. Trump maintains that his financial statements to banks were conservative, and has called the case a “fraud on me.”

“This is a case that should have never been brought, and I think we should be entitled to damages,” Trump said on Jan. 11. Following Friday’s decision, Trump’s attorneys hit back – calling it “manifest injustice” in a statement. The months-long civil trial included testimony from Trump and his oldest children. The former president was combative in his day on the stand, blasting James as a “hack” and calling the judge “extremely hostile.” Trump repeatedly complained about Engoron before and throughout the trial, and the judge slapped him with a partial gag order after he started blasting the judge’s law clerk as well. Trump’s complaints led to a flood of death threats against the clerk, as well as Engoron, court officials said, and Trump was fined $15,000 for twice violating the order. -NBC News

During the trial, Deutsche Bank executive David Williams, who directly worked on at least one of several loans obtained by Trump over several decades, testified that it’s “atypical, but not entirely unusual” for a bank to internally slash a client’s stated asset values by 50% and approve a loan anyway, as they did with Trump, Bloomberg reported in November. “It just depends on the circumstances,” said Williams, a managing director at the bank. “Deutsche Bank, which loaned hundreds of millions of dollars to Trump for properties in Miami, Chicago and Washington, cut his stated net worth in 2011 and 2012 from about $4.2 billion to $2.3 billion, according to internal bank credit memos. The same documents indicated the bank approved the loans anyway because it expected them to generate a profit based on Trump’s history of successful developments and other criteria.

Trump, who denies wrongdoing and claims the case is politically motivated, is calling to the stand this week four current and former Deutsche Bank employees — including the family’s former private banker Rosemary Vrablic — as part of his defense case, seeking to flip the script on the state’s version of events”. -Bloomberg. The testimony undermined AG James’ premise, that Trump defrauded the German bank. But of course, none of that matters to Engoron – while Trump’s Martyr status just intensified. Expect this decision to be reflected in upcoming polls.

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“Trump has responded to Judge Engoron’s decision, calling him a “crooked” judge who’s just committed election interference (and much, much more)..”

Trump Responds To Judge Engoron’s Decision (ZH)

“A Crooked New York State Judge, working with a totally Corrupt Attorney General who ran on the basis of “I will get Trump,” before knowing anything about me or my company, has just fined me $355 Million based on nothing other than having built a GREAT COMPANY. ELECTION INTERFERENCE. WITCH HUNT (more to follow!),” said Trump in a post to Truth Social. “The Justice System in New York State, and America as a whole, is under assault by partisan, deluded, biased Judges and Prosecutors. Racist, Corrupt A.G. Tish James has been obsessed with “Getting Trump” for years, and used Crooked New York State Judge Engoron to get an illegal, unAmerican judgment against me, my family, and my tremendous business. I helped New York City during its worst of times, and now, while it is overrun with Violent Biden Migrant Crime, the Radicals are doing all they can to kick me out….”

And according to the former president, Engoron conspired with New York Attorney General Letitia James. “This Election Interference and tyrannical Abuse of Power by a Crooked Judge and Crooked Attorney General cannot be tolerated. My case was already won in the Appellate Division, and more than 80% of the frivolous claims were wiped out. Yet, as I suspected, and in order to hurt me and the Republican Party politically, Crooked and Corrupt Judge Arthur Engoron ignored his loss at the Appellate Division, and came up with an outrageous $355 Million Dollar fine against me. Using a statute that has never been applied like this before, the Corrupt Judge conspired with the Crooked Attorney General, Letitia James, and punished a liquid and beautiful Corporate Empire that started in New York, and has been successful all around the world…..

“There were no victims, and not one person testified there was any fraud. The actual witnesses established my Net Worth exceeded that reported in my Financial Statements as those Statements never included my most valuable Asset – the TRUMP Brand. The Highly Respected Expert Witness said my Financial Statements were among the best he has ever seen. I paid over $300 Million Dollars in taxes to New York City and State, and they want me gone. They are Crazed Lunatics who are destroying everything in their way. It all starts with Biden’s attacks on his Political Opponent!” Trump also said he’d appeal Engoron’s decision.

“The actual bankers who were involved in the loan transactions testified I was a highly sought-after “whale” of a client with “one of the strongest personal balance sheets” they had ever seen, and I was overqualified for the loans. Those banks earned more than $100 Million Dollars in profits doing business with me and my companies. But to justify his crazed attack on me and my family, this biased, Trump Hating Judge, ignored all this, and even said Michael Cohen told the truth, although Cohen admitted to lying hundreds of times, and lied right in front of the Judge during the trial. This shocking and corrupt Interference in the Free Markets for political gain places every New York business transaction at risk. We must make sure Corrupt Politicians and Judges cannot continue to abuse the power of their office, and violate the public trust. We have already won, and will continue the fight on appeal!”

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“The reason the lovebirds could take so much time cavorting across the Caribbean and California — vineyard tours featuring “pairings of champagne, chocolate, and caviar,” Ms. Willis testified — is because their Fulton County case was entirely prepped for them out of DC by Mary McCord..”

Speed. . . and. . . Action (Jim Kunstler)

Have you noticed yet that America has turned into a Coen Brothers movie? Everywhere you look, you see madcap characters disgracing themselves while doing their bit to burn the whole country down. It’s a panoramic extravaganza of everything gone wrong, with slapstick overtones, driving toward an apocalyptic climax — civil war, nuclear war, economic collapse, maybe all three. And all because the people on-screen just can’t stop lying. Yesterday was Fani Willis’s turn, her big scene. The Fulton County, Georgia, DA, wasn’t even scheduled to testify, but she barged into Judge Scott McAfee’s courtroom and seized possession of the witness stand, like it was home-base in a game of ringolevio. This was after the morning vivisection of her boyfriend, the feckless Nathan Wade, testifying to the couple’s fun-filled romantic travels during the months they were supposedly busy constructing a racketeering case against Donald Trump and eighteen others scooped into their dragnet.

The reason the lovebirds could take so much time cavorting across the Caribbean and California — vineyard tours featuring “pairings of champagne, chocolate, and caviar,” Ms. Willis testified — is because their Fulton County case was entirely prepped for them out of DC by Mary McCord, the veteran blob lawyer active in every Get-Trump hoax cooked up since 2016. (And I’d bet cash-money that she had plenty of assistance from Lawfare blobsters Norm Eisen and Andrew Weissmann.) The complex particulars of the case were all teed up, ready to go. All Ms. Willis and her lead prosecutor, Mr. Wade, had to do was get the trial date set, raise the curtain, and follow the script. Alas, the couple got carried away in the raptures of amour and, all of a sudden, we’re in something like The Real Housewives of Atlanta. And then they lied about the details under oath, especially around the money involved. If they are not disqualified from participating in the Trump “racketeering” case — in which their own behavior would be centerpiece evidence of an ineptly tainted and malicious prosecution — and/or if the case is not tossed summarily, then it will have to be removed to another county and most likely delayed until after the 2024 elections. Nice work, Party of Chaos!

That little opéra bouffe is but one sub-plot in the larger scenario. Also this week, the scandal of the century was re-kindled when alt-news reporters Taibbi, Shellenberger, and Gutentag filed the story of how Barack Obama and CIA Director John Brennan, with his chore girls, Avril Haines and Gina Haspel, cooked up the RussiaGate caper and fed it to the FBI, with a major assist from The New York Times, the WashPo, CNN, and other useful idiot news media vectors. All of this had actually been well-documented for years, but the reporters dredged up new corroboration from disgusted blob insiders further clarifying the origins of the hoax. The cast of characters in that part of the big movie has been consistent through eight full years of anti-Trump hysteria and the associated trips laid on our country. Ms. McCord, for instance, was U.S. Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security during the birth of RussiaGate; later served as counsel to the House Committee that kicked-off Trump Impeachment No. 1 (coordinating the Eric Ciaramella “whistleblower” scam); then became counsel to Rep. Bennie Thompson’s J6 committee investigation, and now turns up as Fani Willis’ legal tutor, and probably also tutor to New York State Attorney General Letitia James and her preposterous Get Trump real estate valuation case under Judge Engoron.

(Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan DA on the Stormy Daniels case against Mr. Trump, was coached by then US Associate Attorney General Matthew Colangelo who was hired out of the DOJ directly into Mr. Bragg’s office for tutoring purposes.) All of this coaching post Jan 20, 2021, was coordinated by the “Joe Biden” White House. Speaking of whom, the evermore spectral “president” was not having a great week either after DOJ Special Counsel Robert Hur painted him into a corner in his final report as either too demented to face charges in the purloined documents case (and, by inference, not mentally capable to be president), or else a criminal trafficking in top secret documents he was not authorized to possess as Senator and Veep. Looks like that puts an end to “JB’s” game of pretending to run for reelection (that is, lying about it) and leaves the Democratic Party holding a flaming bag of dog doo-doo.

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Musk is paying good attention to what happens to Trump: “How far will they go to stop me?”

Musk Decries US Government Censorship (RT)

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has claimed that his foray into social media – buying the former Twitter (since renamed X) and trying to make it a bastion of free speech – made him and all of his businesses targets for constant attacks by governments and their censorship allies. “The public still doesn’t understand even a tiny fraction of the power of the censorship-government-industrial complex,” Musk said on Friday in a post on X. “As predicted, my companies and I came under relentless attack the moment the censorship of this platform was lifted. How far will they go to stop me?” The US billionaire made the comments in response to a post by podcast host David Sacks, who warned that “regime Democrats” are working every day to undermine Americans’ free-speech rights and freedom from political persecution.

Musk also agreed with a suggestion that his political enemies are “just getting started” after winning a Delaware court ruling late last month voiding his $56 billion compensation package at Tesla. Musk, who heads several other companies, has previously claimed that he’s at “quite significant” risk of being killed. His father, Errol Musk, said in an interview last September that he feared his son could be assassinated by a “shadow government” because of the influence he wields. Ranking as America’s richest man with a fortune estimated by Forbes at over $200 billion, Elon Musk has been hit with a flurry of legal attacks and negative media coverage since buying Twitter for $44 billion in October 2022 and vowing to end censorship on the platform. Advertiser boycotts cut into X’s revenue, and President Joe Biden’s administration sued Musk’s SpaceX company for allegedly discriminating against refugees in its hiring practices.

Biden reacted to the Twitter takeover by suggesting that Musk should be investigated by the federal government. Asked whether Musk could jeopardize US national security, the president told reporters, “I think that Elon Musk’s cooperation and/or technical relationships with other countries is worthy of being looked at.” Under its previous ownership, Twitter was among the social media platforms that helped Biden win the 2020 US presidential election by censoring a bombshell report on alleged influence-peddling in Ukraine and China by his family. Republican lawmakers have accused the FBI of colluding with Twitter executives to squash the report. Musk also released internal Twitter documents exposing government involvement in the censoring of speech regarding the Covid-19 pandemic. “Thank God for Elon Musk for allowing to show us and the world that Twitter was basically a subsidiary of the FBI, censoring real medical voices with real expertise that put real American lives in danger because they didn’t have that information,” US Representative Nancy Mace said last year.

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“Russia is a nation, not a city. And the Russians love their country..”

‘Want to Get ‘Radicalized’, See Russia’- Scott Ritter (Sp.)

The knives are out for Tucker Carlson in the Washington establishment and the legacy media as he continues to debunk myths and stereotypes about Russia with a series of videos about life in the capital in the midst of the West’s sanctions ‘total war’. In the latest of a series of clips posted to his internet channel about his experiences from his eight-day stay in Russia, Carlson praised Moscow’s grocery prices. “I went from amused to legitimately angry,” Carlson said after purchasing a week’s worth of groceries for the equivalent of about $105 US. “Coming to a Russian grocery store, the ‘heart of evil’, and seeing what things cost and how people live, it will radicalize you against our leaders. That’s how I feel, anyway – radicalized,” Carlson said after dragging US leaders through the mud for “wrecking people’s lives” through “filth and crime and inflation.”

The independent conservative journalist’s comments sparked immediate outrage from detractors, with neocon Republican lawmaker Thom Tillis echoing Hillary Clinton, blasting Carlson as a “useful idiot” and mocking him for suggesting Russia “is so much better than the US with all those cheap groceries and lavish subway stations.” Another neocon group, ‘Republicans Against Trump’, blasted Carlson as a “Kremlin propagandist” and accused him of running a program called “Russia is awesome, the US is crap.” The hate was echoed by establishment media, with the USA Today publishing a column suggesting Tucker should do “everything he can to get his followers to move to Russia.” MSNBC host Chris Hayes immediately jumped in to suggest that the discrepancy in grocery prices is the result of America being a “rich country” and that “if you are an american [sic] and go to a country that is poorer, things will be cheaper there.”

Others suggested Tucker’s experiences were unique to Moscow, and that he would see something different if he went to “real Russia” outside the “Potemkin village” Russian capital. “It’s like a modern day equivalent of John Reed’s classic ‘10 Days That Shook the World’ – ‘8 Days That Radicalized Tucker Carlson’,” former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter told Sputnik of Carlson’s eye-opening experiences during his visit to Russia. “We all saw the interview with Vladimir Putin, over 1 billion of us, and we’ve seen Tucker Carlson’s video clips of his experience in Moscow, the Moscow Metro, shopping in a Moscow market, a visit to the Russian McDonald’s [equivalent]. Everything that Tucker Carlson said is true, 100%. The Metro is an amazing place, clean, it’s a work of art. There is no food shortage in Moscow. Yes, Russian fast food is not only as tasty as its American equivalent, but because of the GMO laws, yes, Tucker, you should have asked that question, healthier,” Ritter said.

Pointing to those dishing out of hate Carlson’s way and claiming his experiences were somehow “fake,” Ritter, who has traveled to Russia extensively over the past year, Ritter assured that he has “been to the rest of Russia,” and could confirm that what the former Fox News host saw in Moscow could be observed in other Russian cities as well. “In May, when I made my first visit to Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the first city I landed in wasn’t Moscow. It was Novosibirsk. Now is Novosibirsk is brilliantly lit up as Moscow? No, it’s not a city of 13 million. It’s not the capital of the Russian Federation. It’s not the center of commerce for Russia. But Novosibirsk is the third largest city in Russia and the largest developing economy. You know, when you go to a supermarket in Novosibirsk, it’s every bit as well stocked as those you will find in Moscow. Why? Because Russia is a modern state.

Russia is a state that has the ability to transport food products throughout the great expanse of the nation. Russia is not Moscow. Russia is a nation of over 150 million people who live with the same level of modernity as the rest of the world,” Ritter said. “In Novosibirsk, I saw a people who live their lives just like everybody else – [with] a public transportation system that’s clean, efficient, streets that are clean, efficient. Why? Because throughout Russia, the Russian people care about their cities as much as the residents of Moscow care about theirs. Russia is a nation, not a city. And the Russians love their country,” he added.

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“Russia did everything it could to free itself from US domination in the terrible 1990s, and Ukraine did everything it could to integrate itself under US control, mainly from 2004 onwards..”

An Anti-Russian Europe Is a Europe That Destroys Itself (Dionisio)

According to Syrsky, the new commander-in-chief of Kiev’s troops, the lives of Ukrainian soldiers are the most important thing the army has. An assumption that was only made when it became obvious to everyone that there was no chance of victory in a direct fight against Russia. As long as it was possible to feed the idea that „Ukraine was beating Russia“, when it was Russia that had the initiative — and never lost it — the lives of Ukrainian soldiers were worth little. Men — and some women — in their hundreds of thousands were thrown into muddy trenches, poorly fed and with ammunition in short supply, against an opponent who never lacked anything.

The fact is that when the Kiev forces had combat capability — not to be confused with „the ability to win“ — the official communication was that „Ukraine was winning the war“; when it became clear that the cost of fighting the Russian forces was so high that it could not be sustained, the pro-Kiev media, financed by Uncle Sam’s NGOs and primary sources of Western official information, began to say „Ukraine cannot lose the war“; when it could no longer be hidden that the „counter-offensive“ had failed and with it, the hopes — fanciful — of a Kiev victory, we moved on to the „Ukraine and Russia are in a stalemate“ phase. The Ukrainian reality, under the Kiev regime, is characterized by always being in direct contradiction with the Russian reality and, coincidentally, with the concrete observable reality. This is why the relationship between the two realities is an invaluable dialectical example from a pedagogical point of view.

While living with Russia, Ukraine has become one of the world’s greatest powers. There is not, and never has been, a successful Ukraine without Russia on its side. Vladimir Putin did not lie about the fact that Russia has always helped Ukraine. For those who don’t know, it wasn’t out of any kind of adventurism that the Donbass was annexed to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. In 1917, Ukraine was an eminently rural and de-industrialized region of the Russian empire, so, in 1918, in order to guarantee conditions for the territory’s development and, in this way, a more harmonious development of the nascent Soviet state, the Donbass became part of the Ukrainian Socialist Republic, as a way of guaranteeing the progress of the newly formed homeland.

The truth is that, in 1991, Ukraine had more than 50 million inhabitants, one of the largest armies in Europe (perhaps the second largest), an enviable military-industrial complex, a highly qualified, talented and productive population, capable of revealing itself in all aspects of human life, from the arts to science, from agriculture to sport. After surviving many tensions imposed from outside and introduced by the usual suspects, in 2004-2005, the Orange Revolution accelerated the process of creating an anti-Russia. The idea was not new and had already crossed the minds of people linked to the Austro-Hungarian Empire and beyond. From then on, the balance of power between the Russian-speaking and Russian-sympathetic peoples and the peoples who had become „Russian-phobic“ began to reverse and, gradually, the anti-Russian forces began to infect the entire territory, gradually conquering new strongholds, from the outskirts of Galicia to the center of Kiev.

From then on, what would be the imported „solution“ to fill Ukraine’s lack of national identity began to take shape. As a country that had never existed until 1918, and only became fully independent in 1991, Ukraine had to create a national identity in order to guarantee its existence. Not an easy thing to do in a country built up by ruler and square in successive waves of annexation. The induced „choice“ was to turn Ukraine into an „anti-Russia“. Everything Russia would be, Ukraine would have to be the opposite.

It’s clear to see that this „choice“ would have to be induced, since in the case of a country with the same language, or languages with the same root (for those who separate „Ukrainian“ from „Russian“), with the same religion, culture and national past, the natural choice would never be antagonism, since one and the other thrived on a symbiotic relationship. And this relationship was mutually fruitful right up until the moment when Russia did everything it could to free itself from US domination in the terrible 1990s, and Ukraine did everything it could to integrate itself under US control, mainly from 2004 onwards. The chronological succession leaves no doubt: Russia freed itself from American tutelage during the late 90s and early 2000s, Ukraine embraced it from 2004 onwards.

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“..The U.S. media have claimed (preposterously) that if the military aid is not supplied then Ukraine’s defeat could result in American troops being deployed to prevent Russian rampaging across Europe.”

Russian Space Nukes and Navalny’s Death… U.S. Psyops Go Ballistic (SCF)

The claims about Russian space-based nuclear weapons unraveled to become a joke. Fortunately, the death of Western-sponsored dissident Alexei Navalny then occurred to enable Western media to go into a frenzy of anti-Russia headlines. First up was the scaremongering story about Russia allegedly developing a space-based nuclear weapon. Initially, it was dramatically trailed as posing a serious national security threat to the United States. Despite the sensational reporting, the story quickly became a laughingstock. Even some U.S. lawmakers dismissed it as “bullshit” and a blatant attempt by the Biden White House and intelligence agencies to push Congress into passing a new mega military aid bill for Ukraine worth $61 billion.

We’ll get to the Navalny story in a moment. But let’s just first parse the orchestration of the alleged Russian space nukes. The drama began on Wednesday when Mike Turner, the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee (a dodgy source if ever there was one), made public appeals to President Joe Biden to declassify intelligence on “a serious threat to national security”. Turner is a Republican member of the House of Representatives but he is a close ally of the Democrat White House in terms of keenly supporting military aid to Ukraine. The latest bill passed the upper chamber of the U.S. Senate the day before, February 13, but it is unlikely to be approved by the House where many Republican lawmakers are staunchly opposed to it.

Accompanying the “concerns” of the intel committee chairman Turner, media outlets then vented anonymous US intelligence sources “revealing” that the national security threat was from Russian nuclear weapons allegedly under development for destroying American communication satellites in space. The White House then “confirmed” the intel the next day, February 15. It was a flagrant put-up job. But the Biden administration sought to tamp down any public panic by saying that the threat was not imminent and the alleged Russian satellite-killing weapon had not been deployed in orbit, nor would there be any danger to Earth. (So, what was all the fuss about?)

Ironically, derisive comments from incredulous U.S. lawmakers were also echoed by the Kremlin. The latter’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov made a similar assessment that the Biden administration was playing tricks to push through the military funding package for Ukraine. That bill has been delayed since the end of last year. The Biden administration has been cajoling Congress for months to vote it through. After the Senate finally passed the bill this week, President Biden put pressure on the House, saying that “history is watching you”. The bill has been exalted as having existential importance in defeating “Russian aggression” in Ukraine. The U.S. media have claimed (preposterously) that if the military aid is not supplied then Ukraine’s defeat could result in American troops being deployed to prevent Russian rampaging across Europe.

The American public, as with the European public, has become increasingly skeptical about the relentless funneling of taxpayer funds and weapons to Ukraine. Many citizens in the West – a majority, according to polls – have become critical of fueling a bloody war for the dubious cause of “defending democracy” in a regime dominated by NeoNazis. At a time of deep social and economic hardship in the U.S. and Europe, the Western public is rightly disdainful of hundreds of billions of dollars and euros being wasted on death and destruction and also being siphoned off by a corrupt cabal in Kiev. The $61 billion in military aid to Ukraine is just the latest tranche that Washington is seeking to throw at the black hole of its proxy war against Russia – a war that is really all about defeating Russia as a geopolitical obstacle to U.S. hegemony. Another driver is the massive profits that taxpayers are subsidizing the military-industrial complex at the rotten heart of Western capitalism.

Navalny

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“There’s no ammunition left. There’s nothing left. Ukraine has got nothing.” “And he [Turner] knows he’s looking at it, saying ‘it’s over, game set match – Russia, they win,’” he added.“

Ohio Rep. Part of Shadowy Cabal Aiming to Destroy Russia – Scott Ritter (Sp.)

Ohio Representative Mike Turner (R-OH) made waves this week when he warned of an alleged “serious national security threat” to the United States. The supposed risk was soon revealed to be Russian in nature, with a media cycle quickly emerging over the danger of alleged “space nukes” the country could detonate to disable US satellite communications. The timing of the revelation raised eyebrows as Turner had visited Ukraine just days ago as part of a Congressional delegation in solidarity with the country’s embattled President Volodymyr Zelensky. Turner’s claims also come as the Biden administration struggles to continue funding the US-backed Ukrainian proxy war, with key Republicans blocking a compromise bill with aid for Kiev and Tel Aviv.

Former UN weapons inspector and whistleblower Scott Ritter joined Sputnik’s Fault Lines program on Thursday to discuss the latest Russophobic hysteria, speculating Turner is part of a secret group of lawmakers and intelligence officials hellbent on undermining Russia at any cost. “There’s a cabal,” claimed Ritter, who was shunned in Washington after defying intelligence claims of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction during the George W. Bush administration. “Turner is… part of the cabal of people that view this Ukrainian conflict [as] not about defense of democracy – knock off this nonsense – it’s about defeating Russia, the strategic objective of the United States by using Ukraine as a proxy in a conflict against Russia.”

“You’ve heard everybody say this, ‘we’re killing them without losing a single American, we’re weakening Russia, we’re creating the conditions to destroy Russia, to collapse Russian society, to bring down [Russian President] Vladimir Putin,’” noted Ritter. “He believes that this is a good thing. He believes that’s the direction the United States should be going. And he understands that Ukraine right now is in freefall. Their military is being slaughtered on the battlefield. The Americans have no clue what’s happening on the battlefield right now.”

Ukraine has faced declining fortunes in the Donbass conflict since the spectacular failure of the country’s vaunted “counteroffensive” last year. In recent days Russian forces have achieved an advantage in the city of Avdeyevka, where for months they’ve endured a stalemate with Ukrainian troops. Shortages in ammunition have undermined Ukrainian reinforcements in the past weeks, allowing Russia to break down Kiev’s foritifications. “The Russians aren’t losing anywhere,” said Ritter. “Maybe in the Black Sea they lost a ship, big deal, but on the ground, they’re routing Ukraine. There’s no ammunition left. There’s nothing left. Ukraine has got nothing.” “And he [Turner] knows he’s looking at it, saying ‘it’s over, game set match – Russia, they win,’” he added. “‘Therefore, we need to make people understand the consequences of a Russian victory.’”

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“Pravda argued that Germany will eventually have to return to buying Russian gas because it will have no other choice..”

Russian Media Thrilled By Biden’s LNG “Gift” To Putin (ZH)

This week, President Vladimir Putin praised President Joe Biden as a more experienced and predictable president than Donald Trump, hoping the 81yo president “with a poor memory” wins a second term. Meanwhile, Trump made remarks during a campaign rally Wednesday night in South Carolina on Putin’s comments: “He’s just said that he would much rather have Joe Biden as president than Trump. Now that’s a compliment. A lot of people said, ‘Oh, gee, that’s too bad.’ No, no, that’s a good thing.” Democrats spent years framing Trump as ‘Putin’s puppet,’ but the actions by Biden, essentially handing over the global energy kingdom to Moscow by halting permits for new liquefied natural gas (LNG) export projects in Texas, is a stark reminder of why Putin prefers the elderly and weak president. Last month, the Wall Street Journal editorial board called Biden’s LNG export license halt “an election-year gift to Russia and Iran.” And the editorial board is out with another piece titled “Biden’s LNG ‘Gift’ to Vladimir Putin.”

This latest note by the editorial board points out how Russian media is “thrilled” by Biden’s LNG gas export ban: “Now it is not Russia, but the United States that wants to bring the Germans to their knees,” gloated the Russian newspaper Pravda after the Energy Department imposed a moratorium on permits for new LNG export projects last month. Pravda argued that Germany will eventually have to return to buying Russian gas because it will have no other choice, and it may be right. They cite another Russian media outlet: RedDigest, a Russian-based news source, also predicted Europe will need to buy more Russian gas and be forced to pay a higher price. “The EU may well turn to Moscow for additional supplies. Of course, there will be no talk of any discounts,” a Feb. 3 article sneered. Mr. Biden’s LNG embargo will leave Europe more vulnerable to Mr. Putin’s energy blackmail.

And another: Bloknot, a pro-war Russian media outlet, accused the U.S. of scheming to replace Russian gas and then pulling the rug from under Europeans. “A brilliant scam: how the States fooled Europe with gas,” read a Bloknot headline. RT (formerly Russia Today) gloated that Mr. Biden’s “very timely decision to ban LNG exports” was a “gift to Russian leader Vladimir Putin.” In a separate note, WSJ said Biden’s attempt to punish Texas over the border dispute is part of a campaign by wealthy donors – including the Rockefeller family – to pressure the government into shifting away from LNG. Why are America’s elites and an elderly president with a “poor memory” giving Putin the keys to the global energy kingdom under the guise of ‘climate change’?

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“Scratch the veneer of who’s in power in Kiev and Tel Aviv, and who pulls their strings, and you will find the same puppet masters controlling Ukraine, Israel, the US, the UK, and nearly all NATO members..”

Axis of Resistance: from Donbass to Gaza (Pepe Escobar)

During my recent vertiginous journey in Donbass tracking Orthodox Christian battalions defending their land, Novorossiya, it became starkly evident that the resistance in these newly liberated Russian republics is fighting much the same battle as their counterparts in West Asia. Nearly 10 years after Maidan in Kiev, and two years after the start of Russia’s Special Military Operation (SMO) in Ukraine, the resolve of the resistance has only deepened. It’s impossible to do full justice to the strength, resilience, and faith of the people of Donbass, who stand on the front line of a US proxy war against Russia. The battle they have been fighting since 2014 has now visibly shed its cover and revealed itself to be, at its core, a cosmic war of the collective West against Russian civilization.

As Russian President Vladimir Putin made very clear during his Tucker Carlson interview seen by one billion people worldwide, Ukraine is part of Russian civilization – even if it is not part of the Russian Federation. So shelling ethnic Russian civilians in Donbass – still ongoing – translates as attacks on Russia. He shares the same reasoning as Yemen’s Ansarallah resistance movement, which describes the Israeli genocide in Gaza as one launched against “our people”: people of the lands of Islam. Just as the rich black soil of Novorossiya is where the “rules-based international order” came to die; the Gaza Strip in West Asia – an ancestral land, Palestine – may ultimately be the site where Zionism will perish. Both the rules-based order and Zionism, after all, are essential constructs of the western unipolar world and key to advancing its global economic and military interests.

Today’s incandescent geopolitical fault lines are already configured: the collective west versus Islam, the collective west versus Russia, and soon a substantial part of the west, even reluctantly, versus China. Yet a serious counterpunch is at play. As much as the Axis of Resistance in West Asia will keep boosting their “swarm” strategy, those Orthodox Christian battalions in Donbass cannot but be regarded as the vanguard of the Slavic Axis of Resistance. When mentioning this Shia–Orthodox Christianity connection to two top commanders in Donetsk, only 2 kilometers away from the front line, they smiled, bemused, but definitely got the message. After all, more than anyone else in Europe, these soldiers are able to grasp this unifying theme: on the two top imperial fronts – Donbass and West Asia – the crisis of the western hegemon is deepening and fast accelerating collapse.

NATO’s cosmic humiliation-in-progress in the steppes of Novorossiya is mirrored by the Anglo–American–Zionist combo sleepwalking into a larger conflagration throughout West Asia – frantically insisting they don’t want war while bombing every Axis of Resistance vector except Iran (they can’t, because the Pentagon gamed all scenarios, and they all spell out doom). Scratch the veneer of who’s in power in Kiev and Tel Aviv, and who pulls their strings, and you will find the same puppet masters controlling Ukraine, Israel, the US, the UK, and nearly all NATO members.

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“I =srael’s allegations are not based on any evidence. They are instead part of a classified plan prepared in advance by Israel’s foreign ministry to destroy UNRWA..”

Why Israel’s War on UNRWA is so Sinister (Cradle)

The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is facing the gravest existential crisis in its 74-year history, as funding cuts by several western countries come on top of ongoing atrocities perpetrated by Israel in Gaza. The UN agency is unique in being the only one dedicated to a specific group of refugees in specific areas, and the only relief organization that operates a full-fledged educational system. UNRWA is also the only organization mandated to work in Gaza and distribute aid to the two million people currently trapped and starved in the besieged enclave. To compound these challenges, the occupation wants to see it dismantled. In January, Israel alleged that Palestinian members of UNRWA’s staff participated in the resistance’s Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on 7 October, leading the US and 18 other nations to swiftly suspend funding for the organization.

The suspensions were met with shock, as UNRWA plays a key role in providing food and medicine to starving Gazans struggling to survive Israel’s siege and bombardment of the coastal enclave. However, Israel’s allegations are not based on any evidence. They are instead part of a classified plan prepared in advance by Israel’s foreign ministry to destroy UNRWA. It believes that UNRWA “works against Israel’s interests” by perpetuating the dream of the right of return of Palestinian refugees and the idea of armed struggle against occupation. The foreign ministry plan leaked to Israel’s Channel 12 on 28 December, set out a three-stage process to eliminate UNRWA in Gaza, using the Hamas-led resistance operation as a pretext:

First, prepare a case alleging UNRWA’s cooperation with Hamas; second, reduce UNRWA’s field of activity and find replacement service providers; and third, transfer UNRWA’s responsibilities to another entity. Channel 12 noted that Israel wants to move slowly, given that the US government sees UNRWA as crucial to humanitarian efforts in Gaza. The foreign ministry is seeking to gradually build the case for ousting the organization as part of the discussions on “the day after” the war – should Hamas be dismantled. According to a report by The New York Times, the “sequence of events” that led the US to suspend UNRWA funding began on 18 January when Amir Weissbrod, a deputy director general at the Israeli Foreign Ministry, met with Philippe Lazzarini, the head of UNRWA in Tel Aviv.

Weissbrod showed Lazzarini a dossier from Israeli intelligence claiming that 12 UNRWA employees had participated in the 7 October attacks. After the meeting in Israel, Lazzarini made no effort to confirm the validity of the claims. Instead, he flew to New York to meet with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and immediately began firing the employees, a UN official said. The Guardian reported that Lazzarini was later asked in a press conference if he had looked into whether there was any evidence for the allegations presented to him by Weissbrod. “No,” Lazzarini replied, “the investigation is going on now.” Lazzarini said he made the “exceptional, swift decision” due to “the explosive nature of the claims,” rather than any evidence. Lazzarini said he did not even read the dossier himself because it was in Hebrew. Instead, Weissbrod “was reading this and translating for me,” he said.

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Better grow the economy, Joe.

Political, Economic Indicators Not Promising for Biden (Gallup)

Several key indicators of the 2024 election environment indicate that President Joe Biden faces an uphill climb to win a second term. His job approval rating, Americans’ satisfaction with how things are going in the country and their confidence in the economy are below the levels associated with successful reelection bids in recent elections. While Democrats hold a slight edge in national party identification and partisan leanings, that advantage is smaller than what it has been in past presidential elections won by Democratic incumbents. In less direct measures of the electoral environment, Americans are more inclined to say that they are worse off financially, that it is harder to buy things and that the U.S. is as respected throughout the world as it was before Biden took office.

Biden’s fate will ultimately be determined by whether Americans’ views on these metrics improve over the course of the year (as they did for Bill Clinton in 1996 and Barack Obama in 2012), stay the same or get worse (as they did for George H.W. Bush in 1992 and Donald Trump in 2020). Incumbent job approval is arguably the best predictor of reelection success. Presidents with approval ratings of 50% or higher close to Election Day have all been reelected. All but one president with a sub-50% approval rating lost, the exception being George W. Bush. He won reelection with a 48% approval rating in Gallup’s final 2004 preelection poll taken in late October. However, he registered multiple 50% readings earlier in the month and had a 51% approval rating among likely voters in that final survey.

Among the approval ratings that did not carry incumbents to victory, Trump’s 46% approval rating is the highest and Gerald Ford’s 45% is close behind. The inauspicious ratings descend from there, all the way down to 34% for George H.W. Bush. Biden’s 41% job approval rating, the lowest among incumbents in January of an election year, puts him in a precarious spot. It has not been unusual for incumbents to be below the 50% threshold this early on. But Biden’s reelection may depend on his ability to boost his numbers close to that threshold, something Clinton, Obama and Richard Nixon were able to do but Trump and Ford were not. Other presidents, including George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter, saw significant declines in approval during their fourth year in office.

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“..Given Burns’ stature and diplomatic accomplishments, perhaps he would support the urgently needed accountability..”

How the CIA Destabilizes the World (Jeffrey Sachs)

Once in a while, a former U.S. official spills the beans, such as when Zbigniew Brzezinski revealed that he had induced Jimmy Carter to assign the CIA to train Islamic jihadists to destabilize the government of Afghanistan, with the aim of inducing the Soviet Union to invade that country. In the case of Syria, we learned from a few stories in the New York Times in 2016 and 2017 of the CIA’s subversive operations to destabilize Syria and overthrow Assad, as ordered by President Barack Obama. Here is the case of a dreadfully misguided CIA operation, blatantly in violation of international law, that has led to a decade of mayhem, an escalating regional war, hundreds of thousands of deaths, and millions of displaced people, and yet there has not been a single honest acknowledgment of this CIA-led disaster by the White House or Congress.

In the case of Ukraine, we know that the U.S. played a major covert role in the violent coup that brought down Yanukovych and that swept Ukraine into a decade of bloodshed but to this day, we don’t know the details. Russia offered the world a window into the coup by intercepting and then posting a call between Victoria Nuland, then U.S. Assistant Secretary of State (now Under-Secretary of State) and U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt (now Assistant Secretary of State), in which they plot the post-coup government. Following the coup, the CIA covertly trained special operations forces of the post-coup regime the U.S. had helped bring to power. The U.S. government has been mum about the CIA’s covert operations in Ukraine. We have good reason to believe that CIA operatives carried out the destruction of the Nord Stream pipeline, as per Seymour Hersh, who is now an independent reporter. Unlike in 1975, when Hersh was with the New York Times at a time when the paper still tried to hold the government to account, the Times does not even deign to look into Hersh’s account.

Holding the CIA to public account is of course a steep uphill struggle. Presidents and the Congress don’t even try. The mainstream media don’t investigate the CIA, preferring instead to quote “senior unnamed officials” and the official cover-up. Are the mainstream media outlets lazy, suborned, afraid of advertising revenues from the military-industrial complex, threatened, ignorant, or all of the above? Who knows. There is a tiny glimmer of hope. Back in 1975, the CIA was led by a reformer. Today, the CIA is led by William Burns, one of America’s long-standing leading diplomats. Burns knows the truth about Ukraine, since he served as Ambassador to Russia in 2008 and cabled Washington about the grave error of pushing NATO enlargement to Ukraine. Given Burns’ stature and diplomatic accomplishments, perhaps he would support the urgently needed accountability.

The extent of the continuing mayhem resulting from CIA operations gone awry is astounding. In Afghanistan, Haiti, Syria, Venezuela, Kosovo, Ukraine, and far beyond, the needless deaths, instability, and destruction unleashed by CIA subversion continues to this day. The mainstream media, academic institutions, and Congress should be investigating these operations to the best of their ability and demanding the release of documents to enable democratic accountability. Next year is the 50th anniversary of the Church Committee hearings. Fifty years on, with the precedent, inspiration, and guidance of the Church Committee itself, it’s urgently time to open the blinds, expose the truth about the U.S.-led mayhem, and begin a new era in which U.S. foreign policy becomes transparent, accountable, subject to the rule of law both domestic and international, and directed towards global peace rather than subversion of supposed enemies.

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“..Think of them as being possessed by a monomania for war akin to my urge to play with toy soldiers. The key difference? When I played at war, I was a wet-behind-the-ears 10 year old..”

Bombing Muslims for Peace (Bill Astore)

Like many American boys of the baby-boomer generation, I played “war” with those old, olive-drab, plastic toy soldiers meant to evoke our great victory over the Nazis and “the Japs” during World War II. At age 10, I also kept a scrapbook of the 1973 Yom Kippur War between Israel and its various Arab enemies in the Middle East. It was, I suppose, an early sign that I would make both the military and the study of history into careers. I recall rooting for the Israelis, advertised then as crucial American allies, against Egypt, Syria, and other regional enemies at least ostensibly allied with the Soviet Union in that Cold War era. I bought the prevailing narrative of a David-versus-Goliath struggle. I even got a book on the Yom Kippur War that captivated me by displaying all the weaponry the U.S. military had rushed to Israel to turn the tide there, including F-4 Phantom jets and M-60 main battle tanks. (David’s high-tech slingshots, if you will.)

Little did I know that, in the next 50 years of my life, I would witness increasingly destructive U.S. military attacks in the Middle East, especially after the oil cartel OPEC (largely Middle Eastern then) hit back hard with an embargo in 1973 that sent our petroleum-based economy into a tailspin. As one jokester quipped: Who put America’s oil under the sands of all those ungrateful Muslim countries in the Middle East? With declarations like the Carter Doctrine in 1980, the U.S. was obviously ready to show the world just how eagerly it would defend its “vital interests” (meaning fossil fuels, of course) in that region. And even today, as we watch the latest round in this country’s painfully consistent record of attempting to pound various countries and entities there into submission, mainly via repetitive air strikes, we should never forget the importance of oil, and lots of it, to keep the engines of industry and war churning along in a devastating fashion.

Right now, of course, the world is witnessing yet another U.S. bombing campaign, the latest in a series that seems all too predictable (and futile), meant to teach the restless rebels of Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and possibly even Iran a lesson when it comes to messing with the United States of America. As the recently deceased country singer Toby Keith put it: Mess with this country and “We’ll put a boot (think: bomb) in your ass.” You kill three soldiers of ours and we’ll kill scores, if not hundreds, if not thousands of yours (and it doesn’t really matter if they’re soldiers or not), because… well, because we damn well can! America’s leaders, possessing a peerless Air Force, regularly exhibit a visceral willingness to use it to bomb and missile perceived enemies into submission or, if need be, nothingness. And don’t for a second think that they’re going to be stopped by international law, humanitarian concerns, well-meaning protesters, or indeed any force on this planet. America bombs because it can, because it believes in the efficacy of violence, and because it’s run by appeasers.

Yes, America’s presidents, its bombers-in-chief, are indeed appeasers. Of course, they think they’re being strong when they’re blowing distant people to bits, but their actions invariably showcase a distinctive kind of weakness. They eternally seek to appease the military-industrial-congressional complex, aka the national (in)security state, a complex state-within-a-state with an unappeasable hunger for power, profit, and ever more destruction. They fail and fail and fail again in the Middle East, yet they’re incapable of not ordering more bombing, more droning, more killing there. Think of them as being possessed by a monomania for war akin to my urge to play with toy soldiers. The key difference? When I played at war, I was a wet-behind-the-ears 10 year old.

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    Francisco Goya The Dog 1819-23   • Trump Slams Judge After $364 Million Verdict; Vows To Appeal (ZH) • Trump Responds To Judge Engoron’s Decision
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle February 17 2024]

    #152940
    aspnaz
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    Come one, Navalny was the CIA’s dickhead. Why the hell he took that job, I guess either he liked to live dangerously or his mother needed an operation and the CIA money was going to pay for it. People are weird, but Navalny was always just a spoiler, he never had any chance of anything else, so you have to assume he was being paid the big bucks to do this shit, which he obviously enjoyed. I suspect he was promised eventual glory by the CIA, it would explain his determination, that was why he was happy in jail, he thought he would be rescued and injected as predident of Russia, or some such other fantasy.

    Looking back, he was dumb as a sack of rocks.

    #152941
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Flashback: This is the Grand Jury Forman that Willis and Wade selected to indict Trump

    The younger generations have so little empathy with people, it is quite amazing. Anyone with empathy would realise that they are causing immense damage to someone else’s life and would reevaluate their actions. Instead, this person is so enthusiastic in destroying someone else’s life, she has no reservations, she is like the Duracell Bunny, all energy, no brains.

    It is not amazing that it is happening, i have friends who give their children electronic gadgets then they complain that they cannot motivate their children to go outside, to meet friends, to actually do something. Yes, parents are mostly the most stupid and weak humans on our planet, we can blame them for most of our problems.

    When your child’s friends do not sit in front of them; facial, posture, farting, smelly feet and all the other things that people bring with their presence, then how will you know people? To most of these kids their friends are either in class or online, how sad is that, and if you try to tell them that online is wrong, why are you surprised that you get a funny look. As for sleepovers, forget it, these children are made to live in cardboard boxes with mobiles.

    Even class mates meet up online, from the people I know, the children do not do sleepovers or any of those socially constructive activities.

    #152942
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Navalny the CIA asset is getting way more airtime than the last 10,000 innocent women and children murdered in Gaza. Yet westeners are proud of their morality and values. Go figure.

    #152943
    aspnaz
    Participant

    For people like Letitia James and Fani Willis, “get Trump” is a career move. As promised in their White House talks.

    You seriously think that people like Fani Willis could have thought up this scheme? Did you hear her in court, she is a complete idiot and I doubt she actually passed any law degree. The only way that these people and Judge Engoron are willing to break the law is not because they are super heroes, it is because the FBI – the ultimate law enforcer in the USA – has given them a plan to follow and a guarantee that they will be protected from prosecution; of course they are also offered an eventual retirement in wealth.

    Think about it; do you really think these people are strong enough or clever enough to do this by themselves? Do you think Judge Engoron is going to risk his retirment pension by passing ridiculous rulings? Of course not, these are people who lay low, they kiss ass, which is why the FBI chooses them to do their illegal activities.

    #152944
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Have you noticed yet that America has turned into a Coen Brothers movie? Everywhere you look, you see madcap characters disgracing themselves while doing their bit to burn the whole country down.

    Yes, the least intelligent have been promoted into positions of responsibility by the owners and now the owners are demanding the results that are not benefiting us. We can see that the people with apparent power are idiots, that is not difficult, in fact I would challenge anybody to identify an intelligent politician in the western world. We have the likes of Sunak the Indian running the UK, Oaf running Germany, that EU prat that goes on about Europe being a garden etc etc etc but what you notice is that these people have been chosen because they are NOT intelligent, they are less than intelligent but are obedient.

    Intelligent people can reason out their values, they can work out what is right and wrong; they do not rely on their work boss to tell them their principles and values. Our politicians are like policemen, the intelligent are not recruited and instead they are looking for people below the intelligent, people who will obey orders, people who can spend a lot of time doing nothing, being bored, and people who, although they may have doubts, cannot think with sufficient confidence that what they are doing is wrong.

    It is an interesting move by the owners, not because it is surprising, but because it means that they are afraid of real leaders and know they cannot buy real leaders or quality politicians. That is the interesting outcome from all this, they have to resort to the mediocre to drive their policies and so they promote the mediocre into positions of responsibility.

    This means that there are thousands of truely competent people out there waiting to be called up to do their stuff. They are waiting, waiting either for a leader to emerge so that they can join the cause, or for a general movement that they can also support, and maybe organise. Our generation’s best are not in modern day politics, they are biding their time. We are not lost.

    #152945
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Musk is paying good attention to what happens to Trump: “How far will they go to stop me?”

    Although I give Musk and Trump a load of shite because they are not men of their word, this is where I have to descend to what Jesus would call “grace”; time for grey areas. Musk, Trump and RFK Jr are the only ones we have on offer. Sure, they all have Israeli pumpkins up their asses – RFK Jr is especially keen – but is it possible to not be an Israel botty boy when standing to be the “figurehead” POTUS? If so, who is out there, other than plebs, who is able to criticise Israel?

    So, we have three limp dicks trying to support American demcracy; but what you do not realise is that they are not doing it for American democracy, they are doing it to feed their own greed:
    1) Trump: Ego maniac who wants to be the man, he has attracted the red necks (for some reason) and promises everything, but delivers nothing except for the promises he made to Israel.
    2) Musk: Ego maniac who wants to be the man, his talent is to boost his company stocks by guiding groups of supporters on the internet, demonstrating his ability to manipulate the share prices and hence attracting the funds who are always looking for instant capital appreciation.
    3) RFK Jr: Ego maniac who wants to be the man, his talent is to attack big pharma while hiding behind the “Childrens Health Defence” charity, but this was an unfortunate strategy as, just as he needed the support of the country, his backers who are attached to Israel, started killing children in Gaza, the response: silence.

    Back to my first paragraph: the election is for the “figurehead” POTUS. It does not matter who wins, it does not matter who loses, the harder they pretend to fight, the less you should be convinced that this is a real fight. This is theatre, support who you want, even Nikky Haley, it does not matter, it will make no difference to what happens over the next four years and beyond, these are just the dumb policemen that they are putting in place to keep things ticking over.

    #152946
    aspnaz
    Participant

    My conflicts with D Benton Smith have been interesting, for me, over the past few days. I discovered that Benton resorted to lies when he was running out of arguments – put a man under stress to see whether he is worthy of the job – and I assume this was an reflexive response (not a compulsive liar). I also noticed that Dr D resorted to woke “hate” insults when he was runinng out of arguments; I think he was just being lazy as he may – or may not – have had more amunition in the breech. Shame, I woud have liked to read it.

    But, the experience did have an impact on me, it made me think that we were approaching this in the wrong way; when you leave the kitchen in a mess, you will get rats, but you are craxy if you think that shouting at the rats is the solution, it is not, the key is to clean the kitchen and keep it clean.

    I have been blaming the Jews – the rats in the kitchen – for using their love of swindling, lies and theft as a reason for the kitchen being in a mess. This is not the case, the kitchen is in a mess because the users of the kitchen did not clean it up. The rats are the symptom.

    The kitchen is America, the users of the kitchen are the people who live in America, the rats are the Jews. Are you surprised that the vermin appear when you start getting messy? We saw this in the UK when the Labour party Jews demolished Corbyn with a barrage of lies. Yes, the UK let the rats into the kitchen and we got “hate speech” laws – particularly beloved by Dr D – and “anti-semitism” laws particuarly loved by Benton the Jew, and in France, “holocaust denial” laws, I personally love these as it gives me a good excuse to tell my wife we cannot travel to France which is now a dump, used to be a nice place in my twenties, although the dairy is still okay.

    We should be blaming the Americans for the USA’s demise, we should be blaming the Germans for Germany’s demise, we should be blaming the Britons for the UK’s demise. The Jews are just the maggots feating on the corpse, like they did in Germany during the 1930s. The Jews are the Canary in the Coalmine, they tell you that your society is falling apart and that chancers and thieves are now taking over.

    Thanks BtJ and Dr D, you got me thinking. Of course, I know you are going to say “well what do you want us to do”, but it is not about you individually, it is about your nationality and how strong that is versus other nationailities; do you love your nation, will you fight for your nation, will you let the Jews eat your nation while you look on? It is about you.

    #152947
    Celticbiker
    Participant

    Camus post above reminds me of the scrubbed Deagle report. A military intelligence outfit predicts 70% of Westerners dead and gone by 2025. Roughly 70% of the populations are vaxxed. Origins of the vaccine, gene specific to not affect ashkenazi bloodlines, can be traced back to DOD. Of course they knew. A planned out genocide no different than Gaza. Same result. different tactics. You’ll need the courage of those goats to navigate this Satanic terrain. May God help us all.

    #152948
    tboc
    Participant

    “Think about it; do you really think these people are strong enough or clever enough to do this by themselves?”

    Aspnaz do you think the puppet masters are strong enough or clever enough to actually control all life on earth? Do you think the small group at the top have any concept of complex organic molecules, amino acids or the expression of proteins? What is your thought when you hear the phrase “Work smarter, not harder”?

    The drive for AI is not bottom up. How clever is a person that desires to cease their cognitive function and relinquish that ability to a machine? Who will be the first in line for a Neuralink? How clever is a person that believes a human brain to computer interface will restore human autonomy? Just a matter of degree!(grin emoji)

    what is the difference between someone willing to ingest meth laced with fentanyl and the person longing and willing to have a neuralink installed?

    #152949
    aspnaz
    Participant

    “Russia is awesome, the US is crap.”

    Are they looking for a general manager, I can do that, my heart is in the right place.

    #152950
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Celticbiker said

    You’ll need the courage of those goats to navigate this Satanic terrain. May God help us all.

    On the money as usual, nice comment.

    #152951
    poppie
    Participant

    Illinois school proficiency. The source data base has had a login thrown over it. The home page is just a bare userid/pw screen. They must have thrown it up there fast. You can still access PDFs of the thousands of individual schools individual years. It would be do-able. Maybe a couple key schools.
    PDFs http://www.illinoisreportcard.com
    source http://www.isbe.net

    #152952
    aspnaz
    Participant

    tboc said:

    What is your thought when you hear the phrase “Work smarter, not harder”?

    Work is a very weird environment. I was talking to a CEO friend just yesterday, he has over 3000 people underneath him, and we were discussing some of the topics on TAE; he is not a reader of TAE, he has a job!

    Phrases like “work harder, not smarter” only come from people who have been repetitively fired, I assume you were dumped for not being either intelligent enough of just plain lazy. The perspectives of people on TAE versus the real world are quite interesting; people on TAE believe that the corporate types really believe in things like ESG, climate change etc. No they don’t, what they believe in is doing their job and keeping their company alive. You don’t give a shit about that, but for people with a few thousand reports, their fuck ups can mean lots of people going hungry.

    Can’t be bothered with this any more, it is late at night where I am. You are living in an isolated environment, get out there and meet a few people who live in the real world, not just your world but in other worlds.

    #152953
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “It’s like every other two-minute clip I watch of this Fani Willis interview she admits to committing another felony.” — Senator JD Vance (R-OH) True, actually. Amazing. Has she admitted, attested to like five new major felonies yet? I’m speechless. AND she volunteered all that stuff.

    “Have you noticed yet that America has turned into a Coen Brothers movie? Everywhere you look, you see madcap characters disgracing themselves while doing their bit to burn the whole country down. It’s a panoramic extravaganza of everything gone wrong, with slapstick overtones, driving toward an apocalyptic climax — civil war, nuclear war, economic collapse, maybe all three. And all because the people on-screen just can’t stop lying.

    “First they need to stop lying their asses off” – Dave Cullom.

    “Life-Long Charity Volunteer Fired For Not Understanding Pronouns

    That’s tolerance! Tolerance for SOME people, is more equal that others.

    “California Dems Push Bill Paving Way To Free College Tuition For Black Students

    Point. Glad Will Smith’s and Serena Williams’ children will get a free ride. Least I can do. Meanwhile, those new Ukrainian Immigrants will be paying for it. And that’s not going to how Luongo, whose people came here in 1890, will be paying for Jamaicans, who came here in 1990. Slavery! Re-creating it one market at a time. —Obama / Joe.

    “UK Retail Store Sends Gender Identity Magazine With Tips For Chest-Binding Children To 70,000 Employees”

    At $2 per issue, it equals “We can’t figure out why prices are so high” plus “Why are employees leaving and we can’t afford bonuses?” Simple math. 2 + 2 = 5. Every Winston knows this. Tomorrow it = 6.

    “EU Markets Not Immune From New World Disorder Of ‘No Article V’ Trump Office”

    This was interesting and covered by Duran. They are going mental that Trump is giving NATO any guff. But is France going to come to the U.S. and die for our borders? France: “Huh, Whut? Of course not. Never!” Trump says, “You’re not even paying YOUR OWN NATO costs, you’re completely unready” now completely proven with the draw in Ukraine. “And you think the U.S. is going to come defend you for FREE when you haven’t lifted a finger to defend yourselves???”

    Europe: “Yes old chap. That is PRECISELY what we think. And we not only think it, we DEMAND it. Now chop chop peasant, we’ve got some free health care and two months’ vacation to dispense.”

    Here we are, what five years after he brought it up, IN the middle of a WORLD WAR, and Europe can’t be arsed? And you wonder why I think Davos is running the U.S. instead of the other way ‘round.

    Um: newsflash, WHO has free healthcare, 2 months vacation, highest standards of living (they say) and does NOT die anywhere on earth for western interests? Wouldn’t THEY by definition be the TOP of the pile, as the TOP of the pile is the King, the guy who doesn’t do any work? And not the pitchforks, the pikemen, or the plutocrats? That guy is EUROPE. Nobody does less work on earth than the EU parliament.

    Speaking of: “Regarding the surprisingly strong employment data, Fed Chair Powell said the quiet part out loud.”

    So…melt-up bubble stock market. “Strong” employment. “Record” return of inflation. …And Powell is going to lower 7 times this year according to markets. Uh. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. Nope. Nay. Never.

    The Fed lowers AFTER something breaks (but often before the headlines). It’s when the yield curve UN-inverts although that’s not absolute. Why bring this up here? SOMEONE (coughYellencoughEuropecoughDavoscough) wants the world to think that the U.S. is going to drop rates like a madman, and therefore the rates in Europe aren’t that bad and they don’t need to sell. AND whoever that is (coughYellencoughEuropecoughDavoscough), has BILLIONS of free dollars to paint the charts to attempt that conclusion. And since that seems like nonsense, they can also LOSE billions on the trade. ‘Cause it ain’t their money. Read: not the Kansas Municipal retirement fund.

    Europe is ATTACKING the United States, daily, have been for years, and are trying to DESTROY us in a cultural, civil, economic war and return us to an African colony. Of course! Who wouldn’t? That’s what Europe DOES, what they’ve always done, I’d be disappointed if they didn’t. What gets me is EVERY. SINGLE. STAT. Is AGAINST Powell cutting, yet I keep hearing he’s about to pivot to “Help the market” when the market is at bubbles now surpassing South Seas and Tulip combined.

    Tesla is worth more than all car companies combined. Nvidia is worth more than the whole Chinese stock market. Surely in such a dire collapse as this, the U.S. stock market needs MOAR trillions, amirite? What says “Crisis” better than all-time highs? I mean, if we see evidence of a bubble, like EVERY HOUSE IN AMERICA is 2-10x overpriced, and not a single one can be bought on wages, only then would we stop lowering and raise, right?

    Ah, why do I bother in a world completely cut off from all reality? Europe needs us to collapse, because as a 500 year colonial center, they can’t withstand the structural end of colonial inflows from Russia, Africa, America, and Europe itself (poor and eastern). They are trying to print money and hide it in tech stocks, rigging them to survive. Uh-huh. Go ahead. I’m sure you can push the price of Tesla above the value of the whole planet Mars, but what will it get you?

    The Center collapses LAST. Maybe I had this wrong. Maybe the US and US$ system is NOT the center. And that’s what we’re deciding right now. Under my own theory, EUROPE is still the real center. That’s what Powell is “risking” – or rather, not risking – being completely ordinary about and in fact very financially loose to find out.

    Sidebar: this financial WAR involves printing money. WAR is inflationary. Inflations ALWAYS help the financiers, and ALWAYS destroy wage earners and workers. That’s exactly what we see now, but harder then any time in history outside of a hot war. Which we’re in. But not in, but we’re also in, according to Schumer, Biden, etc.

    You want inflation to end and wages to rise and catch up, stop the war. Especially the financial one.

    “If that was true, think she would have mentioned it…” — Fani

    “We Make S—t Up!” And why not? No one’s arrested us, no one’s stopped believing it yet. I lie: you give me money. What’s the problem? Been doing it since I was a child so don’t change the rules now.

    Lira-Navalny: Yes. And also Ritter was specifically NOT Lira’s friend. Did not understand why, he didn’t explain it, but he was very cool even the point of dismissive, even destructive. Stop making things up. To boost your feelz. That’s what we have the rest of the planet for, not here.

    “For people like Letitia James and Fani Willis, “get Trump” is a career move.”

    Or not. As his Civil Accuser will have spent millions of dollars, lose on appeal, and have to pay it back. But like Kunstler says, Fani and Co DID NO WORK. It was all handed to them by Mary McCord of the White House, as they are clearly too legally illiterate to accomplish anything themselves.

    “Jonathan Turley EXPLODES After Judge Engoron”

    “We Make S—t Up!” “The Law is in my Mouth.” Remember that? Great. Now remember what happened next? It weren’t the peasants holding him down in the ditch. It was the Oligarchs. They’d had it.

    “Musk is paying good attention to what happens to Trump: “How far will they go to stop me?”

    He does have a problem. So he’s not safe as a U.S. Citizen, even as an African-American. Is he safe as a South African? No. A Briton? No. An Indian? Maaaaaybe. You see, if this mafia is running things, you’re not safe anywhere. You have to agitate to stop them even if you don’t want to. The K-Pop mafia is creating their own Nemisis, forcing people to take sides, leave NY, CA, etc. They’ve been voluntarily giving them money for years, making them fabulously rich and powerful, AND YOU’RE MAKING THEM STOP. Like Russia. No more vig flying through London banks. Charlie took us away from all that.

    ““Russia is a nation, not a city. And the Russians love their country..”

    I keep hearing this but I don’t understand it. Russia is a “Civilizational Culture”. This is the same Eurocommie stuff I had to take for 20 years about how “America has no Culture”. You see: EUROPE is the center of the world. They’re the GOOD people, the Garden, that’s why they run a world war and genocide every 70 years, killing every living being they can find, and run Eugenics every day of every year in-between. That’s “Culture.” That’s what “Garden People” do, not like those Jungle bunnies. (even I can barely stand writing something that offensive. Is my point made? Nothing else gets through.)

    Here it’s the same thing. America, which is unique, a clear separate path, which clearly has its own values and trajectory, is not a “Civilization.” We are not a “Nation”. O Rly? POLAND has no borders, they change every 20 years, but they’re a nation. They flip-flopped wildly from King to Soviet to Capitalist and they’re the same, one nation. Half their guys moved away, came back, etc, but they’re a nation, a civilization? But an America running for 250 years with none of that, following the same straight line from Madison is not. K man. My guess is that why I’ve never seen a word actually presenting that case. It’s just “After 20 straight years of communist indoctrination in public schools, “we all know” it’s true.”

    “[with] a public transportation system that’s clean, efficient, streets that are clean, efficient. Why? Because throughout Russia, the Russian people care

    Nations are run by The People, NOT the leaders. Always. WE are the nation. Stop looking to THEM. Ignore them. This is the core truth of The Enlightenment. It is the core “Rights of Man.”

    “The truth is that, in 1991, Ukraine had more than 50 million inhabitants, one of the largest armies in Europe (perhaps the second largest), an enviable military-industrial complex, a highly qualified, talented and productive population, capable of revealing itself in all aspects of human life, from the arts to science, from agriculture to sport.”

    Yes. That was amazing. Ukraine was equal to all Russia, although far smaller. They had better conditions, more advantages, and equal industry, etc to Moscow + . …And Lo! Corruption. That’s it. The End. That’s all it takes. Look at Argentina, one of the top 10 nations in 1900, bottom 200 every day since. Nothing but soy fields, free silver mines, good weather, ports. …And people living in tin shacks. Because “Corruption.”

    Japan: nothing. No workable land, no oil, no resources. Wealthiest nation on earth. Because they contain and control their “Corruption”. Channel it to good use best as they can, because it will always be with us.

    ““..The U.S. media have claimed (preposterously) that if the military aid is not supplied then Ukraine’s defeat could result in American troops being deployed to prevent Russian rampaging across Europe.”

    Every falsehood rolled into one. FIRST, as above, Europe DEMANDS the U.S. fly over, fight all their wars for them while they eat bon-bons. Second, as the Duran says and for some reason has to keep saying, the $60 BILLION IS NO HELP AT ALL. None. Zero. Don’t blame the House, Congress, the GOP. YOUR MONEY MEANS NOTHING. The “money” can’t buy what completely de-industrialized non-nations can’t build. We got up to 28k shells a month or something? Ukraine needs 6,000 shells a DAY to tread water. So we can make 4 day’s shells. Whooooooo!!!!!! Yay us. Trump says bring back industry? They STILL go hebephrenic in foaming spasms on the floor. Biden destroys every railroad, every Union. When the shells are made in 10 districts for maximum waste.

    The “AID” is only to YOURSELVES. You can keep writing monopoly money on printer paper and throwing it down and Boardwalk, but it doesn’t MEAN anything. It’s embarrassing that even now they can’t grasp this. I thought they were like supervillians. Instead they’re like Lenny.

    Russian. Space. Nukes. Omg and grant me the patience to bless their hearts. Russia could take out our satellites since the 60s? Certainly at will since 2010? The very FIRST thing you do when Satellites are INVENTED is to shoot them down. NUKES ARE 100 YEARS OLD NOW, you morons. Why not ride horses into space to de-orbit them with lances? Please help me God get through this window of stupidity and unrefined insanity. We claim we don’t even have a space plane to defend/repair them.

    Yes. They can. China was behind on this and took out satellites with ground lasers as a public coming-out demo in 2010? Or something? Generation ago?

    Okay, something productive? Are they spinning, or does this show where their minds are at as usual? That means THEY want to take out our satellites. Congress. OUR controllers. THEY want to take down our internet. To hide THEIR banking and Stock collapse. Didn’t they just beta this in Oz or something? Like “No internets”, crikey, no ATM money! Oh wells, I guess you Ozzies all die then. Oops. Then did NOTHING to fix the gap since then. Humans are a virus and they are the cure.

    “Russian Media Thrilled By Biden’s LNG “Gift” To Putin (ZH)

    Is there anything Biden has done that doesn’t help Trump and prove Trump’s case? I’m running dry here.

    “• Political, Economic Indicators Not Promising for Biden (Gallup)

    There’s nothing Biden’s not doing to help Trump and credit MAGA. Nothing.

    “Scratch the veneer of who’s in power in Kiev and Tel Aviv, and who pulls their strings, and you will find the same puppet masters controlling Ukraine, Israel, the US, the UK, and nearly all NATO members..”

    It’s almost as if governments are a mafia protection racket. And they both collude in territories, then eventually vertically-integrate into one. Almost. But that would be crazy. When has that ever happened except every time, every place in all history? How do you think France, Germany, Italy, formed one nation state out of many Baronies, or the U.S. united out of many different opposing states?

    But other than happening every time, every where, always, it never happens.

    This vertically-integrated mafia throws their people under the bus, just as the Italian Mafia throws Italians under the bus.

    Okay, let’s be productive again. How are such mafias stopped? Historically? Would a key element of stopping them, even when they own policemen and judges to EXPOSE that they exist and what their crimes are to the public? Remember in I dunno, 1960, suddenly, Lo! A miracle happened, and the Mafia “Which didn’t exist” suddenly “Had always existed” and everybody always knew what they never knew before? Yup. And no one was discredited. We didn’t fire an entire wing of the FBI for “Always missing” America’s almost largest criminal force for 100 years. We gave them more money! Good job, Brownie! They were smart and learned fast: the more you lie, the more money you get! I can do this all day!

    How did a very certain Mayor and a very specific real estate developer take down one of the last remaining mafias in NYC in 2000? Was it anything like the same process we see today in national and world politics? Are they not re-inventin the wheel on the fly but maybe following what’s proven to work, even if it sucks? The same way Russia is following their 1,000 year winning streak on war and Euro-invasions, even if it sucks? You may only get one chance. Now is not the time to wing it.

    “Here is the case of a dreadfully misguided CIA operation, blatantly in violation of international law,”

    And nobody went to jail. It’s also in violation of national law. In violation of Congress. In violation of Geneva. And in violation of direct Presidential orders to withdraw. They don’t care. WHY don’t they care? Because Nobody went to jail. As Benton says, that’s perfectly logical. You would do it too if the payoff is infinity and the risk is “I can smoke crack with child hookers all day, post it on PronHub, powder my illegal gun in coke, hand it to the FBI, not pay taxes and walk free with a book contract.”

    Now WHY ever would these guys not follow the law? I just can’t understand. Too difficult for my little head. When you pass a law, everyone just follows them, right?

    #152954
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Sure Aspnaz, and although you’re still attributing stuff to me/us I don’t say or believe, all we wanted was a hearing. They have always wanted the U.S. as a colony because, why not? The alternative is to do work. The U.S. was under colonization always, as all nations are, but in a more limited fashion than others. That’s why we increased in wealth and power so fast. It’s the 5% compounding vig they DIDN’T get that allows that. But they managed to wheedle back in with the thin end of the wedge. The Fed was not supposed to do what it now does, it was specifically written to be the opposite, but that’s how all their laws are. Or the ones that aren’t laws. Like the IRS possibly never legally ratified, almost certainly not related to “Income” as we know it today, and definitively, visibly, and provably anti-constitutional, extra-governmental in every means and function today. Under the IRS all normal Legal, Constitutional, and Human Rights are waived. Every time. The minute they enter and drop their business card, and everyone just nods and follows.

    Why bring it up? OF COURSE they will do this. Who wouldn’t? But as you say, the nation, the People, have to LET THEM. As you say, WE are the people and WE can stop them if we choose, and there wouldn’t be nothin’ they could do about it. Yes. And that roots in MORALITY, in God, because if we were moral we would have to reject them, and only if WE are immoral and slouchy can we tolerate them, as we can barely tolerate them now. Yes. And that’s our fault as people for 100 years have been saying. And we can only fall from within as Lincoln was saying. And fascism will come in the form of “Helping”, “Religion”, etc as Mencken was saying. And it will absolutely occur unless the Tree of Liberty is watered with the blood of tyrants, generationally, as an example to others, to psychos, as Jefferson was saying. Yes, yes, yes.

    However, since DAY ONE of this, since the first INSTANT of immorality in the U.S., they have spent every minute, every dollar, applied tirelessly and entirely towards the corruption of America and all her people. All $40 Trillion missing dollars, every IRS receipt, every “fund” every “Scholarship” from Rhodes, every exchange program, every loan, every book written, every political party donation, every secret service of every nation in Europe is focused on ONLY ONE thing: Attacking the People of the free United States, and bringing them to heel as a colony of Europe and their mafia elite.

    So, you think, if Zhong Shanshan put his eye on YOU, your town, your county, SPECIFICALLY, and targeted every thing you see, every one you know, every act that happens, for GENERATIONS, he couldn’t get through and have an effect on you? Bring your and your family name low? Subjugate your town, your family, your church, your whole nation? I assure you HE CAN. Alone. And we in the U.S. are up against EVERY billionaire on earth, not just our own. And they’ve had 100 years to work on us. And once they get the wedge in, they make US pay for our own destruction, our own corruption, which costs them nothing and in fact can get rich?

    Okay, one: recognize that and the unfathomable gravity of it, it’s us alone against the universe, and give us Yanks some credit. We’ve held out longer than anyone on earth so far. And Two, WHAT WOULD YOU DO ABOUT IT? Now that they’re sapping 5% and using 4 ½% of it to corrupt and kill us? What’s your plan?

    And it’s not like 1921 and this JUST STARTED. They’ve now had 110 years to work on us, know us perfectly, to create us more than any mad scientist ever has. If our kitchen is messy, what’s the cure? PIMP DADDY WILL MURDER US, IN the kitchen, and leave our body rotting under the counter, if we so much as LOOK like we’re going to clean anything up. Then laugh, call the police who will take our dead picture and post it on PronHub for lols. Making the rest of the house walk around your child-corpse.

    And? So? Everyone knows that. What’s your fix?

    Yes, in a way, the problem IS us. I say that daily. And WE have the power – and the right, the necessity – to gang up on them and kick them out. That’s true. But never for one day in the last 10,000 years has it been that easy, has it? There are very few, almost no cases, where the good organized and displaced the bad. So? Where are the few cases who did and what did they do? How did they manage to win over 10,000-year long odds?

    I’d say the FIRST thing you have to do is SAY it, show it, reveal it, discuss it. Not hide or turn away from it. That’s the stage we’re in now. That’s it. That’s the whole plan. After that, everything follows inevitably, but it all takes time. We either believe in the Age of Enlightenment, that “when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.–Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government,” or we don’t.

    Which direction are the American people traveling in today? And DESPITE $50 Trillion dollars being wrapped around a brick and applied to our front teeth? I don’t see Europe or China helping. After we win, everyone will jump in and tell us how it was their idea all along. Thanks.

    #152955
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Dr D said

    However, since DAY ONE of this, since the first INSTANT of immorality in the U.S., they have spent every minute, every dollar, applied tirelessly and entirely towards the corruption of America and all her people. All $40 Trillion missing dollars, every IRS receipt, every “fund” every “Scholarship” from Rhodes, every exchange program, every loan, every book written, every political party donation, every secret service of every nation in Europe is focused on ONLY ONE thing: Attacking the People of the free United States, and bringing them to heel as a colony of Europe and their mafia elite.

    Indeed, as you say, you took your eye off the ball, or in other words, you let your principles slide. I don’t care how you justify it to yourselves, but while this has been happening, you have been murdering millions of foreigners, you have been ignoring it like it is the work of god, and now you are asking me for understanding? Fuck off, you have killed so many people you all deserve to die; even under your three-strikes-and-you-are-out retardedness, you still all deserve to die, after all the damage you have done to the planet; but you won’t die, we will have to live with you in the future.

    Other states have done bads, but none anywhere near as bad as the USA. Consider your current support for the genocide in gaza …. ooops, sorry, did I step on Jew toes, murdering children is another principle of yours that seems to have disappeared? What does the USA stand for now? Genocide of children? That’s you latest reputation? You are shite, absolute shite, but shite with money. Until that ends, we have to talk to you. After that ends, fuck you, we will be gone. Oh, but you will still be saying “What do you want us to do”? Well, it was your country, it is no more your country, maybe you can work it out, but probably not.

    #152956
    Red
    Participant

    Five Finger Death Punch – Judgement Day (Official Music Video)
    40 million and counting (slaves)

    #152957
    zerosum
    Participant

    Who pulls their strings,…MEDIA

    – LIES, COLLUDING, INFLUENCE, MANIPULATION, CENSORING, CONTROL

    Hate, Anger, Fear

    – get Trump, Trump Impeachment
    – dishing out of hate for Tucker Carlson
    – the pro-Kiev media
    – THE PRO-Alexei Navalny
    – sensational reporting
    – “defending democracy” in a regime dominated by Neo-Nazis
    – proxy war against Russia – a war that is really all about defeating Russia as a geopolitical obstacle to U.S. hegemony.
    – Another driver is the massive profits that taxpayers are subsidizing the military-industrial complex at the rotten heart of Western capitalism.
    – The Americans have no clue what’s happening on the battlefield right now.”
    – find the same puppet masters controlling Ukraine, Israel, the US, the UK, and nearly all NATO members.
    – Yemen’s Ansarallah resistance movement
    – the Israeli genocide in Gaza
    – allegations are not based on any evidence
    – suspend funding for UNRWA
    – COVID19 VACCINES
    ————-
    Voice in the desert

    Bombing Muslims for Peace


    William Astore, Forever War in the Middle East
    POSTED ON FEBRUARY 15, 2024
    USA/Israel seeks “peace” through massive firepower and genocidal destruction.
    ———–

    #152958
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    @aspnaz
    You wrote:

     I was talking to a CEO friend just yesterday, he has over 3000 people underneath him, and we were discussing some of the topics on TAE; he is not a reader of TAE, he has a job!

    Productive by nature, the Doers in the company would never understand nor recognize the job performed by the CEO, the latter acquisitive by nature. They, the CEOs, seem all to possess a delusional degree of megalomania.
    Perhaps society masters selected for these “CEO” traits so common to Antisocial personality disorder and Narcissistic personality disorder or their rise comes from the natural order of Leadership Creme rising to the top.
    I’m certain 90% of CEOs perform a service to their successful companies on par with the invisible machinations inside the greatest minds in quantum mechanics.
    I mean invisible to us mere goyim (mortals to Dr D) or to the average Doer.

    #152959
    zerosum
    Participant

    This the change.
    Don’t work hard.
    Work smart.
    Let someone else do the work.
    ————

    #152960
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Aspnaz is deeply subscribed to the Chinese cultural mindset that the group is all important and individual merely a disposable and easily replaceable commodity, that in itself is of little to no consequence or value to the group. In that narrow view he fails to comprehend that the “group” is an abstraction, a shared concept only, which consists entirely of individuals whose individual performance determines the nature and viability of the herd.

    Both viewpoints have significant validity, in that each of the viewpoints is precisely HALF true, but neither of the viewpoints is sufficiently true in itself to fully supplant the other. In other words, it requires comprehension of both viewpoints to understand the truth about human behavior, and hopefully thereby improve it some.

    This is a roundabout way of saying that while aspnaz is not a total idiot, he is most definitely and vociferously and ANNOYINGLY, a textbook example of halfwit.

    P.S.
    Please identify and explain even ONE lie that you think I have told. To the best of my recollection I have told NONE, but I’ve been wrong before and am always ready to correct an error and become even more perfect than I already am.

    #152961
    Dr. D
    Participant

    I just told you the universe is arrayed against us. We’ve held the line every year after excruciating year, them having to roll us by sheer force every year, in every state, on every issue. Our entire cultural history is nothing but this fact, over and over again. This was all supposed to be out by “1984”, we’ve rolled them off for FORTY YEARS and STILL haven’t lost, still itching to fight them and getting stronger, while China, Asia, Europe all tuck their yellow tails and roll under. Every ally is gone: England, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, France. No hope left on earth as you yourself say each day, as Celtic advises. “It’s all lost! It’s all controlled!! You’ll never win!!!” Hahahaha! Don’t care. You guys just make me laugh and be happy. We haven’t even STARTED fighting. We’re only on the couch realizing we SHOULD get up and be fighting.

    “Why do you keep fighting Mr. Anderson???” Why, why, why? Why do you do it? Why? Why get up? Why keep fighting? Do you believe you’re fighting for something? For more than your survival? Can you tell me what it is? Do you even know? Is it freedom or truth? Perhaps peace? Could it be for love? Illusions, Mr. Anderson, vagaries of perception. Temporary constructs of a feeble human intellect trying desperately to justify an existence that is without meaning or purpose! And all of them as artificial as the Matrix itself, although only a human mind could invent something as insipid as love. You must be able to see it, Mr. Anderson. You must know it by now. You can’t win. It’s pointless to keep fighting. Why, Mr. Anderson? Why? Why do you persist?”

    [Neo:]Because I choose to.”

    Ain’t none of you guys helping. Sitting over there, telling us it’s all lost, no hope, no allies, no purpose, everything is already controlled, we’re just pieces of human s–t who deserve all that’s coming to us. Yup! That’s the winning ticket! Call it and call us lost WHILE WE’RE STILL FIGHTING and giving them losses such as they’ve never seen on earth BEFORE we’ve even got off the couch. Yup, yup, yup. That’s the winning stroke, the master strategy. Rocky’s in the corner and you’re shouting “Give it UP already, ya bum!”

    Oh no brother. As one of my countrymen said, “We have not get begun to fight.” All this, these 60 years since Eisenhower, they were all only to get out the word that we SHOULD fight, and WHO we should fight. What’s really going on and why.

    You’re my next fight, as Benton and I cut through the last layers of programming you guys admit you have and point out who it really is, while you’re rocking in the corner giving up, saying the same old s–t.

    That’s alright. I’ll shoulder your rifle and fight for you if you won’t. If you want to sit on the beach and criticize. That’s how it always is and this time is no different either. Hey, things are so bad in America, why don’t you come over and help push the rudder in the right direction? Ha ha ha. As if I need ask.

    Don’t you realize the major global push is merely a demoralization campaign? A misdirection initiative? C’mon, use your head. You’re smarter than to fall for that.

    #152962
    Oroboros
    Participant

    AI date

    Wave of the Future

    Ritual Humiliation comes in many forms

    Romance is dead, long live romance!

    .

    #152963
    Oroboros
    Participant

    There are four reasons not to give up hope on Duh;merica and the Collective West

    .

    And remember there is always the ‘Walking on Water Thing’

    .

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    #152964
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    I had to correct someone today on their declaration that the US Supreme Court wasn’t worth shit. Of course it is!

    #152965
    Oroboros
    Participant

    The Younger Generation are the Hope and the Future!

    .

    #152966
    zerosum
    Participant

    Dr. D
    Which part of the media are you?
    Like everybody, I’ve been recruited by ….

    MEDIA

    – LIES, COLLUDING, INFLUENCE, MANIPULATION, CENSORING, CONTROL

    Hate, Anger, Fear

    #152967
    zerosum
    Participant

    Not my fault
    Since Ukraine defeat is already conveyed in MSM, and the narrative is to blame the Republicans for ‘lack of funding”

    Washington seems to have cleverly made the Euros the bagholders for the tragedy of The Ukrainian Civil War.

    #152968
    thomasjkenney
    Participant

    re: missing music, that is a tragedy.

    I have a recording of Shostakovitch #8, only tried to listen a couple times, can’t finish. It’s harrowing, like you can listen to an Otto Dix painting. That’s the terror of war. Bartok’s Miraculous Mandarin is the terror of corruption and degeneracy, also pretty harrowing, but closer to a good movie soundtrack.

    #152969
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Tyrants must periodically be reminded, by Reality itself, that at the end of the day EVERY individual DOES has veto power.

    #152970
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    The one reality that most people have the most trouble accepting is that they live on a teeter totter that has Freedom at one end and Slavery at the other and think that their own end of the plank can eliminate the other end of the plank.

    Well the last time I did any woodworking I just could not help but notice that no matter how many times I cut the end off of the board it still had the other end.

    #152971
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Along the track of the same metaphorical train of thought mentioned in my previous post, it should be CAREFULLY noted that if you try to better your own position by cutting off the other guy’s end of the teeter totter you will soon find yourself sitting on a VERY VERY teeny remaining board, with one helluva lot of people on the other end, and none of them too happy about it either.

    #152972
    jb-hb
    Participant

    people on TAE believe that the corporate types really believe in things like ESG, climate change etc. No they don’t, what they believe in is doing their job and keeping their company alive. You don’t give a shit about that, but for people with a few thousand reports, their fuck ups can mean lots of people going hungry.

    YAWN. Having worked in corporate America for decades, I can sleep through the C-suite people’s speeches along these lines, wake up, and tell them what their speech was.

    No, I can tell you they believe in wokeism – it is their luxury belief that gives them that extra special something over the filthy proles.

    I had those multiple mandatory half day sessions listening to Ibrahim X Kendri because of how efficient and practical C Suite holes are, sure. And they poisoned their employees – because of how constructive they are – and fired anyone who didn’t want poison. If only we had some kind of filter for cognitive function and made it really high stakes, like the worker’s own lives? Brilliant.

    And I’ve watched them continually do stupid incompetent sometimes meanspirited self-destructive company destructive wealth destructive things. Rather than not stupid low or no cost things. Boeing and Disney are confirmations of my own corporate experience as opposed to new information. I find them to be utterly unsurprising. My overall impression especially in the last 2 decades is that C-suite people are increasingly going with stupidity and evil as a rule rather than the exception. And I consider things that are bad for the customers, employees, or stockholders to all be evil.

    #152973
    Maxwell Quest
    Participant

    “Also this week, the scandal of the century was re-kindled when alt-news reporters Taibbi, Shellenberger, and Gutentag filed the story of how Barack Obama and CIA Director John Brennan, with his chore girls, Avril Haines and Gina Haspel, cooked up the RussiaGate caper and fed it to the FBI, with a major assist from The New York Times, the WashPo, CNN, and other useful idiot coconspirator news media vectors.”

    There, fixed it.

    I’m sure that Kunstler is aware that today’s media organizations are mostly staffed with political activists, not to mention heavily infiltrated by the many alphabet intel agencies; therefore, he should not be letting them off the hook by calling them “useful idiots” – a term commonly used to identify those who are unaware they are being manipulated for nefarious purposes.

    As Herr Doktor often states, “words have meaning”.

    #152974
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Grownups in the room will probably hear much to please them in this latest analysis of the developments in Gaza vis a vis South Africa’s Genocide suit against Israel in the ICJ, and what that leads to ON THE GROUND in Rafah and elsewhere in Gaza and the surrounding Arabic and Muslim countries.

    link: to the Duran video : https://youtu.be/yuicNkyk6Yg?si=5GTJhtRTFPhE-5EV

    #152975
    citizenx
    Participant

    Yes, the UK let the rats into the kitchen and we got “hate speech” laws – particularly beloved by Dr D – and “anti-semitism” laws particuarly loved by D.Benton.S the Jew, and in France, “holocaust denial” laws,

    Spot on.

    Right out of the playbook, Dr D DBS instantly resort to any criticism of The Jewish State as racist, anti-semitic, and hate speech.

    Then the little jew apologist tag team deflects and obfuscates the horrific crimes against humanity that the jews are actively committing. “Oh it’s zionists not jews” , “don’t blame jews for what the jews are doing”

    Dr D Dbs- fuck both of you cowardly slimy sniveling shitbags. Neither of you have a speck of dignity, morality or conscience. Shiling for jews while jews are claiming victim simultaneously committing worse crimes than the nazis ?

    You both negate the extreme hatred that jews are displaying to the world- by blaming anyone who criticizes jews as being full of hatred. How pathetic.

    Is Israel a Jewish State or not motherfuckers?
    Is the Jewish State behaving in any dignified manner? Especially after they have stolen the spotlight of permanent Victim status from WW2- more non jews were killed in camps than jews ! But to jews- it was only jews who were persecuted.

    Jews are disgusting shameful liars regarding their conduct today. Both of you should be ashamed, but you are not because you are part of the problem.

    40 thousand+ dead in Gaza – murdered by Jews- which you both ignore.

    #152976
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    It may seem fruitless and frustrating for us hoi paloi to rail against the stupidity, injustice, cruelty and just plain wacko insanity of the US Government carrying out the suicidal marching orders from the Elites.

    I’ve heard that sense of powerlessness expressed many times both here on TAE and most everywhere else that outraged citizens gather to lament the fact that the crazies are still at it and no one seems to be stopping them. Where are our leaders at this time when we need them the most?

    Well, they’re waiting for us.

    That’s right. They have no power to act until WE provide it by letting them know that we have their backs. No politician can champion the so-called “will of the people” until the outraged clamor of the people is loud enough to convince them that they really ARE expressing the will of the people.

    It’s kind of funny how that works, but the fact is that leaders can’t lead until enough people tell them where they want to be led to. You’ve heard the expression that, “It’s a two way street.” Well this is a classic example of it being a two way street.

    Keep grousing. Turn up the heat. Turn it up higher. Ridicule, invalidate, prove wrong and ABANDON the creeps who double-down on their losing hand. It’s almost magical how “leaders” suddenly find the courage to do the right thing when they lose their fear of not getting elected.

    Shake those pitchforks! Wave those torches! As it becomes clearer that you really mean it your “leaders” will rush to the front to “lead the way” once you make it safe for them to do so.

    Yeah, it’s pathetic, but it’s also how things work.

    P.S.
    A bunch of them are still going to lie to you, but that will improve after you sack the one’s you catch lying. You want leaders to stick their necks out in your behalf? Then back their play, in advance.

    #152977
    zerosum
    Participant

    Depopulation, economic slaves, debt slaves, EU, to add 75 Million More Migrants
    https://www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/en/libe/home/highlights

    #152978
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Dr D said

    That’s alright. I’ll shoulder your rifle and fight for you if you won’t. If you want to sit on the beach and criticize. That’s how it always is and this time is no different either.

    You want me to come and fight for your country? Ha ha, why the hell would I do that, your country is a shithole and the sooner it’s gone the better. I left my own country in the west because it is a shithole and there was nothing I could do about it because I was surrounded by people who liked it that way. I am sitting over here cheering on your self-inflicted demise, I do whatever I can to accelerate that demise, such as not buying American-made products. The sooner you are gone the sooner the world will stop the massacres that you keep funding in Ukraine, Gaza and maybe soon Taiwan and Iran.

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