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Rebel Archbishop Slams Olympics’ “Vile Attacks On God” (ZH)
Most Americans Want Biden To Resign Now – Poll (RT)
Biden Proposes Plan to Reform Supreme Court (ET)
Where Matters Stand (Paul Craig Roberts)
Trump Agrees To FBI Interview For Assassination Attempt Probe (RT)
You’ll Never Work in This Town Again! (Kunstler)
Why Harris Became The Only Possible Opponent For Trump (Lolaev)
Maduro Wins Third Term (RT)
EU Diplomats Ordered To Slash Spending – FT (RT)
Poland Suggests Hungary Leave NATO and EU (RT)
EU Readies ‘Carrot-and-Stick” Trade Strategy to Deal With Trump (Sp.)
2 Days After Trump Crypto-Crowning, Biden Admin Sells Out (ZH)
A Tale of Two Cats (Paul Craig Roberts)

 

 

 

 

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First covered him about a month ago. Can’t find anything that would hurt his credibility.

Former Vatican ambassador to the USA and Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò is an Italian Bishop of the Catholic Church. He is facing charges in an extrajudicial criminal trial by the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith. The accusations include committing schism, denying the legitimacy of Pope Francis, and rejecting the Second Vatican Council.

Viganò recently labeled Pope Francis a servant of WEF, before being excommunicated 3 weeks ago by the same pope. He also called Macron an ’emissary of the World Economic Forum,’ who ‘passes off a transvestite as his own wife with impunity, just as Barack Obama is accompanied by a muscular man in a wig.’

He sounds like an interesting conversation partner, but how much longer does this 83-year old have to live?

Rebel Archbishop Slams Olympics’ “Vile Attacks On God” (ZH)

[..] Needless to say, Christians are pissed [..]…including Italian Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò – the former papal nuncio to the United States who questioned the legitimacy of Pope Francis and the authority of the Second Vatican Council, and was excommunicated three weeks ago for “his refusal to recognize and submit to the Supreme Pontiff.” In a scathing rebuke of the Olympics, Viganò called the opening ceremony “the latest in a long series of vile attacks on God, the Catholic Religion and natural Morality by the antichristic elite holds that hostage Western countries.” “We a dystopian dance macabre in Holograms of the horsemen of the Apocalypse alternated with a plump blue Dionysius, served under a bell of various courses; the parody of the LGBTQ+ Last Supper…” the letter continues.

Viganò also pointed to “disconcerting scenes at the 2012 London Olympics, the 2016 of inauguration of the Gotthard Tunnel, and the 2022 Commonwealth Games, featuring infernal figures, goats, and terrifying animals.” The elite who organizes these ceremonies demand not only the right to blasphemy and the obscene display of the foulest vices, but even their mute acceptance by Catholics and decent people, who are forced to suffer the outrage the most sacred symbols of their Faith and the very foundations of the Natural Law desecrated. -Carlo Maria Viganò.

According to Viganò, “Satan makes nothing: only he ruins everything. He does not invent: he tampers. And his followers are no different: they humiliate woman’s femininity in order to erase the motherhood that recalls the Virgin Mother; they castrate man’s manhood in order to tear from the image of God’s fatherhood; they corrupt the little ones in order to kill in them and make them victims of the most abject wokeism.” Viganò says it’s “no coincidence” that the ceremonies were presided over by French President Emanuel Macron, an ’emissary of the World Economic Forum,’ who ‘passes off a transvestite as his own wife with impunity, just as Barack Obama is accompanied by a muscular man in a wig.’

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That would mean President Kamala. They’re not ready for that. She will never be.

Most Americans Want Biden To Resign Now – Poll (RT)

Most American voters agree that US President Joe Biden should resign from office now, while a vast majority approve of his decision not to seek reelection, a Rasmussen Reports poll has suggested. The survey results released on Friday showed that 52% of respondents agree that Biden should resign before his term expires. The same poll found that 76% supported his decision to drop out of the race. Only 18% of respondents disapproved of Biden ending his campaign. The poll was conducted from July 22 to 24 and involved 1,074 registered voters. Immediately after Biden announced that he was quitting the race, Republican lawmakers in Congress started to openly call for him to leave the White House before his term expires.

House Speaker Mike Johnson claimed earlier this month that if Biden is not fit to run for president, “he is not fit to serve as president” adding that “he must resign the office immediately.” “Doesn’t have the mental acuity or cognitive ability to run a political campaign but can serve for six more months as president? He should resign,” Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace wrote. Senator Rick Scott, former governor of Florida, echoed these remarks. “Let me be clear, if Joe Biden can’t run for re-election, he is not capable of serving as president for the next six months and needs to resign today,” Scott said. “While we welcome the news that one of America’s most destructive presidents will be denied a second term, it changes very little as to the stakes of this election.”

Biden announced that he was ending his reelection campaign on July 21. The announcement came after weeks of growing concerns among Democrats and party donors over his declining health and ability to defeat Donald Trump in November, especially after his disastrous performance in the debate against his Republican rival. While initially defiant, Biden argued that the move was necessary, given the high stakes of the election. In the wake of his withdrawal, Biden endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as his successor. Harris has so far secured the support of the Clintons and the Obamas; however, in the polls she lags behind the former US president, according to the latest surveys.

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On his way out, the sitting duck president is made to “reform” the highest court in the land. All the blame will be his, but he’ll already be gone..

Biden Proposes Plan to Reform Supreme Court (ET)

President Joe Biden called for Congress to back his proposals for two significant changes to the U.S. Supreme Court and a change to the U.S. Constitution. In an op-ed published the morning of July 29, the president outlined his reasoning for pursuing changes that have long been sought by progressive camps. “This nation was founded on a simple yet profound principle: No one is above the law. Not the president of the United States. Not a justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. No one,” the president wrote in a Washington Post op-ed. According to a White House official, President Biden will call for Congress to back term limits for Supreme Court justices and a code of ethics enforceable by the legislative branch. He also will propose an amendment to limit the extent of presidential immunity afforded by the Constitution, proposing that former presidents be granted no immunity for crimes committed while in office.

Citing his 36 years as a U.S. senator and former chairman and ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, President Biden said that while he has “great respect for our institutions and separation of powers,” what is happening now in the United States is “not normal, and it undermines the public’s confidence in the court’s decisions, including those impacting personal freedoms.” “We now stand in a breach,” the president wrote. In recent years, the Supreme Court released some decisions that sparked criticism from Democrats and progressives, including its overturning of Roe v. Wade and, more recently, its 6–3 ruling that presidents and former presidents are, in principle, immune from prosecution for official acts. Today, the president made clear his resolve to dedicate time during his last five months in office to back changes that he says can restore trust and accountability in both the Supreme Court and the presidency, a White House official told The Epoch Times.

The announcement was made a week after President Biden withdrew from the 2024 presidential race and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris. In 2020, as a presidential candidate, he promised to create a commission to study potential changes to the Supreme Court as progressives called for the expansion of the Supreme Court. The commission published a 294-page report to the president in December 2021. President Biden has not acted on that report until now. The president is scheduled to speak on Monday about his plan, from the LBJ Presidential Library, while commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act. The move is the first significant effort by a president since Franklin D. Roosevelt’s progressive court-packing plan to advocate changes to the workings of the Supreme Court. President Roosevelt’s push for a more favorable court ultimately failed in the face of significant opposition.

President Biden’s proposal follows years of progressive advocacy to push their preferred reforms on the judicial branch, which has met resistance from those who hold originalist views widely preferred within the GOP. The White House says that term limits for Supreme Court justices would help ensure that the timing of court nominations is more predictable and less arbitrary, reducing the chance that any single presidency is advantaged by the retirement times of justices. Additionally, a binding code of conduct for justices, including the disclosure of gifts, refraining from public political activity, and recusal from cases with conflicts of interest, would improve public trust in the institution, the White House said.

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“By implanting a close election in the voting public’s mind, the Democrats can steal the election.”

Where Matters Stand (Paul Craig Roberts)

The assassination issue has been reduced to operational failure and insufficient budgetary resources for the Secret Service, and the assassination has been moved aside by Kamala’s emergence as the Democrat candidate for President. The presstitutes are again speaking with one voice preparing the narrative of a close election that makes it possible to use the election theft mechanisms that have been legalized by the Democrats in the swing states. Biden had to go because he was too discredited as a viable candidate for the Democrats to be able to steal the election in his behalf. Kamala, previously soundly rejected by Democrats as a presidential candidate is now being hyped as the candidate able to defeat Trump. Rigged polls are now showing a neck and neck contest, with Trump sometimes ahead by one point and Kamala ahead by 3 points. The purpose of these rigged polls and the media emphasis on what a viable and challenging opponent Kamala presents is to prepare the public’s acceptance of another stolen election.

In 2020 Trump got more votes than he got in 2016. Yet somehow he lost to Biden whose few campaign rallies attracted minimal attendance, but despite the lack of interest Biden got more votes than Hillary in 2016 and, if memory serves, the largest number of votes in US electoral history. Clearly no such thing happened. Trump supporters take for granted that Trump is already elected. This confidence is not justified. They, and Trump himself, need to pay attention to how the presstitutes and the elite are creating a winning persona for Kamala. By implanting a close election in the voting public’s mind, the Democrats can steal the election. I think that is what will happen, thus ridding the ruling establishment of Trump’s threat to take away their power. Lies and election theft have always been part of American politics. Power, not ideas, is what is important to the contestants and their backers. However, in 2016 a major change occurred. In his campaign Trump said he intended to normalize relations with Russia.

This was a direct threat to the power and budget of the military/security complex which needs Russia as an enemy to justify its power and budget. Trump also said in his inauguration speech that he was taking power away from the ruling establishment and giving it back to the people. No president had ever spoken in this way. Trump revealed himself as an existential threat to the ruling elite. The power elite assembled at his speech smiled and laughed at the unaware clown and soon began their political assassination of Trump with Russia-gate, two impeachments in the House of Representatives, pornstar-gate, documents-gate, and an “insurrection” that has put 1,000 of Trump’s supporters in prison as “insurgents” as a warning to others. Trump’s challenge to the ruling elite and the massive support he received from the traditional American population scared the ruling elite whose control over America had been gradually tightened. The ruling elite decided on a coup.

The Republican Party, whose voters stood with Trump, had to go. What we have witnessed in the Biden regime is the elite’s decision to install a one-party state completely under their control. Rino Republican response is to continue in existence by out-competing Democrats in serving the interests of the ruling elite. Unsure of their ability to whore as well as Democrats is why the Republican Senate leader hates Trump. Trump has brought matters to a fight or surrender decision that Republicans prefer to avoid. Concerning the assassination, we have no idea what effect it will have on Trump. Will he pull in his horns in order to continue his life? What we do know is that like the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, 9/11 and other such CIA/FBI/Joint Chiefs events, there will be no real investigation. No important evidence will even be mentioned–such as the acoustic evidence of the shots and their location, such as the upward trajectory of the bullet that struck the person in the corner at the top of the stand above Trump.

How did Crooks’ shot allegedly fired at Trump, which would have had a downward trajectory strike a person above Trump? FBI director Wray prepares the cover by saying that Trump was not struck by a bullet but by shrapnel. In other words a bullet disintegrated and flew upward. Examination of the person’s wound would reveal whether it was a bullet or shrapnel. We will be told whatever fits the official narratives if we are told anything at all. Having watched many coverups in my lifetime, I tried to prevent this one by early reporting the ignored real evidence before Republicans, delighted in giving Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheaters a verbal beating, a mistake as it outraged women, moved the issue off target. Once a coverup is set in stone with an official narrative, it is immune to evidence, like the assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy and 9/11. Evidence does not count once an official narrative has been established.

[..] The House of Representatives has voted unanimously to set up an investigative task force over the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. The fact that it is unanimous means that it will touch no real issue. Indeed, the investigation is limited to determining the nature of the failures of the Secret Service that permitted the assassination attempt by Thomas Matthew Crooks. The most likely result will be a larger budget for the Secret Service and, perhaps, a ban on such outdoor events. In other words the narrative is that the Secret Service failed to stop Crooks. There is to be no examination if there were other shooters, if Crooks was merely a patsy, no examination of acoustic evidence, no explanation for an upward bullet trajectory. Nothing but a verification of the official narrative.

Who will the House rely on for the investigation? The House will rely on the suspects themselves–the Secret Service, the FBI, Homeland Security. FBI Director Wray, a Trump appointee, will respond to the House in keeping with the official narrative. The Republicans will be made impotent by being submerged in the official explanation. At this point we do not know if Crooks fired a single shot. Despite Crooks being overlooked by Secret Service from two directions there are no videos of Crooks firing. Indeed, he was killed by a shot a quarter of a minute after all firing had stoped by a bullet that caused instant death. If he was in position firing his rifle, why is his dead body 7 feet away from the rifle?

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To find out what he knows about their role?!

Trump Agrees To FBI Interview For Assassination Attempt Probe (RT)

Former US President and Republican Party 2024 presidential nominee Donald Trump said he would sit for an interview with the FBI, as part of an investigation into this month’s attempt on his life, the agency announced on Monday. Trump narrowly avoided death at a rally in Pennsylvania earlier this month, when he was shot in the ear. One person in the audience was killed, and two more were wounded. The FBI wants to “get his perspective on what he observed, just like any other witness to the crime,” Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Pittsburgh Field Office Kevin Rojek told reporters in a conference call. He explained that this kind of interview is standard practice for a victim of a crime. More than two weeks following the attempt on Trump, the FBI investigation has yet to establish the shooter’s motive.

The gunman, later identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, fired several shots at the Republican presidential nominee as he was mid-speech at an open-air campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13, grazing Trump’s ear. “While the FBI investigation may not yet have determined a motive, we believe the subject made significant efforts to conceal his activities,” Rojek said. The agency believes his actions illustrate “careful planning ahead of the campaign rally,” the FBI official added. He noted Crooks had a small social circle, which “appears to be limited to his immediate family,” and had “few friends and acquaintances throughout his life.”

The would-be assassin had used aliases to make purchases related to firearms and explosives, Rojek explained. Earlier this year, Crooks bought “six chemical precursor-related purchases online of materials used to create the explosive devices recovered in the subject’s vehicle and home,” he said. The failed assassination has spurred widespread criticism and questions about what security measures were put in place before the event. Last week, FBI Director Christopher Wray said the agency will leave “no stone unturned” as it looks into what happened. A day earlier, Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned admitting her agency had failed to properly guard the Republican frontrunner.

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“..what kind of public spectacle the Left could come up with to beat the Olympic opener. Maybe human sacrifice, say Hillary Clinton eating a parboiled toddler in front of three thousand shrieking cat-ladies at the Democratic National Convention. Has it come to that?”

You’ll Never Work in This Town Again! (Kunstler)

Did we just witness the suicide of Wokery? I think you saw what’s called, in the argot of progressive thinking, the “queering” of the Olympics. That was some spectacle. First, Death on a Pale Horse came galloping down the Seine River so that no one would miss the point of the symbolism to follow: the beheaded Marie Antoinette portrayed singing in the window of a flaming palais (revolution anyone?). . . . Then, a tableau vivant of DaVinci’s The Last Supper “queered” to-the-max with a tattooed land-whale in the Jesus seat offering a Satan hand-signal among the swaying drag queens, plus one child ostentatiously in the mix (say, whu?). . . followed by a blue Dionysius crooning about nudity (“Nu”) on a giant fruit platter, with his ball-sack clearly on display among the cherries and nectarines. . . . It rained. . .tant pis. . . . The power went out and Paris ceased to be the City of Light. Finis. . . .

Not all of Western Civ was amused by these. . . antics. Many complained that the show portrayed Christianity in a less than favorable light. Ya think? The next day, the Paris-24 organizing committee offered the world an apology of sorts. Spokesperson Anne Descamps explained that the idea was “to celebrate community tolerance.” Or, shall we say, to test it? Apparently, it flunked the test. Director of the extravaganza, Thomas Jolly, said (translation), “Our intention was never to be impertinent.” Of course, he lies, and of course it is the foundational premise of those in the Satanic fold to lie about everything. (Just as America’s Democratic Party lies about everything.) Within hours, sponsors revolted and pulled their support for the games altogether. Lord knows what the BRICs nations make of all this. Probably something like pity.

Two-hundred-thirty years ago in Paris the Jacobin faction behind the Reign of Terror was put out of business, suddenly, all in one night, really, after turning French daily life upside-down and inside-out for one year, to the huge annoyance of the French public. On July 27 (9 Thermidor), 1794, chief Jacobin activist Maximillian Robespierre made a speech before the Convention (national assembly) denouncing those who were denouncing him (theories of conspiracy!), and the audience commenced to pelt him with fruit, vegetables, and opprobrious invective. Cries rang out for his arrest. Before long: pandemonium in the chamber! The Jacobins fled and took refuge in the city hall (Hôtel de Ville), but it was too late. The whole city had turned on them. Robespierre got shot in the jaw, possibly by himself. The Jacobin gang were declared “outlaws.” The following evening, The Jacobin leaders were all executed by guillotine in the Place de la Concorde.

Thus began the Thermidorian Reaction — called that, because the Jacobins had added an extra mid-summer month, Thermidor, to their cuckoo calendar. Now, one might ask, was July 27, 2024, the start of the revolt against progressive Woke-ism? It’s hard to imagine what kind of public spectacle the Left could come up with to beat the Olympic opener. Maybe human sacrifice, say Hillary Clinton eating a parboiled toddler in front of three thousand shrieking cat-ladies at the Democratic National Convention. Has it come to that?

It’s hard to escape the feeling now that our own reign-of-terror, the Woke-Marxist psychopathocracy, has played out its string. A month of garish events and revelations has left the USA a hot mess: the momentous Supreme Court decisions, the debate horror show, the attempted assassination of Mr. Trump and the many loose ends still hanging from it, the (probably) coerced election withdrawal of “Joe Biden” and the shocking discovery (to many) that he’s only partly still there, and the elite selection process that “nominated” Kamala Harris — these strange doings have rocked the American Zeitgeist. The artificially-induced rapture that attended the apotheosis of Veep is sputtering out as the internet explodes with memes putting her clueless vacuity on laughable display.

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“..the Republican nominee was the number one newsmaker, enjoying an absurd amount of publicity unlike Harris, who stayed in Biden’s shadow for almost four years. Elections in the United States are more personalized, which means they require more time and money for media promotion of the candidate. A comparison of US election campaigns with European countries reveals this key difference.”

Why Harris Became The Only Possible Opponent For Trump (Lolaev)

After the apparent loss of the first presidential debate, the obvious question concerning presidential elections was “How long until Biden drops off from the election?” The final days of Biden’s presidential campaign after the debate were reminiscent of the sinking of the Titanic: the inexorability of the crash was matched only by its swiftness. Everyone whose support seemed unshakable back in the fall, like Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives and Senate, prominent left-leaning journalists and major donors to the Democratic Party, turned away from Biden. Finally, in a very rare but not unexpected decision, Joe Biden announced his withdrawal from the election, saying that it was time to “pass the torch to a new generation.” In social media posts, he explained his decision as “best for the party, the presidency and American democracy.”

Biden became one of the few sitting American presidents who decided not to run for a second term. This moment is unique in US political history, since Biden’s decision was made shortly before the next presidential election, after he had already effectively received the Democratic nomination. The primaries ran from January to June but, by March 2024, Biden had secured enough votes to become the presumptive Democratic nominee. There have already been similar precedents in US history: in the 20th century, Lyndon B Johnson and Harry S Truman also did not run for a second term. However, they took office after the death of the sitting presidents and eventually served more than just one presidential term. Truman served all but 82 days of almost two terms. The last time Lyndon B Johnson was the one to announce his decision not to run for reelection in 1968. Like Biden, Johnson had health problems: he died two days after the end of his supposed second full term as president.

In addition, he also lost the support of important factions within his own party, in his case due to his failure to overcome the foreign-policy stalemate of the Vietnam War. Fearing a split in the Democratic Party and failure in the primaries, he announced at the end of a lengthy televised address on the War in Vietnam that he would not seek or accept his party’s nomination for a second term. Biden’s support for Vice President Kamala Harris for the Democratic nomination was obvious and perhaps the only possible option in the absence of time for full-fledged primaries. Delegates to the party’s convention in Chicago in mid-August are likely to support it. Any internal conflicts within the Democrats will benefit Trump, something Biden and Harris will emphasize at every opportunity leading up to the convention in order to secure the nomination of the sitting Vice President.

Trump has long argued that Biden is not capable of governing the country, but after the president announced his withdrawal from the 2024 race, he definitely did not actually become the beneficiary of this decision. For the Republican nominee, maintaining the status quo would have been much more profitable, since it almost guaranteed him another four years in the Oval Office. Still, Trump showed his strength and political might, as in just a few days he not only survived an assassination attempt but also, in a powerful move, ousted his opponent from office after a single debate. The lack of alternatives to Harris’ candidacy for Democrats, however, does not invalidate a number of problematic issues related to her nomination. She faces an uphill battle: She has only about 100 days to convince American voters to support her in the presidential election. That short time frame stands in stark contrast to former President Donald Trump’s campaign, which began in November 2022.

His campaign was more than full of bright events, many of which, however, had negative consequences. But this does not change the fact that the Republican nominee was the number one newsmaker, enjoying an absurd amount of publicity unlike Harris, who stayed in Biden’s shadow for almost four years. Elections in the United States are more personalized, which means they require more time and money for media promotion of the candidate. A comparison of US election campaigns with European countries reveals this key difference. Parliamentary systems tend to be centralized, with candidates going to elections with well-known party agendas, which reduces differences between candidates within the same party. This means that if, for any reason, a candidate is replaced, voter support is less dependent on candidate recognition and policy track record, unlike in the US.

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Give the pushback against him, imagine how popular he must be to win regardless.

Note: Venezuela has the biggest oil reserves of any country.

Maduro Wins Third Term (RT)

Nicolas Maduro has won Venezuela’s presidential election, according to official results. The leaders of Russia and China have congratulated the head of state on securing a third term. The head of the National Electoral Council (CNE), Elvis Amoroso, announced shortly after midnight on Sunday that with 80% of ballots counted, Maduro had secured more than 51% of the vote, compared to 44% for his main rival, Edmundo Gonzales. Addressing supporters in Caracas, Maduro has described his victory as “a triumph of peace and stability.” The Venezuelan opposition has fiercely disputed the result, claiming election rules were violated, and Gonzales has also claimed victory. Opposition leader Marina Corina Machado, who was barred by a court from running for office over corruption-related charges, has rejected Maduro’s victory, claiming: “We won and the whole world knows it.”

Following the vote, Venezuela’s electoral authority, which the opposition views as favoring the ruling party, did not immediately release the tallies from each of the 30,000 polling stations nationwide, according to media reports. Maduro, 61, thanked his supporters and mocked the opposition, which he said “cries fraud” at every election. The results have drawn mixed reactions from international leaders. Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated his Venezuelan counterpart on Monday, pointing to the strategic importance of the Moscow-Caracas partnership. He expressed confidence that Maduro will continue the “progressive development” of bilateral relations “in all areas” and said he is always welcome in Russia. Beijing has also congratulated Maduro, and lauded Venezuela for “smoothly holding its presidential election,” China’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Lin Jian said on Monday.

Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was among those voicing skepticism, saying there were “serious concerns” that the result “does not reflect the will or the votes of the Venezuelan people.” Chilean President Gabriel Boric called the result “hard to believe” and demanded “total transparency.” Maduro has received congratulations from his regional allies, including the leaders of Cuba, Honduras and Bolivia. “Nicolas Maduro, my brother, your victory, which is that of the Bolivarian and Chavista people, has cleanly and unequivocally defeated the pro-imperialist opposition,” said Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel. “The dignity and bravery of the Venezuelan people had triumphed over pressure and manipulation,” he added. Maduro will be serving a third consecutive six-year term, having first taken office in 2013 following the death of President Hugo Chavez.

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Let Elon Musk clean up that organization. He’s good at it.

EU Diplomats Ordered To Slash Spending – FT (RT)

EU diplomats have been ordered to shelve planned travel and cancel functions after “significantly” exceeding their budget this year, the Financial Times has reported, citing unnamed officials. The bloc’s External Action Service (EEAS), which acts as the EU foreign ministry, has been told to cut €43 million ($46.5 million), or almost 5% of its planned budget, after breaching agreed spending limits, the newspaper wrote, citing sources briefed on the issue. The diplomatic service must adjust to “severe austerity measures” and will have to sell property to balance the books, the sources said. The financial squeeze will worsen next year and will make it “impossible” for the EU to maintain its existing diplomatic footprint in areas such as Africa and Latin America, they added. The EEAS has a network of more than 140 overseas delegations and offices promoting EU interests around the world.

Running repairs and maintenance in dozens of the bloc’s delegations is impossible, which raises serious security concerns, the report claimed. The EEAS is mainly funded from the EU budget, which in turn is financed by individual EU countries, in proportion to their gross national income. Customs duties on imports from outside the bloc also contribute to its financing. An EEAS spokesperson told the FT it had cut “all the expenditure we possibly could” and had halved the budgets of overseas offices “despite the crippling effects on our global outreach.” Another official said the bloc’s diplomatic service is in “dire straits” financially, adding that “the world needs more diplomacy, not less.” Meanwhile, the EU and its member states provided or committed over €143 billion ($154.6 billion) to Ukraine between February 2022 and March 2024, according to the European Council data.

The bloc also banned imports of a wide range of goods from Russia, including oil and gas, as part of an unprecedented sanctions campaign over Moscow’s military operation against Ukraine. “The war in Europe [and] increasing instability in our neighborhood and globally” are the main challenges for European foreign policy, the bloc’s next foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, said last month. The former Estonian prime minister, known for her hardline anti-Russian stance, is set to succeed Josep Borrell as the head of the EEAS in the autumn.

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No, you’re stuck with your neighbors.

Poland Suggests Hungary Leave NATO and EU (RT)

Hungary can leave the European Union and NATO if it does not like the blocs’ policies, Poland’s Deputy Foreign Minister Wladyslaw Teofil Bartoszewski suggested on Sunday. The comments came in response to Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s sharp criticism of Warsaw’s policies the day before. During a visit to Romania, Orban had accused Poland of pursuing “the most sanctimonious and two-faced policy in the whole of Europe,” saying it is “obliviously doing business with the Russians,” while “morally lecturing” Budapest for doing the same. ”We do not do business with Russia, unlike Prime Minister Orban, who is on the margins of international society – both in the European Union and NATO,” Bartoszewski retorted, as quoted by PAP news agency. “I don’t really understand why Hungary wants to remain a member of organizations that it doesn’t like so much,” Bartoszewski continued.

”If you don’t want to be a member of a club, you can always leave,” added the official, suggesting that Orban create a union with Russia instead. Hungary’s prime minister was condemned by a number of EU politicians earlier this month for going against the bloc’s policies and embarking on a “peace mission” to try and find a diplomatic solution to the Ukraine conflict, during which he visited Kiev, Moscow and China. Budapest has been granted exemptions from the EU sanctions and continues to buy oil and gas from Russia. During his speech in Romania, Orban did not specify what he was referring to when saying that Poland was still doing business with Moscow. The Russian financial daily Vedomosti reported last week that Poland had emerged as a top buyer of the Russian fertilizer urea. The publication cited Eurostat data as showing that Warsaw had increased imports by 25% between January and May this year, compared to the same period in 2023, amid a bloc-wide increase of Russian fertilizer imports. EU sanctions against Russia exclude food supplies and fertilizers.

The Polish financial daily Rzeczpospolita reported in February that compared to 2019–2021, the period before the introduction of a broad range of sanctions against Russia, Poland’s trade turnover with some Eurasian countries, such as Kyrgyzstan and Armenia, had increased by several hundred percent. The publication went on to suggest that the trade between Poland and Russia was continuing though intermediaries in other countries, thus bypassing the sanctions. Poland has been among the most vocal supporters of Ukraine in its conflict with Russia. It has served as NATO’s primary conduit for weapons, ammunition, and equipment deliveries to Kiev, while maintaining it is not actually a party to the hostilities.

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The EU has no face or voice. Ursula is a US ambassador.

EU Readies ‘Carrot-and-Stick” Trade Strategy to Deal With Trump (Sp.)

EU Trade Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis earlier expressed hope that Brussels and Washington would avoid a repeat of past “confrontation” related to the two’s tariff war initiated by then-President Donald Trump in 2018. The European Union is hammering out a two-step trade plan to tackle Donald Trump if he wins a second term as US president, the Financial Times (FT) has reported. “We have to show we are a partner for the US, not a problem. We will look for deals, but we are ready to defend ourselves if it comes to it. We won’t be guided by fear,” an unnamed EU source told the newspaper. If Trump prevails in the November election, EU negotiators are reportedly planning to immediately approach his team, to discuss US products that the EU could buy in larger quantities.

A possible collapse of the talks and Trump’s subsequent imposition of higher tariffs, could prompt the European Commission’s trade department to draw up lists of US imports for retaliatory duties of 50% or more,” according to the source. The FT noted in this regard that EU officials “see the carrot-and-stick approach as the best response” to Trump’s previous pledge to impose a tariff of at least 10% on all $3 trillion worth of US imports in the event of his victory on November 5. EU Trade Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis has meanwhile stressed the importance of the bloc and the US working together on trade, but added that Brussels “defended our interests with tariffs, and we stand ready to defend our interests again if necessary.” Then-US President Trump initiated his country’s tariff war with the EU in March 2018, when he announced a 25% duty on imported steel and 10% tariff on aluminum, which prodded the bloc to retaliate with tit-for-tat levies worth about $3 billion.

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“..Orange Man bad – orange man likes bitcoin – bitcoin bad!”

2 Days After Trump Crypto-Crowning, Biden Admin Sells Out (ZH)

It appears the Biden administration does not want former President Trump’s plan to enable a strategic bitcoin reserve to come to fruition (or at the very least, shrink the size of the reserve dramatically). Less than 48 hours after Trump spoke at a major Bitcoin conference in Nashville about his ambitious goals for bitcoin in America, the Biden administration has decided that this is an opportune moment to transfer around $2 billion worth of its bitcoin stockpile (e.g. Silk Road confiscations). The timing is risible…and transparent…Orange Man bad – orange man likes bitcoin – bitcoin bad! This transfer – and its implications of potential selling pressure overhang – sent Bitcoin reeling after briefly tagging $70,000…

Presumably, Biden and Harris are against the Trump HODL? And this is all the more odd considering the pleading letter written by various Democratic lawmakers urging the administration to back off their crypto war. We give the last word to well-known crypto billionaire (and major Dem donor), Mike Novogratz: “Tone deaf anyone??? Moving Silk Road BTC two days after Trumps pledge to not move them is just dumb!!!!” Read the room, indeed! Presumably, once again, ideology trumps all common sense.

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Lovely story.

“..if they vaccinate their cats they die when they are ten years old. If they don’t vaccinate them they live twice as long.”

A Tale of Two Cats (Paul Craig Roberts)

A friend recently sent me a book, My Beloved Monster, by Caleb Carr. It is about a cat, certainly no monster, rescued by Carr that rescued him from depression and self-pity over his ailments. The cat, Masha, is a Siberian Forest Cat, not a large cat but, like many cats, a guardian of her territory. This brought Masha into conflict with a black bear which reminded me of my own little darling, Devil. In the earlier years of this website, readers were interested in my cats. Many wrote to me with stories of their own. I had taken in a young female stray, a victim I think of the housing foreclosures of 2007-08 when people forced to leave their residences abandoned their pets. In March of 2008 she presented me with seven kittens, all of which had bob tails. They were unusual and everyone wanted them. I kept the two runts. The male, Boy, grew into 25 pounds, and the female thought she was a leopard. She is absolutely fearless and a determined defender of her territory.

I have yet to figure out how cats decide on the extent of their territory, but the female earned one of her two names, Devil, by her defense of her territory. Her other name is My Little Darling. In my Blue Ridge Mountain home I took them out in harness with long leads. Devil tended to go after Copperheads, and although she was faster than they, I didn’t want to risk her being bitten. Thus the leads that gave me some control. One autumn I had them out. Devil was after a lizard. I noticed that Boy was on high alert. Looking for the cause, there was a 400 pound bear walking toward us. Normally black bears are not aggressive toward humans unless you are stupid enough to get between a mother bear and her cubs or to feed a bear and run out of food before the bear runs out of hunger. It was autumn and I wondered if cats might be included in the bear’s hibernation diet. I pulled Devil off the lizard chase and we headed for the front door.

Devil didn’t see the bear until we reached the front steps. Then ears flat, hackles up, the most incredible snarls and growls off she went for the bear. She pulled the lead out, and with tension on the lead she turned around and started pulling out of the harness. I had to run forward to remove the tension at which time she renewed her advance on the bear. The bear stood on his rear legs. I remember thinking he was bigger than a pro-football tackle. When I grabbed Devil we were within 12 feet of the bear. I headed for the front door where Boy was waiting for the door to open, put Devil down in order to open the door and off Devil went across the front porch to continue her attack on the bear. Fortunately at the end of the porch was a rock waterfall and pool and I caught her as she hesitated in figuring out how to avoid the water. I got her inside, Boy sought safety under the bed. Devil sat by the front door for 30 minutes growling and snarling. As I concluded, she thought she was a leopard.

Carr’s Masha, apparently, saw herself the same way. One evening she didn’t return home. Carr, who could barely walk, went looking for her in a rainstorm. Eventually he found her up in a tree. She wouldn’t come down. Carr went and got a ladder and managed despite his incapacity to get her out of the tree. On return to the house he discovered her wounds. At the veterinarian hospital the next morning, the vet said, judging from the wounds, that Masha had had an encounter with a bear before her lacerations of the bear’s face convinced the bear to retire from the confrontation and leave the scene. Masha’s claws had bear hair, skin, and blood. Masha recovered and the love affair between Carr and Masha continued for 17 years. Devil is 16. I lost Boy in 2018 before he reached 11. Many readers sent sympathy. The vets in the two practices who tried to save Boy from cancer both told me that the required vaccines Big Pharma has lobbied through corrupt state legislatures were the cause of the cancer. I immediately ceased vaccinating.

In my life, not all lived in urban hellholes like New York City and Washington DC, I never encountered a rabid animal. I grew up on my grandparents’ farm. I had a home in the Blue Ridge mountains for 20 years. Cottonmouth moccasins along the creek were the danger, not rabid animals. When I was a kid, dogs at six months of age got one rabies shot for life. Cats got no shots of any kind. An indoor car needs no shots, but Big Pharma has it that vets are prohibited from treating an unvaccinated cat or dog. Even for outdoor cats, the chance of encountering a rabid animal is far less than the danger to the cat of the vaccines. Everyone I know tells me that if they vaccinate their cats they die when they are ten years old. If they don’t vaccinate them they live twice as long.

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    Eugène-Louis Boudin Laundresses on the Beach at Étretat 1892   • Rebel Archbishop Slams Olympics’ “Vile Attacks On God” (ZH) • Most Americans Wan
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle July 30 2024]

    #165139
    Dr D Rich
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    RIM:

      Can’t find anything that would hurt his credibility

    You’re not looking hard enough.
    His vestments are those of the Catholic Clergy. Those vestments furthermore signify he was superstar in the criminal conspiracy that greenlit, covered up and promoted Catholic Priest predation of children for decades.

    As I wrote yesterday Vigano and his ilk, his contemporaries, his fellow “leaders” of the Church tacitly approved $140,000 in hush money to me and $30,000 to abused child Clarice I as a witness can place in the same and aptly named church rectory.

    From yesterday’s post:

    Civil War Redux.

    Throw in another Major Schism.

    Another Great Divorce between Heaven and Earth.

    Or The Crusades return again and again….

    The following cracked me up. Did the exiled Archbishop actually say this?:

    Viganò says it’s “no coincidence” that the ceremonies were presided over by French President Emanuel Macron, an ’emissary of the World Economic Forum,’ who ‘passes off a transvestite as his own wife with impunity, just as Barack Obama is accompanied by a muscular man in a wig.’

    What is at work here?
    Manifestation of Macron and Obama as Untouchable Elite??
    Bizarre qualities turned into Exclusive Qualifications??

    passes off a transvestite as his own wife with impunity…… Barack Obama is accompanied by a muscular man in a wig.’

    Hahahaha!
    No comedic talent ever did it better.
    Goddam!

    And coming from a Catholic priest or better known as the robed sect that covered for pedophiles as official Church policy.

    All Catholics didn’t participate…..so reassuring

    Where did the local Gnostics go and all their gnosticisms?

    #165140
    Dora
    Participant

    Simplicius the Thinker’s mailbag Q & A.
    First question:
    ‘What do you think is the endgame for Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Hungary, and other nations in the immediate area?’

    Beginning of first question’s answer:
    It’s an interesting question given current developments, which this recent thread by Pawel Wargan gives very fascinating insight into. In light of all ongoing events, most people naturally defer to the most basic and well-trodden theories about geopolitical origins: for instance, that the U.S. wants to retain imperial hegemony over Europe, and has seeded it with GLADIO-style structures bent on doing that.

    But one less-examined aspect, which is increasingly playing a bigger role, is that of the Polish involvement. This is particularly important now since, as of this writing, a new report has been sending Twitter into a stir which states that Poland has now surpassed France as the third largest NATO force, behind the U.S. and Turkey:
    https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/subscriber-mailbag-answers-72824

    #165141
    Dora
    Participant

    KH: “Thomas Jolly did an incredible job and made France look great.”

    Oh, so that’s why the Olympic committee scrubbed scenes of the opening from youtube and is sending take down notices of shared videos to FB and twitter. Took down their own youtube submissions. Because it made France and the Olympics look great.

    #165142
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    Exactly who are The Spooks trying to convince?
    After all, ballots matter not votes.
    These guys blew what little credibility they had on the Russia-Trump Hoax.
    Clearly Barack still calls the shots.

      The US intelligence community has “observed” Iran trying to influence the 2024 election — and keep former President Donald Trump from a second term in the White House, according to a Monday unclassified briefing.

      An official at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence told reporters that intelligence agencies have “observed Tehran working to influence the presidential election, probably because Iranian leaders want to avoid an outcome they perceive would increase tensions with the United States.”

    https://nypost.com/2024/07/29/us-news/us-intel-agencies-have-observed-iran-trying-to-influence-2024-election-keep-trump-from-winning-report/

    #165143
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “Pentagon Finds Another $2 Billion In Ukraine Aid ‘Accounting Errors’

    I am super confident in the Pentagon and its process now. Just look at all these mistakes they keep finding and fixing! Sounds like they spend all day checking their accounting just to make sure everything going just right.

    “Defense Secretary Orders Review Of 20 Medals Of Honor Awarded For Wounded Knee

    Absolutely, thankfully there’s no oppression of religion or minority groups and opinions now or we’d focus on that.

    “Mississippi Law Allowing Ballots To Be Received After Election Day Lawful: Judge

    New meaning to “election year”. I’m sorry, but I think the law says “Election Day”? Was that a clue? If one day, why not 5? 10? 100? 1,000? Or before. You can vote your 2028 candidate on November 8th this year, the day after the previous election. Why not? Ain’t I got rights?

    “The War On Raw Milk

    WHY? Because this is the whole technocratic state in a nutshell: Tell everyone what to do, use VIOLENCE to do it. The reason is for them to get in the middle of every transaction between every person on earth. And WHY would they ever want to do that? Because that’s called a “Toll booth” and that’s how you get rich and powerful. The milk now goes to a government set up, government run, government ordained, insider group that pays lobby money to keep their Tollbooth dispensation. Again, the WHOLE reason for government to exist outside of the post office. We make up rules to transfer money and power to SOME corporations and friends, and took that power and money from YOU.

    …Meanwhile, as they can’t change because the change in any of this would vaporize the security state, ruin its premise for being, drop government 90%, they look completely tyrannical and ridiculous arresting the Amish for milking their own cows. …Yet they can’t stop. Because this is the government YOU approve of.

    You’re like, “I want this done everywhere, for everything, just not for milk.” Oh really? No, if the premise exists EVERYTHING they look at goes like this. Why are cars cost $50,000, have 25 air bags, all of which are deadly, and none of them will pass inspection without ludicrous extra thousands chasing emissions engine codes for a month – that is, 1/12th of every year, it’s just sitting in the shop, draining money at $100/hr? Because you believed in this premise. Welcome to hell. This is what Hungary was trying to get out of by leaving the Soviet Union.

    Immediately they will say, “but if we don’t, all the rivers will be polluted” etc. Not really, and that’s not even Government. You can CIVIL sue for damages of any harm, and what’s more, that money is captured by YOU and does not go back into the SEC budget so they can allow more Banks to break the law, where they split the winnings 90-10. That is, 90% goes to Sachs and ADM, 10% to the EPA and SEC. Or the EPA budget so they can pick winners and losers of who they “remember” to enforce on. The government is SUPPOSED to be doing that on your behalf, while they are doing the #Opposite, but NONE of the harm that was done, are you compensated for. That’s actually far WORSE than if they weren’t involved. They’re PREVENTING you from being compensated, and they’re stealing your class-action settlement for themselves. Then asking you to be thankful for it. Thanks government, so glad you’re around, now everyone dead.

    “The Media Betrays The American Experiment: They are an arm of the Democratic Party…”

    Nope, they’re allowed, That’s why many papers have “Democrat” or whatever in the title since 1900. Here’s the difference: it’s all on FREE MONEY. BlackRock gets INFINITY free money, to buy anything from people who actually work and have value. That’s merely 0% rates. Then they buy ALL the papers, but shutter only the Republican half. So why doesn’t the GOP just re-open new papers of their own? They have in a sense, (Conservative alt-media is the fasted growing, most successful sector) but then the whole thing becomes a battle over who has more influence, who gets more free money from the Government on Wall Street. We’ve seen for a while, politically they have been going all-Democrat, buying the government, and only recently has there been a backlash.

    I haven’t dug into Project 2025 yet. My osmosis reaction was, some people put in some stuff like Reagan did, which is not that strange at all, and Soros needed a boogeyman and puffed it all up. Sounds like the M.O. of “Trump’s Ukraine Plan” where two people he met once offered him a plan, emailed it to him, then said it was “Trump’s Plan”. The media then picked up and debunked it, perfect definition of “Strawman”.

    Well, at least they’ve had to actually respond now. Trump ran the same pass play every day for 1,000 days in office and they never caught on or adjusted once. Must be the new alien thinking drones have hatched and can finally propose a solution. Then we’ll find a new exploit they haven’t pre-planned and they’ll fall for it another 1,000 days until the next Planning Drones hatch.

    Point being: 1) okay, wow, muchly. 2) So what?

    “all of the text messages sent by the SS on January 6th were deleted due to a “data migration”.

    All messages everywhere, worldwide? Wow. Or only those in one particular small western PA county? She’s not been arrested, why should she care? Her budget is working just fine.

    Shapiro: Yes, we see Kamala herself trying on the patented Obama vocal style. Why I wonder ‘cause it’s weird. I guess they can’t alien mind-meld the “Plan” to the alien-drone Planners, or they’d have pre-created a vocal style. Generic and meaningless I expect, made up of the sum body of all vocal styles, like everything else they do.

    What my point with this running gag? A: They’re not human. Like yesterday with the Mass Formation being rigid and rule-following, actual human beings don’t act this way. If you’re acting this way, you’re trying to imitate and fit into a machine. That is a red flag and always goes badly. That’s why we mock suck-ups who try to tell the same jokes and wear the same tie as their boss. They are sub-human, smaller and dumber than the human-ness we are all born with, and therefore contemptible. They have, in essence, purged “God”, the instinct, self-consciousness, choice, and expression from themselves.

    So the point of this video is that that building WAS inside the security perimeter. They’re trying to say it wasn’t. Okay, play your hand, either way doesn’t matter, it proves you were in on it. Want to switch back again? Won’t matter.

    Trump photo: yes and no blood, no blood on his collar. Movie blood. Now I can’t prove that. I can’t catch that. I can only suspect that and ask about it. Is it possible? Sure. So what can I say? And as I can’t/nobody wants to hear all these theories about how it went, I agree: the general narrative with any American I don’t want to talk inside baseball with is that 1) The Media and Democrats WOULD NOT STOP calling for open assassination. 2) This encouraged/caused the assassination. (and 3) they are still doing it.) That’s what I can publicly say.

    …But I still have to ask and find out what really went on .

    “passes off a transvestite as his own wife with impunity, just as Barack Obama is accompanied by a muscular man in a wig.’

    Great example of the Overton window. Is he helping or discrediting his side? Does he have evidence that might help support this, or is he just some guy? Even saying it and being wrong might help us all ask more questions, get more permission and tolerance about asking.

    For that point, Candace Owens bet? Made a lawsuit? For Piers Morgan concerning this. Piers said, “It’s ridiculous, I’m not going to look.” That’s his defense. …The usual, and now you see why we have our work cut out for us. They LITERALLY SAY these things, publish them openly. For decades. For 100 years. You can’t get people to read. “Why won’t it read??” –South Park. …And you wonder why they have contempt for us. I’m getting there myself. But Owens was merely re-posting a French reporter who photocopied specific tangible evidence like birth certificates. Those are actual legal facts, interpret them as you will.

    Facts and evidence: we don’t do that.

    There are nude beaches in France. We can solve all this problem in an afternoon.

    “That would mean President Kamala. They’re not ready for that. She will never be.

    Problem II: NO ONE’S FILED PAPERWORK on Kamala being the new candidate, getting on the ballots, or getting Biden off them. Like they ALREADY had a crisis over in Ohio. So….conclusions, anyone? KAMALA IS NOT THE CANDIDATE. She is going to disappear. The failure to bother with paperwork means 1) it’s not real and 2) They already know. And don’t even care if you know, since everyone’s so lazy like above, they can’t be bothered to read.

    “• Biden Proposes Plan to Reform Supreme Court (ET)

    Ever hear of Brunson? What “Reforms” can one branch of government make on another? I say Congress is going to “Reform” the Presidency by erasing it. I say the President is going to “Reform” the Congress by making them all positions appointed by the President. Yup! And so with this.
    Newsflash: NONE of you can change this. The Constitution is a contract with the PEOPLE and inalterable (roughly). I cannot be changed by GOVERNMENT. At all. It can only be changed by the PEOPLE, Joe.

    “No political truth is certainly of greater intrinsic value, or is stamped with the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty, than that on which the objection is founded. The accumulation of all powers, Legislative, Executive, and Judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” — Madison

    Back to Brunson: Yeah, um, we can remove like 2/3rd of the government for 1) Improper elections, 2) Failure to swear a simple g– d—d oath of office. So go ahead! Do it! Do it!!!!! I want this to be over as much as you do, and I want it to be Biden’s fault.

    This will also re-set the markets and perhaps allow price-discovery for once in my life.

    I love that Harris quote on the majesty of Olympics. She’s proud of it, distribute it widely.

    Actually, I agree that I didn’t really see the Last Supper in it, but rely on others who do. I guess the artist sucked so bad he couldn’t make that clear. The Olympic committee confirmed that was what they signed off on and what they supported and understood to be the case, so there’s no more dispute over it. Also as a Christian, I’m not really offended by you being a dumb-ass. I see dumb-asses all day long, so it wouldn’t be healthy to. But it would be a good time for outreach and to ask, “So…this is what you want, think is good, and are fighting for? A guy with his balls hanging out for all the kids worldwide to see?” True Western values. 1) No that isn’t happening. 2) If it’s happening it isn’t the intent 3) Okay, so it’s all happening as intended but that’s a GOOD thing, which is why I denied it. Cluster B.

    “• Why Harris Became The Only Possible Opponent For Trump (Lolaev)

    Barely worth thinking about or discussing, since they’re going to steal my cheese in just a few days anyway. Harris isn’t gong to be the real candidate for some reason, they’ve already signaled this, why waste your breath?

    And as discussed this week, I have NO idea why anyone cares about the American Election, or American politics. They opine on it as far away as Australia, everyone has a voice. — Well I suppose they should since there’s no reason they can’t vote in it. Nor all 8 billion other humans. U.S. Vote: 140M Republicans for Trump, 7.5 Billion votes for Biden/Harris/Cthulu. Why not? Legally that is okay now.

    Anyway, I only care about American politics because I live here and I have to. Even then it’s barely worth the squeeze. Why anyone outside the U.S. would waste a minute on us I have no idea. …Hey does that comport with us NOT being an Empire, NOT being the “Indispensable Nation” buying everyone off and telling everyone what to do? Why yes it does, I live my principles. IGNORE US. Talking about it only encourages us. Go live your own national identity.

    …But they do it because then who would they blame? Who would Europe blame? They’d have to blame themselves, and who wants that?

    If Germany wanted to be free, we couldn’t hold them. They don’t because they want to blame us. So how is this our fault? Your attempts to blame the U.S. for everything have no merit. We can’t hold Afghanistan and Yemen, we certainly can’t hold Germany.

    But you know what I think of this: Europe buys up the U.S. State, then directs the U.S. as their idiot-bully like a Mecha-Streisand to go blow up the world. America has almost nothing to do with is except we are raped to pay for it. If they didn’t have us Europe would have to admit to the world they’re entirely morally bankrupt, psychopathic mass-murderers, just like always, and never get away with it. Getting us – or rather our government – in the middle is indispensable for their plans. That’s why the Pentagon refusing to get involved in Ukraine is so funny. Whoops! I guess Europe collapses! Sorry old chum, that’s what happens when you don’t have “An Army.”

    Speaking of, review that NATO release last week that “At the end of the conflict Russia will be larger, more powerful, and really pissed off.” O Rlly? Sounds like you’re saying RUSSIA WILL DEFINITELY WIN. That is, you already know you’ve lost. This is your way of LYING to admit that. And they will, he’s right. And then knowing that, from the highest, tippy-top directive, Germany has done…

    ….Say it with me kids… “NOTHING!!!!!!!!!” Yes, they’ve done literally NOTHING. France: Nothing. In fact, they got more men blown up this week and are going BACKWARD. England: NOTHING!!! Done literally nothing. Nada. Nyet. Non. Zip, zero, zilch, nothing. That’s how honestly scared of Russian aggression they are.

    …I say for the thousandth time in a row, 7 years after Trump told them the same thing on worldwide TV.

    Anyway, don’t pay attention to our election. 1) It’s not real 2) It’s a joke, a scam, a show. 3) It wouldn’t matter even if it weren’t, as the U.S. has no power or relevance. That too is a scam, a con, an illusion, and a show. 4) the only reason we still exist is all you dummies acting like we do, voluntarily. Stop.

    “• Maduro Wins Third Term (RT)

    No idea if this is legit or not. How would I tell? Since I presume the CIA is still in there, my bet is not. So whoever we are backing is the liar and cheat. That’s just common sense.

    No recent news on Melei, I presume he is enslaving the country and liquidating it for Wall St. News?
    And nothing on Sri Lanka? Is everyone dead yet? Did the Green Agenda of the UN, EU finally succeed with their much-desired, much-advertized, 100% mortality rate?

    “or almost 5% of its planned budget, after breaching agreed spending limits,”

    Can you be more clear? Not OVER spending, is now “Slashing”? Sounds like Congress, where they propose a budget of a septillion, googleplex-zillion dollars, then cut it back to only $35 Trillion and say the “Budget was cut by 90%!!!” …Although it’s 10x larger than last year. Yeah, that’s called “just lying.” (Or called “Republicans”) I smell the same thing here.

    So keeping to your budget is now a special hardship? Showing how much we care? When what was that ad from the Serbian Youtuber? $1,000 a day JUST FOR FOOD or something?

    “”If you don’t want to be a member of a club, you can always leave,”

    Fair enough. But what if they want to change the direction of the Club? Is that okay too?

    “avoid a repeat of past “confrontation” related to the two’s tariff war”

    But the EU likes tariffs now. They have them on Russia, but recently on all things Chinese. Tariffs are good when we do them, and bad when Trump does them. Back up, zoom out: ANY tariffs help national borders and cripple globalism. Time of the Globalists is over, Trump said. Now Europe themselves are helping end them. Good work!

    “• 2 Days After Trump Crypto-Crowning, Biden Admin Sells Out (ZH)

    I have no idea. Bitcoin didn’t move UP on Trump. And didn’t move DOWN on Biden. It’s in a range before breaking out of the previous high at $70k and has been for a while, almost a year. I see this lying every day on ZeroHedge or whatever, “Bitcoin tanks!!!!” “Clubbed like a baby seal!” (yesterday) (Down 1%) What the…? BTC can crash 25% on a NORMAL day, and you’re traders, you know that. So it’s just lying for clicks. Words have meanings unless you want us all to go insane. Stop it.

    Bitcoin said both these guys are entirely irrelevant, couldn’t even notice their existence, that’s my read. And again, WHO CARES? Who cares what the U.S. does about ANYTHING? Is Bitcoin a worldwide asset more largely held in China? Yes. So why would ANYTHING the U.S. does have any effect on it? And it didn’t.

    So now “Orange Bitcoin Bad”. And? Since U.S. buying is irrelevant, why would I care what U.S. buyers —who weren’t buying anyway – do? And the ETFs are FAKE bitcoin, levered 300:1, guarantee. The more BTC ETFs there are in the U.S. the LOWER the price, which has played out nicely.

    Okay, on wind speed: “The Memo” of Liberals say “Bitcoin bad”. When previously as tech some were in it, but they got their talking orders. Just like “Elon Good”, minor god-head, then suddenly “Elon Bad” evilly-evil + evil the next week. BUT: Ultra-far left, 3% Liberals are now “Conspiracy Theories are all real! The FBI and Secret Service and media are Lying!! Trump staged the whole assassination!”

    Totally approve. Has to be done. They believe ANYTHING, literally anything the Media, Government, authorities say. That’s what makes them deadly and why they can’t wake up. It would be worth any price, even Trump losing for them to be the VERY LAST HOLDOUT that supports government + media and starts asking questions and demanding answers.

    So put that in your pipe and smoke it.

    For their handlers, that’s a lose-lose. If they say Trump is real, then he gets the greatest photo-op in 100 years and is justified in stopping all calls for violence. If they don’t, then the whole existing Media/Derp State apparatus is called into question and debunked, de-hooked out of their meat-puppets.

    Your choice boys: how you gonna play it? Anyway, yes the 3% ultra-Liberals are now deranged conspiracy Theorists, suspecting Government of lying. Good. Couldn’t be happier.

    #165144
    oxymoron
    Participant

    The French celebration of community tolerance would be better served by a parade of unvaccinated people. I haven’t seen the newspapers and body politic cool with excommunication and marginalisation like they were for the non-obedient. They way more chill with the sexual deviance than obedience deviance

    #165145
    Oroboros
    Participant

    ..According to Viganò, “Satan makes nothing: only he ruins everything.

    He does not invent: he tampers.

    …..his followers are no different: they humiliate woman’s femininity in order to erase the motherhood that recalls the Virgin Mother;

    ….they castrate man’s manhood in order to tear from the image of God’s fatherhood;

    ….they corrupt the little ones in order to kill in them and make them victims of the most abject Wokeism.”

    I’ve been lobbying for quite a while to cast the New World Order Globo Homos as Satanic

    Not metaphorically

    Actual manifested Satanic worship of Evil.

    The Olympics showed everyone what it’s like being inside Macron’s head.

    He is Pure Evil

    He’s not sub-human

    He’s NOT human

    Tolerate his presence at your own peril

    In a Sane World he would not be allowed to fog a mirror.

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    #165146
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Ah this was worth the re-post:

    #165147
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Signing the Wall like a public bathroom Stall

    Hahahahahaahahahaaha!

    I could use a good time!

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    #165148
    Oroboros
    Participant

    I wonder how many Deaths liberals have caused by telling Fat People they don’t need to lose weight

    ManyManyManyManyManyManyManyManyMany!

    https://x.com/i/status/1818119689169666411

    #165149
    Oroboros
    Participant

    The Cesspool of the Duh’merican Justice System,

    Just Us Not You, Oh Little Sheeple

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    #165150
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Tucker tees off with the F bomb on the Empire of Lies

    He wants answers as to why he’s branded a “criminal” for desiring privacy around his text messages and financial transactions, while the government conceals “key decisions from us.”

    Tucker turned up the heat another notch further, stating, “With no privacy, there’s no freedom.”

    “You know where there is privacy and secrecy in great abundance?” he asked. “The federal government,” Carlson answered, “which has classified over a billion documents describing what they’re doing with our money, in our name. This is our government! And yet they have every right to keep key decisions from us?”

    “So to take a lecture from them about how I’m a criminal because I want privacy in my financial transactions or my phone calls or my text messages, really? F—k you, actually.”

    “I’m sorry to use profanity, but that makes me so mad,” Carlson continued.

    “Like that’s prima facie evidence of a crime. You haven’t even declassified the Kennedy assassination files 61 years later, and you’re lecturing me about wanting to have an encrypted text conversation? How dare you! You work for me! You should be in prison.”

    https://x.com/i/status/1818094884370149818

    The Real Criminals: FBI Maggots lying in Congress

    Hang them all

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    #165151
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #165152
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #165153
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Local cops refusing to share info with FBI as agency suffers ‘crisis of confidence’ with DEI hires, damning whistleblower report reveals

    DEI Retard Flunkies, Thy Name is FBI

    “As FBI Director Chris Wray performed his usual smarmy stonewalling in Congress Wednesday, a damning report on his $10 billion agency’s “cult of narcissism” was delivered to the House Judiciary Committee by an alliance of retired and active-duty agents and analysts.

    The same group gave us the scathing DEI report last year about the FBI’s degraded recruitment standards and coddling of physically unfit, mentally ill, drug-taking or generally useless agents to satisfy diversity requirements at the expense of merit and experience. “

    The picture that emerges of the FBI is of an incompetent, arrogant, bloated bureaucracy that includes a new generation of DEI hires described as “completely worthless” and “the worst batch of people.”

    The report’s final damning indictment is reserved for the FBI Academy for New Agent Training in Quantico, Va., which “promotes a cult of narcissism by imbuing a false sense of superiority over all local, state and federal law enforcement.”

    #165154
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Cutting Edge Law Enforcement

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    #165155
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Judge Nap: Larry Johnson : #Trump Assassination Attempt Latest Info

    Secret Service trying to throw local and state law enforcement under the bus

    #165162
    Noirette
    Participant

    following on from jb-hb prev.

    Debt Rattle July 29 2024

    On the attempted assassination of DT.

    If the aim was to kill DT, many other methods would have been more effective. Creative minds can come up with ..

    The US is seemingly set on the traditonal *TM* standard, a public execution by firearm, fired by a lone shooter, in a public place, filmed.

    (No car bombs, poisonings, bad meds, fake emergencies, downed planes, exploding helicopters, suicide bombers, etc. as used in other places…)

    OK, it’s the cultural ‘imperative’, no escapin’ it. It means a plot to effect this scenario takes a long time to set up, it requires more than just a random ‘hole in the road’ and a car going off a cliff, if you follow. In the plot, two opposing forces face each other, with the agressors covertly manipulating many ppl, factions, structures, comm. nodes, etc. The underground manouvers ensure not just the death of the victim, but a resounding win that must be respected.

    The time line (may be off by a day..)

    Rumors of a Vance pick by DT (July 10?)

    Ass. attempt of DT July 13

    Official pick of Vance July 15

    Biden renounces as candidate for a 2nd term July 20-21 via a Tweet

    Harris is presented as the ‘new, better’ candidate around July 23

    Obamas endorse Harris July 26 (which cements the deal)

    As has been pointed out, this is a COUP. Biden has been summarily shoved aside (no legal process) and Harris becomes the top Dem. candidate without any laid-down rules, no consulting of Dem ‘base’, just the top guys say this is it and all fall into line. Bananas anyone?

    These events are all linked, of course idk how.

    The attempt failed. To conclude, the Dem – Deep State apparatus lost this round, and they won’t try an assassination attempt again. DT will be alive when the election takes place. Trump knows this as well imho.

    At present all, Pol. parties, MSM, etc. are publically burying the attempt, nothing to see here, no news, etc. However Congress etc. must put up some show of investigatin’ what happened (injuries, one death, pres. candidate shot at) grilling ppl who lie, etc. but all of which moves result in nothing substantial, no clear reports, nothing conclusive, no actions taken, it is all Max-Pol-Theatre.

    As for what actually happened on that day, Chris Martenson’s vids (free to watch on this topic) are good.

    https://peakprosperity.com/

    #165163

    From yesterday:
    “Rolling black-outs among the lightening bugs, and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir of cicadas sound like an elderly Kingston Trio on acoustic guitars.”
    I have noticed this in particular- I have heard one cicada this year, and found one dead one. Cicadas are the sound of summer.
    Nice wording, DBS. : )

    #165164
    zerosum
    Participant

    TOO MANY WORDS
    WHO CARES?
    WHO IS IMPACTED?

    ————
    Interpret: Fiction, Illusion, Facts, Evidence, Truth, Lies, Deep Fake, news, opinions, distractions,

    Confidence
    Conspiracies
    Credibility
    Relevancy
    Influence
    Control
    Power
    ———-
    Politics
    ———-
    Financial and Economic Crisis
    ————-
    Distribution/Supply/Energy Network
    ————
    Food security
    ————
    War Propaganda
    ————
    Peace, Freedom, Demonstrations
    ———–
    Weather Extreme
    ———-
    Depopulations, Murder, Genocides
    ————
    Pain, discomfort, Misery
    ————–
    [ GONE FISHING ]
    ———–

    #165166
    a kullervo
    Participant

    Mr. Trump and whoever the “democrats” pull out of their fetid bag of tricks are but the sides of the same poorly minted coin. If agency was a thing and the human species was as half as clever as we think we are, as things stand, there would be enough people by now willing to come together, manage their differences and organize to get rid of that “precious” coin altogether.
    But alas, aforementioned conditions are yet to be met.
    Meanwhile, the best some of us can do is to grab the popcorn, enjoy ourselves and, when the really hard times arrive (provided we are still around), be able to tell some interesting anecdotes, because we sure are going to need those.

    Popcorn companion:
    Big tech flatulence
    Modern entertainment media

    #165167
    a kullervo
    Participant

    No parodies about Islam.
    Why?
    Nah, that’s too soft.
    Parodies about the JQ?
    No way – hardcore stuff, dude.

    #165168

    So the “second” shooter shoots those first three shots. The volley of five [outdoor] shots is Crooks. The final [outdoor] shot- which sounds (to me) like those five, is the shot that kills Crooks. We don’t need anyone on the water tower, but people say they saw someone.
    Assuming a massive plot, the plotters would have salted people into interviews afterwards.

    Everyone loves a mystery.
    The Senate “investigation” is in progress on cspan. The ones in the dock got nothin’, and the nothin’ they got is dodgy. But they’ll do much better next time.
    They’ll have even less nothin’ than they got now.

    #165170
    Noirette
    Participant

    Trump attempted ass. continued

    Question. If DT fell down dead on that Butler Rally Platform, what were the expected outcomes, what followed next, who benefitted, how? What were the specific calculations?

    Would a civil war be sparked? Imho a lot of temp. unrest but not more. (?)

    It would them have been easy to declare ‘emergency’ ‘martial’ law (whatever the US terms are idk, and US States may differ) and for the Federal Gvmt. to impose various measures, e.g., similar to COVID19 lockdowns? No prob. with Covid, a mystery bug …The threat of personal violence in the streets is much more frightening, citizens need to ‘shelter’ and ‘seek protection’ from xzy, etc.

    And then what? What was the plan?

    #165171
    Oroboros
    Participant

    No parodies about Islam. Why?

    How about The Profit in a purple Speedo brief with matching lipstick kissing a pig.

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    #165172
    Oroboros
    Participant

    If the French-tards had mocked the Prophet Muhammad in their opening ceremony Paris would be smoldering ash and still smoking for weeks

    #165173
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Today’s Christians are wimps.

    You can piss on their heads and tell’em it’s rain, they’ll lap it up like hungry poodles

    Here, let me help you with that…..

    Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

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    #165174

    “Volley” is the wrong word there. Sorry- I meant (more like) “string”.
    I’m going to have to learn gun language. Mr Wray and I could be classmates!

    #165175
    a kullervo
    Participant

    (Continuing the fan fiction)

    If the JQ was raised during the queerlympics overture ceremony. sod Macron would by now be a disgraced former president, along with his poor mate “Brigitte”.

    What would be worse, this or Paris burning?
    Worrying signs both, but let us not fool ourselves: nobody cares when the “dirt people” (courtesy The Z Man) hurt, but we all pay attention when the “cloud people” (idem) gets whacked.

    #165176
    a kullervo
    Participant

    (more fan fic
    … a riddle inside an enigma wrapped in a mystery…)

    So many shooters, so little time.

    Mr. Trump’s handlers commissioned a ‘false flag’ op to raise their puppet’s profile.
    Meanwhile, the ” party of Chaos’ ” (courtesy J.H. Kunstler) “Golden Golem of Greatness (idem) killing coup” was already underway.
    Watching the watchers, TPTB foiled both plans.

    Win Win Win.

    #165177
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Parents Said Know, Yes, that’s my read on it. The water tower guy may have been meant to cover something but it didn’t go off correctly. Like for instance, he should have been the one to kill Crooks seconds BEFORE the event but the 2nd shooter popped up and it all went sideways.

    Trump may have been watching “Crooks” (actually Yearick) but they got the drop on him and introduced YET ANOTHER shooter in the upper window they weren’t expecting. Hard to tell, still interested though.

    One thing that bugs me is getting Crooks/Yearick safely into position. Too much risk, and it would be fairly obvious that the cartridges were blanks. (Real blanks are made to look obvious, but beyond that…). What if they have a bullet that breaks up in the air on firing. Dissolves? So no matter what Crooks/Yearick did, it’s just impossible to be in danger.

    Yeah, and what if since everything always goes wrong it did NOT break up adequately? That is, he got hit with effectively rock salt, tumbling, slow moving sand, able to be captured on camera? You’re way more likely to get hit with a cloud of BBs than turn your head at the exact second, yes? Which is plausible?

    And again, it’s like IMPOSSIBLE for Trump’s own private guys not to know something’s up, unless he’s a moron and both doesn’t bother with security AND also completely trusts the USSS without reservation. …Which none of US do, out here, much less Trump. So again, he keeps no normal, private people of his own in the crowd? On the water tower? C’mon.

    And IF that is true, then he totally knew this was in play, USSS wasn’t warning him, and still went on stage. So they all had to be VERY SURE that gun couldn’t go off. Somebody want to list the 5 scenarios that fit here? I’m getting tired and don’t care.

    Checking myself here, no rock salt hits the upper audience, railing, and blows out a hydraulic hose.

    #165178
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Oh, so it’s the ethos and plan for Christians to attack, burn, kill people who insult them? Burn whole cities perhaps who are also innocent? Yeah, what weaklings! They suck. Why don’t they murder everyone they find like a real religion?

    …Yeah, that’s not what my boss told me. In fact, he went on quite at length about it.

    Don’t worry, they’ll back-comment that they are BOTH a religion that kills everyone AND a religion that’s too weak to harm anyone. BothNeitherAi, whichever lambastes Christians more that second.

    #165179
    a kullervo
    Participant

    Christians should always turn the other cheek, but they have now ran out of cheeks to offer. That’s why we have rampant pederasty (and western civ decline.)

    #165182
    a kullervo
    Participant

    Greco-Roman-Judeo-Christian tradition can no longer sustain any semblance of authority. The void will necessarily be filled by any tradition still upholding discipline as a major concern. How many of those are still around?
    There you have it.
    (Orthodox Christians seem to be doing a good job of keeping the main Christian tenets alive, but they are too divided to be effective as a ethical-political powerhouse.)
    If the manure don’t hit the fan soon enough, don’t be surprised to see many young men throughout the west voluntarily converting to Islam.

    #165183
    John Day
    Participant

    Did Zelensky get killed by Russian bombs (accidentally) while on PR visit to Lyptsi, a contested town on the Russian border? Beginning of Military Summary morning video today:

    #165184
    John Day
    Participant

    The best I can tell, there have always been 2 kinds of “Christians”, those who believe in the “utility” of killing people and those who don’t.

    #165185
    zerosum
    Participant

    “… Did Zelensky get killed by Russian bombs …”
    Hummm… I think that the brown stain on the street came from his but.

    #165186
    a kullervo
    Participant

    Two types of Christians?
    Every single Christian, since the dawn of Christianity, tried to shoehorn the Gospels into every personal idiosyncratic form imaginable, and they all succeeded within a wide range of failure degree – and then God created simony.

    #165187
    a kullervo
    Participant

    It’s hard to be a moral compass when one’s north magnetic pole is scattered all over the place.

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