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Debt Rattle March 13 2024

Mar 132024
 
 March 13, 2024  Posted by at 8:45 am Finance Tagged with: , , , , , , , , , ,  Add comments


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• Biden Impeachment Inquiry Reveals US Being Ruled by ‘Demented Gangsters’ (Sp.)
• Trump Tightens Control Over GOP – Politico (RT)
• Trump Did Propose 10,000 National Guard Troops on January 6th (Turley)
• Trump Vows to Free Jan. 6 ‘Hostages’ in First Act as President (ET)
• Biden, Along With NATO, Is Losing His Grip on Reality (Jay)
• Macron ‘Panicked’ Over Leaked Ukraine Reports – Marianne (RT)
• Polish Troops Would Never Leave Ukraine – Putin (RT)
• Why The Only Credible Peace Deal Between Russia And Ukraine Collapsed (Poletaev)
• Russia’s Response To Asset Seizure Could Trigger Global Financial Collapse (RT)
• US Builds Gaza Port To Facilitate Mass ‘Voluntary’ Migration: Anadolu (Cradle)
• What is it with Conservatives and Jews? (Paul Craig Roberts)
• Boeing Failed 37% of Audits by US Regulators (Sp.)
• Only Revolutionary Love Can Save Us Now (Alexander)
• Confident Dragon Lays Out Modernization Roadmap (Pepe Escobar)
• Twilight of the Blobs (Jim Kunstler)

 

 

 

 

Lots of Robert Hur snippet videos, topped off by Matt Gaetz’s description of Joe Biden:

“The elevator doesn’t go to the top floor.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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“..the old Delaware daughter sniffer” will be replaced by somebody “set up to lose to Donald Trump, or at least that’s the way it certainly looks right now.”

• Biden Impeachment Inquiry Reveals US Being Ruled by ‘Demented Gangsters’ (Sp.)

The weaponization of the US Department of Justice against US President Joe Biden’s accusers reveals that the United States is ruled by “complete and total demented gangsters,” Steve Poikonen, who serves as the host of the Slow News Day show, told Sputnik’s The Critical Hour on Monday. Poikonen was speaking with co-hosts Wilmer Leon and Garland Nixon about the impeachment inquiry into US President Joe Biden over claims the commander-in-chief was involved in alleged influence peddling scheme linked to his son, Hunter Biden. Poikonen said that Joe Biden is an “outright criminal,” adding that there is “more than enough evidence to impeach him and arrest him based on him bragging about stuff on camera.” “We really are being, allegedly, governed by complete and total demented gangsters,” he added later.

Asked about former FBI informant Alexander Smirnov, who was charged with lying to the FBI about Hunter Biden, despite being seen as a credible informant for years, Poikonen compared it to WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange’s extradition case, during which, a key witness, Sigurdur Ingiu Thordarson, admitted he fabricated his testimony to get immunity. “The convicted pedophile whose testimony was used in part to deny to make sure [Assange] was going to be extradited to the US, said ‘I made it up, I made it all up for the immunity agreement’… and [the DOJ is] going ‘this is still admissible and this is still something that helps solidify our case against a journalist’… on the other hand… the same DOJ is using the exact opposite [in the Biden case], ‘well, we believed him when we liked it, but now that we don’t like it, we’re going to tell you that he’s full of it.’” Poikonen further asserted the FBI does not want to look too deeply into the Hunter Biden case as it could potentially blow back on the agency. “The FBI is complicit in absolutely every facet of this,” he said.

Nixon noted former US President Donald Trump and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani were also charged or attacked after looking into the Biden family’s business dealings in Ukraine, in addition to Smirnov. Poikonen acknowledged that another name should be added to that list: former Hunter Biden business partner Jason Galanis. “[Galanis had to] testify from a prison cell because as soon as he had information that could lead to the arrest of Hunter or Joe Biden, he found himself going to court over a $60 million bond fraud … It’s selective prosecution based on perceived political opponents or real bumps in the road.” That situation has resulted in the US resembling something that looks “a whole lot less like any sort of democracy or a free and fair society and a whole lot more like an oligarchy that is ruled by violence and theft and extortion and threats.” Due to the corruption case and the American president’s apparent mental decline, Poikonen said he believes Biden, who he called “the old Delaware daughter sniffer” will be replaced by somebody “set up to lose to Donald Trump, or at least that’s the way it certainly looks right now.”

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Not half work. They learned their lesson.

“.. the firing of more than 60 McDaniel-era staffers, including the heads of the political, communications, and data departments.”

“..the RNC’s finance and digital teams will be moved to Palm Beach, Florida, to bring them closer to the Trump campaign’s base..”

• Trump Tightens Control Over GOP – Politico (RT)

Former US President Donald Trump has taken charge of the Republican National Committee (RNC), installing his daughter-in-law and political allies in senior leadership roles and, according to Politico, firing dozens of staffers. The swift takeover ensures that the party’s manpower and funding will be entirely directed toward his election campaign. Michael Whatley, a senior party official in North Carolina, and Lara Trump were voted in as the RNC’s new chair and co-chair on Friday, following the resignation of Ronna McDaniel. Trump had accused McDaniel of bungling the 2022 midterm elections and failing to sufficiently back his claims of fraud after the 2020 presidential election, and endorsed Whatley to take her position in February. Trump campaign adviser Chris LaCivita was named as the RNC’s new chief of staff, and the committee also voted to recognize the former president as the party’s nominee to take on President Joe Biden this November.

In his acceptance speech, Whatley said that the RNC will work “hand in glove” with the Trump campaign over the next eight months to mobilize voters and prevent voter fraud. While the Republican and Democratic national committees typically back whichever candidate secures their party’s nomination, Trump has yet to secure the support of enough Republican delegates to formally clinch the title. However, Trump has won 1,078 out of the 1,215 delegates needed for nomination, and with no primary challengers remaining after Nikki Haley bowed out of the race last week, he is all but certain to be picked when the Republican National Convention is held in July. Trump’s reshaping of the RNC continued on Monday, with Politico reporting the firing of more than 60 McDaniel-era staffers, including the heads of the political, communications, and data departments.

According to a report by the New York Times, the RNC’s finance and digital teams will be moved to Palm Beach, Florida, to bring them closer to the Trump campaign’s base. Under McDaniel, the RNC consistently failed to match the fundraising power of the Democratic National Committee. As of the end of December, the RNC had around $8 million cash on hand, roughly a third as much as the DNC’s war chest, Politico noted. Before dropping out of the race last week, Haley warned that Trump would likely use the RNC’s funds to pay his mounting legal bills. “I don’t want the RNC to become his piggy bank for his personal court cases,” she told CNN last month. Lara Trump has refused to say whether she would allow RNC funds to be used for this purpose, but told reporters that the former president’s supporters had “a big interest” in the cases against him.

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“..I remember the number 10,000 coming up of, you know, the President wants to make sure that you have enough. You know, he is willing to ask for 10,000. I remember that number.”

• Trump Did Propose 10,000 National Guard Troops on January 6th (Turley)

One of the long-standing unanswered questions from the January 6th riot has been why the Capitol was so poorly prepared and defended on that day. A newly released transcript has caused a firestorm in Washington over allegations that the J6 Committee downplayed or even suppressed evidence that former President Donald Trump personally suggested the deployment of 10,000 national guard troops to prevent violence. The transcript also includes contradictions of major allegations that ran wild in the media. That includes the claim that Trump tried to physically grab the steering wheel of the presidential limo, “The Beast,” when Secret Service refused to take him to the Capitol. Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson was the source of the claim, which appeared in most of the media and was highlighted in her testimony. However, it appears that the J6 Committee had testimony of secret service agents directly contradicting that account, including the driver. However, it is the National Guard question that is more weighty for historical purposes.

Trump has long claimed that he proposed the deployment of the National Guard troops (as was done previously at the White House during violent protests). The January 6th Committee said that was a lie. The release of the transcript by Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R., Ga.) triggered attacks on the J6 Committee. The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway wrote a column titled “Former Rep. Liz Cheney’s January 6 Committee suppressed evidence.” That triggered an angry response from former co-chair Liz Cheney which led to an even angrier reply from commentator Mark Levin. The anger is nothing new in a J6 investigation that seemed to produce more heat than light. Cheney’s spokesperson called the Federalist report “flatly false” and added “no transcripts were destroyed” while acknowledging that some material was not published “to allow the Secret Service to protect sensitive security information for interviews of its agents before preserving that testimony in the archives.”

The issue of the suppression or destruction of the evidence has drawn a lot of attention, but the more troubling question is the fact that such an offer was made and declined. The Committee found “no evidence” that the Trump administration called for 10,000 National Guard members to Washington, D.C., to protect the Capitol. That now stands contradicted and the question is whether Cheney or other members knew the public was being misled on the question. For example, the Washington Post “debunked” Trump’s comments with an award of “Four Pinocchios.” The Post’s Glenn Kessler admitted that Trump raised the issue but noted that he might have been suggesting the troops “not because he wanted to protect the Capitol,” but to suggest that he and his supporters were being threatened. He added that “Trump brought up the issue on at least three occasions but in such vague and obtuse ways that no senior official regarded his words as an order.”

However, the issue is not whether Trump issued “an order” but made an offer that was declined. For those of us who were covering the event on that day, the question has always been prominent in our minds. I was critical of Trump’s speech while he was still giving it. However, before the Capitol was breached, I also noted that I had never seen the Capitol so thinly protected in a major protest. We had just seen violent protests outside of the White House with a large number of police officers injured and extensive property damage, including arson. President Trump and his family had to be moved to a secure location out of concern of an imminent breach of the White House. National Guard were deployed and fencing installed. Even without an offer, it remains unclear why the violence around the White House did not prompt Congress to install the same barriers and deploy the same troops. (They ultimately took both steps but only after the rioters gained entry into the Capitol).

Moreover, if an offer was clearly made, it undermines the allegations that Trump was actively seeking an insurrection. While he has never been charged with an insurrection or even incitement, that allegation was used more recently to support his disqualification from the ballots in Colorado, Maine, and Illinois. The transcript contains the testimony of former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Anthony Ornato’s interview on January 2022 with Cheney present. Ornato states that he clearly recalled the offer of 10,000 troops being made by Trump in a conversation with D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser: “I was there, and he was on the phone with her and wanted to make sure she had everything that she needed. Because I think it was the concern of anti and pro groups clashing is what I recall…I remember the number 10,000 coming up of, you know, the President wants to make sure that you have enough. You know, he is willing to ask for 10,000. I remember that number.”

Ornato said that Browser said that they would not need the troops. (She ultimately asked for only 300 troops). There are also reports that then Speaker Nancy Pelosi was worried about the “optics” of military reinforcements at the Capitol. Ornato also said that he recalled that, after Bowser refused additional National Guard members, the White House requested the Defense Department have a “quick reaction force” ready on that day. He gave details on meetings with the Defense Department and follow up from Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. Hemingway noted in her report that Ornato’s testimony was supported by former Trump administration aide Kash Patel. Cheney has attacked Patel as unreliable. Ornato also testified that Meadows and others were frustrated by the delay in getting those troops to the Hill. The delay was blamed on the logistics, not some conspiracy to enable or facilitate an insurrection.

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“..he would not pardon all of those imprisoned, telling the audience that “a couple of them, probably they got out of control.”

• Trump Vows to Free Jan. 6 ‘Hostages’ in First Act as President (ET)

Former President Donald Trump has vowed to release individuals imprisoned over the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol if he wins the 2024 election in November. President Trump made the comments in a statement on Truth Social on March 11, noting that it would be among one of his first acts upon taking office in the White House. The Republican said shutting down the U.S.-Mexico border and increasing oil drilling as part of efforts to make America more energy independent would also be among his first actions as president. “My first acts as your next President will be to Close the Border, DRILL, BABY, DRILL, and Free the January 6 Hostages being wrongfully imprisoned!” President Trump said. President Trump said during a rally in Texas in 2022 that he would consider pardoning those convicted of their involvement in the Jan. 6 breach, noting that his administration would treat them “fairly.”

“If it requires pardons, we will give them pardons, because they are being treated so unfairly,” he said at the time. Last year, President Trump told a town hall hosted by CNN at Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire that he was inclined to pardon a “large portion” of those charged with crimes relating to the breach. However, the Republican stressed he would not pardon all of those imprisoned, telling the audience that “a couple of them, probably they got out of control.” At a rally in Iowa on the third anniversary of the breach at the start of this year, President Trump referred to the individuals arrested in the wake of the Jan. 6 breach as “hostages” who had suffered enough.” He then urged President Joe Biden to release them adding: “You can do it real easy, Joe.” President Trump’s latest comments mark the first time he has suggested that releasing those imprisoned over the Jan. 6 breach would be a top priority and that he will take immediate action to do so if he wins the November election.

According to the most recent statement from the Department of Justice (DOJ), more than 1,358 individuals from nearly all 50 states have been charged with crimes linked to the breach of the U.S. Capitol. This includes more than 486 individuals who were handed felony charges for assaulting or impeding law enforcement. Most recently, a 43-year-old Maryland man was arrested on felony and misdemeanor charges—including offenses of civil disorder and assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers—in relation to the events of Jan. 6. President Trump himself has been indicted over allegations related to his actions on Jan. 6 and alleged attempts to challenge the results of the 2020 election, including conspiring to defraud the country and obstructing an official proceeding. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges.

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“.. the American public who are more concerned about the price of groceries, gas pumps and their utility bills rather than what was going on in 1941..”

• Biden, Along With NATO, Is Losing His Grip on Reality (Jay)

The state of the union speech was an insight into how the senile U.S. president is stuck in the past, out of touch with the reality of a multipolar world. While many will wonder whether he wrote the speech himself or it was drafted for him, President Joe Biden made his case to the American public in simple terms. Vote for me, as I am living the dream of USA 80 years ago. The references to the second world war should have shocked the American public who are more concerned about the price of groceries, gas pumps and their utility bills rather than what was going on in 1941. And yet 1941 for any half-rate history teacher in Alabama would seem an odd choice of dates to pluck out of nowhere and use as a reference point to present America as an unchallenged superpower. As it was, after all, the date where German troops took on their greatest challenge – Russia – and were mercilessly defeated through, amongst other military considerations – being both deluded about their strengths and poor military planning.

Those two points might be on the minds of western elites while Biden used the podium to once again beg Congress to approve his aid package for Ukraine. As even the BBC correspondent in Ukraine admitted – that Russia was now advancing and its troops no longer taking villages but now towns – it would seem that NATO planners have indeed repeated the Barbarossa lesson. Is this the real reason why the bill cannot get passed? The Americans have realised they have simply bitten off more than they can chew in Ukraine and the humiliation already of three U.S.-made Abrams tanks – the most cumbersome, impractical and overrated piece of modern U.S. military hardware ever conceived – along with a general ground swell of opinion that the war can never be won is weighing down on them. Even the Guardian newspaper recently published an opinion piece by Simon Jenkins who argued the case the NATO had become “reckless” in Ukraine, citing the carelessness of the German phone tap which revealed the plan to hit the bridge in Crimea, seemed to draw a new water line of despondency.

Perhaps this explained why Biden didn’t take too much time on harping on about Ukraine in his speech, preferring more to use the opportunity to strike out at Trump – a tactic which surely confirms that he is as stupid as he looks as it will surely backfire on him and raise Trump’s prowess ever further. Instead, Biden attempted at great length to divert cash back into the pockets of humble Americans who don’t understand how the so-called trickle down affect is supposed to work – how big businesses making huge profits don’t always distribute their gains throughout the financial system – by admitting that it is not working. On paper, the figures show that the U.S. is doing well. Try explaining that to millions of Americans facing hardship on a scale never before seen. Biden is going to be remembered in history as the buffoon who left office while two wars raged in the world, while he raised taxes from corporations and can’t remember where he is, or what day of the week it is. He will be remembered for the fiasco of the pullout of U.S. troops from Afghanistan and for his incoherent dithering. And for that bloody ice cream.

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“Make no mistake, up against the Russians we are an army of cheerleaders!”

• Macron ‘Panicked’ Over Leaked Ukraine Reports – Marianne (RT)

French President Emmanuel Macron’s talk about maybe sending troops to aid Kiev may have been spurred by three assessments produced by the French military that painted a dire picture of the Ukraine conflict, according to the magazine Marianne. The reports, which have somehow found their way into the weekly’s possession, argued that Ukraine wrecked its Western-trained force in the failed 2023 offensive, has run out of men to mobilize, and that its recent loss in Avdeevka shows it can’t even hold the line against Russia. “Ukraine cannot win this war militarily,” concludes the first report, written in the fall of 2023, following Kiev’s disastrous ground offensive. It praises the Russian forces as the new “tactical and technical” standard of how to run defensive operations and debunks the media myth of “meat assaults.”

For the West to continue pursuing a military solution in Ukraine would be “the most serious error of analysis and judgment,” the classified document said, according to Marianne. Sending French troops to Ukraine would be “unreasonable,” one senior officer wrote. “Make no mistake, up against the Russians we are an army of cheerleaders!” he added. The second report, outlining the prospects for 2024, says that Kiev needs 35,000 men per month but is “recruiting less than half” of that number, while Russia enlists 30,000 volunteers monthly. Meanwhile, the 2023 offensive “tactically destroyed” half of Kiev’s 12 combat brigades. “The West can provide 3D printers to manufacture drones or loitering munitions, but will never be able to print men,” the report said. One solution it advised was sending Western troops to Ukraine to carry out support tasks in the rear, freeing the Ukrainians for frontline duty.

The second report also acknowledged the Western special forces and “soldiers in civilian clothes” had a far greater presence in Ukraine than officially acknowledged, including “quite a few British,” as well as French naval commandos training the Ukrainians. The third and latest report, which had the French observers “in cold sweat,” described the Battle of Avdeevka as a possible “rout” of Ukrainian forces. It described how Russia created “hell” for the Ukrainian troops by using massive glide bombs to inflict more than 1,000 casualties per day. The French document also described the Ukrainian retreat on February 17 as “sudden and unprepared.” At the end of February, Macron made an argument to NATO members that all options for helping Ukraine should be “on the table,” implying the possibility of sending ground troops. The idea was publicly repudiated by most members of the US-led bloc, however.

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”..Polish officials sleep and dream of returning “those lands that they consider historically their own, and which were taken from them by… Joseph Stalin..”

• Polish Troops Would Never Leave Ukraine – Putin (RT)

Any attempt to send Polish troops into Ukraine may end up with a long-term occupation, President Vladimir Putin has warned in an extensive interview with Russian journalist Dmitry Kiselyov, which is set to be aired by Rossiya 1 TV and RIA Novosti on Wednesday. “If Polish troops enter the territory of Ukraine in order to, as they say, secure the Ukrainian-Belarusian border, for example, or in some other places to free up Ukrainian rear military units to participate in hostilities on the frontline, then I think that Polish troops will never leave,” Puitin said, according to snippets of the interview.

The deployment of NATO troops to Ukraine amid the conflict with Russia is “not unthinkable,” Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski claimed last week. He was commenting on a statement by French President Emmanuel Macron, who said late last month that he “cannot exclude” the possibility of soldiers from the US-led military bloc being sent to aid Kiev. Putin believes that Polish officials sleep and dream of returning “those lands that they consider historically their own, and which were taken from them by… Joseph Stalin, and transferred to Ukraine.” “They certainly want them back. So if official Polish units enter there, they are unlikely to leave,” he reiterated.

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‘The decision is yours, Mr. Zelensky. If you choose war, we will support you with money and weapons; if you choose peace, you will be left on your own with Putin..’

• Why The Only Credible Peace Deal Between Russia And Ukraine Collapsed (Poletaev)

So, what really happened in April 2022? Apparently, upon arriving in Kiev, Johnson told Zelensky (speaking on behalf of the UK, US, and France) something along the lines of: ‘You can sign anything you want, but we will not sign anything and we are not ready to provide any guarantees, especially considering your requirements and wording. ‘The decision is yours, Mr. Zelensky. If you choose war, we will support you with money and weapons; if you choose peace, you will be left on your own with Putin.’ This matches the West’s subsequent actions and decisions, since so far, no one in the West has taken on any legal obligations in regard to Ukraine. Even the agreements on military assistance concluded this spring are nothing more than a set of declarations which are convenient for the West. Here’s the collective stance of Western leaders: NATO is not ready to provide any guarantees to Ukraine and will not sign any agreements.

If all this is indeed true (and the facts seem to leave no room for doubt), then it was Zelensky who made the fatal decision to stop negotiations. And while the West pushed him to this decision, its leaders also fell into the trap of believing that the conflict could be settled on the battlefield. At some point, instead of following a rational course, Western elites allowed their emotions to get the better of them. Zelensky convinced them that the Armed Forces of Ukraine could defeat Russia, and they believed this to such an extent that they were willing to risk their political standing and even the future of the entire current liberal world order. All this has led the West to a decisive fork in the road: What to do if Ukraine loses? Should Western leaders follow the example of Johnson and leave Ukraine alone with Moscow, or should they start a big war with Russia? Either way, the path that they chose will influence the entire course of world history.

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“.. The Euroclear Bank boasts of over €37 trillion of assets in custody globally, but if it runs out of liquidity amid a litany of lawsuits – the Belgian central bank may be forced to withdraw its license..”

• Russia’s Response To Asset Seizure Could Trigger Global Financial Collapse (RT)

While Brussels is searching for legal loopholes to send frozen Russian assets to Ukraine, it must keep some of the cash as a “safety buffer,” should its clearing house Euroclear get in trouble, potentially jeopardizing the entire global financial system, a senior EU official told Reuters. The West has frozen roughly $300 billion in holdings belonging to the Russian central bank since the start of the Ukraine conflict two years ago. Brussels-based Euroclear holds around €191 billion ($205 billion) of them, and the EU is reportedly fast-tracking the decision to send Kiev the first tranche of up to €3 billion ($3.2 billion) from profits generated by frozen Russian assets as early as July. However, Brussels will have to “ensure that there is no breach of financial stability,” an unnamed EU official told Reuters on Tuesday. “The moment the war ends and all settlements can be made, all the money that was provisionally retained will also be transferred to Ukraine. But we need a significant amount in Euroclear… because Euroclear will face a lot of claims,” the official added.

Should the West proceed with expropriating the funds, the Russian central bank is likely to seize some €33 billion of Euroclear money held in the national securities depository in Moscow, the official noted. Russia may also sue to seize Euroclear cash from depositories in Hong Kong and Dubai. Moscow has repeatedly warned that it will respond in kind if the West goes through with threats to confiscate Russian assets. The finance ministry said last month that Western states and companies themselves still have holdings in Russia that could be jeopardized if the frozen funds were tapped. If Western banks begin suing Euroclear for the loss of their money invested in Russia “that’s the mechanism how Euroclear could be totally emptied,” the EU official warned. The Euroclear Bank boasts of over €37 trillion of assets in custody globally, but if it runs out of liquidity amid a litany of lawsuits – the Belgian central bank may be forced to withdraw its license, causing a global financial crisis, the official warned.

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“..making conditions in Gaza so uninhabitable that its population would be forced to flee to other countries, including Egypt’s Sinai, Greece, Spain, and Canada..”s

• US Builds Gaza Port To Facilitate Mass ‘Voluntary’ Migration: Anadolu (Cradle)

A US military ship set sail on 11 March to travel to the coast of the besieged Gaza Strip to build a temporary port. However, doubts about US intentions for the port’s construction continue to emerge. Hisham Khreisat, a Jordanian military and strategic affairs expert, suggested the motivation for building the port was instead to facilitate the deportation of Gaza’s population by ship. Khreisat told Anadolu Agency that “the floating port off the shores of Gaza is a humanitarian facade hiding voluntary migration to Europe.” “This military tactical port will receive Israeli approval because Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been seeking this idea since the beginning of the war, aiming for the voluntary displacement of Gazans and their [flight] to Europe,” he added. The White House claims it wishes to build the port to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza as hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are at risk of starvation due to Israel’s blockade.

But the BBC noted that the port would take at least 60 days to build and that “charities have said those suffering in Gaza cannot wait that long.” If the US wished to stave off famine in Gaza, it could simply use its leverage as Israel’s leading supplier of weapons to force Tel Aviv to allow more aid to enter by truck convoys through existing land crossings. On 13 October, just days after the beginning of the war on Gaza, the Israeli Ministry of Intelligence issued a document calling for the forcible expulsion of the strip’s 2.3 million inhabitants under a humanitarian guise. The leaked document recommends making conditions in Gaza so uninhabitable that its population would be forced to flee to other countries, including Egypt’s Sinai, Greece, Spain, and Canada. Israel could justify the deportation to the international community, the plan stated, if it appears to lead to “fewer casualties among the civilian population compared to the expected number of casualties if they remain,” the document says.

Israel’s horrific bombardment of Gaza since 7 October has created just such conditions, killing at least 30,000 Palestinians, the majority women and children. The risk of famine, caused by Israel’s blockade, has also created conditions to make the deportation of 2.3 million Gazans appear as a humanitarian gesture. These conditions could further be created should Israel conduct a ground operation in Rafah, where over a million Gazans displaced from other areas of the strip are sheltering. Egypt has so far refused to allow Gazans into the Sinai, making deportation by sea to Europe more attractive for Israeli planners. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) also issued a warning about the US plan to build a temporary port off the shore of Gaza. The resistance movement emphasized that the US plan is “suspicious and dubious,” as it would open the door to the forced displacement of Gaza’s population under humanitarian and other pretexts.

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“..the rise of status based law that protects some chosen ethnicities and persecutes others..”

• What is it with Conservatives and Jews? (Paul Craig Roberts)

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem is a conservative hero. Her CPAC speech was well received. Yet she doesn’t hesitate to pass legislation that turns the First Amendment into a hate crime. She has just had a law passed that turns “anti-semitism” into a hate crime. She says the law defines anti-semitism and will serve as the model for other states to follow. Governor Noem herself engages in hate speech. She says Joe Biden and Kamala Harris “suck” and she wants to humiliate them. If she said “Jews suck and I want to humiliate them,” under her own law she would probably be guilty of a hate crime. And if not, close to it. Governor Noem apparently doesn’t realize, along with many other people, that erasing the First Amendment means that any protected ethnicity can define hate speech as any words they claim to experience as “painful.” Ultimately, this will mean that they, as individuals, cannot be charged with a crime. South Africa’s experience with the International Court of Justice shows how difficult it is to charge the Israeli government with a crime even when Israel is committing genocide.

The Israel Lobby long ago defined anti-semitism. It is any criticism, true or false, of a Jew or of Israel. For example, to protest Israel’s slaughter or genocide of Palestinians is anti-semitic. To even report, quoting their own words, Israeli government officials and rabbis calling for the murder of Palestinian women and children and for the extinction of Palestinians is anti-semitism. If you can’t complain about mass murder, or even report the words of those calling for it, what can you complain about? Recently three presidents of Ivy League universities, all female and one black, were called before the US Congress and scolded for allowing their students to protest Israel’s slaughter of Palestinians. The three women were guilty of permitting students to have First Amendment rights and were treated as if they had organized the protests themselves. The black female president of Harvard had to resign. In the UK, University of London students were suspended for their pro-Palestine protests. I find it extraordinary that Jews alone among all ethnicities can control what can be said about them.

Curiously, it is progressive and woke students at progressive institutions, not conservatives, who are defending both their First Amendment right and expression of moral conscience. The Independent Institute, a conservative/libertarian institute that thoughtfully analyzes economic and social policies with which I have been associated in some way or the other for many years, inexplicably chose the moment of Israel’s announced policy of bombing the Palestinians out of existence and completing the theft of their country to publish a book, The New American Anti-Semitism by Benjamin Ginsberg. Ginsberg writes that anti-semitic progressives are a threat. He urges conservatives and Jews to stop their gifts to progressive universities and to “form new political alliances, particularly with evangelical Christians.” It is remarkable to see the Independent Institute in favor of an alliance between Jews, conservatives, and Christians against the First Amendment.

It is also an attack on the 14th Amendment’s requirement of equality under law. Currently, a hate crime, consisting only of words, can only be committed against a black, a Jew, and a sexual pervert. Anything can be said about white gentiles and Palestinians, who have no recourse. The real threat is not anti-semitism. The real threat is the destruction of free speech and the rise of status based law that protects some chosen ethnicities and persecutes others. What is really needed is an alliance against those who are destroying the foundations of truth, freedom, and accountable government. The growing limits on free speech are already damaging scholarship and science. Do we want to live in a world where “truth” consists of controlled narratives that serve the interests of the ruling elites?

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Feel lucky, punk?

• Boeing Failed 37% of Audits by US Regulators (Sp.)

Boeing has failed 33 of 89 Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) inspections, following a January incident in which part of the fuselage of an Alaska Airlines 737 MAX was lost, the New York Times reports, citing FAA data. According to the New York Times, auditors examined “many parts of the 737 MAX” as well as employees’ understanding of product quality control principles. The inspections lasted six weeks and involved both Boeing and the supplier, Spirit AeroSystems, which makes the fuselage for the Boeing 737 MAX. The newspaper notes that Boeing passed 56 of the 89 audits. The auditors focused on “many parts of the 737 MAX, including the wings and a number of other systems,” as well as employees’ understanding of product quality control principles.

The audits found 97 instances of alleged noncompliance with manufacturing standards. Spirit AeroSystems failed seven out of the 13 inspections according to FAA documents. Representatives observed mechanics at Spirit AeroSystems using a hotel key card to check the door seal, as well as using liquid soap as a lubricant during the assembly process on the seal. The Boeing 737 is a group of narrow-body, short- to medium-range passenger and transport airliners produced by the Boeing Corporation since 1967. It holds the title of being the most mass-produced passenger aircraft in the history of commercial aviation, with the delivery of the 10,000th airplane taking place on March 13, 2018.

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“I come to this magnificent house of worship tonight because my conscience leaves me no other choice.”

• Only Revolutionary Love Can Save Us Now (Alexander)

Of all the incredible speeches that Martin Luther King, Jr. gave in his life, I think the one that speaks most directly to the times that we are living in now, and that models what is required of us as we face multiple existential threats to our democracy and our world, is the speech that King gave when he publicly condemned the Vietnam War—and was immediately cancelled. That speech has become a touchpoint for me in recent years. Whenever I need a moral compass or my courage begins to falter, I return to the words King spoke on April 4, 1967, one year before his assassination, at the Riverside Church in Manhattan. King said, “I come to this magnificent house of worship tonight because my conscience leaves me no other choice.” He explained that “a time comes when silence is betrayal” and that time had come in relation to Vietnam.

It is difficult to overstate the political risk that King was taking when he stepped to the podium at Riverside Church. Our nation had been at war with Vietnam for two years, more than 400,000 American service members were deployed, and roughly 10,000 American troops had been killed. The war had enthusiastic bipartisan support within the political establishment, and those who dared to criticize the war were often labeled Communists and subjected to vicious forms of retaliation and backlash. Many of King’s friends and allies warned him that speaking the whole truth about the war would jeopardize the fragile gains of the civil rights movement. Little could be gained, they said, by speaking up for people halfway around the world and much could be lost. “Why are you joining the voices of dissent? Aren’t you hurting the cause of your people?” they asked.

King acknowledged the source of their concerns but said that their questions revealed that they did not really know him, his commitment, or his calling. Indeed, as far he was concerned, “they do not know the world in which they live.” King acknowledged that it is not easy for people to speak out against their own government, especially during wartime, and that the situation in Vietnam was complex. But he felt morally obligated to speak for the suffering and helpless children of Vietnam. He said: “This I believe to be the privilege and the burden of all of us who deem ourselves bound by allegiances and loyalties which are broader and deeper than nationalism and which go beyond our nation’s self-defined goals and positions. We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation and for those it calls “enemy,” for no document from human hands can make these humans any less our brothers.”

Far from soft-pedaling his criticism, King described the American government as “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world,” and urged our nation to get on the right side of the liberation struggles occurring around the world. He wondered aloud what the Vietnamese people must think of us, a nation that promises democracy, dignity, and equality but delivers bombs instead. “We herd them off the land of their fathers into concentration camps where minimal social needs are rarely met,” he said. “They know they must move on or be destroyed by our bombs.” In unflinching terms, King condemned the moral bankruptcy of a nation that does not hesitate to invest in bombs and warfare around the world but can never seem to find the dollars to eradicate poverty at home. He called for a revolution of values. He said:

“We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered”. The moment King ended his speech, he was cancelled. More than 60 newspapers railed against him, including the Washington Post and The New York Times. The Post claimed that King’s speech had “diminished his usefulness to his cause, to his country, and to his people.” Many civil rights leaders and organizations criticized him too, including the NAACP. But despite the withering public condemnation, King continued to speak out against the Vietnam War on both moral and economic grounds until his death.

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“..it is definitely unacceptable that certain countries must be at the table while others can only be on the menu.”

• Confident Dragon Lays Out Modernization Roadmap (Pepe Escobar)

This is the Year of the Wooden Dragon, according to China’s classic wuxing (“five elements”) culture. The dragon, one of the 12 signs of the Chinese zodiac, is a symbol of power, nobility and intelligence. Wood adds growth, development and prosperity. Call it a summary of where China is heading in 2024. The second session of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) was finalized on Sunday in Beijing. The wider world should know that within the framework of grassroots democracy with Chinese characteristics, an extremely complex – and fascinating – phenomenon, the importance of the CPPCC is paramount. The CPPCC channels wide-ranging expectations of the average Chinese to the decision level, and actually advises the central government on a vast range of issues – from everyday living to high-quality development strategies.This year, most of the discussion focused on how to drive China’s modernization even faster.

This being China, concepts – like flowers – were blooming all around the spectrum, such as “new quality productive forces, “deepening reform,” “high-standard opening-up,” and a fabulous new one, “major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics.” As the Global Times emphasized, “2024 is not only a critical year for achieving the goals of the ‘14th Five-Year Plan’ but also a key year for achieving the transition to high-quality development of the economy.” So let’s start with Chinese Premier Li Qiang’s first “work report” delivered a week ago, which opened the annual session of the National People’s Congress. The key takeaway: Beijing will be pursuing the same economic targets as in 2023. That translates as 5% annual growth. Of course deflationary risks, a downturn in the real estate market and somewhat shaky business confidence simply won’t vanish. Li was quite realistic, emphasizing Beijing is “keenly aware” of the challenges ahead: “Achieving this year’s targets will not be easy.” And he added: “Global economic growth lacks steam and the regional hotspot issues keep erupting. This has made China’s external environment more complex, severe and uncertain.”

Beijing’s strategy remains focused on a “proactive fiscal policy and prudent monetary policy”. In a nutshell: the song remains the same. There won’t be a “stimulus” of any kind. Deeper answers should be found in the work report/budget released by the National Development and Reform Commission: the focus will be on structural change, via extra funds to science, technology, education, national defense, agriculture. Translation: China bets on strategic investment, the key for a high-quality economic transition. In practice, Beijing will be heavily invested in modernizing industry and developing “new quality productive forces” such as new-energy vehicles, biomanufacturing and commercial space flight. Science Minister Yin Hejun made it clear: there was an 8.1% increase in national investment in research and development in 2023. He wants more – and he will get it: R&D spending will grow by 10% to a total of 370.8 billion yuan. The mantra is “self-reliance”. On all fronts – from chipmaking to AI. A no holds barred tech war is on – and China is totally focused to counter “tech containment” from the Hegemon as much as its ultimate goal is to wrest tech supremacy from its prime competitor.

Beijing simply cannot allow itself to be vulnerable to U.S.-imposed tech choke points and supply chain disruptions. So short-term economic problems will not be causing sleepless nights. The Beijing leadership is always looking ahead – focusing on long-term challenges. Beijing will continue to steer the economic development of Hong Kong and Macau, and invest even more in the crucial Greater Bay Area, which is the premier southern China high tech, services and finance hub. Taiwan of course was central to the work report; Beijing fiercely opposes “external interference” – code for Hegemon tactics. That will become even trickier in May, when William Lai Ching-te, who flirts with independence, becomes president. On defense, there will be only a 7.2% increase in 2024, which is peanuts compared to the Hegemon’s defense budget now approaching $900 billion: China’s stands as $238 billion, even as China’s nominal GDP is approaching the U.S.

A great deal of China’s defense budget will go for emerging tech – considering the immensely valuables lessons the PLA is learning out of the Donbass battlefield, as well as the deep interactions part of the Russia-China strategic partnership. And that brings us to diplomacy. China will continue to be firmly positioned as a champion of the Global South. That was made explicit by Foreign Minister Wang Yi in a press conference on the sidelines of the National People’s Congress. Wang Yi’s priorities: to “maintain stable relations with major powers; join hands with its neighbouring countries for progress; and strive for revitalisation with the Global South”. Wang Yi once again stressed that Beijing favors an “equal and orderly” multipolar world and “inclusive economic globalization”. And of course he could not allow U.S. Secretary of State Little Blinken – always out of his depth – to get away with his latest “recipe”: “It is impermissible that those with the bigger fist have the final say, and it is definitely unacceptable that certain countries must be at the table while others can only be on the menu.

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“..what “capital” is? (Real wealth, not figments, wishes, bets, and hallucinations. . . hard things like good land, ore pockets, installed machinery, railroad tracks, and so on. . . .)”

• Twilight of the Blobs (Jim Kunstler)

[..] in all the ongoing debates about the wonders and dangers of A-I, and Bitcoin, and suffocating surveillance, nobody ever talks about the sketchy condition of the electric grid that all these worrisome phenomena utterly rely on. In our chatter over Peak Oil, there’s little awareness of oil production’s utter dependence on steady capital flows. In all the guff about centralized control emitted by Klaus Schwab and his World Economic Forum, there’s no mention of the centrifugal forces driving human affairs to re-localization, dis-aggregation of large states, and down-scaling of many activities. In our zeal to become Gods, we miss a lot. Imagine: Bitcoin shoots up to a million dollars. You’re a zillionaire! Uh Oh. . . somewhere outside Zaneseville, Ohio, a squirrel takes a final chaw through some old insulation on a wire coming out of a transformer. His head blows up in a blue arc flash, and in a few seconds all the electricity goes out from Chicago to Boston.

It turns out that seventeen substations in ten states have blown relays, transformers, and switchgear. Some of those components were forty years old and are now manufactured twelve thousand miles away in a country that doesn’t like us anymore. The replacement parts get held up in a Chinese port. The power doesn’t come back on for weeks. Nobody who lives in the eastern USA can get to his Bitcoin wallet, which is just a virtual entity made of computer code residing in a digital “cloud,” i.e., nowhere real. Of course, in an event that bad, a lot of other things would fail — really just about everything that comprises modern life — but for sure you could kiss your Bitcoin goodbye, perhaps forever, because by the time the juice comes back on (if it even does), nobody will ever again want to invest their wealth in digital “money” they can’t access, and Bitcoin will go back to whence it came: zero.

Likewise, the financial system we depend on is a gigantic apparatus grown extremely janky from over-elaboration and hyper-complexity — to the degree that all kinds of things denoted as having “moneyness” are simply hallucinations of the markets that trade them. How many quadrillions of dollars do “derivative” financial instruments represent on the landscape of “money” these days? Most of these things amount to little more than bets that some number — an interest rate, a currency, a revenue flow — will change either up or down. That is, they are figments.

Under Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), the evolution of figments can theoretically go on forever. Derivatives can be ever more abstracted from what they purport to represent, until they fly up the system’s cloacal vent. MMT has become popular economic dogma, but its theory remains to be substantiated. Since the formula relies on the unlimited “printing” of money by central bank proxies for governments, you might bet that something will go wrong with such a system — and it kind of looks like something is about to go wrong in the system we’ve built for regulating and distributing capital. And do we need to state what “capital” is? (Real wealth, not figments, wishes, bets, and hallucinations. . . hard things like good land, ore pockets, installed machinery, railroad tracks, and so on. . . .)

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  • March 13, 2024 at 8:45 am #154573
    Raúl Ilargi Meijer
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    Vincent van Gogh Le moulin de blute fin 1886   • Biden Impeachment Inquiry Reveals US Being Ruled by ‘Demented Gangsters’ (Sp.) • Trump Tightens
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle March 13 2024]

    March 13, 2024 at 11:01 am #154574
    oxymoron
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    looks “a whole lot less like any sort of democracy or a free and fair society and a whole lot more like an oligarchy that is ruled by violence and theft and extortion and threats.”

    Ah yes. Exactly this.
    Hypernormalisation meets Good Germans meets death by a thousand cuts and soon to be introduced to Mad Max

    March 13, 2024 at 11:23 am #154575
    EoinW
    Participant

    I thought you only got the Cannibal label if you were mean to Jews. Remember Idi Amin?

    March 13, 2024 at 11:33 am #154576
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

      “…army of cheerleaders.”

    What’s wrong with cheerleaders?
    Didn’t they, the cheerleaders, cheerlead (verb) the COVID debacle and cheer on likes of doctors Fauci, Redfield, Walensky spawned Zelensky and Gottlieb the Antichrist??
    Didn’t those cheerleaders (cheer) lead in 3 of the last 4 hospitals where I worked? Yes, indeed.

    What’s wrong with an army of them?
    Shouldn’t an army of cheerleaders be “leadershipped” by one of their own?

    In other news, Trump proves more than the monumental ass he is that he deserves tried along with Obama for the murder of 8yo Nawar al-Awlaki. Notice a Narcissist like Trump will invariably fry his wingmen and flying monkeys. No one is safe around those guys.

    March 13, 2024 at 11:52 am #154577
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Visa & Mastercard: The Real Threat to the Digital ID Control System

    Visa & Mastercard: The Real Threat to the Digital ID Control System

    March 13, 2024 at 12:05 pm #154578
    Dimitri
    Participant

    Things are bleak in Europe these days. European leaders are caught in a “fight or flight” response, deciding whether they should run and hide or send troops into Ukraine to fight the Menace from the East. However, the existential terror of Emmanuel Macron and his toxic-narcissist accomplices in the EU will have to wait for a dedicated article because this one will focus on the European economy.

    It has puzzled many how the EU has been managing its economy since the beginning of the Ukraine war. There have been two distinct shocks inflicted upon the Eurozone economy since then. The third shock, which may be the worst, is on the way. All of them are direct results of European policies.

    WHY IS THE EUROPEAN UNION DESTROYING ITS OWN ECONOMY?

    March 13, 2024 at 12:52 pm #154579
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “England Bans Use Of Puberty Blockers At Nation’s Gender-Identity Clinics

    Take ten things, give one back. #Winning!!!

    “Ukraine Paramilitary Groups Launch Another Cross-Border Raid Into Russia
    “Russian Oil Refinery Catches Fire Following Ukrainian Drone Attacks

    Still winning that PR battle. The more they do this, the more they have to cease to exist. The more Russia takes to pay for it.

    “Trump Vows To Free Jan. 6 ‘Hostages’ In First Act As President

    Trump promises to “Enforce the Law”. Radical. …Why? As these men were not charged, held in non-human rights conditions, possibly political, and lacked all “Speedy Trial” it is indeed American tradition and policy for a judge to throw it out. Same as rights violations like lacking a warrant. Now we haven’t done that as much lately, and perhaps a trial is preferable (how would any prospective charges not equal time served?) but the principle of it is the only way to punish Government by embarrassing the crooked Prosecutors and system. In fact, it’s the minimum, since the State’s agents should be charged and go to jail instead, but that’s very, very difficult. (Intent)

    Hur: So an off site locked filing cabinet is now considered appropriate for top secret materials? I’ve got a book-trade mailbox in front of my house, is that good?

    Anyway, will it ever matter? A: Has the sun burned out yet?

    ““more than enough evidence to impeach him and arrest him based on him bragging about stuff on camera.” “We really are being, allegedly, governed by complete and total demented gangsters,” he added later.”

    Yes. And you could probably get 100% of Americans to agree. However, those gangsters are in Congress, specifically the Senate, so he cannot be removed and arrested.

    “• Trump Tightens Control Over GOP – Politico (RT)

    It’s good to get rid of the GOP Democrats; that is to say, most of them. However, just handing it to Trump alone is a dangerous idea. This should be resisted, but I don’t know that it’s really happening (it was printed, so probably a lie) and I don’t know what else you can do in a hurry.

    “I also noted that I had never seen the Capitol so thinly protected in a major protest.”

    Seriously, you’re kidding, right? We WATCHED Ray Epps whisper to a policeman who wants to tongue-kiss him, then the barriers are removed. This happened in several places. The Columbus doors are 3,000 pounds of solid bronze. The police themselves released the locks from the control booth on the inside. Then police escorted the Shaman and his communist-tattoo friends up to the rotunta, giving selfies. “Thinly protected”? If only. This isn’t even “Protected”, this is demonstrably helping.

    I guess this outlines that lies are dangerous. Someone is lying. The lie is having large effects. The liar is not identified, prosecuted, and removed. So nothing is fixed. Accomplishing that is the bare minimum.

    Now a number of people have been sharply identified, in evidence if not in court. But none removed. Again, not reaching the bare minimum for national and cultural survival.

    “The reports, which have somehow found their way into the weekly’s possession,”

    A reporter doing journalism? Arrest this man! Don’t you know “leaking documents” is “espionage” and a 400-year sentence? YOu can be extradited to any country in the world that isn’t yours: Britain, Algeria, for it. Yup!

    ““The West can provide 3D printers to manufacture drones or loitering munitions, but will never be able to print men,” the report said.”

    They could but they hate 1) All men 2) All FRENCH men, especially the “White” ones 3) All children, and 4) All mothers. Especially, specifically, and radically, with the heat of a thousand suns, all mothers must be stopped and destroyed. They are the 3-D printers of men, although they do work rather slowly.

    “It described how Russia created “hell” for the Ukrainian troops by using massive glide bombs to inflict more than 1,000 casualties per day.”

    About every sentence in this article is relevant, but we know most of it. 1,000 men a day. Battle was how long? Yeah, that’s 10,000 men right there. Ze says they’ve only lost 30,000 in two years.

    It’ll be a bell curve, but put 1k as the peak, for maybe 5 days, and taper in and out. 20,000? 30,000? Battle’s been on for many months. France was sending how many? Like a week’s worth? Be still my heart.

    “If all this is indeed true (and the facts seem to leave no room for doubt), then it was Zelensky who made the fatal decision to stop negotiations.”

    If you sign, I’ll put this bullet in your head. But Free Choice! Amirite? You’re a free and independent person. Don’t let me and this 9mm hollowpoint sway you.” Uh-huh. Contracts cannot be signed under duress. It’s extortion and fraud. But because we’ve gotten in the habit of doing it every day, we forget.

    By the way that’s Capitalism. The VOLUNTARY exchange of goods. The UNCOERCED exchange of goods. The joint contracts, FREELY entered into. We haven’t seen it in so long people no longer think it’s normal or possible. That’s what happens if you don’t arrest liars, frauds, and violence: quickly they run the place. And I guess they should, since you just abdicated and refused to do “the minimum” for your job.

    “• Russia’s Response To Asset Seizure Could Trigger Global Financial Collapse (RT)

    Yes but it’s sure taking long enough. Europe is amazing to forestall it this long. Sort of like Props to Ukrainian troops. They’re amazing, the fight is stellar. On the other hand, why bother? You’re a bunch of dummkopfs. Sun Tzu would tell you, don’t get into battles you haven’t already won and CERTAINLY not battles you’re certain to lose.

    Go ahead, drag it out, I guess.

    Anyway, they will “Sieze each other’s assets”, AND…? And then type some accounting entries? SO???? You seem to miss that changing the map doesn’t move the mountains. THEY’LL JUST LIE. Like always. “Greece is not in default” when they can’t pay their bonds and never will, CALVINBALL RULZ!!!

    Then, a minute later, when they’ve dumped it on the rubes, they can. See “The Big Short”.

    BTW, if everyone forgot SACHS can and has invested in Russia. MORGAN can and has invested in Russia. YOU CAN’T. You’re locked out. So they BOUGHT in a frozen market because they are Very Special People™ not subject to sanctions, or heck – any laws at all! Now that they bought these at 80% discount, driven down my Congress at their behest, when it flips and Russia reopens because WE LOST, Morgan will sell those to the newly UN-Sanctioned Russia as “there’s a boom.”

    Thanks for caring so, so much about my safety that you stole 80% of my money, boys. That’s why we vote and what we pay you for.

    “• US Builds Gaza Port To Facilitate Mass ‘Voluntary’ Migration: Anadolu (Cradle)

    You cannot sign contracts under duress. That is a crime. 2) There is not a single moment we are not committing crimes.

    “Curiously, it is progressive and woke students at progressive institutions, not conservatives, who are defending both their First Amendment right and expression of moral conscience.”

    Yes this flip-flop on all sides is amazing. Maybe somebody will wake up because of how bananas that is. But not so far.

    “What is really needed is an alliance against those who are destroying the foundations of truth, freedom, and accountable government.”

    We can’t do that! That wouldn’t be in the Left-Right paradigm. That would be a third party that believes in the innate Rights of Man as given by their “Creator”. By the way, the American “Right” is this, because the “Right” should be Statist, but the American right is anti-Statist. So we have two lefts don’t make a right or however you want to put it.

    “• Boeing Failed 37% of Audits by US Regulators (Sp.)

    And nothing happened. We always make the penalty 10% of the crime. That’s tradition! The banks steal $1T in LIBOR rigging, etc and we charge them $1B and no jail time. Then we take the fine and give it to ourselves! Hahaha! I can do this all day!

    “The Boeing 737 holds the title of being the most mass-produced passenger aircraft in the history”

    And used to have no trouble making them in America, with American workers, to all the standards. Decades. But I thought that Americans don’t want these jobs, can’t do them in Detroit! …While Honda doesn’t have any problems with the exact same workforce.

    See what happens when you have a system without bankruptcy, where we bailout people who are incompetent, crooked self-serving morons instead of selling off their assets as total failures to people who can use them? Thanks Daddy government, now we’ll never have a GM who can make a car. Ever. And thus they are likewise protecting Boeing, AND where are all the Martin Mariettas, the Bombardiers, Hughes Aircraft, etc to compete? Oh, we FORGOT that monopolies are illegal. So government approved them all! And now OUTLAW all competition. Like the Tucker, but for example there are scores of companies like Tata, MD Juan and others who are locked out of America for hundreds of arcane reasons all pointing back to lobbyists. New car for $10,000? Definitely. But that’s not allowed.

    Competition. It’s what we outlaw! That’s Capitalism.

    “is the speech that King gave when he publicly condemned the Vietnam War—and was immediately cancelled”

    Yes, it’s been very useful to propose King was killed for Black Civil Rights, even those who put it on an FBI conspiracy. But he wasn’t. They were using him FOR that. What they were AGAINST was unifying race relations and going after WAR. The Death Cult. As today, you can see it in all battles. Where are the lines? Right there. Left-Right unified on killing everyone, particularly Slavs, but mostly anyone will do. Division is created to defend this killing. Budgets are universally approved fro this killing. We have 10 million homeless to pay for this killing. We have 50,000 drug deaths to pay for this killing. We have world-wide censorship to hide this killing. We jail and execute reporters to enforce this killing.

    “I wanna kill. Kill. I wanna see blood and gore and guts and veins in my teeth. Eat dead burnt bodies. I mean kill. Kill. KILL! KILL!”

    Yup. And so Nixon said he spread drugs nationwide with the hippies to defend the Kill.

    “you could kiss your Bitcoin goodbye, perhaps forever, because by the time the juice comes back on (if it even does), nobody will ever again want to invest their wealth in digital “money” they can’t access,”

    He nails this people usually miss: the BITCOIN remains. When the power comes back on, it persists, right where it was when it went off. However as he said, people may think it’s a lot less stable in a crisis = lower value. Then misses the full implication of his next sentence: EVERYTHING ELSE IS THE SAME AS BITCOIN. If Bitcoin is down (power + the internet), gasoline is down. Trucking is down. Cabbage is down. Eggs are down. Water is down. Your going to work is down. Heck, in 5 days, FARMING is down. No Diesel + no tractor parts?

    So point well taken, and I’d tell you 10,000 times not to do this, but they did, so does it matter? At this point if Bitcoin isn’t working, your sink, toilet, and putting food in your mouth isn’t working. What’s the difference? Translation: They are a-gonna GET that Internet back up and working. It would take as many years as built it to un-build it and seriously re-create clipboards and shoeboxes of paper cash in every store. That’s ain’t happening. It SHOULD, but we don’t have a solitary person who’s working on it. In fact, as above, it’s ILLEGAL. Explain to the Auditors, Anderson, how this one ledger is all on hand-written paper two days in coast of Mississippi. Yup, they’ll flag it and the IRS will fine. It’s de facto ILLEGAL not to be on the internet, reporting every dollar in real time. When the same Congress talks about EMPs.

    Italian:

    He’s talking about “Being Human”. Worldwide, everywhere. Yeah, It was systemically identified, tracked down, and killed. In 1950, when they wanted the system to support a healthy, strong society, so they could have a unified military marching worldwide, they paid for non-stop marketing support with “Drink Milk” “Leave it to Beaver” goodness and family. Then when were are slated to be liquidated and destroyed, they spent a Trillion dollars since 1970 to do the #Opposite, to kill every family, health, goodness.

    Just because we’re at the front edge of the annihilation and genocide campaign doesn’t make it “Natural”, or even “American.” Actually there’s nothing LESS American than this. What was the “Rugged individualism” as I dunno laid out by our most recent icons, like Norman Rockwell, Robert Frost, Western Cowboys like Gene Autry? Well? Look.

    One
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    Does this LOOK like he’s alone? How about this one?

    two
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    Do they LOOK individual?

    What are the Western Ranches? Yes we see the kingpin of the main family, but what is “A ranch”? There are dozen, scores of people, cowboys, cooks, fieldhands, accountants, others, in every film. Wildly “Individual” like “Yellowstone” to all be related, live in the same house, support each other all day.

    And the Log Cabin frontier. They didn’t walk out one man, one ax. The ENTIRE TOWN moved from Connecticut, the whole extended family, 5 households and 20 people. The Wagon Trains? Why’d they call them “Trains”? Same thing: Hundreds of people you know and were related to, all banded together for your “Individualism”. That is to say:

    IT NEVER HAPPENED. IT IS A LIE.

    Why is THIS lie promoted at THIS time? Exactly to CAUSE the effects be speaks of above. That it to say, it’s not natural any more than the conditions of the Americans on the Reservation are “Natural”. It’s SPECIFICALLY engineered to destroy every man, every culture, every prosperity, health and all life itself, and to do so ILLEGALLY, violently, permanently.

    So it’s not “Americans” doing this, believing this. When Papa Bush drops a million tons of crack on 10 zip codes in L.A. the people “Chose” to take it, right? Like when Zelensky has a gun to his head: prosecute the war or your immediate assassination, it’s free choice, he “Chose” it, right? When the FBI refuses to prosecute any crime on the Rez, backs corrupt government, kills anyone in their way in a disappearance and death rate higher than Pinochet, it’s the Lakota’s fault, right? They voted in that government just like Canada did, because every other candidate is dead in the desert and can’t run.

    No, America for 300 years was the #Opposite of this, for every minute, until “Lo! Then a Miracle Happened” and it all reversed one day in 1971. Every book, movie, TV, magazine, school suddenly went from “Father Knows Best” to Total Feminism, Mary Tyler Moore, Rhoda, Archie Bunker, don’t need me no family, don’t need me no man, overnight. But it was all natural, although everyone got up one day and reversed everything they ever said, thought, or did for 300 years, there was no one behind it!

    Because I am a coincidence theorist, and that is not unusual at all. Happens all the time, now, right?

    March 13, 2024 at 1:03 pm #154580
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Misguided development? Thomas Palley, Founder of Economics for Democratic & Open Societies

    https://www.rt.com/shows/worlds-apart-oksana-boyko/594000-founder-economics-for-democratic-and-open-societies/

    March 13, 2024 at 2:30 pm #154581
    jb-hb
    Participant

    This post over at Moon Of Alabama is instructive

    So why were western media, and politicians like Macron, late in recognizing the real situation?

    They don’t understand modern money and actually believed the sanctions would work. I was talking to an ex US state department employer who helped with putting the sanction package together. I explained to him why they didn’t work. It took me 15 mins on Twitter and showed him the balance sheets and government accounts.

    He was so embarrassed he ran off. The guy who posted the sanctions package his buddy a chief economist from the European commission removed the package from Twitter that only an hour before he had posted it with such a fanfare.

    I got banned soon after that.

    A month later the ex US state department guy who I had shown why the sanctions wouldn’t work, actually claimed he worked out himself why the sanctions hadn’t worked as if he knew why the didn’t work all along. When the truth was he didn’t have a clue and thought the package posted by his buddy in the European commission with such a fanfare would work.

    I’ll try and find it and give you the names of the people I am on about. They’ll still be on Twitter one was a European chief economist who worked for the European comission.

    They knew fine well militarily they would never win. They really did believe the sanctions would work.

    This is what I showed him

    https://new-wayland.com/blog/how-russian-gas-is-paid-for/

    It was really simple, the reason they wouldn’t work was friendly countries to Russia, their banks in friendly countries would off set the risk and make an absolute fortune doing so. Free from the sanctions.

    He recognised their mistake within 15 mins and was absolutely mortified the best so called economists in Europe and the US state department has missed it. He had missed it and helped with the package.

    Also acted as if Russia used the Euro and that Russian exports would fund the Russian treasury. Absolute bonkers.

    They are not as clever as they think they are and they get paid a fortune for not only being wrong but for being infected by GROUPTHINK.

    So if someone gives you priceless FREE counsel, delete the thing they helped you with. Do not pay them or hire them or even thank them.

    No, ban them, silence them, delete them to the extent you can this particular minute.

    If we could, we’d disappear them or line them up against a wall in front of a firing squad, and it IS sad we can’t, but to the extent we CAN erase them for helping us, definitely that.

    Or was the whole point that the West do something ineffectual and self-defeating?

    Dr D from yesterday

    #Integrity. That is, to be “Integrated”. If you are Integrated, then one part doesn’t constantly conflict and disagree with the others.

    The train tunnel in Atlas Shrugged – the railroad worker had never before been placed in a situation in which his customers, he, his boss, and his company’s interests had not aligned.

    I know I’ve recommended it before, but here it is again – A Deepness In The Sky by Vernor Vinge has multiple scenarios of no-integrity people locked in the control room. Reads like a quick 300 page space opera despite its 900+ pages, but on re-read, is packed with concepts. Prophetic absolute top tier scifi book. I know of no other quite as relevant to the past few decades.

    March 13, 2024 at 2:55 pm #154582
    zerosum
    Participant

    complicity

    What happened/history/past depends on the perceived, accepted, definition by recognized experts.

    Definition experts are lawyers/politicians/liars.

    out of touch with the reality
    ————–
    any protected ethnicity can define hate speech as any words they claim to experience as “painful.”
    Ultimately, this will mean that they, as individuals, cannot be charged with a crime.
    South Africa’s experience with the International Court of Justice shows how difficult it is to charge the Israeli government with a crime even when Israel is committing genocide.

    The Israel Lobby long ago defined anti-semitism.
    It is any criticism, true or false, of a Jew or of Israel.
    For example, to protest Israel’s slaughter or genocide of Palestinians is anti-semitic.
    To even report, quoting their own words, Israeli government officials and rabbis calling for the murder of Palestinian women and children and for the extinction of Palestinians is anti-semitism.
    If you can’t complain about mass murder, or even report the words of those calling for it, what can you complain about?
    Recently three presidents of Ivy League universities, all female and one black, were called before the US Congress and scolded for allowing their students to protest Israel’s slaughter of Palestinians.
    The three women were guilty of permitting students to have First Amendment rights and were treated as if they had organized the protests themselves.
    The black female president of Harvard had to resign.
    In the UK, University of London students were suspended for their pro-Palestine protests.
    I find it extraordinary that Jews alone among all ethnicities can control what can be said about them.

    “truth” consists of controlled narratives that serve the interests of the ruling elites?
    —————-

    March 13, 2024 at 3:25 pm #154583
    zerosum
    Participant

    Duh!

    March 13, 2024 at 3:37 pm #154584
    Oroboros
    Participant

    • Biden Impeachment Inquiry Reveals US Being Ruled by ‘Demented Gangsters’

    I’ve been saying the ‘Demented Gangsters’ thing for years

    Everyone thought I was being to harsh.

    I wasn’t I was being generous.

    The Biden Crime Family are actually subhuman cannibal maggots

    .

    March 13, 2024 at 3:44 pm #154585
    Oroboros
    Participant

    BREAKING NEWS: Barbecue is now the current leader of Haiti. Haitian prime minister resigned as gang leader ‘Barbecue’ steps into power.

    Nice touch with the FreeMasonry Square and Compass and the “G” for God

    I’ll sure the Biden Crime Family will take an ‘interest’ in Barbaque

    Sweet Dreams Haiti, you gonna need it….

    .

    March 13, 2024 at 3:46 pm #154586
    Oroboros
    Participant

    It is now full-blown organ harvest season in Haiti for Team Clinton…

    .

    March 13, 2024 at 3:52 pm #154587
    Noirette
    Participant

    WHERE do US ‘AID’ funds go? I was asked, hard to answer, my response here.

    NB. 2023 fiscal yr. nos not in yet. + Publically available account, Many other transfers may not be logged.

    US Gvmt. dashboard of foreign aid. https://www.foreignassistance.gov

    Projects, activities, in the charts and texts, MY labelling.

    Summary of Top 20 rows. B billion, M million.

    Fiscal year 2022

    UKR econo support 5.8 B
    ISR milit 3.3 B
    Global Fund 2.3 B
    Global Fund 1.9 B
    UKR econo support 1.7 B
    UKR security 1.5 B
    Egypt security 1.2 B
    International devp. 1 B
    Clean Tech 950 M
    HIV/AIDS 720 M
    UKR econo 620 M
    UKR devp 500 M
    Jordan milit 425 M
    Somalia humanit 395 M
    Yemen ‘assistance’ 383 M
    UKR devp 379 M
    AFGH refugee aid 355 M
    HIV/AIDS 319 M
    Sub-Sahara via UN aid 318 M
    Czechia milit 306 M

    Fiscal Year 2023 (partial nos.)

    UKR econo support 14.4 B
    ISR milit 3.3 B
    Egypt security 1.2 B
    Europe Eurasia milit 1.1 B
    Global Fund 811 M
    Jordan cash transfer 771 M

    (Note huge jump in UKR econo in 23.)

    — Adding up 2022 Global Fund and HIV/AIDS ‘Health’ would be just behind > UKR at 5.2 B. The Global Fund is a Gates Org., it was set up (imho) as a competitor to the WHO. Their site:

    https://www.theglobalfund.org/en/

    — Egypt (as a country) is the 3rd recipient of US aid. See, the Rafah border is closed.

    March 13, 2024 at 4:06 pm #154588
    zerosum
    Participant

    Misleading information (liars)
    Ukrainians drones, missiles, attack …. truth is foreign, (uk), guided, armament supplied to Ukraine

    foreign aid.
    (broken window aid)

    March 13, 2024 at 4:25 pm #154589
    zerosum
    Participant

    Control narrative – shut down the internet

    March 13, 2024 at 5:48 pm #154590
    my parents said know
    Participant

    Shout-out to aspnaz, post 154533, with the proper 7-race solution to the horses. My posting was essentially the same, a bit later that night. Husband of MPSK.

    (We were out most of the day. mpsk)

    March 13, 2024 at 6:32 pm #154591
    my parents said know
    Participant

    zerosum- if they shut down the internet, how will they stuff heads full of The Narrative?
    (answer: a license to “drive” the internet.)

    Has anyone seen someone interview some of the “migrants” to ask them, for example, if they have been told they will get be able to take what they want when the cue is given via their dotgov phones?
    (And what that “cue” might be?)
    Has a reporter gone down to a recruitment place where people can sign up to go to the USA? What are they told? The Darien Gap reports were interesting, but further back would be more interesting.

    March 13, 2024 at 6:45 pm #154592
    zerosum
    Participant

    Again, Demonstration of Lost of Control
    False nuclear rain attack/scare/fear rhetoric is aimed at getting the war machines to do something to destroy/depopulate.

    March 13, 2024 at 6:50 pm #154593
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Has anyone seen someone interview some of the “migrants” to ask them, for example, if they have been told they will get be able to take what they want when the cue is given via their dotgov phones?

    I was just reflecting this morning that the globalists/marxists/Democrats/deepstate/lizardpeople/idk strategy basically boils down to Blazing Saddles, complete with evil Attorney Generals and despicable mobs

    March 13, 2024 at 6:52 pm #154594
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/countries-shutting-down-internet-most
    The Countries Shutting Down The Internet The Most

    In many countries, the drastic step of shutting down the internet is employed in response to actual or potential unrest. Shutdowns generally occur when someone (usually a government) intentionally disrupts the internet or social media networks. The measure has been widely criticized as too drastic a curbing of freedom of expression and an encroachment of peoples’ everyday lives especially if it is done to shut down dissent.

    As Statista’s Katharinia Buchholz reports, Egypt’s 2011 revolution and the failed Turkish military coup of 2016 are prime examples of internet shutdowns employed in this way.

    March 13, 2024 at 7:05 pm #154595
    jb-hb
    Participant

    A Deepness In The Sky, in addition to many other prophetic things, addressed how the internet would be handled when an op or coup was being run. Incidentally, Timothy Gawne in NEOLIBERAL ECONOMISTS MUST DIE (his caps) came to the same conclusions.

    Keep the internet on, but flood it with propaganda and astroturf WHILE making any opposition out to be crazy weirdos while flooding the internet with fake people “on the side of” the opposition, but posting extremist or crazy things. While things keep getting upvoted, boosted by an algo, deleted or shadowbanned in weird ways.

    Examples – an engineer wants to know why there was so much sulphur in the WTC steel – suddenly swarms of “people” with theories about mini nukes, gravity lasers (grazers?) and UFOs swamp relevant sections of the internet while espousing homophobic misogynist racist fascist sentiments.

    March 13, 2024 at 7:18 pm #154596
    my parents said know
    Participant

    Operation Gladio goes digital.

    It might be hilarious (/s) when all those false flakers still somehow manage to vote DNC.

    March 13, 2024 at 7:18 pm #154597
    zerosum
    Participant

    Control the narrative.
    U.S. House passes bill that could ban TikTok
    https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/u-s-house-passes-bill-that-could-ban-tiktok-1.6805735
    The House on Wednesday passed a bill that would lead to a nationwide ban of the popular video app TikTok if its China-based owner doesn’t sell, as lawmakers acted on concerns that the company’s current ownership structure is a national security threat.
    The bill, passed by a vote of 352-65, now goes to the Senate, where its prospects are unclear.

    March 13, 2024 at 7:39 pm #154598
    zerosum
    Participant

    Control the narrative.
    Pick one of these, Biden or Trump.
    Nawww!
    Pick the replacement VP
    If you care, Place your bets

    March 13, 2024 at 8:24 pm #154599
    my parents said know
    Participant

    DBS, if you’re out there today-
    I was archiving my poems and noticed that I didn’t thank you for your excellent revision the other day.
    So, thanks!

    March 13, 2024 at 8:44 pm #154600
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @MyParentsSaidKnow

    You’re welcome. I couldn’t stifle the inspiration.

    March 13, 2024 at 8:50 pm #154601
    zerosum
    Participant

    Uncontrolled narrative
    Russian oil and gas industry facilities hit by kamikaze UAVs since 2024.
    1 – Orel. Oil depot | 09.01.24
    2 – Bryansk region. Oil depot | 19.01.24
    3 – Leningrad region. Novatek terminal | 21.01.24
    4 – Krasnodar region. OIL REFINERY | 25.01.24
    5 – St. Petersburg. Oil refinery | 31.01.24
    6 – Volgograd. OIL REFINERY | 03.02.24
    7 – Krasnodar region. OIL REFINERY | 09.02.24
    8 – Kursk region. Oil depot | 15.02.24
    9 – Belgorod region. Oil depot | 05.03.24
    10 – Kursk region. Fuel tank | 06.03.24
    11 – Orel. Oil depot | 12.03.24
    12 – Nizhny Novgorod region. OIL REFINERY | 12.03.24

    https://t.me/Novichok_Rossiya_2/2768

    Here is Sean Foo’s take, looks worse than it is. It is all for UKR PR and maintaining western support, it won’t put a dent in RAF’s fuel capacities, what it does is prevent RF from exporting finished oil products, and the RF has already put a six month moratorium on exports, but it’s a tiny part of Russia’s export revenue. However what it does is increase global demand for Russian crude so that the RoW can increase their refining capacities for themselves and for profit from export, and, crude is a very big part of Russias export revenue. If Foo has it right, it’s just more ill conceived sanctions blowback on the part of the west.

    A major Russian oil refinery just got hit marking a new dangerous point in this economic war. Vital infrastructure is now being targeted risking supply and demand shocks to the world. Meanwhile, in response to US sanctions, China is moving their supply chains elsewhere starting with their wheat supply.
    US inflation just surged higher, this will just complicate the rate cuts, pushing the world to the brink.
    ————

    March 13, 2024 at 8:57 pm #154602
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Free Speech is DEAD in Limey Land.

    Shakespeare would have gotten life in jail in modern Albion

    He command of the language was unparalleled but he was not a Woketard

    Limey Land is a shell of it’s former self.

    A husk, a straw man withering in the cold desolate winds of the North Atlantic.

    A has-been former country

    A decaying relic

    .

    Meanwhile back in Duh’merica, also a shell and relic we have this…Ta-Da!

    .

    March 13, 2024 at 9:01 pm #154603
    jb-hb
    Participant

    In Normandy and other coastal areas, the Germans erected telephone poles and strung barbed wire between the tops, to interdict or kill paratroopers – referred to by the paratroopers as “Rommel’s Broccoli”

    We put up 4 storey-tall nets for golf facilities. You’d think netting like that would be up all over the place in strategically important locations

    https://www.installartificial.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Blog/Blog%20Photos/Best%20Golf%20Driving%20Ranges%20in%20Los%20Angeles/The%20lakes%20at%20el%20segundo%20golf%20driving%20range.jpg?width=1920&name=The%20lakes%20at%20el%20segundo%20golf%20driving%20range.jpg

    March 13, 2024 at 9:03 pm #154604
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Only 834 deported because the other 335,000 are Rocket Scientists

    And you know how far,far behind the Empire of Lies Military Mafia is behind Russian hypersonic missile technology!

    .

    March 13, 2024 at 9:09 pm #154605
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Bidenomics has lead to a concealed Depression.

    You don’t see soup lines like the 1930’s because of “food stamps’ credit cards.

    The unemployment numbers are concealed and cooked, same with GNP, same with ALL government stats.

    Depression, not a ‘deep recession’.

    .

    March 13, 2024 at 9:21 pm #154606
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Peter St Onge, Ph.D.
    @profstonge

    Hardship withdrawals from 401k retirement accounts hit a fresh record. Up 30% on the year and tripling the pre-pandemic rate.

    1 in 7 Americans now has a loan against their 401k. Nearly half borrowed to avoid foreclosure. With medical bills coming in #2.

    With household debt also hitting a fresh record of nearly $150,000 while credit cards charge 24%, people are turning to the last pot of money they have left: Their retirement savings.

    https://www.bing.com/search?q=Peter+St+Onge&form=QBLH&sp=-1&lq=0&pq=peter+st+onge&sc=11-13&qs=n&sk=&cvid=246B94D96D0041F1B8C75F4BF97D8EB2&ghsh=0&ghacc=0&ghpl=

    March 13, 2024 at 9:22 pm #154607
    Oroboros
    Participant

    March 13, 2024 at 9:26 pm #154608
    Oroboros
    Participant

    They’re Coming

    Nice touch with the big wad of prisoners

    Sweet

    .

    March 13, 2024 at 9:49 pm #154609
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Correction: Rommel’s Asparagus

    https://alchetron.com/cdn/rommels-asparagus-43af7a49-ac8d-4841-854a-1dd1b133f93-resize-750.jpg

    March 13, 2024 at 9:53 pm #154610
    zerosum
    Participant

    Not from MSM
    https://english.almanar.com.lb/2063349
    Hezbollah Pounds Israeli Barracks with More than 100 Rockets
    1 day ago March 13, 2024
    Hezbollah on Tuesday pounded Israeli sites with more than hundred rockets in response to the Zionist aggression on Bekaa a day earlier.

    In a statement, Hezbollah Military Media declared that the Islamic Resistance fighters fired, at 07:00 am on Tuesday, the command headquarters of the air and missile defense in Kela Barracks and the missile and artillery base in Yoav, as well as the surrounding emplacements in the area with over a hundred Katyusha rockets.

    The statement stressed that the strike was “in support of our steadfast Palestinian people in Gaza and the brave and honorable resistance, and in response to the Israeli assaults against our people, villages, and cities, most recently in the vicinity of Baalbek city which resulted in the martyrdom of a citizen.”

    Al-Manar correspondent reported that several barrages of rockets were fired from Lebanon at Golan Heights and Galilee Panhandle.

    The rocket barrages were also reported by activists on social media, with photos and videos being posted.

    For its part, Israeli media reported that some 100 rockets were fired from Lebanon.

    Hezbollah fired a barrage of some 70 rockets from Lebanon at the Golan Heights this morning, The Times of Israel reported, citing Israeli occupation army.

    “A second barrage of around 30 rockets is fired from Lebanon, taking the total projectiles launched this morning toward Israel to some 100. Sirens did not sound for the second barrage,” the Israeli media outlet added.

    At least one Lebanese civilian was martyred and several others were injured after the Israeli enemy launched four strikes on the eastern Lebanese city of Baalbek.

    One of the strikes hit the southern entrance of Baalbek while the three other strikes hit near the city of Taraya, 20 km west of Baalbek.

    Later at 10:15, the Islamic Resistance fighters fired a Burkan missile towards Al-Raheb site, resulting in a direct hit, Hezbollah’s Military Media announced in the second statement for Tuesday.

    The Military Media also published a map that shows the strike on Al-Raheb site.

    March 13, 2024 at 10:11 pm #154611
    poppie
    Participant

    jbhb
    If you watch some of the more recent telegram videos, you can see the russians have put canopies over their vehicles. Seems obvious. The lack of supports the prognosis that some people in a position of influence are really just stupid.

    March 13, 2024 at 11:13 pm #154613
    jb-hb
    Participant

    poppie – interesting – I’ve seen footage of Ukranian drones flying down open vehicle hatches. Yeah, a vehicle canopy makes a LOT of sense. Seems like even mosquito netting or soccer netting, draped from something added, could do the trick. Doesn’t seem it would be all that difficult to do

    https://imgs.search.brave.com/yngzHrpZIeQS0rknRa49Nh3KmTwjICimquTIA-b6tJQ/rs:fit:500:0:0/g:ce/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cu/d2FyaGlzdG9yeW9u/bGluZS5jb20vd3At/Y29udGVudC91cGxv/YWRzL3NpdGVzLzY0/LzIwMTkvMDIvYnVu/ZGVzYXJjaGl2X2Jp/bGRfMTQ2LTIwMDUt/MDEzOF9oZXJic3Rt/YW5vY2M4OHZlcl9k/ZXNfZ3J1cHBlbmtv/bW1hbmRvc18yLTc0/MXg1MzcuanBn

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