Apr 092024
 


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America Has a Third World Economy (Paul Craig Roberts)
Lara Trump: RNC Focused Like a Laser on Election Integrity (ET)
Trump Says Abortion Should Be Decided By States, ‘Will Of The People’ (ZH)
Insiders Describe Trump’s Ukraine Plan To Washington Post (RT)
“Plainly Erred”: Judge Reggie Walton Rebuked by DC Circuit in J6 Case (Turley)
Historic ‘Uncommitted’ Vote Will SCREW Biden 2024 (Snyder)
Brutal, Chaotic War (Alastair Crooke)
Even With AI ‘Kill List’, Israel ‘No Closer to Achieving’ Goals (Sp.)
Just Nuke Gaza, Get It Over Quick: Representative Tim Walberg (SCF)
Centuria, Ukraine’s Western-trained neo-Nazi Army (GZ)
US ‘Deep State’ Will Call Shots in Ukraine, Not Trump or Biden (Sp.)
Federal Judge Rebukes DOJ on Refusal to Comply with House Subpoenas (Turley)
‘Brazil’s Darth Vader’ Orders Investigation Into Elon Musk (ZH)
FAA Investigating Boeing 737 That Lost Engine Cover During Takeoff (Sp.)
The Emperor Of Ice Cream Is Russian Ice Cream (Helmer)
Louisiana Senate Passes Bill to Push Back Against UN, WEF and WHO (PB)

 

 

 

 

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“The tell-tale sign of a third world economy is the concentration of wealth in the hands of a tiny minority. In the United States this is called “democracy.”

America Has a Third World Economy (Paul Craig Roberts)

Friday’s jobs report, the financial press tells us, “blew past projections,” with a monthly jobs gain of 303,000 compared to the 231,000 average over the past year. The Biden economy is gathering steam. In actual fact the jobs report shows that the United States is continuing its collapse into third worldism. A first world economy is characterized by high productivity, high value-added manufacturing and industrial jobs. A third world economy is characterized by low productivity service and government jobs. As I have reported for 30 years, the US has transitioned from the first to the third world.

The jobs report shows that. In March America lost jobs in primary metal manufacturing, fabricated metal product manufacturing, machinery manufacturing, computer and electronic product manufacturing, computer and peripheral equipment manufacturing, communications equipment manufacturing, semiconductor and other electronic component manufacturing, electrical equipment, appliance, and component manufacturing, furniture and related product manufacturing, food manufacturing, textile product manufacturing, apparel manufacturing, plastics and rubber products manufacturing, leather and allied product manufacturing. 190,000 of the jobs are in services, and 71,000 are in government. In other words, 86% of the jobs gain reflect the third world pattern. The service jobs are in wholesale and retail trade, health care and social assistance, and waitresses and bartenders. The high tech jobs we were promised in exchange for offshoring US manufacturing industry are hardly visible and certainly did not provide opportunities for displaced manufacturing workers. Moreover, most tech jobs–AI, robotics, software programs–are aimed at displacing humans from the work force.

The offshoring of US manufacturing destroyed the middle class, state and local government budgets, the ladders of upward mobility, and concentrated the wealth of the country in one percent of the population. That one percent itself is a massively wide wealth range from $11 million to 200,000 million, which are certainly not comparable wealth positions. The difference is the same as between $11 and $200,000. American wealth is concentrated in the hands of multi-billionaires who comprise one-tenth of one percent or less of the population. The tell-tale sign of a third world economy is the concentration of wealth in the hands of a tiny minority. In the United States this is called “democracy.” And an increase in third world jobs is misrepresented as economic progress. They will never stop lying to us.

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They will need to be.

Lara Trump: RNC Focused Like a Laser on Election Integrity (ET)

Republican National Committee (RNC) co-chair Lara Trump said Sunday that election integrity is a top priority in the upcoming November election and the committee is focused on it “like a laser.” During an interview with Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” on April 7, Ms. Trump said that the committee will dedicate all of its resources to its Election Integrity Division “as needed.” “When you talk about election integrity, it is vital. It is the number one thing that we are focused on, aside from getting out the vote, which, of course, Donald Trump himself will do for us,” Ms. Trump said. “We are making sure that we leave nothing to chance because we have to understand the importance of this election,” she added. Former President Donald Trump raked in a massive $50.5 million in funds for his reelection bid on Saturday. With this funding, Ms. Trump, the daughter-in-law of President Trump, said the RNC can now afford to ensure that poll workers are trained and lawyers are present in every voting precinct.

“Prior to last night, the largest single event fundraiser in politics ever was the one that Joe Biden had. And he needed three presidents to haul in $26 million,” she said, referring to President Biden’s fundraiser in March, which included former presidents Barrack Obama and Bill Clinton. “We needed one man, Donald J. Trump, one president, to double that,” Ms. Trump added. Ms. Trump said that the outcome of this fundraiser event reflects a shift where “people are not sitting on the sidelines anymore.” “They understand what’s at stake. It’s a must-win election. And from the election integrity perspective, we’re focused on it like a laser at the RNC,” she added. Under a joint-fundraising agreement, funds from the fundraiser event will go to the Trump campaign, the former president’s Save America PAC, the RNC, and state GOP parties.

RNC chair Michael Whatley, who was also present for the interview, said the committee will spend “every dollar” raised on two “critical core” missions: increasing voter turnout and protecting the ballot. Mr. Whatley said that the RNC is working with state legislatures, boards of elections, and secretaries of state to ensure the implementation of the rules of the road. The committee will file lawsuits if the rules are not adhered to, he said, adding that the RNC had filed over 80 lawsuits in 24 states “to make sure that we have the ground ready to go for safe elections.” The committee has also been recruiting and training thousands of observers and attorneys “to make sure that we are in the room” when a vote is cast and counted, Mr. Whatley said.

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“Many states will be different, many will have a different number of weeks or some will have more conservative than others, and that’s what they will be..”

Trump Says Abortion Should Be Decided By States, ‘Will Of The People’ (ZH)

Former President Donald Trump said in a Monday announcement that he believes abortion should be left to the states and that in-vitro fertilization (IFV) should be available, he said in a video statement posted on Truth Social. “My view is…the states will determine by legislation or vote or perhaps both, and whatever they decide must be the law of the land. In this case, the law of the state. Many states will be different, many will have a different number of weeks or some will have more conservative than others, and that’s what they will be. At the end of the day, this is all about the will of the people,” Trump said. “You must follow your heart or, in many cases, your religion or your faith. Do what’s right for your family and do what’s right for yourself…do what’s right for our country.”

Trump had previously indicated that he would publish his position regarding abortion, which is a large departure from a federal abortion limit that some Republicans have pushed for. He also said regarding IVF, “We want to make it easier for mothers and families to have babies, not harder. That includes supporting the availability of fertility treatments like IVF in every state in America.” Last week, Trump told reporters at a Michigan campaign stop that he would make a statement in the coming week, after he was asked about Florida’s controversial six-week abortion ban.

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Smells more like WaPo campaigning.

“..mere “speculation” by “uninformed sources who have no idea what is going on or what will happen”..

Insiders Describe Trump’s Ukraine Plan To Washington Post (RT)

Ukraine will have to give up some of the territory it currently claims to Russia as part of a peace deal envisioned by former US President Donald Trump, The Washington Post reported on Sunday, citing anonymous insiders. The Republican nominee for the November election has boasted on numerous occasions that he would be able to end the Ukraine conflict in 24 hours, should he win the presidency. However, Trump has declined to provide details on his plan. The terms that Trump wants to push through involve Kiev’s acknowledgement of Crimea and Donbass as parts of Russia, the newspaper said, citing people who discussed the issue with the former president or his advisers. However, his campaign downplayed those accounts as mere “speculation” by “uninformed sources who have no idea what is going on or what will happen”.

Crimea has been a part of Russia since 2014, when residents rejected a US-backed armed coup in Kiev and voted in a referendum to seek Russian protection from the new government. The Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics also defied the post-coup authorities and took up arms, when Kiev sent in the army to quash them. Ukraine’s refusal to implement a roadmap for reconciliation with Donbass, the so-called Minsk Agreements, and preparation for renewed hostilities, were cited by Moscow as the key triggers of the current conflict. Western officials have pledged military support for Kiev for “as long as it takes” to resist Russia. However a string of battlefield setbacks for Ukrainian forces and the Western failure to provide sufficient aid have put a dent in the strategy.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg last week urged foreign donors to ramp up support, with the aim of giving Kiev a stronger position during hypothetical peace talks. “The way to convince Russia that they have to sit down and accept a solution where Ukraine prevails as a sovereign independent democratic nation in Europe is to give military support to Ukraine,” he told the BBC on Sunday. “Of course, at the end of the day it has to be Ukraine that decides what kind of compromises they are willing to [make].” Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has declared full the capture of lost territories, including Crimea, as the only outcome of the conflict that his government will accept. Moscow has said it is willing to negotiate, if Kiev acknowledges the “reality on the ground”.

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As I said yesterday: “The judge really wants to go after Tucker Carlson.”

“..the Justice Department continues to act with a sense of utter impunity, particularly when judges are willing to blithely sign off on such orders..”

“Plainly Erred”: Judge Reggie Walton Rebuked by DC Circuit in J6 Case (Turley)

D.C. Circuit Judge Reggie Walton recently caused a stir in Washington after doing an interview with CNN in which he rebuked former President Donald Trump for his criticism of judges and their family members. Now, Judge Walton has been criticized by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia for a surveillance order of the computer of a January 6th defendant to detect any spreading of “disinformation” or “misinformation.”
Critics charged that Walton’s interview with CNN ran afoul of Canon 3A(6) of the Code of Conduct for United States Judges, which states: “A judge should not make public comment on the merits of a matter pending or impending in any court.” The issue of these public statements by Trump is currently pending before both state and federal courts, including proceedings in the District of Columbia. At a minimum, Judge Walton’s interview showed poor judicial judgment and only reaffirmed the distrust and suspicion of many over the independence of the court system in addressing these controversial cases.

Judge Walton previously called Trump a “charlatan,” and said that “I don’t think he cares about democracy, only power.” I have previously criticized Trump for public comments against judges and believe that such matters should be primarily raised in court filings. Nevertheless, I have serious objections to the scope of these gag orders on free speech grounds, particularly before an election that could turn in large part on allegations of the weaponization of the legal system. Moreover, we now have a judge who feels the same license to make such criticisms in the media despite the ongoing litigation of these matters. That alleged transgression, however, pales in comparison to a failure to protect the rights of this defendant from the abusive or unsupported surveillance of the government.

The order reflects the utter impunity shown by the Justice Department in its pursuit of January 6th defendants. Justice Department official Michael Sherwin proudly declared in a television interview that “our office wanted to ensure that there was shock and awe … it worked because we saw through media posts that people were afraid to come back to D.C. because they’re, like, ‘If we go there, we’re gonna get charged.’ … We wanted to take out those individuals that essentially were thumbing their noses at the public for what they did.”

Sherwin was celebrated for his pledge to use such draconian means to send a message to others in the country. (Sherwin has left the Justice Department and is now a partner at Kobre & Kim). The surveillance of the computer shows that the Justice Department continues to act with a sense of utter impunity, particularly when judges are willing to blithely sign off on such orders. The case involved Daniel Goodwyn, 35, of Corinth, Texas, who pleaded guilty on Jan. 31, 2023, to one misdemeanor count of entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds without lawful authority. That is a relatively minor offense but Walton imposed a 60-day jail sentence in June 2023.

Walton reportedly noted that Goodwyn spread “disinformation” during a broadcast of “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on March 14, 2023 and ordered that Mr. Goodwyn’s computer be subject to “monitoring and inspection” by a probation agent to check if he spread Jan. 6 disinformation during the term of his supervised release. As a condition for supervised release, the Justice Department was reportedly seeking evidence on the defendant’s political opinions and Walton felt that that was fine. The appellate judges (Gregory Katsas, Neomi Rao, and Bradley Garcia) did not: “The district court plainly erred in imposing the computer-monitoring condition without considering whether it was ‘reasonably related’ to the relevant sentencing factors and involved ‘no greater deprivation of liberty than is reasonably necessary’ to achieve the purposes behind the sentencing.”

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Protest vote.

Historic ‘Uncommitted’ Vote Will SCREW Biden 2024 (Snyder)

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“We are very clear that we want to start a war with Iran and Hezbollah. Do you still not understand?”

Brutal, Chaotic War (Alastair Crooke)

We stand on the cusp of what might be termed Chaotic War. Not the formula used by Israel often in the past to intimidate adversaries; this is different. Israeli reporter Eddie Cohen said, in the wake of the attack on the Iranian Consulate: “We are very clear that we want to start a war with Iran and Hezbollah. Do you still not understand?” “Israel wants to drag Iran into a full-scale war in order to be able to strike at Iran’s nuclear facilities”, though these facilities are beyond American and Israeli reach, buried beneath mountains. Cohen, and of course, Israel’s military leadership, will know that; but Israel nonetheless is locking itself into a logic that can only lead to defeat. Iran’s nuclear facilities are safe from Israeli assault. The destruction of civilian Iranian infrastructure, which is out in the open, may kill many, but will not, per se, collapse the Iranian state. Trita Parsi places Israel’s objective in attacking the Iranian Consulate in Damascus in a different context:

“An important aspect of Israel’s conduct – and Biden’s acquiescence to it – is that Israel is engaged in a deliberate and systematic effort to destroy existing laws and norms around warfare. Even during wartime, embassies are off-limits [yet] Israel just bombed an Iranian diplomatic compound in Damascus. Bombing hospitals is a war crime, [yet] Israel has bombed EVERY hospital in Gaza. It has even assassinated doctors and patients inside hospitals. The ICJ obligated Israel to allow the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza. Israel actively prevents aid from coming in. Starvation of civilians as a method of warfare is prohibited under international humanitarian law. Israel has deliberately created a famine in Gaza. Indiscriminate bombings are illegal under international humanitarian law. Biden himself admits that Israel is bombing Gaza indiscriminately”.

The list goes on and on … However, Israel’s breach of Vienna Convention immunity accorded to diplomatic premises – plus the stature of those killed – is highly significant. It is a major signal: Israel wants war – but with U.S. support, of course. Israel’s aim, firstly, is to destroy the norms, conventions and laws of warfare; to create geo-political anarchy in which anything goes, and by which, with the White House frustrated, yet acquiescing to each norm of conduct obtrusively trodden underfoot, allows Netanyahu to grip the U.S. bridle and lead the White House horse to water – towards his regional End of Times ‘Great Victory’; a necessarily brutal war – beyond existing red lines and devoid of limits. As symbolically significant as the Damascus attack is that the U.S., France and Britain – after a brief ‘hat tip’ to the Vienna Convention – refused to condemn the levelling of the Iranian Consulate, thus placing the shadow of doubt over the Vienna Convention’s immunity for diplomatic premises.

Implicitly, this refusal to condemn will be widely understood as a soft condoning of Israel’s first tentative step towards war with Hizbullah and Iran. This Israeli chaotic ‘Biblical’ nihilism, however, bears no relationship in purely rational terms to Netanyahu’s aspiration for a ‘Great Victory’. The reality is that Israel has lost its deterrence. It won’t return; the deep anger across the Islamic world generated by Israel through its massacres in Gaza during the last six months precludes it. Yet, there is a second, adjunct reason why Israel is set on deliberately flouting humanitarian law and norms: Israeli journalist, Yuval Abraham reports in +972 Magazine in great depth how Israel has developed a AI machine (called ‘Lavender’) to generate kill lists in Gaza – with almost no human verification; only a “rubber stamp” check of about “20 seconds” to make sure the AI target is male (as no females are known to belong to the Resistance’s military).

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“Israel refuses to accept a political solution to end the war because the right-wing government of Prime Minister Netanyahu has made a ‘virtue’ out of this conflict..”

Even With AI ‘Kill List’, Israel ‘No Closer to Achieving’ Goals (Sp.)

The Israel Defense Forces announced Sunday that the “active invasion stage” of its campaign in Gaza had reached its end, withdrawing elements of Division 98 from Khan Yunis, southern Gaza while marking the intention to continue the occupation the strip’s central and northern areas using forces from the 162nd Division’s Brigade 401 and the 933rd Nahal Brigade. “The 98th Commando Division has concluded its mission in Khan Yunis,” the IDF said in a statement. “The division left the Gaza Strip in order to recuperate and prepare for future operations.” “A significant force led by the 162nd Division and the Nahal Brigade continues to operate in the Gaza Strip and will preserve the IDF’s freedom of action and its ability to conduct precise intelligence based operations,” the military said. Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant stressed that an operation at the Rafah checkpoint separating Gaza from Egypt was still planned, but offered no further details.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Netanyahu said in a cabinet meeting Sunday that Israel was “one step away from victory” but that “the price we paid is painful and heartbreaking” (presumably referring to Israeli troop losses). Commenting on truce talks imminently expected to resume in Cairo, Netanyahu said “there will be no ceasefire without the return of hostages.” While the IDF assures that the shift in its operations has nothing to do with mounting international pressure on Israel, Israeli media have said that the “timing was unmistakable,” and likely connected to backlash stemming from the IDF’s targeted killings of seven humanitarian aid workers in Gaza last week. Sunday’s shift in approach comes days after Israel announced the opening of the Erez Crossing separating northern Gaza from southern Israel, and allowed the temporary use of Ashdod Port for aid deliveries amid reported threats by Washington – its main foreign sponsor, to cut off arms aid.

Israel first began scaling back the intensity of its Gaza ground offensive in January, shifting part of its forces, including Division 63, to the northern border with Lebanon amid escalating back-and-forth skirmishes with Hezbollah and fears of a second front opening up in the north. Division 98 claimed partial victory in the Khan Yunis area in February, but left forces on the ground, supposedly for the purpose of getting concessions from Hamas in hostage negotiations. “Six months after Israel launched its attack under the banner of self-defense and the stated objective of destroying Hamas, Israel is no closer to achieving its military goals,” Professor Shahram Akbarzadeh, a Middle Eastern politics expert at Deakin University in Australia, told Sputnik. “Hamas continues to engage Israeli forces in skirmishes. Israeli hostages are still in Hamas captivity and the civilian toll is mounting by the minute. Israel refuses to accept a political solution to end the war because the right-wing government of Prime Minister Netanyahu has made a ‘virtue’ out of this conflict,” Dr. Akbarzadeh said.

In the past six months, Israel has seriously undermined its international standing, and the reputation of its military, with Arab countries who once considered inking formal relations with Tel Aviv shying away from the idea, and the bloody nose the Israeli military got fighting Hamas and its allies showing that the IDF of today has become a shadow of its former self. As far as Sunday’s partial IDF withdrawal from southern Gaza is concerned, Akbarzadeh said that it’s “hard to read too much into the IDF relocation of troops in the absence of any signal from the Israeli government regarding a ceasefire or a break in fighting.” The IDF says 604 Israeli troops have been killed through the course of fighting in the past six months (Hamas estimates Israeli losses at over 1,600 troops killed). The IDF says 32,000 “terrorist targets” were struck over the course of the campaign and that over 13,000 militants were killed in Gaza.

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God complex. “Walberg went on to say that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has “moral clarity.”

Just Nuke Gaza, Get It Over Quick: Representative Tim Walberg (SCF)

The Jews are closely associated with the word holocaust. The word is culturally attached to the Jewish people, recalling a terrible genocide in Europe in the WW2 era which killed millions. It wasn’t the first genocide of modern times, that was committed on the Armenians and Syrian Christians in 1916, and it likely will not be the last genocide. We are currently watching the 2024 genocide in Gaza. Similarly, the Japanese are closely associated with the word Hiroshima, recalling the twin U.S. attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki which turned some 100,000 people instantly into ashes, and killed thousands more in the days that followed, mostly civilians. On March 25, U.S. Representative Tim Walberg, Republican of Michigan, was speaking at a town hall meeting in Dundee, Michigan. He was asked a question about why U.S. money is being spent to build a port to deliver humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza.

Walberg said, “It’s (President) Joe Biden’s reason. I don’t think we should. I don’t think any of our aid that goes to Israel to support our greatest ally, arguably maybe in the world, to defeat Hamas, and Iran and Russia and probably North Korea’s in there and China too, with them helping Hamas. We shouldn’t be spending a dime on humanitarian aid. It should be like Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Get it over quick.” After the video of Walberg’s calling for the Palestinian people in Gaza to be nuked went viral on social media, Walberg spokesman Mike Rorke confirmed the validity of the video. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI), a Michigan chapter of the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, condemned Walberg’s call to end humanitarian aid for the Palestinian people in Gaza and instead nuke the civilian population into extermination.

Humanitarian groups and the UN say a port is necessary because Israel has blocked seven land routes for food and medicine to get in to Gaza. The UN warns that famine is “imminent” in Gaza. The International Court of Justice last week ruled unanimously that Israel must allow humanitarian assistance to enter Gaza because “famine is setting in.” Walberg serves as the U.S. Congressional representative from Michigan’s 5th congressional district. He has previously represented the 7th district from 2007 to 2009 and from 2011 to 2023. As the longest tenured member from Michigan, Walberg is the current Dean of its delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives. From 1973 to 1977, Walberg served as pastor at Grace Fellowship Church in New Haven, Indiana. He also spent time as a pastor and as a division manager for the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. Walberg often talks about his faith guiding his politics. A graduate of three evangelical schools: Moody Bible Institute in Illinois, Tayler University in Indiana, and Wheaton College in Illinois.

In February, Moody published a quote from Walberg, “Living out my biblical worldview and not succumbing to acquiesce in any way, shape, or form to anything that God condemns. … I can’t — by silence or direct statement — condone what God condemns.” In an interview with World magazine, Walberg said, “Everything comes at me through the filter of my faith. It has to be that way if this is more than a religion.” In April 2019, a Jewish group at the University of Michigan hosted Walberg speaking. Walberg spoke on how his religion guides his support for Israel. He said the main reason he fervently believes the U.S. must support Israel is because he believes God supports Israel. “I read the Torah, I’ve read the entire Old Testament,” Walberg said. “What God condemns, I condemn. Who God loves I will love. If I don’t, I’m a sinner.” Walberg went on to say that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has “moral clarity.” “The most impressive experience was being able to be with Bibi Netanyahu,” Walberg said. “In his presence, I understand very clearly he knows good from evil, right from wrong, success from failure.”

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“Unlike the US, Germany does not enjoy an ocean-length buffer between itself and the fascistic proxy warriors it sponsors in Ukraine..”

“There is no way of predicting how the millions of Ukrainian refugees in European countries would react to their country being abandoned.”

Centuria, Ukraine’s Western-trained neo-Nazi Army (GZ)

Centuria, an ultra-violent Ukrainian Neo-Nazi faction, has cemented itself in six cities across Germany, and is seeking to expand its local presence. According to Junge Welt, a Berlin-based Marxist daily, the Nazi organization’s growth has been “unhindered by local security services.” Junge Welt traces Centuria’s origins to an August 2020 Neo-Nazi summit “at the edge of a forest near Kiev.” There, an ultranationalist named Igor “Tcherkas” Mikhailenko demanded the “hundreds of mostly masked vigilante fighters present,” who were members Kiev’s fascistic National Militia, “make sacrifices for the idea of ‘Greater Ukraine.’” As the former head of the Neo-Nazi Patriot of Ukraine’s Kharkiv division, and commander of the state sponsored Azov Battalion from 2014 to 2015, Mikhailenko has professed a desire to “destroy everything anti-Ukrainian.”

Junge Welt reports that since 2017, the National Militia “had been practicing brutal vigilante justice” throughout Ukraine, including “tyrannizing the LGBTQ scene.” Centuria was subsequently blamed for a terrifying November 2021 attack on a gay nightclub in Kiev, in which its operatives assaulted revelers with truncheons and pepper spray. Now the same Neo-Nazi sect “has an offshoot in Germany,” Junge Welt revealed. On August 24 2023, the 32nd anniversary of Ukraine’s independence, Centuria convened a “nationalist rally” in the central city of Magdeburg, “unmolested by Antifa and critical media reporting.” Participants proudly posed with the flag of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) founded by World War II-era Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera. Centuria boasted at the time on Telegram, “although Ukrainian youth are not in their homeland, they are starting to unite.” Meanwhile, they threatened the “enemies” of their country with “hellish storm,” pledging that “Ukrainian emigrants” would not “forget their national identity for a few hundred euros.”

Junge Welt reports that Centuria “is currently raising funds for its parent organization’s combat unit,” which is commanded by Andriy Biletsky – the Azov Battalion founder who infamously stated in 2014 that the Ukrainian nation’s mission was to “lead the white races of the world in a final crusade… against Semite-led Untermenschen.” At home, Centuria’s members express similar attitudes towards Muslims, Africans, and gays, whom they refer to, respectively, as the “German Caliphate,” “black rapists,” and “pedophiles.” Now, the group’s members are working hard to pass their ideological vision down to future racists across the continent. “We are creating a new generation of heroes!” Centuria’s Telegram channel boasts. Accordingly, the neo-Nazi group has been arranging hiking trips to Germany’s Harz mountains with a Ukrainian nationalist scout association called Plast. This outfit opened chapters across the Western world beginning in the 1950s, in response to the Soviet Union’s hounding of fascists and nationalists.

Besides receiving ideological indoctrination, Plast’s youthful members may have the opportunity to improve their physical fitness and receive military training. As Centuria ominously declares on Telegram, “free people have weapons.” As Washington gradually backs away from its sponsorship of Ukraine’s war with Russia, it has begun ceding responsibility for the military campaign’s management – and likely failure – to Berlin. If US arms shipments continue to dwindle, Germany will become Kiev’s chief supplier of weapons. And the Germans may find that saying “no” to Ukraine could result in some nasty surprises. Unlike the US, Germany does not enjoy an ocean-length buffer between itself and the fascistic proxy warriors it sponsors in Ukraine. After Ukraine’s much-hyped counteroffensive finally collapsed in late 2023, its president, Volodymyr Zelensky, grumbled a veiled threat during an interview with the Economist: “There is no way of predicting how the millions of Ukrainian refugees in European countries would react to their country being abandoned.”

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“..the strategic patience embodied by former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping’s mantra: “hide your strength, bide your time.”

US ‘Deep State’ Will Call Shots in Ukraine, Not Trump or Biden (Sp.)

Former US President Donald Trump has startled European leaders in recent weeks with plans to interfere in the functioning of NATO and reorient US foreign policy if reelected this November. The brash real estate magnate frequently threatens Western allies with cuts to US funding for the decades-old alliance and has recently touted a proposal he claims would rapidly bring the war in the Donbass to an end. Both ideas have proven distinctly unappetizing to Europe’s political elite, who reject any concession of territory to Russia regardless of the wishes of the region’s inhabitants. The threat of Trump’s restoration to power has prompted moves to provide Ukraine with a multi-year fund for President Volodymyr Zelensky to continue hostilities whether his country is supported by the United States or not. But the ultimate decision over whether American aid will continue to flow to the embattled leader may not lie with the US president at all.

That’s according to international relations and security analyst Mark Sleboda, who made the provocative comment on Sputnik’s Fault Lines program Monday. “They’re playing a completely different information warfare game than the Kiev regime,” noted the expert, responding to Russia’s successes on the battlefield in recent days. “The Kiev regime in its eight-month hyped runup to their badly failed NATO proxy offensive in the south – where they were mauled and defeated by Russian forces – They were running… movie-quality trailers, hyping up their offensive.” “And it was on the front page of every major publication and news hour in the West.” Russia, meanwhile, appears to subscribe to the strategic patience embodied by former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping’s mantra: “hide your strength, bide your time.” “Russia is playing a game of operational silence,” Sleboda claimed. “While the Avdeyevka siege was going on, the Russian Ministry of Defense never even said the name Avdeyevka. It was completely left out of reports.

So obviously one of the reasons [for Russia’s success] is operational security. They’re not giving any information extra to the West or the Kiev regime forces.” “Another thing is there continue to be rumors and there’s no question that there’s large numbers of Russian troops that have signed up as volunteers, like more than 400,000 now,” he added. A surge of patriotic fervor has spurred thousands of Russian citizens towards military recruitment centers – especially after last month’s terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall concert venue, for which Russians widely assign blame to Ukraine. Kiev, meanwhile, has relied on forcible conscriptions to fill the ranks of its depleted military as draft dodging remains a major problem for the country. Ukraine’s chronic struggles may lead some observers to conclude the country should seek negotiations with Moscow, something Russian President Vladimir Putin has consistently urged. But Sleboda claims forces behind the scenes will insist on continuing to use the country as a battering ram against Russia.

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“I think it’s quite rich you guys pursue criminal investigations and put people in jail for not showing up . . . And now you guys are flouting those subpoenas. . . . And you don’t have to show up?”

Federal Judge Rebukes DOJ on Refusal to Comply with House Subpoenas (Turley)

“Are you kidding me?” Those are four words that no lawyer wants to hear from a judge in a hearing. But that was not the least of it for Justice Department lawyers fighting House subpoenas into the Biden corruption scandal. U.S. District Court Judge Ana Reyes slammed the DOJ for stonewalling Congress on the subpoenas while imprisoning figures like former Trump adviser Peter Navarro for doing the same thing. The Biden Administration has blocked the testimony of prosecutors Mark Daly and Jack Morgan, who were involved in an inexplicable decision of the Justice Department to allow major felonies against Hunter Biden to lapse. In prior hearings, IRS whistleblowers testified that they had an agreement on the table to extend the statute of limitations on the crimes, but Special Counsel David Weiss allowed the period to lapse without any explanation. Since the DOJ was in the midst of a plea negotiations, it made no sense that the DOJ would simply kill potential charges.

The handling of the Hunter Biden investigation has been widely criticized as affording special treatment to the President’s son, including scuttling searches of Biden property and giving Hunter a heads up before attempts to interview him. Ultimately, the DOJ cut a plea bargain with Hunter that many of us rejected as laughable. It not only failed to charge the full array of still viable criminal allegations (including being an unregistered foreign agent), but included an absurd immunity agreement that would bar future charges. The plea agreement fell apart in open court after the judge asked the lead prosecutor a simple question of whether in his long career he had ever seen such an immunity deal. He answered no. Yet even after that meltdown, the DOJ admits that it tried to restore most of the agreement, but Hunter Biden’s team was insistent that the original deal remained enforceable — a position repeatedly rejected by later courts.

The DOJ was in a bizarre position. Its effort to give Hunter a sweetheart deal — or at least most of the original deal — could not occur because the beneficiary wanted it all. It had little choice but to charge him with the tax and gun crimes. The House is in the midst of an impeachment inquiry that includes allegations of influence over the Hunter investigation. While insisting that there was no pressure or special dealing in the matter, the DOJ has blocked key sources of evidence. That led to the House subpoenas. I also have previously written on the sharp contrast between the Hunter Biden charges and those against Sen. Menendez despite the underlying similarities. The only way for the House to investigate such corrupt special dealings is to interview the principle actors, including these two attorneys.

Otherwise, as Democratic members have done, critics can insist that they have no direct evidence of wrongdoing. It appears that confusion expressed by many of us is shared by Judge Reyes. Judge Reyes noted the obvious: “There’s a person in jail right now because you all brought a criminal lawsuit against him because he did not appear for a House subpoena.” The DOJ demanded six months in prison. Navarro is now serving a four-month sentence. Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon also received a four-month sentence. Reyes noted that “I think it’s quite rich you guys pursue criminal investigations and put people in jail for not showing up . . . And now you guys are flouting those subpoenas. . . . And you don’t have to show up?” Reyes noted that the DOJ lawyers were “making a bunch of arguments that you would never accept from any other litigant . . . I imagine that there are hundreds, if not thousands of defense attorneys . . . who would be happy to hear that DOJ’s position is, if you don’t agree with a subpoena, if you believe it’s unconstitutional or unlawful, you can unilaterally not show up.”

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“Musk said that Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes had “brazenly and repeatedly betrayed the constitution and people of Brazil,” and should “resign or be impeached.”

‘Brazil’s Darth Vader’ Orders Investigation Into Elon Musk (ZH)

Brazil’s activist Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes has ordered an investigation into Elon Musk, after the billionaire vowed to defy a court order as part of an ongoing probe into social media accounts allegedly spreading misinformation and ‘hate’ speech. “The flagrant conduct of obstruction of Brazilian justice, incitement of crime, the public threat of disobedience of court orders and future lack of cooperation from the platform are facts that disrespect the sovereignty of Brazil,” wrote de Moraes – who Musk called “Brazil’s Darth Vader” over the weekend. While X initially said in a Saturday post that they would comply, blocking certain popular accounts in Brazil – Musk said an hour later, after the release of the “TWITTER FILES BRAZIL,” that they would not, noting that “As a result, we will probably lose all revenue in Brazil and have to shut down our office there.”

in a Sunday post, Musk said that Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes had “brazenly and repeatedly betrayed the constitution and people of Brazil,” and should “resign or be impeached.” De Moraes said that as part of his decision to open an inquiry, that “X shall refrain from disobeying any court order already issued, including performing any profile reactivation that has been blocked by this Supreme Court,” Reuters reports. The justice said that Musk would face a fine that equates to approximately $20,000 each time an account is reactivated on X. The TWITTER FILES BRAZIL, reported by investigative journalist Michael Shellenberger, and colleagues David Ágape and Eli Vieira, reveal that “Brazil is engaged in a sweeping crackdown on free speech led by a Supreme Court justice.”

“Sitting members of Brazil’s Congress and journalists were among those named by Brazil’s highest court for censoring, Mr. Shellenberger said of his findings, which he has shared on X. He named lower house members Carla Zambelli of former President Jair Bolsonaro’s Liberal Party and Marcel van Hattem of the NOVO party as targets of orders targeting posts the court deemed misinformation. According to the internal files Mr. Shellenberger shared, Twitter in Brazil was threatened with a $30,000 fine. The company had one hour to remove the Congress members’ posts or pay the court for noncompliance. The article reports that the justice had even been jailing individuals without trial for things posted on social media. According to Mr. Shellenberger, Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes allegedly made demands to Twitter to allow access to its internal data, in violation of Twitter’s own policies on the handling of user data”. -Epoch Times.

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“We all felt kind of a bump, a jolt, and I looked out the window because I love window seats, and there it was..”

Which airlines will order Boeing planes now?

FAA Investigating Boeing 737 That Lost Engine Cover During Takeoff (Sp.)

Flight 3695 was on its way to Houston’s William P. Hobby Airport Sunday when it was forced to return to its gate at Denver, and did so safely at 8:15 AM local time, said the FAA. Customers then transferred to a different aircraft and arrived at their destination three hours late. One passenger said the engine cowling “peeled off within the first 10 minutes” of the flight. Another person simply said of the plane part “it all blew away”. “We all felt kind of a bump, a jolt, and I looked out the window because I love window seats, and there it was,” the passenger said. “People in the exit row across from me started yelling up to the flight attendants and showed them the damage,” another passenger said, adding that the experience was “frightening”. Southwest said its maintenance crew would review the aircraft, which had reached an altitude of about 10,000 feet when one of the engine cowlings peeled off.

The FAA also said it will investigate the incident. “We apologize for the inconvenience of their delay but place our highest priority on ultimate safety for our Customers and Employees,” said Southwest in a statement. They added that no injuries were reported. It’s the latest incident in a series of mechanical issues creating a PR headache for Boeing. On January 5, a door plug panel tore off a new Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 at 16,000 feet. Though the situation could have been tragic, no one was seriously injured. The FAA is also investigating a separate Southwest incident that occurred in March when one of its flights strayed off course and flew close to the air traffic control tower at LaGuardia Airport while attempting to land. Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun announced last month that he would step down by the end of the year. Boeing also replaced its chairman and chief executive of its commercial plane unit.

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“Ice cream-eating doesn’t correlate with military capabilities, but a rising consumption rate predicts winning wars; a falling rate, losing them..”

The Emperor Of Ice Cream Is Russian Ice Cream (Helmer)

Ice cream is ancient enough to have been demanded by at least three well-known emperors – Alexander the Great of Greece, Nero of Rome, and Charles I of England, all of them ill-fated. Ice cream, as we know it, doesn’t become easy to eat until it ceased to be plutocratic. Refrigeration technology, not political revolution, did the trick. The industry of cows is a fillip, too. This is why New Zealand, world largest exporter of dairy products, is also the world’s leading consumer of ice cream. At 28.4 litres per person per annum, New Zealanders far outstrip Americans at 20.8 litres, and Australians at 18 litres. Sub-zero winter countries like Finland, Sweden, and Canada lag further behind. In Europe’s hottest summer weather, Portugal is far ahead of Spain, France, and Italy in the volume of ice cream sold but that’s because foreign tourists buy it, not the locals.

So when Soyuzmoloko, the Russian Union of Milk Producers, announced last week that in 2023 the volume of ice cream produced in Russia had jumped by 13%, and per capita consumption of dairy products had recovered to the Soviet level, the news is significant. It means that Russians eating more ice cream is a measure of confidence in the present value of their spending power, the future security of their savings, and victory in the present war. When the American poet Wallace Stevens wrote his poem “The Emperor of Ice-Cream” in 1922, he was holidaying in Cuba. Observing the funeral of a poor woman whose corpse was in another room, the guests were eating ice cream. The poet’s pessimistic conclusion was “Let be be finale of seem/The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream”. Stevens was implying that ice cream is more permanent in life than life itself – at least among poor Cubans.

When Winston Churchill was in Moscow to meet Joseph Stalin on a sub-zero day in the autumn of 1944, he asked an aide what Russians he could see were eating as they stood in the city street. When told they were eating ice cream, Churchill reportedly said: “The people who eat ice cream in such cold weather are invincible.” None of Churchill’s successors in Europe or the US has got this message yet. According to Soyuzmoloko, domestic production of ice cream in 2023 increased by 13% over the year before to reach 524,000 tonnes. This represents a per capita consumption level of 3.6 litres, a jump of 16% over the level at the end of 2021. While the Russians are trailing well behind the new NATO enemies, the Finns (14.2 litres per person) and Swedes (12.0 litres), the Russian rate of growth is fast and positive – and much faster than the average global growth rate projected over the next five years at 4% annually. By contrast, the Finnish and Swedish consumption rates have been falling sharply over the past decade.

Ice cream-eating doesn’t correlate with military capabilities, but a rising consumption rate predicts winning wars; a falling rate, losing them. The Russian ice cream makers are also steadily boosting their export volumes, while imports from the US and the European Union are plummeting. Compared to last year, Soyuzmoloko says Russia’s base milk output will grow by about 4% this year, while exports of ice cream will jump by up to 18%, if sanctions curbs on transport and payment can be neutralized. Sanctions war is proving to be the icing on Russia’s ice cream cake. “The global market potential is absolutely fantastic,” Artem Belov, the head of Soyuzmoloko, said in January. “First of all, we are talking about countries friendly to Russia, primarily the markets of Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, which open up enormous opportunities for Russia to increase exports.”

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“No rule, regulation, fee, tax, policy, or mandate of any kind of the World Health Organization, United Nations, and the World Economic Forum shall be enforced or implemented..”

Louisiana Senate Passes Bill to Push Back Against UN, WEF and WHO (PB)

The Louisiana Senate has enacted legislation that would free the state from mandates and requirements imposed by international organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations (UN), and World Economic Forum. Senate Bill 133 was unanimously passed with bipartisan support to prevent international bodies from declaring jurisdiction over the state, stipulating that the three above-named organizations “shall have no jurisdiction or power within the state of Louisiana.” The legislation prohibits these tyrannical, unelected, and undemocratic institutions from unilaterally exerting any jurisdiction or power over Louisiana citizens.

“The World Health Organization, United Nations, and the World Economic Forum shall have no jurisdiction or power within the state of Louisiana. No rule, regulation, fee, tax, policy, or mandate of any kind of the World Health Organization, United Nations, and the World Economic Forum shall be enforced or implemented by the state of Louisiana or any agency, department, board, commission, political subdivision, governmental entity of the state, parish, municipality, or any other political entity.” Vigilant News reports the legislation is “still pending passage in Louisiana’s Republican-majority House,” however, the bill is likely to pass. The bill comes as the WHO, UN, and WEF are working to promote a global pandemic treaty, which would give those agencies greater discretion over how nation-states react in the case of another pandemic.

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    James McNeill Whistler Nocturne in Black and Gold, the Falling Rocket 1875   • America Has a Third World Economy (Paul Craig Roberts) • Lara Trum
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle April 9 2024]

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    aspnaz
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    White House cautiously opens the door to study blocking sun’s rays to slow global warming.

    Not going to consult anyone else on this planet? I know that many Americans, some on TAE, somehow believe that America is the world, but actually, there are people outside America. You would think that the invasion of illegal aliens into the USA would tip off the Americans that there are people outside, but the tip is obviously a little too subtle. The American disease of nihilism, ego and contempt is again going to flood the entire planet and take decades more to repair, as usual. I vainly look forward to the news that reports mushroom clouds over the USA.

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    Red
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    Zerosum, Phoenix a continuing thought from yesterday. I’ve taken the following from Worldometer:

    Countdown to the end of Oil:
    14,310Days to the end of oil (~39 years)
    Assumption:
    If consumed at current rates
    Sources and info:

    World Proved Reserves of Oil and Natural Gas, Most Recent Estimates – Energy Information Administration (EIA) – Data from BP Statistical Review, Oil & Gas Journal, World Oil, BP Statistical Review, CEDIGAZ, and Oil & Gas Journal.

    Now lets do a little thought experiment. If that is true and we’ll assume so for the sake of this little experiment. How much oil is required by the powers that be to run their militaries and militarized police forces globally? How much longer would that oil supply last if the general public wasn’t using very much or any? Why not shift the general public toward electric everything and remove most of the infrastructure that supports the supply side of oil to the wider public? If over the next decade or so the oil is removed from the greater view than there will be a century? of oil left for the control faction of the PTB. This is paramount to the longevity of the ruling class. Joe public is planning out as far as the next paycheque, .gov is planning out the next quarter with an eye to the next election, bankers are looking ahead a couple of decades and the rulers are thinking the next generation is short term. Saving the biosphere is not part of the overall plan, it’s just a means to an end, our end. Yes a certain number of plebes will be needed to run the infrastructure needed by the controllers to run the system but nowhere the numbers now required. I’ve read somewhere that the oil industry employs about 2 billion people either directly or indirectly. If the domestic side is removed how many of those jobs are gone? Not to mention how many directly involved would become redundant? As the population drops so will the numbers of police and military personnel drop. The numbers for EROEI to keep our industrial civ going are estimated to be somewhere north of 11:1 but if the only industry is to supply the MIC with fuel and the hardware, it would likely reduce that number substantially. Imagine if you will a world more like that of the 1400’s with a bit of electricity tossed in here and there in geographically to support the “factory workers” with those further out living a less than optimal life. This is a long game and we aren’t even at the level of pawns. We tend to assign ourselves a level of importance that does not exist in the minds of the rulers. Never trust a millionaire, a billionaire even less and their offspring…..well!

    #156482
    Red
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    Aspnaz White House cautiously opens the door to study blocking sun’s rays to slow global warming.

    Not going to consult anyone else on this planet?
    Certainly not, no need. This just shows how much the solar industry is a scam. Off grid my ass. If solar panels and wind farms were the future, blocking the sun wouldn’t even break the surface in an intellectually meaningful way. We the masses are the problem and have to be reduced to say… somewhere around 200 million plus the controllers and rulers. Also what about the crops? Wouldn’t reducing the amount of sunlight interfere with that? Or would the increase in CO2 help with the difference? Won’t need as much agriculture anyway if the population decline reaches anywhere near what seems to be the target. Blocking the sun is just another distraction anyway you cut it.

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    Dr. D
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    “Secretive Experiment To Shoot Aerosols Into The Sky Over San Francisco To Increase Cloud Cover

    My Conspiracy Theory Bingo card wins again. Never matters though: you can be right every day for the rest of your life, but if you’re not an “Expert”….

    “Transgender Indonesian Streetwalkers Aggrieved by Weather

    Well in that case…. All my objections are done. Shut up and take my money!

    Transgenders were out for the eclipse. And just as I said yesterday, old timer comes up to them, chairs in the street (seems like no jobs) and talks to them like nothing. No reaction at all. Or anybody else (neighbors) but that could be they’ve established familiarity. Darn those unreal Americans on TV who are always doing whacky stuff like living in Maybury or driving talking cars. “I believe everything I see on TV (News) It makes me much more selective.” –Spinal Tap Did remind me though, I think they have gender dysphoria drugs which are child’s play, and use them on annoying troublemakers like Manning and the Wachowski Brothers. Time-release hormones or some such. Now pretty sure they’re (randomly added) in vaccines. Pretty sure. Have to test widely to prove it though.

    “Judge Reduces Roundup Verdict Against Bayer From $1.5 Billion To $550 Million

    One Judge. He “Just says”. The damages are far in excess, I guess you should commit so many crimes they can’t possibly lock you up long enough to pay for them. That’s just logical. Maybe he’ll get $5 Million for good behavior. …In 2045.

    “We Cannot Cope”: Police Scotland Deluged With Politicized Hate-Crime Reports: System abused to pursue personal and political vendettas…”

    What??? Who saw that coming? Including the Politco who run the law, and their ruling class who hate white people and are on TV daily about it. When Scotland can get revenge just by being an -sshole, you’ve put yourself in the wrong position.

    “Insurers Spy On Houses Via Aerial Imagery, Seeking Reasons To Cancel Coverage

    They took the money, used it, then canceled. This is all government-enforced, government-mandated, who controls the means of production and all law around it. Example: there is a Christian Health “Collective” out of Florida, insuring millions. They both provide service and contain costs. However, due to “Rulz” I just made up, the difference is they can’t CALL themselves a Health Insurance Company. Quack. So they ALREADY solved the problem, IN an entirely broken system, AND everyone there has health care and goes home driving a decent car. Hmmm: looks like there was plenty of “Money”. What’s stopping Aetna from doing this? No competition. The defining force of all “Capitalist” systems. No competition, no pricing discovery, no bankruptcy.

    So property insurance, far easier. Neighborhoods used to have a collective to do this, even waaaaaay back, certainly log cabin days. The part was, the bigger the pool the more stable, so they are a direct line to growing. Due to Fed intervention (Market rigging 0% interest rates) they were getting whacked, but really if you can’t make money from Dow 1k to Dow 36K, and rates at 5% I don’t know how to help you, but they’re going broke AGAIN. So why don’t new companies jump into states like Florida who are canceling and causing instant default on your mortgage? It’s illegal. Easiest job in the world, a caveman can do it, illiterate frontiersman can do it, we can’t do it. Just like we can’t make rails and shells, which were made in 1700.

    There are no problems. There are made-up problems the government uses guns to keep being a problem. Look: you already don’t enforce any laws. Not 10M new cases since 2020, nor 100,000 felonies in MERS, nor Monsanto, nor Pot, nor Fani, nor anywhere else. So? Fine. Then don’t enforce “Insurance is regulated” either. Just forget. Don’t get around to it.

    NOPE! One of these laws is Government-mandated theft for my friends, and the other is for the safety and well-being of the people. I rest my case.

    “”This Is Crazy”: Fetterman Tears Into ‘Squatters Rights’ Laws, Soft-On-Crime Policies

    Perfect example. Classic frontier law of we have hundreds still on the books we don’t enforce. Yet we DO enforce this Onnnnnnne law from 1840. Not the horses and bicycles one. This one. Why? EVERYONE knows it not only doesn’t work, add infinite risk, it also doesn’t work FOR THE RENTERS. Everyone keeps off infinity real estate from market because they either have to have Space-station level compliance of perfect units, or risk having people who don’t’ pay live there 2 years and burn the place down. Then rents triple and we have homeless. F it. You made the law, you live with it, they’ll pay taxes and leave every front empty. You see that on Main streets obviously, but it’s true citywide as well. And renters SHOULD have rights. But you make the rights FAIR or one side won’t play. Boom, 40M houses appear. People can tent in a backyard because no one has to fear it’ll go feral.

    This is all made up. You can stop it any time. In this case, without passing any new laws or changing anything.

    “DOJ Stonewalls Over Audio Of Biden Interview With Special Counsel Hur

    It’s public record paid with public money and nothing in the testimony. That’s why I’d rather go to jail than give it to you. I always do that when I’m totally innocent.

    “New York Grand Jury Releases Scathing Report Against Child Protection Services Agency

    But except for all the government run and sanctioned child trafficking, there is no child trafficking.

    “Cautiously blocking Global Warming.”

    WHAT Global Warming? Prove that first. 2nd article on this in two days, mentioned forays into this earlier in the year. That is, they’re finally admitting they’ve been spraying us with flammable aluminum and barium. This is most probably like fluoride: how do I get rid of this astonishingly toxic heavy metal, Mr. Bernays? “I’ll make everybody put it in their mouth and eat it”. True story. “How do I get rid of a trillion tonnes of toxic fly ash our coal-fired plants create we pay so much to dispose of?” “We’ll spread it evenly nationwide on some idiotic excuse or other.” “The Solution to Pollution is Dilution” Then we’ll get paid when there’s unprecedented forest fires too! AND when Alzheimer’s quadruples! Why can’t I get anyone to look? “The Mind reels”. Yes, but if it’s not true, it’ll be the easiest, shortest investigation you’ve ever done and can be home for lunch. “I will die on this hill of not looking.”

    Yesterday’s article was straight geo-engineering: California says they are creating clouds over San Fran to help cause rain. Yeah, I know. And again, what’s humbling is I point and say “Right There!”. Show them the clouds of type that never exists, and also in a grid pattern, and people I show say “I don’t see anything.” No eyes when you were 10 or no eyes now??? (Both. People are deeply unconscious.) It’s like the basketball gorilla experiment. But fine, sure. When – I – say I saw something, why don’t you say, “Huh, I’ll keep my eyes peeled” instead of “You’re crazy.” I mean if you don’t know why is the default that whoever you’re shaking hands with is a lunatic and wrong? SOMEBODY may be wrong: why is it your CLOSEST person, friend, husband, coworker, etc? (A: cause TV man said “no”. Everything on the TV is true!)

    I’m looking RIGHT at it. And I’m no genius: somebody pointed it out to me, but I have an ordinary human memory that could compare to pre-engineering. And I’m happy to say they’ve mostly stopped in my area for some years. Maybe they ran out of toxin-mountains to spray, dunno.

    Merchan: I agree, but to be appropriate, it has to be even the APPEARANCE of being impartial. Otherwise, you throw the election for Trump.

    Paul Harvey: I remember hearing this occasionally all my life. Each year more true. This is what I mean by “We told you.” We thought TELLING you, first, repeatedly, as evidence piled up, would matter, but it never did. Bernays is operating on a different level. You are immune to any and all logic, reason, and order. So? You had to FEEL it, go through it yourself. And that’s dangerous but apparently there’s no cure. Here we are. YOU demanded 10 Million – Infinity Million – illegal immigrants to come in. How do you like it now? YOU made Ayn Rand right.

    “. As I have reported for 30 years, the US has transitioned from the first to the third world.”

    Speaking of: We told you. PCR told you, Republicans told you, every working man told you. Couldn’t get over the Suburbanites “Helping” us all by not trusting the way working men voted. We were all “Voting wrong”. Thanks, massah. You take my 3/5 vote. Like clouds above, if someone DOES that thing every day, looks at it, lives it, they may be wrong, but as a default starting point, assume they’re right. Working guys SAID they would all be destroyed and you laughed and laughed and laughed. They ALSO said YOU would be destroyed right after them. They don’t laugh at this, but they’re clawing their way up the value chain to avoid being the next one dropping out of the middle-class chasm into poverty.

    Worse than this, all their daughters are on drugs and selling themselves. While you were protecting yourself, you forgot about your own children. And STILL are pleased as peacocks about it. “I my children will die on this hill!!!”

    “• Lara Trump: RNC Focused Like a Laser on Election Integrity (ET)

    Texas and Missouri now had oh, couple million no-document people register to vote. By mail. Just all at once, ’cause: Reasons. And oh, entirely by accident, like 500,000 of them are dead because the SS System checks their numbers as a matter of process. But 500,000 typos in the 6 months going on to an election is perfectly normal and nothing to investigate. Especially not when, if TX and MO flip, Trump can win every other battle state and lose. See why no one will believe the election, if we even have one? I think it’ll be more patriotic than ever: 200% of all people will vote. Take that, Australia!

    “• Historic ‘Uncommitted’ Vote Will SCREW Biden 2024 (Snyder)

    Literally doesn’t matter if they flip Texas and Missouri. He can Genocide away, non-stop.

    “• Trump Says Abortion Should Be Decided By States, ‘Will Of The People’ (ZH)

    How DARE it be the will of the people? Don’t you know women can’t vote and decide for themselves?

    “However, Trump has declined to provide details on his [Ukraine] plan.”

    Yes, that’s because apparently, it’s his old plan from last year.(+) As any idiot could tell, the plan would have to be updated constantly and it’s not a priority. By the time he’s elected there may be no Ukraine. Maybe the news is, Republicans will tell you ANYTHING AT ALL about their platform, and write it down. Ask what the DNC platform is, they don’t have one, and I say that because it’s burning them hard not to have any plan or policy FOR. Like FOR national health care, student loans, etc. Sounds crazy, I know but go look. Please go get one. Ask Jimmy Dore. Wouldn’t we at a minimum have to vote for the people who articulate any plan at all?? If the other side won’t dare tell you, doesn’t that mean they’re for something bad, probably?

    “Judge Walton previously called Trump a “charlatan,” and said that “I don’t think he cares about democracy, only power.”

    THIS is their platform. It’s that “Trump is a dictator with dictator plans”. Really? HE WAS ALREADY THERE. Like the clouds I point at, it was RIGHT THERE. Time EXISTS. Already happened. Do you have a memory, sir, as all human do? What happened in a WHOLE FOUR YEARS? Dictator? Since we’re living under God-Emperor Trump now? Since he never left? And all the Jews and Gays were rounded up for the ovens? No. NOTHING!!! Nothing happened, good or bad. Nothing.

    Their platform is “The past doesn’t exist”, and that was the greatest trick of all, as Orwell said.

    “Israel nonetheless is locking itself into a logic that can only lead to defeat.:”

    My point exactly. Terrible to watch though.

    “Netanyahu to grip the U.S. bridle and lead the White House horse to water – towards his regional End of Times ‘Great Victory’; a necessarily brutal war – beyond existing red lines and devoid of limits.”

    This is correct, and it is their (Messianic) plan. However, not the plan they admit, they are a weirdo cult that believes far weirder things. Watch Revelations, though, the U.S. isn’t in it; We’ve already stepped back. Fine by me.

    “• Even With AI ‘Kill List’, Israel ‘No Closer to Achieving’ Goals (Sp.)

    Their goals are unachievable by any means because they are insane. And OBVIOUSLY their admitted goals are insane– that goes without saying – but their lying, hidden, secret, REAL goals are ALSO insane. That doesn’t make them not dangerous though which is why we’ve been saying stop foreign aid to Israel for decades. For 1,000 reasons. Saudi has the oil, for OBVIOUS sake, shouldn’t THEY be your ally, not a troublesome, oil-less snot? Everyone says we’re Capitalist: if we’re Capitalist, shouldn’t we back the guy who MAKES us money, not who COSTS us money? Now, after telling you for 20, 40, 60, 80 years, here we are. Boy sure looks like we could use that money for some rails in Ohio! Maybe a rounding-error for a bridge pier or something! U.S. Navy has no ships, maybe THAT could be a priority? Standing Army wasn’t supposed to be in the budget, but the Navy was: #Opposite much? Where’s my Money, Brian, where is it?

    “Humanitarian groups and the UN say a port is necessary because Israel has blocked seven land routes for food and medicine to get in to Gaza.”

    That is: WHY are we spending on a port at all? They have roads. Duuuuuhh. And if Israel is against food getting in, WHY are they not bombing our dock? A: Because it’s all a scam to run out the clock. The aid can flow when the last Gazan is dead, and Biden can tell America, “Aw shucks.” And 100% of everyone knows it. Why bother lying? You think I can’t see? The lying is almost more offensive than the genocide.

    ““Unlike the US, Germany does not enjoy an ocean-length buffer between itself and the fascistic proxy warriors it sponsors in Ukraine..”

    You mean, that GERMANY sponsors in Ukraine. Enthusiastically and with infinity money. No greater supporter of Nazis per-capita than Germany. And actually worse: if GERMAN people express themselves, that’s bad, we arrest them foe being Right-of-Mao. Meanwhile, so long as you’re illegal, we can’t be Far-Right-ENOUGH! Give that man a Nuke!!! (Literally. Remember: I am not kidding.) So the real crime you can be arrested-for-anything is to be a CITIZEN. Democide: every government is trying to kill every citizen.

    ““There is no way of predicting how the millions of Ukrainian refugees in European countries would react to their country being abandoned.”

    They’ve already said and done. Kiev is bombing Zap Nuclear Power plant to cause a Pan-European Chernobyl. Did it yesterday. And they’ve said: “They won’t be held responsible” meaning Kiev have every intent of turning every Ukrainian into a Chechen Mafia and bombing, killing, stealing, everything in Europe if they can. YOU funded blackmail, extorting criminals $200B and NOW you’re worried they might cause crimes? Luckily the Ukr genPop isn’t onboard, but that’s still quite a mess if the government-in-exile does. …After stealing $100B with mafia oligarchs there. Including a wide-open weapons chain.

    Ukr generals SOLD EVERY GUN. You think they didn’t cache them in the Alps to shoot at Austria later, hold them ransom where people are soft and living is easy? Hahahaha! You’re kidding, right? You thought they would attack Russia when they can attack FRANCE?

    “Centuria, an ultra-violent Ukrainian Neo-Nazi faction, has cemented itself in six cities across Germany, and is seeking to expand its local presence.”

    Uh-huh, yeah they’re in Germany why? They’re a MAFIA 3.0. Germany can get rid of them, but they’ll have to get hard-body for it.

    “Former US President Donald Trump has startled European leaders in recent weeks with plans to interfere in the functioning of NATO and reorient US foreign policy if reelected this November.”

    WTF? That’s not “Interfering”, that’s literally his job. That’s like Kennedy “Interfering” in the Bay of Pigs and Missile Crisis.

    It’s the Meta-meta reality here. CIA Derp State is your real government. Elected officials are allowed nothing. Like the EU! We are REQUIRED to fight all your wars we just voted against. Etc. That is, all chain-of-command is broken, and illusion, and we are a Vichy government. But Quisling to WHOM? Who is our overlord then, and what does he want? A: “We all know.” No, I do NOT know. Send me “The Memo”. It is not obvious to me at all which is why I ask. Do you guys not know? Tell me.

    “Since the DOJ was in the midst of a plea negotiations, it made no sense that the DOJ would simply kill potential charges.”

    Yet this is not a felony, quid pro quo, favoritism, bribes, or thing. Full paycheck, full pension, full healthcare for life.
    Like judges above, or worldwide now in Brazil, they they have no innate morality at all, it’s impossible to HAVE judges, or any system. The system is then VIOLENCE, do what I say, or else. Warlord, chieftain, king justice. And fine, perhaps, but TELL ME and you can’t have it both ways.

    “• ‘Brazil’s Darth Vader’ Orders Investigation Into Elon Musk (ZH)

    Pretty breathtaking, even by today’s and Brazil’s standards.

    “”We kept getting these demands from Judge Alexandre to suspend accounts of sitting members of the parliament and major journalists. We could not tell them that this was at the behest of Alexandre, we had to pretend that it was due to our rules”

    Finally. That was the problem with FISA and the whole Patriot Act, and also UK orders. If they demand they then ALSO put on a secret gag order. (also totally unconstitutional/illegal) Do you SEE why we don’t do this now? The government has to do everything on public record? No Star Chambers? It had been like a DP +10 to NOT know he was out there, rigging all Brazilian politics, all elections. All you need to do is TELL THE TRUTH and he’s mostly disarmed. He’ll be pissed. Cockroaches hate the light.

    “Which airlines will order Boeing planes now?”

    All of them, because there’s no competition. It’s been outlawed. I’m sure China makes planes but they’re outlawed too. Where’s Hughes and Marietta? Bombardier and Douglass? Ohhhh, I see: Sherman Anti-Trust legislation was REPEALED, yeah I remember that. When they give “exceptions” to everyone for everything, every time.

    HOW many times did we tell you not to do that? Like since Ayn Rand was a child?

    Ice Cream”

    Well he’s wrong in the details: Ice cream was in as soon as we had an cutting-ice industry, but it is capital-intensive and requires a lot of stability and coordination, aka “Morality”. The kids made it the minute parents left home in Ingalls Wilder’s “Farmer Boy” 1890. They were also rich and well-off in the desperate Styx of a northern farming town. That’s unthinkable today that any rural person – much less the farmer themselves – might be well-off, along with the town. …Coincidentally the Federal Reserve was invented right about then.

    “intervene or let the circle of life continue?”

    Intervene to MAKE him eat it?

    In “We Make S—t Up!” When I do talk about Israel, I haven’t talked about Israel. When I DON’T talk about Israel, I’m covering for Israel. …Methinks somebody has Israel on the brain. Rent-free, in your head! Under me bed! Everywhere! I live in America, could give a s—t about Israel. Being arrested for my own flag, or my own silent prayer is the Beam in my OWN eye we need to deal with first. Then, after we’re all practically perfect in every way, can we go around the world telling everyone what to do, and in this case picking winners and losers. The problem with “Clean up your own room” is you’re not going worldwide, getting involved in everybody else’s business, telling everybody who they are and what they should do. Clearly that is priority.

    #156484
    zerosum
    Participant

    Living wages requires inputs greater than outputs

    distractions

    White noise, lies
    “disinformation” and/or “misinformation.”
    Ideological indoctrination.
    Its all in your head. Illusions.

    Truth and reality does not exist in your head.

    #156485
    John Day
    Participant

    Palestinian girl with no eyelids after being burned by white phosphorous bomb (US or Australian supplied?)
    She doesn’t blink https://twitter.com/ShaykhSulaiman/status/1776867252366610505

    #156486
    John Day
    Participant

    Former Hunter Biden Associate Tony Bobulinski Sues Rep. Dan Goldman For Defamation

    The lawsuit, filed in a federal court in Washington and first reported by The Daily Caller on Friday, accuses Mr. Goldman of repeatedly lying about Mr. Bobulinski following a heated exchange at a recent congressional hearing. According to Mr. Bobulinski’s complaint, Mr. Goldman defamed the former Biden business associate in a series of posts on social media by alleging Mr. Bobulinski “has used a Trump campaign-paid lawyer to make false allegations” and that his testimony before Congress was “Russian disinformation.”

    Mr. Bobulinski’s complaint says he has spent over $500,000 of his own money on legal fees and neither former President Donald Trump nor any Trump-affiliated entities “have ever paid” for any of those legal fees, contradicting Mr. Goldman’s assertion. The complaint also insists Mr. Bobulinski has not made any false allegations before Congress, as claimed by Mr. Goldman, nor have his claims originated from Russian disinformation.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/former-hunter-biden-associate-tony-bobulinski-sues-rep-dan-goldman-defamation

    #156487
    John Day
    Participant

    Container Ship Reportedly “Lost Power” In NYC Harbor, Right Before Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge
    https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/container-ship-reportedly-lost-power-nyc-harbor-right-verrazzano-narrows-bridge

    A massive container ship reportedly lost power on the Upper New York Bay – just before the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge connecting the New York City boroughs of Staten Island and Brooklyn.

    According to Captain John Konrad, CEO of gCaptain, a New York City tugboat captain informed him that the 354-meter container ship APL QINGDAO “lost power while transiting New York harbor.”

    “They had 3 escort tugs but 3 more were needed to bring her under control. They regained power & were brought to anchor near the verrazano bridge,” the tugboat captain told Konrad.

    Intel Community Warns Of “Possible Threats To Public Gatherings” Across US
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/intel-community-warns-possible-threats-public-gatherings-across-us
    Fast forward to Friday, an ABC News report citing a US intelligence bulletin warns that “radicals in the US might respond to ISIS calls for similar attacks in the wake of last month’s deadly terrorist attack at a concert hall in Moscow.”

    #156488
    John Day
    Participant

    Eric Adams defends NYC’s new legal advice chatbot after it told restaurant owners to give customers cheese eaten by rats (Not the Babylon Bee)
    https://notthebee.com/article/new-york-citys-chatbot-gives-illegal-advice-to-business-owners-yes-you-can-still-serve-the-cheese-to-customers-if-it-has-rat-bites/

    #156489
    John Day
    Participant

    Bulldozing the farms & ranches that were not harmed by the electrical fire from the downed lines…

    Rancher Raises Alarm as Feds Begin Bulldozing Texas Farms

    Rancher Raises Alarm as Feds Begin Bulldozing Texas Farms

    #156490
    zerosum
    Participant

    Are voter easy to be bought?
    Money buys votes.
    Ask student about loan forgiveness.
    The promise of getting money is being tested to see if it buys votes.
    Ask Trudeau about his promises to have the money in the budget for the next 10 years.

    #156491
    jb-hb
    Participant

    still conversing with Bing AI

    You
    is CO2 being a cause of Global warming a theory?

    Copilot
    Yes, the role of CO2 is a scientific theory

    You
    How can the theory be falsified, disproven?

    <Sorry, you’ve reached the limit of messages you can send to Bing within 24 hours. Check back soon!>

    true story

    #156492
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Ever see the horror film, It Follows? A being, invisible to all others, can take on the appearance (to you) of anyone. It chases you. At a walking pace. But continually 24/7.

    Russia is really going for Chasov Yar now, apparently. “It’s Happening!” (Not what you think, one weird trick, from the ___ perspective, explained. do this instead, I’m done, if you only have these 2 ingredients…)

    Looking around I see lots of apparent Russian advances being reported, none large by any means.

    I suspect this is what we’ll see. Russia pursuing, advancing. At a walking pace. Continually.

    #156493
    SeaBirds
    Participant

    From John Day: Bulldozing of Texas farms. #156489

    Guessing the Swiss farmers may be the next in line.
    From Europe, Mail Online reports ‘Swiss biggest political party demands withdrawal from Council of Europe after “scandalous” ECHR ruling that will force the country to implement climate change policies. Far right SVP slammed verdict as a ‘brazan interference’ in Swiss affairs.’
    Greta was, of course in attendance at the ruling. Brits figuring they’ll be next..

    Louisiana. Reckon there may be quite a few folks wishing they could move to Louisiana. People are enquiring as to whether they can join the queue at the southern border…

    #156494
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Chicago’s Lori Lightfoot Lands $400 An Hour Job Investigating ‘Worst Mayor In America’
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/chicagos-lori-lightfoot-lands-400-hour-job-investigating-even-worse-mayor

    Henyard is accused of mishandling funds. Last month she vetoed calls for an investigation into herself, which was overturned Monday night.

    During a Monday meeting which had roughly 150 community members in attendance – but Henyard and two village trustees skipped out on, the four remaining trustees present voted in favor of appointing Lightfoot, a former assistant US attorney, to investigate the mayor.

    “We feel this option will give us an independent process,” House continued.

    Lightfoot will get to work right away, starting her new role as ‘special investigator’ for the Village of Dolton on Tuesday.

    She will be launching a probe into Henyard’s alleged mishandling of village funds, among other complaints.

    “She has more authority to get what we’re missing, to seal this deal and take our community back,” said Belcher.

    On Monday, Belcher stated that the Village of Dolton is more than $7 million in debt

    about the video of the town meeting, one of the zerohedge comments says: Look at the video @56:00 he says,”You guys gotta connect the dots, spells it out “DOTES”.

    #156495
    zerosum
    Participant

    Trudeau has been “leaking” his budget.
    Trudeau has been promising billions of $ gov money
    If all those promises are kept, will it be inflationary?

    #156496
    zerosum
    Participant

    Media slams man who dares challenge cabinet minister


    Media slams man who dares challenge cabinet minister

    Media commentators and Liberal ministers are angry a father filmed himself challenging Canada’s foreign minister on the street for enabling genocide. The outrage exposes the media/political establishment’s anti-democratic ethos.

    Over one million viewed Antoine’s interaction with Joly on my X account and hundreds of thousands more on others’ social media platforms.

    #156497
    John Day
    Participant

    Deciding Who We Are https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/deciding-who-we-are

    Caitlin Johnstone could point out that this is a pressing question about our present, and about who we really are:
    Gaza Asks Us A Question About What Kind Of Future We Want To Have
    ​ The future we are being shown through the window of Gaza is dark. Dark, dark, dark, dark. They’re currently using artificial intelligence to create kill lists and to determine when its targets will be at home with their families to ensure maximum civilian deaths. We used to worry about a dark future where humans send machines to go kill people indiscriminately, but it turns out it’s actually happening the other way around — we’re programming machines to tell us who to kill. The horror in our present dystopia isn’t so much autonomous murderbots as ethical decisions about killing being outsourced to AI.
    ​ We’re being asked to accept this and move forward in this direction into the future. We’re being asked to walk into the future holding the assumption that it’s fine and normal for our governments to knowingly support an unforgivable act of mass slaughter upon the inhabitants of a giant concentration camp. We’re being asked to walk into the future holding the assumption that it’s fine and normal for the mass media to lie and distort and misinform the public about a matter of such urgent importance day after day, month after month. ​ We’re being asked to walk into the future holding the assumption that it’s fine and normal for a blatant genocide to take place right in front of our faces, and then move on as though nothing happened.
    https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/gaza-asks-us-a-question-about-what

    ​ Brutal, chaotic war – norms, conventions and laws of conduct are being erased​ , Alastair Crooke
    We stand on the cusp of what might be termed Chaotic War. Not the formula often used by Israel to intimidate adversaries; this is different.
    ​ Israeli reporter Eddie Cohen said, in the wake of the attack on the Iranian Consulate: “We are very clear that we want to start a war with Iran and Hezbollah. Do you still not understand?”​…
    ​..Trita Parsi places Israel’s objective in attacking the Iranian Consulate in Damascus in a different context:
    ​“An important aspect of Israel’s conduct – and Biden’s acquiescence to it – is that Israel is engaged in a deliberate and systematic effort to destroy existing laws and norms around warfare​”.
    ​ Even during wartime, embassies are off-limits [yet] Israel just bombed an Iranian diplomatic compound in Damascus.
    ​ Bombing hospitals is a war crime, [yet] Israel has bombed EVERY hospital in Gaza. It has even assassinated doctors and patients inside hospitals.
    ​ The ICJ obligated Israel to allow the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza. Israel actively prevents aid from coming in.
    ​ Starvation of civilians as a method of warfare is prohibited under international humanitarian law. Israel has deliberately created a famine in Gaza.
    ​ Indiscriminate bombings are illegal under international humanitarian law. Biden himself admits that Israel is bombing Gaza indiscriminately”.​…
    ​..Israel’s aim, firstly, is to destroy the norms, conventions and laws of warfare; to create geo-political anarchy in which anything goes, and by which, with the White House frustrated, yet acquiescing to each norm of conduct obtrusively trodden underfoot, allows Netanyahu to grip the U.S. bridle and lead the White House horse to water – towards his regional End of Times ‘Great Victory’; a necessarily brutal war – beyond existing red lines and devoid of limits.
    ​ As symbolically significant as the Damascus attack is that the U.S., France and Britain – after a brief ‘hat tip’ to the Vienna Convention – refused to condemn the levelling of the Iranian Consulate, thus placing the shadow of doubt over the Vienna Convention’s immunity for diplomatic premises.
    ​ Implicitly, this refusal to condemn will be widely understood as a soft condoning of Israel’s first tentative step towards war with Hizbullah and Iran.​..
    ​..Yet, there is a second, adjunct reason why Israel is set on deliberately flouting humanitarian law and norms: Israeli journalist, Yuval Abraham reports in +972 Magazine in great depth how Israel has developed a AI machine (called ‘Lavender’) to generate kill lists in Gaza – with almost no human verification; only a “rubber stamp” check of about “20 seconds” to make sure the AI target is male (as no females are known to belong to the Resistance’s military).
    ​ The blatant extra-legality behind the Gaza ‘kill list’ methodology, as reported by Abraham’s various sources, can only be immunised and sheltered through normalising them as but one amongst a general pattern of illegalities – and in effect, claiming sovereign exceptionalism:
    ​ “[T]he Israeli army systematically attacks the targeted individual whilst in their homes — usually at night whilst the whole family is present — rather than during the course of military activity … Additional automated systems, including one, [callously] called “Where’s Daddy?” were used – specifically to track targets when they had entered their family’s residences… However, when a home was struck, usually at night, the individual target was sometimes not inside at all”.​..
    ​..“”We were not interested in killing [Hamas] operatives when they were in a military building … or engaged in a military activity,” A., an intelligence officer, told +972 and Local Call. “On the contrary, the IDF bombed them in homes without hesitation – as a first option. It’s much easier to bomb a family’s home. The system is built to look for them in these situations”.
    ​ “In addition … when it came to targeting alleged junior militants marked by Lavender, the army preferred to only use unguided missiles, commonly known as “dumb” bombs (in contrast to “smart” precision bombs) which can destroy entire buildings on top of their occupants and cause significant casualties. “You don’t want to waste expensive bombs on unimportant people — it’s very expensive for the country and there’s a shortage [of those bombs]”.
    “… The army also decided during the first weeks of the war that, for every junior Hamas operative that Lavender marked, it was permissible to kill up to 15 or 20 civilians … in the event that the target was a senior Hamas official with the rank of battalion or brigade commander – the army on several occasions authorized the killing of more than 100 civilians in the assassination of a single commander”.
    ​ “Lavender — which was developed to create human targets in the current war — has marked some 37,000 Palestinians as suspected “Hamas militants”, most of them junior, for assassination (the IDF Spokesperson denied the existence of such a kill list in a statement to +972 and Local Call)”.

    Brutal, chaotic war – norms, conventions and laws of conduct are being erased

    ​ Even With AI ‘Kill List’, Israel ‘No Closer to Achieving’ Goals Six Months Into Gaza War
    ​ Sunday marked the six-month anniversary of the Israel-Hamas war, with Tel Aviv finding itself increasingly isolated abroad, and the Israeli military humbled after getting bogged down in the ruins of Gaza’s cities by militants armed mostly with automatic rifles and RPGs.​..
    ..The Israel Defense Forces announced Sunday that the “active invasion stage” of its campaign in Gaza had reached its end, withdrawing elements of Division 98 from Khan Yunis, southern Gaza while marking the intention to continue the occupation the strip’s central and northern areas using forces from the 162nd Division’s Brigade 401 and the 933rd Nahal Brigade… “The division left the Gaza Strip in order to recuperate and prepare for future operations.”​…
    ..Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant stressed that an operation at the Rafah checkpoint separating Gaza from Egypt was still planned, but offered no further details…
    ..Netanyahu said “there will be no ceasefire without the return of hostages.”…
    ..While the IDF assures that the shift in its operations has nothing to do with mounting international pressure on Israel, Israeli media have said that the “timing was unmistakable,” and likely connected to backlash stemming from the IDF’s targeted killings of seven humanitarian aid workers in Gaza last week.
    ​ Sunday’s shift in approach comes days after Israel announced the opening of the Erez Crossing separating northern Gaza from southern Israel, and allowed the temporary use of Ashdod Port for aid deliveries amid reported threats by Washington – its main foreign sponsor, to cut off arms aid…
    ..”Hamas continues to engage Israeli forces in skirmishes. Israeli hostages are still in Hamas captivity and the civilian toll is mounting by the minute. Israel refuses to accept a political solution to end the war because the right-wing government of Prime Minister Netanyahu has made a ‘virtue’ out of this conflict,” Dr. Akbarzadeh said.​..
    ​..Gaza authorities estimate that over 33,175 residents of the Strip have been killed since October 7, with close to 75,900 people wounded and 8,000+ going missing. These figures taken together represent well over 5 percent of Gaza’s prewar population, and have prompted allegations by some countries charging Israel with engaging in acts of genocide. Israel has denied the claims. Deaths in Gaza have surpassed all Arab losses in wars with Israel since at least the 1980s and Israel’s invasion and occupation of southern Lebanon, with more children killed in Gaza since October 2023 than the combined child casualties of conflicts worldwide between 2019 and 2022. https://sputnikglobe.com/20240407/even-with-ai-kill-list-israel-no-closer-to-achieving-goals-six-months-into-gaza-war-1117800746.html

    ​I have long observed that “there are 2 kinds of Christians”: Just nuke Gaza, get it over quick, advises U.S. Representative Tim Walberg, Evangelical Zionist
    ​ On March 25, U.S. Representative Tim Walberg, Republican of Michigan, was speaking at a town hall meeting in Dundee, Michigan. He was asked a question about why U.S. money is being spent to build a port to deliver humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza.
    ​ Walberg said, “It’s (President) Joe Biden’s reason. I don’t think we should. I don’t think any of our aid that goes to Israel to support our greatest ally, arguably maybe in the world, to defeat Hamas, and Iran and Russia and probably North Korea’s in there and China too, with them helping Hamas. We shouldn’t be spending a dime on humanitarian aid. It should be like Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Get it over quick.”​ … ​ Walberg spokesman Mike Rorke confirmed the validity of the video.​..
    ​..Walberg spoke on how his religion guides his support for Israel. He said the main reason he fervently believes the U.S. must support Israel is because he believes God supports Israel.
    ​ “I read the Torah, I’ve read the entire Old Testament,” Walberg said. “What God condemns, I condemn. Who God loves I will love. If I don’t, I’m a sinner.”
    ​ Walberg went on to say that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has “moral clarity.”​ “The most impressive experience was being able to be with Bibi Netanyahu,” Walberg said. “In his presence, I understand very clearly he knows good from evil, right from wrong, success from failure.”

    Just nuke Gaza, get it over quick, advises U.S. Representative Tim Walberg, Evangelical Zionist

    #156498
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Israeli MK Nissim Vaturi, a representative in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling Likud party, issued a not-so-veiled threat on Saturday suggesting that if America doesn’t supply Israel with weapons aid then Israel will use nuclear weapons.​ “In the event of a conflict with Iran, if we do not receive American ammunition – we will have to use everything we have…” Vaturi ominously said.​ https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64371

    Israeli doctor says detained Palestinians are undergoing ‘routine’ amputations for handcuff injuries
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/israeli-doctor-says-detained-palestinians-are-undergoing-routine-amputations-for-handcuff-injuries-haaretz-reports/ar-BB1laGoR

    ​A little Palestinian girl, her face burned by Israeli white-phosphrous bombs, unblinkingly gives a 30 second interview, supported by Palestinian women around her.

    ​ More than 1.7 million Palestinians have been forced to flee their homes since the outbreak of the war on Gaza, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said yesterday.​ https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240408-unrwa-1-7m-people-were-forced-to-flee-their-homes-in-gaza/

    ​Moon of Alabama, Two Israeli Actions Misfired, Pushed Netanyahoo Into Retreat
    ​ Several recent incidents have increased the pressure on Israel to end its war on Gaza.
    ​ There are serious signs that the Israeli government, under pressure from the U.S., is now moving towards an intermediate ceasefire state that all sides may be able to live with – at least for a while. The decision to do that however has split the Netanyahoo government and may well end the coalition which supports it…​
    ​..Yesterday Israel withdrew its last but one brigade from Gaza. Many in Israel interpreted this as an admittance of defeat:
    ​ Is this how the war ends? Not with a bang, or even a whimper, but with the IDF pulling its ground forces out of Khan Younis, and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant asserting, in defiance of reality, that Hamas has “stopped functioning as a military organization throughout the Gaza Strip,” contradicting himself in the next breath, and clarifying a few hours later?
    ​ As Israel on Sunday marked six months since the October 7 massacre, the two prime declared goals of the war — destroying Hamas’s military capabilities and bringing home the remaining 129 hostages abducted that day — are patently unfulfilled.​..
    ​..“After half a year,” Dvori unhappily summed up, “Israel remains with three big problems: how to return the hostages; how to bring the residents back home in the south and north [who were evacuated due to the fighting]; and how to set up an alternative to Hamas” to administer the Strip. “If Israel cannot achieve a framework for this, and I don’t know of one, then we are entering a very big problem for Israel,” he concluded.
    ​ The radicals in Israel’s government also interpret this as a defeat of their aims. They are threatening to blow up their coalition with Netanyahoo over this:
    Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich issues a statement calling on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to immediately convene the security cabinet to discuss the state of the war in Gaza, after the army pulled forces out of the southern Strip.​…
    .The Netanyahoo government had gotten too cocky. Its army’s attack on U.S. supported charity workers and its attack on the Iranian embassy in Damascus finally pushed the U.S. government to withdraw its support for the war.​ Without support from the U.S. there is no way for Israel to continue a fight. Netanyahoo had to give up and did so.​ We thus may now move towards a new balance of a lesser war which may sustain for a while but which can not be permanent.​ https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/04/two-israeli-actions-misfired-pushed-netanyahoo-into-retreat-.html#more

    #156499
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ M.K. Bhadrakumar breaks-out the happy-sauce, which seems premature to me. Gaza War ends. Will Biden get a Nobel?
    Call it what you will, but it is a significant climbdown by Israel with much unfinished business, as it were: release of all the hostages; return of residents back home in the south and north; a set-up to administer Gaza Strip where Hamas remains de facto the leadership with massive popular backing. Gen. Halevi put a brave face on the score card, asserting this does not signal the end of war but only, “we’re fighting this war differently … Senior Hamas officials are still in hiding. We will get to them sooner or later… We have plans and we will act when we decide.”
    ​ This unceremonious end to the war after six months is almost certainly linked to the reported progress in the negotiations over the release of hostages. It is also not as if the score card is empty.
    ​ The Damascus strike is a severe blow to the Quds Force of Iran’s IRGC at the operational level in both Iraq and Syria. Tehran has a noble tradition of eyeing martyrdom as the ultimate victory for its generals. Indeed, Gen. Mohammad Reza Zahedi didn’t attain martyrdom in vain.
    ​ As for Israel, well, it has bought time. On the other hand, no matter what Gen. Halevi says about living to fight another day, there is the bigger picture, in which a truce-hostage deal is finally taking shape, which creates an entirely new dynamic all around — most significantly, in the domestic politics that would generate new tidings. Israel is traditionally quick to adapt to alien circumstances. For the second time, Israel is retrenching from Gaza but this time with its international standing as the Middle East’s cats whiskers irreparably damaged. That creates an imperative need to change. What emerges is that Israel can no longer take for granted unconditional, seamless American support.
    ​ Quintessentially, Hamas’ victory is Iran’s sweet revenge, too. It makes an Iranian retaliation against Damascus attack somewhat redundant, in a manner of speaking. The prominent Israeli commentator David Horowitz wrote with biting sarcasm, “Is this how the war ends? Not with a bang, or even a whimper…” But if an inconclusive war can still produce peace as its outcome, it must be welcomed.
    ​ The biggest winner is going to be Biden. Unlike Barack Obama, he worked to earn it. All the guile and doublespeak in his tool kit as a politician has been in full display. He held on steadfast despite all round criticism for doing nothing, whereas, he had set a goal for himself and was clear-headed about his objective. Will he walk away laughing in an election victory in November holding a Nobel as his trophy?​ https://www.indianpunchline.com/gaza-war-ends-will-biden-get-a-nobel/

    ​ US Reluctant to Cut Off Israel’s Arms Pipeline Despite Gaza Deaths
    ​ U.S. President Joe Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday that the strike on humanitarian workers and the overall humanitarian situation in Gaza were “unacceptable.” White House national security communications adviser John Kirby said the US did not know whether American-supplied weapons were used in the Israeli strike.​..
    ​..Now, a growing choir of voices in Congress is demanding that the Biden administration either restrict or halt arms shipments to Israel.
    Forty members of the US Congress have sent a joint letter to US President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken calling for an end to the transfer of offensive weapons to Israel.
    ​ “We write to express our shared concern and outrage regarding the recent Israeli airstrike which killed seven World Central Kitchen aid workers, including an American citizen. In light of this incident, we strongly urge you to reconsider your recent decision to authorize the transfer of a new arms package to Israel, and to withhold this and any future offensive arms transfers until a full investigation into the airstrike is completed,” the letter read.
    ​ The members of US Congress also called on Washington to ensure that future military deliveries to Israel, including already authorized transfers, are “subject to conditions to ensure it is used in compliance with US and international law,” the letter added.
    Like several previous US administrations, the Biden team has been loath to impose any restrictions on US military aid to Israel.​..
    ​..Recently fulfilled orders to Israel have included munitions such as 250- to 2,000-pound bombs, the NYT quoted an unnamed official as confirming.
    ​ Three new Israeli arms orders reportedly exceeded the price threshold requiring congressional review. However, they were pushed through by Secretary of State Antony Blinken by invoking “emergency” authority. Two of the orders were for artillery shells and tank ammunition and were worth over $253 million, the report added.
    https://sputnikglobe.com/20240407/us-reluctant-to-cut-off-israels-arms-pipeline-despite-gaza-deaths-1117788744.html

    ​ More Than 500,000 Democratic Voters Protest Biden’s Support of Gaza Slaughter
    ​ More than half a million people have cast protest votes against President Biden’s support for the Israeli slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza in Democratic primaries across the country.
    ​ According to The Nation, 530,502 people voted “uncommitted” or “uninstructed” where it’s available on the ballot. The movement started in Michigan, a significant swing state, where over 100,000 people voted “uncommitted.”
    ​ Last week, 48,091 votes were cast for “uninstructed” in the Wisconsin primary. The turnout far exceeded organizers’ expectations, as their goal was to secure 20,682, the margin of victory for Biden in Wisconsin for the 2020 election.​ https://news.antiwar.com/2024/04/08/more-than-500000-democratic-voters-protest-bidens-support-of-gaza-slaughter/

    Historic irony: Germany is being sued over genocide complicity for helping Israel
    A globally widespread turn against Israel is far from complete, but Managua’s case at the ICJ is one of its clearest indications
    https://www.rt.com/news/595553-nicaragua-germany-genocide-israel-icj/

    ​ Professor Anthony Hall, Will Paris ’24 Be the Genocidal Olympics?
    How Will the Olympic Movement Navigate the Merger From South African Apartheid to Israeli Genocide?
    ​ From what I am seeing from paying close attention to the ongoing massacre of penned-in Palestinians, it is entirely possible that the Paris Olympics this summer will be accompanied by an even more hideous stage in the ongoing genocide in Gaza. It is entirely possible that by then, the scope and scale of the debacle of warring violence will have grown considerably.
    ​ Based on a wrongheaded view of Russia’s necessary intervention to hold back NATO and US-backed aggressions in Ukraine, the International Olympics Committee (IOC) has already excluded Russia and Belarus from the Paris Games. As it now stands, however, the IOC will permit individual athletes and teams from those countries to compete independently.​..
    ​..The IOC, so far at least, is sticking to the position that the genocide— a genocide already subject to a host of judicial interventions at the World Court— will welcome Israel to the Paris Olympic Games… In the process of Israel’s mass murder of Palestinians in Gaza, the IDF has killed 100s of the Strip’s top athletes including the Coach of the Palestinian Olympic Team, Hani Al-Mossader.​ https://anthonyjhall.substack.com/p/will-paris-24-be-the-genocidal-olympics

    #156500
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi characterized the recent drone attack on the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant (ZNPP) as a violation of nuclear security principles and called for an end to such “reckless attacks” Sunday.​ https://sputnikglobe.com/20240407/iaea-chief-grossi-calls-drone-attack-on-zaporozhye-npp-violation-of-security-principles-1117802729.html

    ​ Gilbert Doctorow, No News Is Good News (Including perspective on NATO’s 75th anniversary and office-party.)
    In recent days, international news in the West has been dominated by the Gaza conflict. We have heard how Biden came close to condemning Israeli atrocities and failed military operations in Gaza. We have heard about the Israeli withdrawal from Southern Gaza, which is interpreted either as a concession to the ‘or else’ threats coming out of Washington or as a prelude to the long announced attack on Rafah, depending on whom you want to believe.
    However, in Russia the international and domestic news remains focused on the Ukraine conflict. Day after day, Russian state television provides not only statistics on destroyed Ukrainian planes, tanks, Himars and other rocket artillery units as well as headcounts of the killed and maimed enemy forces, but also relevant video coverage of these successes…
    ​..Of considerably greater importance, we saw on last Sunday’s News of the Week program hosted by Dmitry Kiselyov an extensive account of the ‘pre-history’ of the NATO treaty, with a fair dose of conspiracy theories set out that bring to the door of Harry Truman and Winston Churchill responsibility for the start of the Cold War.
    ​ Kiselyov emphasized Franklin Roosevelt’s neutral and objective appreciation of the Soviet contribution to the war effort, which ran counter to the views of the anti-Russian Churchill and his newfound fellow thinker U.S. Vice President Truman. Roosevelt’s sudden death from a stroke just days before the Victory in Europe is said to have been possibly a case of poisoning, which Truman and his followers in the Oval Office up to and including John F. Kennedy refused to investigate by barring any exhumation of the body for tests. Moreover, Roosevelt’s quick burial hints at a cover-up, we are told
    ​ The net result of FDR’s death was unholy plotting of Truman as his successor, with Churchill’s blessing, to remove the USSR as a Great Power by dropping nuclear bombs on its 20 largest cities. This scheme was not implemented, per Kiselyov, only because the U.S. lacked the bombs and while it worked to manufacture them the Soviet Union developed and tested its own A-bomb, putting an end to America’s nuclear monopoly and restoring a semblance of deterrence.
    ​ There is nothing new in what Kiselyov presented, but it is important that he laid out the story now because it is preparing the Russian people for all eventualities in the evolution of the Ukraine war into a Russia-NATO war.​ https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2024/04/09/no-news-is-good-news/

    ​ Simplicius looks at the Chinese mixed-approach to market-capitalism, with some state guidance, which is close to the strategy that drove American industry and economy forward so well between the Civil War and WW-2. Yellen Dispatched to Beg China for Face-Saving Slowdown
    ​ China is simply leaping ahead of the decrepit, deteriorating U.S. by every measure and the panicked elites have sent Yellen to beg China to “slow down” and not embarrass them on the world stage.
    ​ How is China doing this?​…
    ​..“The U.S. funds wars, while China funds development.” But it really is true. Think about this for a moment…
    ..And yes, the current U.S. debt is a massive $34T. That means quite literally almost half of the entire current U.S. debt was blown on endless, mindless, genocidal wars in the Middle East.
    ​ The U.S. has wasted its entire blood and treasure on war. Imagine what the U.S. could have built with $14 trillion dollars? Where the U.S. could have been in relation to China for that amount? As someone else noted, the U.S. could have very well built its own “one belt and road” project for that money, connecting the world and reaping untold benefits.
    ​ China hasn’t spent a cent on war, and puts everything right back into economic development and wellbeing for its own people…
    ​..What makes this historic malappropriation of American funds most tragic is that none of it came at the benefit of American people. The entire operation was carried out by an ethnic cabal within the U.S. government with loyalties only to Israel, and no one else. I’m speaking of course of the PNAC clan, who masterminded the entire breadth of the 21st century wars which have engulfed America in wretched shame and misery, irreversibly gutting the country and squandering its global standing. ​ These wars had nothing whatsoever to do with America’s national interests or security, and have done naught but make Americans less safe and the entire world more dangerous and unstable.
    ​ China doesn’t have this problem: there is no inimical ‘out’ group parasitizing their country’s leadership, literally assassinating (JFK) and blackmailing their presidents (Clinton). China is therefore able to focus on the interests of its own people.
    ​ And yes, for those wondering, it’s now fairly proven that Lewinsky was a Mossad honeytrap used to blackmail Clinton in assenting to various Israeli demands vis-a-vis the Oslo Accords, Wye River Memorandum, etc…
    ..The fact is, Israel is a destructive parasite sucking the lifeblood out of America, causing the host to wage unnecessary wars on its behalf which have utterly removed every advantageous and competitive edge the country might have had over its Chinese ‘rival’…​..In short: as an empire dies, loses its industrial and manufacturing capacity, finance takes over, pumping up huge bubbles of phony speculative money that gives the brief appearance of economic prosperity—for a time. This is what’s currently happening in the U.S., as it drowns in its self-created agony of debt, misery, corruption, and global destabilization.​ One thing to note—if you’ll allow me this not-so-brief aside—is that the entire Western system is based on the actual institutionalized economic sabotage and subversion of the developing world…
    ..John Michael Greer just penned a new column about the neologism he coined: Lenocracy, which derives from the Latin “leno” for pimp; i.e. a government run by pimps, or pimpocracy. His definition of pimps in this case is that of middlemen who are the classic rent-seeking leaches—or rentier class—which extract economic rent without adding any value to the economy…
    ​ JMG characterizes the ‘pimps’ as basically all the unelected, bureaucratic, red-tape-weaving, blood-sucking monetary vultures killing growth and livelihoods by each taking their nibbles in turn from the carcass of the working class, exacting some small transactional charge at every step of routine business in Western nations, particularly the U.S. This has served to suffocate the average small business or entrepreneurship in general, not counting the big ticket venture capitalists who are mostly offshoots of global financial and investment firms. This is part and parcel to the lethal ‘financialization’ of the country that has spelled doom for its future…
    ​..It is noteworthy that the CPC leadership recently launched a major drive to build China into a “financial great power,” with a financial system “based on the real economy.” That would be the antithesis to Anglo-American-style economic financialization…
    ​..China is paving a new path forward for the entire world. The Chinese banking industry is now by far the largest on earth and President Xi has wisely put his foot down with a bold edict: we will not follow the path of destruction chosen by the West, but rather will set our own new path.
    ​ This is an iconoclastic, paradigm-breaking revolution which ends six centuries of Old Nobility world finance dominion, traced from the Spanish-Crown-allied Genoese bankers, to the Dutch​, then English banking system which now continues to enslave the world, and is referred to by a variety of names in the dissident sphere: from Hydra, to Leviathan, to Cthulu, to simply: the Cabal.
    ​ All those 600 years are going up in smoke with China’s repudiation of the ‘old standards’, which privilege predatory, deceptive, extractive terms and practices meant to benefit only the Old Nobility elite class. China’s system is true stakeholder finance: the government will forcibly bend the bankers to its will, making sure that finance serves the common good and the people first, rather than speculation, financialization, capitalization, and all the other wicked inventions of the Western Old Nobility class…“
    …bringing greed is good era to an end.”​ …
    ​..The big one:​ “Government has called for banks to abandon a Western-style ethos and adopt an outlook in line with broader economic priorities.”
    It’s a revolution in the making.
    ​ But if you’re thinking my dramatic flights above verge a touch on hyperbole or idealism, you could be right. I, of course, still proceed with caution; we can’t be sure that China will succeed in its grand demolishment of the age-old paradigm. But all signals point to early success thus far, and more importantly, it’s clear that China has a leader that fundamentally understands these things at the most rooted level. Western leaders not only are incapable of even grasping the complexities involved of reining in capital, they are unable to do so for the mere fact that they’re totally bought and paid for by the representatives of that very capital class. The cabal of Capital is so deeply and institutionally entrenched in Western governmental systems that it’s simply impossible to imagine them being able to see ‘the forest for the trees’ from within the forest itself.​..
    ​..What they mean is that the Chinese government creates directives that spurn ‘market logics’ and are aimed at direct improvements to the lives of ordinary citizens. In the West there’s no such thing: all market decisions are based merely on the totally detached financial firms’ speculations and are exclusively at the behest of a tiny claque of finance and banking elite at the top of the pyramid.
    ​ You see, the U.S. is threatened because it knows it can never compete with China fairly, by squelching or containing its own gluttonous financial elite—so that leaves only one avenue for keeping up: sabotage and war.
    ​ This is the real reason the U.S. is desperate to stoke a Chinese invasion of Taiwan by various provocations, including weapons shipments. Just like the U.S. used Ukraine as the battering ram to bleed and weaken Russia economically, disconnecting it from Europe, U.S. hopes to use Taiwan as the Ukraine against China.​..
    ..But it’s unlikely to work—China is too sagacious to take the bait and fall for the trap. It will patiently wait things out, allowing the U.S. to drown in its own endless poison and treachery.​ https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/yellen-dispatched-to-beg-china-for

    ​ ‘Brazil’s Darth Vader’ Orders Investigation Into Elon Musk After Defying X Court Order
    ​ While X initially said in a Saturday post that they would comply, blocking certain popular accounts in Brazil – Musk said an hour later, after the release of the “TWITTER FILES BRAZIL,” that they would not, noting that “As a result, we will probably lose all revenue in Brazil and have to shut down our office there.”
    ​ In a Sunday post, Musk said that Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes had “brazenly and repeatedly betrayed the constitution and people of Brazil,” and should “resign or be impeached.”
    ​ De Moraes said that as part of his decision to open an inquiry, that “X shall refrain from disobeying any court order already issued, including performing any profile reactivation that has been blocked by this Supreme Court,” Reuters reports.
    ​ The justice said that Musk would face a fine that equates to approximately $20,000 each time an account is reactivated on X…
    ​..”Brazil is engaged in a sweeping crackdown on free speech led by a Supreme Court justice.”
    ​ Sitting members of Brazil’s Congress and journalists were among those named by Brazil’s highest court for censoring, Mr. Shellenberger said of his findings, which he has shared on X.
    ​ He named lower house members Carla Zambelli of former President Jair Bolsonaro’s Liberal Party and Marcel van Hattem of the NOVO party as targets of orders targeting posts the court deemed misinformation…
    ..According to Mr. Shellenberger, Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes allegedly made demands to Twitter to allow access to its internal data, in violation of Twitter’s own policies on the handling of user data. -Epoch Times
    ​ The “Twitter Files​ “also show that the justice “sought to weaponize Twitter’s content moderation policies against supporters of then-president @jairbolsonaro,” Mr. Shellenberger said—a similar trend to what the “Twitter files” revealed was happening to former President Donald Trump and conservative voices in the United States.
    ​ The origin of the order to censor Brazilians’ posts was also revealed in the internal Twitter files, Mr. Shellenberger said.
    ​ Brazilian Attorney General Jorge Messias backed de Moraes, saying in a post on X: “We cannot live in a society in which billionaires domiciled abroad have control of social networks and put themselves in a position to violate the rule of law, failing to comply with court orders and threatening our authorities.”
    ​ In a Sunday evening post, Musk told users in Brazil that they can use a VPN to access X.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/brazils-darth-vader-orders-investigation-elon-musk-after-defying-x-court-order

    ​ ‘Shocking Cover-up’: DOJ Lawyers Committed Fraud in Vaccine Injury Case, CHD Attorney Alleges in Motion Filed Today
    Rolf Hazlehurst, a Children’s Health Defense staff attorney and father of a son diagnosed with autism, filed a motion in federal court alleging lawyers representing the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services fraudulently concealed and misrepresented evidence that vaccines can cause autism.

    ‘Shocking Cover-up’: DOJ Lawyers Committed Fraud in Vaccine Injury Case, CHD Attorney Alleges in Motion Filed Today

    #156501
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ The Louisiana Senate has enacted legislation that would free the state from mandates and requirements imposed by international organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations (UN), and World Economic Forum.
    ​ “The World Health Organization, United Nations, and the World Economic Forum shall have no jurisdiction or power within the state of Louisiana. No rule, regulation, fee, tax, policy, or mandate of any kind of the World Health Organization, United Nations, and the World Economic Forum shall be enforced or implemented by the state of Louisiana or any agency, department, board, commission, political subdivision, governmental entity of the state, parish, municipality, or any other political entity.”
    ​ Vigilant News reports the legislation is “still pending passage in Louisiana’s Republican-majority House,” however, the bill is likely to pass.

    Louisiana Senate Passes Bill to Push Back Against United Nations, WEF and WHO

    ​ Meryl Nass MD, Yes, the states have authority to control the regulation of healthcare in their state
    Our plan is working; no wonder people are trying to derail it or suddenly demand new strategies.
    https://merylnass.substack.com/p/yes-the-states-have-authority-to

    ​ Dr. Nass again , Here is how we stop the WHO in the United States. Step 1: A HEARING to educate the Congress. Step 2 (the states) tomorrow.
    Contact me if you are interested in preserving your access to information, bodily autonomy and Constitution and want to help! Let’s keep our national self-determination!​ https://merylnass.substack.com/p/here-is-how-we-stop-the-who-in-the

    ​”Everything is fine. Don’t worry your silly little head about those irresponsible rumors. Your government would never allow itself to be tricked that way.”
    Meryl Nass MD, More lies being spread about the WHO treaties by elected US officials to their constituents
    ​ I wonder if the legislators will be angry when they learn they are repeating lies? Or is that par for the course? Ask Senator Dick Durbin to correct his misrepresentations.​ https://merylnass.substack.com/p/more-lies-being-spread-about-the

    ​ From Sasha Latypova, Dr. Charles Hoffe stood up for the victims. He needs your help now.
    ​ For speaking out and warning his patients of the dangers of the vaccines, Charles is being persecuted by the province’s regulatory college, and it seems the proceedings are taking a truly Orwellian turn — as you can read below (h/t to Catherine for sharing this with me).
    ​ Ted Kuntz of Vaccine Choice Canada has started a fund-raising campaign to support Charles’ legal defence. The links are at the bottom of this news item. If you can, please consider supporting him, and keep Charles in your prayers.​ https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/dr-charles-hoffe-stood-up-for-the

    #156502
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ “2nd Smartest Guy” , IVERMECTIN and CANCER Part 2 – Treating Turbo Cancer – 7 new studies released in 2024 show Ivermectin works against CANCER – suggested PROTOCOLS for COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine Induced Turbo Cancers​ https://www.2ndsmartestguyintheworld.com/p/ivermectin-and-cancer-part-2-treating

    Eclipse at Jenny’s elementary school, with kids, teachers and parents
    eclipse

    #156503
    Celticbiker
    Participant

    “Even the best of the goyim should be killed” Talmud,Soferim 15, Rule 10 These fuckers completely control $, worldwide, Russia, China, JewSA. It’s a worldwide system. Total control from cradle to grave. While everyone is distracted by the daily theatre, the fuckin circus maximus…they have set up the machine to steal everything, fuck you over and kill you. It took decades of planning to inject 70% of the West. You think now they’ll stop and be your buddy? Really? Goyim= cattle, are you getting the picture?

    #156504
    aspnaz
    Participant

    @Celticbiker

    The Chinese will not let a third party take any power for long; they will wait then expel the third party when the time is right. The Americans can control Taiwan for a while, but their time will come when they are expelled and China regains its rightful control over the island. The west is dying, the Jews are showing the world that they are sick fuckers, America is allowing them to run wild, the collateral damage will be enormous and the Jews will become a hated race once again. Americans will not be far behind. China sees the Jew behaviour and you can be sure their time in China is already on the clock.

    What is the land of the Jews trying to achieve, what is the long term plan? They long ago decided that they will not live in peace with any muslim nations, yet are surrounded by muslim nations, so what is the plan? Do they think they have the manpower to take over all those muslim nations and rule them? Is the plan to use the USA to take over all those muslim nations for them? Well the USA has destroyed a lot of those muslim nations, but have never managed to rule them, so again, what is the plan?

    What I see from Israel is the mental sickness of the entitled child. Now they cannot have everything, they want to destroy everything muslim as they accelerate their own destruction, their own destruction caused by their racist apartheid regime and their unwillingness to compromise with anybody. They are entitled children who have never grown up, they remain in their entitled childhood believing that they should be given everything because they were brainwashed into believing that they are God’s chosen ones.

    Even their own citizens; they allow Jew settlers to steal land from other non-Jew Israeli citizens; their belief in the superiority of the Jews, they are the most racist fuckers on this planet. Not only do they believe it, they act on it and now will destroy themselves for it.

    It is as if they know they are going to be destroyed so they want to make sure that everybody else suffers as well. Like a child in a tantrum intent on destroying everything but for no logical reason other that an intense sense of self entitlement.

    One day the arabs will shoot the rabid dog, that day is getting closer.

    #156505
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://karlof1.substack.com/p/lavrov-in-china-with-wang-yi
    Lavrov in China with Wang Yi

    KARL SANCHEZ
    APR 09, 2024
    What follows are two documents, a statement by Wang Yi, “the ‘Five Always’ of China-Russia Relations,” followed by Lavrov’s remarks to the press and short Q&A session:

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