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House Passes $95 Billion Aid Package For Ukraine, Israel And Taiwan (ZH)
American Aid ‘Keeps History On Right Track’ – Zelensky (RT)
Who Gets What From Congress’ $61 Bln Bag of Goodies? (Sp.)
David Sacks Warns Ukraine Will ‘Collapse Anyway,’ Despite Aid Bill (Sp.)
US Aid Bill ‘Insufficient’ for Ukraine’s Needs, Bolsters US Military (Sp.)
US Lawmakers Approve More Government Spying (RT)
US Confiscation of Russian Assets Will ‘Supercharge’ De-Dollarization
$500 Russian Drones Destroying $10,000,000 American Tanks – NYT (RT)
‘Pariah’ Israel Dragging US ‘Into Garbage Bin of History’ (Sp.)
Trump Wants To ‘Kill His Opposition’ – Hillary Clinton (RT)
Texas Is a Fading Conservative State (Paul Craig Roberts)
A Collective “Common Enemy” Now Stalks Mankind (Karganovic)

 

 

24 hours without internet at home. A little bit of improvisation today.

 

 

 

 

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But not the border. Mike Johnson became speaker BECAUSE he said he’d protect the border.

House Passes $95 Billion Aid Package For Ukraine, Israel And Taiwan (ZH)

The House on Saturday passed a set of foreign aid bills that would send $61 billion to Ukraine, $26 billion to Israel, and $8 billion to the Indo-Pacific region. In total, the foreign assistance package totals $95 billion – which only passed after Speaker Mike Johnson cut a deal with Democrats in order to force it through by a vote of 311 to 112. The Senate is expected to pass the package, which was negotiated in conjunction with the White House, marking a victory against conservative lawmakers who insisted on protecting the US border before sending money abroad to protect those of other countries. “We cannot be afraid of our shadows. We must be strong. We have to do what’s right,” House Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul, a Texas Republican, said. Democrats and some Republicans waved Ukrainian flags during the vote, a rare moment of bipartisanship in a bitterly and narrowly divided House.

“Traditional House Republicans led by Speaker Mike Johnson have risen to the occasion,” House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries said. “We have a responsibility to push back against authoritarianism.” -Bloomberg. Earlier in the day, the House passed an $8 billion aid package aimed at countering Chinese aggression towards Taiwan, as well as a bill that would force Chinese-controlled ByteDance Ltd to divest from TikTok or face a US ban. The bill also allows for the confiscation of Russian dollar assets in order to help fund more assistance to Ukraine. Breaking down the Ukraine aid – of the $61 billion, $13 billion will replenish US stockpiles of weapons, and $14 billion will go towards US defense systems for Ukraine. $7 billion will go toward US military operations in the region. We assume the remainder will go directly to Ukrainian oligarchs.

The Israel bill, which passed by a vote of 366 to 58, includes $4 billion for missile defense. Notably absent was so much as a dime for the US border… “Nothing is done to secure our border or reduce our debt,” said Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), whose outrage was shared with Reps. Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Paul Gosar of Arizona, who say they’re ready to boot Johnson from his Speakership. “Ukraine is not even a member of NATO,” Greene continued. Who would have known!

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The history of corruption, that is.

American Aid ‘Keeps History On Right Track’ – Zelensky (RT)

The decision by the US House of Representatives to allocate tens of billions of dollars to Kiev will bring Ukraine closer to a “just end” in its conflict with Russia, President Vladimir Zelensky wrote on X (formerly Twitter), thanking Speaker Mike Johnson for his support. The nearly $61 billion package approved on Saturday contains funding for the purchase of weapons and military equipment, as well direct financial assistance to Ukraine. Passed after months of delays and political wrangling, the bill next moves to the Senate, which already indicated in February that it will approve it.“I am grateful to the United States House of Representatives, both parties, and personally Speaker Mike Johnson for the decision that keeps history on the right track,” Zelensky wrote, suggesting that the aid will “keep the war from expanding,” and “save thousands and thousands of lives.”

“Just peace and security can only be attained through strength,” he wrote. Zelensky added that Ukraine “will undoubtedly use American assistance to strengthen both of our nations and bring a just end to this war closer.” Republican lawmakers had previously refused to back the bill, tying their approval to demands for better protection of the border with Mexico and a crackdown on illegal immigration. Kiev was forced to deal with increasing ammunition shortages after aid from the US – Ukraine’s biggest sponsor – began to dry up. Biden blamed Ukraine’s recent setbacks on the battlefield, including the loss of the strategic city of Avdeevka, on “congressional inaction.” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called Saturday’s vote “predictable,” adding that it will “further enrich the US and further ruin Ukraine,” and “cause more Ukrainians to die because of the Kiev regime.”

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“..very little change will be noted by those actually fightin..,”

Who Gets What From Congress’ $61 Bln Bag of Goodies? (Sp.)

The House approved nearly $100 billion in assistance to Washington’s overseas allies, partners and client states on Saturday, with supporters of the aid managing to overcome opposition after a six-month deadlock in the chamber. Nearly $61 billion of the $95 billion from the proposed funding package is committed to fueling the conflict in Ukraine (at least $23 billion of that to be spent replenishing depleted US weapons stocks). Over $26 billion in additional commitments are made to Israel (nearly eight times what Washington normally sends Tel Aviv’s way in a given year). $8.12 billion is committed to stirring up tensions with China in Taiwan and the Indo-Pacific region more broadly. Passing the House, the aid package is now set to be voted on by the Senate, where leaders from both parties have been clamoring for months for the foreign assistance to be urgently passed. If it passes the Senate, the legislation will end up on President Biden’s desk for signature.

Supporters and opponents of the foreign aid package gave stirring speeches ahead of the Saturday’s House vote restating their positions. “I often say it’s never too late to do the right thing. But waiting to do the right thing comes at a cost,” Maryland Democrat Steny Hoyer said. “We saw that cost in Israel this week as an emboldened Iran launched an unprecedented attack on our ally. For Ukraine the cost of our inaction is great if incalculable. It is measured in Ukrainian lives, towns and territory lost…Today we act. We act to make it clear to the world that America is still the defender of freedom, democracy and international law.” Georgia Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a staunch opponent of further US assistance to Ukraine, military or otherwise, proposed an amendment to slash support for Kiev to zero. “The United States taxpayer has already sent $113 billion to Ukraine, and a lot of that money is unaccounted for,” Greene said.

“The federal government continues to fund the military-industrial complex, and this is a business model that requires Congress to continue to vote for money to fund foreign wars. This is a business model that the American people do not support. They don’t support a business model built on blood and murder and war in foreign countries while this very government does nothing to secure our border. The American people are over $34 trillion in debt and the debt is rising by over $40 billion every single night while we all sleep. But yet nothing is done to secure our border or reduce our debt.” Pointing to polling indicating that a majority of Americans disapprove of new aid to Ukraine, Greene said Congress has chosen to vote to “protect Ukraine” instead of protecting “the American citizens that pay your paycheck.” “

Ukraine is not even a member of NATO. But the most important thing you hear in Washington, DC is that we have to send Americans’ hard-earned tax dollars over to Ukraine and keep the money going, to continue to murder Ukrainians, wipe out an entire generation of Ukrainian men…What kind of support is that? It’s repulsive,” the Georgia Republican said. The tens of billions of dollars in new US aid doled out via the legislation passed by the House Saturday may prolong the Ukrainian crisis, but won’t be able to secure a NATO victory in the proxy war against Russia, says former DoD senior security policy analyst Michael Maloof. “Now, the money that’s going to Ukraine for the most part will probably go to US defense contractors in various states, but to make newer equipment for our own stockpiles, which will then allow the US to unload older stuff for Ukraine,” Maloof told Sputnik.

“It’s not going to be enough for Ukraine to overcome its current geostrategic position at this point, simply because they don’t have a consistent ability to arm,” the observer added, pointing out that along with the weapons themselves is the ability to find the men to use them, something the Kiev regime is having increasingly severe difficulty doing as it is. “Other money to be provided to Ukraine is intended to pay government employees,” US Air Force Lt. Col. (ret.) Karen Kwiatkowski, a former DoD analyst, told Sputnik. “Thus presumably it will include meeting soldiers’ needs but it goes to Kiev bureaucrats first. Given how it will be allocated, very little change will be noted by those actually fighting,” Kwiatkowski believes, estimating that of the $61 billion allocated, $45 billion will remain in the US and $16 billion will be sent to Ukraine as so-called direct aid.

“Likely the $16 billion that makes it to Ukraine will be instantly absorbed to pay government bills rather than the war effort,” she said, pointing to Kiev’s massive budget deficit. “They have no means to undertake a counteroffensive, and just given the amounts of artillery that they burn through, what even the US is proposing probably wouldn’t last more than six months at best. And it’s undetermined what Europe is going to provide. So I think the Ukraine basically is over. It’s just a mop up [operation for] the Russians. And it’s just going to take time for that reality to sink in to Zelensky, who should begin considering getting out of there fast because I don’t think the country is going to politically last much longer,” Maloof said.

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“If you vote to send our money abroad while waving a foreign flag, you’ll be called an American patriot. If you vote to keep our money at home to fund domestic priorities like the border, you’ll be called a foreign agent.”

David Sacks Warns Ukraine Will ‘Collapse Anyway,’ Despite Aid Bill (Sp.)

Previously, the US billionaire investor David Sacks underscored the need to “cut a deal” and seek a detente with Russia to avoid a third world war. He told a gala for the Republican think-tank American Moment in Washington that US involvement in the ongoing proxy conflict in Ukraine was only prolonging the standoff. The collapse of Ukraine is inevitable, despite the US House of Representatives having passed a foreign aid package that includes $61 billion in aid for Kiev, American entrepreneur David Sacks wrote on the X social media platform. “These scenes of celebration are going to look particularly foolish when Ukraine collapses anyway. The federal government can print more money; it can’t just print more artillery shells and air defense missiles,” the investor wrote, reacting to the jubilant scene in the House, where some of the lawmakers were seen waving Ukrainian flags. He continued by saying, “And I should have added, they can’t print more soldiers.”

The post by Sacks was in reply to a similarly deprecatory one by GOP Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, who posted footage from the House after the bill was passed, commenting that, “they vote to send more of your hard-earned money to a corrupt foreign regime. And just like that they shout ‘UKRAINE! UKRAINE!’ while happily working to secure Ukraine’s borders, not ours. The billionaire investor pointed out in his thread on X that, “It’s not “just” $61 billion. Ukraine will need massive annual cash infusions to stave off total defeat. So it’s $61 billion as the baseline for an annual appropriation in a new forever war.” He pointed out that the Iraq and Afghanistan wars also began with “annual appropriations in the $60B range. Those wars ended up costing trillions.” “Simple math,” the investor remarked, showed that the new funding bill could do no more than possibly buy Ukraine “precisely half of a Summer Counteroffensive.”

And, of course, everyone knows full well how that much-heralded counteroffensive attempt ended up last year – limited battlefield achievements coupled with massive manpower and hardware losses. According to Sacks, it is a bizarre world, where “If you vote to send our money abroad while waving a foreign flag, you’ll be called an American patriot. If you vote to keep our money at home to fund domestic priorities like the border, you’ll be called a foreign agent.” The entrepreneur recalled that according to US investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, “CIA Director Burns had to warn [Ukraine’s President Volodymyr] Zelensky to stop stealing so much money. His subordinates were angry that he wasn’t sharing the spoils.” “Do you think that problem has been resolved and Zelensky will share more this time?” queried David Sacks.

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“Russia has been quite successful in its goal of ‘demilitarizing’ both Ukraine and NATO..”

US Aid Bill ‘Insufficient’ for Ukraine’s Needs, Bolsters US Military (Sp.)

After more than 2 month of hard negotiations, the US House of Representatives has passed a multi-billion foreign aid package. However, the bill has sparked debate and criticism, with experts questioning its efficacy and allocation. David Pyne, a former US Department of Defense officer and executive vice president of Task Force on National and Homeland Security, offered a critical assessment of the aid package. He argued that the allocated funds are “woefully insufficient” for Ukraine’s wartime needs. The bill “will not change the outcome of the war which will inevitably end with a Russian victory and Ukraine being forced to accept Russia’s peace terms”, Pyne believes. Questions also arise regarding the distribution of the aid, since House Speaker Mike Johnson indicated that only a fraction, approximately $12-14 billion, would directly provide weapons to Ukraine.

However, Pyne raised concerns that a substantial portion, around 80%, would benefit US defense industries. He highlighted the potential for President Biden to utilize drawdown authority, enabling the redirection of additional funds from existing military stocks to Ukraine. Furthermore, Pyne shed light on Ukraine’s critical shortages of artillery shells and air defense missiles. He outlined Russia’s success in inflicting significant casualties on Ukrainian forces and emphasized the challenges in addressing Ukraine’s munitions deficits. “Russia has been quite successful in its goal of ‘demilitarizing’ both Ukraine and NATO, causing the US and its NATO allies to unilaterally disarm themselves of tens of thousands of its most modern weapon systems and transfer them to Ukraine”, stated Pyne.

Pyne highlighted the stark disparity between Russian and Ukrainian&NATO artillery capabilities, noting that “Russia produces over three times as many artillery munitions than all of NATO combined”. “Russian forces have been successful in inflicting half a million Ukrainian military casualties including about 250,000 killed in action and 250,000 seriously wounded with as many or more Ukrainian amputations over the past two years than France suffered… on the Western Front during World War One,” Pyne said. The assessment underscores the complexity of providing effective support to Ukraine amidst escalating conflict. As the aid bill moves forward, discussions surrounding its implementation, distribution, and broader geopolitical implications are likely to persist, as well as questions regarding US true purposes and intentions towards Ukraine as a nation.

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“..the FBI had illegally used its surveillance powers against American citizens more than 278,000 times in a 12-month period..”

US Lawmakers Approve More Government Spying (RT)

The US Senate has passed legislation renewing and expanding an expiring law that enables the government to conduct warrantless surveillance of Americans under the guise of protecting them from foreign threats. The bill was approved by a 60-34 vote in the early morning hours of Saturday, authorizing a two-year extension of the so-called Section 702 program of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). President Joe Biden is expected to quickly sign the legislation, renewing the spying tool after it expired at midnight on Saturday. Section 702 is ostensibly about surveilling the communications of foreigners for intelligence purposes, including detection of possible terrorist plots against the US. However, many of the phone calls and messages that are tapped by Washington’s spying apparatus occur between foreigners and US citizens.

The FBI has accessed the 702 database of intercepted communications to investigate targeted Americans, such as Black Lives Matters activists, journalists, members of Congress, political donors, and possible participants in the January 2021 US Capitol riot. Such searches normally require investigators to secure a warrant, meaning a court has found probable cause to suspect that the targeted person has committed a crime. Critics of the program had demanded that reforms be made before renewing Section 702 to protect US citizens from unconstitutional spying. A 2023 investigation by the US FISA court found that the FBI had illegally used its surveillance powers against American citizens more than 278,000 times in a 12-month period. Congress voted down an amendment that would have required warrants for probes of communications involving Americans.

“Section 702 has been abused under presidents from both political parties, and it has been used to unlawfully surveil the communications of Americans across the political spectrum,” said Kia Hamadanchy, senior policy counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union. “By expanding the government’s surveillance powers without adding a warrant requirement that would protect Americans, the House has voted to allow the intelligence agencies to violate the civil rights and liberties of Americans for years to come.” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) hailed the fact that the FISA program was reauthorized “in the nick of time,” just as it was expiring. Senator Marco Rubio (R-Florida) said that failure to renew the spying powers could cause US officials to “miss a key piece of intelligence,” such as a threat to American troops stationed overseas or a potential terrorist attack.

Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) lamented the fact that lawmakers declined to pass his amendments to the FISA bill, which would have enabled the government to continue spying on foreigners while protecting the civil liberties of Americans. His proposal was voted down by an 82-11 margin. “We could have ensured both constitutional rights and national security were protected,” Paul said. “Yet again, the Senate was asked to consider the question: ‘Can liberty be exchanged for security?’ And sadly, the majority of senators said, ‘Yes, it can.’”

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“..lack of control [by the owners] over assets is not a good basis of any currency.”

US Confiscation of Russian Assets Will ‘Supercharge’ De-Dollarization

On Saturday, the US House of Representatives passed the cheekily-named REPO Act, which would enable US President Joe Biden to confiscate roughly $6 billion in frozen Russian assets held in US banks and send it to Ukraine.The provision is part of a package bill that also includes over $95 billion in aid to Ukraine, Israel and the Indo-Pacific, as well as a potential TikTok ban.The bill is expected to pass in the Senate and then be immediately signed by US President Joe Biden. While the $6 billion represents only a fraction of the more than $300 billion in Russian assets frozen by the G7 countries in 2022, most of that money is held in Europe and US lawmakers hope that it will encourage European lawmakers to do the same.

“We’re making good progress in how to access that funds on an agreed basis that I think we can take forward to the G7,” UK foreign minister David Cameron, whose government has already come out in support of seizing Russian assets, told reporters earlier this month. The decision to confiscate Russian assets and provide them to Ukraine represents a major escalation in the West’s sanction war against Russia. However, the move is short-sighted by the US because it will accelerate global de-dollarization, which will remove one of the most powerful tools the US has.

“It’s reinforcing the need to de-dollarize on the part of any third-party country. Be it Russia, be it China – be it anybody else, including any country in the G-7 that may be marginally supportive of the United States. This is pure and simple economic blackmail,” Paul Goncharoff, an analyst and management consultant at Dezan Shira & Associates in Moscow told Sputnik. “Now they’re wondering ‘Am I putting it into something that will be seized or frozen?’ So lack of control [by the owners] over assets is not a good basis of any currency.” “So it just supercharges de-dollarization. And that’s not good, especially when you have an America that is used to living on larger and larger debt raised by people placing the trust and buying treasuries and bonds,” Goncharoff added.

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“The drones’ accuracy exceeds 90%, the NYT said, adding that they are also capable of hitting heavy armor in its weakest spots..”

$500 Russian Drones Destroying $10,000,000 American Tanks – NYT (RT)

Expensive American M1 Abrams tanks delivered to Ukraine are increasingly falling prey to Russian drones that cost only a fraction as much, the New York Times reported on Saturday. Even “one of the most powerful symbols of American military might” is not invulnerable to such attacks, it said. At least five US-supplied tanks out of the 31 provided by Washington have already been destroyed by Russia, the American media outlet said, adding that three others had been “moderately damaged.” In most cases, the tanks have been destroyed by first-person-view (FPV) kamikaze drones, also known as loitering munitions. Such drones are capable of actively maneuvering before hitting their target.

In at least one instance, though, an Abrams tank was taken out in a duel against a Russian T-72B3 main battle tank. The Russian military has published upwards of a dozen clips, mostly taken from drones, showing the destruction of US-supplied equipment. According to the NYT, the tanks turned out to be “more easily taken out by exploding drones than some officials and experts had initially assumed.” The media outlet cited an Austrian historian and military expert, Colonel Markus Reisner, who described such a situation as “unbelievable.” The paper also described the Russian UAVs as “highly-accurate, low-cost tank killers.”

The drones’ accuracy exceeds 90%, the NYT said, adding that they are also capable of hitting heavy armor in its weakest spots. The UAVs “can cost as little as $500,” the paper reported, are capable of “taking out a $10 million Abrams tank.” The paper also admitted that there was no “easy, or single” way to defend a tank against a drone attack. US-made Abrams tanks made their long-expected appearance on the front line in late February amid the Ukrainian effort to halt advancing Russian troops after the capture of the Donbass town of Avdeevka. A batch of 31 M1 Abrams tanks was pledged to Kiev early last year, ahead of the ultimately disastrous Ukrainian counteroffensive. The delivery was made in full only by mid-October, when the ill-fated push had already largely been exhausted.

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“The United States government for so long now, hasn’t seen a war they didn’t want to be a part of.”

‘Pariah’ Israel Dragging US ‘Into Garbage Bin of History’ (Sp.)

On Friday, the US vetoed granting Palestine full membership in the UN, which was promised to the Palestinians in 1948 when the state of Israel was created. The US has been Israel’s strongest supporter in the UN, previously vetoing three ceasefire resolutions before finally allowing a fourth to pass through abstention last month. Earlier, Israel struck Iran in response to Iran’s attack last week, which was itself a response to Israel attacking Iran’s consulate in Damascus earlier this month. The attack, which was described by both sides as minor, came after Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would not respond until after Passover, which runs from April 22 to April 30. Israel’s apparent insistence on launching a regional war in the Middle East is dragging the United States with it “Into the garbage bin of history,” and US lawmakers seem willing to watch it happen, journalist Esteban Carrillo, the head of news at The Cradle, told Sputnik’s Political Misfits on Friday.

While discussing the recent US vote against Palestinian statehood in the UN, Carrillo explained that it is working against US interests “It’s completely a case of the tail wagging the dog. And US politicians just seem so content to just go along with it,” he explained. “What does Netanyahu have over the heads of these people? Because it doesn’t seem like they are even willing to consider at this point stepping away from this pariah that is just dragging them down into the garbage bin of history.” Tensions between Iran and Israel seem to have cooled somewhat after Israel’s attack was so minor. Explosions were heard near an Iranian base outside of Isfahan, but Iran claimed there was no damage or injuries. A second attack against the city of Tabriz was likewise thwarted.

The attack, which Iran claims came from within its own territory, seemed designed to make Israel not appear “as weak as they are,” Carrillo explained. “After six months of flattening Gaza and killing tens of thousands of Palestinians, they have failed to achieve a single strategic objective against Hamas.” However, the small scope of the attack also seemed designed to allow Israel to “play tough guy” without igniting a larger conflict. “Iran’s response over [Friday morning’s] attack is essentially summed up in ‘what strike? What happened? Our air defenses took everything down,’” said Carrillo. But that doesn’t mean Israel is finished. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is still determined to keep the war going to ward off political and legal challenges facing him. “I don’t think that we’re out of the water yet in terms of [Israel] dragging the United States into a regional war,” Carrillo explained, adding earlier that it isn’t hard to convince US lawmakers to join fights. “The United States government for so long now, hasn’t seen a war they didn’t want to be a part of.”

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‘A vote for Trump is a vote for Putin’ – Hillary Clinton. Yawn…

Trump Wants To ‘Kill His Opposition’ – Hillary Clinton (RT)

Former US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has claimed that the man who defeated her in the 2016 election, Donald Trump, is a wannabe strongman who aims to murder his political enemies. Speaking in a podcast interview posted on Friday by Democrat activist Mark Elias, Clinton said American voters had underestimated how “dangerous” Trump would be as president. She likened Trump, now the presumptive Republican nominee in this year’s US presidential election, to Russian President Vladimir Putin. “Putin does what [Trump] would like to do – kill his opposition, imprison his opposition, drive journalists and others into exile, rule without any check or balance,” Clinton said. “That’s what Trump really wants.” Ironically, Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, have themselves long been accused by some conservatives of eliminating people who pose a threat to their power or wealth.

In fact, investigative journalist Danny Casolaro coined the conspiracist term “Clinton Body Count” in the late 1980s, in reference to the allegedly mysterious deaths of people with connections to the Clintons. Casolaro was found dead in a West Virginia hotel room in 1991 with his wrists slashed 10-12 times. His death was ruled a suicide. Hillary Clinton also has made a habit of linking Trump to Russia and Putin. Her presidential campaign helped trigger allegations of Russian meddling in the 2016 election by funding the since-discredited Steele dossier. She told Elias that Putin is just one of the US adversaries whom Trump would like to emulate, and that his other role models include Chinese President Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

“We have to be very conscious of how he sees the world because in that world, he only sees strongman leaders,” Clinton said. “He sees Putin. He sees Xi. He sees Kim Jong-un in North Korea. Those are the people he is modeling himself after, and we’ve been down this road in our world history. We sure don’t want to go down that again.” If Trump is elected president again, Clinton warned, “it will be like having a dictator. I don’t say that lightly. Go back and read Project 2025. They’re going to fire everybody. The person in the government who knows about what may be the next pandemic? ‘Get rid of him, he didn’t vote for me, or I don’t like the way he looks.’”

She added: “It’s really important to think about what could happen to our world with Trump back in the White House – withdrawing us from NATO, not caring about what happens in Europe… the idea that he wants Ukraine to fail, the idea that he doesn’t want us to be able to surveil our enemies. I mean, this is a very scary prospect.” Clinton expressed optimism that Trump will not be able to defeat incumbent President Joe Biden in November because Democrats will be running the election in key states, including Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Arizona. Trump has maintained that all allegations against him are part of a politically motivated smear campaign. He dismissed the ‘Russiagate’ accusations as a hoax and witch hunt that aimed to sabotage his presidency and block him from forging better US relations with Russia.

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“Where there is no vision, the people are lost..”

Texas Is a Fading Conservative State (Paul Craig Roberts)

Americans regard Texas as a Conservative state. It is not. The conservatism is only skin deep. The conservatism is limited to a small majority of the people. Professional organizations, such as the Bar Association, many city governments, the universities, and the public schools have been infiltrated and taken over by woke liberals. Texas universities are as crazed, corrupt, and anti-American as those in the Northeast and on the West coast. They serve the same agendas, such as indoctrinating white people that they are racist, legitimizing sexual perversity, redefining American patriots as Nazis and Trump Deplorables. The public schools teach that white people are racists and confuse kids about their gender. The Bar Association uses law as a weapon against Republicans, such as attorney Sidney Powell.

The Texas Bar Association disciplined Sidney Powell, first convicting her of misconduct and fraud for filing lawsuits challenging fraudulent vote counts in the 2020 presidential election, and revoking her license as punishment. The state appeals court found that the bar association had convicted her on the basis of zero evidence. It was just a vendetta by woke liberals devoid al all integrity against a Republican.This is America today. In the hands of blue cities and states and in the US Department of Justice (sic) law as law no longer exists. Neither does the US Constitution. What exists is a weapon to be used against Trump Republicans and dissenters from official narratives.

In America there are two systems of law. One system located in red states is a rule of law. The other in blue states is a system of law as a weapon to destroy opponents. We see this clearly in blue NY and blue Atlanta where show trials devoid of any evidence are being conducted against President Trump. We see it in the Justice (sic) Department’s continuing misuse of law to force attendees at the January 6 rally to incriminate themselves by pleading guilty in order to avoid a 20-year prison sentence for exercising their constitutional right to protest.

The totally corrupt Biden Regime has an open border policy for the explicit purpose of turning red states into blue ones by filling them with millions of immigrant-invaders in order to overload the voting rolls with Democrat voters. The Democrats assume that they have purchased the loyalty of the immigrant-invaders by allowing them in and supporting them on public welfare while giving them work permits so that they can underbid the employment of American citizens. Evidence was recently provided that Biden has flown at public expense 360,000 immigrant-invaders into Florida, and evidence was provided that the Biden regime has funded the Jewish NGO that is recruiting world-wide immigrant-invaders with $300,000,000. American citizens are helpless, because almost half of them are so utterly stupid that they vote for their own self-destruction by voting Democrat.

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“..Harari deserves credit for blood-curdling honesty, if not for the morality of his and his masters’ “visions.”

A Collective “Common Enemy” Now Stalks Mankind (Karganovic)

Yuval Hariri, Klaus Schwab’s spokesman, recently made a statement that should send chills up everyone’s spine. “If bad comes to worse and the Flood comes,” Harari said, he and the likeminded cabal of shadowy world masters will “build an Ark and leave the rest to drown.” Elsewhere, Harari elaborates on the reasons for his fellow elitists’ cold-hearted indifference to the fate of the vast majority of Earth’s inhabitants: “If you go back to the middle of the 20th century …and you think about building the future, then your building materials are those millions of people who are working hard in the factories, in the farms, the soldiers. You need them. You don’t have any kind of future without them.” What he means is that you – referring to the dominant social and financial elites of that era – still “needed” the labour of millions in the various fields of economic endeavour in order to turn a profit.

Since then, how have things changed according to “futurologist” Harari? “Now, fast forward to the early 21st century when we just don’t need the vast majority of the population, because the future is about developing more and more sophisticated technology, like artificial intelligence [and] bioengineering, most people don’t contribute anything to that, except perhaps for their data, and whatever people are still doing something useful, these technologies increasingly will make them redundant and will make it possible to replace those people.” Elitist mouthpiece Harari deserves credit for blood-curdling honesty, if not for the morality of his and his masters’ “visions.” He is plainly signalling the view that this writer, the editors of this portal, its readers and the rest of mankind are expendable and apart from whatever economic utility they still might possess are bereft of any inherent dignity or value.

Harari and his immediate superior in the elitist nomenklatura, Klaus Schwab, technically are private individuals. Their organisational vehicle, the World Economic Forum, is a private NGO registered in Switzerland. Formally, they neither represent nor do they speak for any government or official structure with a proper claim to legitimacy. They have no licence to plan or arrange the future of humanity, beside the self-authorisation to do so which they and the oligarchical globalist power centres they commune and mingle with have arrogated to themselves. No one elected or empowered them to plan anybody’s future, other than their own, and even that strictly in their private capacity.= Yet disposing of the future of mankind is precisely what they presume to do, in Davos in plenary session once a year and the rest of the time in conspiratorial confabulation amongst themselves.

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    Andrew Wyeth Christina’s world 1948   • House Passes $95 Billion Aid Package For Ukraine, Israel And Taiwan (ZH) • American Aid ‘Keeps History On
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle April 21 2024]

    #157435
    Oroboros
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    • $500 Russian Drones Destroying $10,000,000 American Tanks

    Many have harped on this point since the beginning of the SMO to no avail.

    Andrei Martyanov has written whole books on the subject

    The MATH isn’t mathing

    It’s part and parcel of the Russia Art of War and strategic planning.

    The Empire of Lies is such a Grift at this point, math means nothing, it’s all about the hallucination of “The Narrative”

    Lies are the opposite of “What Is”

    Lies untether and unmoor the feeble minded from Reality.

    Reality is Truth

    Reality is “What Is”

    The Empire of Lies is now a circus Fun House of Mirrors

    Media Whores who have no audience.

    They are not even making money lying anymore, just Narratives, all smoke blown up the ass, no substance.

    No There there

    Col Doug Macgregor & John Mearsheimer on U.S. War Hubris

    #157436
    Oroboros
    Participant

    #157437
    Oroboros
    Participant

    • ‘Pariah’ Israel Dragging US ‘Into Garbage Bin of History’

    • ‘Zionist Dragging US ‘Into Garbage Bin of History’

    The Tail is wagging the ‘Dog”

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    #157439
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #157441
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Duh’merica

    A mile wide, an inch deep

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    #157442
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #157443
    Oroboros
    Participant

    If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

    #157444
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “Here’s Proof the AI Boom Is Real: More People Are Tapping ChatGPT at Work
    Despite recent warnings that generative AI is overhyped, new data from Pew Research Center shows a rapid increase in the number of people who have used ChatGPT at work.”

    Well that must be why planes can’t fly and ships are running into bridges… Sorry to tell Harari, let’s put him on a space station run exclusively by AI.

    “St. Louis University Hosts Dylan Mulvaney, Denies College Republicans Request For Event With Former NCAA Swimmer A Day Later
    …administrators denied their request to host Paula Scanlan, a women’s sports activist… saying that its security couldn’t accommodate the event…

    Of course. Because I am violent, YOU can’t speak. The “Security costs” that – I – created, you see. Why’d you make be break that window? I’m going to call the police on you.

    “House Passes Ukraine Funding Bill On Hitler’s Birthday

    Yup. And that guy built a nice fire for April, their weirdo Fire month or their weirdo religion. And zero for border. Zero. Okay, if it’s spending money, then spend on the border.

    Okay, being useful, they ALSO passed the TikTok ban in that bill. Because Johnson said “single issue bills”. So now 100% of all voters are pissed at 100% of all Congress. Who just exposed themselves with no excuses. Strategy? If USSC were to review and unseat them, America wouldn’t protest, but cheer. Okay…but then replace with what? Whom? The U.S. no longer supports the military as once now either.

    Besides being murder, Revolutions almost always fail and bring something worse. We know there are good guys, but that requires cohesion. What happens if no one believes anything, or works together toward a common goal? “Common Sense” worked because philosophically it galvanized and directed the focus of a people capable of thought. And now? It’s fine to devolve, but to what? Federal wrangling? All against all? And when we are weak, then we are taken advantage of as well.

    “The House approved nearly $100 billion in assistance to Washington’s overseas allies, partners and client states on Saturday,”

    ALL of which is for killing people.

    ““Likely the $16 billion that makes it to Ukraine will be instantly absorbed to pay government bills rather than the war effort,”

    Realities are set by 155mm shells, not seashells. This allows Russia time to finish the job, collapse Europe’s finance, with NATO, and the U.S. immediately after. As it changes nothing on the ground, it is no threat.

    ““If you vote to send our money abroad while waving a foreign flag, you’ll be called an American patriot. If you vote to keep our money at home to fund domestic priorities like the border, you’ll be called a foreign agent.”

    Just bears repeating. #OppositeLand.

    “..the FBI had illegally used its surveillance powers against American citizens more than 278,000 times in a 12-month period..”

    None of which were known illegal terrorists crossing the border with massive drugs and weapons. And I’m sure they checked all 278.000 of them very, very carefully.
    Plan

    “Senator Marco Rubio (R-Florida) said that failure to renew the spying powers could cause US officials to “miss a key piece of intelligence,” such as a threat to American troops stationed overseas or a potential terrorist attack.”

    Hahahaha! You’re hilarious. You should book the Met! America OVERSEAS? What about here? What about missing a key piece of all Ohio? AND they had all the evidence multiple times and let it happen. We later find out all perpetrators where well known to the FBI, and that’s NOT when they’re escorting them over the border or to the rotunda. Okay, what’s my point here? WHO? WHICH “U.S. Officials”? Yes, the ones enacting the plans of the CFR, WEF, Bezos, Soros, etc. Other “Officials” ask – oh, let’s say make in introductory Diplomatic call – and are fired, and/or arrested. WHICH “Officials”? What are they “Officiating”? For whom? Each bill this week makes it clear they are neither defending nor officiating for us, but AGAINST us. We are an Occupation government.

    “On Saturday, the US House of Representatives passed the cheekily-named REPO Act,”

    The House. Which is the veto-bulwark arm right now. Right. Again, strategy? Complete collapse. We won’t be ABLE to fight wars as we’ll be too busy having the U.S. dollar rejected. But time is ticking, this has to happen under Biden.

    The Abrams is ““one of the most powerful symbols of American military might”

    Well that’s embarrassing. It was always a half-witted lard bucket. How appropriate. …Oh and we also don’t have any. Oh and we also can’t MOVE them, at 50 Tons 10,000 miles. And also have no shells. AND if they were used, it would be an illegal act of chemical and nuclear weapons, a war crime under international law.

    “On Friday, the US vetoed granting Palestine full membership in the UN, which was promised to the Palestinians in 1948 when the state of Israel was created.”

    This goes to the “Two State Solution” they’ve been on about. WE PASSED THAT. We’re not debating it, we’re not passing it again, it was already decided 100 years ago, at the beginning. Like us, they make them negotiate and battle endlessly for what they’ve already got. More importantly, Reporters keep the tethering, the Overton Window there as reasonable, — “we all know” — while it’s Israel refusing to follow the “law” of their own founding. Illegal from day one, and the 28,000 days since then.

    “Donald Trump, is a wannabe strongman who aims to murder his political enemies.”

    If only he had been President and we could test this accusation….

    “She told Elias that Putin is just one of the US adversaries whom Trump would like to emulate, and that his other role models include Chinese President Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.”

    You mean the Kim Jong that the NY Times exalted and wanted to emulate? With the DEI/Chinese Social Credit score you were recommending to install? Sounds like you all are on the same page. Okay, more helpfully, who is AGAINST the centralization and surveillance and oppression of speech here in America? Not the Democrats. And not the Republicans. So we have 112 only?

    “the bar association had convicted her on the basis of zero evidence. It was just a vendetta by woke liberals devoid al all integrity against a Republican.This is America today. In the hands of blue cities and states and in the US Department of Justice (sic) law as law no longer exists. Neither does the US Constitution.”

    True. But this requires POWER. Which requires “money” under their conception and construction of it. That’s in opposition to “Fealty”, aka “Loyalty” of a liege and his vassal, who have actions and responsibilities BOTH WAYS. That’s why, although that happens in Rome and the Middle Ages, being one-way is considered rotten, low, the true signal of not being a man, not worthy of any support, a villain. They got around this later with MONEY. Put in Viking terms, with GIFTING, sharing of booty, stolen loot. — Stolen from the people, then divvied up. You know, like the SEC and Morgan.

    …Crash the money, crash the Power. That’s all I’m saying. No money > No bribes > no murder = Loyalty and self-interest are restored. You leave people alone because why would I bug them if I’m not getting paid? Rob them myself? That makes me a bandit, a tough job, likely to get shot, and I don’t know what my victims may or may not own. Lots of risk and working, being an enforcer is easier.

    “American citizens are helpless, because almost half of them are so utterly stupid that they vote for their own self-destruction by voting Democrat.”

    They’re – NOT – voting Democrat, that’s the point. 10 million more votes than voters in 2020.

    #157446
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Sharks: That can’t be right, Science says Sharks have to keep swimming or they die. Oh well, I guess they’re all dead. Science is never wrong, you Science Denier. You’re not seeing what you’re seeing: what seeing? Nothing happened. Who you gonna believe, your eyes or the experts?

    Oh noes:
    DataSethttps://www.armstrongeconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Seal-Levels-1885-2024.png?resize=1536,576

    But we have solutions.
    ModestProposalhttps://www.armstrongeconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Malthus.png
    Like some here. Oh wait: that was SCIENCE, and like the sea levels above was COMPLETELY WRONG. My bad. The dead people are real though. The theft was real.
    (link lockout)

    #157447
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Like this lass:
    Ruth-less https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/2009-Ginsberg-Eugenics.jpg
    “There was concern about population growth and particularly growth in people we didn’t want too many of” (i.e. BLACK PEOPLE) — Ruth Bader Ginsberg.

    Article follows, in 2009, that the interviewer would normally have asked what race of the “Undesireable population”…but only if they’re Republican. All Democrats know killing EVERYONE is good!

    I think before full implementation, serious matters like this require a test case. I say nuke New Zealand, kill every man there, and let’s see if it’s the paradise they promise. Or, being generous and uncritical as I am famous for, all New Zealanders who believe this can kill themselves. Which is all of them, same thing. We’ll just hover over them with rifles to make sure they don’t get cold feet about their comments online. As obviously CO2 will plummet, and the temperature immediately thereafter, causing a new Ice Age everyone’s looking for, we’ll quickly roll it out to the rest of the planet.

    …Except for China, of course. No one ever looks or asks, so they get a pass and inherit an empty planet filled with Australian coal.

    …A Modest Proposal.

    #157457
    those darned kids
    Participant

    if you have a nail, everyone else chases you with hammers.

    #157459
    Oroboros
    Participant

    @those darned kids

    Hahahahahahahahahaha!

    Bellissimo!

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    #157461
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Duh’merica can’t even make tank replacement BARRELS!

    Hahahahahahahahaha!

    What a Maroon!

    Shoigu inspects T-80BMV line production in Omsktransmash

    More than the ‘combined West’ together by a magnitude or so.

    #157469
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Mean while the Russians capture an Uber Leopard II to add to the collection of war trophies to put on display in Red Square.

    #157473
    tboc
    Participant

    Oroboros your calculation of the depth the Duh’merica is off by a factor of 1000. The depth is one mil.

    #157475
    zerosum
    Participant

    We are looking
    We see
    Will we turn into a pillar of salt?

    This is a business model that the American people do not support.

    Hypocrites, Traitors, liars, corruption, stealing, war, depopulation, debt, poverty, misery.
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    Political Interference, Traitors, corrupt, foreign agents

    The jubilant scene in the House, where some of the lawmakers were seen cheering and waving Ukrainian flags.
    They vote to send more of your hard-earned money to a corrupt foreign regime. And just like that they shout ‘UKRAINE! UKRAINE!’ while happily working to secure Ukraine’s borders, not ours.
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    A critical assessment of the aid package
    – David Pyne
    “Russia has been quite successful in its goal of ‘demilitarizing’ both Ukraine and NATO, causing the US and its NATO allies to unilaterally disarm themselves of tens of thousands of its most modern weapon systems and transfer them to Ukraine”.
    “Russian forces have been successful in inflicting +half a million Ukrainian military casualties including about 250,000 killed in action and +250,000 seriously wounded with as many or more Ukrainian amputations over the past two years than France suffered… on the Western Front during World War One,”
    Pyne said. The assessment underscores the complexity of providing effective support to Ukraine amidst escalating conflict.
    As the aid bill moves forward, discussions surrounding its implementation, distribution, and broader geopolitical implications are likely to persist, as well as questions regarding US true purposes and intentions towards Ukraine as a nation.

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    Watch out
    The witch, evil, Hillary Clinton has risen from the rubble of her past.
    ———–

    #157476
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant
    #157477
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    @ WES
    Thank you for the words about your daughter. I read them to my son.

    @ John Day, true, my son will miss out on meeting some people…but some people need “baby steps,” and this son does. He was bullied in elementary school and subsequently decided the avoid his peers and have friends who are are adults. It is going to be interesting to see what he does, once his peers *are* the adults. All in good time.

    @ JB-hb
    Yesterday: I’m waiting to see even a female Jordan Peterson or Carl Benjamin.

    There are fundamental differences, as much as the Woke want to erase them. Most “quality” people have committed relationships and children. Most “quality” women are highly invested in the process of child-rearing. I wanted to be for my children the kind of mother that mine was (is = she is still alive, but I have not been a minor child in a very long time.). I had to be more — I also had to be the breadwinner. As I look over the past 18 years, I realize that I physically could never have worked a full-time job and been a great mom to my kids. I will have minor children for only 20 years. My youngest sister just had #6 when her eldest was 15…for her, child-rearing will span 34 years. Quality women tend to have children and tend to be quality mothers — this means that they have much less time to devote to “greatness” than is available to the broader public. So, they are very far and few between.

    Hannah Arendt had no children. Vandana Shiva is an interesting woman. Brene Brown has made contributions. I wonder what Tulsi Gabbard may yet contribute publicly.

    #157478

    That lady’s gonna get a rash.

    #157479
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    UN Plans Tyrannical Future for You – Alex Newman

    UN Plans Tyrannical Future for You – Alex Newman

    #157480
    jb-hb
    Participant

    If bad comes to worse and the Flood comes,” Harari said, he and the likeminded cabal of shadowy world masters will “build an Ark and leave the rest to drown.

    Having done everything to bring said flood, had everything done and built for them, while being a net negative value to everyone all along. Save that which is least valuable.

    Now, fast forward to the early 21st century when we just don’t need the vast majority of the population, because the future is about developing more and more sophisticated technology, like artificial intelligence [and] bioengineering, most people don’t contribute anything to that, except perhaps for their data, and whatever people are still doing something useful, these technologies increasingly will make them redundant and will make it possible to replace those people.

    How about this assholes. Since everyone else is no longer valuable, surely we are worth nothing to you and you are best served by climbing into your Ark and living alone with your AI shit right NOW. Commence with the leaving us alone.

    And oh yes I experience an irresistible compulsion to replace perfectly good things with other untested things because it is “possible”

    It’s your total full spectrum super profligate 24/7 efforts to ruin, disrupt, destroy everything that really shows how negligible the rest of the world really is.

    #157481
    bpeptide
    Participant

    The female OAN reporter sounds like she went to the same reporter speaker training as Jessica Burbank of The Hill Rising.

    #157486
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    I love my post because it’s right square in the wheelhouse at D(ee)BS, Dr D(ee), John D(ee)ay and the website’s host, RIM.
    Double plus benefit is the dialogue was presented as some sort of genuine dialogue between genuine dialogue-isticians.

    Without further ado, I give you Pepe and Scott.

    Escobar:

      First of all, as much as I respect Scott, I am just a messenger of an extremely explosive intel leak relayed by an unimpeachable source. An Asian source – that’s all I can reveal. I asked for surefire confirmation several times and only published the information when the source confirmed a big world power totally validated it – but would remain mum. The source also stressed there is a consensus among big powers that the information should be treated in “this information will self-destruct in five seconds” style. This never happened. If the sources retracts, and it’s deep into the night now in Asia, of course I will retract the post – with apologies. Meanwhile, I will soon publish a physics analysis of what may have happened – or not.

    Ritter(Personal Protector of Israel):

      Pepe Escobar has written a post where he reports that an Israeli F-35 carrying a nuclear weapon was shot down over Jordan by a Russian fighter. While I respect Pepe as a journalist, his source is wrong. Israel would never take such a precipitous action. Not only would it provide public acknowledgment of Israeli nuclear weapons capability, thereby putting Israel in open violation of existing agreements between it and the U.S., it would also put Israel in violation of the 1968 Outer Space Treaty prohibiting the deployment and/or use of nuclear weapons in space and the Biden administration’s recent admonishments in this regard. Moreover, the scenario describes makes no sense in terms of the characterization of the weapons involved, both in terms of the alleged Russian-Israeli engagement, and what Israel would hope happens regarding EMP. This is, in every way shape and form nonsensical reporting. Pepe should retract his post

    Do you think S Ritter drew upon his texts, papers, treatises and Jane’s Fighting Ships to write never while Israel annihilates and genocides The Palestinians?

    Without further ado, I bid you adieu.

    #157487
    Dr. D
    Participant

    I agree. Israel would totally nuke Iran, but not in that way. And not at this time, as they would get their rocks off with idiotic threats and such first. As there is no proof, it didn’t happen. What can I say? Russia might have tried to nuke NY, and shot down the plane by aliens of the Ferengi, but unless you show me something, what can I say? I can’t hypothesize based on no data set or evidence whatsoever. I’m not a Climate Scientist, you know.

    There are many good women on the internet, Pearl and the Dadvocate come to mind, although very narrow. Candice Owens is on all the time. It would be if they focused on their children, you’re right, although I don’t even think of women as being passingly related to children or motherhood anymore. Aren’t they like kick-ass supermodel ninja scientists instead? That’s what TV tells me.

    Didn’t even bother to click in Numann. They always have all kinds of Plans. And I’m not going to follow any of them. Make me. Even listening to the monologuing master plans of the mentally ill is a waste of valuable time. I could shine my shoes or something useful, as these are people who can’t even “Print money” and “Hand it to their friends” properly. Incompetent in word and deed. I’m still backlouged mocking the last 10,000 “Plans” the had, like in Ukraine, and today, their “Plan” to “Sanction” China WHILE ALSO demanding China buy our defaulted bonds WHILE ALSO demanding China break with Russia….WHILE ALSO…but you get the idea.

    The reason these guys have chauffeurs and cooks is because they’re too retarded and mentally ill to care for themselves and need mommy to dress them, feed them, and drive them around. Shining shoes is above their skill range.

    #157488
    Dr. D
    Participant

    …While also declaring we are declaring war on China…

    Bring that up because “One China Policy”. Official U.S. position! So….when we send $20 Billion to Taiwan, we are paying One China, the CCP directly, right? That’s literally fact and law, is it not? Every Democrat, every Republican, and the President, directly paid China $20B U.S. tax dollars. How is that not treason? I mean, it’s okay as long as we promise we’ll get around to bombing them sometime, like the Mouse that Roared? Okay, Declare war on me then: I could use $20B in the meantime. Just for the next 40 years, while I get on my feet again.

    One China. Fact.

    #157489
    aspnaz
    Participant

    jb-hb said

    How about this assholes. Since everyone else is no longer valuable, surely we are worth nothing to you and you are best served by climbing into your Ark and living alone with your AI shit right NOW. Commence with the leaving us alone.

    Why do these people see the vast majority as not needed? Their parents left them a ton of money so they think they are needed? How does money make you needed and being poor makes you not needed? There is absolutely no logic in that, money being just an invention of the people who claim to be needed.

    In fact, the rich do pretty much fuck all, they live on rent, their contribution is to rent you their assets provided to them by their rich parents. If we eliminated all the rich people would the earth die, would humanity die, or would the not-needed people just be freed from the needed people?

    Would the not-needed people still be able to eat, to drink water, to do anything if we rid ourselves of the rich needed people? Of course we would, we would probably just replace the rich needed people with another layer of rich needed people and keep on going. So actually the rich needed people are not needed, they are really only needed in their own heads.

    The weird thing about the current generation of rich people is that they seem obsessed with destroying the rest of us. Their reasoning is based on what they need to survive. It is not based on a humanitarian view, it is based on a selfish view, as if the only thing important in nature is their survival and that the planet should be changed to provide them with what they need. Screw everybody else. The rich have become a danger to the majority, the question is what the majority is going to do to defend themselves against the rich. Time will tell.

    #157490
    Celticbiker
    Participant

    Thanks for the memes Oroboros

    #157491
    tboc
    Participant

    a perspective on the $91 billion spending package

    US unfunded liabilites – $215 billion

    at $260 per citizen $91 bn to keep the lights on and food in the grocery stores is not that bad.
    The US debt per tax payer is $267,000 so the $260 is only a 0.0001 increase in personal debt

    liability per citizen for funded and unfunded liability is $638,000.00
    the interest on the national debt will be $812 billion by this time tomorrow

    aren’t you glad the US rate of inflation is hovering near 3.5%? otherwise this debt couild get out of hand
    With 10 year T Bills paying 4.5% are you buying T Bills for safety?

    The truly bright spot of course is that none of this excess is taxpayer money when one considers the actual budget deficit is $2 trillion
    US GDP $28.4 trillion
    US Debt $34.7 trillion

    $91 billion to mask the reality that there will be no increase in production in any sphere of the US economy or within the Eurozone. $91 billion to mask the reality that your future has already been decided.

    #157492
    John Day
    Participant

    @Phoenixvoice: Perhaps you mistook my meaning, or are just being polite, but I meant to say that your son is safer not having a college roommate such as I was.
    Really, the campus cops came up to our 8th floor door room because I had figured out how to open the window and we sometimes threw firecrackers out into the courtyard at night, while growing a pot plant in the closet under a fluorescent light, pilfered from a vacant floor. Granted, my roommate was throwing the firecrackers that night, and I did claim the plant as mine-not-his, which was true, and the student cop did not show up at the hearing, so charges were dropped, but I was NOT a wholesome influence.

    #157493

    From a comment at ZH, and straight to the source via Last Am. Vagabond: Ido Bachelet discusses injectable, targetable, self-assembling nanobots 50nm big.
    From 2014.

    I am becoming very interested in the insular cortex. It’s where the focus would be to control the way a person senses, cognates, and reacts.

    It may sound crazy, but crazy people do not set fire to themselves- certainly not to signal a financial meltdown so many others see coming.
    Why are so many people supporting their own demise?
    Learned helplessness doesn’t quite cut it.
    2014. Had a flu shot, tetanus shot, botox etc, IV for an operation since then? Had your kids vaccinated for anything?
    Yuval must think of this stuff and drool.

    #157494

    Hey! Free italics! (Magic happened while I was temporarily disconnected from the internet as my post was sent.)
    I forgot to mention it’s a 10 minute vid. Got to TLAV and start an hour in to see Cristian’s annoying voiceovers and more details.

    jb-hb: “…you are best served by climbing into your Ark and living alone with your AI shit right NOW. Commence with the leaving us alone.”

    Yes, and again, yes.

    #157495

    Dr D:- I like your point about “one China” and sending Taiwan $20B.

    #157496
    zerosum
    Participant

    Heheheh!
    Who is the con man?
    ( “one China” and sending Taiwan $20B.)

    #157497

    So somehow, if I have any utube window open in Safari (suspicious observers, just now), and then I load TAE, I get the audio of an ad that would “welcome” me on a utube video in the background, with an echo effect.
    I bet RIM’s superb tech would be interested in this. Pretty sneaky.

    #157498
    zerosum
    Participant

    If Ukraine can do this, Imagine what Russia can do done to the US navy sitting ducks.
    Ukrainian military launched strikes today on the Russian ship Kommuna in the occupied Sevastopol, according to a spokesperson for the Ukrainian Navy Dmytro Pletenchuk.

    “Today the Ukrainian Navy hit another ship from the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Crimea, Kommuna. The extent of the damages is being verified. But it’s clear the ship is now unable to perform its tasks. It will continue until the Russians run out of ships, or leave Crimea,” Pletenchuk said.

    #157499
    zerosum
    Participant

    At least five rockets were launched from Iraq’s town of Zummar towards a U.S. military base in northeastern Syria on Sunday, two Iraqi security sources told Reuters.

    The attack against U.S. forces is the first since early February when Iranian-backed groups in Iraq stopped their attacks against U.S. troops.

    This latest attack against U.S. troops comes a day after a military base in Iraq being used by a pro-Iranian militia was damaged in an explosion that killed one and wounded eight.

    #157502
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Ukraine secures another benefactor
    South Korea has signed a framework agreement on economic cooperation with Kiev, including $2.1 billion in low-interest loans

    https://www.swentr.site/news/596356-south-korea-signs-ukraine-aid-agreement/

    Looks like the muppets in South Korea have been pressured by their owners to give a few billions to the Kiev mafia. My guess is that 100% of that money will disappear into the private pockets. I guess this is the fee South Korea pays for being on the USA’s side. Will the USA ever defend Korea? Very unlikely, they can’t even defend Ukraine.

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