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Giotto Lamentation 1306

 

The Most Astounding Feature of the Assange Case (Paul Craig Roberts)
Rule by Criminals: When Dissidents Become Enemies of the State (Whitehead)
The Gag and the Goad: Trump Should Appeal Latest Gag Order (Turley)
George Soros Overtaken by Trump in List of World’s Wealthiest (Sp.)
Most Americans Think Biden ‘Weak’ Commander-in-Chief (Sp.)
Majority of Americans Would Not Serve in Event of Another World War (Bridge)
Biden Calls Putin ‘A Butcher’ (RT)
Talk of Russia Attacking NATO is ‘Nonsense’ – Putin (RT)
United States ‘Mocking’ International Law, Creating ‘World of the Jungle’ (Miles)
US-Israel Rift Widens Amid Tense Back-and-Forth Over Gaza War (Sp.)
Why The US Decided To Give Peace In Gaza A Chance (Blankenship)
Inmates Run NBC Asylum: Ex-RNC Chief McDaniel Fired After ‘Talent’ Mutiny (ZH)
Jon Stewart Found To Have Overvalued His NYC Home By 829% (NYP)
Macron Struggling To Justify Cash For Ukraine – Le Monde (RT)
US Supply Chains Disrupted By Baltimore Bridge Collapse (RT)

 

 

 

 

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“The media organizations published the information, just as did Wikileaks, but they are not charged. Neither is Wikileaks charged. Only Julian Assange is charged..”

“Tyranny is what Julian Assange is experiencing, not a legitimate prosecution..”

“That so many dumbshit “patriots” support “getting Assange” indicates complete stupidity. “Getting Assange” means getting themselves, and they are too stupid to see it. This is how freedom is murdered.”

The Most Astounding Feature of the Assange Case (Paul Craig Roberts)

The most extraordinary thing about Julian Assange is that he is being treated as if he were an American citizen. “Treason” was the original cry, now converted to “espionage.” There was no espionage. Wikileaks published, and made available to the New York Times, The Guardian, and other media organizations leaked information. The media organizations published the information, just as did Wikileaks, but they are not charged. Neither is Wikileaks charged. Only Julian Assange is charged. Nothing is any different from Ellsberg releasing the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times. The US government wanted to prosecute both, but was prevented by the First Amendment and long-accepted duty of media organizations to hold government accountable. The stark deterioration in the protective power of the First Amendment and journalistic freedom since 1971 demonstrates the rise in tyranny. Tyranny is what Julian Assange is experiencing, not a legitimate prosecution.

Let’s carefully examine the issue of “espionage.” Espionage is a function of every embassy everywhere in the world. The purpose of embassies is not simply to represent a country’s commercial and political interests. It is also to collect information, the more sensitive the better. When embassy personnel are caught engaging in espionage, the personnel are required to leave the country. They are not prosecuted. It is well known that US embassies contain CIA agents posing as diplomats. Under the protocol governing the Assange case, Russia, China, any number of countries could arrest members of US embassies and put them on trial. Indeed, many countries could do this to one another. What prevents it is not merely good judgment, but the fact that foreign citizens are not subject to the laws of other countries. Only the US, which imagines itself as some kind of international unipower, asserts the worldwide primacy of its laws. This is an absurd claim and has no legal basis.

The orchestrated, in fact legally incorrect, case against Assange is based on nothing but Washington’s demand for revenge. Here is what Assange is guilty of: He released leaked information that showed conclusively that the United States government is a liar, a deceiver of its allies, and a war criminal. The purpose of the case against Assange is to pay him back and to intimidate all journalists from ever again publishing information unfavorable to the US government. In other words, the purpose of the Assange case is to end forever the ability of media to hold government accountable. The Assange case is the fundamental foundation for tyranny. Once it is in place, tyranny is unleashed. That so many dumbshit “patriots” support “getting Assange” indicates complete stupidity. “Getting Assange” means getting themselves, and they are too stupid to see it. This is how freedom is murdered.

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“..he spent his adult life speaking truth to power, challenging the status quo of his day, and pushing back against the abuses of the Roman Empire..”

Rule by Criminals: When Dissidents Become Enemies of the State (Whitehead)

When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals. In the current governmental climate, obeying one’s conscience and speaking truth to the power of the police state can easily render you an “enemy of the state.” The government’s list of so-called “enemies of the state” is growing by the day. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is merely one of the most visible victims of the police state’s war on dissidents and whistleblowers. Five years ago, on April 11, 2019, police arrested Assange for daring to access and disclose military documents that portray the U.S. government and its endless wars abroad as reckless, irresponsible, immoral and responsible for thousands of civilian deaths. Included among the leaked materials was gunsight video footage from two U.S. AH-64 Apache helicopters engaged in a series of air-to-ground attacks while American air crew laughed at some of the casualties.

Among the casualties were two Reuters correspondents who were gunned down after their cameras were mistaken for weapons and a driver who stopped to help one of the journalists. The driver’s two children, who happened to be in the van at the time it was fired upon by U.S. forces, suffered serious injuries. There is nothing defensible about crimes such as these perpetrated by the government. When any government becomes almost indistinguishable from the evil it claims to be fighting—whether that evil takes the form of war, terrorism, torture, drug trafficking, sex trafficking, murder, violence, theft, pornography, scientific experimentations or some other diabolical means of inflicting pain, suffering and servitude on humanity—that government has lost its claim to legitimacy.

These are hard words, but hard times require straight-talking. It is easy to remain silent in the face of evil. What is harder—what we lack today and so desperately need—are those with moral courage who will risk their freedoms and lives in order to speak out against evil in its many forms. Throughout history, individuals or groups of individuals have risen up to challenge the injustices of their age. Nazi Germany had its Dietrich Bonhoeffer. The gulags of the Soviet Union were challenged by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. America had its color-coded system of racial segregation and warmongering called out for what it was, blatant discrimination and profiteering, by Martin Luther King Jr.

And then there was Jesus Christ, an itinerant preacher and revolutionary activist, who not only died challenging the police state of his day—namely, the Roman Empire—but provided a blueprint for civil disobedience that would be followed by those, religious and otherwise, who came after him. Indeed, it is fitting that we remember that Jesus Christ—the religious figure worshipped by Christians for his death on the cross and subsequent resurrection—paid the ultimate price for speaking out against the police state of his day. A radical nonconformist who challenged authority at every turn, Jesus was a far cry from the watered-down, corporatized, simplified, gentrified, sissified vision of a meek creature holding a lamb that most modern churches peddle. In fact, he spent his adult life speaking truth to power, challenging the status quo of his day, and pushing back against the abuses of the Roman Empire.

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“Cohen’s appearance on the stand will only add to the lawfare claims given the recent view of a judge that he is a serial perjurer..”

The Gag and the Goad: Trump Should Appeal Latest Gag Order (Turley)

New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan this week became the latest court to impose a gag order on former president Donald Trump with a stinging order that found a history of Trump attacks that threatened the administration of justice. The order will bar public criticism of figures who are at the center of the public debate over this trial and the allegation of the weaponization of the legal system for political purposes, including former Trump counsel Michael Cohen, former stripper Stormy Daniels, and lead prosecutor Matthew Colangelo. Trump is still able to criticize Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and Merchan himself. What is most striking is the protection of Cohen who continues to goad Trump in public attacks. While many of us have criticized past attacks by the former president of judges and staff associated with cases, theses gag orders raise very serious free speech questions in my view.

Prosecutors like Special Counsel Jack Smith and Bragg have pushed for a trial before the election. (Recently, Smith even stated that he may force Trump into a trial running up to or even through the election). After these charges were delayed until just before an election, they have maintained that it is essential to try Trump before November. The timing of charges and proposed trial dates were the choice of these prosecutors. If judges are inclined to facilitate the effort for a pre-election trial, they should show some recognition of the unique context for such prosecution. Yet, judges like federal District Judge Tanya Chutkan have stated that she will not make any accommodation for the fact that Trump is the leading candidate for the presidency. I was previously highly critical of the efforts of Smith to gag Trump before the election. In my view, the order issued by Judge Chutkan was unconstitutional. I have opposed gag orders in many cases for decades as inimical to constitutional free speech rights.

The barring of Trump from criticizing jurors or court staff (or family members) is largely uncontroversial. However, Cohen and Daniels have long been part of the political campaigns going back to 2016. Indeed, I was highly critical of Cohen when he was still the thuggish lawyer for Trump. He is now one of the loudest critics of his former client and has made continual media appearances, including on his expected appearance in this case. Cohen’s appearance on the stand will only add to the lawfare claims given the recent view of a judge that he is a serial perjurer who appears to be continuing to game the legal system. Cohen ironically went public to criticize Trump and celebrate the gagging of him: “I want to thank Judge Merchan for imposing the gag order as I have been under relentless assault from Donald’s MAGA supporters. Nevertheless, knowing Donald as well as I do, he will seek to defy the gag order by employing others within his circle to do his bidding, regardless of consequence.”

Many Americans view the Bragg case as a raw political effort and many experts (including myself) view the case as legally flawed. Some polls show that a majority now believe the Trump prosecutions generally are “politically motivated.” This election could well turn on the allegation of lawfare. However, Merchan has now largely bagged the leading candidate (and alleged target of this weaponization) from being able to criticize key figures behind the effort. The inclusion of Colangelo in the order is equally problematic. Trump has campaigned on his involvement in a variety of cases targeting him in his federal and state systems. His movement between cases is viewed by many as evidence of a “get Trump” campaign of prosecutors. He is currently the most talked about figure that many, including Trump, view as showing coordination between these cases and investigations. My opposition to past gag orders was based on the constitutional right of defendants to criticize their prosecutions. Courts have gradually expanded both the scope and use of such orders.

It has gone from being relatively rare to commonplace. However, the use to gag the leading candidate for the presidency in the final months of the campaign only magnifies those concerns. There is a division on courts in dealing with such challenges involving politicians. For example, a court struggled with those issues in the corruption trial of Rep. Harold E. Ford Sr. (D–Tenn.). The district court barred Ford from making any “extrajudicial statement that a reasonable person would expect to be disseminated by means of public communication,” including criticism of the motives of the government or basis, merits, or evidence of the prosecution. The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit rejected the gag order as overbroad and stressed that any such limits on free speech should be treated as “presumptively void and may be upheld only on the basis of a clear showing that an exercise of First Amendment rights will interfere with the rights of the parties to a fair trial.”

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“The reconstruction was later found by a Ukrainian court to be a complete fabrication, a piece of “deliberate fraud and disinformation” that allowed Soros to interfere in Ukraine..”

George Soros Overtaken by Trump in List of World’s Wealthiest (Sp.)

Billionaire financier George Soros has been overtaken by former US President Donald Trump on Bloomberg’s index of the world’s richest people, it was revealed Tuesday. The US news outlet’s updated rankings showed the prominent liberal donor at number 378 on the list with an estimated $7.16 billion net worth. Trump was ranked just above Soros at the 377th slot in the ranking. The former US president’s net worth more than doubled this year after his Trump Media & Technology Group merged with Digital World Acquisition Corp. Trump Media & Technology Group owns and operates the real estate mogul’s Truth Social online platform, where Trump took refuge after being banned from Twitter (now X). His increased wealth also places him above figures like Home Depot founder Bernie Marcus and Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings. Soros’ net worth has changed little in recent years as the 93-year-old former hedge fund manager devotes his attention to social causes.

He’s perhaps best known in Europe as “The Man Who Broke the Bank of England;” his short sale of the British pound sterling netted him $1 billion in profit during the UK’s 1992 Black Wednesday financial crisis. The wealthy financier’s political giving has made him a controversial figure. A 1991 article in the Washington Post dubbed Soros an “overt operative” of US-backed regime change operations in Europe. Alongside US government organizations like the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), Soros funnels his massive wealth towards pro-Western activists who help bring down Russian and socialist-aligned governments. Author William Blum describes a striking example of such tactics in his 1995 classic Killing Hope. When voters returned popular socialist parties to power in post-communist Albania and Bulgaria, the NED lavished opposition groups with millions of dollars to foment political unrest. Massive protests forced the collapse of both governments, which were replaced by neoliberal parties committed to economic reforms in the interest of Western capital.

After their economies were hollowed out, Eastern European countries were then integrated into Western institutions like the European Union and NATO, further surrendering their sovereignty to leaders in Washington and Brussels. The strategy was repeated again and again over the next several years, with donors like Soros pouring millions into ostensibly “pro-democracy” causes. Soros helped fund two such “color revolutions” on Russia’s border, once during Ukraine’s so-called “Orange Revolution” in 2004 and again during the 2014 Maidan coup. In both cases elected leaders aligned with Russia were overthrown in favor of pro-Western governments that dramatically shifted Ukraine’s political allegiances. Soros’ Open Society Foundations played a key role in Ukraine’s 2014 regime change by funding a 3-D model “reconstruction” pinning the blame for a massacre of protesters at Kiev’s Maidan Square on government forces.

The rendering was touted by The New York Times and other news outlets as “proof” that President Viktor Yanukovych’s government was using deadly force to repress demonstrators, a key narrative leading to his overthrow. The reconstruction was later found by a Ukrainian court to be a complete fabrication, a piece of “deliberate fraud and disinformation” that allowed Soros to interfere in Ukraine with deadly consequences. Soros has since poured his resources into influencing US politics, funding organizations that promote censorship on social media in the name of “combatting disinformation” and lobby for sanctions on Cuba and Venezuela. In 2022 Soros was the single largest donor to Democratic Party-aligned causes, just above disgraced cryptocurrency entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried. The influential billionaire’s defenders often claim criticism of Soros is antisemitic, but a cursory analysis of his outsized global influence demonstrates his conduct is ripe for critique.

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“..the United States military entered 2024 with its smallest active duty size since the Second World War..”

Most Americans Think Biden ‘Weak’ Commander-in-Chief (Sp.)

Last week, a YouGov survey found that 61 percent of Americans think a new world war is either “very likely” or “somewhat likely” to break out over the next 5-10 years. The worrying survey results come amid continued efforts by Washington and its allies to set Eastern Europe, the Middle East, as well as East and Southeast Asia on fire. More than half of Americans believe President Joe Biden is a “weaker” commander-in-chief than his recent predecessors. According to new polling of 1,114 likely voters by Rasmussen Reports, 53 percent of likely voters think Biden is “weaker” in his capacity as chief of the military than past presidents. Some 24 percent believe he is a “stronger” C-in-C. Another 20 percent believe he’s “about the same.” The results mark a 10-point jump from polling by Rasmussen from May 2021, in which 43 percent of respondents said they thought Biden was “weaker” than other recent C-in-Cs, with 32 percent saying he was “stronger,” and 18 percent saying he was “about the same.”

More detailed polling by Rasmussen from October 2023 found that support for Biden as a military leader is particularly weak among Republicans and independents (just 15 and 20 percent of whom think he is stronger than his predecessors, respectively), with 51 percent of surveyed Democrats saying he is “stronger.” Despite plans to spend a record $886 billion on defense in the current fiscal year, the United States military entered 2024 with its smallest active duty size since the Second World War, with personnel numbers expected to drop from 1.39 million last year to 1.28 million service members now as recruiters face difficulties enticing skeptical young people to join, and existing servicemen retire amid the military’s increasingly “woke” culture, conflicts surrounding vax mandates, and falling morale following decades of illegal US wars abroad. Rasmussen’s polling comes in the wake of concerns voiced by Americans in a YouGov poll released last week that a new world war might be just around the corner.

In a survey of 1,000 US adult citizens taken between early February and early March, 22 percent of those polled by YouGov said a new global conflagration is “very likely,” with 39 percent saying it is “somewhat likely,” and just 17 and five percent saying it is “not very likely” or “not at all likely,” respectively. Some 77 percent believe that if a new world war broke out, the US would inevitably be involved, with only six percent saying the US would not be involved. Meanwhile, 72 percent said they expect Russia to also be involved, and 69 percent said that China would be involved. Americans believe their country could ally alongside the UK (67 percent), Ukraine (58 percent), and Israel (58 percent) in the hypothetical conflict. The poll also found that 45 percent of Americans believe their coalition would “win” in a conflict against both Russia and China. Only six percent of those polled said they would volunteer to fight, with nine percent saying they would fight if conscripted, 13 percent that they would refuse service, and 60 percent saying they don’t qualify. However, 16 percent said they would volunteer if the US itself was under threat of an imminent invasion.

[..] Former president and presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has warned repeatedly in recent months that President Biden’s policies, particularly in Ukraine, have put the world “on the brink of World War III.” “The world is in tremendous danger. We’re in danger of possibly a World War III. And we have a man who’s absolutely the worst president in the history of our country – he can’t put two sentences together, he’s not going to be able to negotiate with Putin or Xi or Kim Jong Un of North Korea. Not going to be able to negotiate with anybody. All he knows how to do is drop bombs all over the place – meaningless bombs, except they kill a lot of people and cost a lot of money,” Trump said in February ahead of a Supreme Court ruling on his ability to appear on the ballot in Colorado for the 2024 presidential election.

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“..55 percent are of the opinion that a coalition made up of Moscow, Beijing and their allies would win..”

Majority of Americans Would Not Serve in Event of Another World War (Bridge)

The majority of Americans say that another world war is at least somewhat likely to break out in the next 10 years, but most say they would not enlist to serve in combat or non-combatant roles if the United States were to be involved. A new YouGov poll revealed that 22% of Americans believe it’s ‘very likely’ that there will be another world war within the next five to 10 years; 39% say it’s ‘somewhat likely.’ Broken down politically, one-third of Republicans believe it’s ‘very likely’ that there will be another world war in the next decade; 20% of Independents and 16% of Democrats agree with that statement. Despite the United States and its NATO allies depleting their military supplies at a breakneck pace in a proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, and Moscow displaying fearsome offensive powers, Americans still remain optimistic over any hypothetical war against Russia and China.

If there were to be a world war in which the U.S. and their allies were fighting against Russia, China, or both, Americans are more likely to say that the NATO member states would win than to say they would lose. However, the patriotic optimism quickly fades in the hypothetical scenario that pits both China and Russia — and their allies — against Western nations and their allies in a world war. Just 45% of Americans say the Western nations would emerge victorious, while 55 percent are of the opinion that a coalition made up of Moscow, Beijing and their allies would win. In a similar YouGov survey conducted in the UK, just 21% of British adults believe that Western forces would lose to China, Russia, and their allies in the event of a world war.

Shockingly, if a global conflagration involving the United States were to break out, just 6% of Americans say they would enlist for military service, while 9% say they would not volunteer but would serve if called up, and 13% say they would not volunteer and would refuse to serve if called up. Meanwhile, a whopping 60% say the armed forces would not attempt to draft them due to age or disability. However, in the event that the U.S. finds itself under imminent threat of invasion, the percentage of people who would volunteer for military service increases to 16%. However, 47% say that even in such extreme circumstances, they don’t think the military would want them to serve due to age or disability.

“Americans are more open to the idea of serving in non-combat roles in the event of a world war,” says Jamie Ballard, a data journalist with YouGov. “19% say they would volunteer for this type of role; 12% would not volunteer but would serve if called up. If the U.S. were under imminent threat of invasion, 26% would volunteer for non-combat service. 42% of Americans say the government would not want them for non-combat roles for reasons related to age or disability; 38% say the government would not want them to serve for these reasons even if the U.S. were under imminent threat of invasion.”

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“It’s not like he could say ‘Good job… thank you for the helping hand’. We understand what is going on there, in terms of internal politics..”

Biden Calls Putin ‘A Butcher’ (RT)

US President Joe Biden has disparaged his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin for the second time in two months, publicly calling him a “butcher” in connection with the Ukraine conflict. Biden made the jab while speaking at a campaign event in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Tuesday. He advocated raising the average federal tax for America’s wealthiest from 8.2% to 25%, arguing that this would allow Washington to raise $400 billion over the next ten years. “Imagine what we could do with that. We could fundamentally slash the federal deficit… We could do so many things – consequential – including finally making sure that we take care of Ukraine from that butcher Putin,” he said. Biden also lashed out at the Russian president in late February, calling him a “crazy S.O.B.”

He mentioned Putin while saying that the West must be wary of a nuclear conflict, but should pay even more attention to the danger posed by climate change. At the time, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov suggested that Americans should be ashamed of a leader who indulged in such comments. “If the president of that nation uses that kind of language, that is shameful,” he said, adding that Biden may have been trying to emulate a “Hollywood cowboy” to appeal to domestic audiences. Responding to the “S.O.B.” remarks, Putin stood by his previously expressed opinion that Moscow would be better off with Biden in the White House, adding that the US President’s words only prove his point. “

It’s not like he could say ‘Good job… thank you for the helping hand’. We understand what is going on there, in terms of internal politics,” he explained. This is not the first time that Biden has labeled Putin a “butcher.” The first instance dates back to March 2022, several weeks after the start of the Ukraine conflict. Peskov suggested that such offensive comments “narrow down the window for bilateral relations” at a time when Russia-US ties have sunk to a historic low. In 2021, Biden also called Putin “a killer.” The Russian president retorted, “It takes one to know one,” following that remark.

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“The claims that we are going to attack Europe after Ukraine – it is utter nonsense and intimidation of their own population just to beat the money out of them.”

Talk of Russia Attacking NATO is ‘Nonsense’ – Putin (RT)

Moscow is not seeking a confrontation with America’s vassals in Eastern Europe, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday. Multiple Western officials have tried to drum up support for additional aid to Ukraine by claiming that Moscow will not stop if Kiev is defeated on the battlefield. Putin addressed these claims during a visit to Torzhok air base in Tver Region. “This is just nonsense,” the Russian president said, noting the disparity in Russian defense spending and the budgets of NATO militaries. “The claims that we are going to attack Europe after Ukraine – it is utter nonsense and intimidation of their own population just to beat the money out of them.” US “satellites” in Eastern Europe have no reason to be afraid, Putin added.

Talk of a potential Russian attack on Poland, the Czech Republic, or the Baltic states is just propaganda by governments that seek to scare their citizens “to extract additional expenses from people, to make them bear this burden on their shoulders.” NATO has been expanding towards the borders of Russia, not the other way around, the president noted, adding that Russia is merely ”protecting our people on our historical territories.” “They came right up to our borders… Did we go across the ocean to the borders of the United States? No, they are approaching us, and they have come very close,” he said. Torzhok is home to the 344th Training Center for Russian combat pilots, including personnel being trained to take part in the Ukraine conflict.

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“The Americans came out after the meeting of the Security Council with something so absurd by the US ambassador saying, ‘well, this resolution is non-binding.’”

“When the United Nations Security Council is told by a permanent member, i.e., the US, that this binding resolution is non-binding, then we have a serious problem worldwide..”

United States ‘Mocking’ International Law, Creating ‘World of the Jungle’ (Miles)

The Biden administration made waves on Monday when its delegation to the UN abstained during a Security Council vote calling for a ceasefire in the besieged Gaza Strip. The act was significant as the US has vetoed three previous resolutions with similar language. The passage of the statement raised hopes that violence could finally come to an end in the enclave as Israel’s nearly seven month-long operation has left over 32,000 Palestinians dead, most of them thought to be civilians. But the US immediately backpedaled in the hours since, insisting the Security Council resolution is “non-binding.” The Biden administration’s statements have caused analysts like Elijah Magnier to conclude the country is using the UN erely to manage its relationship with Israel, damaging the authority of international law and threatening world peace in the process. The journalist offered his thoughts during a discussion on Sputnik’s Fault Lines program Tuesday.

“First of all the resolution was [drafted] with the word ‘permanent’ ceasefire, and then the Americans rejected the word ‘permanent’ and changed it with a ‘lasting’ ceasefire,” explained Magnier. “And there’s a big difference between a ‘lasting’ ceasefire and a ‘permanent’ ceasefire. A lasting ceasefire implies a cessation of hostility that is intended to be stable and enduring, but not necessarily to be part of a comprehensive peace agreement that addresses all the issues that the Israelis and the Palestinians have been fighting about since 1948.” “It also requires a mechanism of verification of the ceasefire that has not been put in place,” he noted. “The Americans came out after the meeting of the Security Council with something so absurd by the US ambassador saying, ‘well, this resolution is non-binding.’” The statement was made by White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby during a press conference after the vote.

The Biden administration has taken pains to insist the United States’ relationship with Israel hasn’t changed in light of the UN resolution. But Magnier said such statements do great damage to the power and legitimacy of international law. “If you look at Article 25 of the UN charter, all members of the United Nations agreed to… accept and carry out the decision,” said the journalist, noting that Security Council resolutions are intended to be binding and enforced by members. “Every single US official came out to say, ‘oh, this is a non-binding resolution,’ undermining international laws.” “If these laws are not implemented we live in the world of the jungle, we don’t live in an institution and we don’t live in international law.” The veteran war correspondent, who has reported from Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Sudan, Afghanistan, and Yugoslavia, said the erosion in international cooperation seriously threatens the world’s ability to peacefully resolve global conflicts.

“At this point I think the whole world needs something to happen because the Second World War brought the United Nations,” Magnier said. “Do we need a third World War to change the world constitution and start putting a mechanism in place where all countries should abide by international laws? Because it seems the Americans are cherry picking who can implement international laws and who cannot.” “When the United Nations Security Council is told by a permanent member, i.e., the US, that this binding resolution is non-binding, then we have a serious problem worldwide,” he added.

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“..It should be noted that Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant lingered in Washington for talks with US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin at the Pentagon..”

US-Israel Rift Widens Amid Tense Back-and-Forth Over Gaza War (Sp.)

In a headline-grabbing shift from its three previous vetoes, the US abstained from a UN Security Council vote on a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza on March 25. The move was seen as feeding into a growing chasm between US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The Biden administration is continuing to fend off backlash after deviating from its previous course and abstaining from a vote on a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas in Gaza. Even though many pundits believe the abstention was no more than a posturing PR stunt, blowback has nevertheless come from Israel as well as both parties in Congress.

While a furious Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu canceled a high-level delegation’s trip to Washington, incensed pro-Israel House lawmakers have slammed Biden for what they see as a US policy shift away from supporting Israel. A number of both Democrats and Republicans are up in arms over the abstention. Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) went on social media to post that it was “appalling” the US allowed the passage of the resolution. Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) was similarly “shocked.” Another Democrat, Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY) claimed the abstention had “emboldened” Hamas. House Republican Anthony D’Esposito (R-NY) on Tuesday introduced a resolution declaring that “any resolution of the Israeli-Hamas conflict should take place only with the full cooperation and approval of Israel at each step of the process.”

It also insisted that the US “should continue to support Israel and should not attempt to force Israel to take any course of action that is against its best interest.” The flurry of reactions from lawmakers followed a diplomatic snub as Israel called off the visit of a high-level delegation to Washington. The meeting had been called at Biden’s request and was purportedly set to discuss “alternatives” to a planned Israeli offensive into Gaza’s southern city of Rafah. It should be noted that Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant lingered in Washington for talks with US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin at the Pentagon. After the meeting, Gallant said Israel’s “goals are simple: We need to destroy Hamas as a military and governing organization in Gaza… It means that the military framework must be destroyed.”

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“..Should the US allow Israel to destroy the last remaining Palestinian holdout in Gaza, Biden will almost certainly lose the 2024 presidential election to Donald Trump.”

Why The US Decided To Give Peace In Gaza A Chance (Blankenship)

In a historic move on Monday, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) achieved a breakthrough by passing a binding resolution aimed at securing a “lasting, sustainable ceasefire” in Gaza and advocating the release of all hostages held by Hamas since the October attacks on Israel last year. This momentous step forward in international diplomacy signals a potential turning point in the protracted Israeli-Palestinian conflict, offering a glimmer of hope for peace in a region long plagued by violence and discord. The decision by the UNSC comes after several failed attempts to broker a ceasefire. It underscores the growing global consensus on the urgent need to address the root causes of the conflict and pave the way for a peaceful settlement. The resolution, which was passed with overwhelming support from the international community, reflects a shared commitment to upholding international law and promoting stability in the region.

The US, traditionally a staunch ally of Israel, notably abstained from vetoing the resolution this time, signaling a shift in its approach and a willingness to engage constructively in multilateral efforts to end the violence – though it has said that it does not represent a change in policy. This decision reflects a recognition of the need for a balanced approach that takes into account the legitimate concerns and aspirations of both Israelis and Palestinians. With the UNSC resolution now enshrined as international law, all UN member states are bound by its provisions, setting a clear mandate for concerted action to implement its objectives. This presents a unique opportunity for diplomatic initiatives and coordinated efforts to de-escalate tensions, rebuild trust, and create the conditions necessary for lasting peace and stability in the region. However, despite the optimism surrounding the UNSC resolution, significant challenges remain on the path to peace.

The Israeli government, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has vowed to carry out operations in Rafah, a densely populated area where millions of displaced Palestinians now reside. This escalation threatens to further exacerbate tensions and undermine efforts to achieve a ceasefire and pave the way for meaningful negotiations. Moreover, Israel’s position as a key strategic ally of the United States poses a dilemma for Washington, which has long maintained unwavering support for Israel’s security and sovereignty. While the US remains committed to its alliance with Israel, the changing geopolitical landscape and evolving strategic priorities have complicated its stance on the conflict. The Biden administration faces pressure from both domestic and international stakeholders to balance its support for Israel with a commitment to upholding international law and promoting peace in the Middle East. Should the US allow Israel to destroy the last remaining Palestinian holdout in Gaza, Biden will almost certainly lose the 2024 presidential election to Donald Trump.

Additionally, relations with Muslim countries would be shattered beyond repair, as well as endangering US military personnel in the region. The prospect of a full-scale war looms large, with Israel’s military capabilities and the broader implications of its actions raising concerns about the potential for a regional conflict. The possibility of an invasion by neighboring Arab states adds another layer of complexity to an already volatile situation, highlighting the need for concerted diplomatic efforts to prevent further escalation and find a peaceful resolution to the crisis. Further, Israel’s nuclear ambiguity and so-called “Samson Option,” its rumored unofficial retaliatory policy, raise serious questions about whether spillover in the conflict, prompted by the state’s potential ground operation in Rafah, could trigger a international thermonuclear war.

The situation in the Middle East thus represents a major threat to international security, underscoring why major countries like Russia, China, and Brazil have been adamant about a ceasefire. Despite these challenges, there are reasons for cautious optimism. The UNSC resolution represents a significant step forward in international efforts to address the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and provides a framework for meaningful dialogue and engagement. By building on this momentum and redoubling efforts to promote reconciliation and mutual understanding, there is hope for a brighter future for the people of Gaza and the wider Middle East. While the road to peace remains long and arduous, the UNSC resolution offers a ray of hope in an otherwise bleak landscape. By seizing this opportunity and working together in good faith, the international community can help pave the way for a just and lasting peace in the region. Now is the time for bold leadership, unwavering commitment, and a shared vision of a future defined by cooperation, coexistence, and prosperity for all.

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“It is misguided given that no wing of the conservative movement claims Ronna any longer!”

Inmates Run NBC Asylum: Ex-RNC Chief McDaniel Fired After ‘Talent’ Mutiny (ZH)

Just four days after she was hired — and before she even started — former Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel was fired by NBC News on Tuesday as the network bent to the wishes of its on-air “talent” who protested her hiring during their programs. McDaniel was poised to become a talking head providing insights on politics heading into November’s general election. News of McDaniel’s hiring broke on Friday, immediately igniting a firestorm among leftists inside and outside of NBC’s walls. In the few days that followed, a parade of hosts — including Chuck Todd, Joe Scarborough and Joy Reid, dedicated portions of their shows to raking their bosses over the coals for hiring McDaniel. Rachel Maddow was among the most melodramatically warped, saying that having McDaniel on the payroll was “inexplicable” because she “hasn’t just attacked us as journalists, but…is part of an ongoing project to get rid of our system of government.”

On Tuesday, NBCUniversal News Group chairman Cesar Conde waved the surrender flag in a memo to staff: “No organization, particularly a newsroom, can succeed unless it is cohesive and aligned. Over the last few days, it has become clear that this appointment undermines that goal. After listening to the legitimate concerns of many of you, I have decided that Ronna McDaniel will not be an NBC News contributor. I want to personally apologize to our team members who felt we let them down.” McDaniel, who oversaw seven years of Republican electoral underperformance before resigning in February, was hired by NBC News editorial chief Rebecca Blumenstein. “They thought this would bring in more conservative viewers and give a conservative point of view,” a source at NBC tells the New York Post. “It is misguided given that no wing of the conservative movement claims Ronna any longer! Don’t understand how no one realized that.”

NBC’s fiasco was indeed multi-faceted. Aside from choosing a non-conservative to appeal to conservatives, the move precipitated a spectacle of hypocrisy, as Maddow and others who relentlessly promoted the Russiagate hoax and cheer on efforts to remove Trump from 2024 ballots assailed McDaniel for being dishonest and supposedly undermining democracy. On his nightly show System Update, Glenn Greenwald found the whole thing darkly amusing: As much as NBC would like to think this whole clusterf*** is behind them, McDaniel, who is Mitt Romney’s niece, is reportedly looking for an attorney, presumably to help her shake some money out of the peacock’s feathers.

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“This is right in [Letitia James’] jurisdiction! I look forward to the grand jury indictment..”

Jon Stewart Found To Have Overvalued His NYC Home By 829% (NYP)

Jon Stewart is facing online backlash after the comedian opined on air this week that Donald Trump’s civil real estate case for overvaluing his properties was “not victimless” — when it turns out the price of a previous home sale finds Stewart doing the exact same thing, The Post has learned. On Monday night, Stewart, 61, unpacked Trump’s $454 million appeal bond, calling out experts framing the former president’s New York civil case as not causing direct harm to any individual. “The Daily Show” host rolled a clip of CNN’s Laura Coates interviewing “Shark Tank” star Kevin O’Leary, who commented that the ruling didn’t “go over well” with the real estate industry that was now fretting over the possibility of becoming the next target. Jon Stewart slammed Kevin O’Leary for calling Trump’s Civil Case as “victimless.”

Coates responds to O’Leary by highlighting that Trump was found liable for falsifying business records in the second degree, issuing false financial statements, insurance fraud and conspiracy, all due to asset inflation. “Everything that you just listed off is done by every real estate developer everywhere on Earth in every city. This has never been prosecuted,” O’Leary replied. In response, Stewart asked: “How is he not this mad about overvaluations in the real world?” “Because they are not victimless crimes,” he said. To further his point, Stewart argued that “money isn’t infinite. A loan that goes to the liar doesn’t go to someone who’s giving a more honest evaluation. So the system becomes incentivized for corruption.”

Stewart also contended that failing to declare a higher market value on a property, while paying taxes based on a lower assessed value, constitutes fraudulent behavior. “The attorney general of New York knew that Trump’s property values were inflated because when it came time to pay taxes, Trump undervalued the very same properties,” Stewart added. “It was all part of a very specific real estate practice known as lying.” But it didn’t take long for internet sleuths to look into Stewart’s own property history, which shows an overvaluation of his New York City penthouse by a staggering 829%, records confirmed by The Post show. In 2014, Stewart sold his 6,280-square-foot Tribeca duplex to financier Parag Pande for $17.5 million. The property’s asking price at that time is not available in listing records.

But according to 2013-2014 assessor records obtained by The Post, the property had the estimated market-value at only $1.882 million. The actual assessor valuation was even lower, at $847,174. Records also show that Stewart paid significantly lower property taxes, which were calculated based on that assessor valuation price — precisely what he called Trump out for doing in his Monday monologue. Pande, who purchased the penthouse from Stewart, then resold the property at a nearly 26% loss, according to the Real Deal — at just over $13 million — in 2021. Timothy Pool, a political commentator known for more right-leaning views, alleged on X that Stewart was being a hypocrite. “Did @jonstewart commit fraud when he sold his penthouse for $17.5M? NY listed its market value at $1.8M an AV at around 800k… Who did he defraud?? I am SHOCKED,” he wrote. “This is right in [Letitia James’] jurisdiction! I look forward to the grand jury indictment,” a user quipped in response to the tweet.

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“..voters who cannot understand how the government can provide billions to Ukraine while planning spending cuts at home..”

Macron Struggling To Justify Cash For Ukraine – Le Monde (RT)

It is “extremely unclear” how France can fulfill promises by President Emmanuel Macron to supply more military aid to Ukraine, as the government in Paris struggles with plans for spending cuts, Le Monde has reported. French authorities are looking to save €10 billion ($10.8 billion) this year amid a budget deficit of €144.5 billion ($156 billion) and a reduced growth forecast, according to which the economy will increase by just 1% in 2024. The French government said last month that the €10 billion cut could, among other things, be achieved by reducing the expenses of all its ministries and slicing public policies, including development aid and subsidies for building renovation.

In such circumstances, the pledge by Macron to provide €3 billion in support for Kiev this year to aid in the conflict with Russia – made when France and Ukraine signed a 10-year bilateral security pact in mid-February – has turned into a “budgetary and political headache” for his government, Le Monde reported on Tuesday. Lawmakers from Macron’s ruling Renaissance party say they regularly face questions from voters who cannot understand how the government can provide billions to Ukraine while planning spending cuts at home, the paper said. “People ask us why we’re giving €3 billion to Ukraine, it’s a lot of money,” Renaissance MP Mathieu Lefevre was quoted as saying. Le Monde suggested that in order to fulfill their promise to Kiev, the authorities in Paris would have to “play with the paperwork,” such as including France’s €900 million contribution to the European Peace Facility, an EU fund to aid Ukraine, in the €3 billion sum.

Another option might be to increase the value of the equipment donated to the Ukrainian government. The outlet added, however, that Macron’s cabinet would likely still be forced to make amendments to the finance bill (PLFR) in the summer, despite such a move being “politically inflammable.” It would require approval from the National Assembly, where opposition parties object to further funding for Kiev. Despite the issues outlined by Le Monde, French Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu stated on Tuesday that Paris will soon be able to deliver 78 more Caesar howitzers to Kiev, while boosting the supply of shells to the country.

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“The Port of Baltimore is the country’s busiest maritime terminal for exports of vehicles..”

US Supply Chains Disrupted By Baltimore Bridge Collapse (RT)

The collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, which has cut off ocean routes to the city’s major port, is expected to cause severe disruptions to local transport and logistics, producing ripple effects on global supply chains. The four-lane bridge collapsed on Tuesday after being hit by the Singapore-registered container ship Dali, operated by Danish shipping giant Maersk. As a result of the accident, a large section of the 1.6-mile (2.6km) bridge collapsed into the Patapsco River, with multiple vehicles falling nearly 55 meters into the water. Built in the 1970s, the Francis Scott Key Bridge spans the Patapsco River, and is the only passage connecting the US’ ninth-biggest foreign trading port to the ocean. The Port of Baltimore is the country’s busiest maritime terminal for exports of vehicles.

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According to Maryland Governor Wes Moore, no other port in the country brings in more vehicles than Baltimore, with up to 850,000 cars and light trucks going in and out of its terminals annually. Parts used in vehicle assembly also pass through the port or across the bridge. The major hub for East Coast shipping also handles significant volumes of coal. During the second quarter of 2023, the port’s facilities had the second-highest coal export capacities, data tracked by S&P Global shows. Ten ships are reportedly stuck inside the port, unable to leave as the collapsed bridge spanned the only way in and out of the harbor. Another 30 small cargo vessels, tug boats, and other craft are also trapped in the port. Nearly 40 ships heading for Baltimore were forced to divert.

Commenting on the tragedy, US President Joe Biden said the bridge is vital to the economy, citing concerns about traffic and jobs connected to the port. He noted that the port supports around 15,000 jobs and that over 30,000 vehicles used the bridge each day. Officials closed the port to ship traffic following the incident. Rescue efforts are underway as the authorities search for six people who are still missing.

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    Giotto Lamentation 1306   • The Most Astounding Feature of the Assange Case (Paul Craig Roberts) • Rule by Criminals: When Dissidents Become Enem
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle March 28 2024]

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    If you think The Big Fat Lie was a work of fiction, that climate gate was a one off or the jab was really intended for the better than don’t watch this:

    This film exposes the climate alarm as an invented scare without any basis in science. It shows that mainstream studies and official data do not support the claim that we are witnessing an increase in extreme weather events – hurricanes, droughts, heatwaves, wildfires and all the rest. It emphatically counters the claim that current temperatures and levels of atmospheric CO2 are unusually and worryingly high. On the contrary, compared to the last half billion years of earth’s history, both current temperatures and CO2 levels are extremely and unusually low. We are currently in an ice age. It also shows that there is no evidence that changing levels of CO2 (it has changed many times) has ever ‘driven’ climate change in the past.

    Why then, are we told, again and again, that ‘catastrophic man-made climate-change’ is an irrefutable fact? Why are we told that there is no evidence that contradicts it? Why are we told that anyone who questions ‘climate chaos’ is a ‘flat-earther’ and a ‘science-denier’?

    The film explores the nature of the consensus behind climate change. It describes the origins of the climate funding bandwagon, and the rise of the trillion-dollar climate industry. It describes the hundreds of thousands of jobs that depend on the climate crisis. It explains the enormous pressure on scientists and others not to question the climate alarm: the withdrawal of funds, rejection by science journals, social ostracism.

    But the climate alarm is much more than a funding and jobs bandwagon. The film explores the politics of climate. From the beginning, the climate scare was political. The culprit was free-market industrial capitalism. The solution was higher taxes and more regulation. From the start, the climate alarm appealed to, and has been adopted and promoted by, those groups who favour bigger government.

    This is the unspoken political divide behind the climate alarm. The climate scare appeals especially to all those in the sprawling publicly-funded establishment. This includes the largely publicly-funded Western intelligentsia, for whom climate has become a moral cause. In these circles, to criticise or question the climate alarm has become is a breach of social etiquette.

    The film includes interviews with a number of very prominent scientists, including Professor Steven Koonin (author of ‘Unsettled’, a former provost and vice-president of Caltech), Professor Dick Lindzen (formerly professor of meteorology at Harvard and MIT), Professor Will Happer (professor of physics at Princeton), Dr John Clauser (winner of the Nobel prize in Physics in 2022), Professor Nir Shaviv (Racah Institute of Physics), professor Ross McKitrick (University of Guelph), Willie Soon and several others.

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    Dr. D
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    “18 Killed In Gaza Trying To Reach Aid As Pentagon Vows More Airdrops”

    Hey, maybe we should invent “Roads” or something. Again, we are paying Israel to kill them, then paying the UN and US Military to kill them again. With food bombs. Just open the gates and leave them alone.

    Speaking of paying both sides to kill everyone,
    “Tucson Faces ‘Catastrophe’ As Funding For Illegal Immigrants Set To Expire

    My thought was: when the EBT cards go out, only the working people will stay. Unfortunately, that may not be what the people paying trillions to make this happen have planned:::::::::::::

    WHY knock out everything, kill everyone, close every farm, bomb every food plant, shut every railroad, cut every bridge? …And THEN add 10 Million more people, like 100 mid-sized cities we have no infrastructure for? What do you think will happen?

    …That’s not a rhetorical question, like literally, if you double the size of NYC, have no water lines, food is shut off, what do you think will happen?

    Well, this starving zombie hoarde will go attack and kill all those stupid gun-owning farmers for you. Like in the book on 1920 Weimar Inflation “Dying of Money.” They’re such pin-headed morons, they go into the country, like tip over a cow, cut it open and steal one steak. A DAIRY cow. Congratulations, now you have no cow, no steaks, no milk AND no baby cows. Like hundreds, thousands, a million of these. They go out and kill the farmers. Yay! THEY’RE THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO MAKE THE FOOD, you idiots! That’s like rolling up to a Burger King and killing the Drive-Thru teller. I don’t know what your PLAN was, but No Happy Meal! Now you’re going to go hungry!

    Hundreds of these. Because, of course, that’s what they WANT. Like Russia, WE don’t have an army. So we just MAKE some population go nuts and suddenly BECOME our army like they were bit by zombies, or that drug in Kingsmen: it comes through your cell phone. The 5 Minutes of Hate.

    So WHY import them as an army? You can’t control them. The odds of conscripting then controlling are low. Why? Ohhhhh, for this. That’s why.

    Of COURSE we’re going to kill everyone in the cities too. Hahahahaha! But we don’t CARE!!!!! We wanted them all dead too!!!! Even though we can control THEM! They’re Minions, their purpose for being is to die for my pleasure. No, what we REALLY need is the last holdouts of American values: 100% of all living beings OUTSIDE the Blue Zombie loops. Now why did Federal court just say illegals can own guns but citizens can’t? So if an illegal carries an illegal gun, does it become legal? A: We’ll never know because they’ll never be charged.

    Pretty ominous. You better hope there are some White Hats out there. I can’t stop the combined population of Houston from running over my farm and neither can you. Or not shoot at the Government who are helping them at the same time. Well, we won one battle in keeping the Military from being used in a Civil War, only to have this thrown at us instead. Oh well.

    OminoxComix

    Um. Wish I were kidding. I could find a dozen articles of both examples without blinking an eye. #AntiLogos. Reality Free. Again, I don’t care what people SAY. I don’t care about “Signaling.” I care what’s actually happening.

    “A new report has found that 68% of small business owners say Gen Z employees are the “least reliable,” while 71% say they’re most likely to have a mental health issue in the workplace.”

    Wow. That is not great. And I can kind of confirm it, although per individual differs widely.

    Lion: That’s the Christopher Walken quote. And step one has been completed. Make Trump look weak, make all the traitors come out of the woodwork so we can identify them. And then? What is Step Two of such a plan?

    “Dana White reveals he threatened to resign from the UFC in 2022 to prevent Joe Rogan from getting fired when the woke mob tried “cancelling” him.”

    Saxon, or rather “Male” culture. Your liege loyalty is to your Lord BUT ALSO from the Lord to his men, even serfs. If not, you are no Lord at all, nor a Gentleman, nor indeed a “Man” at all. You see this passingly in “Downton Abbey” where the Nouveau Riche arrange all British law that if ANY Lord keep his duties, he will be bankrupted and vaporized. The rich hated any duty or restraint and notice that it was the Aristocracy who was painted the BAD GUY in this. THEY were the problem, not CEO PaperClip. They removed the Aristocracy, leaving today’s path of being run by Not EVEN Soros, but his blue hipster children.

    “Why are you coming to the mic telling the country that it’s not terrorism”

    Okay, Attack on a mile-long BRIDGE? That is vital infrastructure for a whole region? Does that ring any bells?

    Anyway, like all things, they know it wasn’t terrorism before they had time to ask anybody. Ok, why? Why can it NOT be terrorism? Wouldn’t it be better, Rally-’round-the-Flag, bombbomb Iran, RussiaRussiaRussia, $1Trillion printed if it WERE? Okay, so since it’s certainly GOING TO BE, duh, what are we finding out? It’s an attack BY THE CIA on the U.S. in order to CAUSE war, but making each side suspicious of each other? That may seem too far, but they provably and historically did only exactly this right through the 50s and 60s. Taking a different tack, but same goal in the 70s and 80s.

    Point is, NOW they have to walk it back. Guaranteed. And AGAIN Biden and MSM will be WRONG, dead wrong, always wrong, http://www.wrong.com. Opened mouth: Wrong came out. “Conspiracy Theorists” right. Since that’s inevitable – and quick, like 1-2 months – why bother? Why deny it BEFORE knowing, then KNOWING you will be eating public crow before your milk expires?

    Well you tell me, I can’t keep up with it. Strikes me as critical discrediting of Biden Administration and all associated, but with no action points like as a cause to remove him. — Everyone knows he doesn’t do anything but “pudding” anyway, so what’s the point?

    “The US Govt has created a hardware backdoor in the CPUs of Apple devices”

    Yup that came out with Vault 7? That every Intel processor was specifically designed to be unpatchable? Essentially by design? And therefore no leap that AMD and Apple would be put out of business (as was specifically and thoroughly done with BlackBerry) if they didn’t have palatial, train-sized back doors as well. Hey, who was on that missing flight to Asia? The whole company that made a processor and tech that would PREVENT world-wide secret state surveillance? Huh. Funny ol’ World. Anyone found that plane yet?

    Also: WHO has access to this, really? Not the CIA, they’re goons. No. Jeff Bezos. Gerorge Soros. The real operators of the system, Corporate masters and billionaires are the ones ACTUALLY calling up or getting illegal entry all day long. The CIA and real governments are doing their day-jobs and don’t have nearly as much time for it. That’s why it’s critical it be in every PUBLIC domain, so anyone who can buy a $100M hacker has total access to, say, Jeff Bezos’ wife, and not just the FSB.

    This is the initiative to ERASE governments wholesale, as you see in the EU Commission, and replace them with Corporations. NGOs. Because they are unaccountable then back-merger with government to be their monster army, past tense.

    “Nigel Farage remarks on the recent call by unelected EU head, Ursula von der Leyen, for world leaders to roll out digital ID, CBDCs and a cashless society”

    And how much of this is actually GOVERNMENT? Not so much, really, all Vax, Cards, chips, etc are PRIVATE. The government just will shoot you if you don’t buy this PRIVATELY-RUN thing. Hey, what’s a complete merger of State and Corporations again? Trick question, there are two: “The State owns the means of Production”, and “The Production owns the means of the State.” So really: Who Cares? I will fight both equally where found.

    He finishes with “If we’re not careful”. Time exists, buddy. You can’t warn about things that have ALREADY HAPPENED, and are ALREADY 95% installed, like in your own Britain. Where they just erased your bank account yesterday.

    ““That so many dumbshit “patriots” support “getting Assange”

    Again, as usual with him, “Who are you talking to?” Republicans over 70 like you are? No one I know is like this.

    Jimmy Dore says the same thing about and to the Left all the time. He’s gotten quite far away from them now, however, as happens when you follow the Truth: you’ll find neither party nor theory means much.

    “Smith even stated that he may force Trump into a trial running up to or even through the election”

    And Dore’s Header for yesterday’s show was that the more Trials they have, the higher Trump’s approval, yet they never stop.

    “knowing Donald as well as I do, he will seek to defy the gag order by employing others within his circle to do his bidding, regardless of consequence.”

    So if ONE man has a gag order, no one in the COUNTRY can speak? Wow. New legal horizons there. But we already saw this, 10,000 times, but that you can’t ASK someone you have no legal authority over to LOOK into the FAMILY of someone who is NOT in office and have no reason to think ever will be. That is, more or less: They exist. That’s why you can’t. Looking for corruption, at all, by anyone, FOR anyone inside or outside of government, is a crime. QED? “Not committing crimes is a crime.”

    Trump exists. Therefore any criticism of Cohen is a crime.

    “• George Soros Overtaken by Trump in List of World’s Wealthiest (Sp.)

    Anyone actually think Soros is still alive? And not just an avatar somewhere? That’s not a silly question: Woodrow Wilson was completely incapacitated, locked in a room and his wife was running everything. 100 YEARS AGO. You all remember reading that in school growing up, right? Ha. Ha?

    “Just seven years ago NBC called Mar-a-Lago the most valuable piece of real estate in Florida (the no. 3 was worth $300M at the time). Sadly according to a Democrat judge it is now only worth $18M.”

    See what I mean? There’s no inflation! Housing is more affordable than ever! it’s fallen 20x.

    “Biden claims he “literally” cut the national debt by $7 billion, $1.4 trillion, $1.7 billion, $1.7 trillion, and “in half,” depending on the day.”

    Yes but the real question is who did he plagiarize all those numbers from?

    “A new YouGov poll revealed that 22% of Americans believe it’s ‘very likely’ that there will be another world war within the next five to 10 years; 39% say it’s ‘somewhat likely.’

    Time exists. You can’t hypothesize a war we’re already in. McCain said we’d be at war 100 years. He promised.

    “Shockingly, if a global conflagration involving the United States were to break out, just 6% of Americans say they would enlist for military service, while 9% say they would not volunteer but would serve if called up, and 13% say they would not volunteer and would refuse to serve”

    Yes, and they all own guns. It’s so much easier to shoot the recruiting officer and cut out the middle man.

    “• Talk of Russia Attacking NATO is ‘Nonsense’

    …Check the by-line, it wasn’t Putin, it was Stoltz who said that. But the head of NATO is a deranged Conspiracy Theorist, I hear, who knows nothing about militaries.

    ““When the United Nations Security Council is told by a permanent member, i.e., the US, that this binding resolution is non-binding, then we have a serious problem worldwide..”

    They did Backsies with their Invisible Everything Proof Force Field.

    Pelham: “Israel has banned the UN”.

    Well, that makes everything pretty clear, doesn’t it? I say if that’s the case, Israel doesn’t want any, great! So when 10 Arab countries attack them, don’t go calling for “International Law” or nothing, right?

    “• Jon Stewart Found To Have Overvalued His NYC Home By 829% (NYP)

    Yes, but that’s Hypocrisy, so it’s got the world’s most powerful invisibility shield around it. Not only do we not care, we don’t even see it.

    “• Inmates Run NBC Asylum: Ex-RNC Chief McDaniel Fired After ‘Talent’ Mutiny (ZH)

    And that’s how you have #Tolerance #Diversity and #FreeSpeech. Democracy dies in Darkness, guys. #LoveIsLove, #NoHumanIsIllegal. #Equality #BelieveAllWomen. Did you say something? It’s in the world’s most powerful Invisibility Shield.

    “The Port of Baltimore is the country’s busiest maritime terminal for exports of vehicles.”

    You mean IMPORT of vehicles, right? Words have meanings. Opposites are not the same.

    And that clip: everyone else saw that the joints they’re calling dynamite are the same as the many, many strobe beacons, right? Am I still missing something?

    “From the beginning, the climate scare was political. The culprit was free-market industrial capitalism.”

    When Temperatures rise, and the solution is worldwide Communism. Run from my private jet at my beach house, 7,000sqft of A/C on.

    But if you don’t like Communism as a solution, you can always turn down the temp by gluing yourself to a painting.

    EU proposed $1.5T a YEAR for transition from fossil fuels. (Bc they don’t have any, Russia has them) “The report states that the cost of inaction would be much higher than €1.5 trillion a year. In fact, explains the report, the European plan will save up to 1% of GDP per year. It should be noted, however, that this figure runs counter to all the IPCC’s projections on the cost of global warming — which is 0.03 % of GDP per year, not 1%.”

    Bring this up as “The Science” of how 430ppm is the End of Everything! ...Not according to the IPCC itself, it isn’t. It’s barely visible over background noise. And 430ppm is still 1/5th the rates CO2 has been for millions of years at a pop? Yeah, no runaway Venus, no Methane feedback loop, obviously. Or we wouldn’t be here, having died 150 million years ago. Of course, since they can’t model water at all, none of their models are functional at all. …And they admit it. Since THEY say we are blind – I don’t say that, they say that – surely we wouldn’t ALSO want to drive 100mph with brick walls everywhere? $1.5T a year at a pop while everyone starves? Like, go slow and fix things we can see, like pollution, corruption, consumption, waste, declining biodiversity, active intentional food shutdowns, and Socialism. Anyone? Nope?

    In the meantime, the world’s most energy intensive, least green nation, the United States, find CO2 emissions dropping steadily. From Capitalism, such as it still remains. We are the only ones, and certainly the only relevant ones, as Russia, China, and India rise sharply.

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    Celticbiker
    Participant

    Working classes and the young aren’t buying jew bullshit anymore, despite Nosferatu’s whiny proclamations. Good luck with the WW3, red heifer scenario when the whole world holds you in contempt. All that printed money can’t buy you love. The more illegal laws you pass, prohibiting free speech, the fuckin louder we’re gonna get. Even the dense, fat and comfortable, the overeducated, the government goons and Scofield bible Christians…are gonna have the JQ percolating up the brain stem.

    #155699
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    Did Joe Rogan or Dana White stand up for Erhen Watada or Joseph Darby or John Murtha?

    “At the age of 29, I reached financial independence to retire early.

    After finishing my Ph.D. at 24 in 2018, I worked at Google X, leading AI for secret early-stage moonshot projects. In 2020, I left for a VP role at JP Morgan and stayed with the firm until 2023.

    “Starting with only $1,000 in 2017, I had aggressively invested my income in stocks and crossed my first $1 million in my late 20s. By 2023, my yearly expenses in the US had become less than 2% of my investments, so I left my job”

    Hahahahahahaha!

    Typical Schizoid Personality Disordered IT individual offering not so sage advice for the masses. Good for him/her/shim.

    Simplicius goes on and on with his criticism today by mentioning Israel repeatedly and a particular Rabbi but the words Jew and Synagogue escape him as if he’s afflicted by that notorious DBSDrD tape-brainworm.
    Entrainment works

    #155700
    Red
    Participant

    Expect a Financial Crisis in Europe With France at the Epicenter

    Say what! Financial crisis? Can’t possibly be, the models don’t show it! Quadrillion has entered the lexicon around debt discussions yet any problems in the foreseeable future are slim? Eyes wide shut for most, the few that are using their eyes amount to a rounding error it would seem.

    Exerts from the article:

    Note that the EU can tweak enforcement but not the baseline Stability and Growth Pact targets themselves without unanimous agreement, and a new treaty.

    With that background, let’s look ahead to the crisis that looms as described by Eurointelligence.

    The German Council of Economic Experts see a potential growth of around 0.5% until the end of the decade. With productivity growth that low, Europe’s model has become financially unsustainable. It is unsurprising that the political system is fragmenting everywhere. The argument for sustained deficits, in France for example, is that you need them to keep Marine Le Pen out of power. This means they will persist.

    Expect a Financial Crisis in Europe With France at the Epicenter

    #155702
    Red
    Participant

    Nothing new for most here:

    The true costs of the West’s corporate media system have been hidden from view. It entails restricting control over information dissemination to a corporate elite. It depends on an advertising model that makes us the product, not the truth. And it necessarily promotes an economic model of endless consumption that, as should be all too clear, is destroying the planet.

    Here is a short extract from a talk I gave about how journalists like myself were the first to break free of corporate media servitude, and how we now face a backlash to disappear us by the very media establishment we threaten:

    https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/the-battle-for-control-of-our-minds

    #155703
    tboc
    Participant

    “In the meantime, the world’s most energy intensive, least green nation, the United States, find CO2 emissions dropping steadily. From Capitalism, such as it still remains. We are the only ones, and certainly the only relevant ones, as Russia, China, and India rise sharply.”

    takes a rocket surgeon to figure out CO2 output follows industrial output and that an obligate parasite cannot exist without a host

    #155704
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    “When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

    We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

    He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

    He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

    He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

    He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

    He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

    He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

    He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

    He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

    He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

    He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

    He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

    He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

    He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

    For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

    For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

    For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

    For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

    For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:

    For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

    For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies

    For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

    For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

    He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

    He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

    He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

    He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

    He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

    In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

    Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

    We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.”

    What do you think, are these assertions true?

    #155705
    zerosum
    Participant

    Today on TAE, see spectacle of hypocrisy

    Lies · insincere · false · two-faced · dishonest · deceitful · deceptive · truthless · feigning · feigned · counterfeit · phony
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    Destroyer of our social/economic/political systems is productivity growth
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    #155706
    jb-hb
    Participant

    https://www.barnhardt.biz/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/img_9970-1.jpg

    #155707
    Oroboros
    Participant

    BALTIMORE BRIDGE COLLAPSE:

    “This is a brilliant, well-planned strategic attack on one of the most important supply chains in the United States of America,” says investigative journalist @LaraLogan.

    Among the 8 MILLION illegal immigrants flooding across the borders is approx. 25,000 Russians

    Regular normal Russians wanting to migrate to Duh’merica use legal channels.

    Russian drug gangs and FSB special agents use the Mexican border to enter the Empire of Lies.

    Many locations in Duh’merica have electrical sub-station transformers that can not be replaced in YEARS because they are made in China and are back-ordered.

    Blow up a few of them and knock out electricity to Duh’merican suburbs for years

    Kinda put a kink in running a house hold with kids and no refrigarator or washing machine and all other appliances.

    What a bitch, aye?

    This is Duh’merica’s future

    Get use to it.

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    Priorities Priorities Priorities

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    #155708
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Spot a pattern?

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    #155709
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Don’t Forget World Mental Health Month is Coming Up

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    #155710
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    ALL of the statutorily legal enforceable power in the United States is held and exercised by the nation’s various official institutions, as described in law, policy, and authorized orders.

    In aggregate these various official institutions (and of course the people in them) constitute the Government, and the Government has decided among themselves, and made it statutorily enforceably legal, that the government must preserve itself.

    All efforts to nullify that decision, regardless of whether those efforts come from inside or outside of the government, are thus deemed to be illegal and treasonous, and the officially authorized forces of the government will be brought to bear to put an end to those efforts. Additional powers and resources will be added to that enforcement effort if lesser powers and resources prove to be insufficient. There is no upper limit to those powers assumed and resources requisitioned, since self-preservation (of the Government) is the officially uppermost priority. If necessary to accomplish preservation of the Government then ALL of power of the government will be devoted to accomplishing it.

    If the Government finds itself to have conflicting interests, on any matter whatsoever, with the non-governmental population then in such cases it must be the interests of the Government which prevail. Anything other than that would be illegal as per the statutorily legal enforceable power in the United States as held and exercised by the nation’s various official institutions, as described in law, policy, and authorized orders.

    The current government of the United States of America is legally obliged, literally mandated, to preserve itself even if to achieve that aim it must silence all dissident voices and efforts forever. In other words, even if they have to kill you to do it.

    That’s a closed loop, folks. That means there is no other way out, it’s you are them. Which reminds me (and you, too, probably) of some other conflicts down through the ages. The Battle Between Good and Evil springs to mind.

    How do you reckon you’re going to work that out?

    Sure am glad that I’m here for the finale. Wouldn’t miss it for the world.

    #155711
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://swentr.site/russia/595075-moscow-crocus-attack-money-ukraine/
    28 Mar, 2024 15:01
    Investigators establish link between Moscow terrorist attack suspects and Ukraine
    Large sums of money were transferred to the Crocus City Hall attackers from Ukraine, the Russian Investigative Committee has said
    Investigators establish link between Moscow terrorist attack suspects and Ukraine

    The suspects in last week’s Moscow terrorist attack were linked to Ukrainian nationalists, the Russian Investigative Committee stated on Thursday, citing preliminary findings. The perpetrators had received “significant sums of money” from Ukraine, the law enforcement agency said.

    The investigators have obtained “substantiated evidence” that the suspected assailants received funding from Ukraine in the form of cryptocurrency, which was then used to prepare the terrorist attack, the statement read.

    Law enforcement officers also identified and detained another suspect who was allegedly involved in financing the attack, the Investigative Committee said, without identifying the individual.

    Earlier, the head of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), Aleksandr Bortnikov, told reporters that the US, UK and Ukraine may have been behind the attack. The Ukrainians may have been preparing a “window” for them to cross back over the border, the official said. “On the other side, they were to be welcomed as heroes,” he added.

    The four suspected perpetrators had previously been identified as radical Islamists, recruited through an online chat apparently operated by the Afghanistan-based offshoot of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS). However, the investigators said at that time that, despite the group’s claim of responsibility for the terrorist act, another party, such as a Ukrainian intelligence agency, may have been involved in the plot.

    #155712
    John Day
    Participant

    Mockery Of The Law https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/mockery-of-the-law

    United States ‘Mocking’ International Law, Creating ‘World of the Jungle’
    Elijah Magnier slammed the US for its disavowal of the Security Council’s ceasefire resolution while also criticizing Israeli conduct in Gaza. “They know they are doing [war crimes],” said the analyst.
    “First of all the resolution was [drafted] with the word ‘permanent’ ceasefire, and then the Americans rejected the word ‘permanent’ and changed it with a ‘lasting’ ceasefire,” explained Magnier. “And there’s a big difference between a ‘lasting’ ceasefire and a ‘permanent’ ceasefire. A lasting ceasefire implies a cessation of hostility that is intended to be stable and enduring, but not necessarily to be part of a comprehensive peace agreement that addresses all the issues that the Israelis and the Palestinians have been fighting about since 1948.”
    “It also requires a mechanism of verification of the ceasefire that has not been put in place,” he noted. “The Americans came out after the meeting of the Security Council with something so absurd by the US ambassador saying, ‘well, this resolution is non-binding.’”…
    ..The Biden administration has taken pains to insist the United States’ relationship with Israel hasn’t changed in light of the UN resolution. But Magnier said such statements do great damage to the power and legitimacy of international law.
    “If you look at Article 25 of the UN charter, all members of the United Nations agreed to… accept and carry out the decision,” said the journalist, noting that Security Council resolutions are intended to be binding and enforced by members. “Every single US official came out to say, ‘oh, this is a non-binding resolution,’ undermining international laws.”..”When the United Nations Security Council is told by a permanent member, i.e., the US, that this binding resolution is non-binding, then we have a serious problem worldwide,” he added.
    Israeli newspaper The Times of Israel crowed about the United States’ obstruction in an article published on Monday, writing, “it demonstrates the highly limited influence the UN has when weighing into conflicts around the world.”…
    ..”The Israelis give a lot of importance for their image,” said the reporter. “This is why when the United Nations is accusing Israel and asking for a ceasefire, that is a demand that the Israelis can ignore, but with consequences… But nothing is going to force the Israelis to implement a resolution when they have already disregarded 64 other United Nations resolutions agreed [to] by the Americans, not abstained by the Americans, in relation to Palestine, and they have never implemented.”
    The correspondent claimed the sadism and brutality of the Israeli military is unprecedented during his time as a journalist…
    “In my field experience, with 35 years of war, I have never seen an army taking pictures, taking videos, posting videos on social media and showing all the war crimes that [they] are doing, laughing and [not] giving a damn about world opinion or about international laws,” Magnier claimed. “They are committing war crimes, they know they are doing it. They’re committing crimes against humanity… and they say, ‘we don’t care what you think. One day you will forget.'”
    https://sputnikglobe.com/20240326/united-states-mocking-international-law-creating-world-of-the-jungle-1117569610.html

    In Reversal, Israel Sending Delegation To White House After “Bibi Made A Mistake”
    Israel’s military has stepped up its airstrikes on the southern Gaza city Rafah in the last two days, on Wednesday bombing at least four homes, raising fears that the planned ground assault is imminent, despite the UN Security Council having just issued an official call for immediate ceasefire.
    Gaza health officials said that one of these airstrikes killed eleven people from a single family, as cited in Reuters. One local eyewitness, Jamil Abu Houri, described that “The bombing has increased, and they have threatened us with an incursion, and they say that have been given the green light for the Rafah incursion. Where is the Security Council?”
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/reversal-israel-sending-delegation-white-house-after-bibi-made-mistake

    Why the US decided to give peace in Gaza a chance
    With the UNSC resolution now enshrined as international law, all UN member states are bound by its provisions, setting a clear mandate for concerted action to implement its objectives. This presents a unique opportunity for diplomatic initiatives and coordinated efforts to de-escalate tensions, rebuild trust, and create the conditions necessary for lasting peace and stability in the region.
    However, despite the optimism surrounding the UNSC resolution, significant challenges remain on the path to peace. The Israeli government, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has vowed to carry out operations in Rafah, a densely populated area where millions of displaced Palestinians now reside…
    ..Israel’s position as a key strategic ally of the United States poses a dilemma for Washington, which has long maintained unwavering support for Israel’s security and sovereignty. While the US remains committed to its alliance with Israel, the changing geopolitical landscape and evolving strategic priorities have complicated its stance on the conflict.
    The Biden administration faces pressure from both domestic and international stakeholders to balance its support for Israel with a commitment to upholding international law and promoting peace in the Middle East. Should the US allow Israel to destroy the last remaining Palestinian holdout in Gaza, Biden will almost certainly lose the 2024 presidential election to Donald Trump. Additionally, relations with Muslim countries would be shattered beyond repair, as well as endangering US military personnel in the region.
    The prospect of a full-scale war looms large, with Israel’s military capabilities and the broader implications of its actions raising concerns about the potential for a regional conflict. The possibility of an invasion by neighboring Arab states adds another layer of complexity to an already volatile situation, highlighting the need for concerted diplomatic efforts to prevent further escalation and find a peaceful resolution to the crisis.
    Further, Israel’s nuclear ambiguity and so-called “Samson Option,” its rumored unofficial retaliatory policy, raise serious questions about whether spillover in the conflict, prompted by the state’s potential ground operation in Rafah, could trigger a international thermonuclear war. The situation in the Middle East thus represents a major threat to international security, underscoring why major countries like Russia, China, and Brazil have been adamant about a ceasefire.
    https://swentr.site/news/595006-us-give-peace-gaza/

    Simplicius has a detailed update, but I picked this out: West Desperately Deflects as Ukraine’s ISIS Gambit Backfires
    So, while the Ukrainians hid their trail well—for now—it’s clear to anyone with a brain unclouded by dogmatic faith that Ukraine is who alone benefits from this. Of course, it’s also interesting that the attack happened merely hours before the start of Purim—a holiday celebrating the Jewish people’s destruction of their arch nemesis. I say this in light of the infamous ‘threats’ made by one of the leaders of the Likud party, Amir Weitmann, that Russia will pay a heavy price for its support of Palestine.
    Just a symbolic coincidence, most likely…
    ..Russia is striking leadership positions more and more; just today a Polish general was mysteriously announced as having died of sudden and unexpected ‘natural causes’ just after Russia laid waste to a mercenary stronghold in Chasov Yar. Coincidence?…
    ..Borrell openly admits—no longer even bothering to cling to the facade—that the Ukraine war is all about Europe’s interests and has nothing to do with caring for the Ukrainian people.
    The secret to decoding his already clear language is to understand that Borrell—like the rest of the Euro-technocrat mafia—is unelected by real citizens, but rather appointed by some faceless high commission.
    Thus, when he says “we cannot afford for Russia to win this war” because it would be damaging to “our” interests, who might he possibly be referring to? The we is certainly not the people whom he doesn’t politically represent. It’s of course the rest of the comprador elite who control the upper layer of the world government apparatus, i.e. the financiers and banking elite. He’s speaking on their behalf.
    Thus, he’s saying that the world banking cabal cannot afford Russia winning the war, because it would initiate a cascade of untold consequences for the monetary hegemonic web they’ve tentacularly enwreathed the entire globe in.
    These second echelon compradors now scramble to fashion together some last minute “containment” strategy for Russia—which is where Macron recently took the lead.
    https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/west-desperately-deflects-as-ukraines

    #155713
    John Day
    Participant

    Redacted: “THE TRUTH IS COMING OUT IN THE BALTIMORE BRIDGE COLLAPSE” (Maybe a little; maybe slowly, but not a complete scenario of lies like 9/11 yet.)
    At 11:25 there is a good slowed video of what may be electrical sparks from shorted wires on the bridge as it tears apart, or could be thermite, but the flashes happen after the bridge is already deforming, not appearing to initiate the deformation. Thanks Fritz. I don’t feel like I know what happened. Was the ship steered towards the piling before the first power outage? The records can be interpreted that way, but I see them interpreted various ways. https://www.bitchute.com/video/5QrcNZyrWPjX/

    “Western Economy Has Rotted Away To A Tipping Point By A Generation Of Neoliberal Economic Theory”
    The collapsed Francis Scott Key Baltimore bridge, besides the loss of life, underlines how damaging the absence of key infrastructure is: US and global trade will get snarled for some time as 52m tons of cargo annually, 1.3m tons of farm and construction equipment, 2.5m tons of coal, large quantities of lumber, gypsum, nearly a million cars –and everyone who lives in the Baltimore area– face disruption. This incident looks like a power failure on the Maersk-chartered, Singapore-owned, Indian-crewed ship, on top of generational under-investment in infrastructure and the dull institutions that allow economies to work vs. the firms/consultancies which milk the profits from it. However, national security experts had already warned in future wars the US is involved in, and/or terrorist attacks, the risk is of similar sabotage episodes, especially given the prevalence of foreign crews and ships entering the US daily…
    ‘..Secret RCMP report warns Canadians may revolt once they realize how broke they are’. A heavily redacted version warns Canada “may descend into civil unrest once citizens realize the hopelessness of their economic situation”, and that the next recession “will accelerate the decline in living standards the younger generations have already witnessed,” as most Canadians under 35 “are unlikely ever to be able to buy a place to live.” Now try the rest of the West and see what it looks like. https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/western-economy-has-rotted-away-tipping-point-generation-neoliberal-economic-theory

    Expect a Financial Crisis in Europe With France at the Epicenter , Mish Shedlock
    The EU never enforced its Growth and Stability Pact or Maastricht Treaty rules. The crisis is coming to a head with France and Italy in the spotlight. The first casualty will be Green policy. https://mishtalk.com/economics/expect-a-financial-crisis-in-europe-with-france-at-the-epicenter/

    WORLDWIDE WAR ON FARMS: The Ultimate Attack on the Food Supply, in LOCKSTEP Thanks Cat.
    WWIII is upon us, but it’s not country vs country, this is farmers vs the government. He who controls the food supply controls the population.
    https://chemtrails.substack.com/p/worldwide-war-on-farms-the-ultimate

    WATCH tractor spray manure at police in Brussels (VIDEO)
    Belgian farmers sprayed manure at police, threw projectiles, and set hay on fire as hundreds of tractors took to the streets of Brussels on Tuesday ahead of a meeting of EU agriculture ministers.
    Dozens of tractors broke barricades and blocked streets close to the EU headquarters. They are protesting excessive administrative barriers, increased environmental measures, and a flood of duty-free imports from Ukraine. “Let us make a living from our profession,” read one billboard on a tractor blocking a main road.
    https://www.rt.com/news/594979-eu-farmers-spraying-manure-brussels/

    #155714
    John Day
    Participant

    Pierre Kory MD, We Published An Op-Ed On The Unprecedented Rise In Cancer Among Young People And Questioned The Link To mRNA Vaccines
    Investigative journalist Mary Beth Preiffer and myself, helped by actuarial expert Mary Pat Campbell, published an Op-Ed about the recent alarming rise in cancers among young people like Princess Kate
    https://pierrekorymedicalmusings.com/p/we-published-an-op-ed-on-the-unprecedented

    This explains how cultures of “immortal” human cancer cells, grown in lab conditions, because they can be, unlike most human cells, incorporate contaminate-DNA from mRNA vaccine products into their own genome when it is introduced into their culture medium. This implies a probability that other human cells also do this. It is a carcinogenic process.
    DNA found integrated in cancer cell line , Implications for people injected with the modified mRNA products, specifically with regard to cancer
    https://jessicar.substack.com/p/dna-found-integrated-in-cancer-cell

    Cancer Deaths Spiked in 2021 & 2022 , Interview with Ed Dowd about his research firm’s new data analysis.
    https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/cancer-deaths-spiked-in-2021-and

    People who never had COVID, but got mRNA vaccine-products, were found to have very long persistence of spike-protein within a type of white blood cells.
    Breakthrough? Spike Protein Persists in CD16+ Monocytes up to 245 Days in COVID-19 Negative Post COVID-19 Vaccinated Individuals with PASC Symptoms
    https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/breakthrough-spike-protein-persists-in-cd16-monocytes-up-to-245-days-in-covid-19-negative-post-covid-19-vaccinated-individuals-with-pasc-symptoms-97cfd4ec

    AMA President Opposes Free Speech , Dr. Jesse M. Ehrenfeld believes vaccine orthodoxy must be preserved at all costs
    https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/ama-president-opposes-free-speech

    #155715
    John Day
    Participant

    Meryl Nass MD, Florida actually passed a bill last year that prohibited govt or educational entities from adopting WHO guidelines, unless otherwise allowed by law or the Governor https://merylnass.substack.com/p/florida-actually-passed-a-bill-last

    Meryl Nass MD, 17 State Attorneys General tried to overturn an initial transfer of health sovereignty to the WHO by Obomber
    These AGs should be reminded that they have already gone most of the way on this issue and it’s time to finish the job.
    “On January 19, 2017, one day before President Obama’s second term expired, HHS promulgated a rule defining the term “public health emergency.” See 82 Fed. Reg. 6890 (Jan 19, 2017). It provided five definitions for the term” and the final 3 rely on the WHO Director-General declaring a Public Health Emergency.” …
    ..As the attorneys general of Oklahoma, Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, South Carolina, Texas, and Utah, we respectfully petition the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to amend its definition of “public health emergency” in 42 C.F.R. § 70.1. See 5 U.S.C. § 553(e). The Rule exceeds the agency’s authority and infringes on U.S. and State sovereignty by unlawfully delegating to the World Health Organization (WHO) the authority to invoke health emergency powers solely based on decisions of the WHO…
    ..The DHHS denied the petition.
    The AGs who signed on and who remain in their role need to finish the job now. The Obama administration played a dirty trick on the US and after 3 years of the Biden administration the dirty tricks to siphon off our sovereignty are only multiplying. Don’t you agree? Read the full petition below. Then take action.
    https://merylnass.substack.com/p/in-2022-17-state-attorneys-general

    #155716
    thomasjkenney
    Participant

    re: bear

    That’s another beautiful being denied self-actualization. Look back on your own life and see if you spot the times when you had unrestricted frolic or gambol. “Frammin’ at the Jim-Jam! Frippin’ in the Krotz!”

    #155717
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    On that now infamous and controversial bridge / ocean-frequent-crossing bath tub incident, … here is a preliminary report on released info from NTSB:

    Note that at ~7:00 min. mark, information on Voyage Data Recorder indicates that this tub hit the bridge support at the speed of ~7 kN.

    Anyway, … I have a strong opinion on this incident that I posted a day or so ago on Dr. Day’s substack that goes like this:

    I doubt very much that there was anything intentional in this incident. Time is money in this business! Strict schedule. Berthing rights allotment – you miss it, too bad! Line up behind that last tub at anchorage! Next? When I sailed on my sailboat on Great Lakes, … most often we saw lakers racing each other to the locks. You get to the lock first, a loosing tub has to wait extra hours, … lost time! Anyway, … in this case, I believe, a habit was controlling both captains – you know, we do this every time ( … speeding out of the bay with impunity! ), and nothing ever goes wrong. Until it does! I suspect it was simply a catastrophic, unfortunate, equipment failure. If that boat was not going, say ~8 knots plus to start with, … but just 3, with lost engine power, it probably would have been just drifting within couple or three nautical miles at river’s current rate, and that probably would centre it between the bridge’s supports instead, … or just brush one! The night cam vid shows that there was virtually no wind – a very, very calm night. So virtually no wind effect on that tall containers-staked-up walls, … … fwiw

    Now, some may believe that this incident was engineered by some nefarious organization. Sure! There are always ‘possibilities’ and there are always ‘probabilities’, … but there is also a very wide ocean between these two. So, go ahead, you assign a numbers to each, …

    F.S.

    #155718
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    … btw, prior to above, I also posted following comment on that same incident on Dr. Day’s tableau:

    As I watched a replay on “Marine Traffic” of that ship departing the terminal, first thing that went through my head was, ‘What a phlunkin’ cowboys that captain/pilot duo must be?” Morons! Imagine, 180 deg. turn departure and almost immediately up to a speed of 8 knots within sight of a bridge ahead, … within confines of a harbour! Who in the name of ‘gawd’ does such manoeuvre with a 300 metre long and 50 metres wide container ship, … and fully loaded? And that’s precisely what these two captains did, … and than something really, really went wrong! Anyway, … considering the layout of that port – and the size of this ship, … I don’t think this ocean-going tub should have exceed 3 knots! At least not until clearing that phlunkin’ bridge! … but what do I know? I quit sailing my sailboat ~5 years ago when I left Vancouver Island for Calgary.

    F.S.

    #155719
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @DrDRich

    Simplicius goes on and on with his criticism today by mentioning Israel repeatedly and a particular Rabbi but the words Jew and Synagogue escape him as if he’s afflicted by that notorious DBSDrD tape-brainworm.
    Entrainment works.”

    And what “tape-brainworm” might that be, Doctor? Something that you think is inferior in some way, I reckon. Still . . . . and this is an important point . . . . it is disingenuous for you to imply that I have what you think to be an affliction, without saying what that malady actually is. I suppose you want to leave the definition to our fevered imaginations.

    What don’t you just spit it out in plain English? Was it an oversight or are you just an ignorant chickenshit?

    Tell me what you think that I think about Jews and the relationship between them, their religions (there are MANY), and the current state of this world.

    I’m willing to bet my life that you haven’t got the foggiest notion about my real and actual position on the topic of Jews and the tragically sordid history of monumentally evil done by their leaders for literally thousands of years, and their progenitors before them for many thousands of years more.

    The reason that you don’t know is that you don’t listen, and the reason that you don’t listen is that you suffer the arrogance of believing (without evidence) that you already know. Which you don’t. Which explains your arrogance. Which is so painfully apparent to everyone who isn’t hiding their ignorance behind presumptuous airs of superiority. Which is practically everybody who actually know what’s going on around them. Which sort of leaves you out.

    #155720
    Noirette
    Participant

    Oroboros posted that electrical cables are never run across the ‘top’ of bridges.

    I’m no electrical engineer, but this holds in Switz. At the top, weather, insulation wear down, stresses and strains of various kinds, too much exposure, plus, huge servicing and repair difficulties. Electric cables are under the bridge or to the side of it at a lower level and protected, with a separate walkway. (As I can see with my eyes on a bridge close to me where one can actually walk on that walkway.) Lighting on the bridge is by cables that connect to them, with mechanisms that ensure that if one cable (light) fails, others are not affected. This is just common sense.

    But Hey, maybe They do things differently there. (L.P. Hartley quote)

    On Assange. Idk about the details of this latest judgment (only listened to Craig Murray.) It was a foregone conclusion that his ‘extradition’ to the US would be put off, delayed, or cancelled for the mo. The Bidadmin has enough problems without Julian being in a US Fed. prison (‘democrits’ outraged, free speech, persecution of journalists, demos, maybe yikes! Trump might threaten to pardon him, etc.)

    The Brits can carry the can (devotedly, happily, serving the master on an insignificant matter) and his detention can be seen as due to ‘complicated’ issues in British law, etc. He has become a figure to serve as an example of what State repression of the Hegemon can do. He may die in Belmarsh imho. Australia should be shamed endlessly for not defending him.

    The US ‘law-fare’ methods (contra Assange, Trump, Jan 6 protestors, etc.) has become so crazed and blatant that ppl may (?) begin to see and admit that law in the US is broken, kaput; a heavy, expensive apparatus that is completely corrupt and run by profiteers, stooges, servile idiots hoping to join the ring, etc. Then what? Anarchy and break-up. (Skipping several stages..)

    #155721
    Oroboros
    Participant

    The other note on the Baltimore bridge is that the wimpy, flimsy main structural piers holding up the main span (look at the Golden Gate Bridge Main Piers) had little to no protection from ship collision.

    If I wanted to pick a major bridge that would cause a lot of disruption to land traffic traveling by highway, it would be hard to pick a better target than the Baltimore bridge.

    Multiply rows of guard pylons going down into the bed rock on the lead into both major piers, coming and going, can be made so well as to stop very large tankers.

    Baltimore had zip

    Golden Gate Main Base piers have no ‘guard pylons’ above the water line but may have a concrete wedge below water line. They are also tapered at each end and thus harder to hard directly, a ship would bounce left or right in a collision.

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    #155722
    jb-hb
    Participant

    The piers themselves were pretty vulnerable.

    BUT there were 2 island/pylons just before you get to the bridge.

    The ship tracking (and the video) showed the vessel cranking hard right.

    On ship tracking, it’s cornering tightly around that protective island/pylon like a Formula 1 car. (as much as a ship its size could anyway) Could be a totally coincidental path that just so happened to be perfect to hit the pylon.

    #155723
    zerosum
    Participant

    Parents are not to blame.
    Social media platforms are to blame because kids a fucked up after covid19.

    #155724
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Duh’merica’s infrastructure is Totally Fucked

    It’s old

    It’s poorly constructed (especially compared to modern Japanese and Chinese infrastructure)

    Where’s Duh’merica’s high speed rail????????

    Non-existent

    Duh’merica’s ‘infrastructure’ (cough, choke, cough) is approaching Third World Shithole Status

    Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

    In many cases, it can (and will) be tipped over with one good push.

    And while I’m at it, I sincerely hope the Russians take the gloves off and totally destroy Ukronazilands electric grid.

    Like totally destroy it’s electrical generation capacity over the entire country.

    No electricity for water pumps, sewage pumps, refrigeration, street lights, gas station pumps, washing machines, factories, etc…….

    Take it all down.

    It’s Spring, they won’t freeze to death until next winter.

    Julian Erosa is Russia

    Lia Thomas is Ukronaziland

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    #155725
    Oroboros
    Participant

    There has be be a whole String of protective pylons to guard big bridge piers, some very close and then extending at short intervals going out with the gap between them to short to cut around like the ship in Baltimore did.

    By the by, that ship had a Ukronazi Captain.

    Just a coincidence, nothing to see, keep moving.

    He fine

    #155726
    Oroboros
    Participant

    The reason the truly effective guard pylons are not around all Duh’merican major bridges is first money, and then an arrogant sense of entitlement and immunity to attack from abroad.

    Those days a gone baby, gone.

    Let’s see, 10% of 8 million illegal immigrants is 800,000

    1% of 8 million illegal immigrants is 80,000

    And .1% of 8 million illegal immigrants is 8,000

    Yah, 8,000 terrorist and saboteurs is enough to do the job on poor dumb Duh’merica and it’s pitiful infrastructure.

    That 160 trained terrorist per state.

    The Big State get more however cause there is hardly anything to destroy in the little ones, they are already in a depression.

    #155727
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Pimpin’ in the Land of the Free

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    #155728
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Leadership as a Way Forward

    Duh’merica as a Freak Show “Country” (cough, cough)

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    #155729
    Oroboros
    Participant

    There is Hope with the up and coming Generation however…..

    Strong, independent, can do, blazing a trail into the future…….

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    #155730
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Oh Baltimore!

    End Wokeness
    @EndWokeness

    Baltimore is now facing apocalyptic levels of policing shortages.

    Last week, THREE police officers patrolled a whole district of 61,000 residents.

    Police are now UNABLE to respond to calls, including for child assault.

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    #155731
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #155732
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #155743
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Russian Warships Enter Red Sea As Rival US-Led Coalition Patrols
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russian-warships-enter-red-sea-rival-us-led-coalition-patrols

    If someone were to position air and naval assets in a sea and then relay intelligence and targeting data to a nearby combatant who then sank a ship of yours, that’s fine. That’s just “observing.” Heck, they can even provide missiles, torpedoes, sea and air drones that did the sinking. That’s just “supporting,” not an act of war.

    Ohhh it IS??? Oh. Isn’t. Wait no, is. Isn’t. Auugghhhhh.

    #155744
    SeaBirds
    Participant

    Farage:

    The most potent voice in UK politics.
    If the Reform party continues to make good ground, and Nigel really throws his weight behind it, things could get interesting in the run up to the UK elections.
    What Brit in their right mind would want the UK back in the EU, under the dictatorship of Ursula and co?! Because sooner or later, that’s what will happen if the Blairites go back in.

    #155745
    Red
    Participant

    I’ve mentioned to my wife back when the special military operation started that balkanizing Russia wasn’t likely to happen. It would more likely end up balkanizing the USA and in fact that may be the plan. Well, as things turn it’s looking more and more likely that it will be the US that goes the way of the Dodo. I’m saying if they don’t turn things around politically and geo-politically that is going to become reality. I see three autonomous or semi autonomous regions by the end of this decade. Shortly after they lose global reserve currency. Just sayin’.

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