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Debt Rattle March 6 2024

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• Elon Musk Exposes the Democrats’ Secret Game Plan to Win Every Election (VN)
• Democrats Prepare to Resume Disqualification Efforts in Congress (Turley)
• Victoria Nuland Quits (RT)
• Tucker Carlson Compares US to Roman Empire (RT)
• It Has Been NATO Vs. Russia All Along (Pepe Escobar)
• NATO’s Role in Ukraine Is as Sleazy as the EU’s (Jay)
• ‘Untenable Positions’ – Warning Signs Abound (Alastair Crooke)
• Defense Ministry Reveals Possible Scenario of Attack on Russia (Sp.)
• Russian Armed Forces Continue to Push Ukrainian Troops Westward – Shoigu (Sp.)
• German Military Leak Becoming Massive Headache for West (Sp.)
• Israel’s Manpower Crisis Worsens As Wave Of Resignations Hits Army (Cradle)
• George Galloway Is Not A Threat To Democracy (Hryce)
• Galloway Explains Why RT Was Banned: ‘Too many people watched’ (RT)
• Gold – We Have Liftoff! (Egon von Greyerz)

 

 

 

 

Jon Stewart

 

 

Trump Elon
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This freight train’s coming

 

 

Bannon Nuland

 

 

Tucker Ablow

 

 

Lots of outages on Super Tuesday..

 

 

@ SteveLovesAmmo:
I honestly don’t know how Donald Trump does it. He has been relentlessly attacked by the mainstream media since 2015. He has been arrested 4 times with 91 charges and is facing 700 years in prison over political persecution. He lost over 46% of his net worth since his Presidency, while the establishment continues to rake in and fatten their pocketbooks. He flies to numerous cities and states to greet his supporters in between court cases.

He could have thrown in the towel at any point and continued his lavish lifestyle but continues to fight daily for the American people. His home and his wife and sons possessions were violated by the FBI. That’s a man that has been battle tested and worthy of being President of the United States of America. Not some corrupt politician that has been milking the system for over 50 years. Donald Trump is a true American patriot and hero. No one can change my mind.

 

 

@jason_meister
Democrats illegally spied on Trump’s transition team, framed a three-star-general, sabotaged an administration, undermined a sitting US president, banned him from social media, impeached him 2X, arrested him 4X, charged him 91X, indicted him 4X, jailed his supporters, and raided his private residence. When all of that failed they attempted to remove him from ballots. And they go on national television to talk about how we need to vote for Democrats to save democracy.

 

 

 

 

“I mean, that’s a mercenary army by definition.” “Of course,” Macgregor replied, “And mercenaries fight for money. They fight for the people that pay them.”

• Elon Musk Exposes the Democrats’ Secret Game Plan to Win Every Election (VN)

Following Biden’s COVID-19 “vaccine” mandates and the war on middle America, the U.S. military is facing recruiting shortfalls. As a response to this challenge, Democrats are proposing illegal immigrants sign up for the armed forces, as a potential path to citizenship. One of the biggest proponents of this proposal is Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL). Not too long ago on the Senator floor, he said, “… if you are an undocumented person in this country and you can pass the physical and the required background test the like, you can serve in our military. And if you do it honorably, we will make you citizens of the United States. Do we need that? You know what the recruiting numbers are.” On Tucker Carlson Uncensored Monday evening, the conservative journalist asked retired Army Colonel Douglas Macgregor if Congress would be stupid enough to pass a law granting citizenship to illegal aliens who enlist in the military — to which Macgregor answered, “YES.”

“The problem is Washington is donor-occupied. Donor occupied. The donors own the political figure. So what do the donors want?” he asked. So, if the donor class wants illegal immigrants in the U.S. military, Macgregor thinks they have a high probability of getting their way. Macgregor also remarked: “I think the largest problem is that Washington is this ideological bubble. And everyone decides that anyone who doesn’t agree with them, that the world has to be refashioned in some new image that exists only in their minds, and that anybody who disagrees with them is by definition a criminal and has to be treated as such. What better solution than finding people who have no connection to the American people, arming them, and then sending them out to oppress us? Sounds like a great solution.” Carlson responded, “I mean, that’s a mercenary army by definition.” “Of course,” Macgregor replied, “And mercenaries fight for money. They fight for the people that pay them.”

On X, formerly known as Twitter, Elon Musk responded to a post by political commentator Ashley St. Clair. She said, “I was called a racist for saying this last year,” featuring a screenshot of a Daily Mail article that reads, “Biden administration ADMITS flying 320,000 migrants secretly into the U.S. to reduce the number of crossings at the border has national security ‘vulnerabilities.’” Musk replied: “It is obvious to anyone who is not a fool that this administration is deliberately importing vast numbers of illegals. “No grand conspiracy theory is needed to explain this, just simple incentives: they are far more likely to vote Democrat than Republican. “This is why Dems are constantly pushing to legalize illegals and won’t deport them, even when they are arrested for crime, which otherwise seem … I dunno … like an opportune time (shrug emoji). “If illegals can beat up American police on camera in Times Square, be released without bail, and get rewarded with free tickets to California, what more do you need to know?”

Is Musk being sensational? Take a listen to Senator Chris Murphy’s (D-Connecticut) words last month. He admitted to MSBNC host Chris Hayes that “the people we care about most” are “the undocumented Americans that are in this country.” TRANSLATION: “We want their votes!”

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“It is the political version of the Big Gulp law, voters like consumers have to be protected against their own unhealthy choices..”

• Democrats Prepare to Resume Disqualification Efforts in Congress (Turley)

Calling it “one on a huge list of priorities,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D., Md.) announced that he will be reintroducing a prior bill with Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Eric Swalwell to disqualify not just Trump but a large number of Republicans from taking office. The alternative, it appears, is unthinkable: allowing the public to choose their next president and representatives in Congress. It appears that the last thing Democrats want is for the unanimous decision to actually lead to an outbreak of democracy. Where the Court expressly warned of “chaos” in elections, Raskin and others appear eager to be agents of chaos in Congress. Soon after the decision, Raskin went on the air at CNN to assure people that he and his colleagues would not stand by and allow the right to vote be restored to citizens in the upcoming election.

He pledged to offer a prior bill that would declare Jan. 6 an “insurrection” and that those involved “engaged in insurrection.” I previously wrote about these “ballot cleansing” efforts because it would not just disqualify Trump but potentially dozens of sitting Republican members of Congress. Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-NJ) sought to bar 126 members of Congress under the same theory. Similar legislation offered by Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) to disqualify members got 63 co-sponsors, all Democrats. Raskin’s participation in this effort is crushingly ironic. In 2016, he sought to block certification of the 2016 election under the very same law as violent protests were occurring before the inauguration. The prior bills were sweeping and included members who did not engage in any violent acts (no member has been charged with such violence or even incitement) but merely opposed certification.

Raskin recently offered a particularly Orwellian argument for the disqualification of Trump and his colleagues in Congress: “If you think about it, of all of the forms of disqualification that we have, the one that disqualifies people for engaging in insurrection is the most democratic because it’s the one where people choose themselves to be disqualified.” In other words, preventing voters from voting is “the most democratic” because these people choose to oppose certification . . . as he did in 2016. After the ruling, Raskin added the curious claim that the justices “didn’t exactly disagree with [the disqualification theory]. They just said that they’re not the ones to figure it out. It’s not going to be a matter for judicial resolution under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, but it’s up to Congress to enforce it.”

That was sharply different from the pre-decision Raskin who insisted that there was no real question legally and that the case before the justices was “their opportunity to behave like real Supreme Court justices.” Well, they did act as “real Supreme Court justices” by unanimously opposing what the Court described as the “chaos” that would unfold with such state disqualification efforts. Raskin, however, is seeking a new avenue for chaos through Congress. Raskin’s statement is also bizarre in claiming that somehow the justices agreed with him and the others pushing disqualification. No one, not even the Trump team, questioned that Congress could act to bar people from office. It is expressly stated in the Constitution. It is not an “argument” but a fact. Of course, the Democrats would need to craft the legislation correctly to satisfy the standard and secure the support of both houses. Neither appears likely at this point.

However, Raskin is succeeding in one respect. He and his colleagues have bulldozed any moral high ground after January 6th. Most of us condemned the riot on that day as a desecration of our constitutional process. Yet, the Democrats have responded with the most anti-democratic efforts to prevent voters from exercising their rights in the upcoming election. For these members, citizens cannot be trusted with this power as Trump tops national polls as the leading choice for the presidency. It is the political version of the Big Gulp law, voters like consumers have to be protected against their own unhealthy choices.

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“Russophobia, proposed by Victoria Nuland as the main foreign policy concept of the United States, is dragging the Democrats to the bottom like a stone..”

• Victoria Nuland Quits (RT)

US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland is poised to leave her post soon, Secretary of State Antony Blinken has announced. The senior official, widely regarded as a foreign policy hawk, played a key role in the Western-backed coup in Kiev in 2014. In a statement on Tuesday, Blinken noted that his friend “Toria” has held most of the jobs at the State Department, from a consular officer to ambassador and deputy secretary, over her 35-year career. Her most recent posting was as undersecretary for political affairs. She was also Blinken’s acting deputy after the July 2023 retirement of Wendy Sherman, until Kurt Campbell was confirmed to the post last month. “What makes Toria truly exceptional is the fierce passion she brings to fighting for what she believes in most: freedom, democracy, human rights, and America’s enduring capacity to inspire and promote those values around the world,” Blinken said.

He also noted that her “leadership on Ukraine” will be the subject of study “for years to come” by diplomats and students of foreign policy. Nuland was directly involved in the Maidan uprising and the subsequent coup in Kiev. In December 2013, she visited Ukraine to hand out pastries to the armed protesters in Kiev’s central square. She was then recorded discussing how to “midwife this thing” with then-US ambassador to Kiev, Geoffrey Pyatt, just days before the February 2014 coup. She resigned from the State Department during the Trump administration, taking the helm of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) think-tank before joining the Albright Stonebridge Group and the board of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). She rejoined the government after President Joe Biden’s inauguration in 2021.

In that capacity, she has worked on arming Ukraine and assembling a Western coalition that would supply Kiev with weapons and ammunition for the conflict with Russia. Last month, she pleaded to Congress to approve $61 billion in funding to Ukraine, arguing that most of it would be “going right back into the US economy,” to create jobs in the weapons industry. Her most recent trip to Kiev involved intervening with President Vladimir Zelensky on behalf of General Valery Zaluzhny, though to no avail. Zaluzhny was subsequently fired. In a CNN interview at the end of February, Nuland admitted the defeat of US policy towards Moscow, describing today’s Russia as “not the Russia that, frankly, we wanted.”

Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova attributed Nuland’s exit to “the failure of the anti-Russian course of the Biden administration.” “Russophobia, proposed by Victoria Nuland as the main foreign policy concept of the United States, is dragging the Democrats to the bottom like a stone,” Zakharova said. Posting a photo of Nuland taken at an Orthodox church at some point, she said that if the US politician wanted to “go to a monastery to atone for your sins, we can put in a good word.” Nuland is married to neoconservative stalwart Robert Kagan. Her sister-in-law Kimberley Kagan, married to Robert’s brother Fred, runs the Institute for the Study of War. Her temporary replacement at the State Department will be Under Secretary for Management John Bass.

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“With four more years of Biden, the hordes of illegal aliens stampeding across our borders will exceed 40 to 50 million people,” Trump claimed, saying healthcare, education, and social security will collapse under the pressure.”

• Tucker Carlson Compares US to Roman Empire (RT)

Allowing illegal migrants into the US military as a means of granting them citizenship will lead the country towards inevitable collapse, former Fox News host Tucker Carlson said in a video posted on X (formerly Twitter) on Tuesday. In the clip, Carlson recalled the fall of the Roman Empire, stating that while historians have long debated the reasons for the collapse of one of history’s most powerful empires, one fact has been “pretty obvious.” “The roman military, its legions, became dominated by non-citizens, who in the end, because they weren’t loyal to Rome, turned against Rome’s citizens,” he explained. Carlson went on to say that this course of events was similar to what is currently happening in the US, which has been “flooded” with illegal aliens – over 7.2 million since President Joe Biden entered office, according to the White House’s official estimates.

“That number is greater than the population of 32 states,” he noted. But the main issue, according to the former Fox News host, is that instead of deporting these people, Congress is entertaining the idea of enlisting them into the US military. One such proposal is the Courage to Serve Act introduced by Pat Ryan, a Democratic congressman from New York. The bill would offer “qualified and vetted migrants” an expedited path towards citizenship if they serve in the military, Ryan said, noting that the US military missed its recruiting goals by around 41,000 in 2023. Carlson, however, vehemently rejected the idea, arguing that the military’s struggle to meet recruiting goals is the result of intentionally alienating white American men who have always made up the majority of the country’s fighting force.

But instead of addressing these issues and figuring out why young Americans don’t want to join the armed forces, Calrson claimed that Congress has decided to “allow an invasion of the country, not use the military to stop it, and then populate the military with people who are invading the country and hope for the best.” Former US President Donald Trump warned last month that America would collapse if Joe Biden remains in office following this year’s presidential election, suggesting that the country will have over 18 million illegal migrants by the end of the year. “With four more years of Biden, the hordes of illegal aliens stampeding across our borders will exceed 40 to 50 million people,” Trump claimed, saying healthcare, education, and social security will collapse under the pressure.

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“There’s no NATOstan plan B. So back to Plan A: Forever Wars. Bring it on. Russia is ready.”

• It Has Been NATO Vs. Russia All Along (Pepe Escobar)

The – gray – cat is finally out of the bag, appropriately via weapons peddler Lloyd Raytheon: “If Ukraine is defeated, NATO will be at war with Russia.” Sideshows: The freakout by Le Petit Warmonger Roi – and his wet dreams of a pink can can Moulin Rouge army parading in the steppes of Novorossiya. Bundeswehr clowns dreaming of blowing up the Crimean bridge. Not to mention the astonishing abjectness 24/7 of the Liverwurst Reichskanzler – the one who betrayed his nation by duly accepting the Nord Streams bombing. The incoming, cosmic humiliation of NATO is one for the ages. And that inevitably extrapolates to the politico-economic sphere – where the strategic autonomy of the EU, the P.R. arm of NATO, is less than zero.

Enter psycho lowly functionaries of the Janet Yellen type dreaming of stealing Russian assets for good – a sort of financial bombing of the Crimean bridge. They actually believe the current free lunch system allows for sovereign assets to be simply stolen by the “rules-based international order” – and still they can get away with it because the US dollar won’t be toppled. It will. It’s just a matter of time. And they know it. De-dollarization is the economic arm of NATO’s cosmic humiliation, with Russia destroying Project Ukraine in the black soil of Novorossiya. There’s no NATOstan plan B. So back to Plan A: Forever Wars. Bring it on. Russia is ready.

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“What is not at all reported, even alluded to, is the racket being run by senior army officers close to him who are drawing the salaries of dead soldiers..”

“..Recently the EU agreed to send to Kiev 12.5 billion euros a year in cash for public sector salaries. Given the racket going on over dead soldiers salaries, this makes Brussels complicit in money laundering..”

• NATO’s Role in Ukraine Is as Sleazy as the EU’s (Jay)

Did Jens Stoltenberg really say that he had recently given “permission” to Ukraine to use F-16 fighter jets there in the war against Russia? If so, we can add it to the list of bumbling, buffoonish Freudian slips that he has chalked up himself while in office. But it does at least give us a glimpse of how western elites are no longer bothering to even cover up the fact that the war in Ukraine has, in reality, very little to do with Ukraine but rather is a much bigger war fought by the West against Russia. Yet the whole issue about F-16s in Ukraine will be shrouded in lies, doublespeak and fake news. The real story of these outdated fighter jets from the Netherlands – some might call a bribe to Biden to secure the Dutch prime minister as next NATO boss – will probably never be known. Journalists who even want to ask who will really fly these planes – Ukrainians or U.S. pilots – will never get a straight answer but be fobbed off with the normal NATO ‘secrets and lies’ which are what we have all come to understand is the normal modus operandi for this so-called defence organisation.

Timing is critical. Does Ukraine have the 6 months minimum time that Ukrainian pilots will need just to fly them, following intensive training? It’s a good bet that we will see them operational by the end of the summer with contracted, retired U.S. air force pilots flying them though – probably not in dogfight scenarios as they are no match for the newer Su-35s which Russia has – used in air to ground attacks. Of course, such a shift in strategy will lead Russia to target Ukrainian airfields, which some analysts are reporting is already happening but in reality, like so many decisions taken by NATO, this latest is just the latest in a long line of miscalculations. These 20-year old planes are going to be a real prize for Russia to shoot out of the skies like ducks on a Sunday afternoon. Pity the pilots who will be in their cockpits as they are on a suicide mission. The truth though will be very hard to get to with the F-16s. NATO will have already its fake news ready for the suppliant journalists ready to oblige.

It’s a similar story with a recent statement by Zelensky himself who claimed that something like 30,000 Ukrainians so far had died in battle. Did he forget a zero there reading from his notes? Did too much cocaine affect his vision? Was it a joke? No, it was no joke. Just more fake news dutifully processed by corrupt western media who don’t have journalists among them even capable of questioning the statement. However, the reason why the numbers of dead Ukrainian soldiers is such a polemic is interesting. You might be forgiven for thinking that if the real figure of at least 300,000 dead Ukrainians were to be admitted, that this would have a political consequence for Zelensky himself. And this would be true within a democratic context. But Zelensky has shut down all media that doesn’t replicate his propaganda, eliminated all opposition parties so it’s hardly likely anyone is going to question this ludicrous figure of 30,000 or so. In reality there is a much more salacious, if not mercurial reason why he needs to stick to this work of fiction: graft.

What is not at all reported, even alluded to, is the racket being run by senior army officers close to him who are drawing the salaries of dead soldiers – and how the West turns a blind eye, once again, to this particular scam involving millions of dollars of western aid. Recently the EU agreed to send to Kiev 12.5 billion euros a year in cash for public sector salaries. Given the racket going on over dead soldiers salaries, this makes Brussels complicit in money laundering. Would it be far fetched to assume that senior EU officials are receiving kickbacks, in return? Given Ursula von der Leyen’s murky dealings with Pfizer and the recent news that she is to evade any scrutiny for another 5 years in office, assuming her corrupt friends in the EU support her second term, it becomes clear what the EU and NATO’s objectives are in Ukraine of late: just keep the machine turning over and Zelensky in power.

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“With his plan for Gaza once military operations cease, Netanyahu has formally declared war on Biden and his campaign for re-election..”

• ‘Untenable Positions’ – Warning Signs Abound (Alastair Crooke)

Tuesday’s local elections were a flashing warning light for Israel. The ultra-Orthodox parties, the religious Zionist groups, and the far-right, racist parties – organized in a few communities and scored gains that are disproportionate to the true size of the groups they represent. Conversely, the democratic camp [largely secular liberal Ashkenazi], which for nearly a year turned out weekly for giant demonstrations on Tel Aviv’s Kaplan Street and dozens of locations around the country, failed in most cases to translate the anger into electoral gains in local governments”. “Another conclusion to draw from the elections” continues the Haaretz Editorial “is the growing similarity between the ruling Likud party and [Ben Gvir’s party] the far-right Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Supremacy). In Tel Aviv, the two parties ran together, in a move that was unimaginable in the pre-Benjamin Netanyahu Likud … We can learn from this that Likud is changing: Meir Kahane [a founder of the Jewish radical Right, and of Kach Party] defeated Ze’ev Jabotinsky; Jewish supremacy and forced population transfer replaced liberty”.

Put starkly, Israel is turning further to the Right. Another warning sign: In a (virtually) uncontested primary in the U.S., “a coalition of pro-Palestinian groups had set a modest target of 10,000 uncommitted votes—Trump’s margin of victory in Michigan in 2016—to send a message that voter frustration over Biden’s backing of Israel’s military campaign could cost him in November … ‘Uncommitted’ however, blew past the 10,000 target and clocked in at nearly 101,400 votes – about 13% of the tally. Biden earned more than 80% of the vote, yet the number of uncommitted votes were enough to send two ‘uncommitted’ delegates to the Democratic Party’s national convention in August”. “The biggest danger for the president here is not that too many people voted ‘uncommitted’”, said former Rep. Andy Levin (D., Mich.), who endorsed the effort. “The biggest danger is if he doesn’t get the message”.

A third warning sign: With his plan for Gaza once military operations cease, Netanyahu has formally declared war on Biden and his campaign for re-election: “Far from moving toward [the] two-state solution being promulgated by Biden, Netanyahu is calling for an increased and time-unlimited Israeli occupation not only of Gaza but also of the West Bank and all other areas of that which otherwise would constitute an independent Palestinian state. In effect, Netanyahu is calling for the total conquest by Israel of the remains of Palestine – the exact opposite of what Biden and the rest of the world are suggesting”. Put plainly: Netanyahu is putting Biden “between the devil and the deep blue sea”. The former knows that Biden is heavily dependent on not only the Jewish vote, but even more importantly, on Jewish money for his potential re-election.

Netanyahu seems to assess that he has the leeway safely to ignore Biden – and for the next eight months or so, to pursue his ambition unhindered: to seize control of ‘Greater Israel’ (up to the Litani River inside southern Lebanon) and to consolidate a Jewish Jerusalem. Even Tom Friedman at the New York Times is showing signs of panic: “It felt to me, at least, that the world was ready, initially, to accept that there were going to be significant civilian casualties if Israel was going to root out Hamas and recover its hostages … But now we have a toxic combination of thousands of civilian casualties and a Netanyahu peace plan that promises only endless occupation … So the whole Israel-Gaza operation is starting to look – to more and more people – like a human meat grinder whose only goal is to reduce the population so that Israel can control it more easily … And, I repeat, it is going to put the Biden administration in an increasingly untenable position”.

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“These factors expand the system of military threats to Russia and require a new level of security, where aerospace forces play a key role..”

• Defense Ministry Reveals Possible Scenario of Attack on Russia (Sp.)

An air-ground or air-sea operation could be launched against Russia that would begin with a rapid global strike and several massive missile and air strikes at the same time, reads an article in Military Thought magazine, published by the Russian Defense Ministry. According to the article, foreign experts are considering the emergence of new military structures called “joint operational formations.” These should be compact, highly mobile, multi-sphere groups of troops capable of inflicting a comprehensive defeat on an enemy’s administrative, political, and military-industrial infrastructure in all fields: land, sea, air, space, and information.

“The most expected forms of application of joint operational formations are air-ground campaigns. They begin with air (from 2030 air-space) offensive operations consisting of a quick strike and several (from 2-3 to 5-7) massive missile and air strikes. In this case, aviation will be one of the first to enter combat operations as the most maneuverable and adaptable type of troops, possibly even before the deployment of the main grouping,” the article says. Before the active phase of the operation starts, the enemy’s operational formations will carry out provocative, demonstrative, informational, and other potentially aggressive actions in order to control the situation. The aggressor will intensify all types of reconnaissance, regular aircraft and drone flights near the country’s borders, including flights of strategic bombers. It is also possible that there will be exercises with aircraft carrier groups and ships with cruise missiles.

The article stipulates that the amount of personnel within enemy’s joint operational formations in peacetime may be 50-70% of the troops that would operate during a war. “These factors expand the system of military threats to Russia and require a new level of security, where aerospace forces play a key role,” the Russian Defense Ministry concludes. The utmost importance of the Russian Aerospace Forces in military conflicts raises the need to equip them with new modernized aircraft, including drones and weapon complexes, introduce advanced automated control systems, and improve intelligence support.

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While they’re restructuring..

• Russian Armed Forces Continue to Push Ukrainian Troops Westward – Shoigu (Sp.)

The Russian armed forces did not allow Ukrainian troops who fled from the Avdeyevka strongpoint to gain a foothold on the new line and continue to push them westward, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday. “After Ukrainian fighters fled from the Avdeyevka strongpoint, the Russian group of troops did not allow them to gain a foothold on the Stepovoe-Lastochkyno-Severnoe line and continues to push the enemy westward,” Shoigu told a meeting with senior military officials. Russia has created Leningrad and Moscow military districts due to NATO military buildup near the country’s borders, Shoigu said.

“Amid NATO’s military buildup near Russian borders … Two inter-specific strategic territorial units of the armed forces have been created — the Leningrad and Moscow military districts,” Shoigu told a meeting with senior military officials President Vladimir Putin’s decree has established the military-administrative division of Russian, which now incorporates new regions, Shoigu added. Russia plans to create a prototype of a new Il-212 light military transport aircraft with jet engines by the end of 2026, Shoigu said. “The United Aircraft Corporation has already begun developing the technical design of the aircraft. Production of the prototype is planned for the end of 2026,” Shoigu told a meeting with senior military officials.

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“The hybrid war waged by the collective West against the Russian people is in full swing, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said..”

• German Military Leak Becoming Massive Headache for West (Sp.)

An audio recording of a conversation between high-ranking German military officers on security topics concerning Russia and Ukraine was published by Russian media on Friday. The publication of German military officers’ conversations about possible strikes on the Crimean Bridge has hurt the position of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, undermined Ukraine’s prospects of getting Taurus missiles, and showed the superiority of Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to a Politico article. “After so many years as Russia’s leader, Putin is still a master spy at heart. There is no greater pleasure than outwitting Russia’s adversaries,” the article said. “Nothing on the tape is manipulation. That’s why it’s so powerful: it’s not disinformation, it’s just information revealed,” the article summarized. The leaked recording revealed “the institutional frustration of the German military.”

Opposition politicians may launch an investigation into why Scholz doesn’t intend to send Taurus missiles to Ukraine, but it could take months to finish. This makes it even more unlikely that Kiev will get these weapons, the article concludes. Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of RT and Rossiya Segodnya, Sputnik’s parent media group, published a recording of the February 19 conversation between four German military officers on Friday. German news agency DPA reported earlier that the leaked audio recording was authentic. On Saturday, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who has repeatedly ruled out the possibility of supplying Ukraine with Taurus missiles, said that the government was investigating the leak. The Russian Foreign Ministry has requested an explanation from German Ambassador to Moscow Alexander Graf Lambsdorff. The hybrid war waged by the collective West against the Russian people is in full swing, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

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“The situation is simply not good and does not match the threat map..”

• Israel’s Manpower Crisis Worsens As Wave Of Resignations Hits Army (Cradle)

The Israeli Army Spokesperson’s Unit, led by Lt Col Daniel Hagari, has witnessed a large wave of resignations. Among those who resigned are Hagari’s second in command, Colonel Butbol, as well Colonel Moran Katz and the army’s International Spokesman Lieutenant Richard Hecht. “A large number of officers recently announced their retirement from the unit responsible for the military’s information system,” Hebrew news outlet Channel 14 reported on 3 March. A number of female officers were also among those who resigned. The resignations came “after things did not work out ‘professionally and personally,’” Channel 14 correspondent Tamir Morg said. Several officers have reportedly complained about not moving up in the ranks, the Hebrew outlet explained.

“The picture is complex, since it is a military system and sometimes people reach retirement age and leave for no particular reason, but despite this, the number of people who retire at once during a war is unusual,” the correspondent said. The Israeli military has not responded to requests for comment. The resignations come as significant tension has overtaken Israel’s military establishment. Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has been calling for an end to draft exemptions for Israel’s ultra-Orthodox community, citing a severe manpower crisis in the army. Gallant said he would only support legislation to settle the issue if certain members of the ruling coalition backed it.

“The army is in need of manpower now. It’s not a matter of politics, it’s a matter of mathematics,” the defense minister said on Sunday. Gallant’s position is causing tension with ultra-Orthodox parties in the coalition, viewed as integral to the current government’s survival, according to Hebrew media. Israel is taking severe losses from its genocidal war in Gaza and its attempt to eradicate the Palestinian resistance. While Israel claims that Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah is the final Hamas stronghold, the group’s military wing, along with several other factions, continue to fiercely confront Israeli troops across the strip. “The situation is simply not good and does not match the threat map,” Ynet reported on 1 March.

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“Galloway received 12,335 votes – over 40% of the votes cast – while the Conservatives gained 3,731 votes, and Labour, 2,402..”

• George Galloway Is Not A Threat To Democracy (Hryce)

Last week’s exchange of insults between newly elected MP George Galloway and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak highlighted the festering political divisions that have recently emerged in Western democracies over the ongoing conflict in Gaza. Their vituperative exchange also made clear that rational debate over Gaza is virtually impossible in those Western nations in which both major political parties uncritically support America’s pro-Israel foreign policy in Gaza. Debates over domestic culture war issues in the West have for decades been characterized by irrationality, demonization of opponents, the abolition of history, and the refusal to acknowledge the right to express a view contrary to dominant woke ideologies. Within such a neo-totalitarian intellectual culture, it would be foolish to expect that a debate over a historically contentious issue like Gaza could be conducted rationally. Nevertheless, last week, Galloway won a by-election in Rochdale, a poor Midlands electorate in the UK formerly held by the Labour Party.

It was an astounding and comprehensive victory. Galloway received 12,335 votes – over 40% of the votes cast – while the Conservatives gained 3,731 votes, and Labour, 2,402. Galloway labeled his win as “a thumping victory” over both major parties – and he described Keir Starmer and Sunak, in characteristically provocative fashion, as “two cheeks of the same backside” that he had just “spanked.” Galloway is a controversial and charismatic political figure. He is a former Labour and Independent MP who courageously opposed Tony Blair and George Bush’s war against Iraq, and he has been a trenchant defender of the Palestinian cause for decades. In the Rochdale by-election – an electorate with a Muslim population of around 30% – Galloway focused his campaign on calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. In the UK, the Gaza conflict has become a deeply divisive political issue over the past six months. During that time, more than 30,000 people have been killed by the Israeli military, most of them civilians and many of them women and children.

Many citizens in the West – to their credit – have refused to turn a blind eye to the distinction between terrorists and civilians, and the humanitarian crisis that America’s continuing support for the Netanyahu government has created in Gaza. It cannot be disputed that America’s persistent refusal to support a ceasefire in Gaza has resulted in the deaths of thousands of innocent Palestinian civilians. In the UK and Australia, the governments and major opposition parties have, up until now, resolutely supported America’s stance and refused to call for an immediate ceasefire. In these countries, it has fallen to minor left-wing parties to oppose America’s position – in the UK, it has been Galloway’ Workers Party, and in Australia, it has been the Greens. But principled opposition to America’s Gaza policy does not end there.

Deep-seated divisions have emerged within the Democratic Party in America, the Labour Party in the UK, and the Labor government in Australia – as a result of significant segments of these parties strongly opposing the stance on Gaza taken by US President Joe Biden, UK Labour leader Keir Starmer, and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. The British parliament recently descended into complete chaos when Starmer pressured the speaker of the House of Commons to breach parliamentary convention and prevent debate over a Scottish National Party (SNP) motion calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

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“I give interviews to everybody. I’m a free man, I’m an elected free man. I have the right to speak and I will go on speaking to whomsoever wants to hear me..”

• Galloway Explains Why RT Was Banned: ‘Too many people watched’ (RT)

Fresh from his election to parliament to the British parliament, MP George Galloway spoke with RT on Tuesday about the state of media freedom in Britain and London’s disastrous policies in the Middle East and Ukraine. Galloway trounced both Tory and Labour candidates in last week’s Rochdale by-election, winning twice as many votes than both major parties combined. PM Rishi Sunak denounced the result as “beyond alarming” and a threat to “our democracy itself.” As Galloway pointed out, however, he has been elected to Parliament a total of seven times – far more than Sunak or Labour leader Keir Starmer. “These people are hypocrites. Things like democracy, human rights, rule of law, rules-based international order, it’s just lipstick on a pig. They wipe the lipstick off whenever they no longer feel the need to look prettier,” he claimed.

“As Sunak’s speech outside Number 10 [Downing Street] on Friday about my election makes clear, it’s not beyond them even to cancel elections,” he added. British authorities have banned RT and the Iranian PressTV outright, refused to renew the license of China’s CGTN, and blocked outlets like Venezuela’s TeleSur. “The reason is pretty simple if you think about it: Too many people were watching these TV channels. Too many people were watching RT. Not just in Britain, but even more so in Germany. That is why RT was closed down. Because too many of the public were watching it. How’s that for freedom?” said Galloway. The best illustration of press freedom in the UK is that “a good friend of mine is lying in the dungeon of Belmarsh top security prison,” Galloway said. “His name is Julian Assange He is convicted of no crime. And yet he is being held with mass murderers and terrorists in the worst prison for the worst people in England. And for what? For telling the truth as a publisher.”

He admitted the government might retaliate against him for speaking to RT, but said, “I don’t care.” “I give interviews to everybody. I’m a free man, I’m an elected free man. I have the right to speak and I will go on speaking to whomsoever wants to hear me. Nothing is solved by covering things up. Nothing is solved by denying people access to a different point of view,” Galloway said, recalling RT’s long-time slogan, “Question More.” Galloway is no stranger to RT. He has written many op-eds for the outlet and hosted his own TV show called ‘Sputnik Orbiting the World’ during his hiatus from Parliament.

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“..if we include off balance sheet assets including the shadow banking system and derivatives, we are looking at assets (which will become liabilities) in excess of $2 quadrillion..”

• Gold – We Have Liftoff! (Egon von Greyerz)

All Empires die without fail, so do all Fiat currencies. But gold has been shining for 5000 years and as I explain in this article, Gold is likely to outshine virtually all assets in the next 5-10 years. In early 2002 we made major investments in physical gold for our investors and ourselves. At the time gold was around $300. Our primary objective was wealth preservation. The Nasdaq had already crashed 67% but before the bottom was reached, it lost another 50%. The total loss was 80% with many companies going bankrupt. In 2006, just over 4 years later, the Great Financial Crisis started. In 2008, the financial system was minutes from imploding. Banks like JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley and many others were bankrupt – BANCA ROTTA – Virtually unlimited money printing postponed the collapse and since 2008 US total debt has almost doubled to $100 trillion. Gold backing of a currency doesn’t always solve a debt problem but it certainly makes it more difficult for the government to cook the books which they do without fail.

So tricky Dick (Nixon) couldn’t make ends meet in the late 1960s – early 70s partly due to the Vietnam war. Thus in 1971 Nixon, by closing the Gold window, started the most spectacular bonfire of the US government budget books. How wonderful, no more accountability, no more shackles and no more gold deliveries to de Gaulle in France who was clever to ask for gold instead of dollars in debt settlement from the US. So from August 1971, the US embarked on a money printing and credit expansion bonanza never seen before in history. Total US debt went from $2 trillion in 1971 to $200 trillion today – up 100X! Since most major currencies were linked to the dollar under the Bretton Woods system, the closing of the gold window started a global free for all with the printing press (including bank credit) replacing REAL MONEY i.e. GOLD.

The consequences of this “temporary” move by Nixon is that all Fiat or paper money has declined by 97-99% since 1971. The price of assets have obviously inflated correspondingly. In 1971 total US financial assets were $2 trillion. Today they are $130 trillion, up 65X. And if we include off balance sheet assets including the shadow banking system and derivatives, we are looking at assets (which will become liabilities) in excess of $2 quadrillion. I forecast the derivative bubble and demise of Credit Suisse in this article (Archegos & Credit Suisse – Tip of the Iceberg) and also in this one (The $2.3 Quadrillion Global Debt Time Bomb). Luke Gromen in his Tree Rings report puts forward two options for the world economy which can be summarised as follows:

1. Dedollarisation continues, the Petrodollar dies and gold gradually replaces the dollar as a global commodity trading currency especially in the commodity rich BRICS countries. This would allow commodity prices to stay low as gold rises and drives a virtuous circle of global trade. If the above option sounds too good to be true especially bearing in mind the bankrupt status of the global financial system, Luke puts forward a much less pleasant outcome. And in my view, Luke’s alternative outcome is sadly more likely, namely:

2. “China, the US Treasury market, and the global economy implode spectacularly, sending the world into a new Great Depression, political instability, and possibly WW3…in which case, gold probably rises spectacularly all the same, as bonds and then equities scramble for one of the only assets with no counterparty risk – gold. (BTC is another.)”

Yes, Bitcoin could go to $1 million as I have often said but it could also go to Zero if it is banned. Too binary for me and not a good wealth preservation risk in any case. As Gromen says, there is a virtuous case and there is a vicious case for the world economy. But above both cases shines GOLD! So why hold the worthless paper money or bubble assets when you can protect yourself with Gold!

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  • March 6, 2024 at 9:51 am #154092
    Raúl Ilargi Meijer
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    Pablo Picasso The Rooster 1918   • Elon Musk Exposes the Democrats’ Secret Game Plan to Win Every Election (VN) • Democrats Prepare to Resume Dis
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle March 6 2024]

    March 6, 2024 at 1:09 pm #154093
    tboc
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    March 6, 2024 at 1:13 pm #154095
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “Victoria Nuland Leaving Post While Ukraine On The Ropes, US Policy In Shambles

    Definitely things going on behind the scenes. What are they?

    German Missiles. Okay, many days many takes. One: the Bridge is EXCLUSIVELY a civilian target. You can claim in a war, Russia proper is a target, okay. But Civilian infrastructure is off limits lest be accused of a war crime. Is this arguable? Maybe, BUT THE GERMAN GENERALS SAID IT. They SAID “hey, this isn’t really a useful target, won’t accomplish anything.” Um, sirs? WHY ARE YOU DOING IT???

    Germany: bombing Russia proper, civilians only, that will be a war crime, have no military effect whatsoever, and thereby choose FOR US, dragging in the United States, that we will have a NATO wide thermonuclear war.

    La de da!

    Okay, is that all? Oh no! We only hear the clips, which are stupid. However, the long form means this is not just loose mouthing off by some losers over a beer with no intent. They very SPECIFICALLY say what it will take, the ranges, the impact, the pylons, how many where, when, how, what Russia’s air defense will do. Like very specific, informed, extended professional military planning. That is to say, proving INTENT.

    Is that all? No. The Generals know this has no effect at all…. “But Putin”! That is as Alexander said, the Plan is this: Step 1) Kersh Birdge, of no military significance. Step 2) Magic! Step 3) Putin is toppled, leaves office. (Russia is chopped up and we eat her corpse.) That is to say, to them, in Highest, Tippy-Top-Level Western thinking, Putin = The Bridge. What???????? What the…? Are you guys even sane??? Can you tell a hawk from a handsaw when the wind is right?

    Is that all? Oh no. This part is very shady and may all be many layers of a complex setup. It was suggested someone offered to have them hash out a loose devil’s advocate of If/Then for the plan. Okay. Maybe. That’s why it was on an unsecured line. Okay. Maybe. However, this is Pistorius being WAY OFF THE RANCH from the Civilian control and legislature. Has ANY legislature approved anything yet? Or is is been $200B of “Executives” using “loopholes”. You can also tell because Scholz’s reaction to it, walking back everything, everywhere, with no denials of the veracity. Civilian government is No Mas. They are getting coup’d, run over by NATO and the Military Generals. …Which is pretty common of course. This was discussed from Dr. Strangelove to Ronnie Raygun, to 99 Balloons, to now.

    Aaaaand, is that all? Oh no. If this is a Pistorus being V. Nuland, and Scholz being alarmed to death by this again, enough to be tossed down the stairs and take a second eye patch, losing an eye for, then why didn’t SCHOLZ leak it? I’d be pissed too. He probably expressly told him to keep it in his pants, he’s not the Chancellor. No way to know, but…

    “• Defense Ministry Reveals Possible Scenario of Attack on Russia (Sp.)

    You’re kidding, right? There are so many levels here. This is not military thinking at all, it’s like military wishing. Same sort of planning they did for Ukraine: “Well when we fire one bullet, the entire Russian army will run away! It’s in The Plan!”

    Russia cannot be cut off for two reasons: One, they have bunkers unimaginable. Making Ukraine’s look like pup-tents. They also have years of food in them, reportedly, plus standard London Blitz bunker for several million people in Moscow. Two: no one will care if Moscow is “cut off”. The people are cohesive now and will just carry on for Russia AS IF Moscow was there, and for what Putin had wanted. That is, nuking you back. Fighting for control of every Oblast as an independent country.

    Three, and more importantly: we see planetwide, the Offense has wildly, outrageously outpaced all Defense. There is no place to hide on Earth, or even below Earth. Russia doesn’t even have to nuke you, they tested the Multiple Kinzals where the impact of the first is still lifting earth when the second one strikes. Like an anti-tank round. Knocking out the 300-foot deep, hardened NATO Soviet anti-nuke bunker. Just for one, but they have a dozen including sleeping nuclear sub drones with Tsunami bombs, as well as hypersonic torpedoes. Globe-circling nuclear Satan missiles, over Antarctica? Sink every surface ship worldwide? Every Western Satellite dropped in 5 hours? No GPS?

    What are you guys talking about? “Well I declared I’m the rich, bratty kid, and we’re going to ‘Let’s Pretend’ that I always win. So THERE!”

    Or not? What happens if “or not”?

    Oh. AND Russia can, will, and be happy to nuke the northern hemisphere to ashes too. Nearly forgot that, that’s just the BASELINE reality now.

    Your PSA for the day:

    Before:
    YoungNuland
    https://tibet.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/220px-Victoria_Nuland_State_Department.jpg

    After:
    WhatIsThatHideousThing
    https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Nuland-Victoria-5.png

    Ethnic Hate: Not even Once.

    (Links again)

    March 6, 2024 at 1:13 pm #154096
    Dr. D
    Participant

    BlackRock also in Retreat, Backtracks on Shareholder Capitalism

    Otaku on AI in Scotland:

    If you wondered about the Life of AI, here you go. A serial con artist has been using AI to generate gibberish for years. To sell books on Amazon, etc. This time he used AI to generate an event (“Wonka”), the posters, the images, the text, the scripts, and the actors. Even the contracts! Or the Cun-tracts, as it said. The Actors then signed at minimum wage, which is pretty normal, only to discover every part of it was a s—t show they would be responsible for. A gibberish script? Two packets of green Koolaid to hand out? It was in Scotland, so needless to say it ended up with a lot of bad language and nearly a riot.

    Now, what did we learn here? AI can’t DO anything: it needs us. So these moronic dipshits are going to push the“AI: Go” button, then tell YOU at work, to Do what AI says. Then when it fails it’s all minimum-wage cube worker’s fault, and not AI. They will try their best to make a silk purse from a non-stop zero-dollar con-artist s—t show for the kids. And fail. It’s all the Hooo-man’s fault! Kill more dirty hooo-mans!

    And You ‘R Them. If you’re within 1,000 miles of the working world right now. Or if you call somewhere. Or if you you want “Power”, “Food”, “Health Care”….

    “”Treason!”: Bombshell Report Reveals Biden Has Secretly Flown 320,000 Illegals INTO The United States

    Somebody pointed out, what’s the Carbon footprint on that??

    “Doritos Fires ‘Brand Ambassador’ Who Tweeted About ‘Doing Thuggish Things’ To A Minor

    What the what? Hired Monday. Someone reads the first things anyone posted online. Fired Tuesday. Sounds like my career!

    “Almost Half Of UK University Scientists Refuse To Say Sex Is Binary

    Keeps a nice gauge on the side for the Engineers, to see how well the control is working. Unf working “pretty well.”

    “Democratic Party” Yeah, but it’s all an Accident!

    Except for DoJ, FBI, every child, every doctor, every city, what have the Democratic Party ever done for us?

    ‘Net Outages: Who did this benefit? Very curious. Like Nuland.

    Bitcoin crashes too. Is that related? (A: no, and it barely crashed, 15%. But shows coincidence is not causality)

    “Democrats illegally spied on Trump’s transition team, framed a three-star-general, sabotaged an administration, undermined a sitting US president, banned him from social media, impeached him 2X, arrested him 4X, charged him 91X, indicted him 4X, jailed his supporters, and raided his private residence. When all of that failed they attempted to remove him from ballots. And they go on national television to talk about how we need to vote for Democrats to save democracy.”

    Nope. Never happened. Everything that’s happened is completely normal. Doesn’t indicate anything! Just ask anyone.

    You see why they had to stage this level of drama to get it through their thick heads: it still hasn’t.

    ““The problem is Washington is donor-occupied. Donor occupied.” –MacGregor.

    We are an occupied country. A country under occupation. That is to say: a COLONY. Of who? Of D.C. and NY, clearly. This time, the MONEY.

    Anyway, Biden has to order them all 10M foreigners amnesty, order them to vote, then order them to enlist. Then the army can remove him before they are swamped with illegal soldiers that will topple the existing brass, and the American people will say “yes, please.” And it has to happen before the election, but perhaps after Trump is assassinated? Has to stage “An Event” that i jaw dropping, is epic even for the history books or these morons will forget and not notice, not point to it and change, “Never again”.

    “No one, not even the Trump team, questioned that Congress could act to bar people from office. It is expressly stated in the Constitution.”

    Again Turley, what’s with the law? Or be more specific here. Bar “People”? No, the law says bar “Officers”. It also does all but specifically say that does not include the Presidency. And for what reason? This is post Civil War. They don’t want 50% traitors in the bureaucracy, but are they also saying the entire South can never have a President until every man in the generation dies? No, they did not, and that would be much too far, saying we can only exclusively have NORTHERN Presidents for 40 more years. And why not?

    BECAUSE THE PEOPLE CAN VOTE. If Vermont and Massachusetts vote in a southern man for some reason, why stop them? They know what they want. The North has an equal say in that part. Why else? BECAUSE WE ALREADY HAVE A METHOD. It’s called “Impeachment”. There’s basically no bar for impeachment. It’s suggested but I don’t think it’s enforceable. President is at Congress’ pleasure, they can impeach him at will, but more honorably, if the Southern General President is a scoundrel, that Scoundrel has ACTIONS. Like Bribery to foreign nations. And you wait for the first action, like him opening the border and handing Texas back to Mexico, and impeach him. Takes about a week. Boom, done.

    And yes, the Trump team didn’t argue this. Nor that the President couldn’t be charged. Only that he’d be impeached first. So Turley’s sentence is cavalier and dangerous in the extreme.

    Nuland and the “F the EU” quote. That’s the one where they were going to make Ukraine so rich, so Western, so Independent, so Democratic, that they were gong to install, “Our Boy Yats”, a central banker from Israel, and shove him down their throats without resistance. Nothing says Slavia Ukraine like that does. Hey, are they colonized by The Money??

    “40 to 50 million people,” Trump claimed, saying healthcare, education, and social security will collapse under the pressure.”

    Long run on Coward-Pivon strategy. What is it? 60’s era professors discussing how best to destroy the United States utterly, like those German Generals and the bridge. Why would you WANT to destroy your own nation and everything in it? They live here. A: To complete the glorious communist revolution. Only if we MAKE Capitalism and Freedom fail…on purpose, by sabotaging it and killing Americans nationwide with our actions, will they SEE THE LIGHT, and reject the present government, and take on Socialist Great Leader. And then HE will UN-F—k the country, STOP killing everyone and ruining everything, STOP destroying the people and freedoms, and…see? Perfectly logical. You have to kill the village to save the village. When everyone is dead, you can “Build Back Better.”

    Sounds insane, and it is. And we’re still doing it every day, and the same Schmartz-peoples are still thinking this is the apex of intelligence and the height of morality. The Media nods because they wonna be schmart and read good too! To KILL everyone. Well, I was well-meaning, so it’s okay if all your kids are murdered! Just ask Gaza!

    We’re doing it all for YOU, the worker! Why don’t you love us when we remove bread?

    As JB said and I say regularly. So….you built the 50 new major cities, 32 more new States for these people to live in, right? We don’t have a housing shortage or price crisis, right? Water infrastructure’s all great?

    No. They’re going to KILL EVERYONE. And they know it. But: “Socialism,” so that’s all okay now. If I call your death an “accident” you’re not dead now, I don’t go to jail, and the Mayor gives me a medal.

    “Netanyahu is calling for the total conquest by Israel of the remains of Palestine – the exact opposite of what Biden and the rest of the world are suggesting”…by giving Nuts 20,000 more large bombs and $6B more dollars.

    “Netanyahu seems to assess that he has the leeway safely to ignore Biden – and for the next eight months or so, to pursue his ambition unhindered: to seize control of ‘Greater Israel’ (up to the Litani River inside southern Lebanon) and to consolidate a Jewish Jerusalem.”

    Yes. It’s hard to see with so much motion, but this does indeed seem to be his go-for-broke gambit. The culmination of 100 years of hard…work?? Aka Non-stop murder with endless zeal?

    “The Russian armed forces did not allow Ukrainian troops who fled from the Avdeyevka strongpoint to gain a foothold on the new line and continue to push them westward,”

    Good point. I haven’t kept up with Military Summary, etc, I don’t know where the contact line is now. Maybe nobody does. I was saying there’s nothing to Poland, but they pointed out that the “Not dying” option is to withdraw against something you DIDN’T prepare, like defending the Dniper River. Apparently this is too complicated for them, and they prefer dying instead. Oh well. Not like it would work ultimately, but it’s the only option to keep the game in play. The only reason to keep the game in play is to Kill More Slavs.

    ““Galloway received 12,335 votes – over 40% of the votes cast”

    This was a point there, and why Sunak came out on the Steps of Downing in a panic and writhed around on the floor simpering to Empire. Galloway didn’t just “win”, he annihilated the two major (uni)parties completely. Say hello to Prime Minister Galloway. Yes, he can. How? He’s an astonishing orator, with talent to the job, everyone knows him and knows his platform, his beliefs. He’s a SAVAGE. Like this: he showed up for a public debate night, his opponent was Israeli. He said, “I don’t recognize Israel and I don’t debate Israelis” and walked out. The End. Despite all rhetoric, this did NOT make him also antisemitic, recognizing the ill-treatment of Jews through history up to even now, but being on the right side of the LAW concerning it. And also Muslims, who apparently Sunak ALSO attacked at Downing Street? Whiskey Tango, da wut? You hope to WIN by attacking ISLAM in Britain? Jesus, is INDIA running all Anglosphere Empire now? (Quick look to Nikki Hillary…yes.) So Galloway will ALSO defend Islam and say…give them latitude in their belief of gay and trans matters. While DEFENDING Jews and Islam, Sunak is going to call Galloway, a non-English, Scottish man, a White Nationalist??? And he’s the LEFT. The Far-Left. So Labour is going to call people to the LEFT of them, a Nazi?

    They’re F—-d. Say goodbye to the Waterboy. Thank God. May take time tho.

    Anyway, diagnosis on Waterboy: They got nothin’. The speech was a coming out party for REAL hard-core high-boots, goose-stepping suppression and Oppression. You ain’t seen nothin’ yet. So if you think the people are pissed at the UniParty now, you ain’t seen nothing. They’re going to go full Big Brother, and the people are going to know it and react like it for a change. 40,000 Brits in jail for not loving their immigrant brown masters ENOUGH, and saying they prefer to have open discussions about it? What happens as in “V”, after a deadly virus the government themselves paid for and released, fascism comes to England? What happens if as in “Pennyworth” there is a UK Civil War, but one where both sides mostly suck?

    “• Gold – We Have Liftoff! (Egon von Greyerz)

    Gold does not follow Bitcoin, though they have similar crosses. Gold is still very, very under control.

    “shadow banking system and derivatives, we are looking at assets (which will become liabilities) in excess of $2 quadrillion.”

    I remember writing an article when it was an unthinkable ONE Quadrillion… Even that seems a myth, impossible. BTW, the “Shadow Banking” is Luongo’s “Eurodollar”. HOW is money created? Poof! It appears like magic when anyone creates “a loan.” Including Europe. So that EUROPE can PRINT US DOLLARS, that leads to problems for us, and liabilities for them. His thesis is that Powell is trying to regain control of the US Dollar and our own monetary policy instead of being run from Europe. Via this loophole that’s larger than the street.

    March 6, 2024 at 1:22 pm #154097
    John Day
    Participant

    Last night WES wrote (about ultra-processed industrial foodlike products):
    “Doritos a sub of Frito-Lay a sub of PepsiCo has hired a known pedophile as their new brand ambassador in Spain!
    So now we have to add Pepsi and company to Bud Light, Coke, Disney, etc to our boycott list!”

    Bud-Lite lesson learned…
    Doritos Fires ‘Brand Ambassador’ Who Tweeted About ‘Doing Thuggish Things’ To A Minor
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/doritos-just-hired-self-described-pedophile-brand-ambassador

    March 6, 2024 at 2:36 pm #154098
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Fired the next day? So they like to do it whenever they can get away with it and think pulling back whenever someone NOTICES is the way forward.

    Like I’m at a restaurant and they bring me clearly undercooked chicken, the waiter says “bon appetit, eat up!” and waits, peering at me expectantly, waiting to see if I raise any objections.

    They WANT me to eat the raw chicken and pay for it, so they may as well keep presenting me with it every chance they get like a DOS attack. Hey customer, we all have jobs. Ours is to continually try to feed you raw chicken and your job is to object each and every time on an individual basis while discovering how we’ve managed to include it in your meal each time.

    March 6, 2024 at 2:47 pm #154099
    jb-hb
    Participant

    I get mad and the waiter pretends ignorance, I get the manager, go through a whole big exchange, finally they admit there’s raw chicken sitting there on the table in front of me.

    “Well, fine then, oopsie daisy. Anyway, we’ll fix this sir, don’t worry”

    Waiter grabs the plate, briskly walks it through the swinging door to the kitchen, comes briskly walking out without any time for a pause, places what is clearly the same plate of raw chicken in front of me. Manager and waiter now side by side, peering at me expectantly, bon appetit, eat up.

    March 6, 2024 at 2:51 pm #154100
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    Plastic roads
    …might work in some places — like the Netherlands — where there are not days upon days of over 110 degree F weather, and are located more to the north (or equivalent south) and receive less solar intensity. Perhaps vinyl fencing works well there as well. But the sun and heat in Phoenix DESTROY plastic…especially black plastic.

    I’m going to guess that it isn’t great for the surrounding area to have plastic from the road leeching out…but tar can’t be that great either, so it may be just substituting one problem for another.

    Also, that replacement by section thing is incompatible with running wires and pipes through the hollow center,

    March 6, 2024 at 3:28 pm #154101
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    Operant conditioning courtesy jb-hb.
    Everyone is conditioned to obey authority, but our peers are more strongly conditioned to prevent us from challenging authority. They, we are complicit in our own demise like the white cisterns participating in their white brethren decimation.

    jb-HB

    I get mad and the waiter pretends ignorance, I get the manager, go through a whole big exchange, finally they admit there’s raw chicken sitting there on the table in front of me.

    “Well, fine then, oopsie daisy. Anyway, we’ll fix this sir, don’t worry”

    Waiter grabs the plate, briskly walks it through the swinging door to the kitchen, comes briskly walking out without any time for a pause, places what is clearly the same plate of raw chicken in front of me. Manager and waiter now side by side, peering at me expectantly, bon appetit, eat up.

    March 6, 2024 at 3:55 pm #154103
    jb-hb
    Participant

    As Haley Ends Republican Race, Survey Finds 92% Of Her Voters Approve Of Biden’s Performance
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/nikki-haley-will-exit-republican-presidential-race-after-super-tuesday-flop

    Nice try, Nimarata Nikki Hillary Randhawa. Even your name was fake. You used a fake name because you thought we were stupid and wouldn’t be able to remember or pronounce names like Ramaswamy. Just your DBA NAME continually announces “Fuck you, you stupid ignorant racist scum also I am fooling you because you are so stupid.”

    92 PERCENT of Haley’s voters approve of Joe Biden’s performance as president, and 87 PERCENT of Haley’s voters say they’re satisfied with how things are going in America right now.

    https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/GH9R-YJXMAEhPu6.jpg?itok=jyO6Q5Mz

    Haley won’t announce an endorsement Wednesday, the people said. She will encourage Donald Trump, who is close to having the delegates needed to win the GOP nomination, to earn the support of Republican and independent voters who backed her.

    Super-rich Democrat donors? The most rabidly leftist Democrat voters?

    Aren’t NORMAL Democrat voters showing around 30% approval of Biden at best?

    It was a Mean Girls fake drama that everyone knew AS IT WAS HAPPENING and yet they kept on with it anyway, with nobody going along with it BUT the Mean Girls.

    What a strange totally tone deaf bit of theatre. Anyway, some zerohedge comments:

    92 PERCENT of Haley’s voters approve of Joe Biden’s performance while only about 15% of the general populace approve of Joe Biden’s performance. That tells you something.

    Nikki’s major strategic error was not running as a Dem.
    Just one incompetent old fella to take down and it’s clear the Dems love her. . .

    Nikki, time to set up an onlyfans page. Ironically, most of your voters are already there waiting for you.

    Her run was a career move to get a lucrative gig at MSNBC as the con-servative.

    (wait, what’s the difference?)

    She only won Vermont, where anyone can vote in any party’s primary

    She should start a new political party called Moar War-Raytheon and run for president on a ticket with Victoria Nudelman-Nuland-Kagan.

    March 6, 2024 at 4:14 pm #154107
    my parents said know
    Participant

    I agree with Phoenix- plastic roads would not do well under the UV and heat of the desert.
    But we could make huge lego-bricks. We could build shelters, containers, and even plastic pyramids!
    I would love to play with some foot long legos.
    We’d probably have to pay attention to leaching, though.

    March 6, 2024 at 4:19 pm #154109
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    Who knew?

    International Court Accuses 2 Russian Officers of War Crimes in Ukraine

    The International Criminal Court on Tuesday issued arrest warrants for two top Russian military officers, accusing them of war crimes in Ukraine for targeting civilians and destroying crucial energy infrastructure.

    The two officers — Lt. Gen. Sergei Ivanovich Kobylash and Adm. Viktor Nikolayevich Sokolov — are accused in a court statement of being personally responsible for numerous missile strikes by their forces on electrical power plants and substations in multiple locations between October 2022 and March 2023.

    The wintertime strikes were defined as war crimes because they were largely directed against civilian targets, causing “excessive incidental harm to civilians or damage to civilian objects,” the court said.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/05/world/europe/international-court-russia-ukraine.html?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20240306&instance_id=116881&nl=the-morning&regi_id=230593676&segment_id=159995&te=1&user_id=8a0d3368e0470ec994aea73f7836b390

    … of course, Gaza, West Bank, Palestine? Crickets, … absolute silence; no communication.

    March 6, 2024 at 4:23 pm #154111
    zerosum
    Participant

    See the elephant jump
    Wake up! Yesterday is gone! The old ways are not coming back!
    Republicans are on a new path.
    Democrats are bitter and full of hate.
    PEOPLE POWER.
    WINNING STRATEGY
    Learn, Watch, Listen, Speak READ TAE
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    https://www .cbc.ca/news/politics/federal-government-emergencies-act-commission-respond-1.7118994
    No response from Ottawa as deadline set by Emergencies Act commission passes
    Findings from a year ago included 56 recommendations for the future

    Laura Osman · CBC News · Posted: Feb 18, 2024
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    https:// ottawacitizen.com/news/federal-government-plans-to-consult-widely-before-any-changes-to-emergencies-act
    Federal government plans to consult widely before any changes to Emergencies Act
    The Canadian Press
    Jim Bronskill
    Published Mar 06, 2024
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    March 6, 2024 at 4:25 pm #154112
    zerosum
    Participant

    Steve Loves Ammo:
    I honestly don’t know how Donald Trump does it.
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    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/nikki-haley-ends-presidential-campaign-trump-gop-primary-rcna134811
    Nikki Haley ends presidential campaign with ‘no regrets,’ ceding GOP nomination to Trump
    The former South Carolina governor dropped out after losing every state but Vermont in Super Tuesday’s primary contests.
    March 6, 2024, 3:20 AM PST / Updated March 6, 2024, 7:18 AM PST
    By Ali Vitali, Sarah Dean, Greg Hyatt and Summer Concepcion
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    March 6, 2024 at 4:25 pm #154113
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://www .aljazeera.com/gallery/2024/3/6/haitian-capital-paralysed-by-wave-of-violence
    Haitian capital ‘paralysed’ by wave of violence
    Port-au-Prince gripped by wave of violence as authorities struggle to regain control from armed gangs wreaking havoc.
    6 Mar 2024
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    https://www .canada.ca/en/global-affairs/news/2024/02/canada-announces-123-million-in-funding-to-improve-security-in-haiti.html
    Canada announces $123 million in funding to improve security in Haiti
    From: Global Affairs Canada
    News release
    February 22, 2024
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    March 6, 2024 at 4:26 pm #154114
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://www .dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13155765/biden-illegal-migrant-flying-program-national-security-vulnerability.html
    Biden administration ADMITS flying 320,000 migrants secretly into the U.S. to reduce the number of crossings at the border has national security ‘vulnerabilities’
    By KATELYN CARALLE, U.S. POLITICAL REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM IN DALLAS, TEXAS
    PUBLISHED: 13:41 EST, 4 March 2024 | UPDATED: 08:13 EST, 5 March 2024
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    • Victoria Nuland Quits (RT)
    https:// swentr.site/news/593816-us-deputy-secretary-nuland-quits/

    “Russophobia, proposed by Victoria Nuland as the main foreign policy concept of the United States, is dragging the Democrats to the bottom like a stone,” Zakharova said.
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    March 6, 2024 at 4:40 pm #154115
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Plastic melting in Phoenix

    Decades ago, studies showed simply painting black asphalt white decreased temperatures by many degrees in the surrounding area.

    Many decades ago, it was verified that metal roofs are super effective at radiating heat back into space from whence it came.

    White sun shade fabric on posts can create a cool microclimate around a building. Fabric and posts are pretty cheap.

    That guy in california who dug underground tunnels, then grew trees from 30 feet below the surface showed how effective it was.

    Wtf. I think Phoenix finally started trying to paint some of their roads grey a couple years ago at much expense. Dudes, you could just fill a big tank truck with a cheap lime wash and spray the roads every few months while driving around. You didn’t even need some high tech product and super expensive govt study.

    How much do we throw away on the Ukraine war or girlboss movies? Geez, masters of the universe, just try it in ONE city ONE time? You are obviously, publicly printing and throwing away hundreds of billions anyway.

    No no, fuck it. Let’s pave Phoenix with gold. Not just the roads. The parking lots and sidewalks too.

    approximately 155 Sq Miles of Phoenix is paved (sidewalks, parking lots, roads)

    155 sw mi = 4,321,152,000 sq ft

    Gold Leaf is about $25/sq ft (for both materials and installation)

    4,321,152,000 x $25 = $108,028,800,000

    So there you go. For the price of a single Ukraine “helping” package, or the very lowball loss estimate for Disney’s recent Girlboss Movies, you could have the ENTIRE PAVEMENT SURFACE OF PHOENIX COVERED IN GOLD.

    Where is all the money coming from??!?!!? Fuck, where is all the money GOING? We should be walking streets paved in gold by now because we ran out of other improvements to make.

    March 6, 2024 at 5:47 pm #154116
    jb-hb
    Participant

    with further research, I found that CoolSeal costs around 30 to 40 cents per square foot.

    4,321,152,000 sq ft x $0.35 = $1,512,403,200

    Not looking good, man. We’re not even breaking 2 billion here. We’re in danger of covering 99 Phoenix AZ’s worth of city pavement in heat reflective road sealant, making cities cooler, preventing damage to car tires, saving gagillions in air conditioning god knows what else for the price of a single Ukraine package.

    But I have an idea. I just designed the F-35D.

    Purpose designed with american ingenuity to be the best damn road resurfacer in the world.

    I am sorry to disappoint you, we can’t use external wing mounted road surfacing fluid tanks – that would ruin its stealth profile – but the internal bombays can be refit into storage tanks and Lockeed skunkworkz has already got a prototype taxiing aircraft-to-road (TAR) sprayer we can contract them on.

    I figure with down time for maintenance and allowing for workable weather conditions, we should be able to taxi those F35D’s back and forth enough over the course of 20 years to get 5 cities covered, kinda. Fuel, maintenance, spare parts, mission-specific training and the simulators for it, re-painting the stealth paint on it – Phoenix sun will give it a beating – all in, I’d say what, 20 trillion?

    March 6, 2024 at 6:51 pm #154117
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://www.gbnews.com/news/world/russian-drone-nearly-kills-greek-prime-minister-zelensky-targeted
    Russian drone nearly KILLS Greek Prime Minister as Zelensky targeted in attack
    By George Bunn
    Published: 06/03/2024 – 15:40Updated: 06/03/2024 – 17:21
    Zelensky was visiting the port of Odesa along with PM Mitsotakis when the missile hit.

    March 6, 2024 at 7:09 pm #154118
    Dr. D
    Participant

    They said they were going to kill Macron (tant pis), but I guess they had to settle for killing everyone in Greece instead. …Again.

    March 6, 2024 at 7:14 pm #154119
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Rumor has it Zelensky was there to award medals to decision-making intelligence people who were still on site when the missile hit.

    March 6, 2024 at 7:21 pm #154120
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://news.yahoo.com/us-under-secretary-state-putin-191322922.html
    US Under Secretary of State: Putin will get “nice surprises” on battlefield in 2024
    Ukrainska Pravda
    January 31, 2024
    Victoria Nuland, US Under Secretary of State, is confident that 2024 is of great strategic importance for Ukraine and will bring certain “solid successes” on the battlefield.

    Source: European Pravda, citing Nuland during a meeting with journalists in Kyiv on 31 January

    Details: Asked about her discussions with Ukrainian officials on the strategy for 2024, Nuland said she was leaving Kyiv “more encouraged about [Ukraine’s] unity and resolve, about 2024 and its absolute strategic importance for Ukraine”.

    Quote: “I also leave with greater confidence that, even as Ukraine strengthens its defences, Mr Putin is going to get some nice surprises on the battlefield, and Ukraine will make some very strong success this year.”

    Nuland also believes that the US Congress will vote for additional aid to Ukraine, given its importance if the country is to “survive and thrive”.

    European officials have repeatedly emphasised the importance of 2024 for Ukraine in the context of countering Russia’s full-scale aggression.

    It has previously been reported that European institutions and EU member states have pledged to provide Ukraine with military support worth at least €21 billion.

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    March 6, 2024 at 7:45 pm #154121
    zerosum
    Participant


    (Were these operated by mercenaries?)

    Since February 28, the Russians have destroyed three Abrams tanks. The most recent was knocked out on March 4 by an anti-tank missile, probably a Russian Kornet. The first two Abramses were hit by low-cost Russian drones carrying RPG-7 warheads.

    Over the past 24 hours, air defence units shot down nine U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectiles and one French-made AASM Hammer guided aerial bomb.

    $10m Abrams tanks no match for $500 Russian drones


    $10m Abrams tanks no match for $500 Russian drones
    War update: Ukraine’s ground counterattacks failed but it claims Russian ship sunk with unmanned surface vehicle

    By STEPHEN BRYEN
    MARCH 6, 2024

    March 6, 2024 at 7:46 pm #154122
    Oroboros
    Participant

    .

    March 6, 2024 at 7:47 pm #154123
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Our plan to destroy the Collective West is going so well it’s hard to believe they are this stupid.

    .

    March 6, 2024 at 7:49 pm #154124
    Oroboros
    Participant

    On the trans-medical front……

    .

    March 6, 2024 at 7:55 pm #154125
    zerosum
    Participant

    Ze and the Greek PM toured Odessa
    Was it a false flag ….
    Ukraine simply putting on a show for the Greek pm’s entertainment with a few sirens and a bit of anti aircraft fire which they have done before in honor of visiting ‘dignitaries’.

    March 6, 2024 at 7:55 pm #154126
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Ukrainian meatwave retreating from Avdeevka during Russian assaults

    The Russian goal is not territory, that is secondary.

    The stated Russian goal is to destroy the Ukronazi=NATO army

    This is what retreating across open ground with no air cover or artillery cover looks like.

    The Ukronazis were absolutely annihilated leave Avdeevka

    Thousands died this way running in reverse.

    https://www.bitchute.com/video/PsCtViGXXHuk/

    March 6, 2024 at 7:59 pm #154127
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Welcome Pedo Joe illegal immigrants who ever the fuck you really are

    He will get out with no bail and get a free plane ticket to where ever he wants

    .

    March 6, 2024 at 8:03 pm #154128
    Oroboros
    Participant

    HollyWeird Charity Ball

    So fine to be rich and famous and not-give-a-fuck.

    Smooth

    Life is Good…..

    I wish you end up like Seth Rich, Seth

    .

    March 6, 2024 at 8:03 pm #154129
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://t.me/remylind21/15709
    There was extreme activity from NATO helicopters on the border with the Odessa region. There is an evacuation of NATO advisors who arrived in Odessa today???

    March 6, 2024 at 8:04 pm #154130
    Oroboros
    Participant

    .

    March 6, 2024 at 8:09 pm #154131
    Oroboros
    Participant

    OCD meets fake kill shot

    Sweet

    Looks like some kind of record

    Beats that headline about the two headed dog boy

    .

    .

    March 6, 2024 at 8:10 pm #154132
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Sorry about the ‘double tap’ post

    March 6, 2024 at 9:41 pm #154133
    WES
    Participant

    Adding the Final Icing Touches to Nuland’s Retirement Cake :

    The best reason for Nuland’s sudden retirement comes from MoA March 5/24 Cookie Monster Retires – commentor #317 Dedsisdead. It is so elegantly written I can’t do justice to what she wrote so please go read her comment. (I would put in a link if I knew how but I don’t.)

    Briefly Nuland lost her temporary deputy promotion to permanent candidate Kurt Campbell, thus demoting her back to just being assistant deputy. This hurt her credibility and her “feelings”!

    We all know Cookie Monster’s feelings are easily hurt.

    But I would like to take Debsisdead #317 comments to their final destination.

    The deep state is again preparing for the possibility of Trump becoming President again.

    To better understand, we need to go back to what the deep state did in the run up to the 2016 Trump election.
    Congress (Mitch) passed a new law enshrining all of Obama’s roughly 5,000 plus political appointees into a new super class of civil servants who could not be fired by President Trump.
    Traditionally, in the past, when a new President entered office, all of these 5,000 political appointees resigned, clearing the way for the new administration.
    But this didn’t happen in 2016/7.
    Instead all of Obama’s 5,000 plus people stayed on, to fight against President Trump.

    Now back to why Nuland lost the deputy promotion.
    Nuland has always been a political appointee.
    If Trump becomes President, Nuland could be fired by Trump.
    Enter permanent candidate Kurt Campbell, likely a civil servant who cannot be fired!

    The deep state is ensuring it’s Ukrainian war continues as before without interruption.

    Nuland, enjoy your retirement cake’s bitter Krama flavor!
    You should have been nice to people on your way up because on the way down ………

    March 6, 2024 at 10:01 pm #154134
    WES
    Participant

    The real reason why Nikki “for sale” Haley stop running :

    Super Tuesday was just the excuse for Nikki Haley to stop running for the Republican presidential nomination.

    The last nail in her coffin was driven in by the Supreme Count’s ruling keeping Trump on all state ballots.

    The whole premise for the RINOs to support her candidacy was so she could be allocated all of the delegates from those states where Trump was banned in the hopes of getting enough votes to deny Trump the Republican nomination.

    So now witch Nikki is as dead as a door knob!
    No broom for you!

    March 6, 2024 at 10:30 pm #154135
    zerosum
    Participant

    Everyone at TAE is proving that the narrative is not under control by MSM.

    March 6, 2024 at 11:08 pm #154136
    WES
    Participant

    Understanding Brussel’s War on the EU and War Bonds :

    Brussels does not currently have the power to tax the EU directly.
    Brussels (US) wants this power very badly.
    Taxation without representation!

    Brussels needs to create an emergency situation so it can grab these taxation powers.

    To the rescue!
    RussiaRussiaRussia !
    Cue usual puppets.
    “The Russians are coming” !
    Everybody Panic!

    Then Brussels can issue War Bonds and use direct taxation to pay the bond’s interest coupons.

    Right now the criminals in Brussels are looking into using the sized Russian money as collateral to issue Ukrainian War Bonds.
    Mother Russia is watching you!o

    March 6, 2024 at 11:47 pm #154137
    WES
    Participant

    The Odessa Files ;

    So Ukraine’s Mr. Z, with the Greek prime minister present, awarded a bunch of SSO officiers in Odessa metals, for sinking Russian navy ships.
    The Russians also awarded the same SSO officers with matching Iskander metals too!

    Up until now, these Ukrainian SSO officers have enjoyed playing war games with their joy sticks, without any concern for their safety.
    Secure in their game world far from the front.
    As they played and racked up game points, by sinking ship after ship, at some point the SSO officers would eventually want to cash in their war game rewards.

    Mother Russia obliged them!
    Russians don’t forget!

    March 7, 2024 at 12:39 am #154163
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://www.govexec.com/management/2024/03/2-days-shutdown-house-sends-460b-spending-package-senate/394735/
    2 days before a shutdown, House sends $460B spending package to Senate
    The measure, which would require small spending cuts at many agencies, heads to the Senate.
    ERIC KATZ
    The Senate is expected to quickly take up and pass the package before a partial shutdown would begin first thing Saturday morning. Appropriators will then face a March 22 deadline as they turn their attention to the second package featuring six of the 12 annual spending bills Congress must pass each year.
    Congressional leaders previously agreed to a top-line spending level of $1.66 trillion for fiscal 2024. Overall, defense spending is set to jump 3% to $886 billion and non-defense spending will stay essentially flat relative to fiscal 2023 at nearly $773 billion.

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