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Iran’s Strike On Israel Was Much More Successful Than It Seems (Juma)
Iran’s Retaliatory Attack Revealed Israel’s Military Weaknesses (Manley)
Loose Lips Don’t Sink Ships, Or Israel (Helmer)
The Gaza Genocide As Explicit Policy – Michael Hudson (Pepe Escobar)
Zelensky Green With Envy as West Comes to Aid of Israel (Miles)
Ukrainians ‘Beginning To Dislike’ US – Odessa University Boss (RT)
Ukraine Suddenly Walked Away From Black Sea Deal – Reuters (RT)
Xi Jinping Proposes Four Principles For Resolving Ukrainian Crisis (TASS)
Biden Refuses to Testify in GOP Impeachment Inquiry (ET)
RFK Jr Won’t Seek Libertarian Nomination, Says Team Trump Asked Him As VP (ZH)
Coalition of AG’s File Amicus Brief Defending Ken Paxton and His Top Deputy (ET)
Supreme Court Takes Up Obstruction Case Affecting J6 Defendants (Turley)
Dutch Gov’t Data Hack Reveals Startling Amount Of Covid Adverse Reactions (X)
A Generation Lost to Climate Anxiety (Zaruk)

 

 

 

 

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Those hundreds of drones and missiles have fully exposed Israel’s defenses, including those provided by third countries.. At a low cost, and without starting a war. Pretty smart. Plus, Biden has refused US involvement in potential counter attacks.

Iran’s Strike On Israel Was Much More Successful Than It Seems (Juma)

On the night of April 14, Iran and its proxy forces launched a series of cruise missile and kamikaze drone strikes on Israeli territory. The attacks did not come as a surprise. Tehran had warned that it would respond to the Israeli airstrike on Iran’s consulate in Damascus, Syria, on April 1, which killed several high-ranking officers of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), including two generals. The retaliatory strike was called Operation True Promise. There is still much debate on whether Iran’s retaliatory strike was successful. Most military experts agree that there was nothing unusual about Tehran’s actions, except that this was Iran’s first direct attack on Israel. From a technical point of view, the strategy was simple and correct: Iran first suppressed the enemy’s air defense systems with drones and then launched hypersonic missiles which the Israelis and Americans were not able to intercept. Incidentally, in light of this, Ukraine’s statements about shooting down Russian Kinzhal hypersonic missiles sound ridiculous.

Many experts were skeptical about Iran’s strike and hastened to say that the retaliation did not live up to expectations. Given the clip thinking of most commentators, this reaction is hardly surprising. Their reasoning resembles a Hollywood blockbuster stuffed with special effects, where the end of the world and its miraculous salvation fit into 90-120 minutes, with a love scene in the middle. In real life, things are different. As Sun Tzu wrote in ancient times, to fight 100 battles and win 100 battles is not the height of skill. The best way to win is not to fight at all. This is Iran’s strategy. Its strike against Israel was not so much a military response as a grandmaster’s move in a big chess game. And the game is not over yet. After the attack on the Iranian consulate in Syria’s capital, Tehran found itself in a tough situation. It had to respond in a way that would look convincing and would achieve specific military goals, but would not start World War III.

To achieve the first point, Iran had to carry out a direct strike without resorting exclusively to proxy forces – and that is indeed how it acted. Regarding the second point, even though most of the missiles and drones were indeed shot down, some managed to penetrate Israeli air space and hit military targets. The Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, Mohammad Bagheri, said that the information center on the Israeli-Syrian border and Israel’s Nevatim air base were hit. And finally, as to the third point – war didn’t happen. This resembled the situation in 2020, when the Iranians hit US bases in Iraq in response to the assassination of General Soleimani. However, it is still too early to speculate as to whether Iran’s attack was a success or not. The big question now is how Israel will respond. It’s important to emphasize that Iran’s operation carried more political than military weight. In this sense, it was carried out subtly and was a success. Obviously, the Iranians did not want to start a war which would involve the US, even though that is what Netanyahu wanted. In other words, Israel didn’t manage to provoke Iran.

It is also obvious that the Islamic Republic possesses more powerful drones and missiles than those used in the attack on April 14. However, even the less advanced drones and missiles were able to penetrate Israeli air space and inflict economic damage, since Israel spent much more money on shooting down the missiles and drones than Iran spent on launching them. Tehran has once again demonstrated that Israel is not invulnerable, and it is possible to attack it. As for the degree of inflicted damage, which some commentators were unsatisfied with, it largely depends on the type of missiles and drones used in the attack – and Iran has a lot of military equipment.

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“This was not a failure on Iran’s part. This was an action that has changed the game entirely..”

Iran’s Retaliatory Attack Revealed Israel’s Military Weaknesses (Manley)

An article published in Mondoweiss on Sunday suggested that Iran’s retaliatory attack against Israel was not a failure, after Israeli military spokesperson Daniel Hagari said that 99% of the launched missiles and drones were intercepted by Israeli air defense systems. The article notes that Iran declared its intentions to attack a week in advance and promised the US that its attack would be “under control” and conducted in a way that “avoids escalation”. On Tuesday, Sputnik’s The Critical Hour was joined by Dr. Jim Kavanagh, an independent journalist, to discuss Iran’s recent response to Israel’s attack over the weekend. “This was not a failure on Iran’s part. This was an action that has changed the game entirely,” said Kavanagh. “This is a new game now because what Iran demonstrated was that the Israelis were defended by the US. The US, Great Britain, France and Jordan – all of them acted in their defense and shot down [Iran’s] missiles.

They had a 72-hour notice. The Iranians did constrain themselves in the sense that they were targeting specific military installations. They didn’t pick a broad target against any civilian targets or urban targets,” he continued. “What Iran demonstrated was that it would act against Israel, it could do so effectively and intelligently,” he continued. “That was the best defended territory in the world, the best radar, the best air defense systems. Iran used seven missiles to target that and hit with five. So five or seven missiles struck the best defended and the best air defense territory in the world.” “What Iran demonstrated was that Israel is not safe,” said Kavanagh. Sputnik’s Garland Nixon suggested that Iran’s recent attack showed how Israel’s military is extremely dependent on its Western allies.

“Isn’t it strange that the US, Great Britain and France joined in a military attack? A military action with Israel. Where’s the justification for that?” Kavanagh responded. “But they’re not going to get 72 hours notice [again]. They’re not going to get time for the Americans and British and France if there’s a real attack. If it’s all-out warfare, Israel is not going to have time. They’re going to be hurt very badly. And, this is something they cannot stand.” “Israel knows all this. They know how weak they are,” he added. “Israel has an ace in the hole that they will use if there’s a general war with Iran, and that is nuclear weapons. And that’s what they have them for, and that’s what they will use to restore the intimidation over the world, over their regional adversaries at least.”

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“..the best surveillance radar in the world, working in concert with the most sophisticated anti-missile defences in the world, were impotent in the face of the Iranian attack..”

Loose Lips Don’t Sink Ships, Or Israel (Helmer)

No Russian military source will publicly express the line that Iran’s attack on Israel of April 14 was a strategic success, despite the tactical shortcomings. This is first of all because Iran is a strategic ally of Russia in its war against the US and NATO in the Ukraine, in Syria, and in Yemen. It is also because of what may happen next. If Israel escalates by attacking Iran and striking at the country’s infrastructure, then Iran’s counter will be to take a page out of Russia’s book and commence the one line of attack which Israel, the US and their allies cannot withstand any better than Ukraine – that’s Electric War.

For the seven months which have elapsed since Hamas began its operation against Israel on October 7, and Israel commenced its genocide against the Palestinians, there has been no targeting by Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, or the Syrian and Iraqi groups of Israel’s highly vulnerable maritime gas platforms, gas pipelines, coal and oil-fired electricity generating plants, the coal and oil storages nearby, solar and wind power units, or the electricity grids keeping the country alight. The Arab inhibitions and calculations are understandable. Iran’s will disappear if Israel triggers a new round of attacks. If and when that happens, the Palestinian failure in the US and in Europe to counterattack and stop Israel financing its war through the $60 billion genocide bond issue won’t matter. Bond holders don’t invest in blackouts. On the published Israeli counts to date, Iran launched between 180 and 185 drones, 30 to 36 cruise missiles, and 110 to 120 ballistic missiles[..]

The outcome counted by Israel’s enemies is that Israel, the US, British, French and Jordanian forces intercepted almost all of the drones and other decoys fired from Iran. Nine missiles beat the Iron Dome, Arrow, and other ground–to-air defences, five of them hit Nevatim air base and four of them hit the Ramon base. Iranian officials confirm those target strikes. In a briefing on April 16, the Iranian ground force commander, Brigadier General Kioumars Haydari, added that “the attack targeted the most strategic base and surveillance site of the Israeli military at the Jabal al-Sheikh Heights on the border between the occupied Palestinian territories and Syria.” Haydari did not mention Ramon or a Mossad facility as targeted or hit.

The case is being made by a group of retired colonels, majors, and lieutenants publishing in the US alt-media that the 6% rate of penetration – that’s 9 divided by 140 or by 156 – make a tactical victory over the US radar and missile combinations protecting Nevatim and Ramon, and therefore a strategic success for Iran. The US protection is Site 512 in the Negev region of southern Israel. According to one American interpretation, “the best surveillance radar in the world, working in concert with the most sophisticated anti-missile defences in the world, were impotent in the face of the Iranian attack…Who has deterrence supremacy? It ain’t Israel.”

Another American assessment goes further strategically without going as far tactically. The point of the penetrations at Nevatim and Ramon, this argument runs, was not to destroy the bases but to prove that, having beaten the US-Israeli defences this time round, the next time will be much more destructive; also, that the Israeli-American combination cannot afford the cost attrition of $1 billion spent per night to defend against larger and cheaper Iranian swarms. A third American interpretation is that even as slight as the 6% penetration rate appears to be, the Iranians have demonstrated the military and technological expertise to defeat the US technology on which Israeli defences are based.

A Russian military source acknowledges that “yes, several people have made this point that at least some projectiles got through at the airstrips; that the Iranians have learned from the defences and might have spotted weaknesses to exploit.” He dismisses this strategic victory as wishful thinking. “In a class room, these calculations of the pundits make sense. But up to the 10th Grade.” A NATO veteran and expert in applying electrical engineering to war comments: “Honestly, I don’t believe the Iranian strikes were all that effective in terms of damage done. This being said, again, they weren’t meant to be. They mostly used drones and older missiles with a few of the newer models thrown in to test, and send a message.”

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“..the ideal is to kill the population passively, to minimize visible bombing. And the line of least resistance is to starve the population. That has been Israeli policy since 2008.”

The Gaza Genocide As Explicit Policy – Michael Hudson (Pepe Escobar)

In what can be considered the most crucial podcast of 2024 so far, Professor Michael Hudson – the author of seminal works such as Super-Imperialism and the recent The Collapse of Antiquity , among others – clinically lays down the essential background to understand the unthinkable: a 21st century genocide broadcast live 24/7 to the whole planet. [..] In an email exchange, Prof. Hudson detailed he’s now essentially “spilling the beans” about how, “50 years ago when I worked at the Hudson Institute with Herman Kahn [the model for Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove], Israeli Mossad members were being trained, including Uzi Arad. In our email exchange, Prof. Hudson remarked “this is basically what I said” in reference to the podcast with Ania K, drawing on his notes. Fasten your seat belts: unvarnished truth is more lethal than a hypersonic missile hit.

[..] On the Zionist military strategy in Gaza: “My background in the 1970s at Hudson Institute with Uzi Arad and other Mossad trainees. My field was BoP, but I sat in on many meetings discussing military strategy, and I flew to Asia twice with Uzi and got to know him. The U.S./Israeli strategy in Gaza is based in many ways on Herman Kahn’s plan that was carried out in Vietnam in the 1960s. Herman’s focus was systems analysis. Start by defining the overall aim and then, how do we achieve it? First, isolate them in Strategic Hamlets. Gaza has been carved up into districts, requiring electronic passes for entry from one sector to another, or into Jewish Israel to work. First thing: kill them. Ideally by bombing, because that minimizes domestic casualties for your army. The genocide that we are seeing today is the explicit policy of Israel’s founders: the idea of “a land without a people” means a land without non-Jewish people.

They were to be driven out – starting even before the official founding of Israel, in the first Nakba, the Arab holocaust. Two Israeli Prime Ministers were members of the Stern Gang of terrorists. They escaped from their British jail and joined to found Israel. What we are seeing today is the Final Solution to this plan. It also dovetails into U.S. desires to control the Middle East and its oil reserves. For U.S. diplomacy, the Middle East IS (in caps) oil. And ISIS is part of America’s foreign legion since it was first organized in Afghanistan to fight the Russians. That is why Israeli policy has been coordinated with the U.S.. Israel is the main U.S. client oligarchy in the Middle East. Mossad does most handling of ISIS in Syria and Iraq, and wherever else the U.S. may send ISIS terrorists.

Terrorism and even the present genocide is central to U.S. geopolitics. But as the U.S. learned in the Vietnam War, populations protest and vote against the President who supervises this war. Lyndon Johnson couldn’t make a public appearance without crowds chanting. He had to sneak out the side entrance of hotels where he was speaking. To prevent an embarrassment such as Seymour Hersh describing the My Lai massacre, you block journalists from the battlefield. If they are there, you kill them. The Biden-Netanyahu team has targeted journalists in particular. So the ideal is to kill the population passively, to minimize visible bombing. And the line of least resistance is to starve the population. That has been Israeli policy since 2008.”

Prof. Hudson makes a direct reference to a Sara Roy piece in The New York Review of Books, citing a cable from the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv to the Secretary of State on November 3rd, 2008. The cable reads, “As part of their overall embargo plan against Gaza, Israeli officials have confirmed to [embassy officials] on multiple occasions that they intend to keep the Gazan economy on the brink of collapse without quite pushing it over the edge.” That has led, according to Prof. Hudson, to Israel “destroying fishing boats and greenhouses of Gaza to deprive it from feeding itself. Next, it has joined with the United States to block United Nations food aid and that of other countries. The U.S. quickly withdrew from the UN relief agency as soon as hostilities began, doing so immediately after the ICJ finding of plausible genocide. It was the major funder of this agency. The hope was that this would set back its activities.

Israel simply stopped letting food aid in. It set up long, long lines of inspections, that is, an excuse to slow the trucks to just 20% of their pre-Oct. 7 rate – from a normal rate of 500 a day to just 112. In addition to blocking trucks, Israel has targeted aid workers – about one a day.

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“..the Kiev regime started out this conflict with a very formidable integrated Soviet legacy air defense network that took Russia about a year and a half to take apart..”

Zelensky Green With Envy as West Comes to Aid of Israel (Miles)

The United States rushed to the defense of Israel this weekend to help shoot down a volley of drones and missiles launched by Iran in a retaliatory strike for an attack on Tehran’s Syrian consulate earlier this month. The US was joined in their effort by the UK, flying out of their airbase in nearby Cyprus, and the Western-aligned regime in Jordan. Israeli media alleged that Saudi Arabia came to the aid of the country as well, although observers have questioned the veracity of those reports. The Gulf monarchy has walked a fine line in recent months, attempting to keep hopes of rapprochement with Tel Aviv alive while also acknowledging the pro-Palestinian sentiment of the country’s population. The dramatic (and reportedly highly expensive) show of force apparently led to some envy from another US ally, according to security analyst Mark Sleboda.

The international relations expert joined Sputnik’s Fault Lines program Tuesday to break down the Israel-Gaza conflict’s ramifications for the US’ relationship with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. “I think that Zelensky has finally come to the realization as the new mistress that the United States is never going to leave its wife, despite all the promises that Joe Biden has given, all of the late-night dinners and the hotel rooms,” Sleboda mused. “It’s all gone wrong… there’s a bit of envy.” “There was even an… interview with a Ukrainian academic, quote-unquote, saying how Ukraine is being two-timed by the United States with Israel and the rock on Israel’s finger is much bigger or something like that, that they are souring on the United States. I mean if you didn’t realize you were a proxy for US geopolitical motives, that’s entirely your problem,” the analyst stressed.

Sleboda broke down some of the reasons he believes the United States was able to come to the aid of its Middle Eastern ally in a way it hasn’t for Ukraine, noting that Israel is a much smaller country with an extensive air defense system in the Iron Dome. The analyst called the network “probably the second best air defense system in the world after Russia’s, and very tailored to task.” “Ukraine is an enormous country with very far-flung assets and Russia is a nuclear power with very large conventional and air forces, and it makes a world of difference,” Sleboda added. “It has to be said that the Kiev regime started out this conflict with a very formidable integrated Soviet legacy air defense network that took Russia about a year and a half to take apart, which is why only now are you starting to see the fruits of real Russian air superiority.”

“Russian forces are apparently able to use SU-25 aircraft in an essentially close air support role because the Kiev regime has no air defense, certainly not on the front line, left,” he concluded. “Ultimately the envy is at the moment primarily over air defense… [Zelensky] realizes he’s going to get no more air defense, which is simply going to make the end of this conflict come faster than it would have otherwise.”

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“..the US “is not going to be involved in [the Ukraine conflict] in a combat role.”

Ukrainians ‘Beginning To Dislike’ US – Odessa University Boss (RT)

There is growing disenchantment with the US among Ukrainians over its perceived lack of commitment to their defense, the Wall Street Journal has reported, citing the director of the Center for International Studies at the Odessa National University. Vladimir Dubovyk told the newspaper in an article on Monday that the swift action from the US and its NATO allies to fend off a massive Iranian missile and drone strike on Israel at the weekend stands in stark contrast to their apparent reluctance to beef up Ukraine’s air defenses amid its conflict with Russia. Ukrainians are “beginning to sour on the US,” Dubovyk was quoted as saying. The scholar noted that Washington played a key role “in the first two years of the war [with Russia], but now of course there’s a huge slowdown,” apparently referring to President Joe Biden’s latest aid package, which has been deadlocked by Republicans in Congress for several months.

“Rather than helping Ukraine create the kind of air-defense network Israel has, the West has provided [Kiev] with a patchwork of equipment,” the WSJ noted, adding that these stockpiles have become significantly depleted as Moscow escalates its campaign of air bombardments. The situation in Ukraine was contrasted with that of Israel, after Iran launched several hundred missiles and kamikaze drones at the Jewish state late on Saturday. US, British, French and Jordanian fighter jets scrambled to intercept the projectiles, and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) later reported that the vast majority of Iranian rockets and UAVs had been shot down before they reached Israeli airspace. Tehran said the attack came in response to an Israeli airstrike on the Iranian consulate in Syria on April 1, and claimed that it had struck several Israeli military installations.

In a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Monday, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky noted that Israel is not a NATO member, meaning Western powers were not legally obliged to come to its defense. The Ukrainian leader added that the involvement of the US, the UK, and France did not result in a war breaking out in the region. “European skies could have received the same level of protection long ago if Ukraine had received similar full support from its partners,” Zelensky concluded. During a press conference on Monday, US National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby made it clear that the situations in Israel and Ukraine cannot be compared, describing them as “different conflicts, different airspace, [and] different threat picture.” He also emphasized that the US “is not going to be involved in [the Ukraine conflict] in a combat role.”

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Ukraine cannot be trusted.

Ukraine Suddenly Walked Away From Black Sea Deal – Reuters (RT)

Russia and Ukraine had almost reached a new Black Sea shipping deal in March after two months of negotiations, only for Kiev to abruptly walk away, Reuters reported on Monday, citing anonymous sources familiar with the matter. The official agreement governing the freight route lapsed in July 2023, when Moscow declined to renew the original Türkiye- and UN-mediated Black Sea Grain Initiative. Russia said that the US and EU had not kept their part of the deal, blocking exports of Russian food and fertilizer. The most recent talks were brokered by Türkiye at the prompting of the United Nations, and a tentative agreement “to ensure the safety of merchant shipping in the Black Sea” was reached last month, according to Reuters’ sources.

They added that while Kiev did not formally sign, it agreed that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan could announce the deal a day before Turkiye’s March 31 local elections, with the pact to take effect immediately upon being made public. “At the very last minute, Ukraine suddenly pulled out and the deal was scuttled.” According to the draft seen by Reuters, Ankara had mediated agreements between Moscow and Kiev “on ensuring free and safe navigation of merchant vessels in the Black Sea,” in compliance with maritime conventions. The guarantees would not apply to “warships, civilian vessels carrying military goods,” except when agreed upon by all parties, the copy of the document stated. Both Russia and Ukraine were to offer security guarantees to commercial vessels in the Black Sea, undertaking not to strike, seize or search them, provided they were unladen or had declared a non-military cargo, according to the draft agreement.

The reasons for Kiev pulling out are unclear, but President Vladimir Zelensky accused Russia of targeting grain export infrastructure during the original deal, thereby putting vulnerable countries at risk. Speaking to reporters earlier this year, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov denied that Moscow ever attacked Ukrainian ships in the Black Sea during the grain deal. One of the reasons Moscow did not return to the Black Sea Grain Initiative was Kiev’s misuse of the shipping passage during the agreement, he said. “The Ukrainians used these free secure passages to launch their weapons in the form of naval drones,” damaging Russian ships and ports, Lavrov stated. He added under the old agreement, only 3% of the shipped Ukrainian grain went to countries on the UN World Food Programme’s list of states in greatest need. Since then, Moscow has donated 200,000 tons of grain to six African nations, with the last shipments arriving in January of this year.

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At least Xi didn’t refuse to talk to him.

Xi Jinping Proposes Four Principles For Resolving Ukrainian Crisis (TASS)

Chinese President Xi Jinping has proposed four principles to restore peace in Ukraine as soon as possible and prevent the crisis from spiraling out of control. According to the Xinhua news agency, the Chinese leader had an in-depth exchange of views on the Ukrainian crisis with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who is on an official visit to Beijing. “First, we should give priority to maintaining peace and stability and refrain from seeking selfish gains. Second, we should cool down the situation instead of adding fuel to the fire. Third, we should create conditions for restoring peace and refrain from further escalating tensions. Fourth, we should reduce the negative impact on the global economy and refrain from undermining the stability of global industrial and supply chains,” the agency quoted the Chinese leader as saying.

Scholz is on an official visit to Beijing since April 12. This is his second trip to China as Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany. Scholz is accompanied by three ministers of environment, agriculture and transport. The delegation includes representatives of leading German companies, in particular Siemens, BMW and Mercedes-Benz. The visit focuses on bilateral trade and economic relations.

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Why not subpoena him?

Biden Refuses to Testify in GOP Impeachment Inquiry (ET)

President Joe Biden will not be testifying to U.S. House of Representatives members who are engaged in an impeachment inquiry against him, the White House said on April 15. Richard Sauber, special counsel to the president, told House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) that the president would not testify in the “partisan charade.” “Your committee’s purported ‘impeachment inquiry’ has succeeded only in turning up abundant evidence that, in fact, the president has done nothing wrong,” Mr. Sauber said in a letter to Mr. Comer. “Your insistence on peddling these false and unsupported allegations despite ample evidence to the contrary makes one thing about your investigation abundantly clear: The facts do not matter to you,” he added. Republicans in their investigation have found that millions of dollars flowed from businesses and individuals, including foreigners, to members of the Biden family while President Biden was vice president.

They’ve also identified payments from Hunter Biden’s business to the president, and from the president’s brother to him, as well as emails between President Biden and an associate of Hunter Biden. Several witnesses, meanwhile, testified that President Biden would get on the phone with Hunter Biden’s associates and that he attended multiple meals with them. President Biden and the White House have maintained that he was not involved with the business undertaken by his son and brother. Mr. Comer wrote to the president in March, saying the evidence “wholly contradicts your position.” “In light of the yawning gap between your public statements and the evidence assembled by the committee, as well as the White House’s obstruction, it is in the best interest of the American people for you to answer questions from members of Congress directly, and I hereby invite you to do so,” Mr. Comer wrote at the time.

“The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree in the Biden family. Like his son, Hunter Biden, President Biden is refusing to testify in public about the Bidens’ corrupt influence peddling,” Mr. Comer said Monday. “This comes as no surprise since President Biden continues to lie about his relationships with his son’s business partners, even denying they exist when his son said under oath during a deposition that they did,” he said. “It is unfortunate President Biden is unwilling to answer questions before the American people and refuses to answer the very simple, straightforward questions we included in the invitation. Why is it so difficult for the White House to answer those questions? The American people deserve transparency from President Biden, not more lies.” It’s not clear whether lawmakers are considering subpoenaing the president, and the White House did not respond when asked whether the president would comply with a subpoena.

Mr. Comer and other members have said they want answers to questions, including those about the source of the money for the payment from his brother. They’re also wondering whether President Biden ever interacted with Hunter Biden’s associates, such as Chinese businessmen Jonathan Li, Ye Jianming, and Henry Zhao. Lawmakers also want more details about the work done by Eric Schwerin, one of the associates, for President Biden. Mr. Schwerin told lawmakers that he often met with President Biden and provided him with free services, including tax preparation. Lawmakers have yet to outline the next steps in the inquiry. The November election is looming and, if President Biden loses his re-election bid, he would exit the presidency regardless in January 2025. Mr. Sauber, the special adviser to the president, is leaving the White House early next month. He was brought on in 2022 to oversee the White House’s response to congressional investigations as Democrats braced to lose their majorities on Capitol Hill that year.

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“..Trump’s co-campaign manager Chris LaCivita quickly fired back, denying Kennedy’s claim and calling him a “leftie loonie” to boot…”

RFK Jr Won’t Seek Libertarian Nomination, Says Team Trump Asked Him As VP (ZH)

After seriously considering the possibility, 2024 presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy, Jr has declared he will not seek the Libertarian Party nomination, saying he’s confident he’ll achieve ballot access across the country on his own. Meanwhile, in a social media skirmish with Team Trump, Kennedy said Trump associates asked him to consider becoming the former president’s running mate. In a political system with formidable ballot-access barriers that protect the Democrat-Republican duopoly, outsider presidential candidates are frequently attracted to the idea of running as a Libertarian — if only to access the party’s hard-earned, 50-state ballot qualification. “We’re not gonna have any problems getting on the ballot ourselves so we won’t be running Libertarian,” Kennedy tells ABC News. That declaration came as his team was celebrating their exploitation of a quirk in Iowa ballot-access law:

Rather than gathering 3,500 signatures, the Kennedy team held a convention in West Des Moines. Consistent with state requirements, it included at least 500 voters who represented at least 25 of the Hawkeye State’s 99 counties. Kennedy assured ABC that he’s “100% confident” he’ll manage the arduous process — which includes fending off Democrats’ lawfare — in all 50 states, saying “we’re going to add probably two to three states a week.” While Kennedy framed his decision solely in ballot-access terms, it was far from certain that he could have actually won the Libertarian nod. The nominee isn’t selected by party leadership, but by delegates at the group’s convention — all of whom show up fully free to vote for the candidate of their choice. [..] Kennedy has plenty of overlaps with libertarians, some of his stances could be seen as disqualifying:

His staunchly pro-Israel statements before and during the Gaza war devastated his standing with non-interventionist libertarians (and progressive leftists to boot). The damage hasn’t caused him to temper his remarks: On Saturday, he oddly referred to Israel as “our oldest ally” and said “the U.S. ought to be bending over backwards to protect Israel.” While he’s expressed skepticism about the effectiveness of gun control, he said he would sign an “assault weapon ban” if Congress sent him one. He’s also called for a $15 national minimum wage, more free childcare, and abolishing interest on all federal student loans. Meanwhile, responding to a series of Truth Social posts by Trump, in which the former president called Kennedy “the most radical liberal” in the race, Kennedy said Trump’s “emissaries” asked him to become his running mate. Trump’s co-campaign manager Chris LaCivita quickly fired back, denying Kennedy’s claim and calling him a “leftie loonie” to boot…

Politico reports that Trump had casually floated the idea in conversations, adding that “Trump is known to workshop ideas to a variety of aides and allies, even if they never come to fruition. As he does with many political rivals, Trump has directed a mixture of flattery and abuse at Kennedy — as he did last week: “He’s got some nice things about him. I happen to like him. Unfortunately he is about the ‘Green New Scam’ because he believes in that and a lot of people don’t. I guess that would mean that RFK Jr.’s going to be taking away votes from Crooked Joe Biden, and he should because he’s actually better than Biden. He’s much better than Biden. If I were a Democrat, I’d vote for RFK Jr. every single time over Biden.”

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“..a number of attorneys general, including me, are facing similar attacks from their political adversaries. just for doing their jobs.”

Coalition of AG’s File Amicus Brief Defending Ken Paxton and His Top Deputy (ET)

A national coalition of 18 state attorneys general filed an amicus brief to defend Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s First Assistant Attorney General Brent Webster in a lawsuit initiated by the State Bar of Texas. “The State Bar of Texas’s Commission for Lawyer Discipline attempted to censure Attorney General Paxton and First Assistant Attorney General Webster for taking action over genuine concerns of unconstitutional conduct by states during the 2020 election,” Mr. Paxton’s office wrote in a press release on Monday. The brief was filed on Friday in response to complaints against the state’s top attorney and his top deputy for their decision to file the “landmark” case known as Texas v. Pennsylvania. Mr. Webster authored the petition contesting the 2020 presidential election results to the U.S. Supreme Court. “Neither the State Bar nor this Court is an appropriate forum for what is ultimately a political fight,” the group of attorneys general wrote in the brief.

“And while it is, of course, true that the Attorney General is subject to general rules of professional conduct, those rules cannot be used to limit discretionary authority conferred by a State Constitution. Nor can they be weaponized to undermine the will of the voters who elected the Attorney General in the first place.” Montana AG Austin Knudsen, who led the coalition, said the commission’s complaint threatens the constitutional authority of elected officials. “The weaponization of the bar complaint process undermines the constitutional authority of elected officials and the will of the voters,” Mr. Knudsen told the Daily Caller. “I’m glad I could support Attorney General Ken Paxton in this instance as a number of attorneys general, including me, are facing similar attacks from their political adversaries. just for doing their jobs.” The coalition argues that the issue is not about the alleged misconduct but whether the court will allow state bars to take action against those with whom they disagree politically.

“The real question in this case is not whether the alleged misrepresentations amount to violation of the rules of professional conduct,” the court document reads. “Instead, it is whether courts will permit the politicization of the State Bars and weaponization of disciplinary rules against elected executive officers discharging their constitutional duties. “The Supreme Court of Texas will likely be the first to consider that question. It should be a resounding ‘No.’” The attorneys general argue that allowing the case to move forward will encourage further bar complaints made for the purpose of “obstructing the ability of attorneys general and their staff to carry out their constitutional responsibilities.” They are asking the Texas Supreme Court to reverse the decision of the appeals court. “The Court should grant the petition, reverse the court of appeals’ decision, and render judgment on behalf of the First Assistant,” the document states.

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Supreme Court Takes Up Obstruction Case Affecting J6 Defendants (Turley)

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court will take up Fischer v. United States, a case that could fundamentally change many cases of January 6th defendants, including the prosecution of former president Donald Trump. The case involves the interpretation of a federal statute prohibiting obstruction of congressional inquiries and investigations. The case concerns 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2), which provides: “Whoever corruptly—(1) alters, destroys, mutilates, or conceals a record, document, or other object, or attempts to do so, with the intent to impair the object’s integrity or availability for use in an official proceeding; or (2) otherwise obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding, or attempts to do so, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.” Joseph Fischer was charged with various offenses, but U.S. District Judge Carl J. Nichols of the District of Columbia dismissed the 1512(c)2 charges. Judge Nichols found that the statute is exclusively directed to crimes related to documents, records, or other objects.

The D.C. Circuit reversed and held that Section 1512(c)(2) is a “catch all” provision that encompasses all forms of obstructive conduct. Circuit Judge Florence Pan ruled that the “natural, broad reading of the statute is consistent with prior interpretations of the words it uses and the structure it employs.” However, Judge Gregory Katsas dissented and rejected “the government’s all-encompassing reading.” The Court will now consider the question of whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit erred in construing 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c), which prohibits obstruction of congressional inquiries and investigations, to include acts unrelated to investigations and evidence. The law itself was not designed for this purpose. It was part of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and has been described as “prompted by the exposure of Enron’s massive accounting fraud and revelations that the company’s outside auditor, Arthur Andersen LLP, had systematically destroyed potentially incriminating documents.”

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“..Members of parliament are being forced into court but would rather pay the fines imposed by the courts than release the information..”

Dutch Gov’t Data Hack Reveals Startling Amount Of Covid Adverse Reactions (X)

Exclusive Breaking: Dutch Government Data hacked and startling amount of Covid adverse reactions obtained. Astounding amount of data obtained. Millions of records now seen. There is a massive attempted coverup not only by the Government in Holland but in every nation that has been infiltrated by Globalists. Excess Deaths are exploding but there is a wall of silence from our respective Governments. I’m joined from Holland by Dutch Freedom Fighters and Truth Seekers, former Dutch Parliamentarian and business entrepreneur Wybren van Haga, Businessman and Data expert Wouter Aukema and Anne Merel Kloosterman who is representing many vaccine injured. The Dutch Minister of health has lied and needs to be brought to task. Members of parliament are being forced into court but would rather pay the fines imposed by the courts than release the information!!! Just what are they hiding?

A Great Awakening is taking place all around the world as people wake up and realise what has been done to them. Justice must be done and if any Government refuses to obey their own laws and constitution then they become illegitimate and those who form it and those who support them essentially become the enemy of the people they are supposed to be governing. The first order of any Government is to protect its own people. Not only have they failed to do this but they are attempting to hide their failings and perhaps more disturbingly hide a dark de-population agenda that they are involved in. They have essentially broken their contract with the people. Its time to get on board and join the quest for freedom and justice. Join us http://freedomtraininternational.org.

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“..people with “woke” beliefs have higher rates of depression..”

A Generation Lost to Climate Anxiety (Zaruk)

In a far-reaching new essay in The New Atlantis, the environmental researcher Ted Nordhaus makes a damning and authoritative case that while the basic science of CO2 and climate is solid, it has been abused by the activist class in service of a wildly irresponsible and unscientific climate catastrophism. This reckless alarmism, saturated across the mainstream media and endlessly amplified by it, has had profound societal consequences. It has both distorted public understanding of the massive benefits the carbon economy makes possible and grossly exaggerated the risks of extreme events it allegedly makes more likely. As a result it has rendered reasonable debate on climate policy impossible, even as it has given cynical politicians an easy scapegoat for every social ill, drawing attention away from regulatory and institutional failures and laying blame instead at the feet of fossil fuel companies and other evil “emitters.”

Perhaps most perniciously, as Nordhaus details, the doomsday prophesying of climate extremists has created hardened skeptics on one side who are increasingly suspicious of all public “expertise”, while at the same time infecting true believers on the other side with a crippling, pathological fatalism that has come to be referred to as “climate anxiety.” If there’s any flaw in Nordhaus’ damning and comprehensive analysis it’s that he undersells just how much damage the advent of “climate anxiety” has done already—and how much more it’s likely to do in years to come. Yes, there’s the obvious cases of obnoxious and lawbreaking behavior, from climate iconoclasts defacing priceless works of art, to interrupting Broadway shows and sporting events, to gluing themselves to buses and holding up traffic on major thoroughfares. But it runs much deeper than that.

Consider recent headlines: From Vox: “What to do when you’re completely overwhelmed by climate anxiety.” From The Guardian: “Climate anxiety adds to teenagers’ fears.” And the New York Times: “How Climate Change is Changing Therapy.” And perhaps most depressing of all, from the BBC: “Climate anxiety: ‘I don’t want to burden the world with my child.” The trend is so wide now that they have given it a name: birth strike. And the data backs up the headlines—like the recent Finnish study of 6,000 subjects that showed people with “woke” beliefs have higher rates of depression. Developed countries are already facing real increases in mental health issues, many of them human-made and bound up in everything from the opioid crisis to the COVID pandemic. The manufacture of climate anxiety as an issue allegedly on par with those others is a dangerous distraction that draws resources away from solving these other mental health challenges.

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    Daniel Garber Lambertville holiday 1941   • Iran’s Strike On Israel Was Much More Successful Than It Seems (Juma) • Iran’s Retaliatory Attack Rev
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle April 17 2024]

    #157069
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Daniel Garber Lambertville holiday 1941

    Mostly a beautiful painting, except for the sky which appears to have been drawn by his two year old son in crayon.

    #157070
    aspnaz
    Participant

    They them; they she; now with more pronouns

    Psychos/retards sponsored by Starbucks. The circus is in town and I am not buying a ticket.

    #157071
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Uri Berliner? Who gives a fuck what happens to this turd, his sort have torn down the USA and are still trying to destroy it. He brings down the organisation and just as it gets to the point where it cannot hide its uselessness, he does the typical Jew trick of turning on NPR and pretending this was not all his fault.

    #157072
    aspnaz
    Participant

    An article published in Mondoweiss on Sunday suggested that Iran’s retaliatory attack against Israel was not a failure, after Israeli military spokesperson Daniel Hagari said that 99% of the launched missiles and drones were intercepted by Israeli air defense systems.

    Everybody is falling over themselves to persuade us that Iran’s attack was not a failure. How would any of these people know whether it was a failure, do they know what Iran intended from the attack? Obviously a lot of the Iranian weapons that entered western airspace were shot down; I include Jordan, parts of Syria, KSA, UAE etc as western as they never fail to kneel and suck the USA. Whether these were old weapons is immaterial, the question is what was Iran trying to prove by sending over this barrage of missiles? I only think they succeeded because they managed to snap the Israeli child out of throwing more toys. But they could well have achieved or failed at goals that we do not know.

    #157073
    Dr. D
    Participant

    House Managers To Deliver Mayorkas Impeachment Articles To Senate

    Trial is set for one day before he leaves office.

    “House Subcommittee Finds “New Evidence” That China Fuels America’s Fentanyl Crisis

    They have done nothing with the old evidence except open the boder more and let everyone responsible over the last 25 years retire with a full pension in old age. Huh. 25 years: wasn’t that 911 and the security state? How did drug deaths go UP when we had nothing but armed borders, police, and cameras everywhere, every minute of every day for 365 x 25 days. So odd. I blame Trump: He was a Soviet agent in 2001. Heard it on CNN, never retracted.

    “Instead Of Introspection, NPR Suspends Veteran Journalist Who Called Out Partisan Trainwreck

    Yesssssss, NPR. Show us who you really are. Stop the facade that it is anything to do with journalism. And as argued since before you were signed: the LEFT makes the RIGHT pay for it. Pay for their own anti-election, antiConservative propaganda. Just like now with voter registration. Govt’ paid registration, they just “Forget” to register any Republicans. And “Forget” to fix the machines. And “Forget” to print the paper correctly. (And “forget” to count the votes. And “Forget” to have court cases…) If you want to have it, fine, don’t make me pay for it.

    “Trump Proves He’s A True Republican By Compromising On Abortion” –BBee Classic!

    “Congress Passes Bill Allowing Surveillance on Every American Except For Those Who Bring Cocaine Into White House” — BBee

    They couldn’t find him! There were no camera or security there! (…Actually the problem is EVERYONE brings cocaine into the White House and have for decades. The suspicious part was there was any cocaine missing and the finder didn’t snort it themselves. That’s how you know it’s a setup. )

    “• Iran’s Strike On Israel Was Much More Successful Than It Seems (Juma)

    This seemed to be just them making their point. Unlike hitting Golan or a sub, they hit the airbase the attack planes left from, and I guess the planners would have been there too? But what THEY know, Iran, Israel, insiders, but the PEOPLE don’t, is that it’s the most air-defense protected location in the Western world. They gave them a 5 hour lead time, and still dropped 5 missiles through the defense. …They they aren’t even the GOOD ones. So they can’t stir up the people for a counterattack – virtually no one was killed, unlike hitting a mall in Tel Aviv – but the CAN make the entire state of Israel feel exposed to complete annihilation at Iran’s discretion. Like one button push. So knock it off.

    1982: wrong then, wrong now. Wrong every day between. “Sea level rising”??? All gonna Diee!!! Gosh if you go down to the NYC Battery, on the waterline, not an inch. …But I guess the seas rise in one place but not another. That’s Science! When you have a thesis where the testable part is disproven for 40 years, That’s Science!

    Global heating saves lives. Global cooling kills them. I’m going out to let the car run all night. My plants are wheezing and need more air.

    What was the solution? In 1982? Worldwide Global Communism: More Government spending. Because spending does NOT = energy use, creation of fossil fuel materials, and the movement of those materials (paper, plastics, copper, steel) on trucks to their office. Nope! When he says “Government spending” he means to make flint-knapped arrows and to take the donkey to work. Then they put the rest in a birchbark tube in the tipi. Trust us! It’s 1982, when has government spending and increasing government size ever not worked? It worked wonders, I guess: Miami is still there, still at sea level, on a sandbar, 45 years later. They must do something right!

    ““Isn’t it strange that the US, Great Britain and France joined in a military attack? A military action with Israel. Where’s the justification for that?” Kavanagh responded.”

    We’ll never know, because like everything the government does, they’ll never tell us. Why are we in Ukraine? Were they going to invade? Why Iraq? Because we’ve made everything peaceful and prosperous there? No, that now $2 Trillion was spent WITHOUT releasing any CO2, ‘cause that’s our top priority. Not one cargo plane was flown in the making of this 25-year war, ‘cause we’re sooper-serial about the Environment, Mister! Nothing’s better for the environment than Depleted Uranium dropped from 20,000hp helicopters.

    “Supremacist religious fundamentalists with nukes he’s talking about:”

    Any time you say you’re “Superior”, or the “Chosen People”. Or “Exceptional” as a “nation”? Yeah. F- off. Worldwide what would all religions say, down to Ubutu and Dances-with-chickens on the Prairie? HUMILITY is religion. Realizing how small, frail, unimportant, and stupid you are in the vast scope of things. That is, these guys apparently have an #AntiReligion. They know everything! Sad part is: Science is worse religion than even they are, and far more deadly.

    “Nine missiles beat the Iron Dome, Arrow, and other ground–to-air defences, five of them hit Nevatim air base and four of them hit the Ramon base”

    This is not a coincidence. Do they have a plasma-head for a sub-sonic missile, such that radar can’t see it? I think they’re hiding their missile defense inside a wave of numbers. Something is different if 95% were shot but the only 9 that weren’t hit the same targets. That’s why it didn’t matter to burn the old stuff as a blizzard of chaff.

    “lays down the essential background to understand the unthinkable: a 21st century genocide broadcast live 24/7 to the whole planet.”

    Can’t say you didn’t know. And you’d better make it “Thinkable” right quick, so we can respond. It’s not just thinkable, it’s the most common and most likely, just like Iraq, F-Stan, Syria, Libya, Sudan, and everywhere else we go. This is what we DO. This is what we PAY FOR. Only way to stop them is bring every last soldier home so they CAN’T. Can’t do it, can’t hide among our “Legitimate interests” whatever they were supposed to be.

    “They escaped from their British jail and joined to found Israel.”

    Sure, you always “Escape” a British jail, then Britain gives you free money for it and backs you with power and influence. Jewel fence from Leeds and a knee-capper from Manchester are well-known for being just the sort of people the Bobbies give free fortunes to. Would you like to try that story again? With more detail this time? Maybe after binging “Lawrence of Arabia”?

    “destroying fishing boats and greenhouses of Gaza to deprive it from feeding itself.”

    So with Kunstler’s argument Gaza got billions, why didn’t they set up docks, cities, resorts, businesses instead of arming and digging tunnels. He has a P.O. Address, somebody want to print this out and mail it to him? Not a secret, Jim. What were they going to do? Israel created their own problem. Murder has a bad habit of creating consequences.

    “• Ukrainians ‘Beginning To Dislike’ US – Odessa University Boss (RT)

    Cue the Ukrainian jokes. It took this long? A million men are dead and you’re just now getting suspicious?

    “the West has provided [Kiev] with a patchwork of equipment,” the WSJ noted,

    You started with the largest army in Europe (excluding Turkey. Never know whether to include them in “Europe”). Russia destroyed that army in 8 weeks in 2022. So it’s not like “We didn’t have”, you LOST it. It was DESTROYED. You can’t re-fill, AND if the enemy can do that, if we do, they will only destroy it again. And have. We’re now on the FOURTH army, one with sticks and stones.

    ““European skies could have received the same level of protection long ago if Ukraine had received similar full support from its partners,” Zelensky concluded.”

    Sounds legit, but he’s LYING, and knows it. Zu was clear on what they needed: every tank in NATO. Every Patriot in NATO, every gun in NATO, about 4x the supply of air defense, 10x the supply of shells, and long-range missiles shot into Russia proper to stop the supply lines. That is, as that other guy with a funny mustache found out, ALL EUROPE cannot beat ONE Russia. Only the U.S. fully mobilizing can turn it, which at this point would take +10 years, probably 20 if we’re not being bombed to motivate us.

    “Zelensky accused Russia of targeting grain export infrastructure during the original deal, thereby putting vulnerable countries at risk.”

    After which, Russia gave away endless cargo tankers of grain? Some “Risk”.

    “• Xi Jinping Proposes Four Principles For Resolving Ukrainian Crisis (TASS)

    All four are “The complete surrender of Ukraine”.

    “those rules cannot be used to limit discretionary authority conferred by a State Constitution. Nor can they be weaponized to undermine the will of the voters”

    Again same thing: IF the “authority” says something, does it mean 1) Authorities are usually right and we believe them? 2) Authorities are usually abusing their powers and we are suspicious of them, 3) Authorities are ALWAYS wrong and we credit the #Opposite? We’ve spent decades in #1, so these dreadful dottering dinosaurs think 95 indictments will work. They work with women, although why I can’t understand. However, Zoomers for instance, and Black voters have never seen an authority not a fool, screwing them for their own ends. So this hardened the AWFUL vote against Trump they already had, while LOSING the youth and Black votes. However, it does break up marriages, prevents dating, and destroys society at large, so that’s a win.

    Right now women are the top supporter of a pedophile – that’s what Biden’s daughter says, not me – top supporter of sterilizing their children, top supporters of killing their children, and top supporters of women being attacked and abused in former safe spaces society had carved out by men specifically for their benefit. And I don’t know what I can say to that. Anyone? If women are the top pedos, top murderers, and top cutter-uppers of children, does that make them good dating and marriage material? Explain.

    ““..people with “woke” beliefs have higher rates of depression..”

    Killing your children will do that. THEN you have to kill everyone else, your husband e.g., to save the Planet. Women’s work is never done.

    “A family of elephants see a lion and form a circle to protect their children”

    Sure wish American mothers would do that. The fathers do but they send them to court to make them stop. How dare you look cross-eyed at me. My Feelz. Using my telepathy, I’m offended by what you’re thinking.

    “The law itself was not designed for this purpose. It was part of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act”

    What was that about how corruption multiplies with the increase of laws? Tao te Ching? Yeah, ALL OF THIS WAS ILLEGAL. Just like S&L, bailouts, etc. They pass the law to hide that the actions (basic fraud, theft, etc) was always arrestible. If they DON’T arrest, say 200,000 felonies in MERS, MBS, etc, they need a reason. So they Lie, Fabricate, Make up, Prevaricate, Deceive, or my preference, Corruptly, Illegally, and with felonious intent, Aid and Abet known serial felons – by saying “We didn’t have a law for that.” You DID. We prosecuted it 80 years ago in 1933.

    So rather than enforce any laws…for example, the VERY FIRST LAW EVER WRITTEN, 1A? We pass MORE laws we ALSO won’t enforce, or enforce BADLY, and in this case, enforce AGAINST 1A. Any Leftist should be against this USSC case 1512© as their interpretation would make ALL protests, of ANY kind – or even THINKING about a protest – Illegal with 20 years in prison. But it’s not Fascism when We do it!!! That’ll never bite me because … I’m against?, For? in service of? Slave to? the Government so whenever I Resist!(TM) they approve. That’s how you know I’m edgy, against The Man.

    “..Members of parliament are being forced into court but would rather pay the fines imposed by the courts than release the information..”

    That’s how you know they’re innocent: they would rather go to jail than release the evidence. …Boy, sounds like Global Warming Science. No data; no discussion, when you ask: Admit Nothing. Deny Everything. Make Counter-accusations.

    “has created hardened skeptics on one side who are increasingly suspicious of all public “expertise”, while at the same time infecting true believers on the other side with a crippling, pathological fatalism that has come to be referred to as “climate anxiety.”

    Yes and both can be solved with Free Speech and open data you don’t have to subpoena a b—h for. So…all that satellite temp data they had and locked off? Releasing that any time soon?

    Skin Cancer: Speaking of “Experts”, I’d never stop writing to click “Post” if I listed all the ways Experts are wrong each day. And not just wrong, but openly, transparently, childishly wrong. Okay: 1) everyone up to 1940 worked all day in the sun. Every day, every year, every person. 70 years at a pop. 2) No sunscreen. 3) What was the Cancer rate? Okay, next question, moving right along….

    This is why I can’t respect these people, or most people in fact: they just refuse to THINK. That statement only has TWO facts. I don’t even have to bring in outside, sooper special schmarty-data. YOU know that’s wrong. There are only TWO data points: link them. True? Or False? Yes, you see, thought-stopper. They Don’t THINK.

    Sound like Global Warming scientists: Ice Cores say the Effect happened BEFORE the cause. Discuss. “Time Exists”.

    #157075
    Dr. D
    Participant

    https://alexepstein.substack.com/p/why-you-shouldnt-be-alarmed-about

    Myth: Recent, unusually warm temperatures show that fossil fuels are making our climate more and more dangerous.
    Truth: Even with recent temperatures, which are a temporary anomaly, not the new normal, cold is a bigger problem than heat and fossil fuels keep us safer from both
    Anyone commentating responsibly on warm temperatures must acknowledge 4 facts:

    1. Cold-related deaths > heat-related deaths
    2. Earth is warming slowly, and less in warm places
    3. Fossil fuels make us safer from dangerous temperatures
    4. Anti-fossil-fuel policies increase danger from cold and heat
    Okay, that’s true, but not necessary to follow:

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    #157076
    Dr. D
    Participant

    2. Earth is warming slowly—and less in warm places

    So far we’ve had ~1°C of warming from a cold starting point in Earth’s history 150 years ago. And future warming will be limited by the diminishing nature of the greenhouse effect—as well as being concentrated in colder places.

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    Heat Wave data:

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    Warming so far has been slow and benign. But will future warming make the world unlivably hot?

    No, given 2 facts almost universally acknowledged by climate scientists: 1) the diminishing warming impact of CO2, and 2) the concentration of warming in colder places.
    • The warming impact
    Even the most wildly implausible “scenarios” from the anti-fossil-fuel IPCC include diminishing warming and a highly livable world with an increasing population.14
    “4. Anti-fossil-fuel policies increase danger from cold and heat

    The number one thing that will determine people’s safety from cold and heat for decades to come is the availability of cost-effective energy. Anti-fossil-fuel policies will increase both cold deaths and heat deaths.”

    (Specifically among the poor. Meaning, the 3rd world. So this is a 1st world genocide against the 3rd world)

    Genocides and Global Communism, like Ham and Eggs, like Peanut butter and jelly. Always together. But they can’t say, “I’d like to steal all your money then kill you”, that’s no kind of sale. They need a REASON, and a reason you’ll say Yes to, a RELIGION. And your religious, original sin, is BREATHING. Your religious, original sin is BEING BORN, born a free animal on planet earth, that means you are NOT part of “Nature”, don’t you see?? All animals are part of Nature and need to be protected, EXCEPT YOU. You, newly born child in the cradle, MUST BE KILLED. That’s Love!

    Wish I were making this up. You’d think I am, but I’m not. This is LITERALLY their religion, their reason, their doctrine. Some mammals born are More Equal than others: and the un-equal ones must be killed.

    #157077
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Why am I so stuck on this? I’m not a genius, I’m just a guy who can READ. 6th grade level. I was given this stuff, so I used to believe this stuff, fed to me by moron teachers and idiotic “experts’ who were trying to kill me, a child. It took OTHER people, honest, who can ask questions, debate, present opposite, alternative views, to finally demonstrate that I’D BEEN HAD. This is a scam. And as with Dinosaurs or Ice Core data, one that was easy to demonstrate and every scientist knows or should be fired.

    That means they’re KNOWING liars. And their lies make children KILL THEMSELVES. That’s BEFORE inferring by their solutions that they want to commit a worldwide global genocide while flying to their beach houses in private jets. That is to say: THEY ARE RAW EVIL. Open, knowing, fully-self-aware, mass-murdering, lying, thieving, breaking people and families apart for sheer amusement, EVIL.

    And I for one disapprove of that. When someone’s trying to KILL me, every day, in every way, since I was a child, makes me kind of salty. I get kind of cranky about it. Knowing they will ALSO try to murder MY children, and hoping to use the WOMEN to do it, makes me a bit even more cranky, in fact motivated to do something about it. How about you? Article above: suicide rates never been higher thanks to their intentional genocide + non-stop transparent lies. Feeling cranky and motivated?

    No, the problem was, I WAS THE FOOL. And having finally reviewed the data adults tried to shove on me, I’m now inoculated against it.

    #157078
    WES
    Participant

    Good Morning Aspnaz:

    I have noticed your complaints about Trump’s poor cabinet choices like Bolton, Pompeo, etc.
    I just wanted to point out that whenever a new president is elected that the choices he has for cabinet positions is a 100% party affair!
    For example, if you were the new Republican president, the first person sitting in your office would be that snake, Mitch McConnel!
    Say you wanted Mr. X as your Secretary of State.
    This is what the snake Mitch would say to you. “Sorry Congress (me) won’t approve Mr. X.
    Then you would probably say OK “What about Mr. Y or Mr. Z.”
    Mitch the snake would say “Nope!”
    But I can offer you Mr. A or Mr. B. (who both oppose you!)
    “Pick one!”
    That would be your choices!
    So you would try to pick the least worst candidate!

    Remember what Bismark said about making sausages!
    You don’t want to know what is in it or how it was made!

    Even super powerful FDR in his 4th term, had to ditch his VP and accept Truman as his new VP !
    it is always a party affair!

    PS If you look at Trump:s private corporate choices to help him run his business he has generally picked good people.
    Yes a few mistakes too.
    But then I have trusted too many people that I shouldn’t have.

    #157079
    John Day
    Participant

    Last night TAE Summary posted this, and in the same vein I would like to add that “The way of the Tao is reversal” and “Killing with kindness”.

    * Heraclitus said when something is pushed to its extreme it becomes its opposite and since extremes drive immense profits:
    – The defense industry insists on offense
    – Healthcare is a leading cause of death
    – Education revels in ignorance
    – Democracy elects totalitarians
    – Engineering designs things to break
    – Border security pays people to invade
    – Sexual attraction becomes grotesquely repulsive
    – Equality requires absolute favorites
    – Sports means sitting in a chair for hours
    – Tolerance is supremely intolerant
    – Critical thinking mindlessly repeats what someone else said
    – Free stuff will cost you everything

    #157080
    aspnaz
    Participant

    the Chinese leader had an in-depth exchange of views on the Ukrainian crisis with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who is on an official visit to Beijing. “First, we should give priority to maintaining peace and stability and refrain from seeking selfish gains. Second, we should cool down the situation instead of adding fuel to the fire. Third, we should create conditions for restoring peace and refrain from further escalating tensions. Fourth, we should reduce the negative impact on the global economy and refrain from undermining the stability of global industrial and supply chains,”

    The oaf will have to pass those messages on to his controllers before he can think whether they align with his owners’ policies. They don’t sound like his owners’ policies, so the oaf may just end up ignoring Xi, which will not be good for Germany.

    #157081
    aspnaz
    Participant

    WES said

    I have noticed your complaints about Trump’s poor cabinet choices like Bolton, Pompeo, etc.

    Good point, but I still do not see him fighting to the end for the people he wants. I don’t even know who the people are that he wanted instead of Bolton and Pompeo, he was that quiet about it.

    #157082
    John Day
    Participant

    @Aspnaz: They are different plans going forward, are they not, the BRICS+ plan and the European old-money plan?
    Which looks better to you in the short term, and gazing into the medium and longer terms?
    Does one do better sooner and later, or not?

    #157083
    tboc
    Participant

    Hanlon’s Heinlein’s Razor

    #157084
    John Day
    Participant

    There are NINE kinds of people in the world
    😀
    Hours of Fun for the Entire (human) Family!
    The Enneagram
    [Do watch the first 3 short videos first to better “Grok” the system.]

    Introduction to the Enneagram

    #157085
    John Day
    Participant

    Re: Enneagram – I think Dr. D might be a Type #1. What do you think, Dr. D?

    #157086
    Oroboros
    Participant

    NPR should be smothered to death with an embroidered cross stitched pillow that says:

    We’re Woke so how did we go Broke?

    .

    #157087
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @Oroboros

    NPR should be smothered to death with an embroidered cross stitched pillow ….”

    World class language skill, Oroboros ! Easily the top metaphor of the month. I hope that others pick it up for use elsewhere, too, because it’s too perfect to be limited to just our smallish TAE forum. It should be given the opportunity to perform to a larger audience.

    #157088
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Me yesterday

    I got you to make excuses for Communist China yet again.

    It’s like you’ve got the clown makeup and rainbow wig already on, but you’re slathering even more face makeup on while reaching for the unicycle.

    You don’t even comprehend what you are doing to yourself and your agenda, which is kind of tragic and funny at the same time.

    AFKTT:

    I simply report facts. You don’t like factual discussions, and invariably engage in ad hominem attacks.

    <honk-honk>

    you’re not wrong BECAUSE you are a woke clown. THAT would be ad hominem.

    You’re a clown as a RESULT of your clownish behavior detached from reality which happens to be wrong.

    In 3 years, I’ve seen you claim to have been attacked 3,427 times with ad hominem, and EVERY SINGLE TIME you demonstrated you cannot comprehend what Ad Hominem is.

    You have NEVER been subjected to ad hominem, bro.

    And again, with almost zero effort, I got you to say in front of everyone that CO2 production coming from Communist China is ok, but all other CO2 production is bad – and to go further and say it is some kind of absolute truth.

    And then you added a 3 year anniversary to your not knowing what Ad Hominem means. Cherry on top. Keep it going.

    #157089
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Dr D – your reasoned pro warming posts are going to make AFKTT break out the methane clathrates again. argh.

    I noticed Marxist Climate Meltdown “we need to tear it all down!!!” Jensen and the clathrates thing were co-morbidities back when I first encountered them around 2009 on LATOC.

    That scam was spoiled, rancid snake oil by 2012, after a couple years of its proponents claiming THIS year would be the year of the great “Global Firestorm” oh uh, surely next year. Before they quietly slunk away.

    AFKTT is a carbon copy of the people who made the Life After The Oil Crash forum owner shut everything down due to their continual malicious “activism.” As if he was cryogenically frozen the moment it got closed around 2011 and thawed in 2021 with no awareness of how old the scams are that he runs.

    I have not heard a single new thing from AFKTT that I had not already encountered in exhaustive detail back in 2009. But surely NOW doomsday is soon.

    #157090
    zerosum
    Participant

    Arrogance failure -Truth prevails

    – Israel MUST maintain its facade as being invulnerable
    – It’s already too late, destroying themselves
    – the combined help of 4 major air-powers – the missiles got through
    – conflict is not a winning solution
    – Iran checkmated Israel’s impunity
    – Re-evaluate U.S/Israeli foreign bases/defense/attack systems
    – denial of impotence
    – Electric War, destruction of energy supply/storage/distribution equal the destruction of society
    ————–
    READ MORE

    LOOSE LIPS DON’T SINK SHIPS,  OR ISRAEL


    by John Helmer, Moscow
    ————
    The US is not going to be involved in boots on the ground/in a combat role in Iran or Ukraine.
    ———–

    Depopulation
    Excess Deaths are exploding but there is a wall of silence from our respective Governments.

    #157091
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @aspnaz must be peeing himself with delight over China’s deft play (evil genius) of the Iran-Israel-US dynamic interactions recently. I must grudgingly admit that the Middle Kingdom remains second to none in the Dark Arts of espionage and skulduggery. They are indeed the Dragon, with all which that entails. Just look at how they took down the USA, in broad daylight no less (!) , with publicly visible bribery, treason, mass murder and other even more perverse and debauched chicanery involving children.

    Their most serious problem now (after such big recent gains) is that despite all of their myriad successes both within their own country and elsewhere, they are (as always) faced with the same problem that has always plagued and stymied their existence: they’re still stuck on the wrong side of the Himalayan Plateau with a bunch of treacherous, singularly troublesome and rather physically unattractive Chinese people.

    I reckon that the Chinese ruling classes (who almost laughably purport to be Commies at the moment) will try to solve that the same way they have always tried to solve it: to kill each other in vast numbers by every means imaginable (they’ve tried them all) until the population gets small enough to subjugate all over again.

    A disproportionate number of Asians have a propensity for the same mental illness that our diligent Troll @aspnaz suffers (which can come as no particular surprise, since @aspie is an upstanding patriotically Chinese person): they think that winning the contest means winning the game, when in truth it is their obsession with the contest that ensures they will NEVER win the game because they will always be trying to win the fight.

    @aspie, the only thing I can do for you now (and I will continue to do it, as promised, until you just stop taking my calls) is to leave you to your self-inflicted fate. Too bad about that race thing that you’re stuck with, but we all have our own cross to bear (as the old Christian saying goes) and I’m sure you’ll come up with some sort of solution (the wrong sort, of course.)

    I give you one last video as a parting gift. Consider it an audio-visual aid to assist you in understanding the mistake you are making. It’s the classic Buddie Hackett joke about the duck hunter and the farmer. When you understand the joke you will understand your mistake. Happy hunting.

    #157092
    jb-hb
    Participant

    AFKTT “The other aspect you conveniently forget is that China has a population nearly four times that of the US.”

    I apologize, AFKTT. I should be giving credit where credit is due. You make a VERY good point about the population.

    Look at that chart below. Just think how much we lucked out by India not ALSO being run by Communist Central Planners

    The CO2 situation for The Climate would be twice as bad! Dodged a bullet there, amiright AFKTT?

    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F6nUCpHXIAAWOhX?format=jpg&name=small

    #157093
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    A Great Awakening is taking place all around the world as people wake up and realise what has been done to them.
    Some of us never fell asleep in the first place….

    #157094
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    In a far-reaching new essay in The New Atlantis, the environmental researcher Ted Nordhaus makes a damning and authoritative case that while the basic science of CO2 and climate is solid, it has been abused by the activist class in service of a wildly irresponsible and unscientific climate catastrophism.
    It makes sense to have some caution about dramatically changing the environment. We *don’t* know what the effects will be. It makes sense to study the issue and try to come to understand it and adjust our economies and societies to mitigate the damage. Of course, it is human nature to throw refuse “away,” and ignore it until it becomes a problem.
    However, we humans have a bigger problem: some humans are obsessed with power and seek to subvert and control the rest of us. We can’t deal with our tendencies to be poor stewards of the environment when the power-obsessed have too much control.

    #157095
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    Melanoma/skin cancer

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3906570/

    I don’t know what is causing skin cancer to increase, but it is increasing. (Maybe the sun is going through some sort of high-power phase, for all I know. Or, it could be diet related.). Based on the warty stuff on my 8 year old dog that I suspect to be skin cancer, I doubt the increase can be all attributed to sunscreen use, as I’ve never put sunscreen on him. Sun exposure definitely causes the skin to dry and age more rapidly. And, people living longer lives generally could lead to more skin cancer diagnosis, as it seems to be more prevalent in older populations. It is fun to see an “expert” not go along with generally accepted dogma….

    #157096
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    You can’t and won’t cure the elite of their many and despicable faults by changing the elite, because just look at what the word “elite” means. It means someone who was lower down being raised up. Same guy, higher position. Or another closer to home way to say it is that the so-called elites are just YOU with more power and money. Same human beings. Higher positions.

    We fix the elites by fixing ourselves, which should start with the heartfelt and deeply understand realization that what I just said is true. And not just merely true, but vitally existentially true.

    No one in their right mind would do the destructive ( and self-destructive) things that our elites do on a routine daily basis for no purpose other than to maintain their essentially pointless, useless and worthless status of being “elite.” It is wincingly pathetic. Just look at them. They are utterly incapacitated (alone and in groups) at practically everything necessary to the sustenance of life. Talk about USELESS ! No one in their right mind would aspire to that, and thus they are the poster child and embodiment of being crazy.

    You cannot escape them any more than you can escape yourself. If anyone else does the same dumb shit that they do, then they too will get the same damned result. So what is the same dumb shit that they do? Well I would suggest finding out precisely and exactly what that shit is so that you can avoid doing it sort of accidentally on purpose yourself and wind up in the same shape that they’re in.

    Just for starters, here’s one of those destructive and self-destructive dumb things that elites do : they believe they’re better than everybody else, as justification for doing bad things to everybody else (like lying, cheating, stealing and killing).

    Here’s another dumb thing they do and believe in. They believe that the defeat of a competitor is a gain for the self.

    And one last dumb thing they do, which is probably the dumbest thing of all: is that elites and their wannabes absolutely REFUSE (and that word is putting it far FAR too lightly) to listen for understanding to the truths that others are telling them. To them it is always and only about the perceived fight, and the obsession to win it regardless of cost, no holds barred and regardless of whether their chosen opponent has a beef with them or not. The truth doesn’t matter. It’s the contest that matters, and perceived “victory” within that contest.

    The best one could hope for in that case, even if every fight is won, is a life of interminable conflict in which no one (not even the “victor”) can ever rise above the level of combatant in a never ending war.

    There is, of course, a different way forward, a better way I think. It consists of realizing that in every conflict the side that is wrong, the side that promulgates an untruth or a contra-reality, can be cured of that affliction by being directed to recognize of their own free will the TRUTH that they were denying.

    That’s often an agonizingly long drawn-out process, but it sure beats the alternative.

    #157097
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Vasily Nebenzya at the UN addressing the ‘Collective West’

    Nebenzya is a Real Player in Russian leadership circles and has a way with expressing the obvious.

    .

    #157098
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Climate – over consumption – dumping toxins – too many consumers – modern throw away shoddy products

    All connected

    Solution:

    Less people

    Every major country in the world not in the grips of ‘religious’ zealotry (aka parts of Islamic culture) and most African countries does NOT have even a basic REPLACEMENT birth rate (2.1 kids per couple)

    These are countries and cultures who will no longer exist by the end of the century

    Taiwan 1.09

    South Korea 1.11

    Singapore 1.17

    Ukraine 1.22

    Hong Kong 1.23

    Italy 1.24

    Moldova 1.25

    Puerto Rico 1.25

    Spain 1.29

    Shootin’ blanks

    Maybe woman in the future who want kids will require a sperm test before a second date. ;>)

    .

    #157099
    Oroboros
    Participant

    I was there in the 80’s and Yes!, way more testosterone than the girlie-man 2020’s

    #157100
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Heinz and Mattel copulate to produce a Devious Devilicious creation

    Ta-Da!

    This will help with the reproduction rate, fur sure.

    Pink BBQ

    .

    #157101
    Oroboros
    Participant

    She has a question for the Men

    #157102
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    If you interact directly or even indirectly with an AI System for very long you will eventually experience a level of frustration and incredulity that you did not previously believe was humanly possible.

    And I couldn’t help but notice that our whole Western System has pretty much handed over the reins of its Civilization to fools who depend on AI systems for everything from mixing their drinks to doing their strategic planning and “deep thinking”. What would go wrong, right?

    Or is it better to be bluntly frank instead of sarcastic and say, how could it even POSSIBLY go right?

    #157103
    John Day
    Participant

    New NPR CEO Gave Ted Talk Asserting “Truth” Is A “Distraction” (What if she is lying?)
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/new-npr-ceo-gave-ted-talk-asserting-truth-distraction

    #157104
    citizenx
    Participant

    Speaking of A Generation Lost to (climate) Anxiety article….

    Excellent one here exploring- The Cluster B Society

    There is a creeping sense that our society has turned upside-down. Healthy debate is replaced by activist hysterics. Speech is declared violence; violence is excused as speech. Masculinity is condemned as “toxic,” while men in dresses are celebrated in the public square. It feels as if we are in the midst of a society-wide mental breakdown.

    Cluster B psychological traits have begun to shape the patterns and structures of our culture. The scenes of American public life increasingly resemble a Cluster B psychodrama: victimhood replaces accomplishment as the standard of merit; accusation replaces disagreement as the means of settling disputes; false compassion becomes the primary method of manipulating citizens into compliance; and the whole scheme is enforced with the threat of violence: obey, or suffer the consequences.

    https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-cluster-b-society

    Fear not, great news and rumors swirling about a global music event in the works-

    The Vaccine Aids Tour will be announced soon featuring-

    Kneel Young – ‘The Needle and the Damage done’
    John Cougar- ‘The Walls come Crumblin Down’
    Bruce the boss Springsteen- ‘Born to Run’
    Bono- ‘2 hearts beat as one’
    Rage Against the Machine- ‘Killing in the Name Of’
    Bon Jovi- ‘Livin on a Prayer’
    Rolling Stones- ‘Sympathy for the Chosen Ones’

    *Must be fully boosted with all 9 shots to attend !
    Nine shots- thats nearly the Wa state magazine limit 😉

    A Nation Lost-

    Oh, and there we were all in one place
    A generation lost in space
    With no time left to start again
    So come on, Jack be nimble, Jack be quick
    Jack Flash sat on a candlestick
    ‘Cause fire is the devil’s only friend

    Oh, and as I watched him on the stage
    My hands were clenched in fists of rage
    No angel born in Hell
    Could break that Satan’s spell

    And as the flames climbed high into the night
    To light the sacrificial rite
    I saw Satan laughing with delight
    The day the music died

    I met a girl who sang the blues
    And I asked her for some happy news
    But she just smiled and turned away
    I went down to the sacred store
    Where I’d heard the music years before
    But the man there said the music wouldn’t play

    And in the streets, the children screamed
    The lovers cried and the poets dreamed
    But not a word was spoken
    The church bells all were broken

    The day the music died

    #157105
    Michael Reid
    Participant


    In closing, Holter contends,
    what you are seeing is not a series of mistakes by incompetent people.
    Holter says,
    “This is too stupid for it not to be the plan. . . .
    This is not a Republican or Democrat thing.
    We are being steered directly into a brick wall
    because the globalists can’t take over the world with the US standing.
    They have to take the US down, and if they take the US down, so will the western financial system fall.
    If that happens, the globalists can have their way.”

    Driving America into a Brick Wall – Bill Holter

    #157106
    citizenx
    Participant

    In fact, our reverence for the truth might be a distraction that’s getting in the way

    An excellent book on Reverence by Paul Woodruff- its History and qualities from ancient Greece to Eastern philosophy and Naturalism. Highly recommended.

    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/257480.Reverence_Renewing_A_Forgotten_Virtue

    While the practices of reverence differ from culture to culture, reverence itself is a virtue that can be detached from particular beliefs and rituals. Reverence, says Woodruff, is the source of the capacity for respect.

    Reverence is the ‘capacity to have feelings of awe, respect, and shame when these are the right feelings to have’…

    Reverence – Respect to all sacred things and beyond.

    Liberals Hate Truth- as I have experienced for decades, now more than ever, in the broken Heart of Liberalism- Seattle.

    Liberals have gone insane, Like the Heart of Darkness, it is no wonder they now openly reject Truth.
    This is the CEO of Govt Radio openly negating truth.

    CEO Katherine Maher of NPR deserves a ball gag, topped with a Silence of the Lambs cage.
    She is a toxic feminist sheep, womansplaining Libtard ‘values’

    After internships at the Council on Foreign Relations, Maher worked at the National Democratic Institute, Maher worked at the World Bank, As part of this work, she focused on the impact on people of laws about cybersecurity, morality, and defamation of the state that increase state censorship and reduce dissent. From 2022 to 2023, Maher was a member of the US State Department’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board, an expert panel established in 2011 by then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to advise US officials. Rumor has it she is jewish with parental and personal ties to alphabet agencies like the c-eye-eh and mossy-od. TED talks are libtard propaganda.

    Could it be any more obvious?

    #157107
    Michael Reid
    Participant


    The capitalist system in the US is long gone.
    We’ve devolved into classical Mussolini-style fascism,
    which is to say, State corporatism,
    where corporations and the State work hand-in-glove.

    It’s euphemistically called a public-private “partnership.”
    The people in government and the people in top corporate levels scratch each other’s backs and reinforce each other’s positions.
    They feed each other power and money.
    This makes for a highly politicized society, where connections, not production, are what count.

    Doug Casey on the New American Dream: “You’ll Own Nothing and Be Happy”

    #157108
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://t.me/boris_rozhin/120524
    Missiles that the defenses of the United States, Britain, France and the Zionist regime could not resist.

    Which parts of Ramon Military Airport were destroyed during Operation True Promise?

    A satellite image of the Israeli Ramon airbase, which was attacked by Iranian ballistic missiles on April 14, has been published.

    Here you can see the buildings that have been damaged:

    – Two hangars for the repair of ground equipment
    – Transport aircraft service station
    – Recreation center for officers
    – Watchtower

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