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Kamala Harris Is A “Low IQ Individual.” – Trump (RT)
It All Tracks – Hersch Reports Obama Threatened Biden with 25th Amendment (CTH)
For 25 Minutes, Secret Service Command Center Didn’t Notify Trump Detail (ZH)
Will RFK Jr be Trump’s Vaccine Czar? (AT)
Bitcoin Breaks Through (Quoth The Raven)
Olympics Opening Ceremony Shows ‘Absence of Public Morality’ – Orban (Sp.)
French Bishops Condemn Olympic ‘Mockery of Christianity’ (RT)
German Publisher Stops All Printing of JD Vance’s Book Hillbilly Elegy (Turley)
Erdogan Says Turkiye Could ‘Enter’ Israel To Help Gazans (Sp.)
Erdogan ‘Going Down The Path of Saddam Hussein’ – Israeli FM (RT)
Netanyahu Granted Powers To Devise Retaliation Against Hezbollah (RT)
Houthis Announce ‘New Stage’ of Conflict With Israel, Urge Arabs to Unite (Sp.)
T-Rex May Have Been 70% Bigger Than Previously Believed (Sp.)

 

 

 

 

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“..dumb as a rock.”

Kamala Harris Is A “Low IQ Individual.” – Trump (RT)

Former US president and current Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, has claimed that his rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, is a “low-IQ individual.” Speaking at the Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville, Tennessee on Saturday, Trump called the cryptocurrency a “marvel of technology” and a “miracle of cooperation and human achievements.” The former president went on to praise the Bitcoin community as “very smart people,” and used the opportunity to disparage his election rival. “This room is amazing. The people in this room are high-IQ individuals. I’m running against a low IQ individual,” Trump told the audience. He had insulted Harris in the past, having described her as “dumb as a rock.” Harris became the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee last week after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race.

High-ranking Democrats and major party donors urged Biden to withdraw in the wake of his disastrous June debate with Trump, when more concerns were raised over his declining health and the ability to win the election in November. Harris has since secured enough commitments to be officially nominated as her party’s candidate at a convention next month, according to an Associate Press survey. During a campaign rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Tuesday, she launched a scathing attack against her rival, claiming that she knows “Donald Trump’s type” and listed “all kinds of predators” she dealt with when serving as a prosecutor. She repeatedly called Trump a “convicted felon” and accused him of “restoring to some wild lies.” The campaign was shaken up by an attempt to assassinate Trump during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13. Trump narrowly escaped death as the gunman’s bullet grazed his ear. The incident prompted the resignation of Secret Service chief Kimberly Cheatle, who admitted that the agency had failed to properly protect the former president.

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“2007 through 2017, that decade is filled with unlawful action by Barack Obama and the people behind him. This is the core of their ongoing need for control, likely for a generation or more..”

It All Tracks – Hersch Reports Obama Threatened Biden with 25th Amendment (CTH)

Investigative journalist Seymour Hersch writes on his substack, an article outlying how his sources in Washington DC and the White House have confirmed to him that former President Barack Obama was the impetus to push Joe Biden out of the 2024 presidential race. Seymour Hersh says President Obama was “deeply involved” with the alleged coup and called Joe Biden after his “incident” in Las Vegas, which, from all outward appearances, looks like a major slip and fall – with a significant hit to the head. “I went over [reports] this week with a senior official in Washington who helped me fashion an account of a White House in complete disarray,” Hersh said. “Obama called Biden after breakfast [on July 20] and said, ‘Here’s the deal. We have Kamala’s approval to invoke the 25th Amendment,’” a senior Washington official told Hersh. Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and Hakeem Jeffries were reportedly directly involved.

Obama’s plan was to not to immediately endorse Kamala, but it was clear that she would “get the nod.” “[Obama] had an agenda and he wanted to seek it through to the end, and he wanted to have control over who would be elected.” (Hersch article encapsulated) Not only does this outline track with every datapoint known about events leading up to the Biden announcement, it also aligns with the entire background of the Obama team operating inside the Biden administration. Team Obama have always been in control. Heck, the Obamas never even left Washington DC after their term in office. The bigger understanding is in the final quote cited. “[Team Obama] had an agenda and he wanted to seek it through to the end, and he wanted to have control over who would be elected.” This is the part where people forget the risk to Team Obama that has never gone away.

The Obama “fundamental change” was a construct of malicious intent. Much of it fraught with unlawful activity only possible by weaponizing the various agencies and bureaus of the U.S. government. Going all the way back to 2007 through 2017, that decade is filled with unlawful action by Barack Obama and the people behind him. This is the core of their ongoing need for control, likely for a generation or more. President Obama and his likeminded ideological foot-soldiers weaponized the federal system of government. In every action from the moment he left office, Obama’s team have been working one long continuum of control in order to keep all of their prior activity hidden. The need for Kamala ‘brat’ Harris is simply another step in this long process to hide the activity.

• The NSA Database was weaponized to conduct political surveillance.
• The Dept of Justice was weaponized to target their political opposition.
• The Federal Bureau of Investigation was weaponized to act as the police investigative units for those targets.
• The Dept of Homeland Security was weaponized to control the evidence and information about their political targeting and surveillance.
• The IRS was weaponized against Obama’s political opposition.
• The Office of the Director of National Intelligence was weaponized to allow the targeting radar to sweep internally against American citizens under the guise of national security and domestic terror threats.
• The Central Intelligence Agency was weaponized allowing and permitting their “foreign surveillance” mandate to merge with the DHS internal surveillance mandate, while simultaneously the CIA conducted overseas political operations against the interests of sovereign countries. All of their activity in ideological alignment.
• The Defense Department was purged of patriotism, intentionally weakened through diversity equity and inclusion, and then boiled down to a flag corps of general willing to go along with the policy of Obama.
• Main Justice through the National Security Division used FARA violations to target anyone who was determined a threat to the fundamental change, and Main Justice began wholesale Lawfare operations against Donald Trump and any entity who would dare align with him.
• Hundreds of millions, likely billions, were funneled through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, The Green New Deal, The Inflation Reduction Act, and various legislative expenditures to foreign governments; those funds went directly into the bank accounts of Democrat donors and political activist groups.

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg, the part the awakened American public can look into and see for themselves. Underneath the waterline, there’s tens of thousands of vested interests, inside and outside of Washington DC, operating to maintain the fundamental change that Obama created. However, their defenses are weak and shallow, fraught with vulnerability and the endless need to avoid sunlight. All of that scheming, rot, corruption and unlawful activity makes them vulnerable. The need for control is a reaction to fear. The ‘fundamental change’ group are fraught with fear. That is why they consider the current political landscape as a zero-sum contest.

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You missed.

For 25 Minutes, Secret Service Command Center Didn’t Notify Trump Detail (ZH)

While members of the Secret Service in a Butler, Pennsylvania command center were notified that an individual later identified as Thomas Matthew Crooks was acting suspiciously before he tried to assassinate Donald Trump, members of the former president’s secret service detail were not informed of the threat, according to the Washington Post. Members of former president Donald Trump’s Secret Service detail and his top advisers have privately questioned why they were not informed that local police were tracking a suspicious person before that person opened fire on Trump at his July 13 rally in western Pennsylvania, according to people with direct knowledge of the concerns. Approximately 20 to 25 minutes before Thomas Matthew Crooks shot at the former president, local countersnipers noticed him behaving strangely and sent his photograph to a command center staffed by state troopers and Secret Service agents, the head of Pennsylvania State Police told a congressional committee Tuesday.

According to three sources, members of Trump’s Secret Service detail have complained to confidants and others inside the agency that they were never made aware of the warning, and they had no idea that local countersnipers eventually lost track of Crooks – or that a local police officer who was hoisted onto the roof of the building saw Crooks perched there with a gun. Trump was on stage a full eight minutes – roughly 20 minutes after Crooks was spotted and reported – before shots rang out, wounding Trump, critically wounding two others, and killing one rallygoer. “Nobody mentioned it. Nobody said there was a problem,” Trump told Fox News in an interview last Monday. “They could’ve said, ‘Let’s wait for 15 minutes, 20 minutes, five minutes, something. Nobody said — I think that was a mistake.” Meanwhile, the Secret Service, which initially lied about denying Trump additional security requests, is not talking.

“As it relates to communications at the rally, the Secret Service is committed to better understanding what happened before, during, and after the assassination attempt of former President Trump to ensure that never happens again,” said spox Anthony Guglielmi, the guy who lied about the denied security. Trump’s team has been at odds with Secret Service headquarters over various requests that the agency denied, including more magnetometers at events, more countersnipers at some events and other specialty teams at other events, The Post has reported. The Secret Service and Trump’s team also repeatedly clashed over security and logistics at the Republican National Convention earlier this month. The Butler, Pa., shooting is also emblematic of what some Secret Service critics say are chronic communication problems that have dogged the agency and contributed to serious security lapses. -WaPo.

Yes, just a breakdown in communication. Nothing nefarious. Also on Monday, then-Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle deflected when asked by House lawmakers why the Secret Service didn’t immediately delay Trump’s speech when local police reported a suspicious person – telling the committee that such reports are commonplace. “At a number of our protected sites, there are suspicious individuals that are identified all the time,” she said. “It doesn’t necessarily mean that they constitute a threat.” Cheatle – who resigned last week, admitted that the Secret Service was notified of a suspicious person at the Butler, PA rally “somewhere between two and five times,” and she didn’t know when Trump’s security detail was notified. Turns out, they weren’t.

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“The appointment of Robert F. Kennedy Jr, with his decades-long record investigating vaccines and with his bestselling exposé of Fauci and the corruption of the public-health establishment, would loom large in Trump’s legacy as well as RFK Jr’s.”

Will RFK Jr be Trump’s Vaccine Czar? (AT)

In 2017, shortly before assuming the presidency, president-Elect Donald Trump asked Robert F. Kennedy Jr. if he would be willing to investigate one of Trump’s top-of-mind concerns — the safety of vaccines. Trump’s goal, to have Kennedy chair a “Vaccine Safety and Scientific Integrity Commission,” was soon sidetracked by the Russiagate accusation and then Covid. But it was not forgotten. In a recent leaked videotaped discussion between Trump and Kennedy, Trump reminded Kennedy about their 2017 discussion and urged him to take on the vaccine issue again. “I would love you to do so,” Trump urged. Trump’s preoccupation with vaccines — coming the very day after the assasination attempt on his life and shortly before his formal acceptance as the Republican Party’s presidential nominee — demonstrates that the government bureaucracies overseeing the vaccine industry remain top-of-mind to him.

“Something is wrong with that whole system,” he stated. “When you feed a baby, Bobby, a vaccination that is like 38 different vaccines and it looks like it’s meant for a horse, not a 10-pound or a 20-pound baby… do you ever see the size of it, its massive, then you see the baby all of a sudden starting to change radically. I’ve seen it too many times.” In an attempt to clinch the deal, Trump pointedly referred to Kennedy’s long commitment to reforming the CDC and the vaccine industry, highlighting the personal satisfaction such an accomplishment would bring, and its importance to Kennedy’s legacy. “And I think it’ll be so good for you and so big for you.” In their recent discussion, Trump and Kennedy didn’t discuss the specifics of what a renewed investigation of the vaccine industry would look like, but their 2017 discussion – an hour-long meeting held at Trump’s initiation that also included Kellyanne Conway and Mike Pence — raised the same issues that continue to preoccupy him today.

“He is troubled by questions of the links between certain vaccines and the epidemic of neurodevelopmental disorders including autism,” Kennedy told Science in a telephone interview at the time. “And he has a number — he told me five — friends, he talked about each one of them, who has the same story of a child, a perfectly healthy child who went into a wellness visit around age 2, got a battery of vaccines, spiked a fever, and then developed a suite of deficits in the 3 months following the vaccine. “He said that he understood that anecdote was not science, but said that if there’s enough anecdotal evidence… that we’d be arrogant to dismiss it. Those were his words.” In their recent discussion, Kennedy didn’t agree to take Trump up on his offer. No formal, detailed offer was even made, the call was merely the beginning of a process that Trump hoped would lead Kennedy to join the future Trump administration in a vaccine-related capacity.

The call wasn’t even supposed to be made public – Kennedy’s son, Bobby Kennedy III, leaked it on his own. “When President Trump called me, I was taping with an in-house videographer. I should have ordered the videographer to stop recording immediately. I am mortified that this was posted. I apologize to the president,” Kennedy explained. Following the leak, Kennedy told the press that he was continuing with his candidacy for president. Should his candidacy fail and Trump’s succeeds, as appears likely, look to negotiations between them to proceed for a vaccine-related role in Trump’s administration. If Trump has a regret about his first term, it’s likely over his promotion of Covid vaccines — a policy that his base overwhelming opposes, so much so that it drew boos at his rallies. The appointment of Robert F. Kennedy Jr, with his decades-long record investigating vaccines and with his bestselling exposé of Fauci and the corruption of the public-health establishment, would loom large in Trump’s legacy as well as RFK Jr’s.

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“..two major presidential candidates in the United States, both Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy, have now publicly come out and supported Bitcoin. That, in and of itself, is enormous.”

Bitcoin Breaks Through (Quoth The Raven)

Almost everybody in the Bitcoin world is already going to be aware of the headlines former President Donald Trump made last night at the Bitcoin 2024 conference. At Bitcoin 2024, Trump pledged that if re-elected, his administration would retain all federal Bitcoin holdings, establishing a “strategic national bitcoin stockpile.” He highlighted that the federal government currently possesses nearly 210,000 bitcoins, about 1% of the total supply, mostly seized from cybercriminals. Trump promised that his administration would never sell this Bitcoin, adhering to the fundamental Bitcoin principle of holding. Additionally, he vowed to fire SEC Chair Gary Gensler on his first day in office, criticizing Gensler’s stringent regulations that many believe have hindered innovation in the crypto industry. Anyway you slice it, last night was a flurry of positive Bitcoin-related headlines hitting the wire as soon as Trump took the stage and began speaking to the crowd of crypto enthusiasts.

The idea of bitcoin as a reserve asset has always been the holy grail for maximalists and Trump’s speech sent the idea of a bitcoin “standard” to supersonic speeds. And while there’s been plenty of speculation online about Trump’s motives, with some saying he’s simply fishing for votes from wherever he can get them, it doesn’t matter at this point: the game theory snowball of a Bitcoin “standard” has officially started rolling down the hill. This pro-Bitcoin psychology and reserve asset game theory, and what it could do for the world of Bitcoin regardless of whether or not Trump is elected, cannot be understated. The Bitcoin community has now, for the first time, seen a former and potential US president endorse the cryptocurrency as a strategic reserve asset for the country. This is multiple times more consequential than Wall Street listing Bitcoin ETFs, in my opinion, because it accelerates Bitcoin’s adoption regardless of whether or not Trump is elected our next president.

The idea that the United States could potentially make Bitcoin part of a monetary standard has officially been launched into the orbit of the country’s economic zeitgeist. For comparison, when I started to warm up to the idea of Bitcoin about 6 months ago, I speculated that Middle Eastern money would be the next, after El Salvador, to put Bitcoin on a sovereign balance sheet. From there, I speculated such a move could unleash a tsunami of game theory, with multiple other countries scrambling to catch up across the world, not unlike the way Democrats — the party of Elizabeth “Ban Crypto” Warren — are now scrambling to play catch-up and modify their position stance on crypto. Too late, losers. If you would have told me months ago that one of the two major United States presidential candidates and a former president would be the first to assure the world they would place Bitcoin on the sovereign balance sheet of the most powerful nation in the world, I would have been assured the rest of the world would follow.

That is exactly the case that is unfolding. And, by removing the red tape in the world of Bitcoin, not only would the Trump administration send adoption of the asset to stratospheric levels, it would also be the first tacit public acknowledgment that the fiscal crisis unfolding in the United States is not sustainable and must be dealt with via means other than printing dollars. In other words, holding a bitcoin reserve would represent an attempt at a strategic move to sound money, regardless of whether or not Bitcoin itself stands the test of time.

Yesterday not only marked a momentous occasion for Bitcoin, it marked a momentous occasion for everybody on the Austrian side of the economic aisle who has been waiting for a politician to begin to make serious concessions that the fiscal trajectory the country and the dollar are on is not sustainable. It was a limited hangout of sorts – a passive admission that eventually, the country is going to need a solution to its monetary problem that is outside the Keynesian pattern of simply printing more fiat. And so even if you are first and foremost an advocate for gold or silver, like I am, it’s easy to see last night’s comments by President Trump as not just a victory for Bitcoin but a victory for economic common sense. Just think about this: two major presidential candidates in the United States, both Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy, have now publicly come out and supported Bitcoin. That, in and of itself, is enormous.

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“They have gradually shed metaphysical ties, with God, country and family..”

Olympics Opening Ceremony Shows ‘Absence of Public Morality’ – Orban (Sp.)

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban described the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris as “the weakness and disintegration of the West”, La Depeche reported. The politician believes that the event that sparked a fierce public backlash was the embodiment of the Western void. “They have gradually shed metaphysical ties, with God, country and family,” Orban said, adding that it has led to “the absence of public morality, as you could see if you watched the opening ceremony of the Olympics yesterday.” Orban also pointed out that the collective West denies the existence of nation states, resulting in the absence of a common culture and a common morality based on it. “Western values, long considered universal, are increasingly considered unacceptable and rejected by many countries in the world,” he concluded.

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Never again.

French Bishops Condemn Olympic ‘Mockery of Christianity’ (RT)

The Bishops’ Conference of France has denounced the organizers of the Olympic Games over an LGBTQ-themed parody of the Last Supper during the event’s opening ceremony. The organizers have claimed that the performance reflected their “values and principles.” The ceremony, which took place in central Paris on Friday night, concluded with a troupe of drag queens, homosexuals, and transsexuals posing at a table, as Jesus Christ and his apostles appeared in Leonardo Da Vinci’s ‘The Last Supper’. A giant serving dish was then wheeled out in front of the table, from which emerged a mostly naked man made up to resemble Dionysus, the Greek god of wine and festivity. Throughout the performance, a male dancer’s exposed testicles could be seen behind the table. “This ceremony unfortunately included scenes in which Christianity was mocked and ridiculed, which we deeply regret,” the Bishops’ Conference said in a statement on Saturday.

“We thank the members of other religious denominations who have expressed their solidarity with us,” the statement continued. “This morning we think of all Christians on all continents who have been hurt by the exaggeration and provocation of some scenes.” The ceremony was condemned by Christians and conservatives around the world. Bishop Robert Barron of Minnesota called the performance a “gross mockery of the Last Supper,” while Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini declared that “opening the Olympics by insulting billions of Christians across the world was a really bad start” for France. SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk described the spectacle as “extremely disrespectful to Christians,” while tech entrepreneur Dr. Eli David wrote that “even as a Jew,” he was “infuriated by this outrageous insult to Jesus and Christianity.”

Olympic organizers have defended the opening show. “We imagined a ceremony to show our values and our principles so we gave a very committed message,” Paris 2024 President Tony Estanguet told reporters on Saturday. “The idea was to really trigger a reflection. We wanted to have a message as strong as possible.” “Our idea was inclusion,” added Thomas Jolly, the ceremony’s artistic director. “We wanted to talk about diversity. Diversity means being together. We wanted to include everybody.”

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“German readers want to read the book, which Ullstein acknowledged is one of the most influential works of this generation..”

German Publisher Stops All Printing of JD Vance’s Book Hillbilly Elegy (Turley)

JD Vance is a marked man. After accepting the nomination for vice president, Vance has been the subject of endless media attacks. Recently, Vice President Kamala Harris even questioned his “loyalty” to the country despite his serving as a Marine in the Iraq War. Yet, one of the most chilling attacks came from Germany where the publishing house Ullstein Buchverlage has stopped printing the sold-out German translation of Hillbilly Elegy, his 2016 autobiography. As we have discussed previously in this country, it is the modern left’s equivalent of book burning. After all, why burn books when you can simply prevent their being printed under blacklisting campaigns? In this country, we have seen the left successfully force book bans for writers and even justices who espouse opposing viewpoints. We have seen actual calls for book burning recently (here and here).

Ullstein is facing a high demand for Vance’s best-selling book Hillbilly Elegy, but has refused to print more copies due to his political viewpoints (unrelated to the book). First published in 2016 and made into a movie in 2020, the book returned to the top position on The New York Times‘ bestseller list after Trump chose Vance as his running mate. HarperCollins is rushing to print more books to meet the demand. Some in the United States are already balking at the selling of any book by Vance. Seven Stories Press wrote, “Seven Stories Press is extremely thrilled to have never published JD Vance.” Ullstein published the German translation of Hillbilly Elegy in 2017 and held the rights to reprints. The company cited Vance’s allegiance with Trump and his politics as the reason in a statement to German media:

“At the time of its publication, the book made a valuable contribution to understanding the drifting apart of US society…In the meantime, he is officially acting alongside him and advocating an aggressively demagogic, exclusionary policy.” German author Gerd Buurmann posted a mocking response that we should be happy that Ullstein had just thrown Vance’s book out of its catalogue and not into the fire – a reference to the notorious Nazi book burnings of the 1930s. Other Germans have raised the same objections and referenced the painful history of book bans and burnings in Germany under the Nazis. German readers want to read the book, which Ullstein acknowledged is one of the most influential works of this generation. However, because the company disagrees with his political viewpoints, it moved to block others from reading the book.

We have seen similar campaigns leading to the banning or burning of books by figures like JK Rowling because of her opposition to some transgender policies. The left now protests any programs on Rowling’s work and opposes the selling of her enormously popular Harry Potter series or even video games based on the series. When authors have defended her right to be published, they have also been subjected to cancel campaigns. Yet, Ullstein’s decision is particularly chilling as a publishing house. Again, we have seen editors at publishing houses sign petitions to bar books by conservative figures like Justice Amy Coney Barrett from being published.

In 1933, thousands of books by Jewish and leftist writers were burned throughout Germany. Publishing houses further banned the printing of these books. The books were announced as corrupting the minds of German citizens. Many books were banned or burned on the basis of the authors being Jewish or known socialists or anarchists. Now the left has developed a taste for censorship and blacklisting. Editors and publishing houses are blacklisting those with conservative or libertarian views as forms of dangerous viewpoints or disinformation. Ullstein will, of course, not stop people from reading the work of JD Vance. While it may make it more difficult for Germans to find copies, ideas like water have a way of finding their way out. Blacklisting and censorship have not succeeded in killing a single idea. What it does is reveal the true character and values of those who want to prevent others from hearing opposing viewpoints.

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He looks alone for now.

Erdogan Says Turkiye Could ‘Enter’ Israel To Help Gazans (Sp.)

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that Turkiye could “enter” Israel just as it once did in Libya and Karabakh. Speaking at a meeting of the ruling party branch in the president’s native province of Rize, Erdogan noted the success of the country’s defense industry, but urged not to be deceived by them. According to the president, if the successes had been even greater, Israel “would not have done to Palestine what it did.” “We must be strong. As we entered Karabakh, as we entered Libya, so we will do to them [Israel]. There is nothing we cannot do. We must be strong to take such steps,” Erdogan said in a speech broadcast by the national television. Erdogan also once again recalled the refusal of the leader of the Palestinian National Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, to speak in the Turkish parliament. Earlier, the Turkish president urged Abbas to apologize.

The Turkish parliament approved the extension of the mandate for the deployment of the Turkish military contingent in Libya for two years from January 2024. Turkiye supported Azerbaijan during the Second Karabakh War in the fall of 2020, and Turkish drones actively participated in the operations. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke in the US Congress on Wednesday, sparking protests by anti-war activists at the Capitol. Turkish politicians, including Erdogan, harshly criticized the speech of “war criminal” Netanyahu in the Congress and those senators who gave him a standing ovation. On October 7, 2023, Israel was subjected to an unprecedented rocket attack from the Gaza Strip. After that, fighters of Palestinian movement Hamas penetrated the border areas, opened fire on the military and civilians, and took more than 200 hostages.

According to the authorities, about 1,200 people were killed. The Israel Defense Forces launched Operation Iron Swords in the Gaza Strip, which included strikes on civilian targets. Israel announced a complete blockade of the enclave: supplies of water, electricity, fuel, food and medicine were stopped. According to the Gaza Health Ministry, the death toll from Israeli strikes on the enclave since October 7 has exceeded 39,000, with more than 89,800 people injured. The Russian Foreign Ministry called on the parties to cease hostilities. According to Moscow’s position, a settlement is only possible on the basis of the UN Security Council-approved formula with the creation of a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders with its capital in East Jerusalem.

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Sounds like a personal threat.

Erdogan ‘Going Down The Path of Saddam Hussein’ – Israeli FM (RT)

Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz has warned that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan could end up like the toppled and executed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein if he attempts to intervene in the Gaza war. Erdogan traded threats with Israeli officials on Sunday amid the IDF’s operation against Hamas in Gaza, as well as the rapidly escalating tensions between Israel and the Lebanese-based armed group Hezbollah. Speaking at a rally in his hometown of Rize, Erdogan suggested that Türkiye could “enter” Israel in order to help the Palestinians. “We must be very strong so that Israel can’t do these ridiculous things to Palestine,” Erdogan said. In the past he has condemned Israel’s actions in Gaza to those of Nazi Germany – and likened Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Adolf Hitler.

Katz responded with a warning of his own on X (formerly Twitter). “Erdogan is going down the path of Saddam Hussein and threatens to attack Israel,” he wrote, adding that the Turkish leader “should just remember what happened there and how that ended.” Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid also blasted Erdogan, calling him a “danger to the Middle East” and a “wannabe dictator.” “The world, and especially NATO members, must strongly condemn his outrageous threats against Israel and force him to end his support for Hamas,” Lapid wrote on X. Saddam Hussein was overthrown during the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq. He went into hiding, but was eventually caught by US troops, convicted by an Iraqi court of crimes against humanity, and executed by hanging in 2006.

The US under President George W. Bush claimed at the time that the Iraqi leader had connections to Al-Qaeda – a group behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks – and had weapons of mass destruction. Both claims later turned out to be false, but Washington used them as rationale for attacking Iraq, despite having failed to secure the approval of the UN Security Council.

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“Iran has warned that Israel would face an “obliterating war” in case of a “full-scale military aggression” against Lebanon..”

Netanyahu Granted Powers To Devise Retaliation Against Hezbollah (RT)

Israel’s security cabinet has authorized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant to determine the scope of a potential military operation against Hezbollah in Lebanon. During the meeting on Sunday evening, the cabinet agreed to let Netanyahu and Gallant “decide on the manner and timing of the response” to Hezbollah’s cross-border attacks. Tensions flared up on Saturday after a rocket hit a football pitch in the Druze town of Majdal Shams in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, killing 12 children. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) blamed Hezbollah for the strike and later showed photos of shrapnel that it said matched an Iranian-made Falaq-1 rocket, which is used by the pro-Palestinian militant group. According to the IDF, the rocket was launched from the Chebaa area in southern Lebanon.

Hezbollah, however, denied any involvement in the strike on Majdal Shams. The group has been firing rockets and mortar shells at Israeli positions after the war between Israel and Hamas broke out on October 7. The IDF carried out further airstrikes on southern Lebanon on Sunday. However, there is an expectation of a stronger response from Israel, including a potential ground invasion, given the warnings made by leading politicians over the weekend, with Foreign Minister Israel Katz saying that Hezbollah has “crossed all red lines.” Iran has warned that Israel would face an “obliterating war” in case of a “full-scale military aggression” against Lebanon. The US, meanwhile, has backed Israel and condemned Hezbollah. Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, said through her national security adviser that her “support for Israel is ironclad.”

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“..Houthi leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi vowed that Yemen’s response was “inevitable.”

Houthis Announce ‘New Stage’ of Conflict With Israel, Urge Arabs to Unite (Sp.)

Yemen is entering a “new stage” of its war with Israel, and is asking Arab and Muslim countries to unite to help wage it, Houthi political bureau member Ali al-Qahoum has told Sputnik. “Yemen and its leader are entering a new stage of conflict, new alliances are being created that do not have red lines,” Al-Qahoum said. “As long as Israel exists, there will be no peace – this is an existential battle. It is time to unite Arabs and Muslims, use their opportunities and stand together in this battle to preserve the identity of Islam and Arabism in the face of the challenges, dangers and projects of the Great Satan represented by America and Israel,” the official said, using the derogatory epithet originating from the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran and typically referring to the United States. Al-Qahoum’s language signals a marked escalation in the militia’s position, which at the beginning of its Red Sea semi-blockade and missile attacks on Israel last October and November was aimed at “standing in solidarity” with Palestinians with a view to stopping the now more than nine-month old war in Gaza.

The Houthi political bureau member has not shied away from using increasingly sharp rhetoric in interviews in recent months, warning Washington in January that Yemen would become America’s “graveyard” and that the US would be forced to “leave the region in humiliation” after the US and British navies launched a campaign of air and missile strikes inside Yemen. In March, al-Qahoum said the Houthis were “cooperating” with the rising powers in the world to “drown America and the West in the mire around the Red Sea, to get them bogged down, weaken[ed] and unable to maintain unipolarity.” Tensions between the Houthis and Israel escalated dramatically over the past week after the militia flew a long-range airplane-style combat drone into Tel Aviv on July 19, evading Israel’s powerful air defenses in an incident the IDF attributed to “human error.” One person was killed in the attack, and seven were injured.

Israel reacted by launching F-35I jets to target the western Yemeni Red Sea port city of al-Hudaydah on July 20, targeting the port’s oil facilities and a power plant. The attacks were meant to make “it clear to our enemies that there is no place that the long arm of Israel will not reach,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. At least nine people were killed and 87 others injured in the Israeli attack, according to local authorities. The Houthis have vowed to respond to the tit-for-tat escalation, with Houthi spokesman Mohammed Abdulsalam, saying last week that Israel’s “brutal aggression will only increase the determination and steadfastness of the Yemeni people and their brave armed forces, continuing and escalating their support for Gaza.” In a televised speech on Thursday, Houthi leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi vowed that Yemen’s response was “inevitable.”

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T-Rex May Have Been 70% Bigger Than Previously Believed (Sp.)

According to a new study, the king of dinosaurs may have been 70% heavier and 25% longer than previously thought. Paleontologists from the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa, Ontario, said the carnivorous T-Rex could have weighed up to 33,000 pounds (15,000 kilograms), which would make it 35% heavier than an average school bus. In an effort to determine how big the dinosaur could get, scientists first examined the fossil record, which shows that a total of about 2.5 billion T-Rex once lived on Earth. But just 32 adult fossils have ever been found. The largest T-Rex on record is a specimen named “Scotty”, which weighed an estimated 19,555 lbs (8,870 kg) when it was alive.

But the largest T-Rex “would have been about 70% bigger” than Scotty, said study co-author Jordan Mallon, a research scientist and head of palaeobiology at the Canadian Museum of Nature. “Our study suggests that, for big fossil animals like T-Rex, we really have no idea from the fossil record about the absolute sizes they might have reached,” said Mallon, whose team also took into consideration other factors including population size, growth rate, lifespan, and the incomplete nature of the fossil record. “It’s fun to think about a 15 tonne T-Rex, but the implications are also interesting from a bio-mechanical or ecological perspective,” he said.

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    Vincent van Gogh Courtyard of the hospital in Arles 1889   • Kamala Harris Is A “Low IQ Individual.” – Trump (RT) • It All Tracks – Hersch Report
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle July 29 2024]

    #165052
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    ‘Two things’…..
    ………………….is always a nice way to start, but it’s always so much more.

    Denigrating Christianity really shouldn’t be too triggering.
    Christianity ought to be able to laugh it off….handle it, so to speak.

    Now Christianity’s silent, ineffectual role in the priest-pedophile program that ran from little ol’ Seward Pa right to the Holy See, the sovereign juridical entity IS a whole separate level of depredation.

    They offered me $140,000 to shut up in 2018 when they hadn’t known for 47 years I was Father George Pierce’s victim and a witness who can still place his principal victim, Clarice, in Holy Family’s Rectory over and over and over again.
    You see, Pierce’s proclivities had been known to church authorities none of whom advertised the systemic and systematic nature of Church authorized child rape in the manner y’all think “Satanist” hurt yours and Christianity’s tender feelings at Paris 2024 Opening Ceremonies.

    They, Church Authorities from Greensburgh Diocese Bishop William Connare overseas to The Holy See, The Sovereign Juridical Entity, concocted the plan to cover up Pierce’s crimes against a 10 year boy by moving George to Holy Family Parish, Seward Pa. They also put Fr. Pierce in charge of other priests as prelate.
    No use bitchin’ and moaning or else nothing gets done in the capitalist workplace.

    Juridical

    What they didn’t do was warn me or put on a public display of their deviance like that on display in Paris 2024.

    You ought to be grateful they’ve gone public and still like aspnaz and Celticbiker extol thee you still can’t identify the monster nor name the enemy

    “Onward Christian Zionist soldiers marching as to War,
    With the cross of Jesus going on before”

    I recommend being careful with the exhortations of Sundance at CTH. Or is it TCT, as in The Conservative Treehouse. He or She, Sundance is an overly sensitive counter to overly sensitive Marci Wheeler at The Emptwheel.

    One should be read by also reading the other.
    They rarely if ever brook criticism and they are persuasive in the same manner as videos from Scott Ritter. You know, the videos Dr D orgasms to in the mere anticipation of Scott Ritter’s message.
    Eee-gawd! The imagery!!
    Both Sundance and Marci wear blinders more prominent than those devices worn by horses drawing carriages.

    Marci’s musings come from her connections to Intel Section of the Deep State, American and British varieties.
    I won’t be surprised when Sundance is exposed as such.

    #165053
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Canada’s standard of living is on track for its worst decline in 40 years:
    In previous videos, I’ve talked about the disaster that is Justin Trudeau’s Canada. In short, incomes are West Virginia-level, house prices are at the Los Angeles level, and Canadian taxes are halfway to the Soviet Union. 
    It’s not rare for a middle-class family in Canada to pay half their income in taxes. 
    What changed? Justin Trudeau. Specifically, his campaign to convert Canada from a mixed economy like the US into a government-dominated economy like the sick men of the European Union.”

    Well…not exactly, but like UK, things like the National Health caught up with them. This form – of whatever, Socialism, the take over and control of industries – always works well at first, that’s why people vote for it. But it then removes cause and effect, Cost-Benefit, removes competition and slowly over institutional habit is lost and no one cares what things cost or how or if they work. And right on schedule Canada follows that pattern to the day. As this is “How we do things” then that attitude of larger government – who produce nothing – spreads elsewhere while also always expanding and never contracting. That is, in recession, industries get smaller and adjust to the less demand. Governments get larger. But also in times of high taxes, governments ALSO get larger. So they just get larger every year whether upturn or downturn, and do less and less until they are too big a drain on production and collapse. As they don’t WANT to collapse – a collapsing government is considered too dangerous, a failure, but ALSO shuts of my and my corporate buddy’s paychecks, they then arrest everyone who peacefully goes up to Ottawa and tells them politely to knock it off. Then it’s really on. And requires essentially a war. A class war of government vs the people. Those who work vs those who don’t.

    EVERY. TIME.

    So again, ““If Men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and the next place, oblige it to control itself.” Madison

    Or maybe ““No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity.” Madison

    Or even, ““Experience is the oracle of truth” ― James Madison

    Government cannot control itself, neither can it judge itself and decide to get smaller, erase departments, etc.

    “Government workers in Canada are growing almost four times faster than the private sector, and one in three Canadians now work for the government, raking in 30% more in salary and benefits than the taxpayers they lord over. Another 1.7 million Canadians – roughly 1 in 10 households – are on welfare.”

    This isn’t rocket science. And is this merely coincidental? I don’t think so as history has shown.

    Infinity homelessness thanks to government “helping”. https://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/one-man-found-the-infamous-carpet-trails-in-florida-that-lead-to-enormous-homeless-encampments-way-back-in-the-woods/

    I can fully attest to this, and everywhere, not just warm areas. The reasons are many, but what are they, the Homeless, doing? The Free market. Government has set an UN-free market by rigging home prices via insider inflation. They are making one party rich (Home and Stock owners) and therefore the other party poor (Millennials, everybody else) Just like Australia, etc where it worked so well. So the People go outside the system and “Build their own homes” outside the law. Just like the Indians would. They have their own sub-economies, and their own communities, and their own laws and rules, and their own law enforcement, violent or otherwise. WHY do they fall back on the free market? Because Capitalism, the “free market” is what humans ARE. They need something, so they make it, then that property is theirs and they possess and defend and trade it. Note this would or could ALSO be what they call a perfect Communal, communist, anarchist situation. Problem being, like all other places and times, people need to be perfectly enlightened and behave themselves, and perfectly enlightened people are in real short supply.

    There are homeless camps everywhere, and so openly, and so badly behaved, you’d think they were the majority of the cities. They’re not, but only because the cities are so awfully large right now. Why? Nobody wants to take a loss. That’s it. There’s no free market, because the free and fair market price of say, houses, would have to fall. Because markets go up AND down. So any time a market goes down, they go to government, order it not to, the government intervenes with real tax dollars and real costs, and bails out the losers in a near-perfect merger of corporation and state. But that has costs. Usually we deal with the problem of $36 Trillion in debt owed, and the zero production of steel and shells. But this is the OTHER cost of interfering. Social. Whole lives, whole GENERATIONS have now been destroyed. That is: all YOUR kids.

    Total interference into every part of every market with every body, every time? That’s Capitalism! Not like that honest money, free markets, honest pricing, and bankruptcy stuff, no. You were misinformed. Capitalism = Total Government control.

    How to solve it? In 10 seconds, like Coolidge did. Enforce the law. They got themselves into this mess, they can get themselves out. Rich guys take their losses and cry like little whiny babies. Guess what? They’re still rich. Meanwhile, prices re-connect to REALITY, markets clear, jobs open up, and prices like houses all match again. Practically overnight. In 1921 or Germany after the war.

    “Suppressing Silver Prices Has Been Official US Policy Since 1965

    And many other things. Like houses for one. Education. Health care. Any place it’s all f—d up, look for government to be “helping.”

    “After Failed 1984-Style Censorship-Crusade, Paris Olympics Forced To Apologize For Woke Opening Ceremony

    Continuing this, they censored THEMSELVES. ‘Cause what they did was very very good, and they are very, very proud of it. That’s why they had to hide it all from us, AFTER forcing us all to watch. Like seriously, daddy comes home high on coke with his girlfriend, does her on the kitchen counter, then tells the kids, “What girlfriend?” Is this not the same behavior and profile? What you saw DIDN’T HAPPEN. You’re just crazy. And if you did see it, it wasn’t that bad. And if it did happen, it was actually good, which is why I’m hiding it.

    “Bitcoin Breaks Through – with Trump and Vance endorsement.

    So the beginning of the end. …Or maybe not, as government is due to collapse and get smaller right now. But normally it would be the end and I’d be thinking of how to edge out. Government can buy up BTC? That will drive up the price and set infinity insider-trading as we’ve seen BY THE SEC DIRECTORS THEMSELVES. And Fed Chairs. But also if anyone gets 51% of the Block, they can own it all, the transactions are no longer “Consensus”. …I don’t think they can get there, but it’s worth watching. Already Satoshi’s blocks were probably always government, so the threshold may be lower than you think.

    “Biden chose Kamala” the most far-left Senator. Except even the far-left hates her. It wasn’t for that vote, because he didn’t get it. It was because they the “America First” signaled that they would wrangle the election, coup the other side, start a Civil War, then shoot Joe and Kamala for treason, so they have to put their worst, dumbest, most expendable people there. Not like an Obama or Podesta or something. They had it all worked out, and Podesta was open about the plans for his Civil War and secession – which also would have crippled the U.S. and driven world capital back to Europe.

    The Right looked at that and because they have Brains, and can think on the ground, not according to some Alien Insect AI “Plan” were like, “What if we DIDN’T contest the election?” “What if we LET them show the American people who they are? Could we get that last critical 10% to end support?”

    Anyway, THAT is how they got themselves into this jam. Where they desperately needed to go around Kamala, but ultimately couldn’t. …So far. They can still kill her and blame MAGA. Everyone will be very for this, Left and Right. Killing Kamala and not caring they can all agree. …What sickos.

    And a lot of Congressmen are dumb. But you have to be curious, in earnest, and delegate. She can’t do any of that because more importantly, she’s a bad person, inside.

    “• It All Tracks – Hersch Reports Obama Threatened Biden with 25th Amendment (CTH)

    “Obama” doesn’t exist and never has, he has always been a CIA man from birth, and a CIA collective. But he does that job well, and it’s a good shorthand to refer to this faction.

    “Going all the way back to 2007 through 2017, that decade is filled with unlawful action by Barack Obama”

    Or back to Eisenhower, or Wilson, or right after Lincoln in 1870 when the Industrialists captured the country in an orgy of lawlessness. Every time government gets bigger, and it also rules that it should have more power, just like Canada, above. Every administration of every government always does this, even Washington, Madison, Reagan… “Obama” just made it run slightly faster for a while.

    “• For 25 Minutes, Secret Service Command Center Didn’t Notify Trump Detail (ZH)

    There is no official story. We’re making it up. Why? In my theory, Trump was on to them and diverted it – either successfully or unsuccessfully, your choice. Now they’re in disarray and going to get hung on this. They can’t release an official story because whatever that is, it won’t hang together and make any sense. Then that will be used to hang THEM together, whoever was in on it. So they are plotting the CYA among themselves. They are also feverishly watching the autists examine it and float theories. When someone can float a theory that kinda, sorta is less bad, they will suddenly snap and run to it, calling it the “Official” story. –Although, as I said, it will make no sense. But for this, they are letting US be the AI Processing power of their evil plan. I don’t think we can or should try to avoid that, as that is our free nature, but should be aware it’s going on. Whatever story WE make up, THEY will then run with as suddenly true.

    I say the story is they did the whole thing. From the top. 99% of the guys were in on it. Run with THAT, you fxxxers. Go to court and prove to me your innocence, and you’re all fine. The local cops did. They’ve been perfectly open and we’re not mad or suspicious of them at all yet. Funny, huh? Why? Your behavior itself tells me you did it. Their behavior after tells me they didn’t. Did you not take Lying 101 in school?

    “Orban also pointed out that the collective West denies the existence of nation states,”

    And family, etc. We’ve been gaslit for a generation now. I wonder what the real numbers are. Far, far less than they list and try to make appear, but clearly this sort of advertising and engineering works. If they let go we would snap back to normal, but that would take time, like 10 years at least.

    ““We imagined a ceremony to show our values and our principles so we gave a very committed message,” Olympic message

    Yes, that’s the problem. And I agree, you should be committed. As they said, if you want a picture of what’s inside Macron’s head all day, this is it.

    “German readers want to read the book, which Ullstein acknowledged is one of the most influential works of this generation..”

    Excellent. Now thanks to themselves, they’ll have no idea what’s going on, and therefore their response to it will be stupid and wrong. #Winning! How’d that same process work for you in Ukraine? Did not knowing anything help you win the war?

    “• Erdogan Says Turkiye Could ‘Enter’ Israel To Help Gazans (Sp.)

    Remember Gog and Magog come down from the north with Turkey to Har Meggedio?

    “• Erdogan ‘Going Down The Path of Saddam Hussein’ – Israeli FM (RT)

    Great. Except you have no power at all and neither does the United States. Pretty saucy talking for a guy who’s about to cease to exist. They can’t beat ONE city. With all the Carpet Bombs in the U.S. arsenal. And you think you’re going to beat…(checks chart) Hezballah, Lebanon, Turkey, Iran, and Yemen? Combined? Last I checked, Iran is larger than Gaza, and Hamas is a rounding error to Hezbollah.

    “• T-Rex May Have Been 70% Bigger Than Previously Believed (Sp.)

    I disagree. But for this reason: the ALREADY can’t explain how such a T rex could ever exist in the first place. Solve that problem and I’ll talk to you about how they could be even larger. Ex: they are too large to walk, too large to breathe, too large to eat, and too large to pump blood. You want to explain that when our presently largest animals have severe physical issues existing?

    #165054
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    Epilogue:

    I was 10 years old and altar boy when Pierce arrived at Holy Family Seward Pa as punishment for previously raping another 10 yo boy.

    Do you think Bishop Connare and The Holy See appreciated the diabolical genius, the perfect symmetry of it?

    #165056
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    The Enlightenment tradition


    The Enlightenment tradition marked the historical moment when humanity changed compass and direction. The religious worldview proposed ethical principles: humans must first and foremost, with every step they take in the earthly realm, ask whether they are walking towards Good or Evil. Some took the ethical principles more seriously than others; for some, the ethical discourse became purely a tool of hypocrisy and perversion. But the story on which the culture was based, in any case, placed the ethical level first.

    The Enlightenment tradition swept the whole idea of ethics as a guiding principle off the table. From now on, humanity would follow reason. No more religious illusions. From now on, humanity would go by what they observe with their eyes and understand with their minds. And there it immediately fell prey to … an illusion. Our supposedly objectively observing eyes are directed by forces that lie entirely outside the field of rationality. For example: whether one sees in nature a system where the strong eliminate weaker life forms via survival of the fittest and promote the stronger, or a system where the stronger care for the weaker in the most loving and sensitive way, is determined by factors that have nothing to do with rationality.

    The 19th-century imperialist saw survival of the fittest everywhere. And he was remarkably blind to the flood of examples showing that nature is at least governed by many other principles. The imperialist saw nature that way because he, from his narcissism and egocentrism, liked to see nature that way. What the imperialist really claimed through his theory of survival of the fittest was that the imperialist, who was at that moment the strongest due to certain historical circumstances, not only had the right to ruthlessly oppress and subject the weaker in his colonies but that he, while doing so, was also the best and most noble that nature had ever produced.

    Let narcissism give way to Love for a moment, let the Soul take the helm from the Ego. You see another Nature arise. You see, for example, a nature where strong trees support weaker trees by providing them with nutrients through their root systems; you see a nature where an elephant mother mourns her dead young for months; you see the strong human who recognizes himself in the weak and gently places a hand on their shoulder.

    And even if you believe that the strong should triumph over the weak, it is far from certain that this actually happens in ‘nature.’

    https://words.mattiasdesmet.org/p/the-opening-ceremony-of-the-olympic

    #165057
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Trump as a Hood Ornament

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    Netanyahu as a Hood Ornament

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    Nazilensky as a Hood Ornament

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    Kamala La-la Kabala as a Hood Ornament

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    Oroboros
    Participant

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    Oroboros
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    #165061
    Oroboros
    Participant

    A Day in the Life

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    Oroboros
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    Oroboros
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    #165065
    oxymoron
    Participant

    here’s my latest track. It’s about running bankers and other psychotic little shits through my wood-chipper to make compost for the garden. Lyrics and audio too.

    https://substack.com/home/post/p-146988336

    #165066
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Hahahahahahaha!

    They’ve let in at least tens of thousands of terrorists under Pedo Jo-jo and the Demonrats

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    #165067
    Oroboros
    Participant

    The Future’s So Bright I gotta Wear Shades

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    #165068
    Noirette
    Participant

    jb-hb posted about energy and markets… The real problem is people aren’t free to problem solve. Full spectrum at every level simultaneously, individual problem-solving is being blocked…

    Big Corps in cahoots with Gvmt. control the problem-solving mechanism, they are interested only in making money, protecting positions, and controlling others. The top dogs in ‘their’ company, conglomerate, etc. don’t even care about its survival, as they reckon they can just move on to occupy some other power node. (Gvmt. officials are more wary and frightened.)

    See the embrace of large, lux. electric cars, which with subsidies and temp. profits from v. rich ppl suckered in, afford a short term spike ‘boost’ profits, which then deflates intoto ‘ruin’ or relative loss, downsizing, closing off, etc.

    Imho the belief in ‘new energy arrangements’ has been so pervasive, and the subsidies from Gvmts. (W, China, other) so ample, that many jumped on the bandwagon, either thru calculated cynical opportunism, or yes, following along, the new thing dont’cha know. Because everyone wants to ‘keep their position’…

    #165069
    zerosum
    Participant

    Summary: Seek Peace. Go Fishing.

    #165070
    a kullervo
    Participant

    The frustration over being unable to eradicate discomfort is the unacknowledged/unassailable spring that keeps mankind ticking.
    There’s no cure – only transient relief.

    #165071
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    The Yemeni side of the story: “Eisenhower’s escape… Roosevelt’s disappearance”

    The Yemeni battle with American naval vessels marked the end of the era of aircraft carriers and confirmed their vulnerability to targeting. Yemeni forces targeted the USS Eisenhower aircraft carrier three times between May 31 and June 20. Although the US did not explicitly acknowledge this targeting due to its implications of the decline of American hegemony and what Yemen might represent as a model of its audacity in striking this diplomatic military vessel according to the American definition, Eisenhower group leaders admitted after the group’s return home, in statements to the U.S. Naval Institute, that it was “the first time an American aircraft carrier has faced a direct and sustained threat from an enemy since World War II.”

    The Eisenhower aircraft carrier group withdrew after a complete failure, as confirmed by U.S. Central Command leader Eric Korilla in a message to the Defense Secretary, as reported by The Wall Street Journal. However, it wasn’t just a failure; it was targeted for the first time and hit, as confirmed by the Yemeni armed forces on May 31. It was forced to escape in a humiliating and degrading manner to the north of the Red Sea. Before fully withdrawing after twenty days from the first targeting, American warships turned from guarding Israeli navigation to guarding the Eisenhower.

    The US states that Eisenhower’s withdrawal wasn’t due to being targeted but because its deployment was extended for an additional period, and it will be replaced by the USS Roosevelt aircraft carrier, according to the U.S. Central Command statement on June 22.

    Despite the U.S. Central Command’s announcement that Roosevelt had already reached the operational area to protect navigation on July 12, it didn’t enter the Red Sea and remained hidden for days in the far east of the Arabian Sea before heading to position itself in the Gulf region off the coast of Bahrain, as shown by the latest satellite images. Unusually for American coverage of aircraft carrier movements, Roosevelt shut down its tracking devices and had its supply aircraft halt tracking signals midway.

    Roosevelt’s direction towards the Gulf contradicted what was announced by the US, as the Gulf is not an area for Yemeni operations but a forced route, showing fear of the carrier being attacked by Yemen, an attack threatened by the leader of the Ansar Allah movement, Abdulmalik Al-Houthi, days after Washington announced its intention to move Roosevelt to the Red Sea.

    The National Interest newspaper says that the Houthis panicked when Roosevelt moved from the Pacific Ocean to the Red Sea, but it is clear that Roosevelt is the one in panic, fearing real targeting if it crosses the Bab Al-Mandeb Strait. It fears a scandal if it enters the Red Sea via Good Hope, the Strait of Gibraltar, and Suez, so there is no harm in showing off in the media that she is there even if she appears as what the Chinese now describe as a paper tiger…

    https://alkhabaralyemeni.net/2024/07/29/269002/

    #165072
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-watching-closely-venezuela-election-after-maduro-warned-bloodbath-if-he-loses

    Maduro Declared Venezuelan President For 3rd Term, But Opposition Claims Victory In ‘Stolen’ Election

    Regardless of what actually happen or what will happen in terms of the possibility of violence, it’s clear that the leftist and socialist Venezuelan government just suffered its most significant electoral test and shock in decades.
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    Share the wealth, (the basement)
    The Share Of Young Adults Living With Parents Is The Highest Since 1940

    Due to waning housing affordability, a growing number of Americans continue to live with their parents into adulthood…
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    #165073
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    In my experience, Christianity is often obsessed with finding examples of “wickedness” in the world and trumpeting about it to parishioners. It is used as a means of proving the need for the existence of Christian churches to the believers. And when the world’s wickedness directly attacks Christianity or Christian stories and symbols, Christian ministers often go into overdrive, decrying this as an attack upon Christianity, admonishing parishioners to condemn the wickedness.

    I am conflicted by Christianity these days. I recognize that my own moral compass is strongly rooted in my religious upbringing, while at the same time I reject the traditional dogma. The Left has gone crazy, coming completely unmoored from Enlightenment roots, the Right remembers much of the Enlightenment — but then I see people standing and cheering when DJ Trump suggests year-long prison terms for anyone who burns the flag. (I don’t like the idea of people desecrating the flag, however, it isn’t appropriate to prosecute anyone for it.). We need rule of law and blind justice, not prison terms for anyone from the other tribe that behaves in ways that we don’t like.

    #165074
    a kullervo
    Participant

    Queerympic games: Did the Christian athletes leave?

    No?
    Then everything’s hunky-dory!
    (… maybe there isn’t such a thing as a Christian athlete.)

    (What would be of Christianity without Judas?)

    #165075
    Noirette
    Participant

    Ilargi, you say, Noirette disappoints me:

    I explained about energy and the economy, extensively.

    Yes that is so, my apologies, not that I state you didn’t but that the focus of this board right now is on US internal and external (foreign policy) issues …

    Well maybe right now this is the most important matter in the World? OK… but what about the war in Sudan? Or what is happening in Syria?

    Ilargi: BTB, You will never see Gail mentioned here. Long term readers may be capable of explaining why. Idk what this is about.

    Ilargi: That’s pretty insane. No world wide news?! All I’ve been trying for years is to steer TAE away from MSM, and she steers it back. And I’m not that crazy, I know I succeeded to a large extent in providing a different view from western media. That people are not aware of that effort, and that that costs me a lot of donations, is maybe a different story. But I still know.

    Ilargi, yes, but views on such an effort differ, but bury the hatchett is good.

    #165076
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Everyone swimming in a morass of spin/frame/lies – from White Hats as well as Black Hats, so what’s the difference?

    Judge it like a Hollywood movie. Just evaluate the narrative. Making a narrative IS an action, after all, and it is useful to look at what people do as opposed to what they say.

    The Assassination Attempt narrative is… wholesome? WHOLESOME.

    Around the time I was saying it is time to legitimately, truthfully, accurately shame the democrats for their past decade of behavior, the DNC occurs on the heels of the shooting and what did they DO by saying what they said there?

    They presented a COHERENT and very positive, VERY simple, very wholesome narrative. They’re giving the world something very straightforward and easy to grab hold of, to frame past events, to frame future actions and goals. All of which are wholesome.

    Amusingly, the Dems’ tactics in response feed into that narrative quite nicely.

    I don’t have access to roofs, shell casings, gunshot triangulation etc. But I do have total access to the narrative. So hold it at arm’s length and examine as a thing to objectively observe, as a hollywood film to evaluate.

    #165077
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    @ Oxymoron

    You have a knack for putting words together!
    The gardening references create an interesting juxtaposition of ideas.
    And the song graphically represents the angst so many feel against the WEFfers and their ilk.
    Although, for me, the level of violence in the song is off-putting…it isn’t something that I would listen to with regularity.

    #165078
    Dr D Rich
    Participant
      “The CIA has actually taken time to issue a denial that would be Trump assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks was part of an infamous agency mind control program.”

    Is this true?
    It sounds like a non-denial denial

    They CIA et al scoured western Pennsylvania for brainiacs back in the 60s and early 70s. They carried out the process under the guise of identifying Gifted Kids. Once identified the “enrichment programs” centered learning the methods and means of…………(wait)……………
    (wait for it)………..

    Mass communications.
    Made movies.
    Imagine being 9 to 12 years old and entrusted with movie-making equipment and film editing machines….producing 5 to 30 minute shorts.

    #165079
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Oxymoron’s latest (as usual, well mixed and mastered, sounds great) wood chipper fest

    Leftists (or monopolists and people manipulated BY leftist language, as you will,,,) giving up civility and the base-layer civility underlying that civility thinking they’ve discovered the cheat codes that turn on God Mode. Because we like, as high schoolers, to go to the kindergarden playground and run around beating up 5 year olds. Sneering at the fools bound by civility playing on hardcore mode.

    WEFers going in the wood-chipper is analogous to people like Home Depot lady having her nose shoved directly in her own shit until she determines, perhaps from first principles, why we do things within civilization in a civilized way.

    To the people a billion levels above my pay grade, I’m not against stratified societies nor aristocracies per se. You want to be a Master Of The Universe, okay. But if you have no sense of ownership, of having a place in the world, THEN I have contempt.

    WEFers could have been awesome. Could have been making things awesome. But instead it’s this. They’re useless ignorant boring killjoy fucks. Rather than seeing their own position and then concluding there is ALL THE MORE REASON to try to be wise, they have assumed they are gods and the rest of us are animals based on the HAPPENSTANCE of their birth for the most part. And instead of concluding that their high position merits a pursuit of excellence, they decide their own base depravities rule over them. Goddamn slovenly 4th generation trust fund kids. Slovenly in action, thought, spirit.

    And at their level, they too have forgotten not only civility, but the base-layer beneath civility. Or they decided they found the Cheat Codes to everything – just play everything on god mode pounding 5 year olds right and left while sneering. Har Har stupid people who work for a living.

    very VERY sadly, the Home Depot lady has to have her nose rubbed in it, the WEFers apparently need to be fed into the woodchipper feet first – metaphorically speaking, no doubt – until they can rediscover why humans figured out how to do things in particular ways and why values even exist. There is going to have to be a point at which they discover normal folks AREN’T inferior permanently-manacled fools, a point at which they rediscover the totally obvious that most other people DID understand.

    We weren’t unconscious stupid animals, we were CHOOSING to be decent. And decency is… (really straining my brain here…) ACTUALLY decent!!! Holy fuck. I admit that personally, it took me quite awhile in my own life to go all the way around the world to get back to stand in the original spot, but there it is.

    I suppose the other WEFer idea is that they keep poking until the masses degenerate into incoherent, undirected rage? “I KNOW you are just an animal and you obstinately deceive me, keep pretending to me, in a way very offensive to me, that you are not, but I know the real you and if I poke you long enough, you will reveal the REAL stupid animal you underneath this fake human exterior!” (typical narc stuff- you being a person was an offensive trick being played on me….)

    But what if you get, in response, is an army of Washingtons and Jeffersons, not giving up their brains or principles at all, but, keeping in mind what is best, temporarily set down civility for a specific and limited, just purpose? Just as illustrated in the Declaration of Independence.

    #165080
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    I personally believe Erdogan’s past behavior on these topics establish him to be a bloviating blowhard.
    Wouldn’t it be grand if he proved himself wrong this time and “entered” Israel with Turkish armies?

      Erdogan: “We must be very strong so that Israel can’t do these things to Palestine. Just as we entered Karabakh, just as we entered Libya, we might do the same to them. There is nothing we cannot do. Only we must be strong. “
    #165081
    zerosum
    Participant

    Noblesse oblige definition:
    * the moral obligation of those of high birth, powerful social position, etc., to act with honor, kindliness, generosity, etc.
    * the idea that someone with power and influence should use their social position to help other
    * It’s your duty to act right and help others.
    * Benevolent, honorable behavior considered to be the responsibility of persons of high birth or rank

    #165082
    Dr. D
    Participant

    The Mass Formation Psychosis update fro yesterday. It struck me that he was talking about “Setting parameters” and then “logical rigidity” to it, and the base thing that occurred to me is, “yeah, that’s not Human’.” They are not acting as humans, in a human way, and all other humans also know it. Humans might take that extra deer to have a party, but then they get lazy and lay around the fire. We are less self-limiting than other animals, but still limiting. What he’s describing is when people act like machines. Which us other humans TELL them they’re being worthless jerks, etc and we don’t like them, won’t deal with them anymore.

    That goes many directions, so you’ll have to think about that yourself, but imagine the Indians vs the Settlers here, or even the 1969 Hippies vs the Man. It’s extremely self-evident. And so it doesn’t happen on it’s own, nobody wants that. It has to be MADE, PAID, FORCED, and PROTECTED from on high, and then it self-implodes. So it has a short shelf life and if I’m right that’s how our White Hats beat it…they merely ran out the clock, knowing you can’t keep people in a pointless fury forever, when anything you do in that state makes them react, lash out, and increase. We merely suffered, so they burned out.

    And would that be a Christian thing to do? I mean opposed to lining them up and shooting them?

    I imagine that the Enlightenment thinkers, released from Christianity by Protestant revolution, thought they were really getting back to the foundation of the New Testament. And mostly they were. However, all things form the seeds of their destruction, or death, inside them. In this case a few, but really it’s only pure rationalism that was the problem, which quite likely they themselves would oppose, just as Christians would oppose most of their extremes as well.

    I guess it’s odd even at 300 years distance, what they’re saying is mostly up to date and able to be implemented well as is Christian message, or a few others, Science I suppose.

    Would that they can be corrupt? ANYTHING can be corrupt, for some reason they’re just more upset about their corruption. They’re raping kids every day but only care about it in Churches. I’d say “Power corrupts absolutely.” WHO gave them the power? I don’t trust no pastor or priest, why would I? He’s a man, isn’t he? So why did parents, societies…who knows? It’s a sorry situation they’re still getting off easy, but also the present church isn’t the church it happened in, same as I’m not responsible for the sins of my father, nor is GM needing to pay reparations to troubles in 1910, although the law might say otherwise — every single person has rolled over since then, it’s not the same at all. We convict and punish people for THEIR crimes, not those of others.

    Thankfully or not, a mot of these guys are still alive and we can do that. But so is George Bush and Dick Cheney and Tony Blair, who have each harmed about ten-thousand more children. Each case is a tragedy, and each case the failure to immediately prosecute strongly encourages more. So let’s get cracking! There’s whole cabinets to round up!

    #165085
    kultsommer
    Participant

    Maduro Declared Venezuelan President For 3rd Term, But Opposition Claims Victory In ‘Stolen’ Election

    Almost decade long, borderline sick “excitement” about other country’s internal affair? As if your job, mortgage, car payment or even life of your dear ones depends if Venezuela goes “one way or another” ideologically?
    If you scroll down on the zerosum’s linked ZH text there is, well, post on “X” by Aaron Mate that gives different perspective on the country. Trump himself stated that US should cut the crap, move in and take the oil.
    Should we not have economic sanctions on the country, include Cuba too, that we are ” now ideologically aligned” with? I guess I am late into the game of “current Marxism”.

    #165086
    zerosum
    Participant

    Chose a descriptive word …
    Depopulation, Bacterial warfare, Murder, Genocide, epidemic

    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/29/polio-epidemic-declared-in-gaza-in-latest-sign-of-worsening-health-crisis

    29 Jul 2024
    Gaza’s health ministry has declared a polio epidemic across the Palestinian enclave, blaming Israel’s devastating military offensive for the spread of the deadly virus.

    Poliomyelitis, which is spread mainly through the fecal-oral route, is a highly infectious virus that can invade the nervous system and cause paralysis. Cases of polio have declined by 99 percent worldwide since 1988, thanks to mass vaccination campaigns, and efforts continue to eradicate it everywhere.

    Earlier this month, Gaza’s health ministry said it had detected “component poliovirus type 2” in coordination with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). The virus was found in sewage “that collects and flows between the tents of the displaced,” said the ministry.

    Already scarce supplies of drinking water in the densely-populated Gaza Strip are at risk of being contaminated by the virus.

    On Friday, the World Health Organization (WHO) said it was sending more than one million polio vaccines to Gaza to be administered over the coming weeks to prevent children from being infected after the virus was detected in sewage samples.

    Israel’s military, which said it has evidence of the “component polio virus type 2”, said it would start offering the polio vaccine to soldiers in Gaza.

    Israel’s war in Gaza has damaged and destroyed sewage and water systems, and sewage has spilled into the streets near some camps for the displaced Palestinians.

    Last week, the UN reported that besides the detection of the polio virus, there has been a widespread increase in cases of Hepatitis A, dysentery and gastroenteritis as sanitary conditions deteriorate in Gaza.

    “This is only the start of the wave of diseases the Gaza Strip is going to face,” said Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary, reporting from Deir-al Balah in central Gaza.

    “Palestinians have been living in makeshift tents without any bathrooms, without any hygiene, without access to water, sanitation. Sewage is everywhere,” she said.

    “Normally if you have a case of polio, you’re going to isolate them, you’re going to make sure that they use a bathroom that nobody else uses, make sure that they’re not in close proximity to other people, [but] that’s impossible,” she said.

    “You have everybody clustering in refugee camps at the moment without vaccines for at least the past nine months, including children who would otherwise have been vaccinated for polio and adults who, in the setting of an outbreak, should receive a booster, including healthcare workers.”

    #165087
    zerosum
    Participant

    DRUMROOOL. CONNECT THE DOTS

    https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Russia-Considers-Building-Oil-Refinery-in-Cuba.html
    Russia Considers Building Oil Refinery in Cuba
    By Charles Kennedy – Jul 22, 2024, 9:20 AM CDT

    Cuba’s key crude oil supplier is nearby Venezuela. However, shipments have dropped in recent years, also due to Venezuela’s crumbling oil industry and the U.S. sanctions against Cuba’s staunch ally, Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro.

    The crumbling Venezuelan oil industry means that less fuel oil from the country sitting on the world’s largest oil reserves is reaching Cuban shores to power the old power plants on the island.

    Maduro Declared Venezuelan President For 3rd Term, But Opposition Claims Victory In ‘Stolen’ Election.

    #165088
    zerosum
    Participant

    Hint, hint, hint
    https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/blinken-says-us-has-serious-concerns-about-announced-result-of-venezuelan-election/ar-BB1qNxfI?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=30aa8802f68841c9b3a46333fb5762af&ei=29

    U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the United States has ‘serious concerns’ about the announced result of Venezuela’s hotly contested presidential election that authorities say was won by incumbent Nicolas Maduro.

    Speaking in Tokyo on Monday shortly after the announcement was made, Blinken said the U.S. was concerned that the result reflected neither the will nor the votes of the Venezuelan people. He called for election officials to publish the full results transparently and immediately and said the U.S. and the international community would respond accordingly.

    #165089
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    the phenomenon of mass formation


    Jan van Bijlert painted his Feast of the Olympian Gods around 1635, about a hundred and fifty years after Da Vinci painted The Last Supper. And Van Bijlert’s painting is clearly a pagan variant of Da Vinci’s painting. In other words: whether the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games directly mocked Da Vinci’s Last Supper or did so through a parodic imitation of Van Bijlert’s painting, it doesn’t matter, what happened at the opening ceremony was indeed mocking The Last Supper, and thus ethical and religious principles, particularly Christianity. Period.

    The most remarkable thing, above all, is that the fact-checkers and woke enthusiasts indeed did not see that it was about the Last Supper. They even mocked those who did see it, claiming they were lost in illusions and delusions. The more someone is gripped by totalitarian thinking, the more they accuse those who think differently of madness. In itself, it remains one of the most remarkable effects of the phenomenon of mass formation: the enormous narrowing of perspective accompanied by a radical blindness to anything that does not align with one’s own fanatical beliefs.

    It is not that the representatives of the dominant narrative are the only ones who fall prey to this. Fanatical conspiracy thinking essentially suffers from a similar problem. Those who break free from the grip of the dominant narrative, in a sense, wander unprotected in the world of the Real and often seek refuge in another illusion, or at the very least, another narrative that irresponsibly reduces reality to a simplistic story.

    https://words.mattiasdesmet.org/p/yes-the-olympic-ceremony-was-about

    #165090
    zerosum
    Participant

    When we do it, we don’t call it political interference

    https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/canada-urges-venezuela-to-detail-election-results-freeland-cites-serious-concerns/ar-BB1qQ0NQ?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=30aa8802f68841c9b3a46333fb5762af&ei=81

    Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says Canada has “serious concerns” about Sunday’s election results in Venezuela.

    Opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez and incumbent Nicolas Maduro have both claimed victory.

    Venezuela was the region’s most developed economy when Maduro took power in 2013, but he has since overseen an exodus of 7.7 million people fleeing hyperinflation and social unrest.
    Why? Who? Political interference?

    Freeland says Canada is “working closely with our partners” to respond to the election, and said Venezuelans were courageous for standing up to an authoritarian regime.

    Global Affairs Canada is calling on Venezuelan authorities to “respect the will of the people” and to publish detailed results for all polling stations.
    T

    #165094
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Imagine if the Olympic opening ceremony mocked the Prophet Muhammad’s Hijrah

    The Muslims would have burnt Paris TO THE GROUND

    Present day Christians are girlie men who wouldn’t know which end of a hammer to pick up.

    Notre Dame would be a pile of knee deep smoldering ash and the French ‘elite and Macron the Petite Maggot would say, “Tant pis”

    .

    #165095
    Oroboros
    Participant

    These go on Macron’s crown with the other bananas

    .

    #165096
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    War Between the Empire and the Resistance Axis?


    Table of Contents

    Introduction

    Summer 2024, Setting the Stage for War

    July 19, 2024, Blinken Fearmongering – Weapons of Mass Destruction

    July 24, 2024, Netanyahu’s speech – Prepping the U.S. Political Establishment

    July 27, 2024, The false flag – Majdal Shams Attack

    The Financial Context

    Conclusions

    Endnotes

    https://fadilama.substack.com/p/war-between-the-empire-and-the-resistance

    #165097
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Russia has totally given up on Euroturdistan and the Empire of Liea.

    It has pivoted East to Eurasia and that is where it’s Future & Fortune lie

    It no longer gives a rat’s asshole what “the West” thinks about anything under the Sun.

    The West is a corpse, especially Ukroturdistan, and it’s beginning to stink….

    Look at a hemisphere map of Eurasia,

    Euroturdistan is the swollen Hemorrhoid on Eurasia’s ass.

    Nothing more to do except surgery

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