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Debt Rattle March 22 2024

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Stolen from Gardner Museum March 18 1990, the single largest art theft in the world. Never recovered.

 

• NY Prepares To Seize Trump Assets In Westchester County (ZH)
• Judge Grants Trump’s Request to Appeal Fani Willis Disqualification Decision (ET)
• The Path to Victory for Trump (Hammer)
• The “Perversity” of Michael Cohen (Turley)
• Trump Fears Alzheimer’s – WaPo (RT)
• What Is Necessary For The Ukrainian “Sanitary Zone” To Be Sanitary? (Helmer)
• Ukraine Forced To Close Controversial ‘War Sponsors’ Blacklist (RT)
• Russian Troops To Kill All French Soldiers In Ukraine – Senior Lawmaker (TASS)
• Biden’s Point Man Visits Ukraine With Bundle of Promises (Sp.)
• Ukrainian Officers Negligent in Duties and Attitude to Personnel – POW (Sp.)
• US Submits Draft Resolution To UN Calling For Gaza Ceasefire – Blinken (TASS)
• Authorized Atrocities (Patrick Lawrence)
• Russia and China Reach Shipping Deal With Houthis (RT)
• Yemen’s Indian Ocean Checkmate (Harb)
• Justice Department Considering Plea Deal for Assange (Antiwar)

 

 

 

 

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Irreversible. Theft. SCOTUS better hurry. Or the US will not have a justice system left.

• NY Prepares To Seize Trump Assets In Westchester County (ZH)

The state of New York has positioned itself to seize Donald Trump’s assets in Westchester County following a $454 million civil fraud judgement against the former president. The state registered the massive judgement in the county, a sign that his properties in the area may be at risk of being seized if Trump can’t post an appeal bond. The judgement, registered March 6 according to the Westchester Country Clerk’s online database, didn’t give any reason for the registration, nor did it specifically identify any of Trump’s assets, but it will allow Attorney General Letitia James to more easily secure liens on two of the billionaire’s most valuable properties – Trump National Golf Club Westchester, and the 212-acre Seven Springs estate which remains mostly undeveloped, Bloomberg reports.

James has said she’s prepared to start seizing Trump assets if he misses a March 25 deadline to post a bond for 120% of the judgment to put it on hold while he appeals. She hasn’t started that process, and the registration in Westchester County doesn’t automatically mean she will attempt to seize the properties. It’s nevertheless a clear sign they’re at risk. Trump, who is campaigning to return to the White House in the November election, has asked a New York appeals court to waive the bond while he challenges the verdict, or allow him to post a smaller one for $100 million. A ruling on that request, which James opposes, could come at any time.

Trump and his sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, were found by Judge Arthur Engoron to be liable for inflating the former president’s assets in order to obtain better terms on loans – despite the banks involved all saying they did their own internal due diligence and were happy with the relationship. In a March 18 filing, Trump said that an appeal bond is “unattainable,” as insurance companies that arrange them won’t take his real estate as collateral – only cash, which Trump has previously warned he doesn’t have. If the court doesn’t help him with a lower bond, Trump says he’ll have to sell properties in a “fire sale” to raise money. In Manhattan, the state doesn’t have to register the judgement since that’s where the verdict was handed down. Trump properties in the Big Apple include Trump Tower and his skyscraper located at 40 Wall Street.

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Is he backpedalling?

• Judge Grants Trump’s Request to Appeal Fani Willis Disqualification Decision (ET)

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee has granted former President Donald Trump’s request for a certificate of immediate review, allowing the former president and seven co-defendants to appeal the judge’s order denying the disqualification of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. The certificate of immediate review, filed on March 20 at the Superior Court of Fulton County in Georgia, allows President Trump and seven co-defendants to seek an appeal from the Georgia Court of Appeals, which has the discretion to accept or decline to hear the case. “Judge McAfee has issued a certificate of immediate review allowing us to take our motion to disqualify Fani Willis directly to the Georgia Court of Appeals,” David Shafer, former chairman of the Georgia Republican Party and one of the seven co-defendants, said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, commenting on the judge’s decision.

Besides Mr. Shafer, the co-defendants who can appeal the judge’s disqualification ruling are Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, Robert Cheeley, Michael Roman, Harrison Floyd, and Cathleen Latham. All of them had joined the initial motion to disqualify Ms. Willis and later joined the motion for a certificate of immediate review. The request for immediate review, filed on March 18 by Steve Sadow, attorney to President Trump, stems from Judge McAfee’s decision to allow Ms. Willis to remain on the high-profile case, in which the former president is accused of election interference. President Trump has denied wrongdoing and has called the case a politically motivated “witch hunt” meant to undermine his 2024 comeback bid for the White House. Ms. Willis was accused of engaging in an “improper” romantic relationship with prosecutor Nathan Wade and benefitting from it financially. The two acknowledged the relationship but denied any financial benefit or conflict of interest.

Judge McAfee said in a March 15 order that there was an appearance of impropriety but that no conflict of interest had been proven. He found that disqualifying Ms. Willis wouldn’t be the appropriate remedy to the appearance of impropriety and instead ordered Mr. Wade off the case. Mr. Wade resigned hours after the morning order was issued. In earlier testimony, Mr. Wade had acknowledged a romantic relationship with Ms. Willis but testified that it had ended before the election case indictment was handed up. Judge McAfee noted that Mr. Wade’s inconsistent answers under oath in his recent divorce case showed a willingness to “conceal” his relationship with Ms. Willis, and he opined that an “odor of mendacity” lingered on the prosecution team with Ms. Willis’s and Mr. Wade’s testimonies in his court.

Given the seriousness of the appearance issue as described by the judge, the defendants argued that the removal of Mr. Wade wasn’t sufficient. Judge McAfee had a 10-day window to decide whether he would allow a review of his disqualification decision. Allowing review could technically halt pretrial proceedings for up to 45 days while an appeals court decides whether to take the case. However, in his March 20 certificate of immediate review, Judge McAfee said that the court intends “to continue addressing the many other unrelated pending pretrial motions, regardless of whether the petition is granted within 45 days of filing, and even if any subsequent appeal is expedited by the appellate court.” The case still has 15 defendants (four have accepted plea bargains) and is expected to run for about six months.

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“..the Democratic Party in its fetid current form is wholly unfit to govern the local assisted living facility—to say nothing of the greatest country in the world.”

• The Path to Victory for Trump (Hammer)

For the many Americans who are neither Trump enthusiasts nor card-carrying Democratic partisans, this choice at the ballot box may be less than fully enticing. But for those patriots who still love this country, warts and all, and in spite of our ruinous current trajectory and decadence, it is imperative that Trump secures a second presidential term. It really is that simple. You may admire Trump’s willingness to challenge conventional orthodoxies and his instinctual nationalism, or maybe you think he is an unprincipled politician and an obnoxious boor, to boot. Perhaps you believe Trump is now being persecuted by a weaponized prosecutorial apparatus, or you might have deep qualms about voting for someone found guilty of a crime by a jury of his peers. But whatever it is you think about the polarizing 45th president of the United States, it doesn’t really matter. The reality is that the Democratic Party in its fetid current form is wholly unfit to govern the local assisted living facility—to say nothing of the greatest country in the world.

And whoever once said American elections don’t present a binary choice is a moron; that is precisely what they do. Patriots of all stripes must therefore band together to get Trump across the finish line this November. Trump can certainly make that task easier (or harder) based on how he runs his campaign this year. Here is what he should do. Since Trump is the first former president to run for a non-consecutive additional term since Theodore Roosevelt in 1912, his campaign is somewhat anomalous. Most challengers to an incumbent president seeking reelection can only talk about what they will do once they are in office and how that agenda differs from the incumbent’s record. But Trump already served a full term; he has a record. What’s more, that term was just a few years ago; most voters remember it well.The key to Trump’s reelection this fall, then, is to make the straightforward case that his term was demonstrably better for the median American citizen than Biden’s term has been.

On the economy, Biden has presided over the worst inflation in four decades, declining real wages, a formal recession, and a historic supply chain crisis. Trump, by contrast, oversaw a generally flourishing pre-COVID economy: the stock market soared, inflation was generally subdued, America became a net exporter of oil and natural gas for the first time ever, and the Black unemployment rate even reached the lowest it has been since that statistic was first measured. On the border, Biden has presided over the worst crisis in American history: Endless streams of unknown illegal aliens have flooded over, leading to a massive strain on municipalities’ resources, skyrocketing violent crime, depressed wages for working-class Americans, and the mass importation of terrorism-implicating “special interest aliens.” Trump, by contrast, may not have finished construction of the border wall, but illegal immigration was orders of magnitude lower than it is today due in no small part to the prudent measures he implemented, such as Remain in Mexico.

On the world stage, Vladimir Putin did not march into Ukraine under Trump (indeed, it is curious that Putin invaded Crimea during the Obama presidency in 2014 and then waited patiently until the next Democratic president to invade again), and under Trump, Hamas did not infiltrate Israel and kill the most Jews in a single day since the defeat of Nazi Germany. Iran was on the brink of economic catastrophe by the end of Trump’s term due to his administration’s “maximum pressure” campaign; under Biden, the Islamic Republic has been “maximally emboldened” to sow the seeds of jihad all over the Middle East. For all the talk of Trump’s “chaos,” there was not a single major war abroad during his presidency. The 2024 presidential campaign is going to get ugly. Democrats have barely commenced the advertising onslaught that is to come, wherein they will depict Trump as a Mafia-like thug and shamelessly compare Jan. 6, 2021, to 9/11. Trump’s best chance this fall is to ignore the noise and prove, contrary to the smear campaigns, that he is the superior candidate in terms of competence, stability, and sanity. He has the record to prove it.

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“If lying were an art form, former Trump fixer Michael Cohen would be its Rembrandt..”

• The “Perversity” of Michael Cohen (Turley)

Michael Cohen was back in court this week and it did not go well. The former fixer for Donald Trump was in court seeking a reduction in his federal sentence and to answer for his use of Google’s AI chatbot to submit arguments with fake case authority. However, things went off the rails when his counsel cited his prior testimony as evidence of his rehabilitation. U.S. District Judge Jesse M. Furman called the argument “perverse” and noted that Cohen is clearly a serial perjurer and cited the need for continued “deterrence.” That is hardly a promising review before Cohen appears as the star witness for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg in the prosecution of former president Donald Trump. If lying were an art form, former Trump fixer Michael Cohen would be its Rembrandt. Throughout his career, the disbarred lawyer has found powerful clients who valued his reputation for supporting any side that offered the biggest payback.

For full disclosure, I have been a critic of Cohen for years, including columns when he was still representing Trump. Cohen has been repeatedly accused of perjury. For example, after Cohen turned on Trump, he went from being a pariah to a hero for many Democrats. Yet, he continued the same pattern. When he was called before the House to testify against Trump soon after his plea agreement with the Justice Department, Cohen was again accused of perjury: The House Oversight Committee chairman, Elijah Cummings, a Democrat from Maryland, began his questioning by noting that he told him that he had better testify truthfully this time or be nailed to the cross. “Didn’t I tell you that?” Cummings asked. “Yes, you did, more than once,” Cohen replied. Then Cohen went forward and claimed he had cared nothing about jobs or pardons from Donald Trump. However, a number of news organizations reported that Cohen was upset after lobbying for the White House counsel, chief of staff, or other jobs in the administration.

Despite a multitude of such sources, Cohen has insisted, “I was extremely proud to be the personal attorney for the president of the United States of America. I did not want to go to the White House. I was offered jobs.” There is little ambiguity here. Either multiple witnesses lied or Cohen once again lied to Congress. Then Cohen stated, “I have never asked for, nor would I accept, a pardon from President Trump.” That also directly contradicts multiple sources who say his lawyer pressed the White House for a pardon, and that Cohen unsuccessfully sought a presidential pardon after FBI raids on his office and residences last year. (Roughly a month later, he decided to cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller.). Even after being stripped of his bar license and sentenced to three years in prison, Cohen continued the pattern. In 2019, Cohen failed to appear to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee, citing the inability to travel due to a medical surgery.

However, he was seen partying before the hearing date with five friends with no apparent problems. Even in jail, Cohen was accused of lying to a court in violation of an order for early release due to medical problems. He was ordered back into custody after being spotted at a high-end restaurant. After Cohen admitted to various criminal acts in federal court to secure his plea agreement, he then declared that he lied. In his 2018 guilty plea before U.S. District Judge William Henry Pauley III, Cohen admitted to this conduct under oath. Cohen was later asked by Trump counsel “Did you lie to Judge Pauley when you said that you were guilty of the counts that you said under oath that you were guilty of? Did you lie to Judge Pauley?” Cohen matter-of-factly responded “yes.” He was then again asked “So you lied when you said that you evaded taxes to a judge under oath; is that correct?” He again responded “yes.”

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We’ll see lots of this in the MSM. Variations on: Biden old and senile? Well, so is Trump.

• Trump Fears Alzheimer’s – WaPo (RT)

Former US President Donald Trump has a fear of developing dementia due to his father’s battle with Alzheimer’s disease, according to the Washington Post, which cited several of the billionaire’s former associates. The outlet claimed to have spoken to a former senior executive at the Trump Organization, who said they had worked with Trump and saw him interact with his father Fred Trump Sr. Speaking on condition of anonymity, the source claimed that “Donald is no doubt fearful of Alzheimer’s.” “He’s not going to talk about it and not going to admit it,” they told WaPo, claiming that this information was nevertheless relevant in light of Trump’s allegations that current US President Joe Biden is not mentally fit for office.

WaPo also cited Trump’s niece, Mary L. Trump, who reportedly recalled that Donald was seriously upset by his father’s descent into dementia after the patriarch failed to recognize his children at a family gathering in the mid-1990s. The outlet also cited an interview that Donald Trump gave to Playboy in 1997, in which he stated that seeing his father suffering from Alzheimer’s had left him wondering “out loud about the senselessness of life.” In recent years, Trump has repeatedly claimed that US President Joe Biden was suffering from severe mental health issues as he could often be seen tripping, getting lost, mixing up world leaders and countries, losing his train of thought mid-sentence, and recently even forgetting NATO’s new ally, confusing Norway with Finland. At the same time, the billionaire has boasted that he himself had passed the Montreal cognitive test with flying colors.

However, some have suggested that Trump’s own mental health may also be slipping, after several gaffes on the campaign trail in recent months, such as confusing South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley with former speaker Nancy Pelosi, and warning that the US could face “World War II” under Biden. Meanwhile, a recent survey by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that 63% of American voters are not very or not at all confident in Biden’s mental capability to serve effectively as president. Trump also did not fare well, with 57% voicing concerns about his mental capacity. The pair are now set to face off in the upcoming US presidential election, which will be held on November 5.

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“.. there cannot be a military outcome for the General Staff and the Kremlin which will allow terrorism against Russia forever from inside those cities, or from whatever remains of the Ukraine. So there must be regime change in Kiev– and a form of Russian occupation that will be surprising.”

• What Is Necessary For The Ukrainian “Sanitary Zone” To Be Sanitary? (Helmer)

In his election victory speech on Sunday night, President Vladimir Putin has accepted the 87% Russian voter mandate to finish the war by securing the Novorussian territories east of the Dnieper River, and converting western Ukraine into “a certain sanitary zone in today’s territories subordinated to the Kiev regime.” In military terms, this zone extends westward from the Dnieper to the full 500-kilometre range of NATO missiles supplied to the Ukrainian forces; and to the 900-km range of the drones in the current Ukrainian inventory. With direct flight distance from Odessa to Lvov at 630 kms, and between Kharkov and Lvov of 975 kms, this means that all of the “territories subordinated to the Kiev regime” will become a sanitary zone, demilitarized to the Polish border.

Referring to the HIMARS rocket attacks in the Belgorod region and the proposed evacuation of nine thousand schoolchildren out of range, Putin announced at his campaign headquarters, “I do not exclude that, bearing in mind the tragic events taking place today, we will be forced at some point – when we deem it appropriate — to create a certain sanitary zone in today’s territories subordinated to the Kiev regime.” The president did not specify how soon is “appropriate”, or how deep the demilitarized or sanitary zone will be, except that in calculating the depth and taking Russian control of it, the range of weapons includes “first of all, of course, [weapons] of foreign production.” Demilitarization of the Ukraine has been the strategic objective of the Special Military Operation from the start in February 2022.

In several Kremlin meetings last June, Putin foreshadowed a zone variously called a DMZ, buffer zone, or cordon sanitaire. In a meeting with military correspondents on June 13, 2023, Putin explained operationally. “Here are several solutions: first, bolstering the effectiveness of the counter-battery struggle. But this does not mean that there won’t be missile strikes against our territory. And so if this continues then we will apparently have to consider the issue – and I’m saying this very carefully – of creating a buffer zone on Ukraine’s territory at such a distance from where it could be impossible to reach our territory.” Mapping the DMZ has been discussed in detail as senior civilian and military officials in Moscow and in the Donbass have publicly discussed the range-of-defence requirement.

Now, with the conclusion of the election, Russian military bloggers have begun to voice open criticism of the performance of the military in preventing drone and missile attacks from striking civilians in Belgorod, as well as oil refinery targets up to 900 kms from the border. According to Boris Rozhin (Colonel Cassad), Russian early warning and detection of Ukrainian HIMARS units are effective, but counter-battery and interception firing is delayed. “The reason is organizational issues that prevent timely fire damage to the exposed priority targets. The issue of their elimination is extremely relevant now: This will not only significantly increase the effectiveness of counter-battery warfare, but also reduce the intensity of enemy strikes on Belgorod and other settlements.” “Organizational issues” is a code term for the chain of command Rozhin avoids explaining.

Military sources in Moscow have been discreetly acknowledging that the decisions on how far the Russian military operation should extend westwards were postponed during the election campaign. During this time, the sources have also been warning, the Ukrainians were able to construct extensive surface fortifications and command-and-control bunkers north of Chernigov facing an expected offensive drive of Russian forces toward Kiev; and around Odessa to block a Russian offensive in the south. These lines are reportedly manned by fresh and well-supplied Ukrainian reserves, who are being held out of the meat-grinder battles along the line of contact, like Bakhmut and Avdeyevka.

Threats to reinforce these new fortified lines with a French-led “coalition” have come from President Emmanuel Macron. In parallel, detailed planning by the German Luftwaffe, backed by Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, of long-range Taurus missile attacks, launched from aircraft based outside the Ukraine, has become public knowledge. In response, a well-informed Moscow source believes the parameters of Russian strategy are becoming clearer “now that Putin is waving the green flag. It’s clear, for example, that although there will not be battles inside cities like Odessa, Kharkov, and Kiev, there cannot be a military outcome for the General Staff and the Kremlin which will allow terrorism against Russia forever from inside those cities, or from whatever remains of the Ukraine. So there must be regime change in Kiev– and a form of Russian occupation that will be surprising.”

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“..unacceptable to disseminate such information in the state’s name without resolving the legal issues.”

• Ukraine Forced To Close Controversial ‘War Sponsors’ Blacklist (RT)

Ukraine has decided to abandon its list of ‘international sponsors of war’ following complaints from other countries. Ukraine’s National Agency on Corruption Prevention has hosted a website listing companies that continue to do business in Russia or “indirectly assist in or contribute to Russia’s war efforts.” The list includes major corporations such as PepsiCo, P&G, Yves Rocher, Unilever, Metro, Nestle, Auchan, and Xiaomi. The project was part of Kiev’s strategy to pressure companies into cutting ties with Moscow in response to the conflict with Russia. The Ukrainian government announced on Tuesday, however, that those wishing to view the list will be redirected to the more neutrally named State Register of Sanctions curated by Ukraine’s National Defense and Security Council.

The decision was made after a meeting attended by diplomats from more than ten countries, including the US, China, Canada, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan, as well as representatives from the EU. According to a statement on the government’s website, many of Ukraine’s partners raised concerns about “the lack of legal basis for the existence of the ‘international sponsors of war’ list.” Kiev had to consider “the negative impact of this list on the adoption of important decisions to stop the Russian aggression,” the statement read.

Ukraine’s Justice Ministry ultimately agreed that it was “unacceptable to disseminate such information in the state’s name without resolving the legal issues.” Austria had refused to back the 12th round of EU sanctions against Russia, demanding that Kiev remove the Vienna-based Raiffeisen Bank from the blacklist. Ukraine eventually conceded, paving the way for Austria to give the green light to the sanctions in December 2023. Last month, Beijing requested that Kiev remove its companies from the list as well. “China firmly opposes the inclusion of Chinese enterprises in the relevant list and demands that Ukraine immediately correct its mistakes and eliminate negative impacts,” a Foreign Ministry spokesperson told Reuters.

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“.. the number of dead Frenchmen has exceeded a psychologically significant threshold, and now there is a question about how to bury the dead and treat the wounded in secret…”

• Russian Troops To Kill All French Soldiers In Ukraine – Senior Lawmaker (TASS)

Russian servicemen will eliminate all French soldiers coming to Ukraine, State Duma Deputy Speaker Pyotr Tolstoy said. “We will kill all French soldiers who will come to the territory of Ukraine. All of them,” he told the BFMTV channel. The politician also pointed out that 147 out of 367 French mercenaries who arrived in Ukraine earlier have been eliminated. In addition, Tolstoy emphasized that Russia “does not care” about the statements of French President Emmanuel Macron and his words about the rejection of red lines in the provision of aid to Kiev. On March 19, Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Director Sergey Naryshkin said that France was already preparing a military contingent to be sent to Ukraine, which would initially amount to about 2,000 soldiers. After that, the French Ministry of the Armed Forces made a statement on the social network X that what Naryshkin said did not correspond to reality.

The Russian intelligence chief pointed out that France unofficially recognized the deaths of its own servicemen. The French army has not experienced such a level of losses since the Algerian War of 1954-1962. The Elysee Palace, as Naryshkin noted, also believes that the number of dead Frenchmen has exceeded a psychologically significant threshold, and now there is a question about how to bury the dead and treat the wounded in secret so as not to spark a public outcry. In late February, after a conference in Paris devoted to Ukraine, Macron did not explicitly rule out the possibility of sending ground troops from Western countries to the special military operation zone. Macron also said that Western states “intend to do whatever is necessary” to prevent Russia from gaining the upper hand in this conflict.

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“Even if Ukraine holds on, what we really are saying is that we are going to leverage countless lives in order to do that.”

• Biden’s Point Man Visits Ukraine With Bundle of Promises (Sp.)

A big bag of nothing but promises is what Joe Biden’s national security advisor brought with him on his covert trip to Kiev on Wednesday. As Jake Sullivan offered a rehash of the same old promises of Washington’s commitment to supporting Ukraine, he could not put any specific timeframe as to when more aid might be forthcoming. It would appear that the whole point of Biden’s point man visiting Ukraine was to placate Kiev while exuding confidence that the gridlock in Congress over supplementary aid to Ukraine would end – at some point. This was Sullivan’s first trip to Ukraine since he accompanied Biden to the Ukrainian capital on February 20, 2023. This hurried visit could be taken as a sign that things look pretty bleak when it comes to hopes of getting the aid package “out the door.” And yet, Sullivan ruled out any “Plan B,” saying: “I’m confident that we will achieve Plan A… We are confident we will get a strong bipartisan vote in the House for an assistance package for Ukraine… It’s already taken too long,” he said, noting, however, that “I’m not going to make predictions about exactly when this will get done.”

President Joe Biden’s military aid for Ukraine remains mired in political deadlock. The $95 billion US foreign aid bill passed by the Senate that includes more than $60 billion for Ukraine is stuck in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, with GOP lawmakers insisting new funds be linked to more action against illegal immigration. Media reported that House Republicans are in the early stages of work on an alternate foreign aid bill that they hope will be ready by April. Current discussions are believed to be centered on trying to get the aid approved in the form of a loan. Last week, Pentagon cost savings allowed Washington to scrounge up $300 million in Ukraine military assistance that included air defense interceptors, artillery rounds, and armor systems. US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin touted it before European allies at a meeting of Ukraine’s Defense Contact Group at Ramstein Air Base on March 19.

“Those supplies rush to you as we speak,” said Sullivan. As for Kiev’s coveted larger package, he reiterated that “we are confident that we will get this aid to Ukraine.” Sullivan also put a damper on the Kiev regime’s hopes of getting their hands on American longer range ATACMS (Army Tactical Missile Systems) with a range of up to 300 kilometers. There were reports that these systems might be included in the $300 million Ukraine aid package. “ATACMS, I am going to disappoint you, I have nothing to announce here publicly today on that issue. When we do have something to share we will be sure to share it, but we will say that we had very constructive discussions about our military support and our capabilities,” Sullivan said.

Earlier, US officials predicted Ukraine’s failure in the NATO proxy conflict with Russia in a worst-case scenario unless Congress approves additional military aid to Kiev. “This doesn’t go well for Ukraine over time without a supplemental, and it could lead to potential collapse,” an unnamed official was quoted by The Washington Post as saying, adding: “But here’s the bottom line: Even if Ukraine holds on, what we really are saying is that we are going to leverage countless lives in order to do that.”

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“The average age of servicemen is over 45 years old..”

• Ukrainian Officers Negligent in Duties and Attitude to Personnel – POW (Sp.)

Officers in the Ukrainian Armed Forces are negligent in their duties and towards personnel, with discipline among servicemen low, Ukrainian Sergeant Dmytro Balanda, who was on the line of contact near Kupyansk at the end of 2023, told reporters. “No one wanted to fight, everyone resented it, there were no officers at the position. They gave orders: just go out, dig in, without saying where to dig in, in which direction, or where to wait for encounters, it was such a negligent attitude. Many of my comrades were outraged and said: ‘Why don’t we have officers… We didn’t have proper training.’ The average age of servicemen is over 45 years old,” said Balanda, who later surrendered in the Zaporozhye region.

According to him, servicemen in his unit refused to participate in combat operations. “The attitude of the commanders is bad … For several days we were without water, without food. There is no discipline, discipline was violated. The servicemen managed to get drunk, they didn’t get rowdy, but they refused to go to their positions. They said they refuse to carry out combat operations. They were written down as insubordinate and thrown in the brig without water or food,” the prisoner added. As the commander of the detachment BARS-10, call sign “Saturn,” told reporters, the Ukrainian serviceman was detained when he crossed the line of contact near the village of Kamenskoye in the Zaporozhye region.

“In the morning, under fog, under enemy fire, it was right during an intense attack by enemy FPV drones. The observer at a distant post saw that there was a man with a backpack and two bags in his hands. We reported it on the radio, moved forward, and decided to arrest him without firing, because we saw with binoculars and a drone that he was unarmed. We ordered him to lie down on the pavement, put his things down, and take off his outer clothes in order to protect us. There are many examples, everything happens, maybe a person is booby-trapped, like a shahid [suicide attacker],” Saturn said, describing the circumstances of the detention and the security measures taken by the Russian troops.

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• US Submits Draft Resolution To UN Calling For Gaza Ceasefire – Blinken (TASS)

The United States has submitted a draft resolution to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) calling for an immediate ceasefire and release of Israeli hostages in the Gaza Strip, according to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. “We actually have a resolution that we put forward right now that’s before the United Nations Security Council that does call for an immediate ceasefire tied to the release of hostages, and we hope very much that countries will support that,” he said in an interview with the Al Hadath television. According to Blinken, the latest draft resolution would send a “strong signal.” While the United States stands with Israel’s right to defend itself, Washington focuses on efforts to protect civilians “who are suffering so terribly,” he emphasized.

“We’ve been leading the effort to do that, to get more in, to get more to the people who need it. We are pressing on that as hard as we can,” Blinken said. The United States used its right to veto at the UNSC to block several resolutions calling for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian radical movement Hamas before. Algeria was the last country to have submitted its draft resolution in late February. On Wednesday, the US secretary of state arrived in Saudi Arabia, the first stop of his sixth tour of the Middle East since the Palestinian-Israeli conflict escalated again on October 7. Blinken is planning to travel to Egypt and Israel later on. He is expected to hold talks in Cairo with top diplomats from Egypt, Jordan, Qatar and Saudi Arabia as well as with the UAE minister for international cooperation and a senior Palestinian official later today.

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“Israel has proven a failed experiment, incapable of conducting itself as a legitimate nation-state.”

• Authorized Atrocities (Patrick Lawrence)

In the decade before the American defeat in Indochina, the U.S. and its allies dropped more than 7.5 million tons of bombs on Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. If we want to go further back in postwar history we can think about Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Then we can think about Israel in Gaza: As of the start of this year — leaving us more than three months to count — it had dropped more than 70,000 tons of ordnance on a territory the size of Manhattan. Torture of Palestinian prisoners — the beatings, the maiming, the waterboarding, the forced confessions: Is this so different from how the U.S. conducted the “war on terror?” Long-term detentions in dungeons with no charges and no recourse to attorneys: There is no echo in this of what goes on at Guantánamo as we speak? Those IDF soldiers in the photographs are nothing more than punks with guns, vulgarians with no shred of humanity in them. Can we rightfully describe the U.S. troops at Abu Ghraib any differently?

Israel ignores the International Court of Justice? Where might this impudence come from? There is more, much more, that we can add to this list. Afghanistan merits a place on it. There is the West’s “back-to-the-Stone–Age” destruction of Libya in 2011. I confine myself to the postwar decades to allow us to take a good, clear look at that “edifice of global norms” of which Mishra writes. When we do, we find the West has licensed the Israelis. They bear a pre-authorization by way of many precedents. There is one for more or less every shameful act the Israelis perpetrate against the Palestinian population — this in the West Bank as well as Gaza. And so we discover — or remind ourselves, depending on how attentive we have been to events — that the post–1945 edifice has looked from the start roughly as it looks now. Israel is at bottom an outcome, not the prime cause of anything.

Certainly the grotesque spectacle of mass murder and wholesale destruction we witness daily has marked a rupture, to stay with Mishra’s term. But to assert that this rupture lies in Israel’s conduct is to sustain an insidious mythology of innocence for the West. No, the true rupture lies with those in the West who are sucked into Israel’s utter immorality and now come face-to-face with their amoral indifference or, for the best of them, discover the extent of their powerlessness despite their authentic efforts. As to Israel, I am with Primo Levi as Mishra quotes him. “The Jewish state” had already proven a mistake when he made his much-disputed remark in 1985. The truth of it has since been demonstrated a hundred times over. Israel has proven a failed experiment, incapable of conducting itself as a legitimate nation-state.

But whose mistake is Israel? It was the West, Britain in the lead, that created Israel by caving to the Zionists at the expense of indigenous Palestinians. This is the reality of power that should weigh most heavily on our shoulders. Israel ‘R’ us. Britain’s abandonment of the 1920 Mandate brings us to one of the deeper characteristics of our time, our postwar edifice. This is the ever more complete disregard of those in power for the principles, standards and broadly accepted ethics that give form and coherence to a stable civilization and keep its public space clean and well lit. In our crumbling edifice, everything is done according to its value as an expedient to a desired outcome. This, too, is a kind of depravity. And it is this depravity that produces the depravity we watch as we watch Israel’s effort to destroy an entire people.

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“Last week, the Houthis’ leader, Abdul Malik Al-Houthi, vowed to expand the campaign to the Indian Ocean and hit vessels traveling around South Africa..”

• Russia and China Reach Shipping Deal With Houthis (RT)

The Yemen-based Houthi militants have told Russia and China that their ships can sail freely through the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden without fear of being attacked, Bloomberg reported on Thursday, citing sources. People with knowledge of the matter told the outlet that the understanding was reached during talks in Oman involving Russian and Chinese diplomats and a top Houthi political figure. According to Bloomberg’s sources, in exchange for promising safe passage for ships the Houthis want the two countries to provide political support for the rebel group in international bodies such as the UN Security Council.

The Houthi rebels have carried out dozens of drone and missile attacks on commercial vessels traversing the Red Sea, disrupting shipping traffic through one of the world’s most important maritime corridors. As a result, many major shipping companies have stopped using the Suez Canal and are instead redirecting ships around the Cape of Good Hope in southern Africa. The Houthis have been attacking ships they believe to be linked to Israel in what they claim is a show of “solidarity” with the Palestinian people in light of the war in Gaza. After the US and the UK conducted a number of strikes on Houthi facilities in Yemen, the group said it would now also attack ships affiliated with both nations.

In a recent such incident, Yemeni missiles struck the merchant vessel True Confidence in the Gulf of Aden earlier this month, causing the first deaths since the militant group started its attacks. The Houthis claimed the vessel was American. However, according to a Bloomberg source, the ship used to be owned by Los Angeles-based Oaktree Capital, but a new non-US company had taken it over. A senior Houthi political leader, Ali Alqhoom, declared recently on X (formerly Twitter) that the group’s goal is “sinking America, Britain and the West in the swamp of the Red Sea.” Last week, the Houthis’ leader, Abdul Malik Al-Houthi, vowed to expand the campaign to the Indian Ocean and hit vessels traveling around South Africa. Attacks on vessels in the Red Sea region decreased traffic via the Suez Canal, a vital route between Asia and Europe that ordinarily handles about 15% of global maritime trade.

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“We have surprises that the enemies do not expect at all,” before announcing the successful testing of a new hypersonic missile..”

• Yemen’s Indian Ocean Checkmate (Harb)

Ansarallah’s maritime reach has surpassed all initial expectations, now extending to the distant shores of the Indian Ocean in its ambitious plan to besiege Israel by targeting the occupation state’s shipping interests. Yemen’s strategic position not only serves as a beacon of hope for Palestinians enduring Israel’s brutal military assault on their lives, homes, and livelihoods but has also become a crucial pillar in the Axis of Resistance’s fight against US hegemonic machinations in West Asia. In late February, al-Houthi vowed to expand the scope of attacks against Israel-linked vessels, stating, “We have surprises that the enemies do not expect at all,” before announcing the successful testing of a new hypersonic missile. This stands in stark contradiction to western narratives trumpeting their own containment efforts to encircle Yemen and thwart its ability to intercept Israel-bound vessels.

If anything, the naval operations undertaken by the Ansarallah-aligned armed forces are instead rippling outward, spanning a remarkable distance of over 6,000 kilometers from the Yemeni coast to the Indian Ocean. Crucially, Yemen’s defiance has drawn widespread, popular support from its once-warring nationals, not just in support of Gaza and the Israeli blockade but also against the relentless US and British airstrikes launched under the fig leaf of Operation ‘Prosperity Guardian’ – an extrajudicial imperial project which aims to cripple Ansarallah’s military capabilities under the guise of securing international shipping and trade routes. Yet al-Houthi’s unequivocal declaration on barring the passage of ships associated with Israel, or those engaged in commercial ties with it, from traversing the Indian Ocean and the Cape of Good Hope shows that Washington and London have been dealt a resounding strategic defeat.

By targeting these two new critical waterway passages, Yemen imposes a new reality on global shipping routes. This phase of the naval battle presents a significant threat to the world’s established maritime corridors, compelling commercial vessels traveling to and from Southeast Asia to navigate lengthier and more costly routes around the southern tip of Africa to reach the Mediterranean Sea. Al-Houthi’s message is clear: “Do the Americans, British, and the Zionists expect that any aggressive act against Yemen will distract us from defending Gaza?” Ansarallah recently announced the targeting of over 70 commercial ships with ties to Israel, alongside military battleships across the Red Sea, Arabian Sea, Gulf of Aden, and the Indian Ocean.

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“..the US could have leaked the talk of a plea deal to the press to portray Assange as unreasonable if he didn’t take it..”

• Justice Department Considering Plea Deal for Assange (Antiwar)

The Justice Department is considering whether to offer WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange the opportunity to plead guilty to a reduced charge of mishandling classified information, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The report said DOJ officials and Assange’s legal team have already had preliminary talks on what a plea deal might look like. However, Barry Pollack, a lawyer for Assange, said he has been given no indication that the department will take a deal. “It is inappropriate for Mr. Assange’s lawyers to comment while his case is before the UK High Court other than to say we have been given no indication that the Department of Justice intends to resolve the case and the United States is continuing with as much determination as ever to seek his extradition on all 18 charges, exposing him to 175 years in prison,” Pollack said in a statement.

Consortium News reported later in the day that it had previously learned of the talks between the US and Assange’s legal team on a potential deal, but the information was given off the record, so the outlet did not publicize it. Under the DOJ’s indictment against Assange, he could face up to 175 years in prison under the Espionage Act for exposing US war crimes by publishing classified documents leaked to WikiLeaks by former Army Private Chelsea Manning in 2010. If Assange is convicted, it would set a dangerous precedent for press freedom since publishing information obtained by a source is a standard journalistic practice, whether classified or not. The Journal report said that if the DOJ offers a deal for Assange to plead guilty to a lesser charge of mishandling classified information, it would be a misdemeanor, and he could potentially enter the plea remotely without going to the US. His time in London’s Belmarsh Prison, where he’s been held since April 2019, would count toward his sentence, and Assange could be free shortly after reaching the deal.

While such a deal could potentially secure Assange’s freedom, it could still set a dangerous precedent since it would criminalize the relationship between a journalist and his source. Kevin Gostzola, author of the book “Guilty of Journalism: The Political Case Against Julian Assange,” suggested the US could have leaked the talk of a plea deal to the press to portray Assange as unreasonable if he didn’t take it. “Basically, US officials chat to the press about some possible plea deal for Assange when he isn’t guilty of any crime. If Assange’s team signals it would never be acceptable, then it is Assange’s fault that he remains in prison. Officials can say he wants to martyr himself,” Gostzola wrote on X. Last month, Assange’s legal team presented its case for an appeal to the UK home secretary’s decision to extradite Assange to the US, and a decision on whether or not he can appeal is expected to happen soon.

The Australian government has been calling on President Biden to drop the charges against Assange, who is an Australian citizen. Some members of Congress have also been calling for an end to the persecution of the WikiLeaks founder, including Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), who brought Assange’s brother, Gabriel Shipton, to President Biden’s State of the Union. WikiLeaks and Assange supporters are asking Americans to add to the pressure by contacting Congress. Americans can call their House representatives to support H.Res.934, a bill introduced by Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) that calls for the US to drop the charges against Assange.

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  • March 22, 2024 at 9:19 am #155216
    Raúl Ilargi Meijer
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    Rembrandt van Rijn A Lady And Gentleman In Black 1633 Stolen from Gardner Museum March 18 1990, the single largest art theft in the world. Never recov
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle March 22 2024]

    March 22, 2024 at 11:04 am #155217
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    Hey Ilargi; just how much art was stolen from Gardner Museum March 18,1990?

    It leads me to wonder just what kind of human could possibly be that blatently selfish to deprive the planet Earth and it’s people of that wondrous feat of human expression called art…

    March 22, 2024 at 11:24 am #155223
    Raúl Ilargi Meijer
    Keymaster

    VA, see: https://www.gardnermuseum.org/about/theft-story

    March 22, 2024 at 11:41 am #155224
    John Day
    Participant

    Yesterday Dr. D grudgingly liked the Alex Krainer Piece about Socialism Vs. Capitalism in a world of fractional reserve lending, but it is the underlying fractional reserve lending, and how it is done, that makes other points less pivotal, isn’t it? It CAN be addressed…

    https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/untangling-the-socialism-vs-capitalism
    That’s fascinating and at least a good argument, but it’s entirely wrong.

    “​ Left to itself and without intervention, a modern economic system would fall into what we call a self-reinforcing deflationary depression: the deflationary gap would lead to falling prices and output, decline of income and rising unemployment.”

    March 22, 2024 at 11:50 am #155225
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Actually, I realize this is going to work out perfectly for Orange Man again. What’s happening in NY? Well, every building is selling for a dollar. It’s going straight down, no bid.

    …And they WANT to confiscate Trump Towers in this environment? Yes. And they are going to what? Sell it? Fill it with non-citizens? Probably.

    Sooooo….what happens then? Isn’t $500M buildings going to go to about $50k? Yes. And they pay the taxes that whole time? Yes. And then Don Jr. buy them all back in 2039 for $100k from the new, reformed Mayor? Yes.

    You see, THEY think it’s just a big pirate chest of money. You STEAL the big chest, then go take Caribbean Cruises and buy a penthouse for Rachael Maddow like they said. It’s not. It’s not “Worth” $10 million like they said Mar Lago was. It’s not “Worth” $500M like they think his NY properties are. The “worth” changes minute-by-minute and can be infinite, zero, or anywhere in between depending on who you talk to. So the “Worth” of Trump Tower is now plummeting dizzily, WHILE taxes are raising dizzily. AND risk in NY is headed toward infinite. Like Mad Max, “Escape from NY” levels.

    Let me put it this way: Their rowboat is sinking fast and they WANTED to load 1000 pounds of gold into it. Or they’re shoot you with their blunderbuss. Well, okaaaaaaay, but don’t say I didn’t warn you.. And they row away, bwhahahaha! So Winning! Lower and lower in the water. And here they are, safe on the big ship, watching and shaking their heads.

    But nevermind. Proving my point we just heard She is now being investigated. For what? Fani level bribery. For what? She owes $3M to banks and is in a hole. Oh really? Why? Because she overinflated the values of her properties. Looking for official links to those stories now.

    And for the buildings, you may think it’s impossible, but many cities had OUTLAWED handing the keys to City Hall. (Which is of course, illegal. No one cares: we do 10 illegal things before breakfast). That is, hundreds of properties in hundreds of U.S. Cities are worth LESS THAN ZERO. For decades. Now maybe not at this minute, but we’re at the tippy-top. If it’s been true for decades at a pop in some neighborhoods, then you can guarantee it will happen right quick with the cities on fire with squatters and no retail. I, a Socialist, am going to MAKE YOU fix that house, FOR FREE, like a slave, and ALSO take a loss on it, while I do nothing, add zero, and take $6k/yr in taxes.

    Canada: “Have you tried ‘Kill All the Public’ yet?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRGYn8wunVw

    “The United States had submitted a draft resolution to the U.N. Security Council” … FIVE MONTHS after the shooting began and after 100,000 Gazans are dead.

    “Hunter Biden was advancing a CIA project in Ukraine to swing the natural gas market towards NATO & that’s why he’s untouchable.”

    That is false because Hunter has no more brains than his father. And doesn’t know natural gas. And doesn’t know Russian. And doesn’t know European law. And is too high on crack to be coherent and too compromised with child hookers to represent. So…he’s the delivery boy. Cabana Boy. He’s your Door Dash Driver. With sausage.

    “The state of New York has positioned itself to seize Donald Trump’s assets in Westchester County following a $454 million civil fraud judgement against the former president.”

    Again, only TWO people on the planet, got up one day, decided you owned them half a billion dollars by Friday. You see why they need to demonstrate this to the people, particularly the rich people who keep refusing to take sides.

    What’s really happening? They have the blackmail files on all these guys. However, probably both sides have the same files. If you point and remove them, they’ll just be replaced with someone for whom you don’t have the blackmail files and carry on. You need to demonstrate TO THE PUBLIC, and especially the rich, influential public, WHY we have evidence, process, law… That is, the American values, American standards, American ways. That is, we’re not trying to win this ONE case – could care less – we have to reform the SYSTEM, and that “system” is what men believe in their heads. After 45 years of straight Socialist propaganda. As every teacher, professor, and reporter happily and openly admits.

    “• Judge Grants Trump’s Request to Appeal Fani Willis Disqualification Decision (ET)

    Okay, again, how does this work: one and only one prosecutor. They let go forward and “only just accidentally” discover she is corrupt and conspiring. Months, years later. Then only just had these come on, one per week, for a year. Then only just had her case indicted in court one per week. And now only approve the appeal that KEEPS it in the news at one per week. So precisely equal Yea and Nays that lead to keeping it constantly in the news, and constantly boiling, never going forward or back. But I am a coincidence theorist and that is not suspicious at all.

    “But for those patriots who still love this country, it is imperative that Trump secures a second presidential term. It really is that simple.”

    That’s why they’re not done yet: Trump needs to be assassinated and go sit on the beach on Cyprus next to Prigozhin. Then we can also dispense with JFK was shot by a lone gunman, with a rifle that couldn’t hit a barn, and nobody else was involved. We desperately need to erase the magic “Conspiracy Theory” meme.

    Anyway, because of that, there won’t be an election. Or not the sense that we commonly believe. Trump is not done giving, and showing to us yet.

    ““If lying were an art form, former Trump fixer Michael Cohen would be its Rembrandt..”

    Fascinated by this because this is our legal system, and social system in brief: we believe two opposite things at the same time, all the time. In this case, top-of-the-lungs, front page above the fold, “Michael Cohen is the world’s biggest, unprincipled liar!!!” Same newspaper, same day, ALSO top-of-the-lungs, front page above the fold, “Michael Cohen is the world’s most trustworthy witness!!!” Day after day, week after week.

    Uh-huh. As per “Cults”, still waiting for some modicum of “cognitive dissonance” to set off a chain of inquiry about it, but it hasn’t happened yet. Also people seem shocked that a lawyer is a liar. Like, when has THAT ever happened?

    ““Donald is no doubt fearful of Alzheimer’s.” “He’s not going to talk about it and not going to admit it,” they told WaPo,”

    What the actual? This is literally a sentence that establishes, “I, the witness, have no idea what I’m talking about.” Let me rephrase:
    “Donald no doubt killed Jimmy Hoffa.” “He’s not going to talk about it and not going to admit it,” they told WaPo,”
    ““Donald is no doubt hitched a ride with gray aliens to Mars.” “He’s not going to talk about it and not going to admit it,” they told WaPo”

    So the proof of this is that he DOES NOT admit it.

    They then proceed with “If Donald is scared of Alzheimer’s he has it; if he isn’t scared of it, he’s deranged.” So I guess that goes for me too then? How many is orange?

    “• What Is Necessary For The Ukrainian “Sanitary Zone” To Be Sanitary? (Helmer)

    They have now said and are laying the ground: for the missile range, they must occupy to the Polish border. Of course there are missiles of one mile, and missiles that go over the South Pole. They talk only about these specific missiles that will set the border in the location they already want it.

    “And yet, Sullivan ruled out any “Plan B,” saying: “I’m confident that we will achieve Plan A…”

    Literally the same thing the Duran said in the same words. Europe has no Plan B. Plan B is inconceivable. Inconceivable to lose a Land War in Asia.
    http://www.quickmeme.com/img/0a/0a4588346180462c668f2b43712f87a78e33e7566feaae3dc9929506b39eb24a.jpg
    The plan was: Russia will collapse with sanctions and a light shelling and cease to exist. Now DO WHAT YOU’RE TOLD!!! Or I’ll tell Daddy! Even if you liked Europe, you should screw them hollow on general principles for playing such a bad strategy. Really? You walked into a cul-de-sac with no outlet and no arms? I can’t just let that pass. I simply HAVE to take advantage of it.

    What kind of snake is this? A Don King Cobra.

    Not all cows are stupid but he’s smarter than a horse. With great dexterity.

    Hair Care: what does “Hair Onion” taste like?

    March 22, 2024 at 11:52 am #155226
    Oroboros
    Participant

    “Gardner Museum March 18 1990, the single largest art theft in the world. “

    Back in the day I would always tried to visit the Gardner when in Boston. Especially on Sundays, they had a marvelous stringed instrument performance on the top floor. Elegant and ethereal, really transported the Soul to different places.

    I remember seeing many of the stolen pieces of art.

    Too bad they are in some greedy billionaire”s collection seen only by them and their inner circle of global Cabalists.

    Just another form of ritual humiliation of the masses.

    Steal precious art from the public space and ‘privatize it’.

    March 22, 2024 at 11:53 am #155227
    Oroboros
    Participant

    $10 million dollar reward, still no luck

    March 22, 2024 at 11:56 am #155228
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Hey

    Maybe it’s here

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    March 22, 2024 at 12:11 pm #155229
    Dr. D
    Participant

    If you want to follow Krainer, you need to study solid state systems. Fiat and inflationary systems can only expand (and then crash). I suspect THEY like them, not just because unparalleled theft and mass murder, but because it artificially speeds up the human economy like 10x. If you’re trapped on the planet and want to escape, you need the monkeys here to build you a rocket — which they can’t do living in the Middle Ages. So you goose the human power 10x this way. Of course it collapses, but since you want to kill everyone anyway, keep the vermin down and pick winners, this is a feature, not a bug.

    Solid state commodity-based economies do not expand, or at anywhere near the same rate, and they can also contract, which is still painful but not fatal. Almost all human systems up to 1913 were a hybrid. Yes, they were a gold standard, but they were also mostly lying and leveraged out many multiples of the underlying base, and not just like BoE, but every level, as wholesalers give “Gold-notes”, Banks do fractional, individuals write gold settled contracts, etc. But you can only leverage to a level before you get a bank run, and not to $36 Trillion, at $1 trillion every 100 days. Where a million people are killed $200B at a pop and we call it “A good start.”

    If you also want an ecological world, you will also need a non-expansionary steady-state system, so any CO2, Green, Environmentalism necessitates eradicating Fiat and Central Bank inflation. First order of business because otherwise everything will collapse the minute you take power. They don’t do this meaning they are clowns, not serious in the slightest, posers, a painted on scam. To say nothing of how if you build your earth ship in Vermont at 20, you’ll be run out of it for compounding taxes before you’re 40. You have to have a dollar now equal a dollar later, or more. …That’s the “Deflation” he is terrified of. Weird guy. Most people LIKE it when prices of cars, computers, food drop. So when he comes over, I’ll be sure to charge $100,000 for that ice cream cone, since rising prices are so good and all. Do your part!

    We had soft deflation for like 50 years of our highest prosperity, so much so they started writing a “Mil” on the accounting ledgers, a tenth of a penny, because a penny was so valuable and could buy so much. (Industrialization of those horrible Capitalists from 1870-1910) If you put away retirement in gold, it would slowly rise in value at some (5%?) rate compounded. But this is bad for banks and stocks and governments BECAUSE it is so wonderfully good for the PEOPLE. They can’t get in the middle and steal it all. And the Federal Reserve cured all that. Now it’s good for the government and bad for the people, which he approves of.

    Since almost all cultures have had no inflation through almost all time, from Babylon to 1914, he might look into how that works and how to get there, since we’re going there anyway. Instead of saying “What has always happened in human history is impossible, there is no alternative, and we must keep inflation going that immiserates all humankind and funds wars.” No. I prefer not to.

    The other interesting part is, when is he going to write an expose’ on how Socialist Systems and all Socialist countries aren’t either, but are nearly identical oligarchic, rigged hybrid as well?

    March 22, 2024 at 12:31 pm #155230
    Celticbiker
    Participant

    Top level art thieves know modern art is shite.

    March 22, 2024 at 12:56 pm #155231
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “Media Says Border Crisis Not An Invasion, It Is Simply A Group Of Military-Aged Males Using Force Against Our Military To Enter And Occupy The Country” – BBee

    Judge
    “Court Flips Coin To See If Texas Allowed To Enforce Laws Today” — BBee

    “Checkmate: Trump Sneaks Back Into White House, Invokes Squatter’s Rights”

    If Biden stops him, we’ll have Joe arrested!

    March 22, 2024 at 1:15 pm #155232
    John Day
    Participant

    Proof Infant Vaccines Kill Babies https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/proof-infant-vaccines-kill-babies

    A Midwestern Doctor, The Century of Evidence That Vaccines Cause Sudden Infant Deaths
    The Disturbing Parallels between Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and Sudden Adult Death Syndrome
    Story at a Glance:
    •To maximize profits, the pharmaceutical industry will often identify vulnerable groups who lack the ability to advocate for themselves and refuse pharmaceutical products.
    •When the DPT vaccine was first developed over a century ago, it was tested at Irish orphanages. Recently mass graves of those early test subjects were discovered.
    •Since the DPT vaccine hit the market, physicians around the world have observed waves of infant deaths following its use, which were often sudden and inexplicable (along with many other severe side effects).
    •Numerous data sources correlate increasing childhood vaccination rates with increasing infant deaths. Those deaths played a key role in creating the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act. That forgotten data compromises the majority of this article.
    •When the COVID lockdowns happened, vaccine safety activists predicted the lockdowns would lead to an unprecedented drop in infant deaths since children were skipping their vaccines. This ended up being exactly what happened, and it was reconfirmed by infant deaths dropping in Florida after the pandemic prompted many parents to begin not vaccinating their children.
    Note: due to the significant interest in this topic, this article is a revised version of a previously published article about it.
    The Sudden Adult Death Syndrome (SADS) that was seen worldwide after the COVID-19 vaccines rolled out was so unmistakable that it made the general public see how much their governments had lied to them. What is less known, however, is the link between vaccines and the sudden death of children (euphemistically called Sudden Infant Death Syndrome or SIDS).
    Like SADS, SIDS has a clear-cut relationship to vaccination, and in the case of SIDS, there is over a century of evidence to substantiate it. Like SADS, our healthcare authorities have worked tirelessly to conceal this link, even when faced with significant protests from the public who know what is happening. For the most part, these authorities have succeeded, and as a society, we have come to see SIDS as a normal event that does not require an investigation each time another child dies from vaccination.
    I was compelled to write about this topic for a few key reasons:
    •The children who died from SIDS and their parents deserve recognition and justice. Because of the attention highlighting SADS and vaccine dangers in general, I believe this may, at last, be possible.
    •Infants cannot speak up for themselves (other than by crying, which is typically ignored). When you observe these vaccine injuries and the trauma they experience, it’s very apparent what happened, but in almost all cases, those around them can’t see it—so I feel I have a duty to speak out for those without a voice.
    •Understanding how the government has handled SIDS provides essential context for understanding how it has dealt with SADS.
    •New evidence supporting the link between SIDS and vaccination emerged during COVID-19.
    In this article, I have done the best I could to provide all the evidence clearly demonstrating this link with a focus on that which can explain why vaccination causes SIDS. Additionally, I have also discussed much of this with a US government researcher who specializes in the vaccine most associated with SIDS and has requested their privacy be respected for understandable reasons…

    ..In 1986, Torch also summarized case reports of more than 200 deaths that occurred following DPT vaccination, as reported by 37 authors in 12 countries. About half of these deaths occurred within 24 hours, 75 % within 3 days, and 90 % within 1-week post-vaccination. For most of these deaths a specific cause could not be found, although many were labeled as SIDS…

    ..In 1978—79, eleven babies were found to have died within eight days of a DPT vaccination (in Tennessee). Nine of the eleven had been vaccinated with the same lot of pertussis vaccine, Wyeth #64201, and five (four from the same lot) had died within twenty-four hours of vaccination…

    ..Wyeth apparently also decided to act to prevent a clustering of deaths following DPT vaccination from a single lot from ever occurring again in a single geographical area. This 1979 internal memo (revealed through litigation) shows that Wyeth’s senior management decided to solve this problem by making sure individual lots were distributed throughout the country so it would be much less obvious if one lot was hot as the deaths it created would not be concentrated in one area.
    Wyeth memo
    …In the period of 1970-1974, when DPT vaccination was begun at 3 to 5 months of age, the Japanese national compensation system paid out claims for 57 permanent severe damage vaccine cases, and 37 deaths. During the ensuing six year period 1975-1980, when DPT injections were delayed to 24 months of age, severe reactions from the vaccine were reduced to a total of eight with three deaths. This represents an 85 to 90 percent reduction in severe cases of damage and death [per vaccine given]…
    ..An Australian group developed a way to monitor infants at home continuously and, like many others, was able to demonstrate non-fatal disruptions of breathing spiked following DPT and Polio vaccination (this is the most likely cause of SIDS) and that this disruption continued for over six weeks post-vaccination (hence overlapping with the typical period of death that has been observed to follow vaccination)…
    ..When SIDS cases at morgues are examined, they cluster at precisely 2, 4, or 6 months of age (rather than throughout the 2 to 6 month period), which can only be explained as a consequence of vaccination…

    ..In 2021, Florida’s childhood vaccination rate decreased from 93.4% in 2020 to only 79.3% in 2021. At the same time this happened, all-cause infant mortality under one year of age in Florida also decreased by 8.93% (a reversal of 2020’s trend where infant mortality had increased by 0.67%). As a 14 percent decrease in vaccination coverage was associated with a 9 percent decrease in infant mortality, this led Chudov to conclude that roughly half of the infant deaths in Florida could potentially be attributed to vaccinations…

    ..When the mandatory vaccination laws for school children were pushed through at a state level in the years before COVID-19, a highly polarized political climate emerged, making it virtually impossible for members of the medical community who were opposed to those mandates to question them around their colleagues. One of the most common arguments cited by that pro-mandate crowd was that anyone who opposed vaccinating the children of America was, for all practical purposes, a “baby killer.”…

    ..Data aside, this rhetorical framing left many of us in a situation where we felt we were being accused of being baby killers for being opposed to a practice that did, in fact, kill babies (and, more importantly, cannot be justified based on the minuscule benefits that arise from vaccination)…

    ..Now that the evidence has been presented to show that vaccines (especially multiple ones given in succession to premature infants) can cause fatal respiratory arrests, the next question is, “Why?”
    The best model put forward is that the vaccination causes blood in the body to clump together, triggering microstrokes in the brain and symptoms of those strokes, which can easily be recognized by a trained observer (all of which are discussed in detail here). In the case of SIDS, these microstrokes appear to occur in the area of the brain which regulates breathing (discussed here), hence leading to the abnormal findings repeatedly observed in hospitals and with home monitoring.
    I have been trying to expose this issue and its treatments for the last year because the COVID-19 vaccines can severely impair the vital circulation of blood and other fluids. I believe this accounts for many of the side effects attributed to them (discussed in detail here). To illustrate the difference between the COVID-19 vaccines and those that preceded them, I am now observing many clinical signs of a previous microstroke appearing in adults following COVID-19 vaccination I had previously only seen in vaccine-injured children.
    https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-century-of-evidence-that-vaccines

    March 22, 2024 at 1:17 pm #155233
    John Day
    Participant

    Celticbiker reflects on pawn-shop valuations:
    “Top level art thieves know modern art is shite.”

    March 22, 2024 at 1:19 pm #155234
    poppie
    Participant

    Not only is NY going to take white elephants off Trumpy’s hands, they are giving him a tax write off to die for.

    March 22, 2024 at 1:26 pm #155235
    John Day
    Participant

    @Dr. D: I left this comment in Alex Krainer’s comments thread for that article. The “problem” can be “worked”, and will be “worked”, but how, and by whom? https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/untangling-the-socialism-vs-capitalism/comments

    I have thought about it some more. How should economic stimulus be guided into an economy?

    What if there were “likes” that everybody got to spend (anonymously) each week, which provided a bottom-up “social credit score” (cringe) which would be time-averaged, and determine where financial stimulus would be injected in the future, when it would be called for. This should be anonymous, and it could be variously weighted, such as everybody getting the same number of like-votes to bestow, or more for the employed, or the unemployed, or parents of young children, but not income based. Money already votes.

    It seems safest to me to give everybody the same number of “likes” to bestow, or parents would bestow some for minor children… There are fine points to consider.

    Taxes are already used to withdraw excess-liquidity.

    March 22, 2024 at 1:33 pm #155236
    John Day
    Participant

    Let me bold this spot:

    ..In 2021, Florida’s childhood vaccination rate decreased from 93.4% in 2020 to only 79.3% in 2021. At the same time this happened, all-cause infant mortality under one year of age in Florida also decreased by 8.93% (a reversal of 2020’s trend where infant mortality had increased by 0.67%). As a 14 percent decrease in vaccination coverage was associated with a 9 percent decrease in infant mortality, this led Chudov to conclude that roughly half of the infant deaths in Florida could potentially be attributed to vaccinations…

    March 22, 2024 at 1:40 pm #155237
    zerosum
    Participant

    Lawyer up – Hot and empty air. This is the reality of power

    • NY Prepares To Seize Trump Assets In Westchester County (ZH)

    … secure liens on two of the billionaire’s most valuable properties – Trump National Golf Club Westchester, and the 212-acre Seven Springs estate which remains mostly undeveloped,

    • Biden’s Point Man Visits Ukraine With Bundle of Promises (Sp.)

    an alternate foreign aid bill that they hope will be ready by April. Current discussions are believed to be centered on trying to get the aid approved in the form of a loan.

    • US Submits Draft Resolution To UN Calling For Gaza Ceasefire – Blinken (TASS)

    Hot and empty air.
    According to Blinken, the latest draft resolution would send a “strong signal.” While the United States stands with Israel’s right to defend itself, Washington focuses on efforts to protect civilians “who are suffering so terribly,” he emphasized.

    • Authorized Atrocities (Patrick Lawrence)

    Israel in Gaza: As of the start of this year — leaving us more than three months to count — it had dropped more than 70,000 tons of ordnance on a territory the size of Manhattan.
    Torture of Palestinian prisoners — the beatings, the maiming, the waterboarding, the forced confessions:
    Is this so different from how the U.S. conducted the “war on terror?”
    Long-term detentions in dungeons with no charges and no recourse to attorneys: There is no echo in this of what goes on at Guantánamo as we speak?
    Those IDF soldiers in the photographs are nothing more than punks with guns, vulgarians with no shred of humanity in them.
    Can we rightfully describe the U.S. troops at Abu Ghraib any differently?

    This is the reality of power

    • Yemen’s Indian Ocean Checkmate (Harb)

    Yemen’s defiance
    has drawn widespread, popular support from its once-warring nationals, not just in support of Gaza and the Israeli blockade but also against the relentless US and British airstrikes launched under the fig leaf of Operation ‘Prosperity Guardian’ – an extrajudicial imperial project which aims to cripple Ansarallah’s military capabilities under the guise of securing international shipping and trade routes.

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    March 22, 2024 at 1:41 pm #155238
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    The West’s Reckoning?

    “Western leaders are experiencing two stunning events: defeat in Ukraine, and genocide in Palestine. The first is humiliating, the other shameful. Yet, they feel no humiliation or shame. Their actions show vividly that those sentiments are alien to them – unable to penetrate the entrenched barriers of dogma, arrogance, and deep-seated insecurities. The last are personal as well as political. Therein lies a puzzle. For, as a consequence, the West has set itself on a path of collective suicide. Moral suicide in Gaza; diplomatic suicide – the foundations laid in Europe, the Middle East, and across Eurasia; economic suicide – the dollar-based global financial system jeopardized, Europe deindustrializing. It is not a pretty picture. Astoundingly, this self-destruction is occurring in the absence of any major trauma – external or internal. Therein lies another, related puzzle. […]

    The West’s Reckoning?

    March 22, 2024 at 1:56 pm #155239
    Oroboros
    Participant

    • The “Perversity” of Michael Cohen

    Lay down with dogs, get up with fleas

    I have almost ZERO faith that Trump will appoint any people better than the first term.

    Zero

    Trump has a truly horrible instinct for picking people to high offices.

    It’s his gigantic ego still needing constant validation from the ‘cool kids’ at school.

    He will be stuck in a permanent junior high school mentality to his dying day.

    Even as the Cabal is fucking him over purple, he will still appoint the very crowd going after him to high office.

    Almost every one he surrounded himself with in his first term is a back stabbing scumbag.

    Nothing will change if he survives to a second term.

    Instead of rounding up the whole NeoConJob crowd, soaking them in gasoline and lighting the match, he will try to buy them off so they will ‘like him’.

    His monstrous ego is fragile that way.

    He will pick someone like Revolt’on Bolton for Sec of Defense yet again.

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    March 22, 2024 at 2:02 pm #155240
    Oroboros
    Participant

    @Figmund Sreud

    The West’s Reckoning?

    All that describes to Psychopathology

    Been around since the Dawn of Time.

    Nothings changed in ten thousand years.

    Homo Sapien sapien as the ‘wise, wise ass ape’ is a pitiful history and legacy.

    Got away with it so far but didn’t ever have nuclear weapons ever before.

    https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.312cfd3cde6d6900b024bb2515cf6488?rik=d8CUP%2brzmtg4Ww&pid=ImgRaw&r=0

    March 22, 2024 at 2:03 pm #155241
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    March 22, 2024 at 2:11 pm #155242
    Oroboros
    Participant

    The Second ‘most powerful person’ in Duh’merica

    She’s fine

    Let her alone

    March 22, 2024 at 2:16 pm #155243
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Kama Kama Kama Kameleon

    March 22, 2024 at 2:25 pm #155244
    John Day
    Participant

    @F.S.: “Astoundingly, this self-destruction is occurring in the absence of any major trauma – external or internal. Therein lies another, related puzzle.”

    It’s post peak oil “trauma”. https://surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com/2024/03/22/273-systemic-jeopardy/

    March 22, 2024 at 2:43 pm #155245
    John Day
    Participant

    Celia Farber with todays “feel good” piece.
    Squatter Squad: A Company That Removes Squatters From Homes In Southern California
    https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/squatter-squad-a-company-that-removes

    March 22, 2024 at 3:07 pm #155246
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/03/1147856
    UPDATING LIVE: Russia and China veto US resolution stating imperative of ‘immediate and sustained ceasefire’ in Gaza

    Here are the highlights of all this morning’s intense diplomatic action.

    HIGHLIGHTS

    March 22, 2024 at 3:12 pm #155247
    jb-hb
    Participant

    As far as Western or world economies headed for a slump, that paper seems to consider everything except what’s actually happening.

    If any resource is in decline, then the response is to adopt greater and greater efficiencies. Find new technologies, new solutions, reduce demand (which you don’t do by continuing to facilitate population growth but with weird, wasteful, destructive policies like getting rid of a reasonably functional native population while continually transporting millions of people thousands of miles…)

    Instead, we’re seeing greater and greater waste. Through corruption and devoting resources to foolish things. We need to take control from all these fools because of all this waste and harm being caused, but the waste and harm keeps increasing the more controls are put in place, the less individual independence there is.

    It’s difficult to measure all the bribery, blackmailing, lawfare, kickbacks, money laundering, monopolization and quasi monopolization, barriers to entry via law and regulation, massive ACTUAL disinformation via media, education, etc. And the entities with monopoly power just force more stupid things on the public while losing money.

    The major things making everyone miserable aren’t even IN those graphs and charts. We’ll refer to “energy” and “complexity” and perhaps find looking at it that way supports something we’d like to stand on a soapbox about, when really it’s that everything is fucked up and bullshit and like Voltaire said, we must tend our gardens. Which “They” have decided are ALSO sinful and awful and CO2 creating and need to be stopped. The symbolic and literal becoming one.

    There’s nothing in those charts and calculations factoring in Fucked Up And Bullshit which dwarfs the other factors by multiples.

    I think I get it now about housing.

    Free money pours into rich people and institutions – the same ones in their own mental fart bubble that hate normal people and want insane policies disconnected from reality – they buy third and fourth homes. People a little down the scale buy additional homes to rent out on AirBnB and Vrbo to maintain a hold on upper middle class by their fingernails. Financial institutions buy homes and hold it back as “shadow inventory” leveraged at infinity to one.

    Millenials, GenZ, and laggard GenXers wait patiently for a change in the housing market while 100% of homes are unaffordable- but as such a deflationary downturn looms, the government rushes to bring in 10’s of millions of illegals to occupy and squat in all those extra homes, while the Boomers bid the following generations bon voyage as they depart the earth for Hale-Bopp knowing they were the best, they were the most virtuous, gazing with satisfaction, as they float up into the sky, down on a nation of their homeless children and grandchildren but with every house, apartment, condo, and town house filled to capacity by more deserving folks.

    I’m being unfair, there’s plenty of awesome boomers out there – who will get the point I am making, I think. And it isn’t about money or physical property. The Germans got bombed back to the stone age and were stacking bricks, putting on plays, making excellent cars and consumer goods almost immediately because everything was emergent from culture and they had one that supported those particular things – once they didn’t have an ideology wasting their time, resources, and lives.

    Everything following generations ACTUALLY want is more along those lines, more difficult to define, more valuable, but we can more easily point to specific effects. Things implicitly follow from those too – no home, no household formation. No sane interrelation between sexes, no family. Like, the normal human life cycle. Everyone’s birthright, built up over thousands of years, substituted with stuff that had not taken being alive, an animal, a hominid, a human, on planet earth into account. The ones taking it away superior to it, above it, demonstrating it by taking it away from future generations – but benefitting from it more than any generation that ever existed.

    Like, we use a 12 hour clock because people 8,000 years ago really liked 12 and figured out a great way to apply and use it, so we also use multiples of 12 like 60 seconds and minutes. But by all means keep throwing out the bombproof rock solid thing that was there for everyone generation after generation. Because old stuff is bad or unjust or whatever. Make everyone spend the time of their lives learning everything from scratch instead of taking the 8,000 year old solutions and doing cool stuff.

    Like sharks and dolphins are the same basic shape. They have to live in water. How long did the dolphin’s DNA take to figure out how to live skillfully, artfully, in water and catch up with the shark?

    March 22, 2024 at 3:18 pm #155248
    John Day
    Participant

    (Croatian) Alex Kreiner explains exactly this article https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/untangling-the-socialism-vs-capitalism
    in a fresh 30 minute interview with (Serbian) Aleks at Black Mountain Analysis https://bmanalysis.substack.com/p/economics-and-empires-with-alex-krainer

    March 22, 2024 at 3:26 pm #155249
    John Day
    Participant

    He explains the issue of having a steady-state economy when there is an expansionist (fractional reserve lending) economy nearby, which will overrun it, steal it and sell it off, like the British-Empire/East-India-Company did.
    “Deflationary Gap” … “Creative Destruction” … “Nature”…
    He postulates that something as large as Russia+China could make a go of it, but…
    He comes back to it longingly without a “solution”.

    March 22, 2024 at 3:42 pm #155250
    John Day
    Participant

    “Demand Destruction” Western financial strategy is explained.

    March 22, 2024 at 3:52 pm #155251
    John Day
    Participant

    @Dr. D: You will probably actually LIKE this interview with Alex Krainer. He goes far afield. You have much in common with him.

    March 22, 2024 at 4:09 pm #155252
    Celticbiker
    Participant

    The messages being sent are less about Trump, more about his following, the MAGA’s. J6 gulag prisoners lets everyone know dissent will not be allowed. Assange is the canary and ultimate example. Don’t fuck with us. Now its, you think you own things, you don’t. We own everything. We’re gonna take it. All Western independent farmers are getting the drift. Talmudic communism. No “elected” muppet is going to do fuckall about any of this other than grandstand, like they do at the border.

    March 22, 2024 at 4:13 pm #155253
    jb-hb
    Participant

    ….continuing my rant just a bit – Like just for instance, real world effects of losing 8,000 years of human progress – on how to imperfectly exist as a living human being in a real world and far more importantly as a society OF humans, which purely personal spirituality, philosophy, etc does not help with and can even be detrimental to.

    Your doctor killing you is now the #3 cause of death.

    Medicine, Science, Technology didn’t rest on a foundation of truth or materialism or the scientific method. The base layer was the painstaking 8,000 years of bit by bit wisdom, forms of understanding, behaving, upon which science rested, without which it turned into nihilistic deadly garbage.

    And are we factoring that massive cost into what is happening to us economically? Couldn’t just Medicine drag us down all by itself??? (isn’t it actually doing just that right now?)

    Convert all the cost incurred by Medicine into energy equivalents – which essentially it ends up being – and then calculate how much energy we free up if we just subtract it out of our economy? Not just money spent directly on medicine because medicine is incurring far more costs to us than just that. Is our medical establishment currently the energy drain value of all the natural gas on Titan? All the hydrogen on Saturn?

    And that’s just ONE industry spinning its wheels completely disconnected from reality and its ostensible purpose for existing. And actually spending its energy on something indistinguishable from malevolence.

    And that’s just material effects not actual human societal well being which you could have even if the technology was stone age, bronze age. The physical stuff is just a finger pointing back to that.

    March 22, 2024 at 4:36 pm #155254
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    I hear it all the time. People say, “I want the Truth!”. The funny thing is that they act all surprised or something when the demanded truth is not forthcoming.

    They say (with great and righteous fervor) to known or suspected miscreants, “Confess the truth and seek forgiveness for the crime!

    You say you want the truth? Okay then, here’s the true truth (and truer words were never spoken) . The truth is that aversion to the truth is what makes them miscreants in the first place. Miscreants don’t confess the truth until all other alternatives are exhausted.

    If they confessed the truth then that would signal they are taking an important first step toward no longer being miscreant.

    So don’t hold your breath while awaiting the full confession and with it their remorseful surrender to the justice which truth engenders. There are still plenty of alternatives they haven’t even tried yet (at least not in public).

    March 22, 2024 at 5:00 pm #155255
    thomasjkenney
    Participant

    Fish Stocking – Huell Howser witnesses aerial bombardment of Duck Lake, Sierra Nevada, CA. This is headwaters of Middle Fork San Joaquin River.

    I watched half a day of this activity once, near Bishop, CA. There were 2 planes, arrive in tandem, dump in a large lake high in a drainage, then back to the airport for another batch. There are hatcheries that are open to public visit along the east Sierra, including Mount Whitney Fish Hatchery, near Manzanar.

    IIRC, when I witnessed this (25-30 yrs ago?) it was Desolation Lake, in the Humphreys Basin, South Fork Jan Joaquin. It’s a large lake for alpine zone, and high in it’s drainage with only a few small tarns directly tributary. As a rule, highest lakes in a chain will be dead zone, no fish or very small. The second lake and downstream will have plenty. Not sure why this is the case, something to do with nutrient levels I’m sure (will read about in future). The guy who told me about this went on to distract me with fly tying and usage information, with a convincing demonstration of his skills.

    March 22, 2024 at 5:07 pm #155256
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Pedo Joe the hair sniffing pervert

    The Big Guy is rubbing Duh’merica’s nose in shit with public ritual humiliations

    What parent would let their child near this perv?

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    March 22, 2024 at 5:09 pm #155257
    those darned kids
    Participant

    with today’s diet of gmo-pharmacare,

    modern shite is art.

    March 22, 2024 at 5:09 pm #155258
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    March 22, 2024 at 5:15 pm #155259
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Mother Russia has more democracy than the entire West

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    March 22, 2024 at 5:21 pm #155260
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Oh Canazida!

    The Globe & Mail

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