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Vincent van Gogh Field with Irises near Arles 1888

 

Moscow Condemns Assassination Of Iranian Generals (RT)
Israel Attack on Iranian Consulate And Netanyahu’s Pending Defeat in Gaza (Sp.)
Shia Army: How Iran Formed A Ring Of Enemies Around Israel (Juma)
Trump Posts $175 Million, Preventing Seizure of Buildings in Civil Fraud Case (ET)
It’s This Election That’s The Referendum On Democracy (Tucker Carlson)
Just 8% of Ukrainians Ready To Take Up Arms Against Russia (RT)
Kiev Has Lost More Than 80,000 Troops Since January – Russian MoD (RT)
West to Use Hypothetical Russia-Ukraine Talks to Supply Arms to Zelensky (Sp.)
Ukraine’s Defeat May Help EU Establishment (RT)
Stop Covering Up Kiev Role In Bucha Events – Zakharova (TASS)
Why ISIS Is Now Targeting Geopolitical Enemies Of The West (Ma Xiaolin)
Biden a ‘Threat To Democracy’ – RFK Jr (RT)
Biden Sinks To New Lows Over Moscow Bombing And RussiaGate Fake News (Jay)
Judge Denies Hunter Biden Motions to Dismiss Tax Charges (Turley)
“#arrestme”: JK Rowling Dares Scotland to Enforce Anti-Free Speech Law (Turley)

 

 


Trump post on Truth Social April 1

 

 

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Targeting consulates and embassies is a road to nowhere good.

Moscow Condemns Assassination Of Iranian Generals (RT)

Russia has rebuked Israel after an airstrike that demolished the Iranian consulate in Damascus on Monday evening. The attack reportedly killed several Iranian diplomats as well as seven officers of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), including two generals – Mohammad Reza Zahedi and Mohammad Hadi Haji Rahimi. Tehran has vowed to avenge their deaths. The Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Monday that Moscow views as unacceptable any attack on diplomatic missions, which are protected under the Vienna conventions on diplomatic and consular relations. It noted that bombing of the building, located in a residential area, posed a high risk to Syrian civilians.

“We consider it necessary for all responsible members of the international community to declare their positions clearly and give their legal assessments of this action,” the statement said. It warned that Israel could trigger a major regional escalation with its attacks in Syria and other nations in the region. Israel has not commented on the strike, which its usual practice with such operations. Israeli officials have previously acknowledged targeting Iran-linked forces in Syria, with dozens of such raids attributed to the Jewish state over the years. The White House did not immediately comment on the incident. Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Monday that Washington was “looking into it”. A national security spokesperson quoted by Axios said the US “had no involvement in the strike and we did not know about it ahead of time.” A senior US official told the news outlet that Washington “has communicated this directly to Iran”.

Israel notified its key ally minutes before the strike took place, when its fighter jets were already in the air, the Axios article said. The Israelis allegedly said they were going to kill General Zahedi, but did not offer details of their operation, such as his location at the Iranian consulate. General Zahedi was a senior commander with the Quds Force, the IRGC unit responsible for operations on foreign soil, while General Rahimi was his deputy. Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, who was assassinated in a US drone strike during a visit to Iraq in January 2020, was the commander of the same division.

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“So I think Iran’s response would be two-fold in a manner that is not satisfying the Israeli aim of widening the war..”

Israel Attack on Iranian Consulate And Netanyahu’s Pending Defeat in Gaza (Sp.)

Israel’s attack on the Iranian consulate in Syria suggests that it is trying to “widen” the ongoing conflict in the Gaza Strip by drawing Iran into it, said Foad Izadi, an associate professor at the University of Tehran’s Department of American Studies. “They have been trying to start a military confrontation between the United States and Iran for many years. And they think that they have an opportunity to have this done fighting Iran using American soldiers,” he told Sputnik, apparently suggesting that the US would be quick to leap to Israel’s defense if the latter were threatened by Tehran. Izadi also remarked that Israel displayed a blatant disregard for international law by attacking a diplomatic compound, which is a violation of the Vienna Convention. “That is what Israelis are trying to do. Netanyahu realizes that he has lost the war in Gaza. He has managed to kill more than 30,000, mostly women and children, without achieving any goals except killing these people and ruining their homes,” Izadi said.

“They say that they want to destroy Hamas, but that’s not a goal they can achieve. Obviously, they would have done that if they could. That’s why criminal acts and genocide in Gaza continue. And Netanyahu realizes that sooner or later this war needs to end. And that would be the end of his prime ministership. And so he’s trying to prolong the war, he’s trying to widen the war,” Izadi added. Noting that Iran’s attempt to seek justice via the UN Security Council may be unsuccessful due to the likelihood of the US vetoing a resolution critical of Israel, Izadi suggested that Tehran may opt to “cause pain for the Israelis so that these types of actions are not repeated.” “Because Iranian officials realize that if there is no pain in engaging in this type of activity, then they will continue,” he elaborated. “So I think Iran’s response would be two-fold in a manner that is not satisfying the Israeli aim of widening the war. I think that’s what Iranian leaders will do.”

WCK
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Did they form it or was it already there?

Shia Army: How Iran Formed A Ring Of Enemies Around Israel (Juma)

On Monday, the Israeli Air Force struck a building near the Iranian embassy in the Syrian capital. As a result of the attack, the consulate building was destroyed and the commanders of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) unit, Generals Mohammad Reza Zahedi and Mohammad Hadi Haji Rahimi, were killed. President Ebrahim Raisi has already warned that “this unfair crime won’t go unanswered.” “Zionists must know that they will never achieve their sinister goals with such inhumane actions and, day by day, the resistance front and the disgust and hatred of free nations against their illegitimate nature are being strengthened, and this cowardly crime will also not go unanswered,” he said. What the answer will be is still unknown. However, in recent years, Tehran has managed to become a full-fledged superpower in the region, with support in many countries in the Middle East.

The escalation of the conflict in Gaza, which started with the Hamas-led invasion of Israel last October (“Operation Al-Aqsa Flood”) and the Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) subsequent military operation that claimed tens of thousands of lives, gave rise to much speculation about the weakness and short-sightedness of the Israeli leadership and the exceptional military training of Israel’s opponents. And it’s not just Hamas that we’re talking about, but Iran. Iran was immediately accused of being involved in the Hamas attack. The WSJ reported that Iran had trained the Palestinians and instructed them on how to break through the Israeli border. Moreover, it was said that Tehran had green-lighted the attack. The detailed coordination of the operation allegedly took place during a meeting between senior members of Hamas, Hezbollah, and two other Iran-backed militant groups in Beirut shortly before October 7. Officers of the IRGC also attended the meeting.

Later, the IRGC stated that the Hamas attack had been planned as revenge for the 2020 murder of the head of the Quds Force (part of the IRGC), General Qassem Soleimani. However, rumors about Iran’s direct involvement in the anti-Israeli operation haven’t been verified. On November 3, 2023, the secretary general of the Lebanese movement Hezbollah, Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah, publicly stated that Iran had not been involved in operation Al-Aqsa Flood. “The decision behind this operation was 100% Palestinian, and its implementation was 100% Palestinian. [It was launched] in order to draw the attention of the whole world to this problem. Its planners hid it from everyone, even from the movements of the Axis of Resistance,“ he said. “Absolute secrecy is what ensured the brilliant success of the operation through the element of astonishing surprise. The Islamic Republic of Iran publicly supports the resistance movements but it does not exercise any guardianship over them [or] over their leaders.”

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“..the judge and attorney general had access to his finances because of the monitorship requirement, saw a figure close to $464 million cash, and decided that was what they were going to make him pay..”

Trump Posts $175 Million, Preventing Seizure of Buildings in Civil Fraud Case (ET)

Former President Donald Trump has posted $175 million in his New York civil fraud case, meeting the 10-day deadline given on March 25 and staying execution of judgment in the case. The payment prevents any seizure of President Trump’s assets as his appeal of the case is heard. “As promised, President Trump has posted bond. He looks forward to vindicating his rights on appeal and overturning this unjust verdict,” the president’s attorney Alina Habba said in a statement. New York Attorney General Letitia James sued the 45th president in 2022, accusing him of inflating his net worth and defrauding insurers and banks, and therefore the public, in Trump Organization annual statements of financial condition. Eric Trump, Donald Trump Jr., former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg and comptroller Jeffrey McConney, and several Trump Organization holding companies were named codefendants in the case presided over by New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron in a three-month bench trial.

The judge ultimately ordered $363 million disgorgement with 9 percent backdated interest, totaling $464 million, with the lion’s share to be paid by President Trump; as well as prohibiting the defendants from holding director positions in any business or legal entity in New York for a period of time, and a minimum three-year monitorship of Trump Organization after which there may be additional penalties. The posting of the judgment amount was not required in order for President Trump to appeal the case, but had been a requirement to stay enforcement of the judgment in the meantime. “I’ll fight this all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary,” President Trump told Fox News days before the deadline. “They can’t take away your property before you’ve had a chance to appeal the decision of a Trump-hating, incompetent judge who has been overturned more than any judge in the state.”

Days before President Trump posted bond, he said on social media that he had nearly $500 million in cash but intended to use much of it on his presidential campaign. He accused his political opponents of trying to make him spend that cash fund on legal battles rather than on his campaign for president. State law would have required President Trump to post the full judgment amount within 30 days in order to stay the execution of judgment, but the appellate court lowered the $454 million requirement to $175 million on the last day of the deadline. It gave him a 10-day window to post the new amount, and did not comment on the underlying reasons for the change. President Trump said the appellate division’s ruling was further evidence that the original bond requirement was unreasonable.

“This is a confrontation between a Judge and those that rule above him – A very bad situation in which to place New York State and the Rule of Law!” President Trump stated of the appellate decision. “This is the 5th time in this case that he has been overturned, a record. His credibility, and that of Letitia James, has been shattered.” Justice Engoron, who presided over the bench trial and issued the massive disgorgement figure. The attorney general had asked for $250 million in disgorgement before trial, and changed that number to $370 million near the end of the trial. President Trump claimed in a press conference that the judge and attorney general had access to his finances because of the monitorship requirement, saw a figure close to $464 million cash, and decided that was what they were going to make him pay. He told reporters he did have the cash necessary to stay judgment, but wanted to use it to campaign and not satisfy who he described as “crooked” officials.

Putting all his cash into an escrow account where neither he nor the state could touch it for the duration of the appeal was one option to stay judgment. A bond was another, and would not have required President Trump to move his cash reserves, but would have required him to have higher amounts of cash to serve as collateral—$577 million, by his attorneys’ estimates, after negotiations with 30-plus surety companies fell through. For weeks, defense attorneys argued in the appellate division that securing a $464 million bond was “impossible.” Surety companies just don’t issue bonds that big, they argued. A second problem was that for them to consider doing so they would have needed 120 percent in cash as collateral plus a high premium or two. This came out to be far more cash than Trump Organization had, as a real estate company.

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X thread. “If Joe Biden gets reelected, democracy is a freaking joke..”

It’s This Election That’s The Referendum On Democracy (Tucker Carlson)

Lex Fridman: You said some degree the election was rigged. Was it stolen?
Tucker Carlson: It was a hundred percent stolen. Are you joking?
Lex Fridman: It was rigged to that large of a degree?
Tucker Carlson: Yeah. They completely change the way people vote right before the election on the basis of COVID, which had nothing to do with-
Lex Fridman: So in that way it was rigged, meaning manipulated.

Tucker Carlson: One hundred percent. Then you censor the information people are allowed to get, anyone who complains about COVID… Which is like, by the way, it might’ve hurt Trump. But I mean it’s like whatever. I mean you could play it many different ways. You can’t have censorship in a democracy by definition. Here’s how it works. The people rule. They vote for representatives to carry their agenda to the capitol city and get it enacted. That’s how they’re in charge. And then every few years they get to reassess the performance of those people in an election. In order to do that, they need access, unfettered access to information. And no one, particularly not people who are already in power, is allowed to tell them what information they can have.

They have to have all information that they want, whether the people in charge want it or don’t want it or think it’s true or think it’s false, it doesn’t matter. And the second you don’t have that, you don’t have a democracy. It’s not a free election, period. And that’s very clear in other countries, I guess. But it’s not clear here. But I would say it’s this election that… It took me a while to come to this, but it’s this election that’s the referendum on democracy. Biden is senile. He’s literally senile. He can’t talk, he can’t walk. The whole world knows that, leave our borders. Everybody in the world knows it. A senile man is not going to get elected in the most powerful country in the world unless there’s fraud, period. Who would vote for a senile man? He literally can’t talk. And nobody I’ve ever met thinks he’s running the US government because he’s not. And so I think the world is looking on at this coming election and saying… And a lot of the world hates Trump. Okay, it’s not an endorsement of Trump, but it’s just true. If Joe Biden gets reelected, democracy is a freaking joke. That’s just true.

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“The Institute “has been trying to avoid surveys directly related to the military action” because mobilization is a “sensitive issue” of state policy..”

Just 8% of Ukrainians Ready To Take Up Arms Against Russia (RT)

Most Ukrainians expect their country to win in the armed conflict with Russia, but just 8% are willing to fight to further their cause, the head of a leading Kiev-based polling agency has claimed, in an interview published on Tuesday. The Ukrainian leadership has said that it is seeking to boost the military’s ranks by up to 500,000. Additional troops are required to relieve forces on the frontline, some of which have not been properly rotated in years, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry has claimed. Vladimir Paniotto of the International Institute of Sociology discussed how the Ukrainian people’s worldview is reflected in research conducted by his organization with local news outlet Ukrainskaya Pravda.

They tend to “wish for conflicting things,” he mused, such as capitalist liberalization alongside robust social support by the state, or democracy as well as the “strong arm” of the government. The conundrum is present in what Ukrainians are willing to do to defeat Russia – an outcome that they overwhelmingly believe will end the ongoing hostilities. ”Certainly, many people are willing to act, to send donations or work as volunteers,” Paniotto said. “But facing a direct risk to life and taking part in military action – that is much harder… We estimate that the share of those willing to take arms is roughly 8% across all categories.” The figure may be overestimated, since the pollster takes the responses at face value without conducting follow-up studies to confirm the respondents’ true intentions. The Institute “has been trying to avoid surveys directly related to the military action” because mobilization is a “sensitive issue” of state policy, he explained.

The Ukrainian parliament is considering a major reform of the military system, which would facilitate the draft, including by imposing serious penalties for evasion. Fighting-age Ukrainian men residing in foreign nations, for example, would not be able to replace their expired passports without the consent of a conscription officer after the bill goes into force, MP Fyodor Venislavsky told the media last week. The lawmaker is a member of the parliamentary Committee for National Security, Defense and Intelligence. The Russian military said on Tuesday that Ukrainian frontline losses since January have surpassed 80,000.

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No wonder there are few volunteers.

Kiev Has Lost More Than 80,000 Troops Since January – Russian MoD (RT)

Ukrainian forces have lost more than 80,000 troops since the beginning of the year, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said on Tuesday, adding that the Russian military is continuing to reduce “the enemy’s combat potential.” More than 14,000 units of military hardware have also been destroyed by Russian forces since January, including 1,200 tanks and other armored combat vehicles. During the same period, Moscow has liberated some 403 square kilometers of Russia’s new territories, Shoigu said. Despite Kiev’s lack of success on the battlefield, the Ukrainian leadership “is still trying to convince its Western sponsors of its ability to resist the Russian Army,” he said. To do so, Kiev has resorted to terrorism and long-range strikes on Russian territories, targeting the civilian population, the minister added.

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Not the first time..

West to Use Hypothetical Russia-Ukraine Talks to Supply Arms to Zelensky (Sp.)

The West will use hypothetical negotiations between Moscow and Kiev to supply weapons to Ukraine and to regroup its forces, Konstantin Gavrilov, the head of the Russian delegation at the talks in Vienna on military security and arms control, told Sputnik. “Even if we imagine the hypothetical possibility of resuming negotiations, it is clear that the [Kiev] regime’s curators will use them to give the Ukrainian armed forces time to rest, pump them up with weapons, and complete a regrouping of troops,” Gavrilov said in an interview dedicated to the 75th anniversary of NATO marked on April 4. The North Atlantic Treaty was signed in Washington, D.C. on April 4, 1949.

A repeat of a scenario that emerged after the March 2022 talks in Istanbul when the Ukrainian armed forces received time to rest is unacceptable for Russia, Gavrilov added. Gavrilov also said that the West will use hypothetical negotiations between Moscow and Kiev to supply weapons to Ukraine and to help Kiev regroup its forces. “We have been through this before after the Istanbul talks in the spring of 2022, and the repetition of such a scenario is unacceptable to us. Therefore, at the moment, the future of the Ukrainian conflict is being decided on the battlefield, where our troops hold the initiative along the entire front line,” Gavrilov said in an interview dedicated to the 75th anniversary of NATO marked on April 4.

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“If Ukraine’s position weakens, there may be a ‘rallying behind the flag effect’ more favorable to the forces in place..”

Ukraine’s Defeat May Help EU Establishment (RT)

With polls showing ‘nationalist’ parties surging in popularity ahead of the upcoming European Parliament election, Kiev’s worsening situation could prove useful to the bloc’s powers that be, according to a new book by French investigative journalist Charles Sapin. Most of the EU has been outspoken in supporting the Ukrainian government in the conflict with Russia, sending an estimated €77 billion ($83 billion) worth of weapons, equipment, ammunition and even cash to Kiev. Sapin’s analysis, however, implies that bad news from the battlefield could bolster the European People’s Party (EPP) and the second-largest group, the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) in upcoming elections. “If Ukraine’s position weakens, there may be a ‘rallying behind the flag effect’ more favorable to the forces in place,” he was quoted as saying by Politico EU on Monday.

Sapin is a reporter for the weekly Le Point who spent six years researching what he calls the “nationalist” parties that form the Identity and Democracy (ID) bloc in the European parliament – such as Hungary’s Fidesz, Portugal’s Chega, Spain’s Vox, France’s National Rally, Brothers of Italy and the Sweden Democrats. The final result was the book called ‘Les Moissons de la Colere’ (The Harvests of Wrath), presented as a deep dive into “nationalist Europe.” One major weakness of the parties in the ID grouping, according to Sapin, is that they have different opinions on the Ukraine conflict. Nationalists’ numbers might be rising but they are “isolated” in Brussels because of their particularism, he contends. Their victories in the upcoming election would move the needle to the right, but to the benefit of the EPP, currently the majority group. This may help explain why French President Emmanuel Macron brought up Ukraine at a recent brainstorming session about the upcoming elections.

Amid the strategy discussions the French leader suddenly voiced a concern that Ukraine “could fall very quickly,” according to sources that spoke with Politico. He then set up a ‘New Europeans’ coalition, an alliance of liberal parties from France, Denmark, Poland, Romania and Slovenia. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban – long the sole dissenter when it came to aiding Kiev – doubled down on calls for a ceasefire in Ukraine and a negotiated peace. According to Sapin, parties like Orban’s have gained power thanks to semantic tricks and ideological acrobatics, converting “old bourgeois” voters by talking about immigration, identity and the environment and abandoning calls for leaving the EU. His book includes insights from both the closest political advisers to Orban, from Italian PM Giorgia Meloni and French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen – and from their political enemies.

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“Bucha” has become a curious narrative.

Stop Covering Up Kiev Role In Bucha Events – Zakharova (TASS)

Russia is calling upon international organizations to stop covering up for the Kiev regime and its role in perpetrating the events almost two years ago in the Kiev suburb of Bucha, and instead to push for a thorough investigation, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a comment ahead of the second anniversary of what she called the staged incident in Bucha. “Once again, we demand that international organizations stop covering up for the Kiev regime and instead work toward conducting a thoroughgoing investigation that will, at long last, disclose the names of those killed, the time and cause of their deaths <…> as well as of those responsible for that terrible crime committed by the Kiev regime,” Zakharova said.

Meanwhile, numerous previous calls by Russia for international organizations, including agencies of the United Nations, to conduct a serious investigation of precisely what transpired in Bucha two years ago have to date remained unanswered, the Russian diplomat added. “Multiple Russian calls on international organizations, including appeals to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk, to investigate every detail of what happened <…> in Bucha or [reveal] other information remain unanswered,” Zakharova lamented. “It shows that the organizers of that deadly operation have something to conceal,” she said. According to Zakharova, this year, Ukrainian officials will be pursuing the goal of preventing the international community from focusing too much on the dire situation in Ukraine and along the line of engagement.

Russian Investigative Committee Chairman Alexander Bastrykin said in April 2022 that a criminal investigation had been launched under Article 207.3 of the Russian Criminal Code (“Public Dissemination of False Information about the Use of the Russian Armed Forces”) following a Ukrainian false flag operation in Bucha, a suburb of Kiev. He noted that the Ukrainian Defense Ministry had provided video footage purportedly taken in Bucha to Western media outlets, describing it as proof of mass killings of civilians, in a bid to discredit the Russian Armed Forces. However, statements made by the mayor of Bucha on March 31, 2022, combined with other reports, have substantiated the fact that the Russian Army pulled out of the town on March 30. Moreover, a video filmed by Ukrainians that surfaced on social media immediately after the withdrawal of Russian troops made no mention at all of the alleged killing of civilians in the town.

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X thread by Arnaud Bertrand.

Why ISIS Is Now Targeting Geopolitical Enemies Of The West (Ma Xiaolin)

[..] a top Chinese international relations scholar (Ma Xiaolin, director of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies at Zhejiang International Studies University) shares his view on why ISIS is now targeting geopolitical enemies of the West. I translated his article in full (original in Chinese here: https://tidenews.com.cn/news.html?id=2754250) below:

“On March 26th, a commuter vehicle for the Dasu Hydropower Project in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan, was attacked by terrorists, resulting in the deaths of five Chinese personnel and one Pakistani staff member. This was the second such suicide bombing attack on the project in three years, with “Islamic State Khorasan Province” (ISKP) being a major suspect. Prior to this, on March 22nd, a serious terrorist attack occurred near Moscow, killing 143 people and injuring nearly 200, with ISKP claiming responsibility. On January 3rd, a series of suicide bombings in Kerman, Iran, killed nearly a hundred people, with ISKP also claiming responsibility. Within three months, Iran, Russia, and China became targets of terrorist attacks, indicating that the Islamic State, which had long considered the US and Europe as enemies, is changing its attack direction, increasingly targeting countries considered adversaries by the US and Europe.

This represents a new trend of turning enemies into friends and shifting disaster eastward, along with submitting a declaration of intent to traditional foes. Following the Moscow attack, Russian security agencies arrested eight suspects, confirming them to be Tajikistan nationals hired for the attack. This atypical “Islamic State” terrorist attack, which involved fleeing instead of a suicide mission, was immediately claimed by ISKP, which also released on-site video evidence. Before the end of 2017, the Islamic State was essentially defeated as a territorial entity, suffering a fatal blow and being forced to disband and go underground, with its focus shifting from West Asia to Central Asia. The Khorasan branch, active in Afghanistan and Pakistan, became the main force, taking up the banner of terrorism and frequently acting, gradually adjusting its survival rules and strategic direction.

Over the years, there have been signs that the Islamic State’s targets for revenge have clearly shifted to Eastern countries, no longer viewing the US and Europe as primary enemies, and completely deviating from its original goals of ending US global dominance and “liberating Palestine”. In the past six months, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has caused heavy casualties. The Iran-led “Axis of Resistance” has pressured Israel in various ways, with China and Russia also actively promoting a ceasefire. However, the Islamic State has launched attacks on Iran, Russia, and even China, leading some to speculate that it may have aligned with the United States or even come under control of Israel’s Mossad.

Despite the US indirectly or directly warning Iran and Russia of Islamic State attacks, suspicions remain. The defeat of the Islamic State in the Middle East was a collective achievement of the international anti-terrorism alliance, credited to both the US-led 62-nation coalition’s continuous airstrikes and the close cooperation of the “Shia Crescent” led by Russia and Iran, especially in ground combat and siege warfare. However, the continuous attacks by Islamic State remnants on Iran and Russia, ignoring the reality of “Israel killing people with American knives,” indicate their use of complex geopolitical conflicts to adjust policies and directions, seeking survival by allying with former enemies.

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“President Biden is the first candidate in history – the first president in history that has used the federal agencies to censor political speech, so to censor his opponent.”

Biden a ‘Threat To Democracy’ – RFK Jr (RT)

President Joe Biden could be a bigger danger to US democracy than former president and presumptive 2024 election rival Donald Trump, another presidential candidate, Robert F Kennedy Jr, has said. Biden is the first president in US history to mobilize federal agencies to silence his political opponents, the politician stated. Speaking on CNN on Monday, Kennedy Jr pointed to his being blocked on various social media platforms during Biden’s term in office and branded this as an effort to “censor political speech” that violated the First Amendment of America’s constitution. He also attributed the ‘censorship’ to pressure from the White House. Pressed by CNN’s Erin Burnett on who he believes poses a bigger threat to democracy, Kennedy stated that he still views Biden as a bigger danger, even though Trump played a role in the January 6 riot at the US Capitol.

“The question was, who is a worse threat to democracy? And what I would say is … I’m not going to answer that question. But I can argue that President Biden is, because the First Amendment, Erin, is the most important,” the candidate told presenter Erin Burnett. “I can make the argument that President Biden is the much worse threat to democracy, and the reason for that is President Biden is the first candidate in history – the first president in history that has used the federal agencies to censor political speech, so to censor his opponent.” The politician’s Instagram page was suspended in 2021 over what its parent company, Meta, described as “repeatedly sharing debunked claims about the coronavirus or vaccines.” The account was reinstated in 2022, shortly after Kennedy announced his election campaign. In December, the Supreme Court barred him from joining a challenge to a case dealing with the Biden administration’s communication with social media platforms over posts the government considered disinformation. The politician also had a similar case pending in a lower court.

Last year, Kennedy testified before the House Judiciary’s subcommittee on the weaponization of the federal government, where he spoke as part of a House Republicans’ inquiry into alleged social media censorship against conservatives. The politician also made freedom of speech a focus of his presidential campaign. Kennedy, 70, is the son of former US Attorney General Robert Kennedy and the nephew of former US President John F Kennedy, each of whom was assassinated during the 1960s. He has gained notoriety recently for being a prominent critic of vaccines, in addition to calling for an end to “proxy wars” conducted by the US – but some of his critics have dismissed many of his positions as being conspiratorial in nature. The former Democratic Party candidate is now campaigning as an independent ahead of the November vote.

RFK
https://twitter.com/i/status/1774977436561670316
https://twitter.com/i/status/1775338106398372288

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“The crafted fake news narrative of everything starting from the day of the Russian invasion will no longer wash once Russian forces overthrow the Zelensky government and the West will be humiliated beyond its wildest nightmares..”

Biden Sinks To New Lows Over Moscow Bombing And RussiaGate Fake News (Jay)

Are we all preparing for the inevitable? Trump returning to the White House? It would seem that certainly the Biden administration is doing just that given recent events. Moscow’s terror attack has taken centre stage of world news in recent days yet not one western journalist seems able to call out the ISIS warning from the U.S. for what it was: sham. And not only the warning was disingenuous but the sheer bad taste vitriol of Washington which was on a level only matched by the suspicious outright and swift rejection that Kiev had no part in the attack. Bad taste seems to be the hallmark of the Biden administration with a failed foreign policy which trails in second place. If Americans didn’t know before that the U.S. could not control two proxy wars on two separate fronts, now they know. As the aid parcels which drop onto Palestinians – sometimes even killing them – makes a statement in itself, it’s interesting to see how Biden is always looking in the past in almost everything he does.

Even RussiaGate has been dragged out of its dank grave and had new life breathed into by Biden’s press people who are now preparing the American public for a Biden failure in December. The biggest fear for Biden is the “hack and leak” attack which pushed many democrats over a line with Hillary Clinton when her emails revealed what an utterly morose political figure she is. Who could forget that “there are terrorists there [in Syria] but they’re on our side” comment when talking about the early days of the Syrian crisis which started in 2011? For Biden, there must be many troves for the Russians to leak at the given moment, with corruption in Ukraine being at the top of the list. But one salient question might be, does Putin even need to worry about “election interference”? This comical expression, coined by the Americans and slung at Moscow is done in such a fashion as to trick the humble observer that it was a dirty Russian invention despite the Americans practically inventing the practice and using it to their own means for the last 70 years in Latin America.

The reality is that Putin doesn’t need to interfere. He’s on a win-win ticket as, if Biden is re-elected the then senile U.S. president will be defeated in Ukraine and the American people will not only see all of the corruption stories emerge from that country but also the link between the Obama administration’s election meddling in 2014 to overthrow a Russian-aligned leader and today’s war. The crafted fake news narrative of everything starting from the day of the Russian invasion will no longer wash once Russian forces overthrow the Zelensky government and the West will be humiliated beyond its wildest nightmares into signing whatever is handed to them. This, in part, explains how the NATO press machine – and most European governments – are going into overdrive on the subject of the need to beef up Europe’s military capabilities. This is entirely a ruse to act as a distraction for when Kiev falls and western elites are ready with their soundbites. The Russians are coming. We told you so.

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“As the Court stated at the hearing, Defendant filed his motion without any evidence..”

Judge Denies Hunter Biden Motions to Dismiss Tax Charges (Turley)

Despite hours of argument by the counsel for Hunter Biden, U.S. District Court Judge Mark Scarsi denied his eight motions to dismiss tax charges with a stringing rebuke that the defense omits one thing from its argument: actual evidence. Hunter Biden has been arguing that he is the victim of selective prosecution despite a documented history of receiving special treatment as the son of the President. However, he has proven a key witness against himself in swatting down defenses raised by his counsel and publishing self-incriminating facts in his book. The filings also did not address the fact that the Justice Department not only allowed the statute of limitations to run on major crimes, but sought to finalize an obscene plea agreement with no jail time for Hunter. It only fell apart when a judge decided to ask a couple of cursory questions of the prosecutor, who admitted that he had never seen an agreement this generous for a defendant.

Special Counsel David Weiss noted in his filing that they filed new charges only after Hunter’s legal counsel refused to change the agreement and insisted that it remained fully enforceable. One only has to look at the series of superseding indictments against Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., to see how Hunter continues to receive special treatment. Rather than the four original counts, Menendez now faces 18 counts with his wife, Nadine Arslanian Menendez, and alleged co-conspirators Wael Hana and Fred Daibes. What is most notable is not the proliferation of counts but the lack of comparative charges in the pending case against Hunter Biden. Some of us have long raised concerns over the striking similarity in the alleged conduct in both cases, but the absence of similar charges against the president’s son. Judge Scarsi made fast work of the Biden filings as entirely insufficient to dismiss these charges. Abby Lowell and the defense team seem to be doubling down on the same claims despite the uniform rejection by courts.

The judge noted: “As the Court stated at the hearing, Defendant filed his motion without any evidence. The motion is remarkable in that it fails to include a single declaration, exhibit, or request for judicial notice. Instead, Defendant cites portions of various Internet news sources, social media posts, and legal blogs. These citations, however, are not evidence.” Lowell disagreed with the court’s order and pledged “to vigorously pursue Mr. Biden’s challenges to the abnormal way the Special Counsel handled this investigation and charged the case.” In truth, the “abnormal” treatment of Hunter was giving him advance notice of attempts to interview him and searches of Biden property. It was allowing the statute of limitations to run despite having an agreement on the table to keep potential felonies alive. It was trying to secure a plea agreement that even the prosecutor admitted in court was like nothing he had ever seen in his career.

The court even makes reference to Schrödinger’s cat, a paradox suggested by physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1935 that a cat in a thought experiment could be viewed simultaneously both alive and dead: “The Court understands that its decision rests on an interpretation of the agreement neither party advocated—that the Diversion Agreement is a binding contract but performance of its terms is not yet required. The Court, therefore, invites the parties to stipulate to further pretrial motion practice to the extent there are additional disputes that arise from the Court’s Schrödinger’s cat-esque construction of Defendant’s immunity under the Diversion Agreement.”

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“April Fools! Only kidding. Obviously, the people mentioned in the above tweets aren’t women at all, but men, every last one of them.”

“#arrestme”: JK Rowling Dares Scotland to Enforce Anti-Free Speech Law (Turley)

We have previously discussed the growing anti-free speech movement in Scotland with the expanding criminalization of political and religious speech. The new Scottish law is a perfect nightmare for free speech, expanding the potential of a jail sentence for merely insulting language. In response, author JK Rowling has taken a stand and dared the Scottish police to come and arrest her for criticizing transgender status. The Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021 illustrates how these laws create a slippery slope of speech criminalization as more and more speech is banned. We previously discussed the law when it was first introduced. The new crime covers “stirring up hatred” relating to age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, transgender identity or being intersex. That crime covers insulting comments and anything reasonably “that a reasonable person would consider to be threatening or abusive.”

It is enough that a person is found to have likely understood that the comments would be abusive or insulting as opposed to intending to be abusive or insulting. For that ill-defined crime, you can be sent to jail for seven years. Police officers are currently being given a two-hour training program to enforcing the law. Rowling has been the target of a global campaign due to her rejection of transgender laws and policies. Many on the left have unleashed book bans and burnings. I have been critical of that campaign. Even third parties who have supported Rowling’s right to free speech have been targeted in cancel campaigns. On April 1, Rowling posted a reference to various trans campaigners and other individuals as women. She then ended the thread with “April Fools! Only kidding. Obviously, the people mentioned in the above tweets aren’t women at all, but men, every last one of them.”

She stated “Freedom of speech and belief are at an end in Scotland if the accurate description of biological sex is deemed criminal.” Even if meant as a joke, Scottish censorship laws have never been a laughing matter with comedians raising objections. That could clearly fall within the law. The law is so broad that it allows arbitrary enforcement. To that end, Rowling made it plain: “I’m currently out of the country, but if what I’ve written here qualifies as an offence under the terms of the new act, I look forward to being arrested when I return to the birthplace of the Scottish Enlightenment.#arrestme.” The law is a disgrace, but hardly new. Free speech has been in a free fall in the United Kingdom as well as other Western countries. I discuss this trend in my new book, The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.

The decline of free speech in the United Kingdom has long been a concern for free speech advocates. A man was convicted for sending a tweet while drunk referring to dead soldiers. Another was arrested for an anti-police t-shirt. Another was arrested for calling the Irish boyfriend of his ex-girlfriend a “leprechaun.” Yet another was arrested for singing “Kung Fu Fighting.” A teenager was arrested for protesting outside of a Scientology center with a sign calling the religion a “cult.” We also discussed the arrest of a woman who was praying to herself near an abortion clinic. English courts have seen criminalized “toxic ideologies” as part of this crackdown on free speech. Scotland has now pulled ahead in the race to the bottom of speech criminalization. The home of David Hume and Adam Smith is now imposing laws as stringent as those founds in Iran, Russia, and China. It is a shocking denial of a right that once defined Western Civilization

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    Vincent van Gogh Field with Irises near Arles 1888   • Moscow Condemns Assassination Of Iranian Generals (RT) • Israel Attack on Iranian Consulat
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle April 3 2024]

    #156099
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “Ukraine Is Winning the War’s Other Front: Against all odds, Ukrainians have been dominating Russia in the Black Sea.” — Foreign Policy Uh-huh. I’m glad they sank some canoes from the 60s. Good on ’em.

    Trump lies: (This is a very short list)

    Yes, but if you send it to anyone who doesn’t already know, they’ll punch you in the face for telling them. As we see with German Generals they are more mad at the the people who tell you than what what incorrectly, illegally done. Or Assange. Or Hillary. Or….

    Assange AI Speed, scale, subtlety.

    Probably true, but they blew the whole thing: their Godling, Bernays told them you can’t propagandize too far and certainly not 100% against human nature, like cut up your children and kill yourself. Everything they’re attempting – human or machine – is way Waaaaay too far from human nature and the function of “Natural Law” that includes physics, but also “Human Rights” as distilled by the Enlightenment. As long as this is their required goal – and it is – AI or not AI won’t matter. They are the enemy of every child born. Who will be under pressure, and quite likely be insane, lashing out at the thing that is harming them, forever. That means we will never stop fighting you. Ever.

    Ask Disney. Do humans, even children, like these Propaganda shows and movies? Nope. Not even infants like this crap. Because it’s from mentally ill, deranged, disturbed psychos who have broken with and reject all reality, what they produce may or may not be fun, but it just makes no g-d—-n sense. #GirlBoss.

    Humans may be tolerant of things that make no sense, but as story-making creatures they gravitate towards things that DO make sense, and have a POINT. Especially if the point is REAL. That’s considered, insert loose adjective here, “Cooler”, “Better”, “Deeper”, “Smarter.” It always wins and the psychotic always seems second rate because it is.

    “Israel’s attack on the Iranian consulate in Syria suggests that it is trying to “widen” the ongoing conflict in the Gaza Strip by drawing Iran into it,”

    Yes, they’ve already arranged the war, set the time, but what if nobody showed up? What if they had the war but not where you thought, taking all of Africa without a shot, then attacking you in Yemen while Iran sits free, and Russia annihilated all four NATO armies without mobilizing? They’re bratty rich kids on cocaine. It’s YOUR JOB to lose. It’s THEIR job to win, that’s how things always go! Right here on Page 13! Yeah? What if I say no? You and whose army?

    YES, they are trying to start WWIII, but it’s not going well for them, and as they need to do dumb s—t to “start” it, they are exposed as the psychopathic monsters, and also lose troops and positions in each location, like Niger. They’ll have lost 30% before the war “Starts” if it starts at all, then – although they may be fine with “losing” that is, killing 4-6 Billion people – they no longer control the outcome. And losing control is the only thing that matters to them.

    This was the same as the designated Nazi army of Rednecks who were ordered to Militia, rise up, and “Rebel” against the government here. What if we don’t but point at laugh at your stupid ideas, falling on the ground and giggling ourselves senseless just looking at you? How you gonna rule then? Mr. Levine?

    “• Shia Army: How Iran Formed A Ring Of Enemies Around Israel (Juma)

    “Iran” did this? They weren’t real popular before. When was the last time Israel acted like a normal state that could redeem itself?

    ““..the judge and attorney general had access to his finances because of the monitorship requirement, saw a figure close to $464 million cash, and decided that was what they were going to make him pay..”

    They Made s—t Up! I know it doesn’t SEEM like it, since we’re 1,000 miles away on that side too, but the fine is based on the damage to the victims. A kind of Were-guild and fine to insure it doesn’t profit so they don’t do it again. So you see the problem: they could find no victim either, all the banks said they were #Opposites of victims. With no Victim, no losses, no crime, there’s nothing to point at to set the “damages” and therefore the fine. So they chose “Infinity”. Infinity money. A million-billion-zillion, na na nana peepee, no touchbacks, everything proof force field.

    This they ALSO don’t do, specifically NY, when Sachs and Morgan steal $100B, NY just walks over and takes $1B back, gives none to the Victims, and Wall Street makes $99B profit. That is, also not a Damage (literal amount) not a wereguild (to make it up) and not a fine (to penalize and prevent it from happening again). Instead, they are allies, Sachs makes the money and distributes 1-10% as protection racket. Where’s Ms. James on that?

    No, you’re not supposed to “Make S—t Up” in the law. It’s supposed to be based on, and to discover, objective fact, then apply consensus logic to it, all on public discussion and public record. And that’s why we have no rule of law! We have none of these things, and haven’t in years or decades. The Law is always pretty bad, but this is ridiculous.

    ““This is the 5th time in this case that he has been overturned, a record.”

    What was that case where they overruled the Judge, told him to stop, and he just didn’t? (And then nothing happened, no impeachments, no disbarring, doubled his vacation, pension, and health care) Judge for General Flynn. Made it up, Appellate court JUMPED IN – unheard of – and ORDERED him to stop, and he didn’t. Just didn’t. Just kept going against the ruling. Like Biden. Judge says, “No student loan payments”, does it anyway. When ruled against, does it again. Like Cuomo. NY rules against him. He changes one word, does it again anyway. But I thought we had to do whatever the Supreme Court said! Nope, it’s Wednesday, now we DON’T do whatever the Supreme Court says. ‘Cause we don’t like it.

    Well call me goofy, but isn’t that just “I do whatever I want”? “You can’t judge me!” “Laws are for the little people”. They don’t apply to me!

    How often do you need to see this, ‘cause it’s already been one lifetime; Trump is just showing you what us non-rich people have put up with all along.

    “Trump isn’t allowed to say the judge’s daughter is a Democrat…”

    We have a gag order against literal points of objective fact. The only crime is to present your case, using evidence.

    “• Just 8% of Ukrainians Ready To Take Up Arms Against Russia (RT)

    Because everyone else is dead in Joe Biden’s genocide.

    “• Kiev Has Lost More Than 80,000 Troops Since January – Russian MoD (RT)

    20,000 a month, 1,000 a day. That tracks. And Russia hasn’t attacked yet nor started a war.

    “Most of the EU has been outspoken in supporting the Ukrainian”

    WHO? The people? Or the governments that do the #Opposite of the people?

    “According to Sapin, parties like Orban’s have gained power thanks to semantic tricks and ideological acrobatics, converting “old bourgeois” voters”

    So he’s a communist. But he is French, and he is a Reporter. That’s got to move from 99% to 100% certainty. I mean he’s 90% certain to be a Socialist just by being European. “Old Bourgeois” is Marxist lingo, a direct insult, always, like N—-r. I’m fascinated why a leader who puts Hungary first is only a street magician with a bag of fancy tricks. Because of the worldwide Socialist Revolution and brotherhood of man, people should not and NEVER advocate and vote for their own interests, and that’s what makes them “Bourgeois”? Only doing the #Opposite of what’s good for you, your family, country, and what is Right, is what makes you a true hero in their eyes.

    It seems weird, and I may focus on this too much, but I’m fascinated as to how this all works for them. It’s like studying a man who thinks he’s a hat. How does that logically follow for you? Tell me everything. Also: stop committing genocides. Everyone you meet is by definition a deadly enemy in a zero-sum cage match and you must kill ALL of them. Every single one. Everyone who isn’t even FURTHER left than I am. And they will kill YOU instead, so you’ll have to kill THEM to defend yourself. Wonderful plan. One of the world’s true Great Religions.

    “• Stop Covering Up Kiev Role In Bucha Events – Zakharova (TASS)

    This may be related to the recent arrest warrants for head of Ukr Secret Service by name. I’m like: Really? Sure THAT’LL happen!! Lol. Uh, no dum-dum: IF the case is one of Terrorism, they have international treaties – with everyone – concerning it. The legal procedure is to inform and request. If those nations refuse, that is, they aid and harbor, even deploy and send terrorists – that is, armed men, to commit acts of war over a border – that is by definition an Act of War itself. …Since before Cain met Abel. So Russia is setting the legal basis for a full and complete mobilized war against…everyone. Or at least anyone who ever helped Ukraine and wants to keep doing so. Same with Bucha, probably. This is a HIGHEST LEVEL war crime. You’d have to go to the U.S. to find a government killing their people as fast and as brutally as they did in Bucha, and for just as little reason.

    So far from being amusing relief in the midst of a deadly war, it’s quite serious.

    “• Why ISIS Is Now Targeting Geopolitical Enemies of the West (Ma Xiaolin)

    Now? ISIS never did anything else, ever. Not since Hillary hauled the weapons out of Libya to Syria over Ambassador Steven’s dead body, and added some Texas pickup trucks and 10,000 fresh, matching flags from Turkey.

    Shockingly, the Wiki page on this is clear, all-caps, upfront that there is no evidence for any accusations:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Benghazi_attack That’s refreshing. That’s like seeing Bill Maher go 100% against Identity Politics.

    ““President Biden is the first candidate in history – the first president in history that has used the federal agencies to censor political speech, so to censor his opponent.”

    I mean, that’s bad, but that statement you’ve-got-to-be-kidding-me. One way they get away with this stuff is when everybody “forgets” all history that ever came before, like goldfish. 1910 “Sedition” Acts. How about the Church Committee? Hey, remember that President that was deposed by the CIA using Woodward and Bernstein? Yeah, they just ate anything the CIA told them, like in “Human Centipede”. Because “Journalists” never ask “Questions” about their sources.

    “Biden: “He has a bust of my father behind”

    Yes, he keeps it like a Safari Trophy. Remind him of all the happy assassinations he’s done over the years.

    “Are we all preparing for the inevitable? Trump returning to the White House?”

    Neither one of them will be alive. There won’t be an election if they can’t win it.

    “If voting changed anything, they wouldn’t let you do it.” They allow street protests, so what does that tell you?

    “As the Court stated at the hearing, Defendant filed his motion without any evidence..”

    This was fascinating, as I’m not sure this is done usually. Should they be disbarred? Hunter should certainly sue his lawyers. But my guess is this happens from time to time and if so, the Judge is supposed to whack them sideways just like this. Laws and courts working – even if weird. That IS front-page news.

    “It is enough that a person is found to have likely understood that the comments would be abusive or insulting as opposed to intending to be abusive or insulting.”

    Insulting to whom? Abusive to whom? That’s an internal, emotional state that is intangible and unprovable. Anyone can just Saaaaaaaaaay they “Felt”, they had a case of the Feelz, so go arrest…anyone I FEELZ like. My wife’s lover for instance, or that county judge. Oh, and THEN a miracle happens! They only arrest their enemies, the “Bad” people, and never arrest my friends, the “good” people! Because the “Good” people by definition didn’t “Mean it” – another intangible, unprovable state. We telepathically are aware of harm, and we telepathically are aware of intent. Magic! Magical Thinking! Yes, this is what Infants do.

    “”We didn’t just close down our coal fired power stations, we blew them up,”

    Like Cortez, we burned the boats to make sure everyone in England dies. You will have no way to reverse, even if you vote in a new government at last. Always Be Murdering. Murder spread Widely.

    Okay, Easter not quite over:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7A1IBMEzvo Babylon Bee.

    Just like Covid, they’re all grifters. …Who then ruin their whole careers, their fortunes, and are slandered and persecuted for the rest of their lives. ‘Cause they’re in it for the money!

    #156100
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Larry Johnson reinterated that Ukronaziland was NEVER going to win a war with Russia, like never

    And the Empire of Lies and their little Eurotard buttboys & girls also knew this.

    From the start

    And the Ukro-sheeple public just stood there deaf, dumb and blind and took it up the ass. Rah, rah go Team Ukronazi!

    But they went ahead with the war because they were confident the sanctions would collapse Russia and Putin

    Didn’t happen, never was going to happen but the Satanist Cabal could restrain their demonic impulses.

    Kharkiv is now the model for Russia crushing Ukronazi cities.

    Just permanently for the foreseeable future take out the electric grid so it can’t be fixed, except by Russian engineers.

    The population will flee leaving only Ukronazi military which can then be annihilated in Free Fire Zone with thousands of glide bombs, now going up to 6000lb ultra high explosive ones.

    Crush what’s left of the Ukronazi military.

    All the Ukronazi officers above Lt Colonel are abandoning their commands and fleeing with suitcases of brides, kickbacks, black market military equipment resell loot and dead soldiers paychecks and death compensation funds and getting out of Dodge to their villas in Western Eurotardistan.

    The End

    .

    #156101
    zerosum
    Participant

    semantic tricks and ideological acrobatics
    (Translation into common speech, for “Joe Blow”)

    Lies and more lies
    ————
    losing control of the narrative is the only thing that matters .

    #156102
    zerosum
    Participant


    It is misleading to describe the
    @WCKitchen
    killing as an airstrike (singular). In actual fact 3 vehicles were targeted, with the first & last being over 2.4km apart. The IDF decided to make 3 targeted strikes, not one.
    Geolocation from @m_osint

    #156103
    zerosum
    Participant

    Confusing background information

    US State Dept’s favorite celebrity chef builds Gaza aid dock with stolen rubble


    State Department-linked Spanish celebrity chef José Andrés has emerged as the US government’s preferred conduit for aid to enter Gaza, following the Biden administration’s decision to suspend funding to the enclave’s main supplier of food, aid and education, the UNRWA.

    The operation appears designed to serve as a stopgap measure to provide minimal quantities of food to Gaza’s famine-stricken population until the US military finishes building a pier in the Mediterranean Sea, and a shadowy contractor run by former US Marines and CIA officials is able to implement an aid program called “Blue Beach Plan.”

    Andrés’ organization, World Central Kitchen, has already finished constructing its own jetty, which was made from the rubble heaps in Gaza — a decision that virtually guaranteed the building materials contain the remains of humans killed by Israeli bombing.

    #156105
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/tsmc-shutters-some-chipmaking-plants-quake-rocks-island-nation
    TSMC Shutters Some Chipmaking Plants As Quake Rocks Island Nation

    #156106
    zerosum
    Participant

    Did you catch the subtle propaganda from zerohedge?
    ” Quake Rocks Island Nation”

    #156107
    D Benton Smith
    Participant
    #156108
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @zerosum

    Did you catch the subtle propaganda from zerohedge?
    ” Quake Rocks Island Nation”

    7.4 isn’t very subtle. I reckon Taiwan got the point.

    #156109
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Thinking AI, but more just straight software. Originally, there was no software, and then only a few, using the same habits of Microsoft and Apple. That is, everything used, tool bar, upper right box, File, Edit, Help… Everyone understood the basis, or as well as they could, it was all based on familiar actions and terms: File, Folder, Filing Cabinet, Edit, Pencil, Eraser, tablet, etc.

    That has held many years, as social habit. However, we now have PCs, Mainframes, Tablets, and Phones. We also have dedicated machines like, eg, Copiers. But neither the programmers nor the users have any basis. In anything. At this point, all humans grew up with it. Kids have never used, “Paper” “Pen”, “File Cabinets”, they are all abstractions like a “(78)Record.” The programmers haven’t either, being versed in all the types and variations of the last 30 years. So for them, “Saving” no longer means saving, because it autosaves always, so saving means, “not saving” or “saving not to here” or “Saving everywhere, but not immediately” (like in the “Cloud” and so on. The click is not Upper-right, no toolbar, handmotions, like a phone, with dropdowns and “home” like a tablet.

    That is to say, NONE of it is “intuitive” anymore. Because to “intuit” you have to have a common experience. They do this with tribes, asking them if that 4-line drawing is a box facing forwards, or back. They say “Duh, it’s a bunch of lines on paper.” (Retard white people) That is, we have a HABIT of looking at paint on canvas AS IF it is 3D. It’s not. “Ceci n’est pas une pipe”, So ANY THING could be ANY THING. Any corner, button, action, motion, click, could mean ANYTHING. There’s no reason your files should be Upper Left > File > Open. In fact, guarantee they’re not (anymore). Next program, ALSO totally different. 4 updates a year? We move and change everything. Dump and buy a new program: Also different.

    Nothing means anything. It’s all just straight memorization that is irrelevant since it will vanish the moment you learn it. So unlike a “Typewriter”, why bother learning well? F’ it. I’m just here for the paycheck. Fired tomorrow, why bother?

    What does this have to AI? Well, these programmers START in one location and then diverge INFINITELY. Having learned on some arcane program, then start their own program and make it even more divergent, not less. That’s where they learned: from other programmers, not “reality.” So with AI: AI LEARNED back when, on Reddit, etc when that was MERELY a dumpster fire of the dumbest, least knowledgeable, most far-left humans on the internet. WEIRD, but like WEIRD to the 11th power. They are the sum total of the strangest, least human humans in the last 40,000 years, having almost nothing in common with “Humans” at all besides body shape. That’s bad enough.

    But starting at the FIRST DAY, EVERYONE, Coca-Cola, RNC, Madison Avenue, Apple, the CIA, FSB and Mossad, all were IMMEDIATELY in the boards trying to jack and direct them. At first that took actual paid people, very few. Then Indian outsourcing, then simple bots who spend all day derailing any useful conversation with a comment on “Da Jooooos”* and then actual bots. Now very clever, seeming real, Turing Bots. Then armies of them, in the Dead Internet Theory that almost no one you interact with is a human alive. (That is certainly true here.)

    Problem: AI IS STILL READING REDDIT. So AI is reading AI, which is reading AI, which is reading AI, in ever-tighter loops, with statistical ZERO actual humans logging on and adding anything. This in the Democratic Party and all Reporters on Twitter, too dumb to look out a window sometimes. For now 10+ years. And this is or was already WELL KNOWN with “Elsagate” like 7 years ago?

    (AWFL) Moms who should probably be arrested for abuse, park their kids in front of a running tablet, who play “Frozen”, Nursery Rhymes, harmless stuff. In 3 years, this self-iterated feedback loop, unclicked by any infant, had reams of Esla F’ing the Hulk, while licking a toilet and getting -ss f’d by a midget. All AI. AI “Read” the loop — that was only ITSELF feeding Algos to ITSELF, automatically as I said last week — and decides that Elsa + Hulk + Toilet, with chainsaws and cannibalism was what 3 year olds needed to see. Because AI has no “Intelligence.” It is “Artificial Stupidity” Or “Automatic Stupidity”, Spread widely.

    I think this is part of what Smith is trying to say. “Who are you talking to???” AI? ’cause it sure ain’t us. Without an uncontaminated human communication set to work on, AI CANNOT affect human communication. — But if it DOESN’T jack human communication, then it has no viable economic purpose. It’s purpose is to lie, steal, and kill, straight from its programmers.

    So: it only kills ITSELF, at great expense to the rest of us. Something like that, yes?

    …And that’s BEYOND the escalation of recording, processing and competition wars problem, which are ALL also total AI-enders. We’re faster than AI is, and we’re free. We’re doing this anyway, living I mean, we have no additional cost, look at the Phone and say, “Yup, that’s AI again: IGNORE.”

    * We now measure the time before someone can’t stop talking about Da Joooos, in a time unit called a (Netin)Yahoo. Wherein all useful knowledge and solutions stop. This board is running at a rate of about three yahoos per day.

    #156110
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    It’s worth mentioning that although “Da Jooos” are not the wizard behind the curtain they certainly ARE a dependable data point on the yellow brick road to Oz. You can not name for me (because there are none to name) any institution currently running amok that does not have wealthy powerful persons with Jewish surnames clustered at the levels of upper management, and oftentimes at the very top.

    The problem with yahoos is that they get to that point along the trail and they just STOP looking and seeing anything else. They just hop up and down yelling “Da Jooos!” as if that solves anything. If they did bother to look and see then what they would see is that “Da Jooos” are latecomers to a game that predates Judaism by many many thousands of years, and which of course and for that reason was NOT owned nor operated by “Joos”.

    It’s those earlier guys and their ideological descendants that you’re looking for.

    #156112
    zerosum
    Participant

    Tis n dat
    Both sides are stockpiling and stockpiling their ammunition. Or rather, the Russian army is saving and tightening up, while the Ukrainian army is on its last legs and is really looking forward to the help of the West, without which it would have long been pushed back at least to Dnepropetrovsk,” believes Izmailov.

    The Nato war mongering bullies are discussing how much more aid and weapons to give the Neo-Nazi’s in Ukraine. The English Foreign secretary urges Nato warmongering nations to make more weapons and invest in more weapons technology.

    Sadly it will be citizens of Nato countries that will suffer as public services are reduced as cash earmarked for them is sent to the Neo-Nazi’s in Ukraine to keep the war going.

    As for equipment, the cupboard’s bare, Mrs Farkas. We could give Ukraine several hundred more billion dollars if we chose, even give them the Russian assets we’re holding, but that does not automatically translate into armaments. That’s been shown already by such as Berletic or Vershinin. Nor does it translate into men who can use those armaments. The Ukrainian army is being torn to pieces and corpses can’t drive tanks.

    #156113
    zerosum
    Participant


    Please do read the whole article as it describes in details how the whole process works with the Lavender AI. It’s industrialized extermination the likes of which we haven’t seen since… you know when.

    https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/

    #156114
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @zerosum

    Yes that report is a very important document, though it is heart breaking to read it. It describes what happens when AI is used for evil purposes by insane people. Pointless carnage generating more pointless carnage.

    #156115
    analoguy
    Participant

    Dr. D
    ““President Biden is the first candidate in history – the first president in history that has used the federal agencies to censor political speech, so to censor his opponent.”

    Nothing new here. Same as it ever was.

    #156116
    analoguy
    Participant

    Forgot to paste.

    #156117
    analoguy
    Participant

    Hmmm
    Amazon links not allowed?
    Or copy and paste too big? Those are large areas with no content.
    American Aurora by Richard N. Rosenfeld, excellent book on press freedom during our founding.

    #156118
    userzeroid
    Participant

    I have noticed that the editors in wikipedia have deleted Gonzalo Lira’s entry, just as Gonzalo said wikipedia would do.

    It would be a good idea to mirror his content on platforms not subject to censorship and editing. His memory deserves that much at the bare minimum.

    Dr. D, I don’t know how you manage to knock it out of the park each and every day. Always a pleasure.

    #156119
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    “life has become harder for most Americans”

    Beyond Lenocracy

    #156120
    aspnaz
    Participant

    the Islamic State has launched attacks on Iran, Russia, and even China, leading some to speculate that it may have aligned with the United States or even come under control of Israel’s Mossad.

    Indeed, this looks like the most likely scenario, especially as it appears that they are now assassins for hire rather than suicide bombers, although one of the attacks on China was a suicide bomber. You have to ask yourself what is their grievance if they are bombing Iran, Russia and China? What do they want these countries to do? Wanting to free the Palestinians was a believable goal in the past, given that they claim to be Islamic, but now they are assisting the people who are trying to destroy Islam, completely at odds with their stated raison d’etre.

    #156121
    aspnaz
    Participant

    If Joe Biden gets reelected, democracy is a freaking joke.

    American democracy is already a freaking joke. Is Tucker saying that is is not already a joke? And how does keeping FJB out prove anything? All three main candidates – Trump, RFK Jr, Biden – are essentially the same; they come from the Democrat party, they are Israel First, they support the Israeli genocide, they are funded by Jews, they believe in Ukraine versus Russia, they are fiscal hooligans, they believe in war against Iran, etc etc.

    They have no way of overcoming the owners of the USA so nothing will change.

    #156122
    aspnaz
    Participant

    The decline of free speech in the United Kingdom has long been a concern for free speech advocates. A man was convicted for sending a tweet while drunk referring to dead soldiers. Another was arrested for an anti-police t-shirt. Another was arrested for calling the Irish boyfriend of his ex-girlfriend a “leprechaun.” Yet another was arrested for singing “Kung Fu Fighting.” A teenager was arrested for protesting outside of a Scientology center with a sign calling the religion a “cult.” We also discussed the arrest of a woman who was praying to herself near an abortion clinic. English courts have seen criminalized “toxic ideologies” as part of this crackdown on free speech

    The Edinburgh Fringe will be a laugh this year; no jokes or insults allowed or you will be arrested and jailed for years. There goes Scotland’s most famous tourist attraction.

    #156123
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Peter Hitchens unapologetically exposes the ludicrous nature of Net Zero, to the horror of BBC Question Time panellists and audience members.

    Good for him, but you can see that the audience is so brainwashed that they will never take any notice of him. The BBC would be breaking its historical precedents if it told the people the truth and not the government’s latest propaganda.

    The Brits all watch the BBC and believe it is good and true, kind of sad, but easily detectable, just talk to one of these people and it is like listening to BBC radio. Look where it has got them, censorship capital of the world, where even a joke is a jailable, criminal offence.

    #156124
    John Day
    Participant

    Healthy Paradigm Shift https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/healthy-paradigm-shift

    We humans are a social species, motivated by social relationships as well as our basic needs as individuals and families. How are we motivated as individuals, families and social groups? We are certainly motivated to meet and secure our needs for water, food, fuel, shelter, clothing and necessary tools, but some inflection takes place after those basic needs are secured for our intimate group.
    It has been established that humans get happier with more wealth until their basic needs are secured, after which further increases in prosperity provide little more happiness, and at some point there even seems to be a reversal, with further wealth correlating with dissatisfaction.
    After basic needs are secured, we social humans seem to invest more in social status, social capital within our perceived community. This may be a real community. The former sugar cane plantation workers I came to know in North Kohala, Hawaii had a deep and pervasive sense of community, though the plantation had ceased to exist. I venture to speculate that most of us have never known what it is to exist within such a real and functional human community.
    We do understand the context of status, and how to present our social status in our smaller circles, as well as the broader world. I suspect that the nature of our further investments, after we have secured our basic needs, reflects upon our happiness and satisfaction in life. I’ll postulate that if we invest in social status of the abstract and materialistic sort, that we become frustrated and dissatisfied. How many billions does it take to be #1 this month?
    Thorstein Veblen wrote his “The Theory of the Leisure Class” in 1899, near the end of the “Gilded Age” of Rockefellers and robber-barons with mansions and railroads.
    I had to pick from a list of books for a college class, chose that one for the catchy title, and was astounded at how well the insights applied to my world in 1980. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theory_of_the_Leisure_Class#:~:text=The%20Theory%20of%20the%20Leisure%20Class%20established%20that%20the%20political,of%20individual%20men%20and%20women.
    In the book Veblen looks at our human drives, and rejects their objective rationality beyond the point of meeting needs, examining the many aspects of social class from the hunter-gatherer and feudal eras into the modern era, making the case that they did not so much change, but shifted their manifestations. The “lower” class performed useful work, such as growing food, storing it, making tools, clothing, and houses, etc. The upper classes displayed their class status by performing activities that were not inherently productive, such as warfare, hunting and acquisition of special knowledge, and by commanding the labor of the lower class. Priests, politicians, academics, doctors, lawyers and warriors were members of this broad class, but did not all enjoy the same social standing. In Feudal Europe these classes were well defined and slow to change, but they did shift in the Industrial Revolution, with Industrial Capitalists taking a lead in the rapid innovation of the social order and the political economy. Marx looked at everything from the basis of rational valuation, as if the rational drives of meeting basic needs were the only drives among economic participants. Veblen, who grew up fairly poor, but educated, in a Norwegian-American family, was a keen observer of the American version of display of status in the Gilded Age Chicago area. We can see that the building of palaces and empires, while barely allowing the workers to eat and have families, reached some kind of apogee then and there. John D. Rockefeller was famously unhappy and stingy…
    The older, “retired” plantation workers, on the other hand, were some of the most satisfied and friendly people I have ever come to know. they mostly inherited their modest plantation houses and vegetable gardens when the plantation closed down. They stayed in place, shared avocados, mangos and whatever other excess they had, and went fishing sometimes. When somebody killed a wild pig, they had a party. Their investments did not appear to be monetary, but almost completely in social engagements and networking.
    I think I learned something better in North Kohala, though I grew up in the egalitarian 1960s and 1970s, on egalitarian US Marine Corps and Navy bases. We all wore jeans, sneakers and t-shirts. We all had a bike. We all lived in base housing. Our dads all got orders, and we all moved when they got orders. We fought a lot. It wasn’t as nice.

    As well as class-consciousness and social climbing vs. egalitarian identification, there is another aspect of human groups, which is harder to talk about, which is the “Wisdom of Crowds” and the “Madness of Crowds”. Large groups of people do get feelings-about-things, which may lead to societies inherently trending to good choices much of the time, or to economic trends like the “tulip mania” investment bubble, or to genocidal drives, as the German people were driven to after the exhaustion of WW-1 and the impoverishments forced upon them by the Versailles Treaty. There is something about doing-what-everybody-is-doing which is almost completely validating for about 2/3 of people. This seems to be a set point that lets human societies function. Some smaller groups are torn between personal analysis and group assumptions to varying degrees, and a small group is relatively unconcerned with group beliefs, relying upon personal analysis and intuition as the driver of personal decisions. Somehow or another I have naturally fallen into that small group. It was not so difficult so long as we were always moving and meeting new people. Anything that did not fit could be adjusted, or adjusted at the next move, without truly having to completely conform. Basic conformism was inherent in military families, but true conformism was never actually possible wherever we moved…

    Charles Hugh Smith looks at current societal premonitions of inflation, and YOLO, “you only live once”, driving people everywhere to spend on things while they can, because of the feeling that it just won’t be possible soon. I have felt it for a fairly long time, but something snapped during COVID lockdowns. “This is it!” About a year and a half before COVID lockdowns, we had bought a modest house on less than an acre in the rural Texas town of Yoakum, settled by Germans and Bohemians (Czech) in the 1840s and 1850s, fleeing European wars for the fertile black soil of the coastal plains. We just drove to Yoakum and worked on the homestead for the pandemic, while I treated patients during the week and never got sick doing it. People snapped and started spending after the lockdowns were over. I am inclined to think that there is an underlying premonition of the end of an era, but that people have varying interpretations of how to best manage that premonition I am a green-prepper…
    Charles Hugh Smith, YOLO Spending, Inflation and the Wisdom/Madness of Crowds
    The harder authorities and pundits push the “inflation is under control” narrative, the faster they erode public trust and confidence in the future value of labor and “money.”
    The possibility that the human herd senses trend changes before statistics and the economic punditry comes under the capacious category of the wisdom of crowds: in this line of thinking, YOLO spending may be a reflection not just of a pandemic-instigated change of priorities, but of a growing sense that inflation is now embedded, and so it’s better to spend earnings now before they lose value.
    This is the core behavioral response to embedded inflation: borrow and spend now, as savings will only lose purchasing power as time goes on. In hyper-inflationary economies, this leads to wage earners finding something to buy the day they’re paid, as their wages will lose value literally overnight.
    Put another way, embedded inflation is systemic financial insecurity: the future value of labor and savings is unknown and unknowable, and could be much lower than we expect. To trust that labor and “money” will retain their current purchasing power is a fool’s game, as the crowd intuitively grasps the runaway-feedback nature of inflation: once it gets going, every increase in inflation fuels further increases…
    ..The human herd also intuits that prices never fall back to pre-inflationary-spiral levels. If inflation moderates after a 20% spike, costs across the entire spectrum don’t drop 20%; they simply rise at a slower pace…
    ..To the authorities and pundits tasked with gaslighting inflation to limit inflationary expectations, the wisdom of crowds looks like the madness of crowds: with trust and confidence in the future value of labor and “money” both declining, the sense of insecurity increases, generating demands for higher wages and prices now rather than later. This feedback loop generates its own inflationary pressure, which then feeds back into itself as everyone grasps the potential for an inflationary spiral that gets out of control. To the authorities and pundits tasked with reassuring us that inflation is receding, this mob-generated expansion of inflationary feedback is madness. If only everyone believed us that inflation was near-zero, inflation would be near-zero…
    ..The problem with this idea is all the efforts to control the narrative generate their own feedback: a loss of trust and confidence in the system and its statistics. The harder the authorities and pundits push the “inflation is under control” narrative, the faster they erode public trust and confidence in the future value of labor and “money,” because claiming inflation is 3% and heading down after inflation has burned off 20% of our purchasing power in three years is, well, not credible.
    https://charleshughsmith.substack.com/p/yolo-spending-inflation-and-the-wisdommadness

    A Midwestern Doctor has potentially the best analysis I have come across, of the mystery of Robert Kennedy Jr’s choice of 39 year old tech attorney Nicole Shanahan as his vice presidential running mate. This is somehow the actual point to which Thorstein Veblen and Charles Hugh Smith’s insights are leading. I have just not been able to “get” why Bobby Jr. would choose a political novice, the 39 year old Irish/Chinese mother of an autistic daughter with a Google-founder billionaire, who grew up poor, troubled by dad’s bipolar disorder and alcoholism, and mom’s fleeing Mao’s China, as his VP running mate. This is incoherent within the political framework I have always known. Yes, she may draw away AOC/Clinton voters from the Democratic party, but where is the political power a VP is expected to bring to the table?
    If this is a rational choice, and I believe Kennedy to be rational, and she has no established political capital, then Nicole Shanahan has to have some secret super-power, or Kennedy may rationally expect her to manifest some political super power in the near future. https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/what-is-the-source-of-the-modern
    I watched the video clips of her VP running-mate speech presented in this AMD analysis of her candidacy. I read her Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicole_Shanahan#:~:text=Shanahan%20described%20her%20father%2C%20an,Guangzhou%20City%20in%20the%201980s.

    Kennedy may be running on a Paradigm Shift Platform, just as his father did in 1968, running against LBJ’s Vietnam War. For this to be rational, the paradigm shift must be away from industrial capitalism at the expense of human health, towards human-health as the basis for societal cooperation and coordination. Proceed with that thought.
    Shanahan declared:
    Conditions like autism used to be 1 in 10,000.
    Now here in the state of California, it is 1 in 22. One in twenty two children affected. Allergies, obesity, anxiety, depression, our children are not well. Our people are not well. And our country will not be well for very much longer if we don’t heed this desperate call for attention.
    We are facing a crisis in reproductive health that is embedded in the larger epidemic of chronic disease.
    Because it has been so personal for me and my daughter, I got deep into the research and consulted some of the best scientists and doctors. Let me tell you what I found. There are three main causes.
    One is the toxic substances in our environment, like endocrine disrupting chemicals in our food, water and soil. Like the pesticide residues, the industrial pollutants, the microplastics, the PFAs, the food additives and the forever chemicals that contaminated nearly every human cell.
    Second is electromagnetic pollution.
    Third, I’m sorry to say, is our medications. Pharmaceutical medicine has its place but no single safety study can assess the cumulative impact of one prescription on top of another prescription and one shot on top of another shot throughout the course of childhood. We just don’t do that study right now and we ought to. We can, and we will.
    Please see Shanahan’s 4 minute video clip discussing chronic disease, the second video clip, to get a feel for this. (Momma bear shows her teeth, for her injured daughter.)
    ..She later discussed the immense problems we face from our poor soil and highlights that most of them would be solved through regenerative agriculture if we stopped financially incentivizing bad practices with the existing farming subsidies and regulations: [See third video clip] Note: I believe our current dysfunctional farming paradigm stems from policies put in place by Nixon’s Secretary of Agriculture to lower food prices, which forced independent farmers to leave the business and shifted America to mass-monocultures of cash crops like corn wheat and soy…
    [AMD goes on to discuss causes of chronic disease at length. Worth a close read.]
    ..Shanahan’s proposed solution to this was relatively straightforward:
    It is not about a new pill or, “finding the cure.” We know the cure is cleaning up our environment and providing the basic public goods that are the foundational conditions for health and healing. It is about a shift in our priorities. It is about compassion. Chronic disease, addiction, poverty, depression, this is where Americans are hurting the most.
    Note: I felt this point was important to emphasize because it the exact opposite of what our profit medical system has morphed into—selling as many profitable “treatments” as possible that can never actually lead to health. This may also explain why every politician besides RFK Jr. she met with refused to seriously looking into what is making America sick.
    [AMD presents extensive and insightful political analysis throughout this article. He supports Kennedy. Nobody who fails to support Palestinians gets my support.]

    #156127
    John Day
    Participant

    Here is a short post of mine from April 2016, Gardening For Peace:
    The Biology of Altruism.
    Yes, the human brain has an app. for that, or many human brains do. Some don’t. What does the difference look like, now that we can look at things like the differences in brain function between cold-blooded murderers without remorse, and people who donate a kidney to an unknown person, because they can. (Which kind of person would do better in American politics?)
    http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2014/09/22/349639464/the-biology-of-altruism-good-deeds-may-be-rooted-in-the-brain
    I’m going to take that as a jumping off point for speculation about our human future, about our prospects in the realm of social ecology, a term coined by Murray Bookchin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_ecology
    Over the past 10,000 years or so, we have embedded dominance of each other into our societies. It is ubiquitous, and it is the philosophical basis for “dominion over nature”, supposedly “granted by God”.
    It is pretty clear that we need to have a paradigm shift and become truly human, truly awakened to our greatest potential, the potential to be really good stewards of natural systems, rather than bands of rapists and looters, our current paradigm. (I don’t mean to be harsh, but we could all be on the way out and wishing it would come sooner, in 20 years.)
    We can nurture and cultivate a food-producing ecosystem It’s actually an innate talent we have. It takes some learning. It feels pretty satisfying, natural, healthy.
    Each of us can find ways to do this.
    I’m working on finding ways to help open this door of perception for people I work with by food-gardening in the break patio at the new clinic.
    If we are all going down this time, I’d rather go down growing green beans than shooting people.

    Steve Kirsch, New survey confirms that vaccines are, by far, the #1 cause of chronic disease in America
    Nobody should be vaccinated. Ever. Especially not during pregnancy. And vaccines are also the #1 cause of sexual orientation issues. The numbers are consistent with other published studies. https://kirschsubstack.com/p/new-survey-confirms-that-vaccines

    Israel destroyed al-Shifa Hospital to accelerate social collapse in Gaza
    Israel wants to cause a breakdown in social order in Gaza, and it can’t achieve that without erasing its hospitals.
    The fall of al-Shifa Hospital will be remembered as one of the most pivotal moments in Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza — not for the unbridled annihilationism it displayed, but because it offered a unique window into the real reason Israel decided to systematically dismantle Gaza’s hospitals.
    Hospitals in Gaza during times of war have not only served as places for the treatment of the wounded and the sick but have become pivotal social institutions, housing a microcosm of Gaza’s entire civic order. They became hubs for journalists and human rights defenders, offered space for Gaza’s Civil Defense teams to organize and coordinate rescue efforts, became a base of operations for Gaza’s police force, and hosted tens of thousands of displaced refugees seeking shelter from the bombardment. Hospitals became all those things because they were the last remaining civilian institutions that were supposed to enjoy a modicum of protection from the war.

    Israel destroyed al-Shifa Hospital to accelerate social collapse in Gaza

    (CIA mouthpiece, The Washington Post. Signal of policy change?) How Israeli strikes on a World Central Kitchen convoy in Gaza unfolded
    SUVs and trucks bearing the distinctive logo of World Central Kitchen had become increasingly common in the Gaza Strip by late Monday, when three of WCK’s vehicles were traveling along on the coastal road used as a humanitarian corridor.
    The dynamic international food aid group has been one of the few organizations able to get supplies into the embattled enclave and distributed to hungry civilians from north to south. Two of the SUVs traveling Monday were armored and bore the frying pan logo on the roof, the group said. A third was an unmodified “soft-skin” vehicle.
    None of them would return to base.
    Inside the vehicles were seven of the group’s employees and volunteers, including a Palestinian as well as aid workers from the United States, Britain, Poland, Australia and other countries drawn to the globe’s worst humanitarian crisis. They were one of the teams forming part of the pop-up maritime supply chain WCK had constructed, using barges, temporary piers and convoys to get food from Europe to aid points around Gaza. The group had just been part of a convoy that unloaded more than 100 tons of aid at a warehouse at Deir al-Balah, according to a WCK statement. Three cars were making a return trip to staging areas near the Egyptian border, heading along Al-Rasheed Road.
    The team had coordinated with Israeli military officials and had clearance to drive the route, WCK said. Israel Defense Forces officials said they have been working closely with WCK for months in its Gaza operations…
    ..Imagery of the aftermath reviewed and geolocated by The Post shows that all of the vehicles were destroyed within a mile and a half of each other, suggesting that some had a chance to keep driving after the attack began.
    One vehicle was off to the side of the road, facing north. The hood of the vehicle was largely disintegrated, the windows blown out and the doors blackened.
    A second vehicle, the Toyota, was in the middle of the road a half-mile to the south, the hole punched through its roof next to the WCK logo spanning nearly half of its width.
    A third vehicle was found a mile farther along. It was sideways along the road, much of the metal of the vehicle’s body frayed.
    Videos showed some bodies that were damaged beyond recognition. Others were clearly identified by the passport photos open on their vests. Palestinian driver Seif Issam Abu Taha was still in his WCK T-shirt.
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/02/israel-strike-wck-huamanitarian-convoy/

    #156128
    John Day
    Participant

    WHO: Zionist enemy forces may not use hospitals as battlefield in Gaza
    https://en.ypagency.net/322363

    Atrocity propaganda vs. the testimony of atrocity
    Since October 7, Zionists have wielded atrocity propaganda to justify genocide, while Palestinians have shared testimony of the atrocities they have witnessed. The difference is not just in the truth of these stories, but also their function.
    Among the differences between atrocity propaganda and testimonies of atrocity is that the former seeks to preemptively justify the unjustifiable, while the latter starts and stops with the event. Testimony doesn’t seek to justify anything. Of course it fits into a larger narrative, a context, but it does not seek to be totalizing, to occlude time and space before and after, the way atrocity propaganda does.
    Another difference between the two is how the listener is meant to receive the story. Atrocity propaganda prioritizes gruesome details to the extent that the victim is reduced to an object, a mirror for the perpetrator’s cruelty. The narrative trick is to make the listener blame the perpetrator for the erasure of the victim’s humanity, too.

    Atrocity propaganda vs. the testimony of atrocity

    Ecocide a ‘Critical Dimension of Israel’s Genocidal Campaign’ in Gaza: Probe
    Analysis by a research group found that roughly 40% of Gaza land that was previously used for food production has been destroyed by Israeli forces.
    https://scheerpost.com/2024/04/01/ecocide-a-critical-dimension-of-israels-genocidal-campaign-in-gaza-probe/

    New UN report outlines the ‘Anatomy of a Genocide’ in Gaza
    Last week, the UN Special Rapporteur on Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese issued a report titled “Anatomy of a Genocide,” concluding that there are “reasonable grounds to believe” that the threshold indicating the commission of the crime of genocide has been met.
    Such reports are not usually titled, but the title itself depicts the nature of what Albanese describes in her immaculate 25-page report. It not only outlines a textbook case of genocide, with clearly and widely expressed intent by leaders backed up by clear genocidal actions — it also describes how Israel has used the language and principles of International Humanitarian Law (IHL, the laws governing warfare) to conceal the act.
    Albanese begins with the historical context of the genocide, even rooted in Israeli pre-state colonialist intents, and then charts out how Israel has committed three central facets under the crime of genocide — the killing of members of a particular group of people, causing bodily or mental harm, and creating destructive conditions of life.

    New UN report outlines the ‘Anatomy of a Genocide’ in Gaza

    Moscow condemns assassination of Iranian generals
    Diplomatic missions cannot be targeted, Russia said after an Israeli strike on Tehran’s consulate in Damascus
    A national security spokesperson quoted by Axios said the US “had no involvement in the strike and we did not know about it ahead of time.” A senior US official told the news outlet that Washington “has communicated this directly to Iran”.
    Israel notified its key ally minutes before the strike took place, when its fighter jets were already in the air, the Axios article said. The Israelis allegedly said they were going to kill General Zahedi, but did not offer details of their operation, such as his location at the Iranian consulate.
    https://swentr.site/russia/595270-russia-israeli-strike-consulate/

    #156129
    John Day
    Participant

    Israel’s Attack on Iranian Consulate Highlights Netanyahu’s Pending Defeat in Gaza
    Israel’s attack on the Iranian consulate in Syria suggests that it is trying to “widen” the ongoing conflict in the Gaza Strip by drawing Iran into it, said Foad Izadi, an associate professor at the University of Tehran’s Department of American Studies.
    “They have been trying to start a military confrontation between the United States and Iran for many years. And they think that they have an opportunity to have this done fighting Iran using American soldiers,” he told Sputnik, apparently suggesting that the US would be quick to leap to Israel’s defense if the latter were threatened by Tehran…
    ..“That is what Israelis are trying to do. Netanyahu realizes that he has lost the war in Gaza. He has managed to kill more than 30,000, mostly women and children, without achieving any goals except killing these people and ruining their homes,” Izadi said.
    “They say that they want to destroy Hamas, but that’s not a goal they can achieve. Obviously, they would have done that if they could. That’s why criminal acts and genocide in Gaza continue. And Netanyahu realizes that sooner or later this war needs to end. And that would be the end of his prime ministership. And so he’s trying to prolong the war, he’s trying to widen the war,” Izadi added.
    https://sputnikglobe.com/20240402/israels-attack-on-iranian-consulate-highlights-netanyahus-pending-defeat-in-gaza-1117699434.html

    West to Use Hypothetical Russia-Ukraine Talks to Supply Arms to Zelensky – Diplomat
    “Even if we imagine the hypothetical possibility of resuming negotiations, it is clear that the [Kiev] regime’s curators will use them to give the Ukrainian armed forces time to rest, pump them up with weapons, and complete a regrouping of troops,” Gavrilov said in an interview dedicated to the 75th anniversary of NATO marked on April 4.
    A repeat of a scenario that emerged after the March 2022 talks in Istanbul when the Ukrainian armed forces received time to rest is unacceptable for Russia, Gavrilov added…
    ..”We have been through this before after the Istanbul talks in the spring of 2022, and the repetition of such a scenario is unacceptable to us. Therefore, at the moment, the future of the Ukrainian conflict is being decided on the battlefield, where our troops hold the initiative along the entire front line,” he noted.
    https://sputnikglobe.com/20240402/west-to-use-hypothetical-russia-ukraine-talks-to-supply-arms-to-zelensky–diplomat–1117691782.html

    John Helmer presents the analysis that Russian de-electrification of Ukrainian cities, a selective process, effectively drives civilians out of those cities into western Ukraine, Galicia, which stresses Galicia and it’s brand of fascist nationalism. The exception is that men who need to avoid military conscription may be safer lying low in dark cities.
    ELECTRIC WAR GOES WEST – DEPOPULATION TURNS INTO DISPLACEMENT TURNS INTO CIVIL WAR IN GALICIA
    Go West, young man – that American slogan of the mid-19th century is not an idea the Ukrainian men of Odessa, Kharkov, Dniepropetrovsk, Poltava and Sumy can contemplate today as long as the danger of press ganging into the army in Kiev and Lvov is a higher risk to their lives than staying put in the eastern cities as they collapse.
    They must calculate that they are better off trying to do without electricity in the east, and wait for the Kremlin to suspend the campaign – as it did during 2023 – or for the Russian General Staff to pressure the Novorussian cities to surrender to Russian control, when the Ukrainian men will be filtered but keep their lives.
    The women and children, however, are evacuating from Sumy and Kharkov.* The displacement of these easterners to the west, from Kiev to Lvov, is not yet being reported by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) which publishes its Ukrainian population movement data in the third week of each month…
    ..An unofficial Moscow source comments: “For the time being, the campaign is likely to leave enough lights on in Lvov to lure the displaced easterners there, and generate all sorts of communal friction. The westward process will repeat itself until Lvov and other border areas are huge refugee camps facing a bunch of nervous Poles, Romanians, Moldovans, etc. We’ll see what happens to Euro solidarity then.”

    ELECTRIC WAR GOES WEST – DEPOPULATION TURNS INTO DISPLACEMENT TURNS INTO CIVIL WAR IN GALICIA

    Military Summary has more about NATO-Ukrainian intentions to destroy the Crimean bridge, which is not a military objective, since there is already a railroad through the Crimean Peninsula, and also that NATO is moving troops into Romania to potentially try to take Odessa before Russia can.
    Crimean Bridge – Goal No. 1 | Romania Is Going To Send Troops To Ukraine. Military Summary 2024.04.3

    #156130
    John Day
    Participant

    (9 minutes of brevity and clarity) Peter Mccullough And Meryl Nass Discuss WHO Pandemic Treaty

    Peter Mccullough and Meryl Nass Discuss WHO Pandemic Treaty

    Meryl Nass MD is interviewed about WHO Treaties by Dr. Drew here, starting at 1:02 time mark and going for 20 minutes with prepared graphs and visual aids:
    https://drdrew.com/2024/xi-van-fleet-survivor-of-chinese-revolution-warns-usa-is-following-same-path-to-marxism-ask-dr-drew/

    USA has recorded over 1 Million Excess Deaths among the over 65’s since the FDA “approved” the COVID-19 Vaccine
    https://expose–news-com.translate.goog/2024/03/31/usa-1mil-excess-eaths-elderly-c19-jab/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

    EPA Allows Highly Toxic Weedkiller on Food Crops — But Not Golf Courses
    Concerns about the safety of paraquat, a highly toxic herbicide, pushed the EPA in 2021 to ban its use on golf courses — but the EPA still allows the weedkiller to be sprayed on almonds, walnuts, alfalfa and other crops.
    The Environmental Working Group (EWG) found in the study released on March 27 that 5.3 million pounds of paraquat were sprayed over a five-year period in California, the only state with readily available figures on the herbicide.
    Most of the weedkiller’s use was concentrated in central counties where farms produce almonds, walnuts, alfalfa and other crops — and where Latino people make up about 75% of the population and nearly the entire farm labor force.
    Ninety-six percent of farmworkers in the state are Latino, and 90% of people in the agricultural workforce were born outside of the U.S., making immigrants who often work for low wages among the people who are most affected by continued use of paraquat on farms.

    EPA Allows Highly Toxic Weedkiller on Food Crops — But Not Golf Courses

    Short video on 12 food crops to grow. You might have others, too, like black-eyed peas. Top Survival Crops

    #156131
    John Day
    Participant

    This seems wigged-out, but these guys are very practical and get “advice” from the Military Industrial Complex.
    Permian Oil Producers Eye Next-Gen Nuclear to Cleaner Drilling
    ​ American shale companies are eyeing the benefits of small nuclear reactors to power their Permian Basin drilling campaigns in order to reduce carbon emissions in a reliable and sustainable manner, Bloomberg reported on Monday.
    ​ Among those eyeing small nuclear reactors is the largest independent producer in the region, Diamondback Energy Inc, which Bloomberg reports has already signed a letter of intent for a supply of next-generation nuclear reactors.
    ​ The letter of intent was with Oklo Inc, whose CEO, Jacob Dewitte, reportedly told Bloomberg that the company was holding discussions with other oil producers, as well. In recent times, American shale producers in the Permian Basin have been retiring their diesel generators and shifting to power from the local grid, which is unreliable at times.​ https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Permian-Oil-Producers-Eye-Next-Gen-Nuclear-to-Cleaner-Drilling.html

    #156132
    WES
    Participant

    Why US Aid To The Ukraine Is Being Held Up :

    It isn’t the US that is holding up passage of US aid to the Ukraine.
    It is Mr. Z and the Ukraine Rada that are holding up passage of US aid.
    How?
    Remember the war deal is “to fight to the last Ukrainian”.
    It seems the corrupt Ukrainian politicians and elites of late are waffling on the deal they made with the US “to fight to the last Ukrainian”.
    Rada members have filed over 4,000 amendments to the new mobilization law to try and delay mobolizing everyone.
    Once the Rada passes the new mobilization law, then the US will pass aid for Ukraine.
    The Ukrainians have been hoping the US would pass the aid bill first, so the Ukrainians could hen welish on the deal.
    Not happening.

    Have you noticed any videos you see of the Ukraine, always features plenty of young Ukrainians?
    Like the video of cars leaving Kharkov.
    Video taken by young Ukrainian and all those cars being driven by men.
    So, yeah, the Ukraine has not even come close to killing off all of it’s men and women.
    Ukraine runs on corruption.
    Miss Lindsey wants to see more dead bodies.
    The US still has plenty of money for war.
    This war still has many more years to run.

    The reason the judge rejected Hunter Biden’s request is to protect him from being prosecuted for any of his of his many crimes. Once Joe Biden is re-elected all charges will disappear.

    The reason JFK doesn’t need any security is because he is deep state.

    #156133
    Celticbiker
    Participant

    Actions speak louder than words. What the jews are doing, right now, tells you all you need to know about them. This is just the beginning.. Death to all goyim, using money stolen from you to destroy you. The Fed, World Bank. BIS IMF…the whole fuckin world is knee deep in their satanic, deathcult money system.. Thats why no one stands against them as they murder with impunity. It’s a fucking disgrace. rubbed in your face every day. Where are the good and decent people? Do they not understand what the jew has in store for them?

    #156134
    zerosum
    Participant

    John,
    Crops for my circle of life
    This year, Just to help, In a 10 X 30 plot – garlic, onion, potatoes, kale, tomatoes

    #156135
    WES
    Participant

    So France’s brave sir neopolian Macron is sending troops to the Ukraine.
    Just not French troops but non-French foreign legion troops!
    After being kicked out of most of France’s African colonies, maybe France no longer needs the Foreign Legion anymore?
    Maybe France is sending the Foreign Legion troops to Ukraine for the Russians to eliminate?
    After deployment to Ukraine, new enlistments in the Foreign Legion will probably stop!
    Problem solved!

    The British have Gurkha soldiers, don’t they?
    Canada has Trudeau’s Nazis, don’t they?
    The US has millions of illegal aliens, don’t they?

    Is Russia helping more Ukrainians to flee to Europe?
    Cutting power means there soon will be little food left in the Ukraine.
    Will Europe try to prevent Ukrainians from entering the EU?
    How?

    The Ukraine is now a net importer of electrical power from Europe.
    Before the Ukraine was a net exporter of power to Europe.
    Since Ukraine can’t pay for this imported power, who will be paying instead?
    How does this help Europe’s energy shortage?
    Europe’s already paid for stored gas in Ukrainian gas storage facilities is now inaccessible.
    Eurooe’s Russian natural gas contracts all end Dec 31, 2024.

    #156136
    WES
    Participant

    Zerosum :
    You forgot the blueberries!

    #156137
    John Day
    Participant

    Israeli Journalist Breaks Bombshell Story: AI Technology Is Directing The Bombing Spree In Gaza: Mass Production Of Human Targets Without Hindrances: “It’s Called Broad Hunting”
    “They Took Down Four Buildings When They Knew The Target Was In One of Them. It Was Crazy.” Six Israeli Intelligence Officers Go On Record, Remorseful And Frightened Of Where It Will End
    https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/israeli-journalist-breaks-bombshell

    #156138
    John Day
    Participant

    @Zerosum: It’s not too late to plant black eyed peas. This is the kind Thomas Jefferson grew, the most grown variety in the US when people still grew vegetable gardens 50 years ago, Whippoorwill
    https://www.southernexposure.com/products/whippoorwill-southern-pea-cowpea/
    Whippoorwill Southern Pea
    Whippoorwill Cow Pea (Vigna unguiculata)
    They do well for me, and are getting bigger as the years go by in my garden.

    #156139
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    It is sad, but true that “you can always get half the poor people to kill off the other half.” But maybe a more accurate way of saying that is, it’s always easy to get half of any group to attack the other half of that same group simply by finding a wedge issue that separates people within it, and showing each side of that issue that the other side is trying to harm them, and that their personal self interest depends on wiping out that other group.

    Here is an example and one I intend to use. The idea is that I write a letter to the JDL, the Jewish Defense League. I use hyper security in this correspondence, because it’s dealing with the living lightning and I don’t want to get zapped. Basically, I warn them in a purely friendly and benevolent way that there is another Holocaust brewing. And that sadly enough, the core issue of this Holocaust, the the single item that is going to make it happen is very similar to the single item core issue that brought about the first Holocaust, and that is Jewish bankers.

    Hitler presented a moderately coherent argument that the Jewish bankers and Jewish financiers, the Jewish industrialists, and upper middle class investors were largely responsible for the decimation of World War One Germany. This was possible, because the general outline of his argument was true. Or perhaps I should say, both of the key assertions he made within his argument were true. Point one is that these various financial identities did significantly impede World War One Germany. And Point two is that yes, many of those people were Jewish.

    The lie of his faulty logic, of course, (but it is a difficult fault to articulate) was to imply that there was a causal relationship between the actions of those people and the Jewishness of those people. In other words, the crime that was alleged was the crime that they committed, but the CRIMINAL part of the crime was not in their being Jewish. Anyone, regardless of religious beliefs or lack thereof, using finance and banking to wipe out a nation would be committing a crime. Anybody doing that would be criminal. The fact of their being Jewish, would irrelevant and immaterial. It’s the doing that is the crime, not the being.

    But the human survival based instincts are so strong that the mental association between appearances and experiences is virtually welded into our mental equipment. If something is perceived to be a poisonous sake then you damn well better treat it like a poisonous snake until proven otherwise, or you eventually you won’t be making many more choices about anything.

    By controlling information, propaganda and censorship it was thus an easy sell for Germany to convince its population that bastards are evil because they are Jewish, instead of the truth that evil bastards are bastards because they are evil. Nasty trick, truly nasty.

    Well, the same thing is happening again. The world is being wiped out by financiers, and banks, corporations and hugely rich private investors. It’s true that it is happening. And it is also true that many if not most of the key individuals involved in that are Jewish. It’s not rocket science, to investigate the list of the richest banks, corporations and investment dynasties in the world, along with their boards of directors and key officers and major shareholders and discover that a very highly disproportionate number of them are Jewish.

    It’s not like I’m the only guy who’s noticed this.

    And it’s setting up the Jews of the world for another Holocaust. Somebody, some mis-wired neo nazi wannabe killer out there is going to take another run at wiping out the Jews. So if the Jewish Defense League really wants to protect the Jews of the world from another Holocaust, they better start distancing themselves from the bankers and the finance ears, and the corporate officers and the major shareholders of the oligarchs of the world. They better start distancing Jews from that group. Because the association is just too difficult to avoid, even in one’s own mind. It is so difficult, in fact, that it’s a lock cinch certainty that a sufficient plurality of mankind will simply make an identification type association between Jew and oligarch, Jew and banker, Jew and financier, Jew and cold blooded killer of innocent children.

    They won’t be able to prevent themselves from doing it, even though it is illogical to do so. The way the human brain is put together, the association is going to be made you you can’t stop it. Unless you establish in advance and at great effort and expense, a DIS-association between those things. Here are some examples of the sort of illogic that is going to wipe out the Jews.

    Most violent crime in New York City is committed by black drug kings and their minions. The association that gets put in people’s minds therefore is that all black people are drug criminals and violent. Well, obviously, it’s not true.

    Here is a similar Association. Because so many acts of terrorism are committed by Muslims, many people fear and behave on the assumption (the sub-conscious association) that all Muslims are terrorists. Stop them ALL. Better safe than sorry.

    Likewise, because most outrageous acts of Imperial terrorism are committed by Americans. All Americans are Imperial terrorists. Because virtually all serial killers are young white males than all young white males are serial killers. You get the point.

    Just because the vast majority of oligarchs are Jewish, does not mean that all Jews are oligarchs or act like them. Quite the contrary.

    Anyway, that’s where it’s headed. If the Jewish Defense League are serious at all about protecting the actual rights and lives of Jews around the world (which I seriously doubt), then they better get cracking because we’re headed straight for another Holocaust. It’s just a matter of time until some skinhead Neo fucking Nazi gets started making the case. And folks, it’s an easy sell. They’re going to succeed unless we stop them. And that is what I need to tell the JDL, and probably some other folks, too.

    #156140
    zerosum
    Participant

    D Benton Smith
    You have a knack of writing parallel universe scenes.

    Wes
    Farmers grow acres of blue berries

    John
    No beans, peas, this year.

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