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George Grosz Apocalyptic landscape 1936

 

EU Could Stop Ukraine Conflict In 24 Hours – Orban (RT)
Macron Building ‘Coalition’ To Send Troops Into Ukraine (RT)
Macron Faces Crushing Defeat In EU Elections (RMX)
NATO Chief Scraps €100 Billion Ukraine Fund Plan (RT)
European Union: From Peace To Bellicosity (Dionísio)
Russia Vows Immediate Countermeasures Should West Take Its Assets (TASS)
Scott Ritter: Another American Voice For Sanity And Peace Cancelled (SCF Op-ed)
Scott Ritter Silenced by Liberal Authoritarians (Patrick Lawrence)
2024 Hillary vs Trump – Not Biden? (Martin Armstrong)
Hillary Clinton Slammed For Using D-Day To Call Trump Hitler (MN)
Alex Jones to lose InfoWars (RT)
Will Hunter Take the Stand? (Turley)
New Texas GOP Platform Calls For Secession Vote, Resistance (ZH)
Israel Kills Over 200 Palestinians to Rescue 4 Captives (Mondoweiss)

 

 

 

 

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David Sacks

 

 

Putin diverse world
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Pepe
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Maher Bezos
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Tucker Massie AIPAC
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He keeps making sense. That’s why they want to bar him.

EU Could Stop Ukraine Conflict In 24 Hours – Orban (RT)

The West is “within centimeters of a direct conflict” with Russia, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has warned, noting that both the EU and US need pro-peace forces to replace those currently in power in order to avoid this scenario. In an interview with TV2 on Friday, just two days before the European Parliament elections, Orban said that with all the discussions regarding sending additional weapons and even troops to Ukraine, the West “is on a straight road to war.” The prime minister noted that when the conflict began in 2022, most EU countries, including Germany, vowed to only send non-lethal aid to Kiev, such as helmets – and “there was no question of supplying equipment suitable for killing human life to the Ukrainians.” Since then, however, the Western powers have supplied Kiev with a wide range of weaponry and ammunition.

“At the rate this is going, it is not an exaggeration to say that we are centimeters away from the final stop when Western European or American soldiers appear in the territory of Ukraine, we are within inches of a direct collision [with Russia] at this moment,” he warned, lamenting that most leaders currently in power in the West “don’t see it, they want war.” He added, however, that the point of no return has not been reached yet, and to prevent a war with Russia from breaking out, there needs to be a change in Western governments. “We are at the penultimate moment to reverse the outbreak of the war. For this we need to achieve change in Brussels and Washington… If the European leaders wanted peace today, within 24 hours there would be a ceasefire at the front line.

All they would have to do was to say: Dear Ukrainians, a ceasefire is necessary, we need to stop, we will not give more weapons and money until there is a ceasefire and peace negotiations,” Orban said. He added that there would be a greater chance of reaching a peace deal if Donald Trump wins the US presidential election in November and “ends this war within 24 hours,” as he has pledged to do. Orban has insisted that Hungary should refrain from taking part in any potential NATO action in Ukraine, arguing that the military bloc was created with the purpose of defending member states from aggressors, not waging war outside its territory. Hungary has consistently criticized the Western approach to the Ukraine conflict, and opposed NATO’s funding and arming of Ukraine, as well as the sweeping sanctions on Russia – instead calling for a ceasefire and diplomatic solution.

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Macron makes no sense. So he’s popular..

Macron Building ‘Coalition’ To Send Troops Into Ukraine (RT)

French President Emmanuel Macron has gone beyond merely talking about the possibility of deploying NATO troops to Ukraine, taking steps to form a coalition of military trainers who would work inside the former Soviet republic preparing Kiev’s soldiers to fight Russian forces. “We want to have a coalition for reasons of efficiency, and several of our partners have already given their agreement,” Macron told reporters on Friday in Paris. “We will use the coming days to finalize the largest possible coalition capable of responding to Ukraine’s request.” Macron did not identify the countries, other than France, that have committed to sending trainers to Ukraine. He argued that dispatching specialists to do training work inside Ukraine should not provoke a Russian response.

“We are not at war with Russia,” Macron said. “We do not want an escalation, but we want to do everything in our power to help Ukraine resist. Is it an escalation if Ukraine asks us to train mobilized soldiers on its soil? No, that does not mean deploying people – European or allied soldiers – on the front line.” Macron made the comments after hosting a visit by Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky. He announced on Thursday that France will send Mirage 2000 fighter jets to Kiev and train Ukrainian pilots. It will reportedly take until around the end of this year to have pilots ready to fly the warplanes. French forces have already trained around 10,000 Ukrainian troops in France and other NATO countries. Lithuania and Estonia have also publicly suggested that they would be willing to deploy instructors inside Ukraine. Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said last month that NATO trainers were already operating in the battle-torn country.

Russian officials have warned that any foreign military personnel in Ukraine would be considered legitimate targets for attack, regardless of their duties and locations. The Russian Foreign Ministry said Macron’s “belligerent rhetoric” and provocative statements had escalated the Ukraine crisis. Macron began making public comments about the possibility of troop deployments to Ukraine in February, triggering pushback from some NATO allies and a Kremlin warning that this step would inevitably lead to a direct conflict with Russia. US President Joe Biden reportedly rejected Macron’s proposal to send instructors to Kiev, citing concerns that they could be in the line of fire and spark an escalation.

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..popular in Brussels, that is. But not at home..

“..unchanged at 15 percent. At the same time, Marine Le Pen’s party is polling at 33 percent..”

Macron Faces Crushing Defeat In EU Elections (RMX)

President Emmanuel Macron’s party will suffer a historic defeat in the European Union elections on Sunday, Hungarian news portal Origo writes. It is not hard to guess that after this huge defeat, he will take even more refuge in foreign policy. Having failed in his own country, he is trying to achieve unquantifiable and non-existent successes in the international world. According to Wednesday’s opinion poll by IFOP-Fiducial, Macron’s party has been unable to improve four days before the European Parliament elections, standing unchanged at 15 percent. At the same time, Marine Le Pen’s party is polling at 33 percent. No governing party in France has lost by such a humiliating margin since 1979, the first European Parliament elections on party lists. True, it is also rare for a governing party to win what can be considered a roughly midterm election; the last time this happened was in 2009 when then President Nicolas Sarkozy won the EU parliament election.

Six French parties are now in the running for the European Parliament. After Marine Le Pen (RN) and Macron (a coalition of four parties), the Socialist Party will be third, with 13.5 percent, but they could easily overtake Macron in the end. The communist, anti-Semitic, pro-Muslim Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s party could get 8 percent, the classic Gaullist, center-right party 7.5 percent and Éric Zemmour’s anti-immigration party, formed just two years ago and unrivaled among young people, 6 percent. IFOP’s seat estimates suggest that the far-left Green Party, still at 5 percent but in steady decline, will be eliminated. Voter turnout is now expected to slightly exceed 50 percent. Macron is currently midway through his second five-year term as president, and according to the French constitution, he cannot run for a third after his current term expires in 2027.

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“..since the aid was to be collected over five years, this meant NATO “expects the hostilities to continue for this period.”

NATO Chief Scraps €100 Billion Ukraine Fund Plan (RT)

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has ditched a five-year plan to provide Ukraine with €100 billion ($108 billion) in military aid after pushback from members of the bloc, Bloomberg reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. In April, several Western media outlets reported, citing diplomatic sources, that Stoltenberg had presented a draft long-term military support plan for Ukraine, designed in part to guard against any cut in US support if former President Donald Trump returns to the White House. Earlier this year, Trump called for restricting aid to Ukraine to loans and insisted that European NATO members match Washington’s level of assistance to Kiev. The Stoltenberg plan was reportedly been questioned by several NATO members who sought clarification from the bloc’s secretary general on where and how the enormous sum of money involved would be obtained.

The unnamed officials told Politico last month that the plan was “confusing” and that the €100 million figure would be revised. Earlier this week, a NATO diplomat told the FT that Ukrainian authorities were “not super thrilled” with the idea either, pointing out that the package would in practice only duplicate bilateral and EU-managed commitments and not actually represent fresh cash. Instead, Stoltenberg is expected to submit an updated plan to provide Kiev with lethal and non-lethal aid of around €40 billion annually, the sources told Bloomberg. The new proposal will reportedly be discussed by NATO defense ministers next week. Under the new plan, which is aimed at providing more transparency about what Ukraine’s supporters contribute, the amount of assistance from each NATO member would be determined on the basis of a percentage of their GDP.

The US would reportedly account for nearly half of the aid, with the other 31 members providing the rest. The sources also told the news outlet that Türkiye has cautioned that any coordination of military assistance for Ukraine could create the perception of greater involvement of the bloc in the conflict. Last month, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said that Budapest was opposed to the initial plan, explaining that since the aid was to be collected over five years, this meant NATO “expects the hostilities to continue for this period.” The diplomat added that Hungary does not plan to participate in arming Ukraine or training its soldiers. The country’s prime minister, Viktor Orban, has expressed the view that NATO is getting closer to war with Russia every week.

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“..a non-existent Europe will be sung, which, while celebrating “European values”, demands the fracture of continental Europe..”

European Union: From Peace To Bellicosity (Dionísio)

[..] this is what hurts to hear from Euroenthusiasts and Brussels fanboys. But, how is it that your favorite enchanting tale is nothing more than a deferred dream, whose assumptions indicate that, after all, this postponement is eternal, because, within the framework of the European division of labor, it is not up to the peripheral countries to develop high value added activities? And nothing highlights this reality more than the data regarding wage convergence: to the promise of future convergence, it was not just the Portuguese economy that did not live up to it, but all the peripheral economies of the European Union. Growing up, they were never able to converge, with the distances between those in the south and those in central and northern Europe almost always maintaining or increasing. The fact is that the only small and peripheral country that dared to break with this logic was Greece. Today, we all know where Greece ended up.

They accused the country of stealing, lying, falsifying, all because the respective government committed the “crime” of wanting to pay its people the same as workers in central and northern European countries earned. The largest European countries, which constantly exceed deficit limits, have never been subject to the “excessive deficit procedure” and austerity measures to correct it. Furthermore, in the Portuguese case, between funds received and the purchase of products and services provided by central and northern Europe, between 1996 and 2023, this country gave more than it received, explaining the real meaning of this European adventure. According to the Bank of Portugal, between what came in and what went out, the country had a negative balance of 61 billion euros. In conclusion, the carrot that attracts the donkey, European structural funds, are nothing more than disguised loans, disguised in the form of “investment”, but whose return is worth more to those who give them – the countries of northern and central Europe – than for those who receive them.

The “investment” in funds thus constitutes a double benefit: economic and political control over the beneficiaries of the subsidies; economic return in the medium and long term. The fact that these funds are allocated under strategies (Lisbon strategy; Strategy 2020 and 2030) designed in Brussels, determines that they do not aim to solve the real problems of peripheral countries. European funds aim to solve the problems that peripheral countries have so that they can be used as instruments to enrich central countries. The instrumentalization that the countries of central and northern Europe make of the eastern countries, with regard to the strategy of domination of Russian and Slavic lands, finds parallels in the countries of southern and Mediterranean Europe, namely by taking advantage of the intercontinental geographic links that such countries they mean, in addition to their significance as destination markets and as reserves of qualified and cheap labor, which is formed, satisfactorily, with the European Union’s own funds.

It is, therefore, imperative to dismantle and denounce this cycle of exploitation, whose benefits are not distributed equitably and which tends to maintain relative differences over time, a difference that aims to keep this cycle untouchable. Furthermore, coupled with this political-economic dimension, another one is added, which the conflict taking place in Ukraine unmasks. Peripheral and distant countries were suddenly elected as enemies of Russia, without their people being taken into account, who unconsciously watched the transfer of their funds to the war effort. The most tragic thing is that whoever denounces the failure of this European project is accused of being “anti-European”, as if this were the only possible formulation, as if human history did not have cemeteries full of inevitable stories. When this European Union enters its bellicose phase, it is more fundamental than ever to talk about a Europe of peace, cooperation and friendship between people. A Europe in which openness does not mean submission.

The upcoming elections for the European parliament will be yet another moment during which very little will be said about the European Union, its autocratic character, its macrocephalism. Instead, a non-existent Europe will be sung, which, while celebrating “European values”, demands the fracture of continental Europe. While celebrating “union”, it forces a country to give up it’s history and replace it with a whitewashing revisionism of their fascist past. While it demands the surrender of its economy, it replaces it with eternal dependence from the political power of monopolies, represented in Brussels. Belonging to the European Union begins to resemble those dreams that delight us while we sleep, but when we wake up, we realize that they are just that, dreams. The European project cannot survive even the light of day, much less when one wakes up.

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“..including in Europe. There is much more of their property and funds in Russia than America’s..”

Russia Vows Immediate Countermeasures Should West Take Its Assets (TASS)

Moscow will not wait to retaliate to the confiscation of its assets in the West, with a slew of political and economic countermeasures in its holster, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told a briefing on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF). “They are planning to pledge Russia’s virtual reserves without preliminary permission, with future revenues from them not only to be immediately pocketed by the West but also spent on some other military ventures aimed against Russia. We will naturally respond appropriately to such steps, as we have always done. We have a range of political, economic countermeasures against those attempting to get hold of Russian reserves,” she said. “One should think long and hard before deciding to go ahead with this as countermeasures will follow,” the diplomat added.

In May, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on compensation for damage caused to Russia and its Central Bank due to the US’ unfriendly actions, Zakharova noted. “A similar mechanism may be applied to other countries as well, including in Europe. There is much more of their property and funds in Russia than America’s. Moreover, the US and the EU have already proven that they can no longer be regarded as reliable jurisdictions for foreign investors, whose investment can at any time be confiscated or stolen,” she said, adding that “those actions have no legal basis behind them, being simply outright theft.”

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“In the laudable spirit of 1930s U.S. Marine Major General Smedley D Butler, they have shown how “war is a racket”.

Scott Ritter: Another American Voice For Sanity And Peace Cancelled (SCF Op-ed)

The sinister prevention of Scott Ritter travelling to speak and broadcast from Russia this week by United States authorities is a sure sign that the Western imperialist warmongers are afraid of the truth. Indeed, there is a dark shadow cast on their pretensions of “democracy and freedom” – ironically in a week that supposedly commemorates the D-Day landings and the historic fight against fascism. The former U.S. Marine and United Nations weapons inspector has gained worldwide respect as an independent political commentator and analyst. Ritter has become a powerful critic of the United States and NATO’s proxy war in Ukraine. He has staunchly appealed for dialogue and diplomacy, warning that the reckless provocations by Washington and its allies towards Russia are driving the world to a nuclear conflagration. This week, Ritter was due to fly from New York to Istanbul, on his way to attend the St Petersburg International Economic Forum in Russia.

The annual forum is attended by thousands of delegates from all over the world. He was hauled off the flight by U.S. police officers and his passport was confiscated before being escorted from the airport. There was no official explanation for the draconian interdiction to his travel plans. The U.S. State Department refused to comment on the matter, saying it was a private matter. However, there is no doubt, whatsoever, that the humiliating move was politically organized by powerful people, as Ritter claims. It was aimed at preventing him from going to Russia simply because of his outspoken political views. That is an incredible infringement of democratic rights and a revelation of the dark forces at work, which are now increasingly public and blatant. The incident is a grave illustration of how legally protected free speech rights are being trampled on in the United States and other NATO countries. Numerous other instances of censorship and “cancelling” are testimony to the intensity of the information war that the Western states are waging, not just against supposed foreign adversaries but against their own citizens.

Millions of Western citizens are being denied access to important independent news and other media simply based on official designation by unaccountable Western authorities that said information is “Russian disinformation”. Russian news outlets such as RT and Sputnik are banned from being accessed through normal channels. Scott Ritter is one of several respected American voices of sanity and genuine intelligence who are banished from so-called mainstream Western media. Other figures include Professors John Mearsheimer and Jeffrey Sachs, former ambassador to the Soviet Union Jack Matlock, former CIA analysts Ray McGovern and Larry Johnson and former senior Pentagon experts Doug Macgregor and Earl Rasmussen. All of these figures are articulate and informed critics of the U.S.-led NATO proxy war in Ukraine. They have been eminently capable of explaining how the war was fomented through illicit intervention in Ukraine over many years and how the prospects for a diplomatic and peaceful settlement are deliberately being sabotaged by Washington and its NATO vassals.

In the laudable spirit of 1930s U.S. Marine Major General Smedley D Butler, they have shown how “war is a racket”. The war in Ukraine has been sold to the world based on a fetid pile of lies and Russophobic prejudices. A heinous fraud is taking place, putting the world’s future at imminent peril. Scott Ritter, like the other voices cited above, is never or rarely interviewed on the corporate-controlled Western media channels precisely for the reason that the critical analysis he and they articulate debunks the war propaganda emanating from the U.S. government and its NATO allies – propaganda that is pumped and laundered non-stop to the Western public and presented as “news”. No dissenting voices are permitted under the tyranny that is Western imperialist warmongering. Just ask Robert Fico, the Slovakian prime minister who was shot and seriously wounded by a gunman on May 15 because, as Fico believes, he opposes the NATO war against Russia.

As the Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw once said, assassination is just an extreme form of censorship. A demonstration of the nefarious propaganda system was seen this week during the 80th anniversary of the D-Day Normandy landings. U.S. President Joe Biden and other Western leaders used the commemorative event in France to issue doom-laden warnings that “democracy is under attack” and to portray the war in Ukraine as a re-run of the standing up to Nazi Germany in World War Two with Russia projected as the reincarnation of Hitler’s Third Reich. The whole D-Day pomp and ceremony was a travesty. And yet such nauseating distortion of history was relayed to Western audiences by the likes of CNN and BBC, to mention just two channels, as if it were a noble reflection. Democracy and freedom are under attack alright – from Biden and the rest of the Western ruling elite whose basis of oligarchic power is increasingly appearing as outright fascism – albeit with “liberal” sounding rhetoric.

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“..I sense things may get a great deal worse from here on out..”

Scott Ritter Silenced by Liberal Authoritarians (Patrick Lawrence)

It is not difficult to be astonished these days, given how many things going on around us warrant astonishment. To pull something out of a hat at random, the Democratic apparatus has openly, brazenly politicized the judicial system—weaponized it, if you prefer—in its determination to destroy Donald Trump and now has the temerity to warn in the gravest terms that a second Trump term would mean… the politicization of American justice. Again at random, in The Washington Post’s June 7 editions George Will tells us President Biden “has provided the most progressive governance in U.S. history.” Yes, he wrote that. Give in to your astonishment. It is interesting in this case to note that, during the reign of Ronald Reagan 40 years ago, our George thought big government was bad, bad, bad. Now it is a fine thing that Biden is “minimizing the market’s role by maximizing the government’s role in allocating society’s resources and opportunities.”

Apart from turning his own argument hourglass upside-down, this assessment of our swiftly declining president is preposterously, right-before-your-eyes false. You cannot tell the AC’s from the DC’s these days. But this is not the half of it in the way of astonishing events, things done, things said and such like. Last week, as many readers will have noticed, Scott Ritter, the former weapons inspector and now a widely followed commentator, was about to board a plane bound for Turkey when armed police officers stopped him, confiscated his passport and escorted him out of Kennedy International Airport. Ritter was booked to transit through Istanbul for St. Petersburg, where he planned to attend the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, an annual gathering. Here is Ritter recounting this incident in an interview with RT International: “I was boarding the flight. Three officers pulled me aside. They took my passport. When asked why, they said, “Orders of the State Department.” They had no further information for me. They pulled my bags off the plane, then escorted me out of the airport. They kept my passport.”

No passport, no freedom to travel, no explanation. I have it on good authority that Ritter subsequently advised other Americans who were to attend the St. Petersburg events not to risk it. I have had countless conversations over many years in which the question considered has been “Is this as bad as the 1950s?” The matter has been especially vital since the Russiagate fiasco began during the Clinton–Trump campaign season in 2016. It was in the ensuing years that the authoritarianism implicit in American liberalism from the first burst upon us like some weird grotesque out of a Dr. Seuss book. I always urge caution when invoking comparisons between our corruptions and ideological extremes and those of the McCarthy era. Hyperbole and exaggeration never serve one’s understanding or one’s argument. But the confiscation of Scott Ritter’s passport on the instructions of Antony Blinken’s State Department seems to me a radical step too far.

The liberal authoritarians now in command of the nation’s major institutions, the House of Representatives among the only exceptions, have just signaled they are quite prepared to act at least as undemocratically as the House Un–American Activities crowd, the FBI and the rest of the national-security state did during the 1950s to preserve their political hegemony. When I think of confiscated passports I think of Paul Robeson, the gifted singer, the courageous political dissenter, the civil rights advocate—whose documents were seized in 1950 because he refused to indulge in the Cold War paranoia that was already prevalent. His performing career collapsed and he nearly went broke before a Supreme Court decision restored them in 1958. Or I think of all the screenwriters, novelists, poets, painters and activists whose papers were canceled while they were in Mexico—or in France or in Sweden or in England—to avoid HUAC and expatriation turned into exile.

And when I am finished thinking of these people, about whom there is a rich, inspiring literature, I think of how far America descended into a derangement we tend to look back upon in some combination of wonder, derision and contempt. We can no longer look back in this fashion. The revocation of Scott Ritter’s passport, along with the destruction of the judicial system, the myth-spinning about our purported leaders and all the rest pushes this in our faces. Let us give this a moment’s thought to see if we can determine what is likely to be in store. Why Scott Ritter, I have wondered these past few days. Of all the dissident commentators of too many stripes to count, why Scott?

I reply to myself, “Because Ritter is a former Marine Corps intelligence officer, a former U.N. arms monitor in Iraq and he enjoys big-time credibility as a patriotic American.” His voice, in short, is the sort that can carry weight in sectors of the voting public that may well prove key in determining the outcome in the Trump–Biden election this Nov. 5. Viewed in this context, I take the full-frontal suppression of Ritter’s rights last week as very likely tied to the liberals’ political prospects, other than brilliant as they are at this point. Censorship, suppression of various kinds taking various forms, “canceling”—these are nothing new, of course. But I sense things may get a great deal worse from here on out.

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“I still cannot see how the Neocons will allow Trump to win. There goes their dream of World War III..”

2024 Hillary vs Trump – Not Biden? (Martin Armstrong)

The press is starting to actually report that Biden is losing it. This is how they float a balloon to see if it will fly. The August Democratic Convention has been rumored for some time that they will DRAFT someone else to replace Biden. He swore he would never debate Trump. This may be setting the stage for him to step aside. The Neocons are delighted with Hillary, for she has been among the Neocons all along. She will have no problem nuking Russia. This will certainly make things interesting. Bill Clinton actually had cigar sex with an intern in the Oval Office when he was President! There was a phone call when he was getting into a Hummer, and he commented on the phone that he was sitting on the floor in the Oval Office on the seal of the USA at that moment. As the Washington story went, that is why the Republicans made a big deal out of his actions. Everyone had encounters with staff or lobbyists.

The staff of John McCain was very concerned about him and a lobbyist. However, Bill Clinton lied to the American people about it on national television. He paid off Paula Jones $850,000. That was far more than Trump paid Stormy Daniels, who was NOT even an intern as Monica and the famous blue dress. Clinton’s $850,000 payment to get rid of a sexual harassment claim while he’s President had NO criminal court charges for what was the same thing. Why was Clinton deemed exempt from what happened with Trump and Stormy?” The Democrats have been praying that the Criminal Convictions of Trump on these issues, which have nothing to do with his performance as President, are greatly disappointing. People are seeing through this onslaught against Trump, which the Neocons keep pushing for World War III ASAP. A vote for the Democrats is clearly a vote for World War III. If Hillary gets in, you better dig a bunker real deep under your house.

The polling averages haven’t budged in the direction that Democrats were hoping. At RealClearPolitics, Trump led Biden in head-to-head matchups by 0.8 percent on May 30, the day of the guilty verdict. Now, his lead is at 1.1 percent. In five-way surveys that include minor candidates, Trump’s lead at RCP has dropped from 2.2 percent on May 30 to 2.1 percent now. FiveThirtyEight’s average of polls that include Biden, Trump, and Kennedy show the Republican’s lead slipping marginally from 1.7 percent on May 30 to 1.4 percent now. Our computer has projected a Republican win on 4 out of 6 models. Two are quite dramatic. I still cannot see how the Neocons will allow Trump to win. There goes their dream of World War III. We are running our models on the likely outcome. This may end up being very surprising to many. We will let you know when it is ready.

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For decades, comparing someone to Hitler was taboo. Now it’s normal.

Hillary Clinton Slammed For Using D-Day To Call Trump Hitler (MN)

Two time presidential loser Hillary Clinton used the 80th anniversary of D-Day as a way of attacking Donald Trump and comparing him to Hitler. Hillary directly compared the fight against Nazi Germany during World War Two to voting against Trump in the upcoming election. Worse still, Clinton equated those who will vote against Trump to soldiers who put their lives on the line in the Normandy landings. Hillary disabled the comments on the post because the consensus among pretty much everyone who saw it is that it is disgusting and completely lacking in respect. As we highlighted earlier, Joe Biden couldn’t stay awake in France at the ceremony to mark the 80th year since the historic D-Day invasion of Normandy, France on June 6, 1944. Biden also used the occasion to attack Trump and also compare voting against him to fighting against Hitler.

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He’ll be around..

Alex Jones to lose InfoWars (RT)

Right-wing commentator Alex Jones has agreed to liquidate his assets in a bid to pay a court-imposed fine of $1.5 billion. Among Jones’ assets is the parent company of InfoWars, a platform used by the shock-jock to broadcast news, views, and conspiracy theories for more than two decades. Jones filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2022, after a Connecticut judge ordered him to pay the families of the Sandy Hook massacre victims $1.5 billion in damages. Jones had claimed on air that the mass shooting – in which a gunman killed 20 elementary school children and six adults – was staged by the US government in a plot to usher in draconian gun control laws. In filings made to a Texas bankruptcy court on Thursday, Jones’ lawyers requested that the Chapter 11 bankruptcy be converted into a Chapter 7 liquidation, as “there is no reasonable prospect of a successful reorganization” of his debts.

According to court documents, Jones’ assets will not be enough to cover the $1.5 billion fine. However, the Sandy Hook families agreed last year that Jones could liquidate his holdings in order to pay a minimum of $85 million over the next 10 years. In a motion filed earlier this week, the families stated that they want Jones to liquidate Free Speech Systems LLC, the parent company of the InfoWars platform, which has also sought bankruptcy protection. Jones founded InfoWars in 1999, and by 2017, the website was receiving around 10 million monthly visits – eclipsing many mainstream news sites. In his nightly broadcasts on InfoWars, Jones has launched tirades against Democrats, liberals, globalist politicians and NGOs, international financiers, and anyone else he accuses of helping usher in the ‘New World Order’ – a tyrannical system of global governance predicted by American conspiracy theorists since the 1980s.

In an interview with Jones earlier this year, American journalist Tucker Carlson noted that many of the Texan firebrand’s predictions – that the World Trade Center would be destroyed in 2001, that the federal government would introduce mask mandates during the Covid-19 pandemic, and that “a giant war” would break out in Ukraine in February 2022 – came true. Speaking on InfoWars last weekend, Jones claimed that the American “deep state” had orchestrated the legal campaign against him, adding that he was “out of options.” On Friday’s broadcast, Jones said that InfoWars would likely close down within several weeks, but that he may “relaunch” under a different brand.

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“The risk of testimony is that Hunter could burst into flames on the stand and torch any chance to nullify the crime..”

Will Hunter Take the Stand? (Turley)

This weekend, the Hunter Biden team is reportedly debating whether to have him take the stand on Monday, a move rife with risk. Most criminal defendants avoid such appearances given the potential damage of a withering cross examination. Those risks were evident in the recent testimony of Hunter’s daughter, Naomi, which backfired badly on key points. I have sometimes been in the minority among defense attorneys and legal commentators on this question. In celebrity trials, a jury can feel alienated or even disrespected by a defendant not taking the stand. That was the case, in my view, with Martha Stewart. When a defendant brings forth a host of others to speak for him or her, the refusal to testify can become more glaring and concerning. Hunter Biden is in that position. He has had a host of relatives testify, including his daughter Naomi. When you put your daughter on the stand and subject her to a tough cross examination, many jurors can wonder how you can stay safely behind the defendant’s table.

Yet, Naomi’s testimony is precisely why defense counsel are risk adverse on the question. She gave moving testimony on her love for her father and his struggle with addiction. However, her attempt to establish that Hunter was not using drugs at the time of his gun purchase fell apart on cross examination. She testified that she was thrilled during this period with how “healthy” and clean her father appeared: “He seemed like the clearest I had seen him since my uncle died…I told him I was so proud of him and I was proud to be able to introduce Peter to him.”

Prosecutors showed her text messages that told a different story. In some, Naomi appears alarmed by her father’s conduct and lack of responses. On October 18, for example, she texted “I’m sorry daddy, I can’t take this, I don’t know what to say.” That message coincides with messages from Hunter seeking to score drugs from a guy named Mookie and stating that he was doing crack in a car. In other messages, Naomi complains that he was not responding. She finally received a response when, at 2 a.m, Hunter asked her to have her boyfriend drop off keys to a truck for him in Manhattan. Naomi was asked if she saw the drug residue or paraphernalia in the truck. Any cross examination would focus less on Naomi than it would on Mookie.

Any decision to put Hunter on the stand is obviously dependent on your defense strategy. As I have previously written, all of the defenses suggested by Abby Lowell in his opening argument collapsed within two days. That includes the suggestion that someone else checked the box on the form denying that Hunter was using drugs. These claims seem so unbelievable and unsupported that they might insult a jury. However, the real strategy in this open-and-shut case appears to be simple jury nullification. The defense is trying to get one or more jurors to ignore the law and the evidence to acquit Biden. Nullification efforts in the case appear to be a combination of both political and social association. First and foremost, this is Bidentown. It is the hometown of President Joe Biden and voted overwhelmingly for him in past elections. It is the opposite of the Manhattan trial of former President Donald Trump. This is the best possible jury pool for a Biden.

Second, all of the jurors testified to knowing someone with drug problems. Hunter has written moving accounts of his struggle with addiction. Some jurors may resist convicting someone who has seemingly overcome the scourge of addiction. So, if this is a nullification strategy, does Hunter testifying help or hurt? The answer is that it could seal the deal or shatter it with jurors. Hunter will make a good witness on his struggle to overcome drugs and alcohol abuse. He can claim little or no memory of the gun store purchase. Hearing from him directly can establish a connection, even a bond, with jurors that could reinforce a nullification vote. However, it will also subject him to cross examination by prosecutors who have been lethal in their well-planned and well-executed case. They can delve into his texts and the later intervention by his family to deal with his self-destructive lifestyle. He also faces the potential of triggering new criminal offenses through perjury.

That latter concern is particularly real after the formal referral of three House committees to Attorney General Merrick Garland. Hunter is accused of lying to Congress in his recent testimony on key issues under investigation. While many expect Garland to ignore the referral to protect the President and his family, the allegations are compelling and the Justice Department has previously prosecuted individuals in cases with far less support. This would appear a relatively easy perjury prosecution, but the politics may be insurmountable for Garland. Most attorneys would advise Hunter to remain behind the defense table and not take the stand. After all, this is a great jury rendering a verdict on a Biden in Bidentown with the First Lady seated behind him for much of the trial. They just need one. The risk of testimony is that Hunter could burst into flames on the stand and torch any chance to nullify the crime. We will know soon. However, if Hunter checks this box and testifies, it is the one decision that he will not be able to blame on others.

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The Texas Stock Exchange intrigues me.

New Texas GOP Platform Calls For Secession Vote, Resistance (ZH)

Reflecting plummeting patience with overstepping federal overlords, the Texas Republican Party has adopted two platform planks that call for legislators to assert state sovereignty, and to schedule a secession referendum in the next general election after November’s. “This historic vote at the 2024 Republican Party of Texas Convention represents a substantial shift towards enhancing state sovereignty and exploring the potential for Texas to operate as an independent nation,” said the Texas Nationalist Movement (TNM) in a statement. “It reflects the growing sentiment among Texans for greater autonomy and the protection of our rights against federal overreach.” Fittingly, that historic vote took place in San Antonio — home of the Alamo, aka “the cradle of Texas liberty.” Though it represented a setback, the 1836 Battle of the Alamo was a key chapter in the fight for independence that culminated in Texas becoming a self-governing republic.

The first plank asserts that the US government is infringing on powers reserved to Texas and all other states, and calls for unwarranted federal laws to be thwarted by Texas government. It also affirms the right of Texas to secede: “Pursuant to Article 1, Section 1, of the Texas Constitution, the federal government has impaired our right of local self-government. Therefore, federally mandated legislation that infringes upon the 10th Amendment rights of Texas shall be ignored, opposed, refused, and nullified. Texas retains the right to secede from the United States, and the Texas Legislature should be called upon to pass a referendum consistent thereto and pass the Texas Sovereignty Act as filed in the 88th Legislative Regular Session as HB 384.”

The second plank is a pointed directive to put the question of secession to the people of Texas in the next general election: “The Texas Legislature should pass a bill in its next session requiring a referendum in the next General Election for the people of Texas to determine whether or not the State of Texas should reassert its status as an independent nation. This referendum should be a legislative priority.” From the San Antonio convention, here’s a brief but interesting clip of the Texas Nationalist Movement’s Nate Smith speaking in support of the independence-minded platform planks — and ably fielding a question from a delegate who suggests TNM is guilty of treason.

We’d have liked to hear Smith answer his critic’s attempted second question — as to whether Smith had recited the Pledge of Allegiance earlier that day as part of convention rituals. It’s likely the questioner would have next pointed to the pledge’s reference to “one nation…indivisible.” In making a case for why patriots shouldn’t pledge allegiance, Brian McGlinchey has argued that, of several objectionable components of the pledge, “‘indivisible’ should give greatest offense to American patriots. The very existence of the United States — created by secession from the British empire — is a testament to political divisibility as a foundational human right…By reciting the Pledge of Allegiance and proclaiming the United States of America ‘indivisible,’ Americans disclaim their human right of self-determination.”

The Texas Nationalist Movement’s GOP convention success comes on the heels of a state Republican Party controversy over the issue. Despite TNM having amassed more than 139,000 signatures requesting that a secession question be placed on the March 5 primary ballot, the Texas GOP’s leadership refused to include it. TNM appealed to the state supreme court, which refused to hear the controversy. The party chair who presided over that decision, Matt Rinaldi, is out. Now, party’s top two officials are both signers of the “Texas First Pledge.” In addition to promising to place the interest of Texans “before any other nation, state, political entity, organization, or individual,” signatories commit to bringing about a secession referendum and, if it is approved by a majority of Texans, to work for an expeditious exit from the union.

After seceding from Mexico, Texas was an independent country from 1836 to 1845 and, economically, is extraordinarily well-suited for independence today. It’s by far the largest oil producer of any US state, accounting for a whopping 42% of American production, with no other state exceeding even 10%. It has deep-water ports, abundant agriculture, and is a major high-tech hub. There’s fixin’ to be another feather in Texas’s hat. As we examined earlier this week, the booming Lone Star State economy — and rising aggravation over compliance costs and woke regulations — has spurred BlackRock, Citadel Securities and other investors to back a new challenger to the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq: the Texas Stock Exchange.

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“..there are 120 captives still held in the Gaza Strip, including 43 who have been killed since October, many reportedly by Israel’s own forces..”

Israel Kills Over 200 Palestinians to Rescue 4 Captives (Mondoweiss)

At least 210 Palestinians were killed and hundreds of others were injured on Saturday [June 8] in the central Gaza Strip, in what Israel is celebrating as a “heroic” military operation to rescue four Israeli captives that were being held in Gaza. Palestinian media reported intense bombardment in the early afternoon local time in various areas in the Nuseirat and Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. Video footage from the main market in the Nuseirat refugee camp showed crowds of Palestinian civilians fleeing under the sound of heavy artillery fire. Al Jazeera reporter Anas al-Sharif reported that Israeli forces “infiltrated” the Nuseirat refugee camp in trucks disguised as humanitarian aid trucks. The Gaza government media office said in a statement that Israeli forces launched an “unprecedented brutal attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp” directly targeting civilians, and that ambulances and civil defense crews were unable to reach the area and evacuate the wounded due to the intensity of the bombing.

The media office added that according to its count, at least 210 Palestinians were killed and an estimated 400 others were injured during the Israeli operation. Video footage published on social media showed dozens of bodies of men, women and children lying in the streets in the Nuseirat area, as well as bloodied and injured civilians being rushed to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah. Al Jazeera quoted Dr Tanya Haj-Hassan with Doctors Without Borders as saying the emergency department at Al-Aqsa Hospital “is a complete bloodbath … It looks like a slaughterhouse.” “The images and videos that I’ve received show patients lying everywhere in pools of blood … their limbs have been blown off,” she told Al Jazeera, adding “That is what a massacre looks like.”

As the death toll from the central Gaza Strip continued to rise, Israeli reports emerged that four Israeli captives were rescued in the operation and transferred back to Israel. The four captives were identified as Noa Argamani, 26, Almog Meir Jan, 21, Andrey Kozlov, 27, and Shlomi Ziv, 40. They were all reportedly taken on October 7th from the Nova Music festival in southern Israel close to the Gaza border. According to Israeli media, the four captives were found in good health, and were transferred to a hospital in Israel where they were reunited with their families. One member of the Israeli special forces was killed during the attack. Israeli newspaper Haaretz cited Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari as saying the captives were “rescued under fire, and that during the operation the IDF attacked from the air, sea, and land in the Nuseirat and Deir al-Balah areas in the center of the Gaza Strip.”

Haaretz added that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant approved the operation on Thursday evening. Netanyahu hailed the operation as “successful,” while Gallant reportedly described it as “one of the heroic operations he had seen in all his years in the defense establishment, according to Israeli media. The families of Israeli captives held a press conference on Saturday afternoon in reaction to the news. Relatives of the four captives rescued on Saturday praised both the Israeli military and the government. Some relatives of the remaining captives still being held in Gaza demanded an end to the war and a prisoner exchange in order to secure the release of those still being held in Gaza.

On Saturday evening local time, spokesman for the Qassam Brigades Abu Obeida said “the first to be harmed by [the Israeli army] are its prisoners”, saying that while some of the captives were freed in the operation, a number of other Israeli captives were reportedly killed. The Israeli government and military have not commented on the reports that Israeli captives were killed in the operation. It is reported that there are 120 captives still held in the Gaza Strip, including 43 who have been killed since October, many reportedly by Israel’s own forces.

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    George Grosz Apocalyptic landscape 1936   • EU Could Stop Ukraine Conflict In 24 Hours – Orban (RT) • Macron Building ‘Coalition’ To Send Troops
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle June 9 2024]

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    Oroboros
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    Oroboros
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    Sunday Public Safety Warning Message

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    Dr. D
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    12 Million Bitcoin were bought and vanished into BlackRock and other ETFs. Hahahhaaha! No they didn’t, or the price would rise. Really… The credulity of the market for people who had untold accounting fraud in 1994, 1999, 2001, 2008, 2016… Literally no one will stamp or do accounting on multiple firms, while the government has rejected any accounting at all!

    Okay, man since they’re in it, it’ll rise but not from “buying” or “selling” anymore, thanks to you never using the blockchain, and they’re hypothecated 100:1. Like the rest of the planet, stocks, bonds commodities, it’s now a 3rd derivative of a 3rd derivative payable only on demand if their legal dept feels like it.

    Whatever. Like Trump, I’m done. He says he’ll “Lock her up.” Don’t care, call me when you DO something. ‘Til then, couldn’t care less, I have things to do. Don’t expect me to rally ‘round and be first until YOU do something. Ohhh! He promises he’ll ACT…seven years later, after we die of old age and my kids are broke and amputated.

    “PUTIN: “Huge resources are spent on maintaining USA’s status as an empire. Does this benefit the citizens of the United States or not?”

    Gee, it’s almost like lying is really expensive and they have to pay blackmail files and hit jobs everywhere. Then they lose all generalized support as we realize who they are and what they’re like.

    “If the leaders were smart people, they would read what their own researchers write,”

    The Researchers DO write it: they wrote about the Gaza Pier, Meirshiemer wrote about Ukraine, Obama confirmed he agreed, yet SOMEHOW everyone SUDDENLY forgets, right on command one day, like the day in 2020 when they “Suddenly” forgot 100 years of pandemic protocol and history? Just that once?

    The research has nothing to do with it, and our leaders may be dumb, but “they” aren’t. Disney knows full well they’ve lost $2B in one year, everyone hates their guts, and they’ll be out of business in X months precisely if they keep it up. ….Then – Magic! — they keep it up. Go broke, and put all of themselves out of a job. Why?

    “The Washington Post lost $77 million in 2022 and about $100 million in 2023.” (and so do all papers. Who’s filling the holes? Pfizer. Lockheed.)

    It’s almost like there’s a mind-control parasite behind them somewhere, directing things. It orders you to punch yourself, jump off a cliff onto glass.

    Pepe Escobar: What he’s saying to replace the US$ is really, really complicated. It’s like disassembling a ship and building a new one while it’s steaming around on the way to war. It’s not impossible: but think of the problems.

    Also the US$ won’t disappear either. It will become a national currency again because it has to. When you do otherwise you run into Triffin’s Dilemma and other contradictions that tear the host nation apart – which the bankers well know, set a clock for, and capitalize on its ruin. (Before moving to the next ship) Our job is to avoid that and stop them and looks like we will. But we won’t get out of it without hardship, (yet that’s true of everything, always, it all takes work)

    “The U.S. complains about the Georgian ‘Foreign Agent’ law,”

    What’s hilarious about that is Georgia is passing the law that US, EU ALREADY HAVE. They are passing OUR law. And like the lies about “Don’t Say Gay” law, it doesn’t stop anything. You just have to ADMIT who you are and where your money comes from. That is, it changes nothing but tells the TRUTH. So a law which tells the Truth is a law we can’t stand? …But I’m sure it’s all fine and we ain’t up to no good or nothin’.

    When Congress Waved the Ukrainian Flag Story — Massie”

    My comment yesterday on swearing oaths. They’re all LIARS how can waving this flag vs that one possibly mean anything? Yet it does. A LOT. To THEM. They believe in SYMBOLS. The word is more important than the reality, that is, pure Magic, the Occult, or Americanized “The Power of Positive Thinking” Manifesting, “Name it and Claim It.”

    Now you want to admit you’re all in the Occult or you wouldn’t do this? Who is in the Occult that printed and paid for your flags? ISIS, I guess?

    “He keeps making sense. That’s why they want to bar him.” (Orban)

    Yes, but isn’t he about to be leader of the EU? (On rotation)

    ““We will use the coming days to finalize the largest possible coalition capable of responding to Ukraine’s request.”

    So true. However, that number is zero. Good luck.

    “He argued that dispatching specialists to do training work inside Ukraine should not provoke a Russian response.”

    Have you asked Russia? Because their opinion is the only one that matters.

    ““We are not at war with Russia,” Macron said. “We do not want an escalation, but we want to do everything in our power to help Ukraine resist. Is it an escalation if Ukraine asks us to train mobilized soldiers on its soil?”

    Yes, it is a war under every international law or law of war that exists so far. Under all human law in the history of the world, that means being a participant in war and an escalation. Obviously, since it’s only been true 3,000 years, Macron is well aware of it, as is all the press and this reporter too.

    No? Oh well, if not RUSSIA JUST TOLD YOU. Now you know, you illiterate, illegal boobs. Suddenly, on command, one day they “Just forgot!”

    “• Macron Faces Crushing Defeat In EU Elections (RMX)

    The people vote against war at all times and places. Yet we have war as if no one voted at all. Explain?

    “Smaller, unintrusive government at home, no foreign wars abroad” – W Bush, 1999.

    “• NATO Chief Scraps €100 Billion Ukraine Fund Plan (RT)

    Yeah, one problem: They would need $100B dollars. And they’re broke, or they wouldn’t be fighting the war of conquest, expansion, and diversion.

    Suppose they had passed it? Same thing. They can PROMISE the money, but they don’t have it, so they won’t give it. Same as with shells. We PROMISE shells, then delivered none because we don’t have them. I have this picture of a shell, though. I’ve got this word “shell” and I say it all the time! “Shell, shell, shell, shell, shell, shell, shell, shell, shell.” “Promise, promise, promise, promise, promise, promise, promise.” Same thing, right? Name it and Claim It. How’s that workin’? Which is trumps in this reality, Magic? Or Physics?

    “• European Union: From Peace To Bellicosity (Dionísio)
    “..a non-existent Europe will be sung, which, while celebrating “European values”, demands the fracture of continental Europe..”

    As we said in 1999, and Thatcher said in 1987, before it even started. 1) It would be a lie (you can tell that from their 2,000 page constitution) and 2) It would break apart. Because 3) no one wants it, the people voted against it, and Germany never even got to vote. Shows the DEEP, abiding, passionate support in Europe for this. A real nation to toss your own flag and anthem, and to die for instead.

    “• Scott Ritter: Another American Voice For Sanity And Peace Cancelled (SCF Op-ed)

    We can only guess the motive as they didn’t say anything. I mean, they’re probably right, but…

    “The U.S. State Department refused to comment on the matter, saying it was a private matter.”

    Like this: Um, sirs? THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS A GOVERNMENT PRIVATE MATTER. All “government” actions are “Public”. That’s why we have the word “Public”. You can even say it’s private to Ritter, but he asked, his lawyers asked, and they would tell us.

    “Why am I in this courtroom?”
    “Sorry, Herr Docktor, that is a PRIVATE matter, and only the Judge and Prosecutor are allowed to know.” …the Alvin Bragg school of Justice.

    “• 2024 Hillary vs Trump – Not Biden? (Martin Armstrong)

    Please, PLEASE do this. …But they won’t, there will be no election.

    “helping usher in the ‘New World Order’ – a tyrannical system of global governance predicted by American conspiracy theorists since the 1980s.”

    Thanks, NPR writers at RT. You might look into how Jones didn’t say it: THEY said it. 10,000 times, like HW Bush. THEY say they want global governance. There are like 1,000 books on it and the WEF is only the latest in an endless string of powerful people – such as Presidents – who say they agree wholeheartedly. Quoting all political leaders for the last 50 years is a “Conspiracy”. Okay then, what is “Truth” or “History books” then? When we DON’T quote them?

    “the Texan firebrand’s predictions – that the World Trade Center would be destroyed in 2001, that the federal government would introduce mask mandates during the Covid-19 pandemic, and that “a giant war” would break out in Ukraine in February 2022 – came true.”

    That’s how you know he’s wrong. Because what he predicts is right. A ≠ A. I rest my case. Now who’s going to sue WaPo, CNN, for misreporting all the OTHER crimes? When they screw up who rammed a parade, who shot up a gay nightclub, don’t they ALSO pay $1.5 billion dollars? Why not?

    “Most criminal defendants avoid such appearances given the potential damage of a withering cross examination.”

    Yes, but for that to work, the Government would have to actually be Prosecuting him and not defending and covering for him. Does anyone believe that? “Mr. Hunter, on behalf of the U.S. Government and Justice Department, don’t you REALLY … love your mother and kittens? Be honest for the court.”

    Oh noes.

    “• New Texas GOP Platform Calls For Secession Vote, Resistance (ZH)

    That would be bad for the rest of us, like any secession we need the Senate seats. If they want their neighbor more blue, and to attack them with 3,000lb missiles daily like Ukraine, that’s a good way to do it.

    IIRC, Like “Under God,” added in the 50s, “Indivisible” was added after the Civil War. Check me on this.

    • Israel Kills Over 200 Palestinians to Rescue 4 Captives (Mondoweiss)

    As said yesterday, I want you to go out and shake 34,000 hands. Then I want you to shake 4. You tell me what you think, which is more important, how all that works.

    For the 200? They were going to kill them all anyway, hostages or no hostages, along with another 1.5 Million.

    “Fauci whipping boy”

    He’s not even a whipping boy. JHC, you guys need to be way more vengeful, or at least Just. He goes home a multimillionaire, no charges. MUCH LESS all the other people involved. And Fauci may not be the worst. (Although he probably is, as he caused it to be invented and/or probably released) He is an ADVISORY, officially. HE did not hit someone with a baton and ENFORCE it. We could have just said “No thanks”, then the CDC NIH would be powerless. That was Trump/White Hats gambit, to give you the legal OPTION to stand up. We didn’t. So the real criminals are in State and Federal, with millions of counts of Civil Rights abuse for which they are PERSONALLY liable: you are not protected for actions outside your job. You’re not covered for corruption, for arresting someone over a law that wasn’t passed. So on that front I’d go after Fauci last, however, he’s still at the top for illegally funding weaponized biolabs in enemy nations against the express rules and defiance of Congress.

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    College is for worse: you can get off Crack.

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    Dr. D
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    Where’s Mossad’s favorite agent today? I thought they took off Saturday, not Sunday.

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    aspnaz
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    Liberal Constitutional law scholar Jed Rubenfeld says New York “hush money” case may violate Trump’s constitutional rights and that he would appeal to federal courts

    Looks like the Adelsons have bought their boy. Sexual-harrassment Jed is on the case.

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    The U.S. complains about the Georgian ‘Foreign Agent’ law, while almost every Republican (and probably Democrat) congressman has an ‘AIPAC babysitter,’ according to Congressman Thomas Massie in an interview with Tucker Carlson.

    Yeah, we know, but there are people on TAE who will not accept this reality; they would rather see the ship go down than plug the hole.

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    tboc
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    Massie on motus operandi of. US governance and corruption via the medium of debt:

    “…we might as well indulge in it, and I’ll see what I can get. …”

    What if an entire culture has that mind set? Impossible!!!!! don’t you read the comments @ TAE?

    after all:
    “What a piece of work is man…”
    just an emotional opinion of course and the skim has nothing to do with it

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    aspnaz
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    The real battle is between people who are lying and people who are trying to tell you the truth

    Tucker Carlson and Massie, 13:00. I think that was written for the people on TAE who deny that the Jews have taken over congress and are acting in Israel’s interest.

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    a rather dark paraphrase:
    of course we have to kill those babies, Aunt Bessie will lose her job if we don’t.

    “even if youre OK with the amorality of it, it’s short sighted” – Massie
    even if your’e OK with the amorality of it? Got to kick my cynicism up a couple of notches

    “it’s Five O’Clock somewhere” – Buffett

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    tboc
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    maybe consider, Međugorska Gospa

    peace be with you

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    aspnaz
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    https://original.antiwar.com/casey_carlisle/2024/06/04/the-speech-that-military-recruiters-dont-want-you-to-hear/

    An interesting article that exposes some of the delusions that the American public hold dear.

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    wowsers!

    when i first opened the page, i thought the art was live footage of mr. biden’s plan for america!

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    Dr. D
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    Pic

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    Dr. D
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    Who are you talking to? We Americans already know this.

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    Oroboros
    Participant

    Tokyo Government Dating App Helps Residents Get Laid To Avoid Population Collapse

    Hahahahahaahahahaha!

    This is so post-modern!

    As Japan slowly evaporates

    “Officials in Tokyo, Japan are launching a new dating app to help promote marriage and boost the collapsing national birth rate.”

    “The app is intended to give a “gentle push” to the nearly “70 per cent of people who want to get married” but weren’t “actively joining events or apps to look for a partner.”

    Falling Birth Rates

    In February, we noted that in 2023 Japan’s birth rate fell 5.1% from a year earlier to 758,631, while the number of marriages slid 5.9% to 489,281, the first time in 90 years the number fell below 500,000.

    The last time the number was this low the US had just dropped the atom bomb over Hiroshima and Nagasaki – signaling even greater declines in the population as out-of-wedlock births are rare in Japan.

    Sinaro, Land of the Setting Sun

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    Meanwhile back in Duh’merica……….

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    Oroboros
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    Empire of Lies also encourages Reproduction Education

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    Oroboros
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    And the Private Sector does their bit to raise population expectations…….

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    #160855
    Oroboros
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    Responsible Parenting Skills are Job Number One in Duh’merica

    Building a healthy new generation one drink at a time…..

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    Marine One (1)
    S. Ritter on why Gonzalo Lira should be put to death, but not before Ritter’s inimitable style shines through. It’s all about Scott.

      I don’t approach the topic of information warfare, or its derivative activity, information operations, lightly. In my time as an intelligence professional, both with the US Marine Corps and, later, with the United Nations, I was personally involved in information manipulation operations managed by US and UK intelligence services.

    Thanks Major. Dr. David Kelly you’re not, but it’s your Substack.
    When you, if you finish reading the following paste, tell me who are the good guys in this Scott’s scenario…Putin, Zelensky, Lira, the SBU, Russia, Ukraine and which side does Scott think the U.S. is on? Does the CIA support U.S. public policy on Russia or The Ukraine the same as Scott Ritter? Who is the terrorist here, Ritter or Lira? Ritter says terrorists deserve to have U.S. policy against terrorists delivered summarily to them, ie. summary execution without due process….because “We are at War”

      Scott Ritter Extra

      Gonzalo Lira, the SBU, and Information OperationsAn Investigation of the Probable

      SCOTT RITTER

      AUG 08, 2023

      Gonzalo Lira

      “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”

      Sun Tzu, The Art of War

      Gonzalo Lira, the well-known Chilean-American YouTube personality, has been in the news lately. A former “lifestyle” coach, Lira re-branded himself as a geopolitical commentator in the leadup to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, providing gripping first-hand observations—often critical of the Ukrainian government and contradictory of the Ukrainian narrative—that were posted on YouTube. As his popularity grew, his social media footprint expanded, with his Twitter and Telegram accounts garnering tens of thousands of followers, and his YouTube videos garnering hundreds of thousands of views and subscribers.

      Gonzalo Lira was arrested by the SBU, or Ukrainian intelligence service, on April 15, 2022, and released five days later. Lira has been circumspect about both the arrest and the conditions of his release—he blithely calls it his “missing week.” Lira does acknowledge that his computers and phone were seized by Ukrainian authorities, and that he was released under conditions of “house arrest,” implying some sort of continued monitoring and control of his activities by the SBU. Nonetheless, he was able to gain access to a computer, set up a new email account, and immediately begin posting information critical of the Ukrainian government.

      There is only one logical explanation for this chain of events. Gonzalo Lira was arrested by the SBU for crimes he himself admits gets people arrested, tortured, and murdered. He is released five days later—unharmed—and immediately allowed to resume the exact same activity that led to arrest in the first place, only this time on a computer and email account controlled by the SBU.

      This is a classic “catch and release” scenario, with Gonzalo Lira playing the role of “police confidential informant”—someone who provides information in exchange for lenient treatment. There literally is no other plausible explanation for what happened other than this.

      Scott Ritter will discuss this article and answer audience questions on Ep. 89 of Ask the Inspector.

      And yet controversy swirls around the saga surrounding Lira’s arrest and release, as well as his subsequent actions, including his re-arrest in May 2023, his re-release on July 6, and a series of bizarre videos and tweets made by Gonzalo on July 31, released while he waited at the Ukrainian-Hungarian border, awaiting his attempt to “escape” Ukrainian custody, all the while broadcasting his intent for all the world—and the SBU—to see. According to charging documents published by the Kharkov prosecutor overseeing Lira’s case, the former lifestyle coach failed in his attempt, and is once more in the custody of the SBU awaiting trial.

      his release—he blithely calls it his “missing week.” Lira does acknowledge that his computers and phone were seized by Ukrainian authorities, and that he was released under conditions of “house arrest,” implying some sort of continued monitoring and control of his activities by the SBU. Nonetheless, he was able to gain access to a computer, set up a new email account, and immediately begin posting information critical of the Ukrainian government.

      To drive that point home even more, the United States—Ukraine’s leading partner in this information war—kills terrorists preemptively, void of any notion of due process….

    …those terrorists preemptively killed void of any notion of due process include U.S. citizens Nawar al-Awlaki 9 years old, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki 16 years old and their father Muslim Cleric Anwar al-Awlaki ordered by U.S. Presidents Obama for father and son and Trump for a 9 year old girl

    #160858
    Dora
    Participant

    Bird fluzy.

    #160859
    those darned kids
    Participant

    “he’s the president, he’s not in charge”.

    i.e. he’s only the president..

    #160860
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://swentr.site/news/599006-eu-stop-ukraine-conflict/
    In order to achieve this, pro-peace forces need to come to power, the Hungarian prime minister has said

    (Peace is achieved through war)

    Oban, like us, does not have the control/power to make peace/cease fire happen.

    … the EU and US need pro-peace forces .

    (People Power demonstrations are happening everyday and failing to make change)

    If the European leaders wanted peace today, within 24 hours there would be a ceasefire at the front line.

    Dear Ukrainians, a ceasefire is necessary, we need to stop, we will not give more weapons and money until there is a ceasefire and peace negotiations,” Orban said.

    (“WE”, are those who sign the checks)

    NATO was created with the purpose of defending member states from aggressors, not waging war outside its territory.

    Peace will happen by/if – “YANKY-GO-HOME”
    ———–
    Who wants/will be able, to cut off the money?
    https://swentr.site/news/599002-nato-scraps-stoltenberg-ukraine-aid/

    Stoltenberg had presented a draft long-term military support plan for Ukraine, designed in part to guard against any cut in US support if former President Donald Trump returns to the White House.
    ———-

    It’s about money
    https://tass.com/economy/1800165
    “We have a range of political, economic countermeasures against those attempting to get hold of Russian reserves,” Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told a briefing on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF).
    ————

    “Russian disinformation”. Russian news outlets such as RT and Sputnik are banned from being accessed through normal channels, from so-called mainstream Western media.
    ———–
    It’s not over until the fat lady sings

    2024 Hillary vs Trump – Not Biden?


    2024 Hillary vs Trump – Not Biden?
    Posted Jun 6, 2024 By Martin Armstrong
    The August Democratic Convention has been rumored for some time that they will DRAFT someone else to replace Biden.

    ————
    She has never recovered from Trump’s win

    https://modernity.news/2024/06/07/hillary-clinton-slammed-for-using-d-day-to-call-trump-hitler/
    Hillary Clinton Slammed For Using D-Day To Call Trump Hitler
    Steve Watson
    7th June 2024
    Hillary disabled the comments on the post because the consensus among pretty much everyone who saw it is that it is disgusting and completely lacking in respect.

    The grossness of Dems doing EXACTLY what Dems are blaming the GOP of doing is unforgivable! I’m voting Red for the first time in my life!
    ————

    #160861
    Oroboros
    Participant

    “Bill Maher Leaks Jeff Bezos’ Motives With Cryptic Message

    “He didn’t buy [The Washington Post] to make money.”

    The Washington Post lost $77 million in 2022 and about $100 million in 2023.”

    Same with Disney hemorrhaging dollar bills on the Alter of Woketurdistan.

    /

    #160864
    Oroboros
    Participant

    You should realize that electric vehicles are a colossal scam because the electric grid can’t handle the charging requirements of so many cars.

    Well, the electric grid also can’t handle the demands from Big Data Centers and AI farms.

    I have a theory that the ‘arms race’ for the most powerful AI computer complex will eventually want to use 100% of the electric grid.

    AI’s appetite for ‘power’ is near INFINITE.

    Yah, that’s right, Infinite

    Quite the irony

    Artificial Sentience needs ALL the power generation on Earth.

    AI is a bottomless pit of energy consumption.

    Hahahahahahahahahaha!

    Jokes on you!

    .

    #160865
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #160866
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #160867
    zerosum
    Participant

    Who will tell the truth about
    Challenges for 2050

    Copilot Using the web

    The future of plastic combs and toothbrushes is likely to change due to environmental concerns and the push towards more sustainable alternatives.

    Plastic Combs: Plastic combs have been around since the 1950s and have evolved to become tougher, more versatile, and more customizable than ever before1. However, there is a growing awareness of the environmental implications of using plastic combs2. Some companies are already making eco-friendly combs from recycled materials3. In the future, we might see more combs made from bio-based and biodegradable alternatives1.

    Plastic Toothbrushes: Plastic toothbrushes are a significant environmental problem. Nearly every single toothbrush made since the 1930s is still out there in the world somewhere, living on as a piece of trash4. However, there is a growing trend towards eco-friendly toothbrushes. Alternatives to plastic toothbrushes made from bioplastic and bamboo are gaining popularity5. The future will likely see a shift from plastic to more sustainable materials like bamboo, wood, and steel, but also degradable bioplastic56.

    In conclusion, while we might still have plastic combs and toothbrushes in 2050, it’s likely that they will be less common as we move towards more sustainable alternatives. This transition is part of a larger global effort to reduce our reliance on plastic and move towards a more sustainable future.

    #160868
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    It isn’t so much that Israeli Zionists “own” the United States government as it is that they “rent it” from day to day. It is strictly Cash & Carry relationship, like with a hooker.

    #160869
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @DrDRich

    I believe that Scott Ritter should apologize to Gonzalo Lira (post mortem) and all of Lira’s friends, family and fans.

    But first we should all publicly acknowledge a discomforting fact. The fact is that Lira’s show did, indeed, act as a honey pot for Ukrainians authorities and the rest of the US/NATO nazi’s to discover Ukrainians (and others) who needed to be rounded up and killed, to protect the US/NATO naked war of aggression against the Russians and the rest of mankind.

    Scott believed Lira to be doing it knowingly. Which is now tragically disproven by Lira’s death at the hands of the Ukrainians. By the way, why are we even bothering to use the word “Ukrainian” as the nomenclature? We all know that the United States controls EVERYTHING that “Ukraine” does, all the way down to the level of Dog Catcher’s Assistant.

    If you think about it closely, there is a distinct possibility that Ritter is more than half right. Perhaps the Ukrainiians had captured Lira from the start, with Lira’s full knowledge, suffering him to live only so long as he kept broadcasting and thus providing the intelligence services to use it as a de facto “honey pot” for them to use.

    Personally I side with Lira. He tried to escape and they killed him to keep his mouth shut. I think that Lira was basically just a trapped guy who tried to play his cards the wrong way, and lost his life for it.

    #160870
    TAE Summary
    Participant

    Lobbyist: Congressman, will you vote for this bill for a $1 million campaign contribution?
    Congressman: Sure!
    Lobbyist: Would you vote for it for a $1 campaign contribution?
    Congressman: Are you crazy? What do you think I am?
    Lobbyist: We’ve already established you are. Now we’re just haggling over price.

    #160871
    tboc
    Participant

    why do i always have the feeling that no one here grew up in a society that constantly warned about “sympathizers”, “dupes” and “fellow travelers”? Why does no one think the example made of the Rosenbergs left a lasting impression on The Greatest Generation, and their children?

    i do not know if children in the Soviet Union grew up being taught to hide under their desk next to a wall full of glass windows as protection from a nuclear blast. The desks that i sat in between first and third grades were roughly equidistant from Mayport and Naval Air Station Jacksonville. I knew that. Having access to a bag of M-80s and Cherry Bombs i had a working knowledge of small explosives. Sitting unprotected under those desks was not going to be any protection from shards of flying glass.
    I knew where every bomb shelter dug into the ground was within five miles of my home by the time i was in the fifth grade. My father and i were members of our community American Legion. I knew bullshit when i heard it and saw it.
    A free society needs national security secrets to remain free. I knew that was bullshit from jump street. I knew about the School of the Americas – 1946(Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation – 2001) before i graduated high school.

    if someone with my less than stunning intellectual capacity could know these things don’t plead ignorance with me.
    Ritter, Johnson, MacGregor all took national security oaths. You think they are telling you anything that has not been approved for public consumption? Do you think pulling Ritter off the flight was not orchestrated? Is Ritter incarcerated? No. Then he did not violate his national security oath. Once a commissioned officer, always a commissioned officer. Have you never heard “Need to Know”? Do you know the president of the US does not have the highest security clearance? Need to know and plausible deniability go hand in hand.

    I don’t want to know and need to know are different animals. Proving the Noble Experiment true is far more important than “I don’t want to know”.

    “Who are you talking to? We Americans already know this.”
    we just won’t act on it – “…we might as well indulge in it, and I’ll see what I can get. …”

    lady of the house says the yard looks “Nice”. Take your victories as you find them

    #160872
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    You just described Ritter to a T.

    Youu read Ritter’s nasty essay which contained his recipe for Lira’s disposal…..
    ….then abandoned Ritter’s unapologetic declarations for the standard assessment that appears routinely on TAE.

    Ritter’s self-assessment disagrees with your strange kindness directed his way. His words, he runs with MI6, floats with the UN, and reigns supreme in mortal combat *We are at War” from his keyboard.
    His essay drops with nothing but contempt and disdain for Lira in anticipation of his death.

    So who’s Ritter’s handlers?
    Bill Burns?
    Nameless faceless Jews?

    #160873
    kultsommer
    Participant

    maybe consider, Međugorska Gospa

    Americans butcher that word, so the ear hurts listening to them trying to pronounce it, but are capable to argue to death with the people of Medjugorje as how they should conduct their daily affairs.
    Me (me) dju (as Julie) gor (gor) je (yes)

    )

    #160874
    aspnaz
    Participant
    #160875
    Oroboros
    Participant

    A Short Tour

    This is the “U.S.” Congress!

    At Attention

    #160876
    Oroboros
    Participant

    So that’s why they want Ukraine so badly…

    From the syphilitic orifice of Lindsey the Satanic Whore

    #160877
    Dr. D
    Participant

    VoteJoker

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