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Supreme Court Rules 9-0 That Trump Cannot Be Kicked Off Any State Ballot (PM)
House Dems Implode Over Supreme Court Decision (ZH)
‘Uncommitted’ Voters Unite Against Biden Ahead of Super Tuesday (RT)
The Five FUBARs (Jim Kunstler)
‘Ukraine is Russia’ – Medvedev (RT)
Draft-Eligible Ukraine Men Flee ‘Certain Death’ (Sp.)
The Good Germans Are Blowing Smoke (Helmer)
The Brainwashing of Germany in Preparation for War (Bittner)
German Defense Ministry Uses ‘1234’ As Password (RT)
Zelensky and the West Have A New Scam – And Taxpayers Will Foot The Bill (RT)
Losing to Russia Shatters Western Leaders’ Belief in Their Exceptionalism (Sp.)
Is Tehran Winning the Middle East? (Juan Cole)
The EU’s American Queen (Lily Lynch)
Musk’s X Could Face New EU Restrictions (RT)
Ballot Drop Boxes Installed Along Border Wall (BBee)

 

 

 

 

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There’s a separate 5-4 decision hidden in this unanimous decision. Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh affirmatively rule that Congress has the sole power to enforce the “Insurrection” provision. Barrett objects for unelaborated reasons, Sotomayor, Kagan, Jackson dissent

 

 

“We conclude that States may disqualify persons holding or attempting to hold state office. But States have no power under the Constitution to enforce Section 3 with respect to federal offices, especially the Presidency,” the Court ruled.

 

 

 

 

 

 

BBC: “Donald Trump says today’s Supreme Court decision that he cannot be banned from Colorado’s presidential ballot, is “both unifying and inspirational”. Speaking to Fox News, Trump said: “A great win for America. Very, very important!” He went on to highlight another legal case that is set to fall to the Supreme Court: that of presidential immunity. “Equally important for our country will be the decision that they will soon make on immunity for a president – without which, the presidency would be relegated to nothing more than a ceremonial position, which is far from what the founders intended.

“No president would be able to properly and effectively function without complete and total immunity.” The Supreme Court will hear arguments in April on whether Trump is immune from being prosecuted on charges of trying to overturn the 2020 election. Trump had claimed that he was immune from all criminal charges for acts that he said fell within his duties as president. A US Court of Appeals panel has already rejected Trump’s argument..”

Supreme Court Rules 9-0 That Trump Cannot Be Kicked Off Any State Ballot (PM)

In a stunning reversal on Monday morning, the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously decided against the Supreme Court of Colorado in their decision to remove Donald Trump from the state’s ballot. They further said that this ruling applies to any state who wishes to make this move. Trump cannot be removed from the ballot in any state. Colorado had made the determination that Trump could not stand for office and justified their tactic through invoking the “insurrection” clause of the 14th Amendment, section 3. After their ruling, other states jumped on board, saying that Trump would not be permitted to stand for office in their states, either. The Court states that “if States were free to enforce Section 3 by barring candidates from running in the first place, Congress would be forced to exercise its disability removal power before voting begins if it wished for its decision to have any effect on the current election cycle. Perhaps a State may burden congressional authority in such a way when it exercises its ‘exclusive’ sovereign power over its own state offices.”

“But,” they continued, “it is implausible to suppose that the Constitution affirmatively delegated to the States the authority to impose such a burden on congressional power with respect to candidates for federal office.” The Court further stated that the petitioners on behalf of Colorado were unable to identify any “tradition of state enforcement of section 3 against federal officeholders or candidates in the years following ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment.” The key aspect, however, is what they had to say about the implications of letting a ruling like that in Colorado stand. “Conflicting state outcomes concerning the same candidate could result not just from differing views of the merits, but from variations in state law governing the proceedings that are necessary to make Section 3 disqualification determinations. Some States might allow a Section 3 challenge to succeed based on a preponderance of the evidence, while others might require a heightened showing.”

“Certain evidence (like the congressional Report on which the lower courts relied here) might be admissible in some States but inadmissible hearsay in others. Disqualification might be possible only through criminal prosecution, as opposed to expedited civil proceedings, in particular States. “Indeed, in some States—unlike Colorado (or Maine, where the secretary of state recently issued an order excluding former President Trump from the primary ballot)—procedures for excluding an ineligible candidate from the ballot may not exist at all.” “The result could well be that a single candidate would be declared ineligible in some States, but not others, based on the same conduct (and perhaps even the same factual record).” “The ‘patchwork’ that would likely result from state enforcement would ‘sever the direct link that the Framers found so critical between the National Government and the people of the United States’ as a whole. U. S. Term Limits, 514 U. S., at 822.”

“But in a Presidential election ‘the impact of the votes cast in each State is affected by the votes cast’— or, in this case, the votes not allowed to be cast—’for the various candidates in other States.’ Anderson, 460 U. S., at 795. An evolving electoral map could dramatically change the behavior of voters, parties, and States across the country, in different ways and at different times. “The disruption would be all the more acute—and could nullify the votes of millions and change the election result—if Section 3 enforcement were attempted after the Nation has voted. Nothing in the Constitution requires that we endure such chaos—arriving at any time or different times, up to and perhaps beyond the Inauguration.” “For the reasons given, responsibility for enforcing Section 3 against federal officeholders and candidates rests with Congress and not the States,” the Court determined.

“The judgment of the Colorado13 Cite as: 601 U. S. ____ (2024) Per Curiam Supreme Court therefore cannot stand.” “All nine Members of the Court agree with that result,” they wrote. “The judgment of the Colorado Supreme Court is reversed.” The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case earlier in February, taking on the case on an emergency basis. In their hearing of the case, they appeared to lean toward the conclusion that state’s do not have the right to unilaterally remove candidates, thereby denying their citizens the right to cote for the candidate of their choice. Illinois, Maine and other states that have attempted this tactic will now find that they are powerless to carry it out.

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“President Biden… Fight your fight yourself. Don’t use prosecutors and judges to go after your opponent… our country is much bigger than that..”

House Dems Implode Over Supreme Court Decision (ZH)

Update (1400ET): Not satisfied to let the Supreme Court-enforced Democratic process play out, House Democrats are now preparing legislation to try and keep Trump off the ballot. “Congress will have to try and act,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, in a comment to creepy deep state mouthpiece Axios (which swears the border is extra-secure!). Raskin, a former member of the Jan. 6 select committee, said he is already crafting the bill, telling Axios, “I’m working on it – today.” Raskin pointed to legislation he introduced with Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) in 2022 creating a pathway for the Justice Department to sue to keep candidates off the ballot under the 14th Amendment. “We are going to revise it in light of the Supreme Court’s decision,” Raskin said. -Axios

“I don’t have a lot of hope that Speaker [Mike] Johnson will allow us to bring enforcement legislation to the floor, but we have to try and do it,” said Raskin, who said he’ll ‘beseech’ Republicans to join the bill. Very Democratic, Jamie. Update (1320ET): Former President Trump has responded to the Supreme Court’s ruling keeping him on the ballot in Colorado (and therefore, everywhere else). According to Trump, the decision was “very well crafted,” and “will go a long way toward bringing our country together.” Trump also slammed Biden for ‘weaponizing’ prosecutors against him. “President Biden… Fight your fight yourself. Don’t use prosecutors and judges to go after your opponent… our country is much bigger than that,” Trump said, speaking from Mar-a-Lago.

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“..Nikki Haley suffered an embarrassment when she became the first candidate to lose to ‘no-one’ in the Nevada GOP primary since the option was introduced in 1975..”

‘Uncommitted’ Voters Unite Against Biden Ahead of Super Tuesday (RT)

The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), the largest socialist organization in the US, has urged primary voters to cast their ballots for ‘uncommitted’ rather than President Joe Biden to show their opposition to his stance on the Israel-Hamas war. The announcement comes just two days before the primary elections on March 5 – known as Super Tuesday – when millions of Americans are expected to vote. In a series of X (formerly Twitter) posts on Sunday, the DSA, which has more than 92,000 members and chapters in all US states, demanded that the White House end the bloodshed in Gaza by revoking military assistance to Israel, saying Biden will be to blame if former President Donald Trump is reelected this year.

“Today, DSA endorses ‘Uncommitted’ in the remaining Democratic presidential primaries. Until this administration ends its support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza and delivers a permanent, lasting ceasefire, Joe Biden will bear the responsibility for another Trump presidency,” the organization said, adding that “defeat is certain” if Biden continues on the current course. “This week’s brutal ‘Flour Massacre’ has proven once again that Israel is a brutal, inhumane apartheid state which carries a legacy of 75 years of genocide and occupation. Over 30,000 Palestinians have already died; how many will be ENOUGH for Joe Biden to stop this war?” the DSA said in a follow-up post, referring to the tragedy on February 29 when at least 112 Palestinians were killed and more than 750 were injured while waiting for much-needed food aid in Gaza City.

The campaign calling on Democrats to vote ‘uncommitted’ was organized by local chapters of the DSA and the Colorado Palestine Coalitions last week and is gaining popularity amid protests against the Gaza war. The DSA noted that over 100,000 people voted ‘uncommitted’ in the Michigan primary last week. The movement was also endorsed by a major labor union, UFCW 3000, which represents more than 50,000 grocery workers in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. Biden is not the only one feeling the heat from voters who are choosing ‘none of the above’. Last week, Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley suffered an embarrassment when she became the first candidate to lose to ‘no-one’ in the Nevada GOP primary since the option was introduced in 1975.

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“..DA’s and AG’s who make election promises to “go after” individuals without such niceties as probable cause..”

The Five FUBARs (Jim Kunstler)

You saw last year how the blob elite greeted the transfer of illegal immigrants to their happy little island of Martha’s Vineyard. (They were not amused by Governor DeSantis’s prank, and off-loaded the mutts post-haste.) But that same smug demographic doesn’t care if hundreds of thousands are distributed to the big cities, which are now fiscally destabilized by them to an extreme, probably to bankruptcy. Of course, that is not the main thing to worry about with what altogether amounts to millions of border-jumpers flooding our land. The main reason to worry is what the blob that invited them here intends for them to do, which, you may suspect, is to unleash mayhem in the streets, malls, stadiums, and upon our infrastructure just in time to derail the election — perhaps even to make war on us right in our homeland.

The US government is paying for this whole operation, you understand, funneling our tax money to international cut-out orgs who set up the transfer camps in Panama, and buy the plane tickets for the mutts to cross the ocean, and coordinate with the Mexican cartels to shuttle this horde of mystery people among us to work their juju for the Democratic Party. The pissed-off-ness of the public has passed the red line on this. A third FUBAR is the lawfare campaign of the Democratic Party and its regime in power against the citizens of this land. This folder includes overt and obvious political prosecutions by DA’s and AG’s who make election promises to “go after” individuals without such niceties as probable cause. It includes the gigantic new scaffold of inter-agency censorship and propaganda. It includes the psychopathic struggle sessions mandated by “diversity and inclusion” policy. It includes election-rigging directed by the likes of Marc Elias and Norm Eisen, getting states to fiddle laws on voter ID and mail-in ballots.

It includes the political protection of rogue groups ranging from looter flash-mobs to Antifa anarchists who bust up things and people and burn buildings down. It includes state officials who peremptorily kick candidates off the ballot. It includes a nakedly biased judiciary, and especially the use of the DC federal district court to punish people extralegally, unjustly, extravagantly, and cruelly. In short, lawfare is the complete perversion of law, and we-the -people are entreated by reprobate officials such as Merrick Garland and Letitia James to accept it. A fourth item on this list is the US economy which has been overwhelmed by maladministration of an overgrown monster bureaucracy, and the gross (perhaps fatal) mismanagement of the government’s money. The people of this land are not being allowed to do business, to find a livelihood, to transact fairly. “Joe Biden’s” shadow string-pullers are messing as badly with the oil and gas producers as they have messed with Ukraine. And they are doing it in pursuit of a laughable mirage: their “green new deal.”

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”The best fate they can expect [from the West] is to become slaves to the ailing European freak show..”

‘Ukraine is Russia’ – Medvedev (RT)

Ukraine lies within the sphere of Russian strategic interests and has no future in any other capacity, Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy chair of the Russian Security Council, has stated. Russian people consider Ukraine to be part of the larger Russian civilization, the senior official said in a speech at a youth conference in Sochi on Monday. Moscow considers it to be the country’s “soft underbelly,” from which no threat to Russia should be allowed to be projected. ”The territories on both banks of the Dnieper River are an inalienable part of Russian strategic historic borders,” he said, using his preferred term for what is usually known as ‘sphere of influence’ in geopolitics. “All attempts to change them by force, to cut its living body, are doomed.”

He noted the title of a book by Leonid Kuchma, the second president of Ukraine following its independence from the USSR, which declared: ‘Ukraine is not Russia’. “This concept must vanish forever. Ukraine is without a doubt Russia,” Medvedev said. He blasted the current government in Kiev as the “main threat” to its own people, considering its anti-Russian policies. Ukrainians have “fallen into a stupid trap” set for it by the US and its allies, who have successfully turned the nation into a weapon against Russia, he said. ”The best fate they can expect [from the West] is to become slaves to the ailing European freak show,” Medvedev said, referring to the leaders of the EU and UK, who he described as incompetent and subservient to Washington.

”[The Ukrainians] will play the role of a deaf-mute servant who is raped every day in a European kitchen by a lord from overseas,” the former president added. Russia is not interested in territorial conquest, Medvedev said. Whatever natural riches Ukraine has, Russia also has in abundance, he claimed. ”The great treasure that we will not surrender to anyone for anything is the people,” he said. The Ukrainians have become “confused” by Western propaganda, but at their core they have the same values and way of life as the Russians, and need to be rescued, Medvedev said.

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“These individuals may be restricted from traveling abroad, have their driver’s license suspended, or their bank accounts seized if they fail to do so..”

“..two categories of citizens are currently not involved in the mobilization, namely “those who are behind bars and those who are not.”

Draft-Eligible Ukraine Men Flee ‘Certain Death’ (Sp.)

Ukraine’s lack of any clear mobilization strategy aimed at plugging the gaping holes in the ranks of its armed forces is fueling “deep divisions in Ukraine’s parliament and more broadly in Ukrainian society,” The Washington Post reported. Despite mounting losses, which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been downplaying to wheedle more money from the West, there is still “no political consensus” on how to remedy the severe shortage of troops on the battlefront. There is a yawning split between Zelensky and his top military commanders on a plan to conscript the thousands of soldiers they need as Russia continues to advance after liberating the stronghold of Avdeyevka. As a result, Ukraine’s military has been “relying on a hodgepodge of recruiting efforts and sown panic among fighting-age men,” the publication stated. It referenced the package of aid to Kiev still stalled in the US Congress, adding that many of Ukraine’s men “have gone into hiding, worried that they will be drafted into an ill-equipped army and sent to certain death.”

Infighting over how many more troops Ukraine needs “factored” into Zelensky’s sacking of his top general in February, the outlet noted. The previous Ukrainian commander-in-chief, Gen. Valery Zaluzhny, was dismissed, with Colonel General Oleksandr Syrsky taking over, amid an overall reshuffle of the military command by Zelensky. Zaluzhny’s ouster came after months of intrigue between himself and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who slammed the commander for revealing that Kiev’s summer 2023 counteroffensive had ended in failure. But, apparently, new Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrsky has so far failed to bring new clarity regarding Ukraine’s mobilization efforts. Syrsky has been tasked with auditing the armed forces to scrape up more combat-eligible troops, added the publication. This comes after President Zelensky’s office recently announced that only some 300,000 have fought at the frontline of the one million people who have been mobilized.

With Ukraine’s rapidly dwindling troop strength described as a “strategic crisis,” Oleksiy Bezhevets, an adviser to the Defense Ministry on recruitment, was cited as saying that civilians of fighting age must recognize the fact that “there’s no time for you left to sit home.” Volodymyr Zelensky said in December 2023 that the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces had stressed the need to recruit an additional 450,000-500,000 men for the army. Accordingly, the government submitted a draft law on mobilization to parliament on January 30. However, the result has been a drawn-out and heated debate. The bill, which would broaden the scope of the draft, lowering the eligibility age from 27 to 25 years, caused outrage in the country and was sent back for revision.

It also obligates people liable for military service to report to military commissariats to clarify their information within 60 days, Ukrainian media reported. These individuals may be restricted from traveling abroad, have their driver’s license suspended, or their bank accounts seized if they fail to do so. Amid the debate over such draconian measures in January, panicky account holders withdrew over $700 million in a single month, the WaPo added. In February, Ukrainian Justice Minister Denys Maliuska proposed giving prisoners weapons and shovels when they are mobilized for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. He underscored that in Ukraine, two categories of citizens are currently not involved in the mobilization, namely “those who are behind bars and those who are not.” Maliuska previously said that at least 50,000 men of military age with criminal records are hiding from Ukrainian draft boards and are not registered with the military.

The Russian Defense Ministry earlier said that amid the disruption of mobilization plans and in order to conceal massive losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the Kiev regime has intensified the recruitment of mercenaries. Fighters from the United States, Canada, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East have joined the ranks of the Ukrainian military. Furthermore, NATO soldiers under the guise of mercenaries are involved in combat operations in Ukraine, Colonel-General Sergei Rudskoy, head of the Russian General Staff’s Main Operational Directorate, told Russian media.

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“What remains is for the Kremlin and General Staff to decide to teach the Germans the only lesson by the only method they understand..”

The Good Germans Are Blowing Smoke (Helmer)

The political comprehension of the Germans — to adapt Mao Zedong’s axiom that political power comes out of the barrel of a gun — only comes out of the barrel of a Russian gun. The good Germans define themselves publicly by wishing this weren’t true because they realise there’s nothing they can do to stop the rest of their countrymen from throwing themselves at Russian guns until there are no more of them, the good Germans among them. One of these wishfully good Germans is called Florian Roetzer, who founded the widely read internet publication Telepolis in 1996, and retired to write elsewhere in 2021. Roetzer has just published his analysis of the transcript of last month’s teleconference at which the chief of the German Air Force, Lieutenant General Ingo Gerhartz, discussed with three subordinates a plan of attack on Russian civil and military targets with the German Taurus KEPD 350E cruise missile; conceal this German operation behind British, French, and Ukrainian forces and German commercial companies; accelerate the missile deliveries; and present the plan for approval by German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius and Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

Gerhartz is not only waging personal war against Russia, as he explained on the telephone two weeks ago, on February 19. Last November he declared personal war in alliance with the Israel Air Force in implementing the genocide of Gaza. In Roetzer’s new analysis, published on March 2 in Overton magazine, the problem is not (in Roetzer’s mind) that Gerhartz and the Bundeswehr are losing their war on the Ukrainian battlefield, or that they are aiming to provoke Russian counterattack against German targets outside that battlefield. “The fact that Russia was able to eavesdrop on the conversations of the German officers…is a major problem for the Bundeswehr, also in relation to its partners, who may no longer trust it.” “The bigger [sic] problem, however, has been Putin’s for quite some time, after one red line after another has been crossed by the NATO countries, without Russia really reacting to it, apart from warnings…But so far, Putin has accepted any military support for Ukraine.

“But if it is now becoming more and more public knowledge that NATO countries are directly supporting Ukraine with target data and in general in attacks with Western missiles and cruise missiles through the participation of soldiers in civilian and intelligence officers, and thus become parties to war, then Putin, who propagates that Russia is defending itself in Ukraine, has the problem of showing weakness and only bluffing, if no action is taken against it.” “It is obvious” – according to Roetzer – “that Russia cannot compete against a NATO weakened by the Ukraine war and therefore avoids a direct conflict. But if the attacks on Russia continue to increase and Western weapons are openly used, Putin will lose support in Russia if there is no military response…With the publication of the wiretapped conversation of the German officers, the Russian leadership may have harmed itself – if only because the Bundeswehr must now try to close the security gap. It is possible that [state media director Margarita] Simonyan has gone too far here. The question is whether the publication was coordinated with the Kremlin.”

That Germany is at war with Russia has been understood in Moscow for a long time. That there are good Germans like Roetzer who would like it to be otherwise for moral, legal, German national, or personal reasons is also well-known. Some of these good Germans have even served as German generals. What the Navalny Novichok episode of the autumn of 2020 revealed, followed by the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines in September 2022; and now last month’s teleconference conducted by Gerhartz – what all three episodes reveal is not how the Germans are understood in Moscow, but rather how the good Germans react when confronted with the war they are powerless to deter or stop their countrymen from waging. The impotence of the German opposition to this war is also well understood in Moscow. What remains is for the Kremlin and General Staff to decide to teach the Germans the only lesson by the only method they understand. That is the lesson the Germans have been failing to learn for seventy-nine years next month — since April 30, 1945, when Adolf Hitler shot himself before he could be captured by the Red Army waiting outside his bunker in Berlin.

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“And then she added : “But Putin…”.

The Brainwashing of Germany in Preparation for War (Bittner)

Recently my friend G., with whom I still correspond occasionally, wrote to me saying that he had read my book “State of Emergency” and got the impression that I had fallen into a “filter bubble”. He comes from a wealthy family, his father was a senior teacher, his mother a doctor, and at a young age he was a professor of mathematics at a southern German university and also a guest lecturer in Japan, South Korea and the USA. He cannot understand the fact that I am of the opinion that it is not Russia but the USA and its allies that are to blame for most of the conflicts in the world, especially the war in Ukraine and the economic decline in Germany and Western Europe. G. would like to give me friendly advice to reconsider my political views and to please obtain information from the public media and “reputable” newspapers such as Frankfurter Allgemeine, Welt or Süddeutsche and not from so-called alternative media. If I see “evil” in the USA rather than in Putin, all he can say about himself is that he would rather live “under the evil of the Americans” than that of the Russians.

And if the NATO protective umbrella, under which the Europeans have set themselves up so well, were to become leaky, things would not look rosy for Western Europe compared to a country like Russia full of nuclear weapons. It is sad that so much money has to be spent on “defensive armament”, but it is good that Putin is getting older and older and that the end of his tyranny is imminent at some point in the near future for the good of humanity. Like other acquaintances and friends, G. is firmly convinced that he knows everything and is right. All we agree on is that wars are terrible and must be avoided. But at this point the dissent begins again, because G. considers “humanitarian interventions”, such as those carried out by the USA again and again, to be legitimate and even necessary to defend freedom and democracy. I can describe the views represented by G. as exemplary. German society is thoroughly rabble-roused, and it is divided between those who have retained an eye for the facts and the others, the far greater majority, who have succumbed to years of influence.

My hairdresser, with whom I discussed, is of the opinion that Germany needs the atomic bomb to protect itself from “the Russian” who will soon attack Poland and the Baltic countries. When I countered that Vladimir Putin had called for cooperation and a common economic zone from Vladivostok to Lisbon in a memorable speech to the German Bundestag in 2001, he replied: “This Putin is lying as soon as he opens his mouth.” The resulting dispute ended He asked me the completely serious question: “Why do you think you can judge the political situation better than me?” He told me that he reads the newspaper in the morning and watches the Tagesschau in the evening. He also speaks to customers every day who all have different opinions than me. Every now and then I gave lectures and discussed things publicly. Most of the time, listeners and discussants came who shared my views or at least kept an open mind. After one such event, a middle-aged woman who identified herself as a judge said to me: “Everything you said was logical and well-documented, although from an unusual perspective, but you largely convinced me.” And then she added : “But Putin…”.

Indoctrination has not stopped at the doors of universities either. There are still some contacts with colleagues there from the time when I was a visiting professor in Poland, but they have become fragile. My friend Tomasz, who unfortunately also succumbed to US-controlled propaganda against Russia and for Ukraine, wrote to me: “I cannot understand the people who prefer to look the other way after the Russian attack on Ukraine. Stop this policy that is killing thousands of innocent people. “Putin with his megalomania has destroyed a long and stable peace in Europe.” He really believes that and he continued: “For me, Putin resembles Hitler to a T.” It is not Ukraine, which wants to go its own sovereign way, that is to blame for the war, but Putin, for whom Ukraine is just an appetizer. He built gas pipelines behind the EU’s back and against Poland’s interests. This shows his true colors, leading and oppressing other countries like dogs on a leash.

At least I was able to have a somewhat civilized conversation with my German friend and with Tomasz, if only by holding back. The space for debate has become increasingly narrow, and the authorities are no longer relying on the previous psychological warfare. Rather, the pressure on those who think differently, their patronization and harassment, is increasing dramatically. Anyone who doesn’t step up and stand out must expect the destruction of their existence and worse.

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“..the Russians could have simply logged on to the unsecured WebEx call without the officers noticing..”

German Defense Ministry Uses ‘1234’ As Password (RT)

The German Defense Ministry has protected a press statement on leaked military communications behind the password “1234.” German media has mocked the ministry for the “extremely embarrassing” security detail. The statement, made by Defense Minister Boris Pistorius on Sunday, was posted in audio format on the ministry’s website on Monday. Under a link to a cloud storage service hosting the file, the ministry informed visitors that they could access the recording by entering the password “1234.” While the file is not classified and the password was likely chosen as a placeholder, its use was roundly mocked by German tabloid Bild. “After the wiretapping attack on the Bundeswehr [German military] by Russian spies, this is extremely embarrassing,” the paper wrote on Monday.

On Friday, RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan published a transcript and audio recording of a conversation between four officers of the German Air Force, including its top general, Ingo Gerhartz, saying that she had obtained the file from Russian security officials. Over a WebEx video call, the officers discussed the potential use of German-made Taurus missiles against the Crimean Bridge, wondering how they could maintain plausible deniability of involvement in such an attack. The conversation also revealed that – according to the officers – Britain has already sent its own military specialists to Ukraine to operate Storm Shadow cruise missiles given to the Ukrainian armed forces.

It is unclear how Simonyan’s contacts obtained the audio. However, the deputy chairman of the German parliament’s oversight committee, Roderich Kiesewetter, said on Sunday that the Russians could have simply logged on to the unsecured WebEx call without the officers noticing. Berlin confirmed the recording’s authenticity on Saturday. In his statement on Sunday, Pistorius did not address the apparent security lapses that led to the leak. Instead, he accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of orchestrating the incident as part of an “information war” against the West.

For months, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has been under pressure from Kiev and members of his own cabinet to approve shipments of Taurus missiles to Ukraine. However, he has thus far refused, and the Wall Street Journal noted on Saturday that the leaked conversation could make their eventual delivery less likely. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday that the leak proves that “plans to launch strikes on Russian territory are being substantively and specifically discussed within the Bundeswehr.” A day earlier, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev warned that “Germany is preparing for a war with Russia.”

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“..turning Ukraine into a giant factory showroom for Western weapons..”

Zelensky and the West Have A New Scam – And Taxpayers Will Foot The Bill (RT)

What do you do to boost GDP when your country is neck-deep in military conflict and your allies’ main interest is using you to wash taxpayer cash into their own military industrial complexes? Make that your whole national identity! And demand that the West help you transition. “Our country will become one of the world’s key producers of weapons and defense systems. And this is no longer just an ambition or a prospect, it is a potential that is already being realized,” Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said in September 2023. That plea has echoed all over the Western press. You’d think that it may have thought to “realize” that “potential” before it went live with the big “Ukrainian counteroffensive” show. But hey, making lemonade from lemons, there’s definitely a business opportunity in losing on the battlefield that wouldn’t exist if Ukraine had proven to be adequately stocked up and victorious. Any ambulance-chasing weapons salesman would be attracted by that.

And on top of that, Russia’s whole stated objective from the very outset has been “de-militarization.” Right now, Ukraine is to Western weapons producers what the Cheesecake Factory is to a fat kid. Those slightly less cynical might be tempted to view all this as the path to victory for Ukraine, but a recent incident strongly suggests otherwise. In a leaked audio recording obtained by Russian intelligence and authenticated by the German government, senior Luftwaffe officers, including the Air Force’s chief, are overheard talking about how even the delivery of the German Taurus missiles to Kiev wouldn’t change the course of the conflict in Ukraine’s favor. If even the gold standard German cruise missile that doubles the strike distance of its Western rivals isn’t considered a game changer in the overall conflict with Russia at this point, then odds don’t sound too good for much else.

And who’s going to pay for Ukraine’s identity change, anyway? Western Europe and the US will pay for the transition, of course. Just as they’re also paying to keep all of Ukrainian society afloat, funding salaries and pensions. It’s not like investors are flocking to Ukraine right now. Much of the weapons-making infrastructure from the Cold War has been decimated, and in a country that ranks near the top of the global corruption index, it probably won’t come as a surprise that the industry itself is rife with “mismanagement.” While it’s clear who’s going to pay, what’s less obvious is who will actually benefit from turning Ukraine into a giant factory showroom for Western weapons. Some Western arms manufacturers have rushed into Ukraine to set up shop, such as Germany’s Rheinmetall, which started operating an armored vehicle plant in the country last year. Guess it’s just good business to be cranking out tanks right on the battlefield where they can be blown up coming off the assembly line. May as well just set fire to that Western taxpayer cash funding this charade the moment that it pops out of the ATM.

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“..from [the perspective of] the people who run the United States, the blob, the deep state… this war was absolutely essential.”

Losing to Russia Shatters Western Leaders’ Belief in Their Exceptionalism (Sp.)

There is “sincere panic” among Western leaders who are forced to “face the inevitable fact” that they are losing to Russia, Mark Sleboda, a foreign relations and security analyst told Sputnik’s Fault Lines on Monday. “It is shattering both their preconceptions of this conflict and also shattering their belief in their own exceptionalism and seniority,” he told co-hosts Melik Abdul and Jamarl Thomas. The comments came after discussing the leaked German plans to coordinate a strike on the Crimean bridge or an ammo depot in Krasnodar, which Sleboda said was “planning an act of war on the Russian Federation” noting that Russia would have “every right” to respond. “They were plotting an act of war and [the] Ukrainians in all of this, they weren’t doing the planning, they wouldn’t be doing the implementation, the programing of the missiles on the ground. They were talking about having it be done by German officials and the number [of] people with American accents and civilian clothes,” he said, adding “Their biggest concern, other than which was the more feasible target… was their plausible deniability.”

Sleboda noted that it is an open question if German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who has been publicly against sending Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine, was lying or if “he [was] unaware of what his own military was doing.” Recently, Scholz -seemingly on accident- revealed that British and American personnel are on the ground in Ukraine to help coordinate the long-range missiles provided by those countries to the Kiev regime. “That’s exposing that America and the UK have military people on the ground in the guise of volunteers or mercenaries or humanitarian workers… which means they are at war with Russia. It’s simply undeclared,” Sleboda argued. Noting that the plans violated the “rules” of the conflict by planning a strike inside of Russia’s mainland. “Russia had two options,” Sleboda explained. “They could escalate back or [which they tried] instead expose this, hoping that it will at least dampen down.”

“The West has two options in response, they can either back down or they can escalate in response,” he added. However, the West has a lot at stake in Russia because they bet Western hegemony on the conflict. “We’ve heard from every Western leader… a Russian victory in Ukraine would be a defeat of NATO. They did this to themselves, they invested this much political and geopolitical capital. They’ve said… that US global leadership… is at stake in the outcome of this conflict.” “The world might not have originally reached the same conclusion, but now they forced them to because they… said it so authoritatively.” Host Jamarl Thomas lamented how the West didn’t need to provoke Russia into the conflict, but Sleboda disagreed, saying that it was inevitable from the perspective of the “deep state.”

“They are fighting for US hegemony over the world – that’s why. From their point of view, this was also an inevitability, from [the perspective of] the people who run the United States, the blob, the deep state… this war was absolutely essential.” Sleboda noted that the US did manage to gain one advantage in the war, it made Europe more subservient to them. “They tied Europe more directly to them. Europe is now spending their money on two to four times more expensive [Liquefied Natural Gas] LNG than they were on Russian energy, which means that Europe’s economy, yes, is facing de-industrialization. But, on the plus side, a lot of those European businesses are going to the US. So they achieved very real geopolitical results out of this conflict.”

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“..their leaderships do agree that the days of marginalizing the Palestinians are over..”

Is Tehran Winning the Middle East? (Juan Cole)

Despite their fiery rhetoric, their undeniable backing of fundamentalist militias in the region, and their depiction by inside-the-Beltway war hawks as the root of all evil in the Middle East, Iran’s leaders have long acted more like a status quo power than a force for genuine change. They have shored up the rule of the autocratic al-Assad family in Syria, while helping the Iraqi government that emerged after President George W. Bush’s invasion of that country fight off the terrorist threat of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). In truth, not Iran but the U.S. and Israel are the countries that have most strikingly tried to use their power to reshape the region in a Napoleonic manner. The disastrous U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq, and Israel’s wars on Egypt (1956, 1967), Lebanon (1982-2000, 2006), and Gaza (2008, 2012, 2014, 2024), along with its steady encouragement of large-scale squatting on the Palestinian West Bank, were clearly intended to alter the geopolitics of the region permanently through the use of military force on a massive scale.

Only recently, Ayatollah Khamenei bitterly asked, “Why don’t the leaders of Islamic countries publicly cut off their relationship with the murderous Zionist regime and stop helping this regime?” Pointing to the staggering death toll in Israel’s present campaign against Gaza, he was focusing on the Arab countries — Bahrain, Morocco, Sudan, and the United Arab Emirates — that, as part of Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner’s “Abraham Accords,” had officially recognized Israel and established relations with it. (Egypt and Jordan had, of course, recognized Israel long before that.) Given the anti-Israel sentiment in the region, had it, in fact, been rife with democracies, Iran’s position might have been widely implemented. Still, it was a distinct sign of terminal tone deafness on the part of Biden administration officials that they hoped to use the Gaza crisis to extend the Abraham Accords to Saudi Arabia, while sidelining the Palestinians and creating a joint Israeli-Arab front against Iran.

The region had already been moving in a somewhat different direction. Last March, after all, Iran and Saudi Arabia had begun forging a new relationship by restoring the diplomatic relations that had been suspended in 2016 and working to expand trade between their countries. And that relationship has only continued to improve as the nightmare in Israel and Gaza developed. In fact, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi first visited the Saudi capital, Riyadh, in November and, since the Gaza conflict began, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has met twice with his Saudi counterpart. Frustrated by a markedly polarizing American policy in the region, de facto Saudi ruler Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman and Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei resorted to the good offices of Beijing to sidestep Washington and strengthen their relations further.

Although Iran is far more hostile to Israel than Saudi Arabia, their leaderships do agree that the days of marginalizing the Palestinians are over. In a remarkably unambiguous statement issued in early February, the Saudis offered the following: “The Kingdom has communicated its firm position to the U.S. administration that there will be no diplomatic relations with Israel unless an independent Palestinian state is recognized on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital, and that the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip stops and all the Israeli occupation forces withdraw from the Gaza Strip.” Significantly, the Saudis even refused to join a U.S.-led naval task force created to halt attacks on Red Sea shipping by the Houthis of Yemen (no friends of theirs) in support of the Palestinians. Its leaders are clearly all too aware that the carnage still being wreaked on Gaza has infuriated most Saudis.

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“..a “sweeping” European defence industry strategy, which will shift the EU’s defence industry to a war-footing..”

The EU’s American Queen (Lily Lynch)

Von der Leyen’s tenure has been marked by an acceleration of what Perry Anderson has termed “European coups” — the gradual agglomeration of power in Brussels. Even the manner in which she became Commissioner in 2019 represented a break with a procedure designed to lend the EU executive greater democratic legitimacy. In 2003, a Franco-German agreement established the foundations of what would become the Spitzenkandidaten (“lead candidate”) process, whereby the political family with the most votes in the European Parliamentary elections would secure the office of Commissioner for its pre-chosen candidate. But in 2019, Von der Leyen was not the Spitzenkandidat of her European People’s Party (EPP) — instead, she was handpicked by EU leaders Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron. The EPP’s Spitzenkandidat, Manfred Weber was thwarted by Macron, who viewed him as unqualified. Von der Leyen, on the other hand, was a long-time Merkel loyalist and, as Macron noted, spoke French exceptionally well.

The then-German Defence Minister was also amenable to closer military cooperation with France and had spoken of the need to create “an army of Europeans” — another point in her favour for Macron. In other words, Von der Leyen’s very rise constituted a quiet coup. Beyond the pretty verbiage about defending democracy, it amounted to what Anderson has described as “the quiet settling of affairs between elites in camera, above the heads of an inert populace below”. Perhaps as a result, Von der Leyen has started to rewrite her origin story, claiming that she “ran in 2019” — referencing a campaign that never happened. For the Queen of Europe, both reality and democracy are malleable. Yet Von der Leyen’s weightiest revisionism concerns the EU’s foreign policy. In 2019, she identified the creation of a “geopolitical commission” as one of her main priorities as Commissioner. The EU, she asserted, needed to become a major “geopolitical” actor “to shape a better world order”.

Chaos and crisis demanded that it “learn to speak the language of power”. Then came the twin threats of Russia and another Trump administration, both of which lent these aims a greater urgency. The result is that Von der Leyen’s EU is gradually being retooled for war. Two years ago, EU officials broke the taboo on financing lethal weapons when they decided to fund the provision of lethal military aid to Ukraine. As article 41.2 of the Treaty of the European Union explicitly prohibits “expenditure arising from operations having military or defence implications”, this move required some creativity to circumvent. Towards this end, the EU mobilised the European Peace Facility (EPF), a misnomer for a tool engineered to finance military engagements abroad. To get around the proscription on the financing of war, the EPF has been designed as a €5 billion “off-budget” instrument. Nor does the drumbeat of war stop there. On Tuesday, the Commission is set to unveil a “sweeping” European defence industry strategy, which will shift the EU’s defence industry to a war-footing, while “upending the way it finances and sells arms”.

Von der Leyen has said it will aim to “turbocharge our defence industrial capacity over the next five years”, with a focus on joint procurement. This approach draws on the Commission’s precedent-setting joint procurement of Covid vaccines, an effort now being touted as a model for success but still mired in major controversy: Von der Leyen’s private text message exchange with Pfizer Chief Executive Albert Bourla — hammering out the details of the April 2021 deal for 1.1 billion doses of the vaccine — has been shrouded in secrecy, with both journalists and the European Court of Auditors stonewalled in their attempts to gain access to the conversation. Suffice it to say such a precedent does not bode well for transparency in the massive new defence procurement process.

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“Companies that fail to abide by the EU’s rules may face fines of up to 10% of their total worldwide annual turnover, or up to 20% in the event of repeated infringements..”

Musk’s X Could Face New EU Restrictions (RT)

Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) could be forced to follow a set of strict guidelines in the EU after the European Commission (EC) announced that the platform may be classified as a ‘gatekeeper’ under the Digital Markets Act (DMA). The EC explained that companies can be subject to additional regulations if they operate what is described as a “core platform service,” including search engines, app stores, and messenger services. They must have over 45 million monthly active end users, more than 10,000 yearly business users, or over €75 billion ($81 billion) in market capitalization.

According to an announcement published on the EC’s website on March 1, X, as well as travel website Booking.com and TikTok owner ByteDance, have submitted notifications that their services potentially meet the DMA thresholds. The commission now has 45 days to decide whether to designate the three companies as gatekeepers. If so, they will have six months to comply with DMA requirements. Companies that have already received the gatekeeper designation include the likes of Apple, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet. Companies that fall under the rules are required to let third parties inter-operate with their services, to allow business users to access the data they generate on the platform, and to let them conclude contracts with their customers outside the gatekeeper’s ecosystem.

At the same time, the targeted companies must also refrain from favoring their own services over competitors or blocking users from removing pre-installed software or apps. They must also seek explicit consent from users to track their activity outside the gatekeeper’s core platform service for the purpose of targeted advertising. Companies that fail to abide by the EU’s rules may face fines of up to 10% of their total worldwide annual turnover, or up to 20% in the event of repeated infringements. Businesses may also be slapped with periodic penalty payments of up to 5% of their average daily turnover.

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Ballot Drop Boxes Installed Along Border Wall (BBee)

Texas residents woke up Thursday morning to find general election ballot boxes had been placed along the southern border wall that divides parts of the U.S. from Mexico. “I’m not sure where these ballot drop boxes came from,” Brownsville resident Tom Walker told reporters. “Some around town think it has something to do with Presiden Biden’s visit to the border. I saw some of his folks down handing out mail-in ballots to these illegal guys who keep coming into town. Makes a person wonder what’s up.” Biden’s team denied placing the boxes strategically along the border wall right where the main surge of illegal immigrants are crossing into the country.

“This isn’t some crazy ploy to rig the election in favor of President Biden by handing out ballots to the millions of illegal aliens that have been streaming into the country over the past three years,” Biden spokesperson Alexander Sheperd told the press. “On a completely unrelated note, does anyone know how to say ‘President Biden will give you a prepaid $10 thousand Visa cash card if you vote for him’ in Spanish?” As of publishing time, Biden aids were seen rounding up as many filled-out ballots as they could in an effort they said would “restore fair and free elections and prevent that fascist Trump from taking office ever again.”

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    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle Super Tuesday 2024]

    #154006
    zerosum
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    My Insomnia night post

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    SUMMARY HIGHLIGHTS: Don’t ignore the most important news

    https:// news.cgtn.com/news/2024-03-04/Live-Special-coverage-of-opening-of-China-s-NPC-annual-session-1rHCCfjGPfi/p.html
    Live: Special coverage of opening of China’s top legislature’s annual session

    https:/ /news.cgtn.com/news/2024-03-04/China-s-top-political-advisory-body-holds-opening-meeting-of-annual-session-1rH9hoSnK3C/p.html
    Highlights: China’s top political advisory body starts annual session
    China

    China’s top political advisory body, the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) National Committee, opened its annual session in Beijing on Monday.

    Xi Jinping and other Chinese leaders attended the opening meeting of the second session of the 14th CPPCC National Committee, held at the Great Hall of the People.

    At the meeting, the agenda for the session was reviewed and approved.

    Wang Huning, chairman of the CPPCC National Committee, delivered a work report of the Standing Committee of the CPPCC National Committee to the session.

    On performing duties in 2023

    Over the past year, the CPPCC has strengthened the overall arrangement of field research, streamlined the number of team members, avoided overlapped research, and reduced the burden on the grassroots, said Wang, in a report on the organization’s work to the session.

    The CPPCC received 5,621 proposals last year. Of the 4,791 proposals filed, 99.9 percent were handled, according to Wang.

    Its members participated in 17 inspection groups of the National Committee of the CPPCC a total of 202 times, and participated in 81 thematic research activities over 600 times.

    The CPPCC has revised proposal regulations to improve the quality of proposal submission, review, handling, supervision, and evaluation, Wang said, adding that 1,982 CPPCC members participated in proposal submission in 2023.

    The political advisory body has also formulated and improved the system and mechanism for members to connect with the public, with a total of 6,806 activities conducted by members of the CPPCC National Committee to connect with different social groups, according to Wang.

    Main tasks in 2024

    In the next year, the CPPCC must leverage its role as a specialized consultative body, closely aligning with the major decisions of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, the strategic needs of the nation, and addressing significant practical issues in development, providing counsel and suggestions.

    The CPPCC should implement its consultation plan for 2024 approved by the CPC Central Committee, strengthen the foundational role of specialized committees and the role of CPPCC members, leverage the advantages of different sectors and conduct thorough investigations and research, Wang said.

    It should delve into frontline experiences, understand the desires and demands of the people, identify the difficulties and bottlenecks in policy implementation and enhance the foresight and precision of policy recommendations, he added.

    (With input from Xinhua)

    https:// news.cgtn.com/news/2024-03-05/Chinese-premier-delivers-government-work-report-1rIpSBITO7u/p.html
    Highlights of 2024 government work report
    China
    09:05, 05-Mar-2024
    CGTN

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    https:// http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/4/voter-turnout-hits-new-low-as-conservatives-dominate-irans-parliament
    Low turnout as conservatives dominate Iran parliamentary election
    The country saw a voter turnout of 41 percent in Friday’s elections for the national legislature and Assembly of Experts, the lowest participation since Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, according to results released on Monday.
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    • Is Tehran Winning the Middle East? (Juan Cole)
    https:// tomdispatch.com/is-tehran-winning-the-middle-east/

    In truth, not Iran but the U.S. and Israel are the countries that have most strikingly tried to use their power to reshape the region in a Napoleonic manner.
    The disastrous U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq, and Israel’s wars on Egypt (1956, 1967), Lebanon (1982-2000, 2006), and Gaza (2008, 2012, 2014, 2024), along with its steady encouragement of large-scale squatting on the Palestinian West Bank, were clearly intended to alter the geopolitics of the region permanently through the use of military force on a massive scale.
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    • Supreme Court Rules 9-0 That Trump Cannot Be Kicked Off Any State Ballot (PM)

    • House Dems Implode Over Supreme Court Decision (ZH)

    • ‘Uncommitted’ Voters Unite Against Biden Ahead of Super Tuesday (RT)


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    • The Brainwashing of Germany in Preparation for War (Bittner)

    Indoctrination
    The space for debate has become increasingly narrow, and the authorities are no longer relying on the previous psychological warfare. Rather, the pressure on those who think differently, their patronization and harassment, is increasing dramatically. Anyone who doesn’t step up and stand out must expect the destruction of their existence and worse.

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    • Zelensky and the West Have A New Scam – And Taxpayers Will Foot The Bill (RT)

    https:// swentr.site/news/593736-ukraine-west-weapons-transition/
    “Our country will become one of the world’s key producers of weapons and defense systems. And this is no longer just an ambition or a prospect, it is a potential that is already being realized,” Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said in September 2023.

    Much of the weapons-making infrastructure from the Cold War has been decimated, and in a country that ranks near the top of the global corruption index, it probably won’t come as a surprise that the industry itself is rife with “mismanagement.” While it’s clear who’s going to pay, what’s less obvious is who will actually benefit from turning Ukraine into a giant factory showroom for Western weapons. Some Western arms manufacturers have rushed into Ukraine to set up shop, such as Germany’s Rheinmetall, which started operating an armored vehicle plant in the country last year. Guess it’s just good business to be cranking out tanks right on the battlefield where they can be blown up coming off the assembly line. May as well just set fire to that Western taxpayer cash funding this charade the moment that it pops out of the ATM.
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    Proof! Cheap Drones sink expensive sitting ducks war ships
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68477318
    Ukraine war: Russian Black Sea fleet ship sunk in drone attack, Kyiv says

    By Thomas Mackintosh

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    “Hunter Biden Held Previously Undisclosed Meeting With The “F**king Spy Chief Of China”

    We already knew. And watch: no one will care. ‘Cause “Us”. If you’re a “pal” we all understand, if you’re “them” you’re stupid and wrong. That’s the Feelz.

    Via Kunstler: “How many of these places where polite society turns out to be provably insane do we have to see before we stop taking their judgment on anything as significant?” — Bret Weinstein

    Infinity FUBARS, of course! Infinity x Infinity, now “Thank you sir, may I have another?” For I am a coincidence theorist, and 3-5 new coincidences a day is not surprising.

    Continuing his article: “top generals were caught on a leaked recording last week discussing their plan to blow up the Kerch Bridge that connects Crimea to Russia. Do you understand that this would be a direct attack on Russia, an act of War by NATO? And what the obvious consequence would be?”

    No. They don’t. Because Rulz are unthinkable, inconceivable to them, don’t exist, rules, boundaries, order are their sworn enemy, they ALREADY are in Ukraine and ALREADY bombed the Kersh Bridge. UK Provided all the materials and targeting for that AND a top Russian Flagship. “And what the obvious consequence would be?” It would be not so obvious. This is PCR’s lament, and a reasonable one. IF you allow them to keep creeping over the lines like Sauron’s Shadow, then eventually they’re bombing civilian city centers in 1990 Russia proper. Oh. Wait.

    Okay, great. Fine. AND IF YOU DO, THEN WHAT? PCR doesn’t bother with that question, because it’s difficult. So, the first U.S. CEO lands in Kiev, staking out land for the Slavic Taco Bell and you claim “NATO has landed?” Okay, how about the first CIA agent, I mean Western reporter? They’ve been there all along, since 1400. THEN NATO has landed? What if the Polish general staff holds an in-person meeting and goes home? THEN NATO has landed? When? When Ukraine buys a Humvee? — I – can buy a Humvee. And all Europe owns Russian kit, is that considered Russian aggression because Turkey owns an S300, and we should bomb them because Turkey is now “Russia expanding”?

    And I don’t know if other nations do this – probably – but the West is a Mutant Superpower at doing it. Nevertheless, Russia has done this many times and will respond at some point, obviously when they’re way, way over the line. Like when Napoleon sees the roofs of Moscow, only then will they counter-attack.

    And this has happened, past tense. Only BECAUSE Europe has seen Russia at work, now suddenly everyone’s got cold feet and realizes they just left the stove on. It took this long and this savagery to COMMUNICATE through their thick skulls and lies-from-birth in the panopticon media that “Sumthin’ R wrong here.” Europe has already lost the will to fight. Except 20 crazies in the basement. They need this to be universal, and THEN do what they want to. Close, but not quite there.

    Speaking of timing, so Leticia James of NYC is just as illegal, merry spending millions, much of it taxpayer dollars on lavish vacations, etc., hardly ever in the office? But no one knew, could figure that out in the six months BEFORE now, BEFORE the judgment? No. They needed the FULL RUN of Trump to be convinced so that all business in NYC would flee. Or more importantly, put PRESSURE on the Mayor, SAY that are going to do this, and change the political attitude of the City and State. Which being dumber than a box of rocks and with thick necks of lead and fury, incapable of looking, much less turning, is a big ask. NY is the worst state in the union and doesn’t get enough credit because California always takes the Prize. NJ is close as well, having every problem of the others, and nothing to recommend it for living there either, being America’s Hell-hole.

    Anyway, there wasn’t enough support in NY to CARE, to think about “other people’s problems” as a theoretical, outside of money and their own hustle, so they didn’t pull the trigger. Only NOW, when it’s a real actual fact on “Family Office” desks in NYC and worldwide, will they order every millionaire on the planet to take residence in any other location, as a matter of settled law. Since they don’t care, they will say yes, but the monetary implosion will be shocking. And slow. Only THEN do they reveal what absolutely had to be known all along about Ms. James. And toss the case, not in the judiciary, that is in NY which is crooked from Nassau to Ohio, but among PUBLIC SENTIMENT. Ego. The only thing they care about.

    But I am a coincidence theorist, and this is not suspicious at all.

    Biden keeps falling. Yes but that is “Reality” and our sole enemy. You hater.

    Kostintin(?)… He doesn’t add, because he has a lot to do to punch through their impossibly thick skulls of denial already but Russia has 150M people and Britain has 67M. That is, it’s at least twice as bad, say equal to 6,000ppl/year. ONE whole town. 20 years, 20 towns off the map.

    Btw, not to pick on Britain, the U.S. in incarcerates more people than anyone one earth, even China. No, you read that correctly: not more people PER CAPITA, more people absolutely, by a wide margin, Although we have 330M and China has 1,400 Million. That is, we’re like 6x worse than China that “Fascist Dictatorship”? Uh-huh. We are also arguably imprisoning a certain ethnic group, putting them in free-work slave camps, and they’re not the Uighurs. So. Proud.

    USSC case comes down just like I said. It won’t matter though, since Biden and the Democrats (plus 2/3 of Republicans) have demonstrated they just ignore all court rulings at will. No one is arrested.

    “BBC: “Donald Trump

    Alexander says all Europe is having a meltdown over Trump. This is highly amusing on many levels. First, they are running things or they wouldn’t approach the whole issue in this way. So AS they are running things, London can’t understand: We TOLD them they had to hate Trump. We TOLD them they had to love Nikki Hillary. Now why won’t the Americans DO WHAT THEY’RE TOLD??? Not only that, they are incredible pin-heads, and lo these 300 years about it. WHY don’t they love Mad King George? Nothing has changed. Nothing’s different here. In fact we’re more on the HMS London than ever in history. You guys just are TERRIBLE at your jobs. So Alex says – LITERALLY – that London, and therefore Europe, all “Decided” that if they put up a “proper” candidate, equal to the waterboy in London who says “England never dun no wrong” (in INDIA) in his speech about Galloway – He stopped all action in Britain to present and attack Galloway BY NAME, which may be unprecedented – that OF COURSE they would pick Hillary 2.0. Because we love Hillary 1.0 so, so, so, so very very much! Much! Much!!! Uh, NO. How about No, with a side of “No”. How about we’d rather burn the Federal government to the ground and scatter its ashes to the winds than vote in Nikki Haley?

    They are Shocked, SHOCKED I tell you!!! It’s only just sinking in. It was SO OBVIOUS to them, that Americans would “Know their betters” Obey any brown person, and DO WHAT YOU’RE TOLD, that they had no need for a Plan B. Now in Ukraine they’re like, “What happens if Trump actually DOES get in? Where now?”

    I find it incredible to believe, but Alex has been reporting for months on that and their actions confirm. They just can’t understand. Okay, thanks! Wot a relief you’re so INCREDIBLY BAD at this. Makes our life easier and it’s hard enough.

    Anyway, Hillary 2.0 is still in, that means they have to Whack Trump. It’s A Plan. We’ll see if they can pull it.

    CNN: whose ratings are below cat food commercials and still falling: If you wanted a demonstration of how outside reality they are all day, this was the obvious and only possible decision for even a Liberal court. That’s why it was 9-0. Soooooo…what were you smoking for 6 months not to know that? You can do lots of other things, and have. This is not one of them. Besides, w half a Trump, it would go to Congress as determined by the states (that is, an even larger GOP majority) and they would choose RFK. Incapable of thinking ahead, they appear incapable of thinking at all. As they are completely wrong AGAIN it has no effect on their viewership or America at large. They can be wrong ever day for 25 years – and just have – and yet they are the “experts” telling the “Truth”. Like Germany, below “I watch reputable mainstream news all day, and mainstream news says…” You mean they’ve retracted every article for 25 years, including the Pulitzer Prize ones?

    ““The bigger [sic] problem, however, has been Putin’s for quite some time, after one red line after another has been crossed by the NATO countries, without Russia really reacting to it, apart from warnings…But so far, Putin has accepted any military support for Ukraine.”

    As above. And you want him to do what exactly? Nuke NY? Okay, granted. What’s your plan and advice? Russia’s appears to be to CAUSE A COLLAPSE, of Ukraine, > then Europe,> then Banking, > then the U.S. probably as 40% of the Western weight vanishes off the stern gunwale. The BRIICS are seriously harmed but remain standing.

    “• The Brainwashing of Germany in Preparation for War (Bittner)

    I know. You present them with all 100 illegal coups and a list of American wars, they nod, and then a second later it never happened. It’s not in the feelz. It bounces right off. For days, months, years, decades. His description is why propaganda works. It seems to work without limit on some 30% of any population, which for the rest of us is incomprehensible. I mean, aren’t there SOME limits? We all woke up to whatever at some time, it was difficult, integrated it, changed our views. Some earlier, some later. But BIDEN as PRESIDENT levels, with hundreds or thousands of people being killed in the streets, and nothing? Yes. Literally. No effect, no impact.

    For Germany “You are all going to be nuked to ashes, ending all life on earth and nothing?” Yes. Literally. “But Putin…” that’s the end. Given so, what do you expect PUTIN to do to affect your denial? Why’s that his job? Don’t care: thought stops, I guess we’re all nuked and I support it. Literally. This is literally their end-state. Shut up and Nuke me now, Daddy! ‘Cause I am NOT. Changing. My. Mind.

    “• Losing to Russia Shatters Western Leaders’ Belief in Their Exceptionalism (Sp.)

    Nothing can shatter that, because it’s “Reality”, our only enemy. However, they are correct that is the challenge. Unless this shatters, they will end-state happily in worldwide nuclear war. “It’s all a cartoon to them” as Putin said.

    “But in 2019, Von der Leyen was not the Spitzenkandidat of her European People’s Party (EPP) — instead, she was handpicked by EU leaders”

    That is, they only JUST made a new rule yesterday. …Then broke it immediately. Because “rules.” They’re for Thee and not for Me!

    “s article 41.2 of the Treaty of the European Union explicitly prohibits “expenditure arising from operations having military or defence implications”,

    Yes, but that was a rule, so obviously we did the #Opposite.

    In the larger sense, so you have a power, a “government” which follows no rules at all? But “the government” is supposed to protect you? How can a government that follows no rules be rusted with anything, much less your freedom and property?

    “Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned ’round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man’s laws, not God’s! And if you cut them down, and you’re just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake!” Man for All Seasons.

    ““Companies that fail to abide by the EU’s rules may face fines of up to 10% of their total worldwide annual turnover, or up to 20% in the event of repeated infringements..”

    We “Just made it up”. In our heads. If that doesn’t do it, we’ll “Make up” that it’s 30%, 50% or whatever we like. Make all the money you want: we’ll steal it!

    The Constitution defines that you can’t do that, but that’s a law and we don’t follow it either. And obviously Europe is way, way worse than that, having no set law at all.

    Livestock dogs. That can’t be right. The Government experts promised that wolves take zero livestock, and that’s why it was no problem to reintroduce them all over the west, but not on Martha’s Vineyard, also a former wolf habitat.

    Surely this video was staged and coyotes and wolves eat carrots or something. I mean, “Experts”, amirite?

    #154009
    Oroboros
    Participant

    German Defense Ministry uses ‘1234’ as password

    The Deep Dipshit State is dumber than a sack of hammers.

    Cookies “the Literal Whore of Babylon” Nuland undoubtedly uses “password” as her password.

    And let’s not forget Oh Canazida!

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    #154010
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #154011
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Letitia James Stars in Classic Children Tale!

    Awesomely Awesome!

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    #154012
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Ritual Humiliation Normalized

    Mental illness is now fashionable

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    #154013

    Deploring the SCOTUS decision, Jena Griswold (Colorado Sec of State, on msnbc via CSPAN): “So ultimately it will be up to the American voters in November [to save our democracy]”.
    She seems to think this is a terrible thing.

    #154014
    John Day
    Participant
    #154015
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    Leopard and fawn

    Perhaps there is not so much incongruity in fondness for my flock of hens while I continue to eat cooked chicken….

    #154016
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Don’t expect Nikki Haley to go away. She’s in this thing to the bitter end because she is totally the creature of the Republican Party wing of the Military Industrial Complex (Warmongers-Is-Us) and that extremely powerful little club is 100% set against Trump getting his hands on the Imperial-purse-strings.

    If that were to happen then the bountiful largess of the Western Empire of Blood and Lies would flow in the direction that Trump’s team prefers (traditional smoke-stack-Capitalism-Industrial-style-crime) and NOT in the direction preferred by the Team currently in charge of the debacle (Woke Wacko Satanic Death Cult AI Mind Control Style Crime).

    Expect the Never-Trumper Republicans and pseudo conservatives to pull a Clinton style “Bernie Sanders” against Trump in the final hours of the nomination process. It probably won’t work, but it is nevertheless a serious threat and should not be dismissed. Cheating elections has become a highly refined art recently (practice makes perfect) and the anti-Trump rhinos have no other choice. Cheating (or literal assassination) is the only option still open to them, so they SHALL use it.

    It is only a battle. It is not the war. Trump winning is a necessary victory within a much much broader conflict, and as such it should be viewed with that perspective. It is a big and important battle, and provides significant advantages, true, BUT Trump is NOT your friend. Like every other big shot that I have ever encountered, he is just using us by lying to us, and the lie is a very very big one (which statement must qualify as one of the wildest understatements of the epoch.)

    The lie is that the world wide Kabuki Theater called “government” provides any opportunity whatsoever for human freedom and advancement. The truth is that it does not. It is (and has been for many thousands of years) a completely locked-in and locked down hierarchically organized criminal syndicate designed for human enslavement, and it is still in charge.

    Only the truth can untangle and break the overwhelming magnitude and complexity of those arrangements. Another way of saying it is that only God can save us now.

    #154017
    zerosum
    Participant

    What! Another CIA story from NYT.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2024-03-04/how-cia-nurtures-zelenskys-ukraine
    How the CIA “Nurtures” Zelensky’s Ukraine
    BY PHILBUTLER

    ALSO

    https://journal-neo.su/2024/03/04/how-the-cia-nurtures-zelenskys-ukraine/
    04.03.2024 Author: Phil Butler
    How the CIA “Nurtures” Zelensky’s Ukraine

    According to the reporters, Ukraine soldiers are being coddled, hugged, urged forward, and protected not by the billions of dollars and euros America and the EU are providing in weapons and bribes but by the Central Intelligence Agency. Yes, the mother of all lying, cheating, and killing organisations has set up camp in bunkers across the Russian front in Ukraine. As the NYT’s story reveals, Mommy Dearest in Langley has built a “network of secret spy bases along the Russian border” since 2014 (Operation Goldfish). Or, in other words, everything we alternative media analysts have been saying all along is out in the open.

    The interesting thing for me (and I hope some of you) is that Russia’s Vladimir Putin alluded to the CIA and a “deep state” running U.S. presidents in his interview with Tucker Carlson some days ago. I won’t elaborate here, but Putin gave examples of American chief executives changing course after consultation with “whoever” it is standing behind the curtain. The Wizard of Oz comes to mind for a plethora of reasons. Returning to the referenced story, it also gave us this:

    “Since 2016, the CIA began training an elite Ukrainian commando force — known as Unit 2245 — which captured Russian drones and communications gear so that CIA technicians could reverse-engineer them and crack Moscow’s encryption systems.”

    Read the remainder ….

    #154018
    SeaBirds
    Participant

    Dr D

    • The Brainwashing of Germany in Preparation for War (Bittner)

    Published by Paul Craig Roberts:

    The Brainwashing of Germany in Preparation for War

    Original article in German:

    Deutschland vor dem drohenden Krieg – ein Trauerspiel

    #154019
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/palestinian-canadians-sue-foreign-affairs-minister-m-lanie-joly-alleging-canadas-military-exports-to-israel/article_c08ccb04-d4eb-11ee-9727-db4b8fc29bc1.html
    Palestinian Canadians sue Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly, alleging Canada’s military exports to Israel are illegal
    The lawsuit was filed Tuesday by Canadian Lawyers for International Human Rights, joined by a Palestinian non-governmental organization called the Al-Haq-Law in the Service of Man, and a number of Palestinians living in Canada.

    By
    Tonda MacCharlesOttawa Bureau Chief
    Tuesday, March 5, 2024
    ————-
    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/5/palestinian-canadians-sue-foreign-minister-joly-over-arms-exports-to-israel
    By Jillian Kestler-D’Amours

    5 Mar 2024
    Montreal, Canada – Palestinian Canadians and human rights lawyers are suing Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly over exports of military equipment to Israel, which they argue violate Canada’s obligations under domestic and international law.
    ————

    #154020
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Doritos Just Hired A Self Described Pedophile As A ‘Brand Ambassador’

    A clip was posted showing the person previously advocating for “the destruction and for the annihilation of the traditional family.”

    Somehow, THIS is what unlimited printing is for??!? Sigh. Alright, Doritos, Frito-Lay, PepsiCo, let’s do it.

    https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/872/842/1c4.png

    Is it just unlimited unbacked printing for madness, or was my $4/month hot cheetos purchase holding up $48 trillion in liquidity via re-re-re-hyphothication? Just in case, I’ll switch to something healthy like a small business locally sourced regenerative pork rind product.

    #154050

    It’s better to be the predator, right?
    Well, the smart phone lets you feel that way-
    Catching the morsels with nary a fight,
    Forgetting that, actually, you are the prey.

    #154051
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    And so it goes, …

    Everything You Wanted to Know About Secret Biolabs in Ukraine, Now Revealed!

    DOD Operation Warp Speed confirms – pathogens are made in the labs. It’s ok when WE do it! It’s to save grandma and for warfighter readiness…

    https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/world-exclusive-everything-you-wanted?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=870364&post_id=141748356&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=212ohr&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

    #154052
    Just Some Randomer
    Participant

    Victoria Nuland is “retiring”!

    Good riddance. Maybe she can return to her ancestral home in Ukraine and enjoy at first hand the complete and total clusterf*ck she’s made of the place. I’m sure the population there will be effusive in their thanks and will welcome her with open arms.

    #154061
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    We are all very familiar with the expression, “It is what it is”, right?

    Well, I would like to point out that the actual and real state of something being whatever it happens to be, is more or less independent of what people say about it. Regardless of theories about what it might be, or lies about what it isn’t, the inescapable fact is that underneath all the chatter the thing continues to be an objective reality that keeps running like the REAL thing that it happens to be. It is what it is.

    Another way of saying that can be expressed as a single word. That word is “truth”.

    The truth is what it is, too, and the truth is that truth is simply a descriptions of reality. Reality is what it is as well. The words can be used interchangeably, and frequently are.

    Every time that a truth is revealed, and you finally reach a state of acceptance of it as a true description of what actually IS, then your awareness of reality is raised to exactly that extent. To that degree, on that particular thing, your awareness is higher than it was before you saw that truth.

    These revelations don’t come easy. A lot of people put a lot of time,effort and treasure into making sure that certain truths NEVER come out. Likewise, a significant number of OTHER people put a lot of work into chasing those truths down the rabbit holes where truths are hidden under mountains of garbage.

    Meanwhile, the reality that actually exists continues to chug right along.

    Acceptance of truths is not the goal. It’s just the minimum level of awareness that is required to knowingly BEGIN, of one’s own free will, proactively striving for the correct goal, which is awareness of truth. Sky’s the limit, or maybe even better than that.

    #154062
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    addendum:

    Finding disreputable truths about other people is a lot easier and less discomforting than finding similar and CLOSELY RELATED motes in one’s own eye. Also, punching the other guy’s lights out does not cure one’s blindness.

    #154063
    John Day
    Participant

    Doritos Just Hired A Self Described Pedophile As A ‘Brand Ambassador’
    https://modernity.news/2024/03/04/doritos-just-hired-a-self-described-pedophile-as-a-brand-ambassador/
    The ‘transgender artist’ Samantha Hudson, formally known as Iván González Ranedo, has been given the role of brand ambassador for Doritos, and featured in a sponsored program called “Crunch Talks.”

    #154064
    jb-hb
    Participant

    “Treason!”: Bombshell Report Reveals Biden Has Secretly Flown 320,000 Illegals INTO The United States
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/treason-bombshell-report-reveals-biden-has-secretly-flown-320000-illegals-united-states

    There was a book on the roman empire I loved as a kid – the center of the large book had a double-page illustration of an entire Roman Legion – all 5,000 men. You could see the whole thing laid out at once.

    Imagine if someone plopped 64 Roman Legions down in your town, starting with your house and filling in outward from there, shoulder to shoulder. What would that look like.

    Also, doesn’t flying 320,000 illegals create quite the carbon footprint? You’re going to have to move over Taylor Swift. Insert: “Biden’s 320,000”

    https://preview.redd.it/glad-to-know-it-was-all-for-nothing-v0-46yihi74emdc1.jpeg?width=1080&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=4962898a91e3f7118960d6be9146e25b2055e98e

    #154065
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://tass.com/world/1755751
    March 5. /TASS/. Abkhazia sees its future in a Union State with Russia and Belarus, Abkhazian Foreign Minister Inal Ardzinba said.

    One of the key tasks today is the Belarusian project. Although we have no diplomatic relations with Belarus so far, the heads of state have exchanged visits,” he said during a discussion on the topic of Russia in the current international environment as part of the World Youth Festival.

    “We understand that a path to a Union State is quite long and difficult, but a large part of our population supports such an approach,” he stressed. “That is why we will be seeking this.”

    “As for Belarus, we are now building the basis. We maintain trade and economic relations, investment cooperation, active development is beginning,” he said.

    “We see our future in this – in strengthening union with Russia and in our striving for a Union State,” Ardzinba said and thanked Russia for supporting his country. “Our people appreciates this. And, I think, the results of voting at Russian presidential election in Abkhazia will give a clear picture that you people know what thanks and gratitude are,” he added.

    The top Abkhazian diplomat also said that his country plans to invigorate humanitarian assistance to and information support for Donbass. “We hope that we will be able to go to Donbass soon to support our brothers and friends. As a country, we support the special military operation, we support fair international relations, and we support [Russian President] Vladimir Putin,” he stressed.

    According to Ardzinba, the majority of Abkhazia’s population “support the special military operation because they pin their hopes on forming a fairer world order, on respecting nations’ rights, their specifics and history, regardless of their political or economic might.”

    “Our people and government believe that although having a geographically local nature, the special military operation has global mission, including from the point of view of integration processes in the post-Soviet space, which are very important for our country,” he added.

    #154066
    WES
    Participant

    Re – The “Ukrainian Grave Digger” Cookies Nuland -Retiring:

    This reminds me of the deep state’s classic 3 steps monti when the sh*t-hits-the-fan.
    1. Change the narrative
    2. Change the faces
    3. __________ ???? (I can’t remember the 3rd step but maybe you know)

    One thing is for certain the deep state isn’t backing down.

    Possible reasons for Nuland pretending to retire are:
    – she is the face of Ukraine
    – get new face in place before Ukraine goes south
    – she is hurting Democrat’s 2024 election chances
    – to get her safely out of the spotlight ahead of possible FBI investigation of Ukrainian corruption?
    – to protect and reward her for her service
    – retiring her to a more influential spot/think tank

    #154067
    John Day
    Participant

    Change Of Course https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/change-of-course

    There has been a tension between reality and political ideology recently. We have all wondered how long it would be before western policy-inertia would capitulate to public political sentiments, military and economic facts, which are all in opposition to imperial policies and control-narratives (“noble lies” per Plato). There are signs, which might be intentional political communications, that imperial policy of support for wars in Ukraine and Occupied Palestine may be poised to change, to better match physical and political realities.

    ​ ‘Israel’ kills twin babies conceived after 10 years of trying
    “I screamed for my children and my husband. They were all dead. They’ve gone together and left me behind,” Rania Abu Anza, the mother of twin martyrs Wissam and Naeim said.​ The strike occurred late Saturday night while Rania was asleep with her husband and children.
    ​ Rania said she woke up to breastfeed Naeim, her baby boy, and went back to sleep with him in one arm and Wissam, her baby girl, in the other. Their father was sleeping beside them, she recalled tearfully.
    https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/mother-mourns-twins-israelis-killed-after-10-year-trying-to
    Mourning

    ​ UN Security Council calls for protection of civilians in Gaza
    The UN Security Council (UNSC) has expressed “deep concern” after nearly 120 Palestinians lost their lives in an Israeli attack on civilians waiting to receive humanitarian aid southwest of Gaza City…
    ​..They urged for the protection of civilians and civilian infrastructure, and reminded all parties that they “must comply with their obligations under international law, including international humanitarian law and international human rights law.”
    ​ They called for parties to the conflict to allow, facilitate, and enable the immediate, rapid, safe, sustained and unhindered delivery of humanitarian assistance at scale to the Palestinian civilian population throughout the Gaza Strip.
    ​ The council members said they also have “grave concern” over the estimation…that all 2.2 million people in Gaza would face alarming levels of acute food insecurity.
    https://en.ypagency.net/320577

    ​ Great Legal Clarity and Erudition on the Illegal Israeli Occupation of Palestine​ (Tune in at minute 18, for instance)
    Legal Scholar Ralph Wilde Representing the League of Arab States Before the International Court of Justice Just Days Ago
    https://anthonyjhall.substack.com/p/great-legal-clarity-and-erudition

    #154068
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ So much here… Simplicius , Rifts in Bibi’s Camp as Gaza War Drags [The economy is imploding, and Bibi even burned bridges with Russia recently.]​
    In summary: it seems that Netanyahu is trying to have his cake and eat it too. Ostensibly he wants to ‘root out’ and destroy Hamas, but at the same time fears doing so would force the inevitability of creating a Palestinian state—as there would no longer be any real excuse not to allow it, should Hamas be undeniably eliminated.
    ​ The only connective tissue which ties it all together is Israel’s overriding longterm goal of ethnically cleansing all Palestinians from the land Israel believes it has divine right to. With secondary goals revolving around opportunistically utilizing the conflict to either weaken Iran’s hand to buy itself time, or outright embroil Iran in a wider war with the U.S. which can maintain Israel’s center gravity at the heart of the geopolitical great game in the Middle East.
    ​ However, it does seem that, upon realizing the total expulsion of Palestinians will not be allowed by the international community, Netanyahu’s Plan B has reverted to merely creating a fully militarily occupied zone in Gaza, under even more brutal control than it already endures.
    https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-342024-rifts-in-bibis-camp

    ​ Israel’s UN Ambassador Promotes the Genocide of Palestinians as a Campaign for Freedom
    In equating the plight of Israel to the situation of the Ukrainian government, Israeli Ambassador Gilal Erdan Invokes the Nazi heritage of Israel’s Governing Likud Party
    https://anthonyjhall.substack.com/p/israels-un-ambassador-promotes-the

    ​ Aid Groups Slam US for Dropping Aid Into Gaza Instead of Pressuring Israel
    At least 15 children have starved to death in Gaza over past the few days
    ​ On Saturday, US Central Command announced that it conducted a “combined humanitarian assistance airdrop into Gaza” with the Royal Jordanian Air Force. The command said US C-130 military transport planes dropped 38,000 meals on Gaza, which is populated by about 2.2 million people.
    ​ The international charity Oxfam said the airdrops “mostly serve to relieve the guilty consciences of senior US officials whose policies are contributing to the ongoing atrocities and risk of famine in Gaza” and called for the US to end military aid to Israel.

    Aid Groups Slam US for Dropping Aid Into Gaza Instead of Pressuring Israel

    ​ Sanders Calls on U.S. to Stop Funding ‘Netanyahu’s Gov’t’ as Gaza Children Begin Dying of Starvation
    Vermont Independent has been criticized by progressives for his stance on the genocide.
    https://trendsinthenews.substack.com/p/sanders-calls-on-us-to-stop-funding

    ​ Kamala Harris calls for ‘immediate ceasefire’, more aid convoys to Gaza
    The US Vice President’s comments come as President Joe Biden refuses to demand ceasefire
    https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/kamala-harris-calls-immediate-ceasefire-more-aid-convoys-gaza

    #154069
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Times of Israel: Hosting Gantz, Harris balances praise of Israel with criticism over Gaza aid crisis
    VP stresses US alarm over humanitarian situation in Strip, urges boosted aid, notes Jerusalem’s ‘constructive approach’ in hostage talks; Gantz backs international aid mechanism
    ​ Gantz’s office said he had conveyed to Harris his appreciation for the administration’s support for Israel and stressed “the imperative of completing the mission of removing the threat Hamas poses to Israel, finding a sustainable solution to ensuring humanitarian aid reaches civilians and not terrorist Hamas, and the importance of completing all of the operation’s military objectives in Gaza in a manner that enables stability and prosperity for the region entirely.”
    ​ He also called for the urgent establishment of “an international mechanism to oversee the humanitarian effort [in Gaza] in coordination with countries of the region and as part of the wider normalization efforts,” the statement said.
    https://www.timesofisrael.com/hosting-gantz-harris-balances-praise-of-israel-with-criticism-over-gaza-aid-crisis/

    ​ Poll: Majority of Democrats Want a Presidential Candidate Who Opposes Military Aid to Israel
    Biden is facing protests from within the Democratic Party due to his unconditional support for Israel’s massacre of Palestinians
    ​ The poll shows that 56% of respondents who identified as Democrats were less likely to support a candidate who backs military aid to Israel, while 40% were more likely to support such a candidate.

    Poll: Majority of Democrats Want a Presidential Candidate Who Opposes Military Aid to Israel

    ​ ‘Uncommitted’ voters unite against Biden ahead of Super Tuesday
    ​ The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), the largest socialist organization in the US, has urged primary voters to cast their ballots for ‘uncommitted’ rather than President Joe Biden to show their opposition to his stance on the Israel-Hamas war…
    ..“Today, DSA endorses ‘Uncommitted’ in the remaining Democratic presidential primaries. Until this administration ends its support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza and delivers a permanent, lasting ceasefire, Joe Biden will bear the responsibility for another Trump presidency,” the organization said, adding that “defeat is certain” if Biden continues on the current course.
    ​ “This week’s brutal ‘Flour Massacre’ has proven once again that Israel is a brutal, inhumane apartheid state which carries a legacy of 75 years of genocide and occupation. Over 30,000 Palestinians have already died; how many will be ENOUGH for Joe Biden to stop this war?” the DSA said in a follow-up post, referring to the tragedy on February 29 when at least 112 Palestinians were killed and more than 750 were injured while waiting for much-needed food aid in Gaza City.
    https://swentr.site/news/593710-uncommitted-voters-unite-against-biden/

    ​ Simplicius, again, so much more Ukraine War information here , A bombshell wiretap leak has set the intelligence and geopolitical world ablaze, revealing high ranking members of the German Bundeswehr openly discussing plans to supply the Taurus missiles and help Ukraine destroy Russia’s Kerch Bridge.
    Many are understandably pinning the leak on Russia’s GRU, but it seems just as—if not more—plausible that it was leaked by German insiders themselves in order to thwart the plans of their own deep-state establishment which is clearly bent on starting WWIII.
    https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/bundeswehr-wiretap-bombshell-german

    ​ German Defense Ministry uses ‘1234’ as password
    ​ Its use was roundly mocked by German tabloid Bild. “After the wiretapping attack on the Bundeswehr [German military] by Russian spies, this is extremely embarrassing,” the paper wrote on Monday.​..
    ​..Over a WebEx video call, the officers discussed the potential use of German-made Taurus missiles against the Crimean Bridge, wondering how they could maintain plausible deniability of involvement in such an attack. The conversation also revealed that – according to the officers – Britain has already sent its own military specialists to Ukraine to operate Storm Shadow cruise missiles given to the Ukrainian armed forces.
    ​ It is unclear how Simonyan’s contacts obtained the audio. However, the deputy chairman of the German parliament’s oversight committee, Roderich Kiesewetter, said on Sunday that the Russians could have simply logged on to the unsecured WebEx call without the officers noticing.
    https://swentr.site/news/593763-germany-defense-password-1234/

    #154070
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Gilbert Doctorow, (US Neocon Queen-Bee) Victoria Nuland resigns: what can this mean for U.S. policy on Ukraine?
    Nuland was the guiding spirit of the Maidan who distributed donuts on Independence Square in Kiev to the idealistic youths who sought the overthrow of the legitimately elected sitting president Yanukovich. As we know from leaked telephone conversations, in February 2014, Nuland conspired with U.S. ambassador in Kiev Geoffrey Pyatt for selection of the new government in Kiev from among Opposition leaders following the U.S. backed coup d’etat.
    ..There is no question that as an intellectual force she was head and shoulders over her nominal boss, Antony Blinken, and that she stood behind every escalation in U.S. and Allied participation in the proxy war being fought in Ukraine. The idea of sending long-range cruise missiles to Kiev in order to strike far into the Russian heartland, now being debated both in the USA and in Germany, was something Nuland was promoting tooth and nail nearly a year ago.
    ..A touching note and possibly a straw in the wind is the last paragraph in the Associated Press article on the departure of Nuland which tells us: “Nuland will be replaced temporarily as under secretary by another career diplomat, John Bass, a former ambassador to Afghanistan, who oversaw the U.S. withdrawal from the country.” Indeed, let us hope that Bass will also be the fellow who oversees the U.S. withdrawal from Ukraine.
    https://gilbertdoctorow.substack.com/p/victoria-nuland-resigns-what-can

    ​Moon of Alabama, Ukraine – Cookie Monster Retires , A big fat rat is leaving the ship.
    One might interpret this as the State Department’s admittance of defeat in the U.S. war against Russia in Ukraine
    https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/03/ukraine-cookie-monster-retires.html

    ​John Helmer, The Good Germans Are Blowing Smoke
    ​ The audio tape is of German soldiers discussing air operations against Russia from a nuclear-armed airbase. The frankness of their war objectives against Russia, and of their attempts to camouflage their “tricks”, as Gerhartz calls them, for German political and public purposes is not what is “new” in this disclosure. Rather, what is “new” is the context of this teleconference among all the others happening in parallel – this is the certainty that when German army officers and German naval officers discuss operations at the general staff level before briefing Defense Minister Pistorius, they are just as committed to attacking Russia as Gerhartz and his airmen.
    ​ All these Germans are at war with Russia. There is no reason for their counterparts on the Russian General Staff to interpret what Gerhartz said in any other way. The identification of Büchel and F-16s in the discussion must (repeat must) trigger the Russian assessment that the Germans are capable, with US, British and French prompting, of launching F-16s with nuclear warheads.

    THE GOOD GERMANS ARE BLOWING SMOKE

    ​ More Helmer, who thinks (somebody in) the US tapped the phone and spilled the beans.
    ​ Germany has launched an investigation into the scandal involving the leaking of a conversation between senior German military officials discussing the attack on the Crimean Bridge. The Bundeswehr leadership blames “unsecured communication systems” for everything, thanks to which Russia gained access to this conversation.
    ​ However, there is reason to believe that the special services of an altogether different country had access to it, which then shared it with Russia. What is this about?​ …
    ​..Frank Graefe was appointed head of the Air Force Operations and Exercises Department just the other day. And since the end of 2019, he served as the German military attaché in Washington, to serve as which he was awarded the rank of brigadier general.
    ​ Thus, if anyone knew in detail the peculiarities of General Graefe’s behaviour, it was the Americans. They also knew Graefe’s phone number, which they could connect to without any hotel Wi-Fi. This is not to mention the fact that the WebEx system originally belongs to an American provider, and the European military considers it safe on account of their misunderstanding.​..
    ..Thus, it can reasonably be assumed that Russian intelligence has some kind of intelligence capabilities inside the US National Security Agency. Or if not exactly agents, then let’s say, informants who are close ideologically.​..
    ​..The internal German context is very complicated, especially during the pre-election period. And the publication of this conversation by German officers rather helps [Chancellor Olaf] Scholz, who has been blocking the whole story of the Taurus so far. The scandal, of course, hits the security system of Germany and, in general, the prestige of the Bundeswehr. But most importantly, it demonstrates to the whole world the danger and moral weakness of the very idea of supplying Ukraine with such weapons.

    HOW THE BAD GERMANS WERE EXPOSED BY THEIR GENERALS – AND NOT ONLY BY THEM

    ​ (Croatian Army veteran) Alex Krainer, Financial and power-structure analyst, The power behind the throne and the forever wars , We must take a stand or let our children fall, it’s that simple.
    ​ Former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss gave us a stonker of a revelation which, I believe deserves to be set to the record. Truss appeared in Steve Bannon’s War Room and said this:
    ​ “What I found out when I got into No. 10 is, I thought that if I got to the top of the tree, I would be able to implement those conservative policies… And what I discovered was that I was not holding the levers. The levers were held by the Bank of England, by the Office of Budget Responsibility, they weren’t held by the Prime Minister or the Chancellor…”
    ..As the Ukrainian bludgeon broke against Russia, there is every reason for us to expect that they’ll turn to transforming other European nations to serve the same purpose. That process is now under way as we can hear from the growing chorus of European leaders talking about militarization, conscription, and the prospect of war against Russia..
    …Unless we accept that in the near future our children also be sacrificed for bankers’ pursuit of Russian collateral, we need to shine the spotlight at those behind the throne who are pulling the levers and pushing us into war. It is our duty today to push against them with all our might, creativity and determination. Anything short of that risks turning more European nations into what Ukraine is today. And no, it has never been about democracy nor about freedom. It is strictly about banking and about the collateral…​
    ..All the money in circulation represents debt. Debt represents assets on the bankers’ balance sheets. To conjure up more debt, they need to control the collateral: it directly boosts their wealth and power over us. To all the rest of us it’s all the same: whether we pay money to Gazprom for our gas or to Royal Dutch Shell, we still have to pay…
    ..Truly, the only group in society to whom the control of collateral makes any difference are the bankers, making them the one main group with the incentive to foment forever wars for control of resources. They won’t hesitate to go nuclear and sacrifice one nation after another to achieve this.
    https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/the-power-behind-the-throne-and-the

    #154071
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ A Midwestern Doctor, The Immense Cruelty of Population Control Campaigns , Reviewing the tragic but largely forgotten lessons of the past.
    ​ There has been a longstanding fixation within the ruling elite that it is absolutely imperative for them to control the world’s population.
    ​ In many cases, this has resulted in cruel and inhumane campaigns being enacted around the world in areas where the people did not have the civil rights protections afforded to them within the Western Democracies…
    ​..It is critical to learn what happened there, both so that we do not allow the global elite to enact similar measures here and so that we can recognize why it is imperative to have a culture which sincerely values morality as that ethical framework is often the only thing which can stop these disasters from happening.
    https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-immense-cruelty-of-population

    ​Tom Luongo, who shares the above view of wars-for-collateral, also prefers not to have Globo-Cap destroy the US for profit
    ​ Now that the Supreme Court has unanimously destroyed the dreams of Davos to use January 6th as a means to keep him off the ballot, Donald Trump has passed the easiest of the hurdles in front of his returning to the White House.
    ​ Some things, politically, in the US still function.​ This ruling was a lay-up. The SCOTUS had to rule decisively here…
    ​..Candidate Trump, he will look to shore up his weaknesses.
    ​ Candidate Trump became a guy who preached bringing the US back from a dark place. He ran on a populist platform that incorporated the Bernie Bros (remember them) as well as the tradesmen.​ He broke the Democrats’ Trinity of Victimhood – Unions, Minorities, young people — that was their base and squeaked to victory over The Hildabeast.
    ​ If you think it’s Trump’s team or even US ‘white hats’ pushing out this stuff about Biden, you may be missing the obvious player, Hillary.
    If there is one thing I know for certain about Trump it is that he’s a master of media. He knows exactly how and when to push everyone’s buttons.
    ​ For that reason (and many others) Trump’s only real choice for running mate is Tulsi Gabbard.​..
    ..When Hillary stole the 2016 primary from Bernie Sanders she resigned from the DNC. This is a woman who crossed Hillary Clinton and, so far, has lived to tell the tale. No mean feat in the 21st century.​ Long story short, Gabbard has stones.

    The Supreme Court Resets the Game for Trump’s Vice-President

    ​ “Treason!”: Bombshell Report Reveals Biden Has Secretly Flown 320,000 Illegals INTO The United States
    ​ A Freedom of Information Act lawsuit has revealed that the Biden administration has flown at least 320,000 migrants into the United States in an effort to reduce the number of crossings at the southern border, according to Todd Bensman of the Center for Immigration Studies.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/treason-bombshell-report-reveals-biden-has-secretly-flown-320000-illegals-united-states

    ​Charles Hugh Smith points out the Achilles-Heel of Bankers, These Four Themes Will Define the Next Decade
    Everyone at the trough believes that the transition from liquid water (free flowing credit) to ice cannot possibly happen. So when it happens, everyone will be surprised.
    ​ Morgan Stanley recently came out with their 3 Themes that will impact markets for many years: longevity, AI tech diffusion, and decarbonization, i.e. the transition from hydrocarbon fuels to so-called “green energy.”…
    ..That all sounds peachy, but the real world will be defined by four much different themes: sclerosis, dysfunction, debt saturation and power asymmetry…
    ..In a system rigged to maximize the profit and power of the few at the expense of the many, nothing works because the system is no longer capable of self-correction…
    ​..Interest rates can’t stay at zero, so the costs of servicing the soaring debt rises rapidly. At the same time, the immense expansion of credit–money borrowed from future income to be spent today–generates inflation, as the flood of credit needed to keep a sclerotic, dysfunctional status quo afloat outpaces the value being generated by all the trillions being borrowed and blown.
    ​ No one at the trough of “free money” will give up their place, and so the system is rigged to fail: we have to keep borrowing trillions to keep all the incumbents, entrenched interests and those collecting benefits happy, but as interest payments rise, we need to borrow more trillions just to pay the interest. And so on, in a self-reinforcing feedback loop.​..
    ..Everyone at the trough believes that the transition from liquid water (free flowing credit) to ice cannot possibly happen. So when it happens, everyone will be surprised. What do you mean, there are limits?
    https://charleshughsmith.substack.com/p/these-four-themes-will-define-the

    ​ Musk’s X could face new EU restrictions​ , The European Commission has said the platform potentially qualifies as a ‘gatekeeper’ under the bloc’s digital antitrust rules​ Companies that fail to abide by the EU’s rules may face fines of up to 10% of their total worldwide annual turnover, or up to 20% in the event of repeated infringements. Businesses may also be slapped with periodic penalty payments of up to 5% of their average daily turnover.
    https://swentr.site/news/593729-musk-x-european-commission/

    #154072
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ State Officials Raid Amish Farmer, Seize $100K of Food​ (“Destroy” is correct, too.)
    Pennsylvania authorities raided Amish farmer Amos Miller’s farm in January, seizing $100,000 worth of food products over allegations his raw dairy products caused E. coli outbreaks in Michigan and New York. Miller’s lawyer called the sudden raid “patently illegal” and a violation of state rules.

    State Officials Raid Amish Farmer, Seize $100K of Food

    ​ Cat McGuire points out: America Is A Gentile Nation, and presents some useful graphics of a few elite professions, such as Hedge Fund Manager & January 6th Committee.
    ​ The United States is comprised of White people, Black people, Hispanics, Native Americans, Asians, Arabs, and many other ethnic groups. One distinguishing feature that is almost uniformly overlooked is that we as a country are primarily Gentiles—i.e., non-Jewish—and that as Gentiles we comprise 98% of the American populace.
    ​ The distinction between Jews and Gentiles is NOT one of Gentile making. It is how Jews since time immemorial have perceived everyone who is not Jewish.​..
    ​..A good place to start is with Eustace Mullins’ account of the cryptic 1913 Federal Reserve takeover of the U.S. monetary system here and here. Then in 1963 following the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the country took an abrupt 180-degree turn in support of Israel. Definitively, however, after a powerful cabal of Zionists and Israeli Firsters orchestrated the dramatic 9/11 attack in 2001, an ensuing coup d’êtat resulted in their near-complete, quasi-hidden control of the United States government.​ https://uppityupstart.substack.com/p/america-is-a-gentile-nation

    ​Eleni in Athens sends this detailed, yet still incomplete list of recent imperial crimes. The Indictment of the Good Guys of the West

    The Indictment of the Good Guys of the West

    ​ How The Government Used ‘Track F’ To Fund Censorship Tools
    Officials from the National Science Foundation tried to conceal the spending of millions of taxpayer dollars on research and development for artificial intelligence tools used to censor political speech and influence the outcome of elections, according to a new congressional report.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/how-government-used-track-f-fund-censorship-tools-report

    ​Sasha Latypova, World Exclusive: Everything You Wanted to Know About Secret Biolabs in Ukraine, Now Revealed!
    DOD Operation Warp Speed confirms – pathogens are made in the labs. It’s ok when WE do it! It’s to save grandma and for warfighter readiness.
    ​ I have been asked so many times about “secret” biolabs in Ukraine, that I got annoyed enough to locate this document on the official Ukrainian parliament (Rada) website.
    https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/world-exclusive-everything-you-wanted

    #154073
    John Day
    Participant

    Meryl Nass MD, fighting for truth. We are up to 21 Members of the UK parliament speaking up on excess deaths, finally
    There are over 700 UK MPs, but recall that once Andrew Bridgen was the only one speaking up. Free Telegraph link on Archive.org
    https://merylnass.substack.com/p/we-are-up-to-21-members-of-the-uk

    ​ UK Slashes Excess Death Estimates After Announcing New Calculation Scheme
    The U.K.’s Office for National Statistics unveiled a new methodology that significantly reduces its official estimates of excess deaths since 2020. Critics like Russell Brand and John Campbell, Ph.D., allege the complex changes mask potential harms from vaccines.

    UK Slashes Excess Death Estimates After Announcing New Calculation Scheme

    ​ Steve Kirsch, BREAKING: Seven MPs request comprehensive data transparency from the UK ONS (Office for National Statistics)
    They want the UK ONS is to produce a detailed time-series cohort analysis like they should have done 3 years ago. The request was validated by UK Professors Norman Fenton and Carl Heneghan.
    ​ The seven Members of Parliament have sent a letter to the head of the UK ONS requesting that they publish a comprehensive time-series cohort analysis of the UK data (weekly buckets for 152 weeks starting in Jan 2021).
    ​ If the ONS refuses the request, then the MPs will be able to shift the blame for this crisis squarely on the ONS. And all MPs will then pile on later I predict since nobody wants not to have a chair when the music stops.
    ​ If the ONS complies with the request, then we will have the evidence needed to go after other agencies. It will end the debate as to whether the shots were safe, and begin the debate on who is to blame and how to hold them accountable.
    https://kirschsubstack.com/p/breaking-seven-mps-request-comprehensive

    ​ Childhood Vaccine Schedule Led to ‘Greatest Decline in Public Health in Human History’
    Public health agencies have refused to study or to publicly release data comparing the health outcomes of vaccinated and unvaccinated children, according to experts who spoke during Monday’s U.S. Senate roundtable discussion on “Federal Health Agencies and the COVID Cartel.”

    Childhood Vaccine Schedule Led to ‘Greatest Decline in Public Health in Human History’

    ​ Cambridge University Scientists: 25% of Vaxxed Now Have VAIDS​ , Also: Vaccine Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (VAIDS) Explained
    ​Top scientists at the world-renowned Cambridge University in England have published the results of a bombshell study into the impact of the injections on the human immune system.​ The study concluded that 25 percent of all people vaccinated with Covid mRNA shots now have Vaccine-Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (VAIDS).
    https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/cambridge-university-scientists-25

    #154074
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Ultraprocessed foods linked to heart disease, diabetes, mental disorders and early death, study finds​ (Sounds like cigarette smoking, huh?)
    ​ Eating ultraprocessed foods raises the risk of developing or dying from dozens of adverse health conditions, according to a new review of 45 meta-analyses on almost 10 million people.
    ​ “We found consistent evidence linking higher intakes of ultra-processed foods with over 70% of the 45 different health outcomes we assessed,” said senior author Wolfgang Marx, a senior research fellow at the Food & Mood Centre at Deakin University in Geelong, Australia, in an email.
    ​ A higher intake was considered about one serving or about 10% more ultraprocessed foods per day, said Heinz Freisling, a scientist in the nutrition and metabolism branch of the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer, in an email.​ “This proportion can be regarded as ‘baseline’ and for people consuming more than this baseline, the risk might increase,” said Freisling.
    https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/ultraprocessed-foods-linked-50-higher-233023823.html

    #154075

    jb-hb- those are the special forces and they get better treatment. They have to be debriefed as to how they will instigate the “democratic takeover of the united states”.

    #154076
    WES
    Participant

    Fair Weather Jews:

    In the Israeli-Gaza war, one thing I have not seen mentioned is the likely exodus of many dual – citizens from Israel and the resultant economic damage this has likely caused. Naturally most of these dual passport holders would most likely be of military and working ages. (7% of Israeli work force in military but 20% economic drop in economy)

    I suspect some are Russians who left to avoid serving in the Russian army.

    Of course many more are likely “fair weather” western passport holders, especially from US and Canada, who tend not to stick around to fight.
    Their wealth exempts them from serving as cannon fodder. (Israel expects 20,000 disabled by end of 2024)

    The other thing I have noticed is the deep state’s narrative change regarding the Israeli – Gaza war.
    The creation of numerous fake ceasefire plans to divert attention.
    Low intensity war so othing to see now.
    Also less MSM coverage of the war.
    Out-ta-sight, out-ta mind.
    (US large bombs supplied up from 10,000 to 21,000 now)

    #154077
    WES
    Participant

    Boycotts:

    It is getting harder and harder to keep up with whichever stupid companies to boycott because they are doing anti-social woke stuff.

    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!

    It is hard to believe the actions of these woke companies is an accident.
    Far too many of these accidents to just be a coincidence.
    Actions speak louder than words!

    #154078
    Oroboros
    Participant

    3rd / 4th Abrams also destroyed near Berdychi !!!!!!!

    Burning Abrams with French Fried Ukronazi crews

    The Smell of Victory is in the air!

    #154079
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Tanks are like Battleship between WWI and WWII

    Tanks are Dead Meat without heavy AD coverage and infantry in close quarters situations and and to drone tech.

    #154080
    Oroboros
    Participant

    First Fully Confirmed HIMARS Kill – Possibly Counter-batteried by HIMARS-killer Tornado-S

    Finally killed a Duh’merican/NATO tech team manning a HIMAR launcher

    Sweet

    And…..they’re GONE!

    Pooofff

    #154081

    I just finished reading Denis Rancourt’s July 2023 paper titled “There Was No Pandemic”.
    Yes.
    This undermines some of the relevance of those who are all over the virus, its origins, and strains….
    But imagine that you sent geologists two rocks with extremely similar properties and ask if they can determine which one is the moon rock- instead of sending them a rock and declaring it is from the moon.

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