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Theodoor Rombouts Prometheus 1627

 

Moscow as the Third Europe, and a Fourth There Will Never Be (Karganovic)
US Diplomacy Needed to Avoid Ukraine’s ‘Overwhelming’ Defeat Sy Hersh (Sp.)
Ukraine Seeking To Spark Direct NATO-Russia Clash – Moscow (RT)
Threat Of World War Grows Every Day – Hungary FM (TASS)
US OK for Ukraine Attacks on Russia Could Mean Nuclear War – Scott Ritter (Sp.)
Blinken Lobbying For Strikes On Russia – NYT (RT)
Israel Abandons Major Invasion of Rafah in Favor of Targeted Raids (Sp.)
Unified Reich Hoax One Of Most Blatantly Dishonest Attacks On Trump Yet (ZH)
Will Garland Send Hunter Biden Perjury Allegations to a Grand Jury? (Turley)
Nikki Haley Endorses Trump: He’s Not Perfect But Biden ‘Catastrophe’ (Sp.)
Pentagon Pumped $756 Mln Into Hypersonic Missile That Doesn’t Fly (Sp.)
Dutch Lawyer Prosecuted For Social Media Post Slamming Mass Migration (MN)
292 United & American Boeing 777s At Risk For ‘Exploding’ Fuel Tanks (ZH)

 

 

I don’t like the rhetoric these days…

 

 


House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Michael McCaul

 

 

Trump Bronx
https://twitter.com/i/status/1793782406388027528

 

 

AOC
https://twitter.com/i/status/1793485913797882305

 

 

Trump 1989
https://twitter.com/i/status/1793725371357020478

 

 

Comey

 

 

Tucker Trump Bet-David

 

 

Bill oh Bill

 

 

Cruz

 

 

Bridgen
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Russia as the guardian of western civilization.

Very nice historical perspective from Stephen Karganovic, President Of The Srebrenica Historical Project.

“Following the demise of the Byzantine Roman Empire, Russian monk Philotheus famously declared his firm belief that “Moscow [has become] the Third Rome, and a Fourth there will not be.”

Moscow as the Third Europe, and a Fourth There Will Never Be (Karganovic)

Upon assuming his duties, the new Russian Defence Minister Andrey Belousov made a number of noteworthy statements that rightfully reverberated throughout the world. But tucked in amongst his other observations of mainly geopolitical character there was one pregnant remark of an entirely different nature that nobody seems to have caught on to. Arguably however it surpasses all of the rest in significance: “Russia,” Belousov stated, “should follow the path of modernized conservatism… Russia can preserve traditional Western values. The West has abandoned these traditional values and moved on to something else – to an anti-traditional mindset within the framework of postmodernism.” One suspects that this circumlocution refers to the woke ideology which is currently ravaging the Western world. “It is important,” he continued, “to preserve traditional Western values, which in a certain sense are the values of Western Christian civilization, European civilization.”

Now comes the punchline: “Russia can become the guardian of these values. This may sound like a paradox, but it’s true. In this respect, it would be wrong to call the West our enemy … In the West, there are certain elites, and considerable parts of society that are associated with traditional values. And in this respect, they may grasp at this straw, this chance which Russia offers them to preserve some of their values.” These are remarkable affirmations. It would not be an exaggeration to call them epochal, coming from such a high-ranking source in the country that until quite recently symbolised a radical ideological rupture with the very civilisation and moral values in the defence of which Mr. Belousov has raised his voice. And he is doing it not just in his own name but plainly on behalf of the entire land for which he so self-confidently speaks. Granted, Mr. Belousov personally has all the required credentials to make such a statement because he is known to be a believing, church-going Orthodox Christian.

In defending the European civilisation and European values he is standing up for his own deeply cherished principles and for the Orthodox Christian civilizational milieu from which those principles have sprung. But on the symbolic level, as everyone with a solid grasp of relevant history knows, there is much more to it than that. Oddly, Western analysts and commentators missed completely the connection between Belousov’s bold depiction of Russia as the residual guardian and defender of Western civilisation and strikingly similar sentiments articulated earlier by another Russian, at an analogous historical juncture. Following the demise of the Byzantine Roman Empire, Russian monk Philotheus famously declared his firm belief that “Moscow [has become] the Third Rome, and a Fourth there will not be.” Western experts might have noticed the congruence between Philotheus and Belousov if they had a modicum of historical awareness, or, as Andrei Martyanov likes to put it, if their CVs contained even minimal evidence of culture and education. But in fact they are a culturally challenged and deplorably ignorant lot.

Therefore, they overlooked the premium point that Defence Minister Belousov gratuitously handed to them. Were they brighter or better educated, and capable of earning their keep, they might have gleefully twisted the minister’s words into rather plausible-sounding proof of Russia’s expansionistic ambitions. Such disinformation, bolstered with a decontextualised quote from one of the highest officials, would have corroborated perfectly their propaganda claims. They could have had a field day connecting Belousov’s words to their mendacious misrepresentation of current events. And if their propaganda skills were not so pathetically unrefined they could even have made the case that their geopolitical rival’s expansionistic pretensions did not start in February 2022 but go back for centuries, to at least the time of the monk Philotheus. Alas! to make such connections you need a bit of intellect, some imagination, and at least a bright schoolboy’s knowledge of history.

But needless to say, the issues that Philotheus broached in the epistle to his emperor in the 16th century, and also the issue that Defence Minister Belousov has raised more recently, are neither symbolic nor metaphorical, and least of all are given to vulgar propagandistic simplification. They reflect today as they did in the time of Philotheus an emerging civilizational paradigm, a reality that has been profoundly and for the West perhaps irreversibly reshaped. The new reality today is analogous to conditions in Christendom that prevailed when Philotheus made his bold declaration. Constantinople, the eastern Second Rome, had recently been conquered, just as in our time Europe, the First Rome, has finally imploded, ceasing to be either the political or spiritual centre of civilizational gravity. For recent evidence of that multi-level implosion one need look no further that the festival of satanic degeneracy in Malmo or the occult symbolism embedded in plain view in the official portrait of the head of the Church of England, the British monarch.

Today, as in the 16th century, who else is there that could possibly fill the void but the then surging, and in our own time resurgent, Russia? That in my view encapsulates the significance of Andrey Belousov’s history-making manifest that, regrettably, seems to have slipped under the radar but whose momentous impact will soon be felt.

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What diplomacy? They barely know how to spell it.

US Diplomacy Needed to Avoid Ukraine’s ‘Overwhelming’ Defeat Sy Hersh (Sp.)

Diplomatic efforts from Washington, which are withheld due to President Joe Biden’s irrational views on Russia, could have resolved the Ukrainian conflict that Americans and their allies are now unable to win, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh said. “America, in the years Biden has been in office, has spent $175 billion to fight a war that cannot and will not be won. It will only be resolved by diplomacy—if rationality prevails in Kiev and Washington,” Hersh wrote in a Substack article. Otherwise, the “undertrained, understaffed, and poorly-equipped Ukrainian army faces an overwhelming defeat,” he predicted.

In addition, Hersh, citing a longtime senior US official said that the US intelligence community has been concerned about Biden’s views on Putin and Russia, which date back to his time serving in the Senate. However, some within the American intelligence community believe that the United States bears its own share of responsibility for the conflict in Ukraine, Hersh added. “Putin and his predecessors in Moscow watched for three decades—since the reunification of Germany in 1990—as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) added member states that brought NATO to Russia’s doorstep,” Hersh said.

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“..the use of US-provided weapons to strike strategic targets within Russian territory under certain circumstances.”

Ukraine Seeking To Spark Direct NATO-Russia Clash – Moscow (RT)

Calls by American lawmakers to allow Ukraine use foreign-made weapons against targets deep in Russian territory play into Kiev’s hands, as they encourage a direct clash between Moscow and NATO, Russia’s Ambassador to the US, Anatoly Antonov, has warned. On Wednesday, a group of US congressmen submitted a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin asking him to authorize “the use of US-provided weapons to strike strategic targets within Russian territory under certain circumstances.” This stance has previously been supported by Victoria Nuland, the former acting US Deputy Secretary of State, who played a major role in the Western-backed coup in Kiev in 2014. Earlier this week, however, Austin stopped short of endorsing the policy shift, suggesting that Kiev should focus “on the close fight” rather than on long-range strikes with foreign-made weapons.

On Thursday, Antonov denounced the “provocative” and “extremely dangerous and reckless” calls to allow Ukraine use Western-supplied weapons to attack deep inside Russia. He added that “the calls by Russophobes mean only one thing – further US involvement in the conflict in Ukraine on the side of the agonizing Zelensky regime.” The envoy suggested that the debates on the matter were a “hysterical reaction” to Russia’s successes on the battlefield against Ukraine, and that Western policymakers “continue to test our patience.” According to Antonov, it is also obvious that by requesting permission to attack deep inside Russia with foreign-made weapons, Kiev seeks “to provoke the United States, as well as other NATO countries, into rash actions and achieve a head-on collision between Russia and the bloc’s members.”

Kiev would likely use long-range systems against Russian civilians, the ambassador claimed, adding that “the Kiev regime has long… stopped asking permission” from the West to do so. “Barbaric raids using deadly products of the NATO military-industrial complex are carried out across our country on an almost regular basis,” Antonov stated. Ukraine has stepped up its pleas to be allowed to use Western-made weapons against far-flung targets inside Russia as Moscow’s forces steadily advance in Donbass and the Kharkov Region. The latter area has been used by Kiev to routinely shell Russian territory, with strikes killing dozens of civilians. Russian President Vladimir Putin said earlier this month that Moscow’s offensive in Kharkov Region seeks to establish a “cordon sanitaire,” or buffer zone, to prevent further Ukrainian attacks.

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“.. there has been no day without another crazy statement uttered by of some of the European politicians.”

Threat Of World War Grows Every Day – Hungary FM (TASS)

The threat of a world war is growing due to “insane statements” by Western politicians speculating about sending soldiers to Ukraine against the background of exercises in Russia involving non-strategic nuclear weapons, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has said. He noted that “there has been no day without another crazy statement uttered by of some of the European politicians.” “There are those who want to send soldiers to Ukraine. Others are already speculating about the use of nuclear weapons. Every day the threat of a world war is getting closer,” Szijjarto told a news conference after a meeting in Budapest with his Swiss counterpart Ignazio Cassis. “We see what is happening: European politicians are making statements about the use of nuclear weapons. The Russians are conducting exercises involving tactical nuclear weapons,” Szijjarto said. He believes that “the time has come to stop this ma”..dness.” Szijjarto recalled that the Hungarian government had long stated that it was impossible to resolve the Ukrainian conflict militarily.

“That is why Hungary continues to tell its European partners that instead of indulging in crazy statements and fantasies that threaten to escalate [hostilities] they should spend at least half of their energy on achieving peace. Then there may be hope that this war will be ended at the negotiating table,” Szijjarto emphasized. On May 21, Russia began the first stage of exercises including practical training in preparations for using non-strategic nuclear weapons. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, they are being held in response to provocative statements by Western officials and are aimed at maintaining the readiness to respond and ensuring the country’s sovereignty. Missile units of the Southern Military District are practicing preparations for launching Iskander tactical missiles, while the personnel of the Aerospace Forces will equip air-launched delivery vehicles with special warheads, including hypersonic Kinzhal missiles, and head for patrol areas.

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“..it’s not taking place with State Department or Department of Defense connivance. It’s taking place with the assistance and the facilitation of the Central Intelligence Agency – a covert war. All Tony Blinken is now talking about is taking this covert war and making it an overt war..”

US OK for Ukraine Attacks on Russia Could Mean Nuclear War – Scott Ritter (Sp.)

House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Michael McCaul added fuel to the fire of escalatory rhetoric swirling around Washington on Wednesday regarding restrictions on Ukraine’s use of American long-range strike weapons, trotting out a map during Secretary Blinken’s testimony showing areas of Russia hundreds of kilometers from the Ukrainian frontlines that weapons like ATACMS and HIMARS could hit. “Will you change this policy so that Ukraine can fight without one hand tied behind its back?” McCaul asked. “When it comes to enabling or endorsing attacks outside of Ukraine, that’s not something we’ve done, but Ukraine will have to make and will make its own decisions and I want to make sure that it gets the equipment that it needs,” Blinken said, avoiding a direct answer. Privately, however, sources told the New York Times that the secretary of state favors lifting the restrictions, and that he has lobbied President Biden to do so after what the newspaper characterized as a “sobering” trip to Kiev last week, where he was briefed on Ukraine’s battlefield setbacks.

McCaul’s counterparts in the Russian Duma and Senate slammed the congressman’s “madness” and apparent loss of instinct for self-preservation, warning that Russia would be forced “to take tough and swift measures” in response to such blatant aggression. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, meanwhile, recommended to McCaul that the first place in the “Russian interior” to be targeted by long-range US missiles is the American Embassy in Moscow. But the debate in Washington regarding direct US approval for Ukrainian missile attacks deep inside Russia constitute little more than “word games,” says former US Marine and UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter.

“Ukraine is already attacking critical energy facilities inside Russia, oil tanks, petroleum depots. This is taking place. It’s just that it’s not taking place with State Department or Department of Defense connivance. It’s taking place with the assistance and the facilitation of the Central Intelligence Agency – a covert war. All Tony Blinken is now talking about is taking this covert war and making it an overt war. Why is he doing this? Domestic American politics. It will have no impact on the battlefield. But what it does is allow the Biden administration to posture itself as doing something discernable to address the Russian successes – the successful offensive north of Kharkov, the continuing successful offensives in eastern Ukraine and Novorossiya,” Ritter told Sputnik. The catastrophic situation for Ukraine is seen by the Biden administration as a “political problem” during an election year, and Blinken is “trying to come up with a political solution,” the military and international affairs observer explained.

“But it’s shortsighted. It won’t resolve the military problems that are being confronted by the Ukrainians. What it will do is create the dangerous potential for the kind of escalation that the Biden administration has been assiduously seeking to avoid – an escalation that would lead to a direct confrontation between Russia, the United States and NATO. An escalation that could see this conflict move away from conventional war into the possibility, indeed probability of nuclear conflict,” Ritter said. Ritter characterized the hostile rhetoric coming out of Washington regarding overt approval for strikes on Russia an “unprecedented” escalation, “an act of war, an act of aggression that Russia couldn’t let go without a response.” Legally, the retired soldier said, Russia would have the right not only to strike decision-making centers and launch sites inside Ukraine, but also those facilitating the attacks, potentially including “American decision-making centers in Europe.”

As for Congressman McCaul’s map, Ritter suggested that what neocons like McCaul “don’t understand” is “that they’re putting forward a slanted version of this conflict. An accurate map put up by Tony Blinken, Victoria Nuland or the congressman from Texas would highlight for instance Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Germany, France, England, Italy, the Netherlands, the Baltics…All of those nations provide a safe haven for Ukraine – a place where Ukrainian forces can train. A place where Ukrainian military materiel can be stockpiled, repaired. Where command and control activity takes place, where intelligence is collected, assessed and disseminated. All these activities are part and parcel of Ukraine’s military effort against Russia, and under normal conditions would be subjected to military interdiction. But Russia doesn’t attack them, it can’t attack them because they’re part of NATO. For Russia to attack them, even though this activity is directly related to the war, it would lead to an expansion of the conflict, an escalation. So Russia has avoided doing this even though it has every right to do so.”

“Russia has the ability to decisively interdict all of the activities that are taking place on NATO’s soil. Ukraine – if it were to launch attacks on…Russia – all it would do is kick the bear. It’s not going to have a meaningful impact. It’s not going to change the outcome. The Russians will not be defeated. This will not alter the reality that Ukraine lacks manpower, equipment and funding to sustain this conflict – that Ukraine is on a path of decisive defeat that could occur sometime this year. And no expansion of the target deck is going to change that reality,” Ritter concluded.

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With Biden incapacitated, Blinken is the de facto leader on foreign policy.

Blinken Lobbying For Strikes On Russia – NYT (RT)

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is pushing the administration of President Joe Biden to allow Ukraine to attack targets deep inside Russia with American weapons, the New York Times reported on Thursday, referring to unnamed US officials. The ban, according to the White House, was imposed out of concern that if US arms were used inside what Washington acknowledges as Russian territory it would trigger an escalation and potentially World War III. Blinken has been advocating for scrapping the restriction after making a “sobering” visit to Kiev earlier this month, the newspaper said, citing insider sources. Ukrainian officials have claimed that being unable to target Russian forces across the border with American weapons led to the failure of its troops to prevent the recent Russian advances in Kharkov Region.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that the offensive is a response to months of Ukrainian artillery and drone attacks in Russia’s Belgorod Region and that a buffer zone is required to deprive Kiev of the capability to make such strikes. The Times said that Ukrainian weapons “don’t pack the power and speed of the American weapons.” Kiev has launched a lobbying campaign on Capitol Hill to pressure the White House over the issue and has some allies among lawmakers. A group of representatives signed a letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Monday calling for the Ukrainian request to be granted. During a hearing in Congress on Tuesday, Senator Michael McCaul displayed a map showing the strike range of ATACMS missiles – a weapon the US has donated to Ukraine – if Kiev were allowed to use them inside Russia.

He called the outlined territory a “sanctuary zone” for Russian troops and accused the Biden administration of tying the hands of the Ukrainians behind their backs. Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has urged increased NATO involvement in the conflict and has argued that the West should not fear Russia’s reaction. Moscow believes that Zelensky’s goal is to trigger an escalation to maintain his position. Russia is currently conducting a military drill to test its capability to use non-strategic nuclear weapons, which Putin ordered in response to hostile rhetoric by Western officials. One such remark identified by Moscow came from British Foreign Secretary David Cameron, who said earlier this month that Kiev “has the right” to use weapons donated by his nation to attack targets inside Russia.

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More Blinken.

Israel Abandons Major Invasion of Rafah in Favor of Targeted Raids (Sp.)

Israel has allegedly abandoned its plans for a major invasion of Rafah in the Gaza Strip in favor of targeted incursions after talks with the United States, The Telegraph has reported, citing a senior US official. The report cited the official as saying on Wednesday that Israel had taken concerns of the US into account, which had for weeks warned Israel against full-scale operation in Rafah. “It’s fair to say, I think, the Israelis have updated their plans. They’ve incorporated many of the concerns that we have expressed … This is an ongoing discussion, ongoing conversation. It’s been constructive,” the official said, referring to a meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan in Jerusalem last week. Last week, Sullivan traveled to the Middle East and visited Saudi Arabia and Israel, where he met with Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and the Israeli leadership.

Earlier in May, the Pentagon confirmed media reports that the Biden administration halted deliveries of 1800 2000-pound bombs and 1700 500-pound bombs to Israel after the country began its allegedly limited military operation in Rafah while making public its plans to proceed with a major ground operation.In early May, US President Joe Biden said during an interview with CNN that Washington would not supply weapons to Israel if the Jewish state’s military went into Rafah. In the early hours of May 7, the Israel Defense Forces launched what it called a counterterrorist operation in the east of Rafah and took control of the Gaza side of the border crossing with Egypt. Later that week, Israeli media reported that Israel’s military cabinet had approved expanding the ground operation. Israeli authorities say the operation was aimed at eliminating the remaining battalions of Palestinian movement Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

On October 7, 2023, Hamas launched a large-scale rocket attack against Israel and breached the border, attacking both civilian neighborhoods and military bases. Nearly 1,200 people in Israel were killed and some 240 others were abducted during the attack. Israel launched retaliatory strikes, ordered a complete blockade of Gaza, and started a ground incursion into the Palestinian enclave with the declared goal of eliminating Hamas fighters and rescuing the hostages. Over 35,600 people have been killed so far by Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip, local authorities said. More than 100 hostages are still believed to be held by Hamas in Gaza.

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They know how dumb their voters are… But even then, this is something else…

Unified Reich Hoax One Of Most Blatantly Dishonest Attacks On Trump Yet (ZH)

With a brand new set of polls showing Donald Trump leading in six of seven swing states, establishment media has stooped to new levels of transparent dishonesty in a desperate effort to derail his campaign. The latest example? An all-out hoax that had major outlets telling Americans that Trump shared a video promising that his reelection would lead to the “creation of a unified Reich,” in what was supposedly a shocking revelation of his intention to Make Nazism Great Again. Here’s a sampling of the hysterical headlines:
• Newsweek: Donald Trump ‘Unified Reich’ Video Leaves People Stunned
• MSNBC: Trump’s Online Account Promotes ‘Unified Reich’ Video, Adding To Alarming Pattern
• The Hill: White House Slams ‘Sickening’ Video Shared By Trump Referencing ‘Unified Reich’
• CNN: Trump Posts Video Referencing ‘Unified Reich’ If Reelected

TV’s talking heads gravely shared the news. ABC’s George Stephanopoulos said Trump posted a video that “used language from Nazi Germany, the latest in a series of antisemitic and authoritarian statements from Trump and his campaign.” Social media erupted in the latest round of bogus outrage, including this pearl-clutching tweet from archetypal deep-stater and Constitution-betraying mass surveillance architect Michael Hayden. The White House leapt headlong into the propaganda blitz. “It is abhorrent, sickening, and disgraceful for anyone to promote content associated with Germany’s Nazi government under Adolf Hitler,” said Deputy White House Press Secretary Andrew Bates. Piling dishonesty on dishonesty, here’s Joe Biden recoiling in phony disbelief as he pretends to be seeing Trump’s alleged abomination for the first time:

So what actually happened? On Monday afternoon, Trump’s Truth Social account reposted a video that had been created and posted by someone outside the campaign. The video used imagery of newspaper headlines to imagine a Trump victory in November and the beneficial consequences that would accompany it. The video was not created from scratch, but rather from a stock video template that anyone can buy online. Sold by Envato Elements, it’s called “Newspaper Vintage History Headlines Promo.” With its old-newspaper feel, whatever headlines are added to it are given a certain historical gravitas. Aside from the Trump-specific banner headlines, the video creator simply left intact all the minor, historical headlines that come with the template and serve as little more than background filler. For all the freaking out about Trump using the video to implicitly endorse the Third Reich, the vintage headline in question isn’t even about that reich. It reads, “German Industrial Strength After 1871 Driven By The Creation Of A Unified Reich.” “It’s difficult to convey just how fake the establishment American media really is,” said Newsmax’s Rob Schmitt, in this segment that lays bare the utter dishonesty behind the latest baseless outrage:

Predictably, the so-called “fact checkers” at Snopes framed the video controversy in such a way that they could stamp “TRUE” on it, addressing merely whether Trump shared a video that contained the words “creation of a unified reich.” Like many of the harpies on social media who’ve been called out for their deceptive descriptions of the video, Snopes blames the video creator for “fail[ing] to remove” the unified Reich headline — as if that video creator had used Triumph Of The Will as their starting template.

Meanwhile, with an article explaining why the video “isn’t what people are making it out to be,” The Atlantic’s David Graham pleasantly surprised us — only to then exasperate us by reinforcing one of the most persistent anti-Trump hoaxes of all. After explaining the benign nature of the video template, Graham proceeded to administer a Trump-mythology booster to The Atlantic’s lefty readership, writing that “[Trump] called neo-Nazi marchers in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017 ‘very fine people.” Let’s go to the transcript…again. In a feisty exchange with reporters, Trump — referring to politically diverse protesters and counter-protesters who showed up in Charlottesville — said: “You had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides…You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of, to them, a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name.”

After questioning whether statues of historical figures should be removed solely because the person in question had some involvement with slavery, Trump said: “You’re changing history. You’re changing culture. And you had people — and I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists — because they should be condemned totally. But you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists. Okay? And the press has treated them absolutely unfairly.” Just as the “very fine people” hoax persists at The Atlantic and nearly everywhere else, we’re guessing the “unified reich video” hoax will have staying power too. In any event, it looks like it’s time for Scott Adams to issue another update to his hoax quiz…

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“These are instances where Hunter was under oath, prepared for months, and had counsel present..”

Will Garland Send Hunter Biden Perjury Allegations to a Grand Jury? (Turley)

Attorney General Merrick Garland has long maintained that he is a completely apolitical figure who only follows the law. Critics have challenged that claim on key cases, including those related to Hunter Biden. However, Garland may now face one of the clearest tests of his claim in his tenure. The House committees have issued a public report alleging three different instances where Hunter Biden allegedly committed perjury. The question is now what Garland is prepared to do about it. When Hunter testified, I wrote columns suggesting that he might take the Fifth Amendment to remain silent because the risk was too great that he might lie or mislead investigators in his answers. With months of preparation, he decided to run the gauntlet and now appears to have exposed himself to the possibility of additional criminal charges. Hunter Biden has still not responded to the specific allegations, but on their face they appear strong.

Notably, the Justice Department spent considerable time and money to pursue false statements against figures like Michael Flynn over just one statement describing a meeting with Russian diplomats. These are instances where Hunter was under oath, prepared for months, and had counsel present. One of the instances concerns the controversial WhatsApp message where Hunter not only threatened a Chinese businessman to send him massive amounts of money but said that his father was sitting next to him at the time. Millions were later sent to the Bidens. The infamous WhatsApp message stated in part: “I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight. And, Z, if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zhang, or the chairman, I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction. I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father.”

The response of Hunter to questions about the message was curious and evasive. Hunter said that he had only two things to say about that message. He denied that his father was sitting next to him despite saying that he had no memory of sending the message. Second, and most importantly, he stated “the Zhao that this is sent to is not the Zhao connected to CEFC” who “had no understanding or even remotely knew what the hell I was even Goddamn talking about.” The Committee staff maintains that Biden’s WhatsApp account show that he only ever communicated with one Zhao – Raymond Zhao – and that he most certainly did [know] what he was “talking about.” Another alleged lie was Hunter’s denial that he ever helped people associated with Burisma secure visas. He told Congress that he was unwilling to provide “any work as it related to visas that they needed” and that he would “never pick up the phone and call anybody for a visa.”

The Committee has produced an email showing Hunter’s associate Devon Archer concerning the revoking of Burisma CEO Nikolay Zlochevsky’s visa. It states that “Hunter is checking with Miguel Aleman to see if he can provide cover to Kola on the visa…Please send Hunter an email with all Kola’s passport and visa documents and evidence and copy me. We’ll take it from there.” Hunter also swore that he had no part in shell companies that received foreign payments. Yet, Archer testified that he and Hunter had equal stake in Rosemont Seneca Bohai and the Committee has evidence from the IRS whistleblowers showing that Hunter received benefits as owner of the entity’s associated bank account. The most damning evidence may be a document reading “I, Robert Hunter Biden, hereby certify that I am the duly elected, qualified and acting Secretary of Rosemont Seneca Bohai, LLC.” He used that document as part of his contract with Porsche Financial Services for a sports car.

That would seem pretty clear and well-founded allegations for a referral to the Justice Department. After fast-tracking false statement claims against Trump officials, the question is whether Garland will even submit the matter to a grand jury. He could also give the matter to the Special Counsel prosecuting Hunter. Ordinarily, a prosecutor pursuing a defendant in two different felony cases would jump at any alleged illegality. You would not want to stand between him and a grand jury. However, Special Counsel David Weiss has been accused of minimizing charges against the President’s son and attempting to push through a notorious sweetheart deal that collapsed in court. Now Garland faces an unavoidable choice in treating this referral as he did Trump cases (in sending this to a grand jury) or scuttling alleged perjury made by the son of the President before Congress. It is far less challenging legally than it is politically for Merrick Garland.

Garland

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Oh no, not her..

Nikki Haley Endorses Trump: He’s Not Perfect But Biden ‘Catastrophe’ (Sp.)

Former Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley announced on Wednesday that she will vote for Donald Trump in November as he meets her priorities better than Biden. “As a voter, I put my priorities on a president who is going to have the backs of our allies and hold our enemies to account…,” Haley said at the Hudson Institute. “I will be voting for Trump.” Trump has not been perfect but Biden has been a “catastrophe,” she said. Haley also expressed hope that Trump will actively engage her voters rather than simply expect their support. Earlier, an Axios report said that Trump’s campaign is considering Nikki Haley for the vice presidential role.

Haley, who was a key Republican rival in the presidential race alongside Vivek Ramaswamy and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, could be chosen if Trump believes she would enhance his chances of winning the November election, avoid potential imprisonment, and manage his multi-million dollar legal bills, the report added. Members of the Republican Party close to both politicians believe that teaming up is in their mutual interest because Haley has deep ties with sponsors who are wary of Trump, and she could help him attract the votes of some college-educated Republicans, the report said.

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“Money is one means of developing a technology, but it can happen that a technology is created with a minimum amount of funds. It can turn out that you have a lot of money, but the technology doesn’t work out. Therefore, money is not the main thing here. The main thing is people, and having the appropriate academic knowledge..”

Pentagon Pumped $756 Mln Into Hypersonic Missile That Doesn’t Fly (Sp.)

The US Army has been teasing the deployment of its ground-based Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW) system since 2021, with the system touted as the Pentagon’s first nearly operational hypersonic missile amid development delays and cancellations plaguing nearly a dozen similar projects for and by the Army, Air Force, Navy, and DARPA. The US Army has awarded Lockheed Martin another $756 million for its delay-plagued LRHW “Dark Eagle” program, with the contract involving the provision of battery equipment, unspecified logistics, systems, and software engineering support. In development since 2017, the LRHW’s $41 million apiece truck-launched missiles are expected to be able to accelerate to speeds up to Mach 17, and boast a 3,000 km operational range. The system uses the common All Up Round (AUR) munition also used in the Navy’s Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) program.

But like other US hypersonic missile efforts to date, Dark Eagle has become a somewhat “Dubious Eagle” after a string of testing issues. The Congressional Research Office has counted at least five failures to date:
• In October 2021, an LRHW test failed when the Common-Hypersonic Glide Body (C-HGB) did not deploy.
• In June 2022, the complete LRHW missile system suffered another test failure.
• A scheduled LRHW test was canceled in October 2022 to “assess the root cause” of the June 2022 failure.
• In March 2023, a scheduled test launch from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida was scrapped.
• A second planned test at Cape Canaveral was canceled in September 2023, followed by an Army statement that it would not be able to meet the goal of deploying Dark Eagle in the current fiscal year.
• A November 2023 review by Army and Navy acquisition execs blamed the delays on unspecified “problems” with the Lockheed-made launcher, and said the issues would take “months” to iron out.

The poor track record of US hypersonic missile programs to date has been surprising, given the tens of billions of dollars in research and development funding lavishly doled out by Congress in annual defense budgets – which typically outpace the defense spending of all of Washington’s major adversaries combined. Last month, veteran Russian defense observer and missile expert Dmitry Drozdenko told Sputnik that the reason hypersonic weapons are so difficult to develop comes down not to the ability to accelerate vehicles to hypersonic speeds (which has been possible since virtually the dawning of the missile age), but creating materials that can withstand the ultra-hot temperatures hypersonic missiles encounter during flight – when they are covered by clouds of plasma. The USSR was leagues ahead of the US in the study of plasma physics during the Cold War, with Russia inheriting this invaluable knowledge and putting it to good use to field its first-in-the-world hypersonic missiles.

“Technologies are developed by people,” Drozdenko explained. “Money is one means of developing a technology, but it can happen that a technology is created with a minimum amount of funds. It can turn out that you have a lot of money, but the technology doesn’t work out. Therefore, money is not the main thing here. The main thing is people, and having the appropriate academic knowledge,” the observer said.

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“..pretending to be a democracy, a country with freedom of speech.”

Dutch Lawyer Prosecuted For Social Media Post Slamming Mass Migration (MN)

A Dutch conservative female lawyer is being prosecuted on charges of “racism” and “inciting hatred” after she expressed fury over mass migration in response to a viral video showing a white boy being beaten up and thrown onto a railway track by a gang of migrants. Raisa Blommestijn revealed how she had received a letter that amounted to an order to appear before a Dutch prosecutor at a court hearing in front of multiple judges on August 19th. The charges stem from comments Blommestijn made on social media in response to a video of a defenseless Dutch boy being brutally kicked and punched as he lay on the ground at an Amsterdam Metro station in May last year before he was thrown onto the railway track. “Yet another white man got kicked around in the street by a group of black primates. How many defenseless white people remain to become victims? Countless probably: the open borders elite is importing these people in droves, with all the consequences that entails,” she wrote.

Blommestijn said she was subjected to a four hour police interrogation over her comments and later learned that she would be facing prosecution. “Until now, it was still unclear what would happen next with this case. Unfortunately, I can tell you that as of today, there is clarity. The sword of Damocles has fallen because this morning I found this letter in my letterbox. A letter that cannot be seen as anything other than a subpoena,” the lawyer told her followers. The conservative warned that people were being “persecuted for their political opinions” and for opposing mass migration by a nation that is “pretending to be a democracy, a country with freedom of speech.”

Prominent conservatives being punished by authorities for expressing strong anti-mass migration views has become a common theme across Europe, with the state seeking to make an example of them in order to silence dissent. As we recently highlighted, a German politician was found guilty of ‘incitement’ by a district court after she posted a link to the government’s own statistics on crimes committed by migrants, specifically rape, and asked why they are so disproportionately high. Three former members of Belgium’s right-wing ‘Nation’ party were also convicted for Facebook posts in which they compared the Brussels district of Molenbeek to Africa due to its massive non-native population and demanded the Belgian government put “our people first.”

Eva

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“According to the FAA, a metal plate attached to a fuel tank vent on the wings of the 777 was installed without an electrical bond, meaning it could potentially accumulate static electricity and cause a “fire or explosion” in the jet’s fuel tanks.”

292 United & American Boeing 777s At Risk For ‘Exploding’ Fuel Tanks (ZH)

Overnight, DailyMail reported that yet another fleet of Boeing jets has a potentially disastrous flaw. The 777, commonly called the Triple Seven, has poor electrical insulation near its fuel tank that can cause “fire or explosion.” Back in March, the Federal Aviation Administration raised concerns about the 777’s safety and set a deadline of May 9 for Boeing and third-party experts to respond. However, it’s still unclear whether the company has taken any action, as reported by DailyMail. “This condition, if not addressed, could result in an ignition source inside the fuel tank and subsequent fire or explosion,” the Airworthiness Directives note states. The FAA noted the safety fix includes “installing electrical bonding and grounding” to prevent short-circuiting “electrostatic discharge to the surrounding structure” around the air intake system near the 777’s center-wing fuel tanks. The projected cost to fix the 292 vulnerable wide-body planes is around $700k.

777 are flown across the world. Many of these jets are commonly used by American and United Airlines. This was the same jet earlier this week that abruptly dropped 6,000 feet during a London to Singapore flight. Last month, Boeing whistleblower Sam Salehpour told lawmakers on Capitol Hill about “serious concerns about the safety of the 787 and 777 aircraft.” Salehpour is one of the lucky whistleblowers still remarkably alive after more than a month from his statement on Capitol Hill. At that time, he told lawmakers about “premature fatigue failure” on these planes and warned Boeing was “putting out defective airplanes.” In each passing week, problems for Boeing are growing, from the 777 earlier this week that abruptly dropped to a 747’s engine that erupted in a fireball last week to these recent mishaps: In markets, Boeing shares have been battered in the last 5.5 years following the twin Max 737 crashes (separate crashes) that killed 346 people.The optics for Boeing are terrible. This is why Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun is preparing to step down at the end of the year.

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    Theodoor Rombouts Prometheus 1627   • Moscow as the Third Europe, and a Fourth There Will Never Be (Karganovic) • US Diplomacy Needed to Avoid Uk
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle May 24 2024]

    #159570
    a kullervo
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    Conservatives stemmed out of the idea that good times can be frozen forever. Progressives arose from the concept that man’s destiny is to overcome bad times,,,
    … how naïve and ignorant can we be?

    #159572
    Dr. D
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    Wow, where’d you get that picture of the American citizen? And Mitch McConnell has never looked quite so fluffy.

    “Congress Members To Wear Barcodes So Lobbyists Can Scan Prices, Self-Checkout” — BBee

    BeTheBee
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    https://sinfest.xyz/btphp/comics/2024-05-24.jpg

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    #159573
    Dr. D
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    “Watch: Cruz, Kennedy Destroy Biden Judge For Placing ‘6 Foot 2 Serial Child Rapist’ In Women’s Prison

    Killing women everywhere they’re found.

    “German Parliament Votes To Decriminalize The Possession Of Child Pornography

    Killing children wherever they’re found.

    Here’s an example of yesterday:
    “Putin’s Purge? Another Top Russian General Arrested On Bribery Charges

    We can’t do that, everything has to get worse, nothing can get better. TINA. Russia was in a situation where EVERYBODY was corrupt…just like us. And that goes back to the Soviet days, not just the 1990s where you’d be killed or wouldn’t exist if you weren’t corrupt…just like us.

    And you COULD, of course, walk in Jan 1, 1999, and go to war with them. Arrest everybody. Throw the crooks in jail. Shock Doctrine. AND THEN THERE’D BE NO TALENT LEFT. Or you COULD just leave them in place, siphoning off cash, stashing it in London and not pumping any oil, not making any guns. Right? Either or.

    So if the IMF’s well known prescription is Shock Doctrine, Disaster Capitalism, changing the economy, the national outlook too fast, maybe – NOT – do what your sworn enemy wants to do as a specifically-written plan to have Russia cease to exist? To “Radically transform America Russia as we know it”?

    Think of it like a hospital patient. The U.S. Russia is on life support. Flat in bed like a car wreck. Well, what you do obviously, is go switch off all those bailout-rigging machines they’re attached to, turn the bed sideways, and say “Arise and walk”, right? No? That doesn’t sound logical, reasonable, practical? But the guy will return to capitalism and rise by his bootstraps!

    Yes, he will, but after being so weak and possibly dead all kinds of other bad things might happen first. Like he might die or is certainly conquered by a reagent-proxy force.

    Healing takes time. Changing takes time if it’s not a Shock Doctrine. Instead, it took TWENTY-FIVE years, one miserable, frustrating, difficult, dangerous push at a time to get Russia only DOWN to these levels of corruption. …Like us. But they have. Now here in this news story, using the war and popularity as a new level, they are going in and making an example of the top corrupt guys remaining, or the least cooperative ones. ...Because there’s always corruption unless you want to ALSO kill your patient in a Woke purity spiral. Their public reason is also good: they don’t want the military out of hand, sucking up all the consumer-citizens. Reducing the corruption allows that lost money to be applied to making toasters and cell phones.

    But that’s not like here. Our Corruption is completely different this time. Unlike Russia, there’s nothing we can do. We might as well all give up without trying anything. It’s useless to arrest anyone, since you’d have to arrest everyone.

    Look: these cycles happen in history over and over, whether you want them to or not. At some point nations ALWAYS get less corrupt. So it CAN happen and it WILL happen. So…apparently there IS something can can be done? Right? But that something doesn’t happen in a month, and it’s a lot of hard work and not a lot of fun. Must be why we can’t do it. According to people here, if you can’t finish it by the end of one half-hour episode, it can’t be done at all. Boy sitting on this couch complaining sure is better!

    Speaking of: “The Unifying Principle: Here’s Why The Political Divisions In The US Today Cannot Be Mended

    Yup. Can’t be mended. Clearly we’re way more different than hard-core Puritanical New England vs Caribbean sugar-plantation Carolina. Those two had way more in common than us. They united a country, but we need to throw up our hands and break up.

    “From early disagreements between various Founding Fathers on hot button issues like the Sedition Act, central banking and standing armies, to epic and disastrous conflagrations like the Civil War, America has never been “of one mind” on everything.”

    “There are a lot of factors that set conservatives (and a many moderates) apart from the political left, but the core disconnect is so deep and disturbing it’s hard to quantify. I can only summarize it down to this:
    1) The unifying principle of the left is deconstruction. They find their meaning or purpose in the act of tearing down and destroying what other people have built.
    2) The unifying principle for conservatives is to build and protect what has been found to work.”

    That’s an extremely generous view, but the point about deconstruction is correct. He says earlier that they believe in “Futurism”, aka “Progress”. EVERYTHING that exists now or in the past is evil. Everything we plan to change it to is good. That’s very easy as: “If it exists, it’s evil.” Deconstruction. Idealists. It’s racist, sexist, homophobic, oppressive, etc. But all the things I have in my mind I haven’t built yet are perfect and good, so you can’t test them. You can’t measure my INTENT. Utopians: the most murderous, destructive force on the planet in all human history.

    “For progressives the most important question is: What happens when they’ve destroyed the last edifice? What comes next?” “All statues torn down, every book burned, all history re-written” — Orwell.

    This is showing up with Carville screaming at “Those little s—ts” who won’t vote. Just because we’re screwing you and won’t give you a Single. Thing. EVER!!! Not even a VOTE on Medicare. Versus Jimmy Dore pointing out: “Um, Sir? THAT’S WHAT ALL POLITICS IS. You come GET my vote. You do something FOR ME.” So the Carvilles, etc only have to point at the Republicans and say “They would create an Iranian theocracy wearing Handmaids uniforms” etc. …When they’re not even religious, Trump is the first President pro-gay marriage, his family is Jewish, and Carville is in favor of putting adult men in girl’s locker rooms and locking rapists into women’s cells in prison. That is to say, you stand AGAINST something: the Republicans. Wow. Who doesn’t? Welcome to the Party, Pal. But do you stand FOR something? Are you going to give the Democrat Students, Blacks, Women, anything?

    No, because they’re Deconstructionists. “Revolutionaries” in the modern sense. Maybe before, but at this point revolutionaries smash. They only have the vaguest, hazy sense of what they’d replace it with. Smashing is fun! It’s filled with hate! For all these Schools, businesses, who richly deserve it! Yeah, and? What’s your plan, genius? I think of Hamilton, 1770, 18 years old. “Winning was easy, young man. Governing’s harder.”

    He adds this: “In this regard I set globalists apart from typical leftists. Globalists are indeed leftists at their core but they are also builders, and not in a good way. Globalists don’t build societies, they build prisons. Once the useful idiots on the left have finished the job of deconstructing America the globalists plan to come in with a new ideal, a new religion, a new foundation based on worshiping THEM.

    Here is where we find the greatest split of all – The spiritual nature of our impasse.”

    Yes but they’re also very few and you don’t have to agree with them. Leftists also despise globalists…if you frame them right…because they’re all greedy corporate oligarchs like Bezos screwing his workers and shooting d–k rockets. If Left and Right agree on this (My GOD this is still Occupy Wall Street) then it’s easy to push out 200 vultures at the top and unite on these values.

    But we can’t unite or nothin’. There’s no alternative. The 99% can never get together and stop getting robbed by the 1% It’s silly to think they can agree on that.

    McCaul maps.

    Yes, and how did THEIR country get to close to OUR NATO bases? Like a thousand whole miles closer? So mysterious. It was then followed by a map of all OUR arms dumps, radar stations, training facilities and refueling sites in Poland, Germany, Romania…

    Oh but it’s not a Military base when WE do it. When we shoot people, they’re not dead. They pop up into love and flowers!

    Okay, more helpfully, here’s the latest dumb -ss plan from dumb -ss people who never had a thought in their lives: We are going to TARGET all Russian missiles in the air using our POLISH radar systems. Then SHARE that information with American Ukrainian HIMAR batteries to blow everything Russian out of the sky.

    …But you see, neither Poland nor America is in the war, and blowing everything out of the sky isn’t what they call a “No-fly Zone”. Nope! It’s love and light! It’s big, wet kisses from a clown!

    Nope. All good. We’re not participating, no NATO war, and painting someone with a targeting radar isn’t like an internationally recognized act of aggression or war, whereupon legal international law permits you to take any action you wish to neutralize the threat. Nope. Not when we do it!

    Yes, as they are useless, spineless, feckless weasels, this is what they have planned right now and are going forward. The softening up ground on “Just Bombin’ all Russia, just ‘cause it’s Wednesday” is sort of hiding the actual steps they are enacting.

    “Comey knows that Trump is going to cleanse the DOJ/FBI. The only difference between 2016 and now, is that Trump has the public support, the optics, the precedent, and the justification, to actually pull it off.”

    …This is exactly like Putin arresting slighter-lower levels of corruption in the Russian military above. He can only do that in a war, where he just got huge public support, demand even. They’re not “Leaders” they’re servants. They do what WE say.

    “Bill Maher: “She’s not an election denier.”

    Maher is an election denier-denier. After 2024, he will be an election denier-denier-denier. It’s deniers all the way down!

    CNN-Cruz is a good example of why journalists aren’t allowed to talk. We’re not interviewing you, miss, you’re a useless nobody. We’re interviewing OTHER people, perhaps even people in positions of power. “Better to be thought a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt.” I mean, do you really want to be made to be a fool and have a stupid position live on the air? Shuddappa you Face.

    “Russia can become the guardian of these values. it would be wrong to call the West our enemy … In the West, there are certain elites, and considerable parts of society that are associated with traditional values. … Russia offers them to preserve some of their values.”

    This is in the Fatima Prophesy. Now fully formed and expressed. That and we suspect, that the POPE is the one they’re talking about in Fatima, himself and leading the entire Church away from all Western values into deconstruction (wrecking everything like the devil himself) anti-traditional mindset and postmodernism.

    https://babylonbee.com/video/satan-asks-democrats-to-tone-down-all-the-evil

    They don’t even understand what the devil is saying, that it’s evil, or why you would tone it down. Murdering people is the ultimate love and light! Ask any environmentalist.

    This might also make less sense if Russia had not become a core Christian country, for real. Like America in the 1950s. (Yeah, there were a lot drinking and didn’t go to church then either)

    “one need look no further that the festival of satanic degeneracy in Malmo or the occult symbolism embedded in plain view in the official portrait of the head of the Church of England, the British monarch.” …Or the Pope holding Shamanic rituals in the Vatican between gay-coke parties. C’mon, you don’t have to outdo the Borgias.

    “• US Diplomacy Needed to Avoid Ukraine’s ‘Overwhelming’ Defeat Sy Hersh (Sp.)

    Hahahahaha! That’s the funniest headline this week!

    “• Ukraine Seeking to Spark Direct NATO-Russia Clash – Moscow (RT)

    If they want it so much, they’re going to get it and Russia’s going to give it to them. Nothing else is working.

    “• Threat Of World War Grows Every Day – Hungary FM (TASS)

    I mean, yes, but WE’RE IN THE WORLD WAR. Have been for years. You might pick 2014, Syria, but I’d pick 2001 with Bush’s Nazi-Daddy coming-out-party. We declared war ON THE WORLD. How’s that goin’ for ya? Do you “Make reality now”?

    “..it’s not taking place with State Department or Department of Defense connivance. It’s taking place with the assistance and the facilitation of the Central Intelligence Agency – a covert war. All Tony Blinken is now talking about is taking this covert war and making it an overt war..”

    Yes, and no one voted for the war. Congress is not involved in the war. Some unelected, un-fireable long term standing Bureaucrats just “Made It Up!” THEY said “We’re in a war, and you can’t fire us!” …Or that’s what they told Trump anyway. You can’t fire anyone, change anything, and you can’t issue executive orders. …Uh, yeah, pretty sure that’s the definition of a “Deep State” and a definition of a “Coup”. ..But just since ’63.

    “With Biden incapacitated, Blinken is the de facto leader on foreign policy.
    • Blinken Lobbying For Strikes On Russia – NYT (RT)

    Hahahaha! We’re all safe then: Blinken is a useless, incompetent boob. I’m not saying he can’t start WWIII, but then Russia will cause us to lose it in minutes, and we’ll be removed from the table, able to Wreck-no-more.

    “• Israel Abandons Major Invasion of Rafah in Favor of Targeted Raids (Sp.)

    It’s because, like Blinken, they are such astonishing morons, the entire world is gob smacked. Okay, the only possibility for Hamas to win was if you specifically chose to specifically overreact, as they specifically said was their plan. So you did it. Then the only way to lose was to get the world opposed to you a minute after being attacked and raided by terrorists. SO you did that. Then the only advantage you had was intel on what was going on there, people, their apartments, the streets and buildings…so you destroyed that. Now that you have no intel, there are only Hamas tunnels underground which can only be protected by chaotic rubble above. So you created that. THEN, they only way to lose was to send in tanks and men INTO this chaos, where you have no intel, and just get cut to pieces each day while NOT attacking the tunnels. So you did that. NOW the only way to lose, is to give up and just hand the whole thing back to Hamas by wandering off, not attacking while the world watches you retreat. So you did that.

    Any questions? This is today’s hard-body IDF. Getting their genius from Blinken. Because the only way for the U.S. to lose is to BACK all this, and be an active participant, including the mass-starvation and building a dock to start erecting those condos and the new Suez Canal. …So we did it. For Free!

    “• Unified Reich Hoax One Of Most Blatantly Dishonest Attacks On Trump Yet (ZH)

    My favorite part of this is, it’s not even the “Reich”. It was 1880.

    “BREAKING: Attorney General Garland denies giving orders to the FBI to kill or assassinate Trump during the Mar-a-Lago raid: “That allegation is false, and it is extremely dangerous.”

    Agree. I don’t think this was the plan – might be a fun bonus, but not the Plan – and saying so just makes you look stupid. But: voters. Need to tell them plants like Brawndo.

    “• Nikki Haley Endorses Trump: He’s Not Perfect But Biden ‘Catastrophe’ (Sp.)

    So the Democrats now support Trump? She’s going to bring over all her 99% of Democratic voters? Thanks? Now that she’s endorsing him, I think I’ll stay home.

    ““Technologies are developed by people,” Drozdenko explained. “Money is one means of developing a technology, but it can happen that a technology is created with a minimum amount of funds.”

    Okay, great, let’s do that. Let’s create this whole missile with no time, no people, and no funds. What’s the problem? You just said it was possible.

    “Javier Milei’s “Miracle Turnaround” in Argentina.”

    Okay, great, but this is “Shock Doctrine”. And the people are getting whacked (all transitions or sudden changes inevitably cause this), but are they in a position to recover quickly? I don’t mind so much if you have to take a sudden hardship if it can pass quickly enough. This guy is talking numbers, which is not the point. On the numbers, the Dow 40,000 is genius, awesome production, and a raging economy with happy citizens. It’s not. We’re trying to lap Britain in being the second sh—iest country in the world.

    “If you’re still under the illusion that the US has any hope of stopping China’s progress in semiconductors,”

    …Then you’re an illiterate moron who hasn’t read anything in 40 years. When Zenith and DEC moved to Asia, what happened? We get smarter and stronger here, or did they?

    Japan: We were like that, now we’re not. Why? If we CAN be like that, we WERE like that, what’s the problem with just being like that again? Pretty easy.

    “We’ve never had food companies this big” “Changing the food system”

    Hey no kidding. But we’ve never had to feed 8 Billion people at once either. Obviously it’s going to be new and different.

    “The Day I Finally Threw My First Punch: After a lifetime of running from confrontation, I took up boxing at age 40. In the ring, I finally discovered what it takes“ — Esquire
    https://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/a60827719/first-punch/

    Yes, the guy is a 10-ply coward proud of running. He is not much reformed, because mentally, his ego allies with running, that there was, is, never can be, any proper time or reason to defend yourself. I wouldn’t want to be his wife.

    #159574
    oxymoron
    Participant

    “He only cares about holding on to power – I care about you”.
    OMG I nearly peed myself laughing. American politics is funny as shit.

    #159575
    tboc
    Participant

    “With Biden incapacitated, Blinken is the de facto leader on foreign policy.”
    who would believe that?
    perhaps the best and brightest
    “But in fact they are a culturally challenged and deplorably ignorant lot.”

    “..it’s not taking place with State Department or Department of Defense connivance. It’s taking place with the assistance and the facilitation of the Central Intelligence Agency – a covert war. All Tony Blinken is now talking about is taking this covert war and making it an overt war..”

    ” taking this covert war and making it an overt war”
    “They know how dumb their voters are… But even then, this is something else…”

    wouldn’t you like to see an org chart of the CIA? A chart showing names,position and years of service?
    ole Tucker could cut his unelected, retired figureheads running the show BS and drop a CIA Papers on the nation.
    “They know how dumb their voters are” and so does ole Tucker
    anyway The White Hats are….. hey Q what ARE the White Hats doing?
    going to dinner at a friends house

    “Tin soldiers and Nixon coming”
    that lesson was learned and now
    Blinken “rockin in the free world”. thought a reprise of Country Joe and the Fish a better choice
    “Be the first ones in your block
    to have your boy come home in a box…..
    And it’s five, six, seven,
    Open up the pearly gates,
    Well there ain’t no time to wonder why,
    Whoopee! we’re all gonna die.”

    now that we have seen McFaul’s map i would like to see Gerasimov’s map
    the voters know how dumb they are… But even then, this is something else

    golf clap, PLEASE
    “The American way of life is not up for negotiations. Period.”
    “we used to be like that”

    #159576
    zerosum
    Participant

    How to reach peace.
    Diplomacy, War, or Genocide

    “America, in the years Biden has been in office, has spent $175 billion to fight a war that cannot and will not be won. It will only be resolved by diplomacy—if rationality prevails in Kiev and Washington,” Hersh wrote

    “the time has come to stop this ma”..dness.” Szijjarto recalled that the Hungarian government had long stated that it was impossible to resolve the Ukrainian conflict militarily.

    ” … the reality that Ukraine lacks manpower, equipment and funding to sustain this conflict – that Ukraine is on a path of decisive defeat that could occur sometime this year. And no expansion of the target deck is going to change that reality,” Ritter concluded.

    Eliminate all of Hamas/Gaza/Palestinian – Israeli authorities say

    “It’s difficult to convey just how fake the establishment American media really is,” said Newsmax’s Rob Schmitt, in this segment that lays bare the utter dishonesty behind the latest baseless outrage

    deceptive descriptions

    ————–
    Simple explanation
    The reason hypersonic weapons are so difficult to develop comes down not to the ability to accelerate vehicles to hypersonic speeds (which has been possible since virtually the dawning of the missile age), but creating materials that can withstand the ultra-hot temperatures hypersonic missiles encounter during flight – when they are covered by clouds of plasma.
    ———

    #159578
    Mr. House
    Participant

    Another thought on the aborted pandemic in 2009. It didn’t work because the internet hadn’t developed enough for all the make believe to succeed.

    #159579
    zerosum
    Participant

    Sitting ducks
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/houthis-claim-israeli-linked-ship-attacked-mediterranean-sea-two-others-red-arabian
    Houthis Claim Israeli-Linked Ship Attacked In Mediterranean Sea, Two Others In Red & Arabian Seas

    BY TYLER DURDEN

    In support of Gaza, the Yemeni Armed Forces announce they have targeted 3 Israeli-linked ships in the Red and Arabian Seas and the Mediterranean Sea.

    • MSC Alexandria in the Arabian Sea
    • YANNIS in the Red Sea
    • ESSEX in the Mediterranean Sea

    #159580
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Conservatives stemmed out of the idea that good times can be frozen forever.

    why accept deconstructionist views of conservatism?

    Note the 4 different representations of people being murdered below. Is it less horrific because Apple thought they were being cute about it?

    Fools, you think you can have your guitars and sketchbooks and sewing and journals forever? There are things that work in the context of human nature and things that don’t. The hard-won accumulated tradition of many generations is there to save you time, so you can live your life rather than re-inventing the wheel. We are seeing the many, many consequences today of denying this fact for the past half century.

    The only real retort is – “If my deconstructionist ideas are failures because they are not appropriate to human nature, then I shall change human nature! It is human nature that is wrong, not my better ideas for humanity!” Deeply insane and evil.

    for pop-out (recommended)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntjkwIXWtrc

    #159581
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    Oh, Nvidia!

    With the stock price of Nvidia (NVDA) now trading at over U$1,000 per share, Nvidia stock has been up 270,000% since it went public. If you bought 1000 shares of Nvidia at its going public time – in 1999 – for a mere U$376 and held them until today, … you are now a millionaire! A few numbers to help you better appreciate Nvidia’s meteoric rise:

    – Nvidia is now larger than the entire German stock market, and five times the size of companies like Walmart, Exxon, and Visa!
    – Nvidia posted quarterly revenue of U$26 billion, up 18% from last quarter and a whopping 262% from a year ago. – Its data center revenue is up 427% from a year ago.
    – The aggregate market cap of the 174 smallest S&P 500 stocks is equal to that of Nvidia.
    – Its market cap is greater than the GDP of every state except California and Texas.

    … all true if reported correctly by Nvidia.

    fwiw,

    F.S.

    #159582
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #159583
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Pedo Jo-Jo has a Dilemma

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    #159584
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Californicate struggles to be even a Second World power.

    Hahahahahaahhahahahaahahaha!

    Savager Nation

    Pick the bones clean….

    Hey it’s a politically correct ‘green’ lifestyle choice to get rid of energy vampires like traffic lights!

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    #159585
    Bam_Man
    Participant

    Nvidia trades at 32 times sales and 52 times book value.

    In the aftermath of the “dot-com” bubble, Scott McNealy, then CEO of Sun Microsystems asked “What were you thinking?” of investors who had paid 10 times sales for shares of the company.

    #159586
    jb-hb
    Participant

    “They wander around among us like personifications of reproach, like warnings to us—as if health, success, strength, pride, and a feeling of power were already inherently depraved things, for which people must atone some day, atone bitterly. O how ready they themselves basically are to make people atone, how they thirst to be hangmen! Among them there are plenty of people disguised as judges seeking revenge. They always have the word “Justice” in their mouths, like poisonous saliva, with their mouths always pursed, always ready to spit at anything which does not look discontented and goes on its way in good spirits. Among them there is no lack of that most disgusting species of vain people, the lying monsters who aim to present themselves as “beautiful souls” and who, for example, carry off to market their ruined sensuality, wrapped up in verse and other swaddling clothes, as “purity of heart,” the species of self-gratifying moral masturbators.”

    – Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals

    #159587
    Oroboros
    Participant

    The Slings & Arrows of a Snowflake’s Life

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    #159588
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Kinda sums up UKtardistan

    Like ‘fat shaming’, Style Shaming should be A Thing

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    #159589
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Black Feminism

    Even better than regular feminism

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    #159590
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Ouch, she hasn’t “gotten any” in a long, long time.

    #159591
    Oroboros
    Participant

    The Uni-party Homo Globeiis aren’t staffed with the best or brightest

    Even trolls can mop the floor with them

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    #159592
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Clown World

    Honk Honk

    Humans, when Life creates a clown species, expect a Circus

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    #159593
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Chief Clown

    Holy Honk a Honka

    Here to heal and console

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    #159594
    jb-hb
    Participant

    About the offended trans

    Men and Women have different brain structure, as evidenced by different recovery from brain damage including strokes. No man has ever recovered from a stroke better by sending a blast email to notify friends and coworkers that they have decided to begin a new wonderful journey living as a woman.

    You need a woman’s BRAIN to be a woman in a woman’s body. You would need a woman’s BRAIN to be a woman in a man’s body. But a woman’s brain is a woman-only BODY PART.

    To make you into someone with a woman’s brain, we would have to tear you apart and rebuild you with a different (woman’s) brain structure. This would kill you in terms of you as a unique, particular individual consciousness ceasing to be. Best we could give you is, using the raw materials you were made of, construct a new female brain that is convinced it is you and insists that it is you after you cease to be. But if that is the case, then why not just build the new female from scratch and leave you alone? You can always decide to commit suicide on your own recognizance if you decide this constitutes transforming into a woman at a later time.

    Only way to get past this is to say “Oh, the physical brain might be male, but the MIND is female” dualism. Physical body plus spirit-thing floating around superimposed over the brain, acting in contradiction to it and in defiance of physical reality. This necessitates a whole additional spirit world superimposed over the physical one with its own special rules that do not conform to physical reality. This is religion.

    Other people crying when I don’t respect their religion is me being persecuted. Because mine is the one true religion.

    #159595
    Oroboros
    Participant

    You will pay through the nose

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    #159596
    Dr. D
    Participant

    If you ever wondered how bad liberals are at math, there’s your mascot:

    “It causes a nation to grow.” Yes, genius, AND THE OTHER NATION TO SHRINK. But that’s okay because the other nation was Catholic, so he’s following the Church credo.

    The seen and the unseen. Luckily immigrants are breaking windows California-wide, so soon California will be the richest nation on earth!

    #159597
    Oroboros
    Participant

    The turtle adores this cat and wants to hang out

    Cats like, “Fck who ever gave this turtle a skateboard”

    Where there’s a will there’s a way.

    https://x.com/i/status/1794011892471783716

    #159598
    Oroboros
    Participant

    One of the Cardinal Rules of Problem Solving

    The “It’s This or That” trap.

    Logical fallacy tap dancing on your mind

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    #159599
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #159600
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Creativity

    This old guy should be in the Californicate town without traffic lights

    It’s a marriage made in heaven!

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    #159601
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #159602

    “paying with your face”
    Does that mean I get to have my picture on a federal reserve note?
    Hey…”Your face here”…on a 10, 20, 50, 100?

    The turtle on a skateboard has made my day.

    Completely undoes the nightmare of the “crush” ad (“thin is in” would have worked better…but that’s f-shaming, I suppose.)

    #159603
    John Day
    Participant

    Empire Off Balance https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/empire-off-balance

    The western globalist empire, the “rules based order” is sustained by the tribute effectively paid when nice people of the world give their oil, copper and things they make, to the US for dollars which the US solemnly “prints”, swearing to back those dollars with more dollars faithfully in perpetuity. European banking also found a way to be a source of $US lending and credit-creation, accepting interest payments in oil , smartphones and wheat.
    The tribute is extracted when the world uses the $US system for international trade. Using anything but dollars for trade between nations directly threatens the western empire.
    The empire has enough troubles, since the imperial fleet is spread thin as the global natives become emboldened, like the Houthis in Yemen. At this moment there is no good way for the empire to move forward in the Ukrainian proxy war against BRICS+ member, Russia, or in the Israeli genocidal war against the native Palestinian people trying to survive in their ancestral land. Every step taken to feed these wars is a rent payment on not-losing-today, and the rent is going up. Imperial loss of face has proceeded from defeats in Afghanistan and Syria, while the defeat in Ukraine is seen as a fait accompli, just a matter of time. The definitive war for loss of imperial power is the one being fought by the apartheid European colonists of “Israel” against the stoic and long-suffering Palestinian people, randomly bombed, starving in rubble and praying five times per day.

    ​ Germany would abide by Netanyahu arrest warrant
    Berlin has confirmed it would follow International Criminal Court rulings over alleged war crimes in Gaza.​ https://swentr.site/news/598078-germany-israel-icc-arrest-warrants/

    ​ Blinken Says He Wants To Work With Congress To Punish the ICC​ (international criminal court)
    The Biden administration opposes the ICC case against Israeli leaders after backing the court against Russia​ https://news.antiwar.com/2024/05/22/blinken-says-he-wants-to-work-with-congress-to-punish-the-icc/

    ​ Israeli defense minister announces plans to step up military activities in Rafah
    It is reported that while on the tour, Yoav Gallant was joined by several Navy commanders.​ https://tass.com/world/1792393

    ​ Israel has allegedly abandoned its plans for a major invasion of Rafah in the Gaza Strip in favor of targeted incursions after talks with the United States, The Telegraph has reported, citing a senior US official.
    ​ “It’s fair to say, I think, the Israelis have updated their plans. They’ve incorporated many of the concerns that we have expressed … This is an ongoing discussion, ongoing conversation. It’s been constructive,” the official said, referring to a meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan in Jerusalem last week.
    ​ Last week, Sullivan traveled to the Middle East and visited Saudi Arabia and Israel, where he met with Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and the Israeli leadership.
    ​ Earlier in May, the Pentagon confirmed media reports that the Biden administration halted deliveries of 1800 2000-pound bombs and 1700 500-pound bombs to Israel after the country began its allegedly limited military operation in Rafah while making public its plans to proceed with a major ground operation.​ https://sputnikglobe.com/20240523/israel-allegedly-abandoned-major-invasion-of-rafah-in-favor-of-targeted-raids—reports-1118592262.html

    #159604
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Palestine Submits New Bid to Security Council for Full UN Membership​
    ​ After Palestine presented to the UN General Assembly a proposal to admit the country to the UN, which was vetoed by the US and rejected, another proposal was again sent to the UN Security Council with a demand that the UN Security Council positively consider this proposal, the ambassador said, adding that the meeting of the Security Council to discuss this issue is an take place next week​.
    ​ Earlier, the US vetoed a resolution recommending that the General Assembly admit Palestine to the UN. Britain and Switzerland abstained from voting. The other members of the Security Council voted in favor. Palestine has observer status in the UN, while Israel has been a full member of the organization since 1948.​ https://sputnikglobe.com/20240523/palestine-sends-another-proposal-to-unsc-to-be-admitted-to-un-membership-1118595617.html

    ​ Philip Giraldi , Washington Digs In Deeper on Its Support for Israel
    Claims of “terrorism” and “antisemitism” promote the perpetual victim narrative​ https://www.globalresearch.ca/washington-digs-deeper-support-israel/5857134

    ​ Pepe Escobar eulogizes Iranian President Raisi: Raisi led the charge for Russia–Iran–China’s ‘new world order’
    Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi’s eastward vision was instrumental in advancing the strategic Moscow–Tehran–Beijing nexus and bulldozing a path toward institutionalizing multipolarity.​ https://thecradle.co/articles/raisi-led-the-charge-for-russia-iran-chinas-new-world-order

    ​ Sergey Poletaev, Ukraine is losing, and direct intervention by the West risks a nuclear conflict – so what now?
    ​ As for the idea of defeating Russia on the battlefield, the turning point occurred in the summer of 2023. After the failure of Ukraine’s counteroffensive, it became clear that the AFU would not be able to impose peace on its own terms. The problem is that in the conflict with Russia, the West has gone ‘all in’ and any military outcome that could be regarded as beneficial for Moscow – even negotiations on an equal footing – would now be regarded as a defeat. The whole world would realize that they can stand up to the hegemon and not just avoid becoming an outcast, but even gain some benefits. The West cannot allow this, since it could cause a chain reaction on a global scale.
    ​ By the beginning of 2024, Western countries faced a dilemma: In the current proxy war it was clear that they were losing and Ukraine was getting weaker, while Russia was growing stronger. Western leaders realized that the situation will continue to get worse until the middle or end of 2025 – by which time their own military production should gain momentum and Moscow may begin to experience a shortage of volunteers at the front. In other words, the worst-case scenario meant that Russia would be able to conduct at least three more successful military campaigns (summer and winter ‘24, and summer ‘25) with superior military forces.
    ​ The logic of the conflict is pushing the West towards the choice that we wrote about back in May 2022 – either intervening directly and fighting Russia on its own, or starting serious negotiations with Russia on the topic of Ukraine’s NATO membership and, more broadly, security in Eastern Europe.​..
    ​..The reason for the West’s indecisiveness is clear: it fears an escalation of the conflict. Russia is the world’s largest nuclear power and President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly stated that he will not tolerate a widespread NATO intervention, which will result in a nuclear war.
    ​ Moscow’s warnings have challenged Western countries, headed by the US, to find ways “to intervene without intervening” and to enable Ukraine to win (or at least save face) without directly defeating Russia. In short, Western countries are forced to walk the thin line between defeat and nuclear war, without a clear end goal in sight.
    ​ After the failure to cut open a land corridor to Crimea, the West has not been able to find an alternative military strategy. Moreover, it has no idea how to get out of the war of attrition which, even in the case of a positional deadlock and a ‘static’ front, will result in Ukraine’s defeat, since an opponent that is many times weaker (Ukraine’s current population is at least five times less than that of Russia) will inevitably lose. We see plenty of such examples in history.
    ​ In this situation, the only thing that Western strategists have managed to come up with is to continue supporting the AFU and “increase costs” for Russia in the hope that Putin will get tired of fighting. Of course, no one in the West takes Ukraine’s suffering into account. It takes for granted the fact that Ukrainians will continue to die en masse just so that the West can save face.​..
    ..It is unlikely that Western leaders still hope to see a victory for Kiev on the battlefield. The more likely goal now is either the “Korean scenario” where no one wins and Ukraine is kept as Russia’s opponent, or the “Palestinian scenario,” ie, eternal war on Ukraine’s former territory. What is clear is that the West will do anything it can to avoid holding serious negotiations with Russia.​..
    ..Moscow has clearly stated that any obvious attacks on its “old” territories will allow Russia to retaliate and hit Western cities directly – not through proxies.​..
    ​..However, it is possible that the desperate situation at the front and the need for some kind of propaganda success will sooner or later force the West to take such a step – and perhaps this may happen very soon. So far, this seems to be the most likely scenario that may lead to an escalation of the conflict beyond the zone of the Ukrainian “sandbox”…
    ..In conclusion, we may say that the Western doctrine – ie, the combination of a total trade war and a proxy war – has failed to bring about victory and has put its “client” (Ukraine) at risk of a major defeat. The West is still afraid to get directly involved in the conflict, even when it comes to striking “old” Russian territories or operating missile defense systems under its own flag, not to mention directly sending troops.
    ​ At the same time, the West avoids serious negotiations with Russia and prefers to go with the flow, consoling itself with the idea that Russia will eventually get burned by growing costs and retreat.
    ​ Meanwhile, Moscow is adapting to the situation, rebuilding its economy, trade relations, and society in order to live and successfully develop in the reality of a long conflict. The West’s strategy (or rather, the absence of such) has been clearly unsuccessful – especially considering the current level of involvement in the conflict, Ukraine may exhaust its forces long before Russia experiences any major inconvenience at the front.​ https://swentr.site/russia/597986-west-intervention-growing-ukrainian-conflict/

    ​ The Start Of De-Dollarization: China’s Move Away From The USD
    Since 2010, the majority of China’s cross-border payments, like those of many countries, had been settled in U.S. dollars (USD). As of the first quarter of 2023, that’s no longer the case.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/start-de-dollarization-chinas-move-away-usd

    #159605
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Threat of world war grows every day — Hungarian foreign minister​, Peter Szijjarto
    ​ “We see what is happening: European politicians are making statements about the use of nuclear weapons. The Russians are conducting exercises involving tactical nuclear weapons,” Szijjarto said. He believes that “the time has come to stop this madness.”​
    ​ Szijjarto recalled that the Hungarian government had long stated that it was impossible to resolve the Ukrainian conflict militarily.​ “That is why Hungary continues to tell its European partners that instead of indulging in crazy statements and fantasies that threaten to escalate [hostilities] they should spend at least half of their energy on achieving peace. Then there may be hope that this war will be ended at the negotiating table,” Szijjarto emphasized.
    ​ On May 21, Russia began the first stage of exercises including practical training in preparations for using non-strategic nuclear weapons. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, they are being held in response to provocative statements by Western officials and are aimed at maintaining the readiness to respond and ensuring the country’s sovereignty.​ https://tass.com/world/1792325

    ​ Sy Hersh: US Diplomacy Needed to Avoid Ukraine’s ‘Overwhelming’ Defeat
    ​ Diplomatic efforts from Washington, which are withheld due to President Joe Biden’s irrational views on Russia, could have resolved the Ukrainian conflict that Americans and their allies are now unable to win, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh said.
    ​ “America, in the years Biden has been in office, has spent $175 billion to fight a war that cannot and will not be won. It will only be resolved by diplomacy—if rationality prevails in Kiev and Washington,” Hersh wrote in a Substack article.​ https://sputnikglobe.com/20240524/sy-hersh-us-diplomacy-needed-to-avoid-ukraines-overwhelming-defeat-1118609945.html

    ​ Scott Ritter: US Threats to Greenlight Ukrainian Attacks on Russia Could Spill Out Into Nuclear War
    ​ Secretary of State Antony Blinken has reportedly asked President Biden to formally greenlight Ukrainian strikes against targets deep inside Russia using US-provided long-range weaponry amid growing pressure from hawks in Washington. Sputnik asked seasoned international affairs observer Scott Ritter about the development’s dangerous endgame.
    ​ But the debate in Washington regarding direct US approval for Ukrainian missile attacks deep inside Russia constitute little more than “word games,” says former US Marine and UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter.
    ​ “Ukraine is already attacking critical energy facilities inside Russia, oil tanks, petroleum depots. This is taking place. It’s just that it’s not taking place with State Department or Department of Defense connivance. It’s taking place with the assistance and the facilitation of the Central Intelligence Agency – a covert war. All Tony Blinken is now talking about is taking this covert war and making it an overt war. Why is he doing this? Domestic American politics. It will have no impact on the battlefield. But what it does is allow the Biden administration to posture itself as doing something discernable to address the Russian successes – the successful offensive north of Kharkov, the continuing successful offensives in eastern Ukraine and Novorossiya​.”​ …
    ​..”Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Germany, France, England, Italy, the Netherlands, the Baltics…All of those nations provide a safe haven for Ukraine – a place where Ukrainian forces can train. A place where Ukrainian military materiel can be stockpiled, repaired. Where command and control activity takes place, where intelligence is collected, assessed and disseminated. All these activities are part and parcel of Ukraine’s military effort against Russia, and under normal conditions would be subjected to military interdiction.”
    https://sputnikglobe.com/20240523/scott-ritter-us-threats-to-greenlight-ukrainian-attacks-on-russia-could-spill-out-into-nuclear-war-1118604680.html

    ​ NATO’s previous “Ukraine” is still a work-in-progress. Georgian PM accuses EU of ‘blackmailing’ him with assassination threat
    The bloc is trying to intimidate Georgia over its foreign agents law, Irakli Kobakhidze has said​. https://www.rt.com/news/598129-georgia-slovakia-pm/

    ​ Putin’s Purge? Another Top Russian General Arrested On Bribery Charges
    ​ Russian authorities detained Lieutenant-General Vadim Shamarin, deputy to General Valery Gerasimov, head of the army’s general staff, on suspicion of large-scale bribe-taking, Russian state media reported Thursday.
    ​ It is the fourth arrest in the past month of a high-ranking military official, marking the biggest Russian army scandal in years. The detentions come as President Vladimir Putin carries out a sweeping reshuffle of top jobs, including a change at the head of the Ministry of Defense.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/putins-purge-another-top-russian-general-arrested-bribery-charges

    #159606
    John Day
    Participant

    Last spring,Jack Texeira revealed high level information from inside the Russian military, which implied command-level “moles”, feeding data to the US military. https://www.johndayblog.com/2023/04/i-dont-know-jack.html

    ​ Elite power struggle continues: Trump claims Biden authorized FBI to use deadly force in Mar-a-Lago raid
    He made the accusations in response to a court filing that revealed agents had been instructed to bring ammo and handcuffs to the search​ https://swentr.site/news/598036-trump-biden-authorized-fbi-deadly-force/

    ​ There are accusations that Hunter was a CIA operative in Ukraine since his dad was vice president. CIA Blocked Probe Into Hunter’s Hollywood Tax ‘Sugar Brother’: Whistleblower https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/cia-prevented-hunters-hollywood-tax-sugar-daddy-becoming-federal-witness-whistleblower

    ​ Not law yet: House Passes Bill Blocking The Fed From Issuing A CBDC​ The CBDC Anti-Surveillance State Act passed the United States House of Representatives on a largely partisan vote on May 23.​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/last-hope-against-biden-bucks-house-passes-bill-blocking-fed-issuing-cbdc

    ​In the solitary dungeon for 5 years… Chris Hedges: The Slow-Motion Execution of Julian Assange Continues https://scheerpost.com/2024/05/21/chris-hedges-the-slow-motion-execution-of-julian-assange-continues/

    #159607
    John Day
    Participant

    Prepare for the bird-flu bioweapon. Peter McCullough MD has this: Chloroquine Highly Effective Treatment for Acute H5N1 Infection in Preclinical Model
    Bird Flu Study in Human Cell and Mouse Models Confirms Therapeutic Success
    ​ Because highly pathogenic avian influenza is so infrequent, there have been no randomized trials or human studies of treatment. Therefore, we must rely on preclinical data with drugs that are already used and proven safe in humans.
    ​ Yan, et al studied H5N1 infection in the laboratory and demonstrated that physiological relevant concentrations of chloroquine inhibited viral entry and damage to human cells. Additionally, when given as treatment and not prophylaxis, chloroquine reduced pulmonary alveolar infiltrates and improved survival in mice after a lethal dose of H5N1 from zero to 70%.​ https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/chloroquine-highly-effective-treatment

    ​ From Meryl Nass MD, Death rates considerably higher in hospitals for same diagnosis compared to 5 years ago/ Pittsburgh Action News
    One hospital is “investigating its algorithms”—maybe the problem IS the algorithms? Maybe while the robotic clinicians order algorithmic care few are evaluating how the patients respond any more? (The “providers” are being forced to follow algorithms, trained to be robots so they can be replaced by computers, and I don’t think it will take too long before that happens). I am serious. I think that the elites have deliberately made the patient experience unpleasant, just as they have made flying in airplanes unpleasant. Just as being a worker has become more unpleasant since you have to watch what you say and get used to being monitored all the time. https://merylnass.substack.com/p/death-rates-considerably-higher-in

    Steve Kirsch, Latest Rasmussen survey shows that the “cure” was nearly as deadly as the disease
    The latest Rasmussen survey of Americans shows that we nearly doubled the death toll of the COVID virus with the vaccine.​ https://kirschsubstack.com/p/latest-rasmussen-survey-confirms

    ​ Steve Kirsch points out that “objective-data” has funding sources with interests:
    Official US government data shows that there is no doubt whatsoever that the COVID vaccines cause Guillain-Barre, Bell’s palsy, and other serious side effects​. https://kirschsubstack.com/p/official-us-government-data-shows

    ​ Meryl Nass MD, US Secretary of State today implied the treaty would not go forward next week, lacking consensus, but it may have been a dodge.
    ​ Representative Chris Smith (R, NJ) asked Secretary of State Antony Blinken whether he would submit the Pandemic Treaty (actually there are 2 treaties, the IHR amendments and the Pandemic Agreement) to the Senate for ratification.
    ​ Weasel Antony Blinken did a double dodge on the question.​.​. Not wanting to answer the question, he didn’t.
    ​ Instead, he pivoted to excluding the IHR amendments and only spoke about the “Pandemic Agreement.” He claimed no consensus had been reached, thus implying it would not be adopted next week. But of course, a version might be.​ https://merylnass.substack.com/p/us-secretary-of-state-today-implied

    #159608
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ A Midwestern Doctor, It’s Time To Stop the WHO’s Horrific Pandemic Treaty
    The WHO treaty is quite possibly the worst treaty of our lifetimes and is being supported by all the elitist institutions and richest oligarchs. Fortunately, we now have a real chance of stopping it​…​
    ​..“Preventing” pandemics is one of the most lucrative areas in medicine. Sadly, this money has incentivized “preventative” research which frequently leads to disastrous leaks and suppresses effective solutions for the pandemics that emerge​.
    ​ COVID-19 was handled so egregiously that it woke much of the public up to this grift and the pandemic-industrial complex is now facing an existential threat to its business model
    ​ To address this “threat” the WHO (World Health Organization) has covertly created a treaty behind the scenes which usurps national sovereignty and gives international health agencies terrifying control during “health emergencies”
    ​ A grassroots activist movement advocating for health freedoms has accomplished something remarkable in their fight to derail the WHO treaty and they need your help.
    https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/how-we-can-stop-the-whos-horrific-52f

    ​ Our friend, Helen of desTroy has deeply researched a powerful “true believer” Imperial Field Marshall in the Information Wars:
    ​ How Public Radio Became the Enemy of the Public​ Part I: Katherine Maher, Wikipedia’s Woke Warrior​
    ​ The establishment Left in the US has been engaged in an ongoing act of credibility-seppuku since Trump’s 2016 electoral victory, not because of any deeply-held beliefs on their part but because the organizations that have hijacked its ideological North Star have long since been coopted by entities hostile to true liberal values and the vulgar, unpredictable Trump merely yanked the mask off the whole sordid process. Rather than work for peace, justice, and equality, they focus on ruthlessly stripping out target populations’ remaining assets until nothing is left but the bare walls, then goading those populations into flagellating themselves for not being quicker to offer up the bare walls as well. Maher no more represented free speech at Wikipedia than she did human rights at the World Bank, and her response to the whistleblower Berliner’s essay – dismissing it because it was celebrated by NPR’s conservative critics without addressing one of his many valid points – is an eerie echo of the Wikipedia editorial elite’s dismissal of former editors’ (and co-founder Sanger’s) critiques because they happen to be republished by Breitbart or Infowars. Truth is an afterthought – “Verifiability,” defined by Wikipedia as prevalence in “reliable sources,” is king. And with reliability accredited only through votes of support by influential (ideologically sympathetic) editors, a self-perpetuating disinformation circuit is sealed, impenetrable to truth even as it is sold as the only acceptable reality for “good people” in “democracies.” In modern western society, in which the masses have abdicated en masse their duty to think critically about the information they are mainlining every day, when you control both encyclopedia and references, you get to write history. No media property – even one edited by (or funded by) “the people” – should have such power.​ https://helenofdestroy.substack.com/p/how-public-radio-became-the-enemy

    ​(2 + 2 has always been 5. What kind of deviant are YOU?) Dutch Lawyer Faces Prosecution For Social Media Post Slamming Mass Migration
    ​ A Dutch conservative female lawyer is being prosecuted on charges of “racism” and “inciting hatred” after she expressed fury over mass migration in response to a viral video showing a white boy being beaten up and thrown onto a railway track by a gang of migrants.
    ​ Raisa Blommestijn revealed how she had received a letter that amounted to an order to appear before a Dutch prosecutor at a court hearing in front of multiple judges on August 19th.
    ​ The charges stem from comments Blommestijn made on social media in response to a video of a defenseless Dutch boy being brutally kicked and punched as he lay on the ground at an Amsterdam Metro station in May last year before he was thrown onto the railway track.
    ​ “Yet another white man got kicked around in the street by a group of black primates. How many defenseless white people remain to become victims? Countless probably: the open borders elite is importing these people in droves, with all the consequences that entails,” she wrote.
    ​ Blommestijn said she was subjected to a four hour police interrogation over her comments and later learned that she would be facing prosecution.​ https://modernity.news/2024/05/22/dutch-lawyer-faces-prosecution-for-social-media-post-slamming-mass-migration/

    ​ The Ethical Skeptic deep dive on ancient flood catastrophe, which marred Egyptian pyramids, and how it may be the natural and recurring consequence of the spinning of an irregularly-weighted body, like our planet. So when might it flip again?: Master Exothermic Core-Mantle Decoupling – Dzhanibekov Oscillation (ECDO) Theory https://theethicalskeptic.com/2024/05/23/master-exothermic-core-mantle-decoupling-dzhanibekov-oscillation-theory/

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    jb-hb
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    Oroboros
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    @John Day

    Thanks for the theory stuff on the liquid magnetic core of Earth with the slippery crust spinning at different rates.

    Throw in electrical/magnetic features and you have a very complex little planet dynamic.

    I’ve always been fascinated by the face surfaces of the three pyramids at Giza and the mystery of the Sphinx and the evidence of it being much older than thought (with multiple re-makes) and having significant water erosion damage especially at it’s base.

    Back in the day I was told that the pyramids at Giza were faced with polish white marble

    That would have been and awesome sight indeed! I’ve never seen a CGI animation of such a portrayal.

    I was told the white marble had been pilfered and removed by succeeding generations and burnt as mortar for other building projects.

    Had that actually been the case, I would have started removing the marble face from the top, not the bottom. The top slabs would have had the smooth face of the marble below it to slide down the pyramid quickly. The further down the sides the easier the task

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    But in this illustration the top face surfaces seem relatively intact and get far worst the further down the pyramid.

    Never occurred to me that could have been water damage but that is one hell of a lot of water to erode it like that.

    The pattern does look consistent with ocean wave erosion.

    I suppose because the earth is actually pear shaped and not a perfect sphere that having the crust shift and re-position around a different rotational axis relative to the core with a ‘low point’ of the pear shape over Giza would easily have put the whole place easily under 500-600 feet of water.

    Were not talking about pairs of tectonic plates shifting but ALL the connected tectonic plates that form the Earth Pear moving in concert relative to the underlying semi-liquid core.

    Interesting theory

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