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Debt Rattle August 14 2024

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• X Conversation Between Musk And Trump Generates Over A Billion Views (ZH)
• Musk Offers Interview To Kamala Harris (RT)
• Kamala Harris Running Ads With Fake News Headlines (RT)
• EU Backtracks On Threats To Musk – Media (RT)
• An Intricate Fabric of Bad Actors Working Hand-in-Hand (Alastair Crooke)
• US Lining Up Candidate To Replace Zelensky – Russian Intel (RT)
• NATO and its Kiev Proxy In Last Roll Of The Dice (SCF)
• Kursk Was Low Hanging Fruit. What Now For Zelensky And His Allusions? (Jay)
• Ex-US Ambassador ‘Pessimistic’ About Ukraine’s Future (RT)
• NATO Allies Skeptical About Ukraine’s Advance Into Russia – Bloomberg (RT)
• ‘The CIA Writes Her Paycheck’ (Sp.)
• ‘Israel Itself is a War Crime’ (Sp.)
• Every 70 KG Bag of Human Remains Is Considered a Martyr (Hajjaj)

 

 

 

 

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Imagine when these conversations get really good. Add video, improve audio..

• X Conversation Between Musk And Trump Generates Over A Billion Views (ZH)

A conversation between Donald Trump and X owner Elon Musk has generated over a billion views, as Trump officially returned to the platform Monday. Elon made the observation following the 2 hour conversation between the two. Here’s the whole thing:

Trump also returned to posting on X, with this ad now at 42 million views at time of writing: The conversation was streamed live on X spaces, but had to overcome huge technical issues dues to a sustained DDOS attack on the platform shortly before the stream began. The attack followed sustained moaning by the dinosaur media, complaining that Trump would be allowed to say “whatever he wants to” by Musk.

Oh my God, the horror of letting a presidential candidate say what he wants and people being able to hear him without being able to cut away and shut it off. Why do you think Trump is on there in the first instance?! Earlier, a Washington Post ‘journalist’ called for the White House to step in and stop the conversation from happening.

They operate in a tiny bubble and fundamentally cannot fathom that they are not the purveyors of all information on the planet. The Harris campaign got their best 20 something year old PR intern to type up an anxiety laced post that didn’t address any of the content of the conversation between Musk and Trump, and instead focused on the technical issues as some kind of criticism.

Of course, they’re not used to an organic and substantial longform conversation between people happening, they only understand heavily staged, scripted and produced soundbites that belong in bad reality TV shows that no one watches. Musk made it clear that Harris is welcome to join him for a conversation. She likely won’t accept the invitation on to the biggest platform on Earth though because she cannot manage to go more than two minutes off script without looking like a complete clown. The media also ran with the ‘they couldn’t even run a livestream’ talking point.

Lets see CNN or MSNBC trying to run a livestream with millions of listeners while fending off a cyber attack. Outside of the US, Elon received more threats from the European Union in the form of a letter from Thierry Breton, the current Commissioner for Internal Market of the EU, Referring directly to the conversation with Trump, Breton stated in no uncertain terms that X has to crack down on “content that promotes hatred, disorder, incitement to violence, or certain instances of disinformation.” Musk responded with a meme telling Breton to “Fuck your own face.” Amazing.

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Spurning a billion viewers/listeners right before an election. Who can afford it?

• Musk Offers Interview To Kamala Harris (RT)

Elon Musk has proposed to interview US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris on his X Spaces platform. The invitation comes after the billionaire spoke at length with former US President Donald Trump on Monday. The interview with Trump, which was hailed by his campaign as the “interview of the century,” lasted around two hours and, according to Musk, has since garnered 1 billion views. The conversation included discussions on a number of issues, including the upcoming election in November, the recent assassination attempt on Trump, the Ukraine conflict, and US relations with Russia and China. After the interview, Musk wrote in a post on X that he would be “happy to host Kamala on an X Spaces too.”

Harris has yet to officially respond to the invitation; however, during the Trump interview, her campaign sent out a fundraising email asking supporters to “chip in $25” in order to help “respond to their lies.” In the letter, the vice president accused Musk of using his “purchased platform” to “spread Trump’s unhinged and hateful agenda to millions of users,” and said “the richest person in the world is a lackey for Team MAGA.” “Musk is using his vast fortune and broad reach to try to control our democracy,” the email read.

After the interview ended, the Harris-Walz team released a statement describing the discussion as “unhinged” and claiming that Trump’s entire campaign is about “self-obsessed rich guys who will sell out the middle class and who cannot run a livestream in the year 2024.” The live broadcast of the interview was delayed by about half an hour due to what Musk described as a “massive” cyberattack ahead of the event. At the end of the interview, Musk reiterated his endorsement of Donald Trump, and described him as “the path to prosperity.” Previously, it was reported in the US media that the billionaire plans to donate $45 million to form a pro-Trump political action committee, but he has neither confirmed nor denied this.

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They’re all fully in her camp and it’s still not enough.

• Kamala Harris Running Ads With Fake News Headlines (RT)

US Vice President Kamala Harris has been using Google search advertisements that link to real news articles from legitimate sources, but with the headlines and descriptions altered to paint the Democratic presidential candidate in a more favorable way, according to an Axios report. The Harris campaign has been running such ads linking to stories by “nearly a dozen” news outlets, including CNN, AP, CBS, NPR, The Guardian, USA Today and others since at least August 3, Axios reported on Tuesday. The ads apparently mimic real news results “closely enough” that they can potentially mislead users. Axios wrote that such ads are a “common practice,” but acknowledged that according to Google’s ad transparency center, Harris’ rival Donald Trump is not running these types of misleading ads.

Some of the outlets claimed they were blindsided and “unaware” that their brands were being featured this way, according to Axios. A spokesperson for The Guardian said the company will be “reaching out to Google for more information about this practice.” Meanwhile, Google has insisted that the practice does not violate its rules, claiming that since the ads are labeled as “sponsored,” they are “easily distinguishable” from legitimate search results. However, the tech giant admitted that due to an alleged “technical glitch” in Google’s Ad Library, some of the ads “appeared” to lack the necessary disclosures, Axios wrote. A Google spokesperson promised to investigate the glitch, insisting that the company has for years “provided additional levels of transparency for election ads specifically.”

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“Breton has not sought approval from President Ursula..”

• EU Backtracks On Threats To Musk – Media (RT)

The European Commission has said that Thierry Breton did not consult them before sending a threatening letter to Elon Musk, ahead of his two-hour conversation with US presidential candidate Donald Trump. Breton is the Internal Market commissioner, in charge of enforcing the bloc’s Digital Services Act (DSA). His letter insinuated that Musk had an obligation to censor potentially “harmful content” on X, the platform he owns that was formerly known as Twitter. “The timing and the wording of the letter were neither co-ordinated or agreed with the president nor with the [commissioners],” an European Commission spokesman said on Tuesday. Breton has not sought approval from President Ursula von der Leyen, another official told Financial Times on condition of anonymity. “Thierry has his own mind and way of working and thinking,” the official said.

Sources close to Breton told the outlet that the letter had been in the works for some time, but the Trump event seemed like an appropriate “trigger point” for publishing it. The move backfired, however. Musk responded to Breton’s letter with a meme from the 2008 comedy ‘Tropic Thunder’, in which Tom Cruise’s character shouts, “Take a big step back and literally f**k your own face!” Meanwhile, Trump’s campaign accused the EU of “trying to meddle in the US presidential election” and advised the bloc to mind its own business. Four EU officials, speaking to Politico on condition of anonymity, said the bloc really wanted to avoid the appearance of election meddling. “The EU is not in the business of electoral interference,” said one of them. “DSA implementation is too important to be misused by an attention-seeking politician in search of his next big job.”

Last month, Breton announced that the European Commission considered X in violation of the DSA and intended to levy massive fines against Musk’s company unless it agreed to its restrictions on “hate speech” and “misinformation.” “The European Commission offered X an illegal secret deal: if we quietly censored speech without telling anyone, they would not fine us,” Musk wrote in response. “The other platforms accepted that deal. X did not.” Breton vocally denied the existence of such an offer, but Musk replied he was looking forward to “a very public battle in court, so that the people of Europe can know the truth.” Musk bought Twitter in October 2022, after voicing displeasure over widespread censorship on the US-based social media platform.

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“It’s almost as if these are goals in themselves – and the cascade of emergencies mere excuses for them. Hate is always the way..”

• An Intricate Fabric of Bad Actors Working Hand-in-Hand (Alastair Crooke)

Walter Kirn, an American novelist and cultural critic, in his 2009 memoir, Lost in the Meritocracy, described how, after a sojourn at Oxford, he came to be a member of ‘the class that runs things’ – the one that “writes the headlines, and the stories under them”. It was the account of a middle-class kid from Minnesota trying desperately to fit into the élite world, and then to his surprise, realising that he didn’t want to fit in at all. Now 61, Kirn has a newsletter on Substack and co-hosts a lively podcast devoted in large part to critiquing ‘establishment liberalism’. His contrarian drift has made him more vocal about his distrust of élite institutions – as he wrote in 2022: “For years now, the answer, in every situation—‘Russiagate,’ COVID, Ukraine—has been more censorship, more silencing, more division, more scapegoating. It’s almost as if these are goals in themselves – and the cascade of emergencies mere excuses for them. Hate is always the way,”

Kirn’s politics, a friend of his suggested, was “old-school liberal,” underscoring that it was the other ‘so-called liberals’ who had changed: “I’ve been told repeatedly in the last year that free speech is a right-wing issue; I wouldn’t call [Kirn] Conservative. I would just say he’s a free-thinker, nonconformist, iconoclastic”, the friend said. To understand Kirn’s contrarian turn – and to make sense of today’s form of American politics – it is necessary to understand one key term. It is not found in standard textbooks, but is central to the new playbook of power: the “whole of society”. “The term was popularised roughly a decade ago by the Obama administration, which liked that its bland, technocratic appearance could be used as cover to erect a mechanism for a governance ‘whole-of-society’ approach” – one that asserts that as actors – media, NGOs,corporations and philanthropist institutions – interact with public officials to play a critical role not just in setting the public agenda, but in enforcing public decisions.

Jacob Siegel has explained the historical development of the ‘whole of society’ approach during the Obama administration’s attempt to pivot in the ‘war on terror’ to what it called ‘CVE’ – countering violent extremism. The idea was to surveil the American people’s online behaviour in order to identify those who may, at some unspecified time in the future, ‘commit a crime’. Inherent to the concept of the potential ‘violent extremist’ who has, as yet, committed no crime, is a weaponised vagueness: “A cloud of suspicion that hangs over anyone who challenges the prevailing ideological narratives”. “What the various iterations of this whole-of-society approach have in common is their disregard for democratic process and the right to free association – their embrace of social media surveillance, and their repeated failure to deliver results …”. Aaron Kheriaty writes:

“More recently, the whole of society political machinery facilitated the overnight flip from Joe Biden to Kamala Harris, with news media and party supporters turning on a dime when instructed to do so—democratic primary voters ‘be damned’. This happened not because of the personalities of the candidates involved, but on the orders of party leadership. The actual nominees are fungible, and entirely replaceable, functionaries, serving the interests of the ruling party … The party was delivered to her because she was selected by its leaders to act as its figurehead. That real achievement belongs not to Harris, but to the party-state”. What has this to do with Geo-politics – and whether there will be war between Iran and Israel? Well, quite a lot. It is not just western domestic politics that has been shaped by the Obama CVE totalising mechanics.

The “party-state” machinery (Kheriaty’s term) for geo-politics has also been co-opted: “To avoid the appearance of totalitarian overreach in such efforts”, Kheriaty argues,“the party requires an endless supply of causes … that party officers use as pretexts to demand ideological alignment across public and private sector institutions. These causes come in roughly two forms: the urgent existential crisis (examples include COVID and the much-hyped threat of Russian disinformation) – and victim groups supposedly in need of the party’s protection”. “It’s almost as if these are goals in themselves – and the cascade of emergencies mere excuses for them. Hate is always the way”, Kirn underlines. Just to be clear, the implication is that all geo-strategic critics of the party-state’s ideological alignment must be jointly and collectively treated as potentially dangerous extremists.

Russia, China, Iran and North Korea therefore are bound together as presenting a single obnoxious extremism that stands in opposition to ‘Our Democracy’; versus ‘Our Free Speech’ and versus ‘Our Expert Consensus’. So, if the move to war against one extremist (i.e. versus Iran) is ‘acclaimed’ by 58 standing ovations in the joint session of Congress last month, then further debate is unnecessary – any more than Kamala Harris’ nomination as Presidential candidate needs to be endorsed through primary voting: Candidate Harris told hecklers on Wednesday, chanting about genocide in Gaza, ‘to pipe down’ – unless they “want Trump to win”. Tribal norms must not be challenged (even for genocide).

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“..Avakov spearheaded a crackdown on forces protesting the Western-backed coup in Kiev..”

• US Lining Up Candidate To Replace Zelensky – Russian Intel (RT)

The US is planning to unleash a campaign to discredit Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky to pave the way for replacing him with a more pliable figure, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) has claimed. The agency believes former Interior Minister Arsen Avakov is being considered to take the helm of Ukraine. In a statement on Tuesday, the SVR claimed that “the American elite” is growing increasingly frustrated with Zelensky as lawmakers on both sides of the aisle start to “doubt the targeted spending of billions of dollars in military aid to Kiev.” “Zelensky is taking crazy steps that threaten to trigger escalation far beyond Ukraine,” officials said, adding that Kiev “has moved to feverish action” as the Ukrainian leader struggles to maintain his grip on power after his presidential term officially ended in May.

The US is therefore looking at options for replacing him with a more manageable and less corrupt figure that will be amenable to most of the West, the agency said. According to the SVR, Avakov, who took over as interior minister after the Western-backed coup in Kiev in 2014 and held the post until 2021, is one of the most “suitable” candidates being considered. The SVR claimed that the US believes that Avakov has several advantages over other candidates, including his close ties with Ukrainian far-right groups and his relationship with EU leaders. The agency added that the White House believes that such a change in leadership “will allow the West to better prepare for the possible start of negotiations with Russia to resolve the conflict.”

Officials also noted that the question of Avakov taking the reins is being discussed with Ukrainian opposition figures, including former President Pyotr Poroshenko, ex-Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko, as well as influential MPs from Zelensky’s own party. After taking over as interior minister, Avakov spearheaded a crackdown on forces protesting the Western-backed coup in Kiev. He also held this post during the 2014 fire at the Trade Union House in Odessa, where 42 people died after being chased inside by a far-right mob. No comprehensive trial has been held in the ten years since the tragedy. Kiev’s inaction in this regard has been criticized by the UN. The former interior minister has also been a vocal supporter of the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion. Allegations have emerged that Avakov provided political support to the unit and helped secure the release from prison of its leader, Andrey Biletsky, who is widely regarded as a white supremacist.

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“The Kiev regime has said candidly that the objective is to “instill fear” among civilians. That’s a brazen admission of terrorism..”

• NATO and its Kiev Proxy In Last Roll Of The Dice (SCF)

The NATO NeoNazi regime in Kiev is going for broke, as its Third Reich forbears did during World War Two. This time around, though, the fascists have a nuclear terrorist card to play. As in the endgame of World War Two, the Nazi Wehrmacht tried to break out in Kursk as a way to divert from battlefield losses elsewhere on the crumbling Eastern Front. The gamble proved futile then and looks like repeating disastrously today. Vladimir Zelensky, the illegitimate puppet president of Ukraine, is out of troops and money. His insufferable begging routine for more weapons and money has become played out. His country is set to default on eye-watering debts to international creditors. Russia’s military advances in the Donbass – formerly eastern Ukraine now part of the Russian Federation – have succeeded in pushing the Kiev regime to the brink of collapse despite the latter receiving hundreds of billions of dollars worth of NATO weaponry.

Zelensky, who is still clinging on to power nearly six months after he cancelled elections, senses the end is nigh for his corrupt regime and its war racket. With over 600,000 dead soldiers and remaining civilians hiding or fleeing in fear of conscription, the ex-comedian throws the dice with a few brigades despatched on a suicide cross-border raid on Russia’s Kursk region. “The Kursk maneuver could herald the end of Ukraine militarily,” remarked Gustav Gressel, a former Austrian defense ministry official, in an interview with Der Spiegel. Gressel suggested that the Ukrainian brigades represent the final reserves for the NATO-backed Kiev regime. Once they are wiped out by the superior Russian forces then there will be nothing left for the Kiev side. The BBC reported – with an air of glee – that convoys of troops are heading from Ukraine’s Sumy region across the border into Russia’s Kursk. The offensive has been going on for a week now, which Moscow says involves indiscriminate attacks on civilians and residential homes.

The Kiev regime has said candidly that the objective is to “instill fear” among civilians. That’s a brazen admission of terrorism. If Kiev’s other objective is to divert Russian forces from Donbass, that doesn’t seem to be working. Russian forces continue to make gains in the direction 0f Donbass – the main battlefield of this conflict. So, what is the Zelensky junta playing at? It’s a terror tantrum to try to show his NATO sponsors that their proxy regime is still worth backing. The wasting of Ukrainian military lives is a desperate “working off loans for his masters”, as Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova put it. Sending his people to die is Zelensky’s attempt to show his regime is still “liquid”. But it’s a final act of desperation. When this futile foray into Kursk is spent then it’s over. As part of the final desperate act, the nuclear terrorism card is also being played – again. While the incursion in Kursk is going on, the Ukrainian side has tried to attack the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant and the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant.

The ZNPP has come under constant shelling from the Armed Forces of Ukraine enabled with U.S.-made HIMARS missiles and other NATO weapons since Russia took over the civilian power plant – the largest in Europe – soon after the conflict erupted in February 2022. Russia took control at an earlier stage precisely because it anticipated that if it didn’t, the Kiev regime would use it as a false flag provocation regardless of the radiological contamination of Europe.In the latest strike, one of the cooling towers at the ZNPP was set on fire. Russia says the tower was hit by a drone. Moscow denounced what it called “nuclear terrorism” and it called on the international community to sanction Ukraine. Moscow is wasting its breath. Numerous calls for condemnation over previous air strikes on the ZNPP by the Ukrainian side have been ignored or willfully covered up by the West.

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He’s trapped.

• Kursk Was Low Hanging Fruit. What Now For Zelensky And His Allusions? (Jay)

The recent move by Ukraine to take Kursk was bold. It’s hardly surprising that media in the west have blown it up to be bigger than it really is though, given that they have been starved of positive chaff to spin for months for their NATO clients and so it comes as little surprise that it will run for days. But of course, the real test of the move comes in the days ahead. Taking a small enclave of Kursk with little or no resistance from Russian forces there – who are not battled hardened top notch – was hardly the Hollywood epic that the West is presenting it as. Taking it is one thing. Keeping it is a whole new matter.

Zelensky may well have taken the Kursk option to try and draw Russian troops out of the Donbas or from a small enclave on the Ukrainian side nearby that was taken recently. Militarily of course this makes sense and most analysts present this as the main point of the exercise. Whatever Putin does, it will be a draw from other resources in other places and so he strikes the Russian leader hard with one blow. Politically also, Zelensky knows that the pressure will be on Putin to do something to settle the Kursk issue. Russians did not think, when they were given the picture of Ukraine and Moscow’s objectives, that it would involve a spill over war into their own country. And so that merely piles on the pressure for Putin to deal with the Kursk “provocation”.

But there are other factors which Zelensky has on his mind, behind the Kursk ruse. The Ukrainian president, for the first time, has reached out to Putin and his officials recently when he invited Russia to a peace conference in November. This is a first of its kind, in that the initiative is actually Ukraine’s and that Putin is invited. Clearly, Zelensky believes that he needs to make a move before the U.S. elections are over, given that a Trump victory might push him to give up much more than his political expediency will allow. Having Kursk in his war chest will be very useful, not because of the tiny amount of land that Ukraine army actually has, but for the symbolism, as a card to play when negotiations actually start.

And yet this move comes with a high price which indicates also the level of desperation that Zelensky is in and we can, arguably, attest that Russia didn’t see it coming. If Zelensky loses the Kursk patch, then the humiliation and the loss of support from the military and its families will be unprecedented. If Kursk backfires, it might well cost him everything. The risks of course are not only with Zelensky alone but weigh heavily on the West also. For Western elites to goad him on and then congratulate him is both foolish and reckless. For Putin to refuse to be baited into a full-out war with NATO one can only comment that his patience is not unlimited – especially when now his political élan has taken a knock. There have been many moments in the past couple of years when this has happened before and he always survives the rough and tumble of Russian politics. But this time Zelensky will have to be seen to be paying the price for poking the Russian bear in the cage once too hard.

There is also another important development which is running concurrent to these events which is the role that Belarus could play in the coming months. Ukraine has repeatedly operated drones in the country’s airspace and been warned of the consequences. Recently tanks from Belarus were sent to the border, cranking up tensions even more if Ukraine angers Minsk once more. Zelensky certainly likes to skate on thin ice but presumably the two F16s which he has taken delivery of will amuse him no end. His own propaganda team are filming the two jets flying in tandem all over the country, presumably with two retired U.S. pilots in the cockpit, and dumping it all on social media to give the impression there is an air force made up of these American fighters. Hilarious. Expect more smoke and mirrors as we get closer to November.

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“..all of that depends on a counterpart in the Kremlin that was willing to negotiate,” and “Putin is not going to.”

• Ex-US Ambassador ‘Pessimistic’ About Ukraine’s Future (RT)

Relations between the West and Russia are unlikely to improve in the foreseeable future and Washington has no effective means to “bend” the country to its will, in particular on the Ukraine issue, Washington’s former ambassador to Moscow, John Sullivan, has claimed. In an interview with Foreign Policy magazine, published on Tuesday, Sullivan claimed that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government is an “extremely difficult government to deal with” due to its negotiating style, which he claimed was based on “maximalist” demands. “If there were something we could do to pressure Russia to bend to our will, we would’ve already done that on Ukraine. What are we going to threaten them with now? We’ve hit [Putin] with a lot of sticks over Ukraine. If I could come up with better sticks, we’d already be using them on Ukraine now,” Sullivan stated, apparently referring to sanctions the US and its allies have heaped on Russia since the outbreak of hostilities between Moscow and Kiev.

He said he expects that “Putin will not compromise over Ukraine” no matter what NATO countries do in their attempts to persuade him, because “it’s not of his nature to compromise on issues that are so fundamental to him as a person and his conception of Russia.” The former diplomat offered several potential scenarios for conflict resolution, such as “a cease-fire without conceding or recognizing any territory as Russia” or a “massive support program for Ukraine through a new lend-lease type program.” He noted, however, that “all of that depends on a counterpart in the Kremlin that was willing to negotiate,” and “Putin is not going to.” “I am pessimistic about the future in Ukraine because neither party at this point is looking to negotiate. The Ukrainians so far can’t push the Russians out of the Ukrainian territory they control. But on the flip side, the Russians haven’t been able to mount any major offensive to take more parts of Ukraine. So a stalemate is the best we can hope for in the foreseeable future,” he concluded.

Sullivan served as ambassador to Russia from 2019 until his departure from Moscow in September 2022. Prior to his return to the US, which came a mere six months into the Ukraine conflict, Sullivan admitted that relations between Moscow and Washington had hit an all-time low. Moscow has repeatedly said that one of the major goals of its military operation against Kiev was to ensure Russia’s security in light of the threat posed by NATO’s expansion toward its borders. Another, it said, was to protect the Russian population living in the former Ukrainian territories from persecution by Kiev’s forces, which began following the Maidan coup in Kiev in 2014. Moscow has also stressed that it is open to a diplomatic solution to the conflict, albeit on its terms. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in late July that despite the West’s stance on the Ukraine conflict and sanctions it heaped on Moscow over the past two years, Russia remains open to dialogue and cooperation with Western countries, including on issues of security.

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Another 2,000 troops lost. For a show.

• NATO Allies Skeptical About Ukraine’s Advance Into Russia – Bloomberg (RT)

NATO allies consider it unlikely that Ukrainian forces will be able to hold Russian territory, even if it takes weeks for Moscow to force them out of Kursk Region, a Western official familiar with Kiev’s planning of last week’s incursion has told Bloomberg. Elements of six Ukrainian brigades invaded Kursk Region in the morning of August 6, taking over several border villages. Moscow has introduced a state of emergency and launched a counter-terrorist operation in the region, which borders Ukraine’s Sumy. The Russian Defense Ministry later said that the Ukrainian advance had been halted, estimating enemy losses at up to 2,000 service members and more than 200 armored vehicles. According to the unnamed NATO official, cited by Bloomberg on Tuesday, the incursion was “at least crucial to show that Kiev can challenge the Kremlin.”

With Ukraine’s military on the defensive, a cross-border attack had been “weighed for some time” before the incursion, the Western official said. Ukraine had reportedly been weighing several possibilities for an attack aimed at putting Russia on the backfoot. “While President Joe Biden’s administration and the European Union have given their blessing as the first military presence on Russian soil since World War II unfolds, NATO allies have so far withheld judgment,” Bloomberg wrote. Kiev officials did not share specific information on the cross-border attack until it was well underway, according to an unnamed Western intelligence official.

Meanwhile, Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh described the attack as “consistent” with Washington’s policy on Ukraine’s use of American-supplied weapons to defend itself. The EU has also called the operation legitimate defense. Ukrainian troops interviewed by Western outlets have admitted that the goal of the incursion was to capture some territory that could be traded with Russia in possible peace talks and to relieve pressure on the Donbass front. Moscow has since ruled out any negotiations with Kiev, while Russian troops have accelerated their advance. Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev warned on Tuesday the Ukrainian government will face “ramifications” for attacking the country.

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“She’s been operating as a foreign agent on behalf of the United States. The CIA literally writes her a paycheck..”

• ‘The CIA Writes Her Paycheck’ (Sp.)

The United States has taken a keen interest in the results of another foreign election, with observers noting Venezuela possesses the world’s largest proven crude oil reserves. Venezuela’s Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ), the highest court in the country, is examining the results of the country’s most recent presidential election as opposition leaders and their foreign backers allege fraud. The country’s National Electoral Council (CNE), the government body responsible for managing elections in Venezuela, has submitted records to the court in an attempt to resolve the ongoing dispute. The TSJ has noted its legal authority on the matter, noting that its decision will be final and binding. But the opposition has refused to take part in the process, drawing criticism over its failure to present requested evidence to the court.

“No Venezuelan party that alleges to have 40 percent more votes than President Maduro (as the opposition claims) would hesitate to present the evidence to the National Electoral Council (CNE),” said Venezuelan constitutional expert Dr. Olga Alvarez in response to the development. “Whoever cries election fraud must irrefutably prove it, the onus is on them not on the CNE to prove there wasn’t.” Political activist and independent journalist Niko House joined Sputnik’s The Critical Hour program Monday to discuss the issue with host Wilmer Leon. “She’s been operating as a foreign agent on behalf of the United States. The CIA literally writes her a paycheck,” alleged House, speaking of Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado. “You would never see Joe Biden put in a request to audit and verify the results of the election,” he noted. “I think that speaks to the accountability and the integrity of Nicolas Maduro, which I feel like is a very important component here.”

House also noted Venezuela’s robust electoral system, which includes multiple “checks and balances” and allows the opposition to monitor the counting of votes at electoral precincts. “The most simplistic explanation is the oil, right?” House said of the United States’ interest in the election. The US and several of its allies have expressed concern over Maduro’s victory, echoing opposition claims of a fraudulent election. The opposition has produced records it claims point to a victory for opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez, although the records have not been independently verified as accurate or authentic. Western media outlets have uncritically repeated the opposition’s claims, with outlets like The New York Times playing their typical role in attempting to legitimate official US foreign policy.

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“..all but a small minority of Israelis approve of the savagery that has killed many tens of thousands of Palestinians, including children.”

• ‘Israel Itself is a War Crime’ (Sp.)

On Sunday, Hamas released a statement calling for the hostage exchange and ceasefire deal with Israel that was initially announced by US President Joe Biden in late May and backed by the UN Security Council in a resolution that passed on June 10. While Hamas had agreed to the ceasefire deal, Israel complicated negotiations by creating new demands as a way to sabotage the deal. However, talks between the two groups have been suspended since the assassination of Hamas’s political chief, Ismail Haniyeh, in Tehran. “It’s clear that [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu doesn’t want to negotiate, and we can have Yair Lapid and the war council out here saying, ‘we’re looking for some deal and we’re willing to hop on Biden’s deal from May’. But if Netanyahu refuses to do that, obviously it’s clear where the holdup is,” Carey explained, suggesting that Hamas has already won the “PR war”.

“It’s clear that Netanyahu has no plans to negotiate in good faith with Hamas as far as releasing hostages goes. And that’s been apparent for months now, but now that [we’re] talking about preemptive strikes against Iran for aggression done by Israel already, it’s very apparent that Israel, or at least Likud led by Netanyahu, is in no position where they want to negotiate. They could negotiate, but they refuse to.”“This is a genocide, whether it’s a slow one or an active one, as it’s been over the last few years, or since it’s been more active since October 7th. It’s obviously a genocide. And I think it’s ridiculous for people, especially liberals in the US or in the West to try and pretend that Israel has this sort of liberal, or even a streak that wants to negotiate with the Palestinians, or acknowledge the Palestinians’ existence.”

“It’s clearly out the window at this point, and obviously this is where Israel had to go as a colonial power. There’s nowhere to go. I mean, the Nakba started in 1948. That’s how Israel has always been. It’s where Israel always had to go to the point of an active genocide.” Israel was built on the displacement of Palestinians, claims a recent article published by a US-based news service. In 1948, Israelis took part in the ethnic cleansing of “some 750,000 Palestinians from their homes” in what Palestinians now refer to as their Nakba (Catastrophe). The journalist of the article, Jonathan Cook, claims that “every Israeli knows exactly what is going on in Gaza.”“…their children-soldiers keep posting videos online showing the latest crimes they have committed, from blowing up mosques and hospitals to shooting randomly into homes,” writes Cook. “Polls show all but a small minority of Israelis approve of the savagery that has killed many tens of thousands of Palestinians, including children.”

“It’s a sort of historical whitewashing,” Carey said. “Obviously, you know, Israel doesn’t want to acknowledge its roles in this and then, people say, ‘oh, well, Israel didn’t take part in these war crimes’. But, Israel itself – that was point number two here – Israel itself is a war crime. It’s a colonial state.” “The Nakba, again, in 1948, saw hundreds of thousands of Palestinians evicted. We’ve seen thousands of Palestinians evicted from East Jerusalem. We’ve seen the settlements expand in the West Bank. We’ve seen Gaza be carpet-bombed from north to south, clean out. There’s no passive agreement to these things anymore.” “This is a very genocidal state and it was always going to be. I think it’s important to remember that this is what Israel was founded on and the Israeli project was always meant to be larger than it is now and it’s going to continue expanding and they want to do that regardless of the cost.”

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“..the doctors at the Baptist Hospital gave him a plastic bag containing 18 kilograms of human remains and told him, “This is your son; go and bury him.”

• Every 70 KG Bag of Human Remains Is Considered a Martyr (Hajjaj)

Zainab al-Jaabari, 79, sits a few dozen meters in front of the scene of the massacre. She is waiting for her family members to return from checking for her seven sons and grandchildren, who were in the prayer hall praying Fajr at the time it took place. Her family members arrived to see the reality of the massacre with their own eyes: more than a hundred people were killed, and their bodies were now scattered and mixed in the prayer hall in the Daraj neighborhood in Gaza City. It is possible their delay in returning now is due to their horror at what they found, or perhaps because they can’t imagine how to tell Zainab that her seven sons and grandchildren have been killed. At dawn on Saturday, August 10, the Israeli army bombed a mosque while dozens of displaced people were praying the Fajr prayer, the daily Islamic prayer offered in the early morning. The bombing killed more than a hundred people, most of whom were dismembered or destroyed beyond recognition.

For this reason the identification of the bodies has so far been incomplete. The majority of the martyrs in this latest massacre are first- or second-degree relatives because the prayer hall that the Israeli army bombed belongs to a school housing displaced families from Gaza City. The decimated prayer hall belongs to the Tabi’in School, and is only used by the displaced people sheltering in the school. At the time of the bombing the prayer hall was filled with men. Now, many women who may have become widows and many children who may have become orphans, are sitting in front of the classrooms that were not reached by the bombing waiting to be told the fate of their families. The Israeli army said that it bombed the prayer hall because there were armed elements from the Islamic Jihad movement and Hamas there, but the displaced people in the school confirmed that there were no armed men among them. Hamas also denied the Israeli allegations and issued a statement saying that there were no armed men in the school.

“We live in the school, more than a hundred families, there are no fighters among us, there are no armed men among us, they are all children,” Zainab al-Jaabari told Mondoweiss. “The Israeli army left us nothing; they burned the trees, destroyed the houses, killed the people, and destroyed the land; what can we do? There is nothing we can do; we are children and women here; we cannot fight. Have you ever seen a country do all these criminal acts? Have you ever seen people who have all these crimes happen to them?” she says. “All we have is prayers; we pray against America that helps Israel to slaughter us, and we pray against everyone who watches us being slaughtered and does nothing to help us.” “We no longer have anything, and there is nowhere to go; the only thing we have is the sea, and even there, we will find death.” Al-Jaabari’s daughters went to the Baptist Hospital near the bombed school so they could identify their siblings.

“I can’t move much. I sent my daughters to the hospital to check on the rest of my children, but none of them have returned yet; all my sons and grandchildren were praying at the time of the bombing.” Hours after the massacre, the names of the martyrs who were identified were announced, and among the names were seven martyrs from the Al-Jaabari family. They are Zainab’s sons and grandchildren. In the mosque, people stand in a row close to each other as they pray, and after the bombing, the worshipers remained intermingled as well, as remains and corpses. Large numbers of martyrs were not able to be identified, and entire families were wiped out. Survivors of this massacre are describing a new and horrifying experience they are being forced to endure in aftermath of Israeli bombing in the Gaza Strip: they cannot even identify the remains of their loved ones.

Because the rescue teams couldn’t identify many of the human remains collected due to the intensity of the bombing, the doctors at Baptist Hospital were not able to identify each martyr individually. Instead, the doctors have started collecting body parts in plastic bags and giving 70 kilos of remains to the family of a martyr who has gone missing. Hassan Ahmad told Mondoweiss that he searched extensively for the body of his 6-year-old son Ali, and after hours of searching, he did not find a trace of him. He then went to the Baptist Hospital to ask about his son, or to find any part of his body so I could identify him and bury him. After a long search that did not yield any results, the doctors at the Baptist Hospital gave him a plastic bag containing 18 kilograms of human remains and told him, “This is your son; go and bury him.”

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  • August 14, 2024 at 9:00 am #166326
    Raúl Ilargi Meijer
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    Hasui Kawase Moon at Megome (woodblock print) 1930   • X Conversation Between Musk And Trump Generates Over A Billion Views (ZH) • Musk Offers In
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle August 14 2024]

    August 14, 2024 at 11:03 am #166329
    oxymoron
    Participant

    Fuck your own face.
    Freedom of speech has never been more hilarious.
    But this is how it works. It shows the truth that speech is made of words.
    The violence in Palestine and Ukraine is ACTUAL violence.
    Oh my god. The sweet relief of seeing politically incorrect badmouthing is sooooo good!
    God Bless America

    August 14, 2024 at 11:27 am #166330
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Woke up this morning and my thought was, “Please, please, PLEASE let Starmer have extradicted an American. Please God, if you’re listening.”

    FreeTime
    https://media.makeameme.org/created/sounds-like-they-0fcc23fc9c.jpg

    We have U.S. bases right there! Like Africa, we can just start bombing them into freedom today!

    From yesterday, of course there are White Hats. You, Dr. Rich are speaking up. YOU are the White Hat. I speak up. I am a White Hat. Chelsea Manning spoke up and embarrassed the U.S. He is a White Hat. So a very high level Navyman was speaking up and holding the line both militarily, for officer corps, and medically. And he’s still doing that today. There are other Navymen who enlisted for patriotic reasons who are having the same experience right now and are doing what you did. Who did you think I was talking about?

    With Fagan yesterday, He went “antiwar”. Abandoned his men and his post. In fact started shooting them. Clearly that will be illegal, but is it also immoral? Well that’s the question we all have to answer, isn’t it? We follow the Moral, not the Law. Following the Law is “Do what you’re told” by child-like bully narcissists.

    Trump-Musk: Congratulations, you’ve invented Radio. No, really: I have nothing against radio, it’s simple and works really well. That’s what podcasts are, just that you can play them at any time and don’t have to put your ear against the tubes at 8:01pm when Orphan Annie comes on.

    Cleve Wootson, WaPo:

    Take this out a little bit: “the President has the duty to stop misinformation.” Actually, probably yes. If someone was saying Germany is invading, the Government, Executive should get on TV and say they’re not. …Or at least not recently. They are supposed to release corrections, keep in communication with the press and so on. So it’s not THAT you are doing it, but how. You can ADD speech, you cannot REDUCE speech.

    “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech,”

    Congress hasn’t made this law, (they would, but they can’t) ,and the President can’t enforce laws Congress doesn’t make. Speech cannot be abridged, curtailed. You are Free, to Speak. It’s fine if the President and his offices want to add to that, that’s okay and their job. It is not okay to STOP anyone else.

    Just saying because that question and her answer is a complete muddle because they neither know nor care what the law is, only Power. Their whole minds are like “Bulls–t” neither knowing nor caring nor checking if a thing is true or not.

    And again, The U.S. would like to do this – and tried, but are failing – while Europe is demanding complete tyrannical sovereignty over all humans worldwide. What Billionaires, in South Africa or American can or can’t say. Starmer will extradite people, worldwide, for reporting “an event happened”. The whole planet was under WEF, WHO, UN, NWO, EU, European law, control, and jurisdiction.

    Now note they were claiming it was US, the United States, that was doing all that. Yet the minute we back away they leap into the breech and slap leather to fill the gap. Huh. Sounds a lot more like they were directing our leaders, institutions (colleges) and secret services to do what THEY want done, not what WE want done. THEIR vision of the world, not the American vision. Right?

    If you want to go down further, is it the People of Germany, England, who want this? Uhhhh… The People of Poland want this war, transgender and atheism? Uhhhh… So WHO in Europe? And for that matter, is it Switzerland, the world’s largest Castle state and home of the BIS? A de facto gated community that somehow is not subject to the riff-raff problems the rest of Europe is having dumped on them? Geneva is not the hand-grenade capital of the world and has border for some reason. Well, the Swiss are very quiet, but that’s where Davos is, right?

    We say, “Who’s running things? Who benefits?” Does it look like Germany, France, are benefiting, or Starmer, Macron, Scholz, Bibi? No they all look troubled and fighting for their lives every day. America? Non. How about Geneva, are they rich, prosperous, peaceful, and forgotten? Thought experiment: what WOULD it look like? If you were the real owners and real directors, where would YOUR gated community be and what would it look like? Having block-wide arson parties like London?

    “free speech is a right-wing issue; I wouldn’t call [Kirn] Conservative”

    Why on earth would it be a Right Wing or Conservative issue? According to their own definitions, “Right” is authoritarian, and suppresses speech that counters government, military, or Christianity. Censorship and suppressing speech is a Nazi issue. By definition the “Right” cannot be free speech. Correct?

    This is what happens when words have no meaning. Or as I or Martensen core believe, when you live everything through your mind as abstractions.

    “central to the new playbook of power: the “whole of society”. “The term was popularized roughly a decade ago by the Obama administration,”

    This is “Fascism”. National. Socialism. As I said yesterday. The key element of “Fascism” is “Fasces” that is, a bundle of sticks wrapped together into one. “One whole of society,” with religion, media, government, business, all pulling in the same direction, with the same beliefs, values, goals, and culture. That is, they are radically anti-diversity. Right, Obama? They therefore must punish or purge anyone who is NOT the “Whole of Society” by very definition, or their plan means nothing and has no possible execution. You have to favor friends, and punish enemies. You have to push YOUR “Whole of Society” not somebody else’s.

    We say, “but how did we not notice that was straight-up fascism and dictatorial control?” Dummy, you think GERMANY knew it was straight up fascism and dictatorial control? Hitler was elected. They used this exact same progressive New-Age language then, with a Progressive, New-Age eastern shambala shangra-la flag. That is to say, they were living history forward, not having the hindsight we have today. It seemed – and very actually WAS all normal. …Up to a point. What was the “point”?

    Obama can have all the “Whole Societies” he feels like. So can I. In fact, we all literally do. What he CAN’T do, is use evil, violence, force, oppression, and illegal process as his Means to an End. The End does not justify the Means. And it was very well substantiated that he purged the ranks, illegally, wiretapped the press, threw whistleblowers in jail, transgender or otherwise, killed American citizens, started extractive, expansionary wars, helped Epstein, and so on among thousands of other actions we can only suspect, like killing and blackmailing Senators, etc. As this article, you can’t kill everybody – there aren’t enough small planes to go around – so he used his “Technocratic police state” to harass and annoy most of these people, making them move slower and his people move faster, knowing regardless of any actions, however illegal, Hunter and Hillary’s charity fund would never be arrested, despite being illegal in every way it’s possible for a non-profit to be in ADDITION to taking bribes, refusing taxes, and keeping fraudulent records.

    It isn’t the thing, it still very simply falls back to: EVERYTHING THEY DID WAS ILLEGAL. So? Arrest them. This is not rocket science. Do we arrest criminals who do criminal acts? Or not? If not, you get what you get, I guess.

    Making it “Bland” is just PR, the “Banality of evil.” Sure, and just as the Germans did, and it seemed normal for them as it is for Hooker chemical to lower costs by dumping in the river. But like the military where your job is to kill people, but there are still rules, every one of those “banal” guys – in Germany and here – broke the law, and KNEW they were breaking the law, and broke it anyway. And we can prove all that in 20 ways including their own emails. That’s not culture, that’s not the banality of evil, that’s just being a criminal. And I’m not being precious here, there are rules of Prisoners of war, etc, and its very messy on the ground. We’re talking when they are way over the line as we see with Hunter’s laptop, where EVERY possible law was broken, and EVERY department did EVERY felony cover up. That’s not “Banality” that just being a criminal. Accessory to felony, abetting, sedition, conspiracy, tampering, perjury, and a dozen others.

    Why will no one arrest them? No one is moral. Back to “religion” again. Downstream of > Downstream of >Downstream of how you think the world works and what we’re here for.

    “the party requires an endless supply of causes … that party officers use as pretexts to demand ideological alignment across public and private sector institutions.”

    The one party. The one party ideology, aka “Religion”. This is why the first step is to purge Christianity (or other). You then replace the religion with your own religion, aka “Cult”. If their, any religion existed, even Christianity, it would conflict with Great Leader and the UniVision™ and people would not move forward with illegal orders.

    This is not genius. It’s very, very, very low level, very simple. The only people that are baffled are themselves, and wonderfully, the smarter they are, the more they are baffled. As a religion, they are a Mob, a “Mass Formation”, they work with themselves, their own internal paradigm and belief system, such that they get “The Memo” I’m always taking about and it seems obvious to them. No one else can see the memo or hear God himself whispering to them. That’s why largely there are no meetings, they don’t all have a big evil convention for serial killers in Vegas and get their orders for the year.

    St. Augustine puts out a paper in “Foreign Affairs” which is picked up by the Cardinal of WaPo. He issues an edict which is repeated by the pastors of Local Press and repeated by Visionaries and Friar Influencers, down to the masses in the Market square. Then also back up the chain as they see how this was received by their congregants. Then of course, they form a masse and attack the other churches and kill them as heretics. Not new. Not different. Same Human minds as 1500, same mind control.

    ““Zelensky is taking crazy steps that threaten to trigger escalation far beyond Ukraine,” officials said,”

    I have no idea what they mean here. You could not possible do more or be more pliable. Nor do I see a case where they fool Russia into thinking it’s now different, or to sue for peace, need a peace leader, etc. I think they’re just idiots and don’t know why they’re losing so they’re pulling levers like a coach just randomly swapping his batting order.

    ““The Kiev regime has said candidly that the objective is to “instill fear” among civilians. That’s a brazen admission of terrorism..”

    For a change, that would be the definition of “Terrorism”, which is used to mean “all objects in the universe.” However, we still don’t usually use the word in the context of nation states, nor especially during a war. So what if we did or didn’t define a counter-attack in a war as “terrorism”? Does it make any difference? Nope. It’s just a bunch of pointless PR for lying and propaganda. Why bother? You think the West cares? I certainly don’t. It doesn’t dead or un-dead anyone.

    “What Now For Zelensky And His Allusions? (Jay)

    Does he mean “Illusions”? An “Allusion” is to refer to something. This is why they had Copy Editors. For the Effect, so they wouldn’t be Affected.

    “Zelensky may well have taken the Kursk option to try and draw Russian troops out of the Donbas or from a small enclave on the Ukrainian side”

    For tactics, maybe. The Press, Ukr and Western, still believe Russia is the size and strength of Bolivia and cannot understand why they didn’t withdraw troops from the collapsing front. …AYFKM? CLEARLY you are also not military men, nor ever read a military book. Okay, so all my guys are dug in, meter by meter, taking fire in Chasiv Yar, which we gave 3,000 lives for. And you’re going to say, round up all those men, remove them, re-structure, re-order, re-move all their supply chains, 100 miles away, to a place they’ve never been and know nothing about? To do what? And what happens back in Donbas, the entire Russian line collapses since everyone left too fast to set a minefield retreat, were wide open moving out with a hundred trucks and were shelled to powder?

    F—k No I’m not moving those men! If there are ANY men left in Russia, those guys are pinned down and can’t be touched. If it takes three weeks to ride cossocks in on horseback from Vladivostok they’ll have to take it because I can’t move those men. Not tactically, not logistically, not practically, not effectively. Suck it, citizens of Kursk, TRUST ME, you do NOT want me to move those men.

    Now that’s an IF case. In point of actual fact, Russia has about a MILLION men in military reserve, sittin’ at the base, eatin’ Korzinochki, doing nothing. As the most illiterate Western analyst would know, but doesn’t since they’re all getting high on meth with their gay lovers and the dog. The number of Russian recruits and reserves is not a state secret.

    So I don’t think they tried to take a normal counterattack – which could ordinarily be a good idea, militarily making Russia respond, let them know they can’t be aggressive, have to not fully deploy. But not when there is no change for the enclave, AND Russia already isn’t fully deployed, nor is there the slighted chance to lessen pressure on the line (due to their massive superiority). No, it can only be an attempt to take a key asset like the Nuke base or plant. Because when it fails, which it did in 2 days, they’ll immediately be far worse off with far worse PR than if they’d done nothing.

    They’re constantly saying “They’re Desperate”, everyone is “Desperate” 100% of all humans, all the time! CNN, Trump, your dag-walker, they’re all “Desperate”. Everyone is also “Panicking” and also “It’s Over.” 10,000 days in a row, “They’re Panicking, It’s Over!” Wake up, Dow 40k, Biden in office, same as 30 years. Like “Panic”, “Desperate” is by definition a rare and short-term event, although longer than “Panic” which cannot occur longer than hours. However, if there is a “desperate” it’s indicated by trying a 100:1 odds against, fully-surrounded army, creating their own cauldron against a 100:1 superior force, in order to attain an unlikely target that almost certainly will be recaptured again if you do, at the risk of the entire Ukrainian army collapsing, and Ukraine ceasing to exist. THAT is the sort of action that the “Desperate” take.

    Less desperate than some, maybe, but it marks a turn in their thinking, doubling down when losing 2:1, and now going to the roulette wheel and betting 100:1. Fine. Let them. Losing is a process, they have to go through it for themselves. If not, Ukraine nationalists will just say, “Coulda shoulda, if only” for another 100 years.

    Speaking of, bring this up since it’s going to become relevant again soon: the price of Poland supporting this war, openly, in every way. Moderately, really, but deeper with every normal “legal” mechanism to NATO’s request, is that Poland will chop up Ukraine themselves and take the Polish city Lviv and its surrounding areas. That is, the West, NATO, STARTED by betraying Kiev, and selling off Ukraine with its super-duper sacrosanct borders (As only established by our bestest pals Stain and Khrushchev). That makes sense. Heck, maybe Poland even deserves it and there are majority Polish-speakers there, I dunno. But what happens when Russia takes the fallen country? NATO then does what? And Poland, a poor country having lost a billion dollars and 30,000 men, does what?

    Well, you tell me, but if I were Poland and NATO lost, I’d cut the same deal with Russia. We’ll be forever in Russia’s eastern European orbit, leave NATO, reject the USUK US$, and go with the winners for the same price of Polish Lviv. Sold? I mean, I’d be Russia wouldn’t WANT to after what’s been done, but they don’t want rebellious Western Ukraine either, so…

    ““..all but a small minority of Israelis approve of the savagery that has killed many tens of thousands of Palestinians, including children.”
    • ‘Israel Itself is a War Crime’ (Sp.)

    Sadly, both these statements are true.

    But as we see in England and Ireland right now, the colonists are always against the Native peoples.

    August 14, 2024 at 12:04 pm #166331
    oxymoron
    Participant

    I’m of the opinion that criminals no longer meet consequences delivered by a moral society BUT that of other more powerful criminals. Actions have consequences and once you get in the gang you never get out. Biden’s the latest but even low level douchebag law breakers are doing it too n competition with other sharks and low life characters. Their problem is they don’t know their place as in the post growth smorgasbord they are used to having increasingly higher rewards and diminishing consequences. This changes at the closing scene of the latest stage in debt blowoffs.
    People get thrown under the bus and killed. Susan Wah-jockey just the latest and she only had 800 million dollars

    More. To. Come.

    August 14, 2024 at 12:12 pm #166332
    Oroboros
    Participant

    The Empire of Lies

    Memory Holing is a major tool because damaging a nation’s collective capacity to remember allows unlimited crime to continue unabated.

    It puts the Duh in Duh’merica.

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    August 14, 2024 at 12:20 pm #166333
    Oroboros
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    When your memory is damaged, Re-branding is much easier

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    August 14, 2024 at 12:22 pm #166334
    Oroboros
    Participant

    You can even phuck with Sheeple’s minds on an everyday basis using traffic signs to confuse and mystify

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    August 14, 2024 at 12:25 pm #166335
    Oroboros
    Participant

    The Empire of Lies Military Strategic Thinking® on Display for Posterity

    Once seen can not be unseen

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    August 14, 2024 at 12:27 pm #166336
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Ritual Humiliation No. 1234

    August 14, 2024 at 12:30 pm #166337
    poppie
    Participant

    DrD. You offer some critical points today.
    Where are the people who are the root cause of controversy? Take away where they are not. The remainder is where they are. Who is in that location? Linux computer, TOR browser, onion VPN and deep dive into a dox. Scrub that result into pri1 targets. Attach payloads to hobby balloons. Launch from distant location reverse calculated wind path. A glide kit could get 1m accuracy from a very long standoff. With some planning and access within say 60 miles, you could hit any point on the earth on demand. Time and place. Real estate records. Utility records. Flight manifests. Satellite images. $100 ea. Out of your garage. All parts off the shelf now. Radar invisible if you avoid metalized balloons. North and South Korea have been doing this for years.
    Thank you for the definition of fascism. Finally. Every other has been a blind man describing an elephants trunk, or tail. There it is, the whole elephant. thx.

    August 14, 2024 at 12:32 pm #166338
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    August 14, 2024 at 12:35 pm #166339
    Oroboros
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    Presidementia Pedo Jo-jo Dreaming of Mt Rushmore

    Makes ya proud to be a Duh’merica!

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    August 14, 2024 at 12:56 pm #166340
    Oroboros
    Participant

    (1:03) Dave Smith’s 2024 Predictions

    An attempted assassination, followed by a coup.

    (8:34) Who Is the President Right Now?

    The FUCKTARD with the Ice Cream Cone

    August 14, 2024 at 12:57 pm #166341
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    August 14, 2024 at 1:09 pm #166343
    D Benton Smith
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    This is going to be a wild day, but before getting more fully into that I want to shout out to @DrDRich that his post #166314 from late yesterday is worth posting again:

    David Fagen

    Some men can’t be moved off their spot deapite the conditioning no matter who gives the orders.

    They say leader but they mean follower, fellow traveler and suck-up.
    The insecurity of those chosen for power and unqualified for the position knows no bounds

    After all, “an officer is first and foremost, subordinate”.

    https://www.back2past.com/frank-mckinley-jones#:~:text=Fagen%20was%20one%20of%20small%20group%20of%20deserters”

    Thanks, Doc, for bringing David Fagan to our attention as an historical figure and touch-stone for the ages. Now HE is what I would call a real man (and note his skin color! How about THEM apples, heh?)

    August 14, 2024 at 1:20 pm #166344
    zerosum
    Participant

    Fighting Words: Truth

    ” Vladimir Zelensky, the illegitimate puppet president of Ukraine, is out of troops and money. His insufferable begging routine for more weapons and money has become played out. His country is set to default on eye-watering debts to international creditors. Russia’s military advances in the Donbass – formerly eastern Ukraine now part of the Russian Federation – have succeeded in pushing the Kiev regime to the brink of collapse despite the latter receiving hundreds of billions of dollars worth of NATO weaponry.”

    The BBC reported – with an air of glee – that convoys of troops are heading from Ukraine’s Sumy region across the border into Russia’s Kursk. The offensive has been going on for a week now, which Moscow says involves indiscriminate attacks on civilians and residential homes.

    The Kiev regime has said candidly that the objective is to “instill fear” among civilians. That’s a brazen admission of terrorism. If Kiev’s other objective is to divert Russian forces from Donbass, that doesn’t seem to be working. Russian forces continue to make gains in the direction 0f Donbass – the main battlefield of this conflict. So, what is the Zelensky junta playing at? It’s a terror tantrum to try to show his NATO sponsors that their proxy regime is still worth backing.

    Moscow has repeatedly said that one of the major goals of its military operation against Kiev was to ensure Russia’s security in light of the threat posed by NATO’s expansion toward its borders. Another, it said, was to protect the Russian population living in the former Ukrainian territories from persecution by Kiev’s forces, which began following the Maidan coup in Kiev in 2014. Moscow has also stressed that it is open to a diplomatic solution to the conflict, albeit on its terms.

    Fighting Words: Lies

    August 14, 2024 at 1:24 pm #166345
    John Day
    Participant

    “America’s Worst Mayor” Tiffany Henyard Disappears After Investigation Reveals Millions In Debt, $40,000 In Amazon Purchases https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/dolton-mayor-tiffany-henyard-disappears-after-investigation-reveals-35-million-hidden-debt
    Believe it or not, former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot was hired to lead the investigation into the Dolton, Il mayor.

    Village trustees hired Lightfoot to address concerns about excessive spending, including taxpayer-funded billboards, ads, lavish dinners, and trips, according to CBS. Earlier this year it was reported Henyard spent $7,650 on hair and makeup after taking office and billed the city for it.

    August 14, 2024 at 1:30 pm #166346
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Just to get this on the record (for the third time, actually, now that I come to think about), if anyone tries to CONSCRIPT ME into their criminal war I will shoot THEM before I shoot anyone else.

    The first time I said that (in a formal statement to my US Navy ship’s Captain, in an officially legal hearing) I was transformed from being a conscript into being a civilian in exactly 18 hours, honorably. It was even written into my DD214 that I was forbidden from being inducted into any US Service under any circumstances whatsoever, including war.

    I’m not kidding or exaggerating one damn bit. I follow God’s law, not some jerk in Washington’s law.

    August 14, 2024 at 1:37 pm #166347
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    And what is God’s law? Well, that’s such a tough one to answer that I have to just take it on a case-by-case basis, and FREQUENTLY have to consult with God Himself (as best I can) quite a bit before coming up with the right answer. Basically it all comes down to choosing Good over Bad, Truth over Lies, and Right from Wrong. That’s often very hard to do, but not always.

    August 14, 2024 at 1:56 pm #166348
    Noirette
    Participant

    The picture at top post reminded me that German uniforms in WW2 have been subject to much scrutiny and analysis.

    *Real Men Real Style* at Youtube is imho tops, but I’m not the super expert.

    Title, Why were the Nazis so well dressed?

    10 mins gives some of the basics.

    Other vid, why were the Nazis so Stylish, 18 mins.

    https://tinyurl.com/4y6kuymu

    August 14, 2024 at 2:04 pm #166349
    Noirette
    Participant

    August 14, 2024 at 2:12 pm #166350
    John Day
    Participant

    @Oroboros: thanks for the “Don’t Forget” & “Forget” image.
    Here is some stuff I happened across. It’s rare enough to see this stated clearly, right or wrong.
    power

    SATANIC GLOBAL POWER STRUCTURE

    These are the Khazarian-controlled Illuminati mafia families who secretly run the world.

    August 14, 2024 at 2:15 pm #166351
    John Day
    Participant

    Better Than Vengeance https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/better-than-vengeance

    Alastair Crooke, “An Intricate Fabric of Bad Actors Working Hand-in-Hand” – So is war Inevitable?
    ​ Netanyahu went to Washington to lay out the case for all-out war on Iran – a moral war of civilisation versus the Barbarians, he said. He was applauded for his stance. He returned to Israel and immediately provoked Hizbullah, Iran and Hamas in a way that dishonoured and humiliated both – knowing well that it would draw a riposte that would most likely lead to wider war.
    ​ Clearly Netanyahu, backed by a plurality of Israelis, wants an Armageddon (with full U.S. support, of course). He has the U.S., he thinks, exactly where he wants it. Netanyahu has only to escalate in one way or another – and Washington, he calculates (rightly or wrongly), will be compelled to follow.
    ​ Is this why Iran is taking its time? The calculus on an initial riposte to Israel is ‘one thing’, but how then might Netanyahu retaliate in Iran and Lebanon? That can be altogether an ‘other thing’. There have been hints of nuclear weapons being deployed (in both instances). There is however nothing solid, to this latter rumour.
    ​ Further, how might Israel respond towards Russia in Syria, or might the U.S. react through escalation in Ukraine? After all, Moscow has assisted Iran with its air defences (just as the West is assisting Ukraine against Russia).​ https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/08/12/an-intricate-fabric-of-bad-actors-working-hand-in-hand-so-is-war-inevitable/

    UNICEF: Over half of Gaza’s schools bombed by Israel​ https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240812-unicef-over-half-of-gazas-schools-bombed-by-israel/

    ​ According to the UN human rights office, this weekend’s attack was the 21st strike on a school – which was also serving as a shelter – in the region since July 4. ​ In total the strikes have resulted in 274 deaths including women and children.
    ​ The office of the Palestinian Authority’s president is holding the US government accountable after approximately 100 people, including at least 11 children and six women, were reportedly killed this weekend from a bombing attack in which US-provided missiles were used.
    ​ Nabih Abu Rudeineh, the spokesperson for the Palestinian presidency, condemned the attack and said the Palestinian Authority held the Biden administration “responsible for the massacre due to its financial, military, and political support for Israel,” cited a report from Common Dreams. The spokesperson also demanded that the US pressure Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to initiate a ceasefire, and to end their own blind support of Israel.​ https://sputnikglobe.com/20240812/palestine-blames-us-for-latest-slaughter-of-innocent-civilians—report-1119742431.html

    ​ Over 140 Palestinians killed during Israeli raids in Gaza in past 2 days — Health Ministry
    According to the report, 150 people sustained wounds as a result of shelling and bombardment from Israeli troops in various parts of the strip​ https://tass.com/world/1827883

    August 14, 2024 at 2:17 pm #166352
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Iran will respond to ‘Israel’, not to succumb to bullying: Pezeshkian​ The Iranian president emphasizes to the German Chancellor Iran’s right to respond to aggressors in accordance with international law.​ https://english.almayadeen.net/news/Arts&Culture/iran-will-respond-to–israel—not-to-succumb-to-bullying–p

    ​Some things are better than vengeance.
    ​ Reuters and Times of Israel have cited three Iranian officials who said “An Iranian attack on Israel could be delayed amid hoped-for negotiations later this week for a hostage release and ceasefire deal in Gaza” which indicates that “a successful deal could hold Iran back from direct retaliation against Israel for alleged assassinating Hamas terror chief Ismail Haniyeh on its soil.”​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iran-signals-its-climbing-down-israel-attack-plans-2-weeks-after-hanyieh-killing

    Sanctions against Israeli ministers ‘must be on EU agenda’ – Borrell​, Inciting “war crimes” should have consequences, the bloc’s foreign policy chief has argued​ https://www.rt.com/news/602476-borrell-sanctions-israeli-ministers/

    He Had Two Babies​, Caitlin Johnstone https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/he-had-two-babies
    twins

    August 14, 2024 at 2:18 pm #166353
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Grift is a major expense. Debt-Riddled Ukraine Blames ‘Slow’ US Aid, Scrambles to Pay Its Army
    As a major bulk of foreign aid to Ukraine comes in the form of arms supplies, financial aid from Kiev’s sponsors has been failing to cover all of the regime’s spiraling expenses. Volodymyr Zelensky’s Ukraine hit a debt peak in July, bringing it to the brink of default.
    An increasingly debt-riddled and ingrate Ukraine is starting to turn on its Western sponsors, blaming them for lagging weapons deliveries to bolster the ongoing proxy war. Kiev is particularly faulting the US for its huge budget deficit, which has brought Ukraine to the brink of default. https://sputnikglobe.com/20240812/debt-riddled-ukraine-blames-slow-us-aid-scrambles-to-pay-its-army-1119730146.html

    ​ A US senator in Kyiv said that Ukraine could hire American pilots to fly the F-16
    According to the American senator, Ukraine could “hire pilots from the United States.”
    ​ Graham:
    “For example, these could be our pilots who have already retired. They want to help Ukraine in the fight for freedom. And in this case, Ukraine can start using airplanes before Ukrainian pilots complete training.”​ https://en.topwar.ru/248067-senator-iz-ssha-v-kieve-zajavil-chto-ukraina-mozhet-nanjat-amerikanskih-letchikov-dlja-pilotirovanija-f-16.html

    ​ Ukrainians ordered to shoot civilians during Kursk attack – soldier
    Men should be shot in the legs and those carrying arms killed on the spot, according to instructions a captured POW has said troops were given​ https://www.rt.com/russia/602499-ukrainian-soldier-shoot-russian-civilians/

    ​ No talks with Kiev after attack on civilians – Putin
    The Russian president has condemned Ukraine’s indiscriminate strikes and attempts to target nuclear power facilities amid the Kursk incursion​ https://swentr.site/russia/602493-no-talks-kiev-putin/

    ​ Anyone not supporting Ukraine gets shot – Serbian deputy PM
    An assassin could target President Aleksandar Vucic over Belgrade’s neutrality on Ukraine, his key political ally has claimed
    ​ In an interview with Russia’s RIA Novosti published on Monday, Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vulin said that Serbian authorities are concerned about the president’s safety, following attempts on the lives of Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico and former US President Donald Trump.
    ​ “After the attempt on Mr. Fico, and later Trump, I told Vucic to be on guard,” Vulin said, “that’s because something happens to everyone calling for a peaceful resolution on Ukraine, they get shot at.”​ https://swentr.site/news/602484-serbian-president-assassination-ukraine/

    August 14, 2024 at 2:18 pm #166354
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Give the US the island as an airbase or get color-revolutioned. Thanks Wiggs.
    How Mackinder’s Heartland Theory of Geopolitics Helps Explain Bangladeshi PM Hasina’s Ouster​ https://sputnikglobe.com/20240811/how-mackinders-heartland-theory-of-geopolitics-helps-explain-bangladeshi-pm-hasinas-ouster-1119725428.html

    Ex-Twitter executive calls for arrest of Musk​, Right-wing content should be suppressed with draconian censorship, Bruce Daisley has declared​ https://swentr.site/news/602517-elon-musk-arrest-twitter/

    ​ Englishman Jailed for Sharing Pictures Warning Mass Migration ‘Coming to a Town Near You’
    A 51-year-old Englishman was jailed in the UK and dragged into court on Monday for sharing photos of migrants on Facebook and writing, “Coming to a town near you.”​ https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64594

    ​ 61-Year-Old Brit Gets 18 Month Prison Sentence For Chanting “Who The F**k Is Allah”​
    Police bodycam footage that was played in court showed Spring calling police officers “cunts,” making “hostile gestures” and joining in with chants of “who the fuck is Allah” and “you’re not English anymore.” ​ https://modernity.news/2024/08/14/61-year-old-man-gets-18-month-prison-sentence-for-chanting-who-the-fuck-is-allah/

    Scott Ritter: FBI Raids Part & Parcel of US Gov’t’ Intimidation​ https://sputnikglobe.com/20240812/scott-ritter-fbi-raids-part–parcel-of-us-govt-intimidation-1119734622.html

    August 14, 2024 at 2:19 pm #166355
    John Day
    Participant

    Smartmatic President Surrenders To US Authorities In Miami To Face Election-Related Bribery, Corruption Charges​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/smartmatic-president-surrenders-us-authorities-miami-face-bribery-corruption-charges

    ​ Trump To Sue DOJ For $100 Million Over Mar-a-Lago Raid
    Former President Donald Trump is set to sue the DOJ for $100 million in damages over the 2022 raid on his Mar-a-Lago property in Palm Beach, Florida – arguing that it was done “clear intent to engage in political persecution.”​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-sue-doj-100-million-over-mar-lago-raid

    ​ Trump Plans for 3 Rounds of Debates Against Harris in September
    ​ “The first Debate with Kamala Harris, for President of the United States of America, will be with FoxNews on September 4th, 2024, LIVE from beautiful Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The second Debate will take place on … ABC … on September 10th, 2024, at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The third Debate will take place on NBC, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on September 25th, 2024,” Trump said on Truth Social. Trump did not specify whether Vice President Harris had agreed to show up for all three rounds of debates.​ https://sputnikglobe.com/20240811/trump-plans-for-3-rounds-of-debates-against-harris-in-september-1119726821.html

    ​ Green Party Survives Dems’ Ballot Challenge In Battleground State – Kamala Shudders
    ​ Democrats’ drive to exclude the Green Party from the ballot in the battleground state of Nevada was defeated on Monday — sending shudders through Democrats who blame Green presidential candidate Jill Stein for enabling Donald Trump’s 2016 victory.​..
    ​..Stein took to social media to celebrate, saying, “We are excited to say that the ruling has been made in our favor and we will offer an anti-genocide, pro-worker, climate action choice for Silver State voters!”​…
    ..All across the country, the Democratic Party has been using lawfare to impede third-party and independent candidates seeking a presence on general election ballots. Their motive: to banish candidates who might siphon voters away from Kamala Harris and down-ballot Democrats.
    ​ This will be the Green Party’s first appearance on the Silver State’s ballot since 2008…
    ​..Stein is expected to name a running mate meant to channel the anger many voters feel about the Biden-Harris administration’s military and diplomatic backing of the State of Israel throughout its devastating, 10-month military campaign and blockade of Gaza​…
    ​..Those potential Green vice presidential candidates include human rights lawyer and Rutgers professor Noura Erakat, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee executive director Abed Ayoub, Dearborn, Michigan mayor Abdullah Hammoud, and political activist and comedian Amer Zahr. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/green-party-survives-dems-ballot-challenge-battleground-state-kamala-shudders

    Kennedy Jr. to Appeal Court Ruling Banning His New York Ballot Access – Official Campaign​ [New York resident since age 10, home, driver’s license, law license, taxes​, voter-registration]​ “Independent Presidential Candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. today condemned the openly partisan ruling by Democratic Judge Christina L. Ryba in Albany County Supreme Court against his New York residency and said that he will win on appeal,” the campaign statement read.
    ​ The Democrats-backed lawsuit against Kennedy argued that his true place of residence is California which makes it impossible to be elected in New York, New York Post newspaper reported earlier.​ https://sputnikglobe.com/20240813/kennedy-jr-to-appeal-court-ruling-banning-his-new-york-ballot-access—official-campaign-1119750553.html

    August 14, 2024 at 2:20 pm #166356
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Celia Farber, Coup By The Numbers In Plain Sight: Naomi Wolf Sees The Clear Playbook Of Her Former Team: Issues Dire Warning Against Rankin’s Vow To “Rank Bloodshed and No Rule Of Law.” Warns: “They’re Saying It.” Raskin’s Their Man. His Son Died By Suicide, He Is A Vegetarian, He Is Out For Blood; He’s Perfect https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/coup-by-the-numbers-in-plain-sight

    Snopes Caught Lying For Kamala As Forensics Prove Democrats ARE Using AI To Fake Crowd Sizes​ https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/snopes-caught-lying-for-kamala-as-forensics-prove-democrats-are-using-ai-to-fake-crowd-sizes/

    ​ Nancy Grace reveals new evidence in Ellen Greenberg ‘suicide’ case that may have damaged Josh Shapiro VP chances​ [“Arkancide” cover-up?]
    ​ Nancy Grace has revealed a catalogue of evidence in the case of Pennsylvania teacher Ellen Greenberg whose death was controversially ruled a suicide after she suffered 20 stab wounds.
    ​ The case was catapulted even further into the spotlight recently when Josh Shapiro emerged as a potential running mate for Kamala Harris.
    As the state’s Attorney General Shapiro had doubled down on the suicide ruling and blocked an attempt by Ellen’s family to have the case reinvestigated.​..
    ..On January 26, 2011 Ellen, 27, a first-grade teacher with a ‘megawatt smile,’ was found dead in her Philadelphia apartment.
    ​ Ten of the 20 stab wounds were to her neck and the back of her head.
    Assistant Philadelphia Medical Examiner Marlon Osbourne initially ruled her death a homicide, but changed it to suicide after a meeting with police and prosecutors.​..
    ..Crucially, an expert tells her three of the wounds were inflicted post-mortem…
    ..Commenting on the three post-mortem wounds, Nancy said: ‘Her heart is no longer beating and she’s still stabbing herself, really?’
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13728925/Nancy-Grace-ellen-greenberg-kamala-harris-josh-shapiro-VP-new-evidence.html

    ​Peter McCullough MD, High Mortality Rate with COVID-19 Vaccine Myopericarditis, Japanese Database Reports 9.6% of Symptomatic Cases are Dead 64 Days after Injection https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/high-mortality-rate-with-covid-19

    Meryl Nass MD, This long post was written by a brilliant Veteran who has made gargantuan efforts to read federal documents and put together the dots for us, explaining the plan for our New World Order https://merylnass.substack.com/p/this-long-post-was-written-by-a-brilliant

    August 14, 2024 at 2:21 pm #166357
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ Maybe Murder and Humiliation is the Whole Point
    We habitually think that greed and some general mental underdevelopment motivated colonialism and capitalism throughout the centuries. We may be wrong
    ​ I don’t doubt that greed is a powerful factor in shaping the landscape of social and political interactions and experiences; I’m just questioning whether it is the strongest, or exclusive one. In my experience, for the great majority of people, greed is not a big enough temptation. Power over other people – now that’s where people lose balance almost without exception.
    ​ I want to suggest to you a different perspective. Consider it. What I think is: it may be very possible (and intuitively I feel strongly that this is the case) that the greatest temptation in colonialism, as in capitalism, is not the expected profit, but the sadistic joy of crushing people in a system that does not punish but rewards such behavior.
    ​ Legitimate murder, subjugation, and humiliation are the main thrill. The gold coins only come second. This, I’m sure, was the most addictive element of slavery well: not the profits made by a slave labor force, but the sadistic joy of owning them and being their master and practical god.
    ​ As human creatures, our greatest source of comfort, joy, approval, fear, pain, and reward is not objects and symbols: it is other people. Whatever we do, say, and choose, is always in relation to other people (this is why everything is political). So the explanation for any behavior always lies in the question: what kind of interaction with other people does this behavior enable, express, or seek to normalize?​ https://alonmizrahi.substack.com/p/maybe-murder-and-humiliation-is-the

    ​Thanks for forwarding this Luciferian manifesto, Josh. I am naturally reluctant to post it: Hidden Hand, Interview With Hidden Hand, Alleged Ruling Bloodline Priest
    ​ Below are key excerpts from a 60-page Internet interview with a self-proclaimed deep insider who goes by “Hidden Hand.” This took place in October 2008… Questions have been removed in this 16-page summary to focus on the main points of this provocative message. The transcript has also been edited and rearranged for clarity and ease of reading.​ https://www.wanttoknow.info/secret_societies/hidden_hand_bloodlines

    ​I am reminded of this similar story: 1666 Redemption Through Sin Product Information
    Most people have heard of Jesus Christ, considered the Messiah by Christians, and who lived 2000 years ago. But very few have ever heard of Sabbatai Zevi, who declared himself the Messiah in 1666. By proclaiming redemption was available through acts of sin, he amassed a following of over one million passionate believers, about half the world’s Jewish population during the 17th century. Although many Rabbis at the time considered him a heretic, his fame extended far and wide. Sabbatai’s adherents planned to abolish many ritualistic observances, because, according to the Talmud, holy obligations would no longer apply in the Messianic time. Fasting days became days of feasting and rejoicing. Sabbateans encouraged and practiced sexual promiscuity, adultery, incest and religious orgies. After Sabbati Zevi’s death in 1676, his Kabbalist successor, Jacob Frank, expanded upon and continued his occult philosophy. Frankism, a religious movement of the 18th and 19th centuries, centered on his leadership, and his claim to be the reincarnation of the Messiah Sabbatai Zevi. He, like Zevi, would perform “strange acts” that violated traditional religious taboos, such as eating fats forbidden by Jewish dietary laws, ritual sacrifice, and promoting orgies and sexual immorality. He often slept with his followers, as well as his own daughter, while preaching a doctrine that the best way to imitate God was to cross every boundary, transgress every taboo, and mix the sacred with the profane. Hebrew University of Jerusalem Professor Gershom Scholem called Jacob Frank, “one of the most frightening phenomena in the whole of Jewish history”. Jacob Frank would eventually enter into an alliance formed by Adam Weishaupt and Meyer Amshel Rothschild called the Order of the Illuminati. The objectives of this organization was to undermine the world’s religions and power structures, in an effort to usher in a utopian era of global communism, which they would covertly rule by their hidden hand: the New World Order. Using secret societies, such as the Freemasons, their agenda has played itself out over the centuries, staying true to the script. The Illuminati handle opposition by a near total control of the world’s media, academic opinion leaders, politicians and financiers. Still considered nothing more than theory to many, more and more people wake up each day to the possibility that this is not just a theory, but a terrifying Satanic conspiracy. https://www.ebay.com/itm/395421811658?chn=ps&mkevt=1&mkcid=28

    August 14, 2024 at 3:21 pm #166358
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    At a time when the desperately out-gunned and encircled leaking-at-every-seam Imperial Buccaneer Ship of State should be loading the canons and preparing to repel boarders it is instead having an on-board mutiny over who gets to be captain of the sinking pirate ship.

    August 14, 2024 at 3:30 pm #166359
    WES
    Participant

    Notice that blue states are preventing anyone who might hurt the Democrats from being on the ballot, while red states are all allowing JFK to be on the ballot to hurt Trump.
    Just your Uniparty hard at work to save democracy!
    Notice too, that Democrats cheating in blue state elections is perfectly legal!

    I once knew a fellow who graduated in 1976 from West Point in engineering but the US military declined to accept him because he had a bad attitude and would have contaminated the military’s pro-war narrative.

    Iran is smartly (playing the long game.
    Israel isn’t winning.

    August 14, 2024 at 3:37 pm #166360
    jb-hb
    Participant

    If Russia is willingly fighting within certain limits inside The Ukraine/Former Ukraine areas…

    No relief could be expected in those areas by invading pre war Russia, where there are neither legal nor policy constraints to the forces that can be brought to bear. If I’ve got a million spare guys waiting on the sidelines labeled Not For Use Within 1990 Ukraine Borders, you send 2-10 brigades OUT of that constrained area??!??!?

    I was seeing reports of a 10-15km penetration. Now I’m seeing reports of 25km. I’m also seeing reports that Ukrainian forces were halted in the first couple days.

    Pro NATO sources are saying there are more like 10,000 Ukrainians in the Kursk 2.0 salient as opposed to 1,000 (10 brigades plus other elements as opposed to 2 brigades), assertions Russian forces rushing to block have been hit hard by long range missiles, and Russian aircraft are getting shot down if they come close. (reports of Su25, Su34 etc being downed) Ukraine has claimed they are still advancing and pouring in reinforcements as of 8/14.

    And of course on the other hand, there are reports of the Ukrainian side getting halted before any specific important objective being reached, logistics made impossible for forces inside the salient, and heavy losses being taken, particularly in vehicles. With reports of copious ambulance traffic, theoretically for a large number of mercenary (NATO) soldiers involved in the engagement.

    There’s been mentions and footage of Russia using fibre optic connected drones due to copious Ukrainian EW in the salient.

    I’ve seen lists of Ukrainian AA in the Kursk area having been taken out already and assertions that Ukrainian leading elements are getting pummeled due to no air cover nor AA. (but then how would they advance another 10km?) From Moon of Alabama:

    Shades of ‘73, when the Egyptians advanced beyond their SAM umbrella and found out SPAAG’s and Strelas don’t really cut it.

    Idunno. I could kind of see this as a proof of concept, a test case for the NATO commanders in the background finally getting their heads out of their asses and doing something approximating current-year combined arms warfare instead of cold war era or whatever futuristic networked managerial warfighting they envisioned. Using it in the right place at the right time with a bit more competence. Packing the salient with EW, AA, and AD in expectation of rushed blocking forces and an air power based response …that would at least make sense. Otherwise it just looks way too stupid to be real.

    August 14, 2024 at 3:37 pm #166361
    zerosum
    Participant

    Neither side care if their lies and misinformation, exaggeration, are obvious.

    August 14, 2024 at 4:06 pm #166362
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    So…

    There are some that say that the elites of the world are controlled by Jewry, and they tend to condemn all those of Jewish descent as bad.

    And, I was looking at some items that Dr. John Day had put up a few days ago, which delves into secret societies, luciferianism, ritual child abuse, MKUltra, etc.

    Honestly, what is accused of those purported to be at the heart of both of these is pretty similar. The details might diverge, but the idea of some sort of totalitarian government where the plebes like their servitude runs through both of them. I do find it ironic that the Nazis are a part of the second set, and were intent to murder Jews.

    So, which is it? Are we ruled by satanists? Are we ruled by powerful Jews? Are both branches in cahoots with each other? Are they two sides of the same coin? Are they diametrically opposed to each other, and we, (“the plebes,”) simply caught up in the maelstrom of their great battles? I don’t want to have anything to do with any of it. It’s a bunch of nonsense masquerading as cosmic reality. If I buy into the “I hate Jews” trope am I actually furthering the cause of the satanists? If I buy into the pizzagate stuff am I supporting the Zionist project? I don’t have any answers, and I doubt that I have any special knowledge. At the end of the day, I want to live my life with my family and good friends, providing services to my clients, being delighted at the antics of our pets, growing food in my yard, and gradually adjusting my home to better serve our needs. So, I don’t want to “own nothing” — if Western Civ means that I must own property in order to live this way, then I am contented with the costs and responsibilities of property ownership and all that entails. I find it infuriating that there are secret groups trying to manipulate human civilization to their own ends, leaving broken human lives in their wake. I don’t know how accurate the accounts of nefariousness are of those at the top of Jewry and the satanists…however, I have enough experience in the world to understand that there is definitely more going on than meets the eye.

    August 14, 2024 at 4:11 pm #166363
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    After listening to Tucker Carlson and Dave Smith riff on current affairs for a while it occurred to me that they are SO “hot on the trail” of the creeps who are doing this bad shit to us that it is simply CERTAIN that they are going to come up with the irrefutable right answer. Evil itself (and the people who worship it) are where this is all coming from. And YES, ultimately that right answer does very much enter spiritual and religious territory. Big time.

    Here’s the point, though, and the point has only peripheral connection to the things that Tucker and Dave digressively talk about. The point is that as the truth comes out the consequence is that EVEN MORE truth comes out, and that “line of inquiry” can ONLY lead to the whole truth coming out.

    When the WHOLE truth comes out there are going to be some major changes taking place around here.

    August 14, 2024 at 4:30 pm #166365
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Public service announcement

    I’d think people here know about virtual machines, Tor, etc.

    That said, I recently had an experience helping an elderly relative with a scam-hacking incident. Just sharing – if you’ve got anyone vulnerable like that, there’s some prosumer grade things you can set them up with that won’t freak them out too much — for anyone interested:

    Get a Proton email account, at least the $8.99 level. Bridge their AOL/Juno/Netzero/MSN/Lycos/Netscape/Hotmail etc email account to that.

    Get an AX type Asus router (it is pre configured to work out of the box with certain VPNs)

    Log the router into the Proton VPN and DNS filtering, make sure the router firewall and realtime security monitoring are on. obviously make the admin password super difficult. obviously wpa2 or wpa3 with good password or just shut off wifi.

    Turn off wifi on the modem, blacklist all known remote-in assist type sites in the modem, change admin login info.

    Switch their computer to Mint Linux. Set up a user profile and give them only that login info. Turn off guest login. Block remoting in. Turn on firewall (for some reason Mint firewall comes default off) Turn off boot from other medium, change BIOS password.

    I’d really like to figure out how to force their user login to go straight into a virtual machine but I am not quite there yet.

    Obviously this doesn’t stop the black helicopters and any machine with an AMD or Intel chip is not secure – can be remote accessed even while the machine is turned off if connected to the internet by a LAN cable.

    But at least everything is sitting behind a router with a firewall, vpn, dns filtering, and anti malware monitoring. And if the scammer gets in, they’re wandering around inside Linux on a user profile, where 99.9% of scammers have no idea what to do.

    If they’re going legitimately senile, you can set up their computer as a kiosk – a setup that presumes a computer in a public space with no active monitoring – immutable OS, goes back to it with each reboot, usually used to just give someone access to a browser. Whitelisting/blacklisting to limit browsing.

    One can never give a relative decisively helpful instructions on how to avoid scams, because when it happens, they are speaking to the “FBI,” IRS,” “Apple,” or “Microsoft,” who are all way more trustworthy authorities than a well-meaning relative. So any setup has to block them from getting in contact and make it difficult, even with their full cooperation, to have their machine taken over.

    This latest relative got the “your computer has been hacked call ‘Microsoft.'” She stayed on the phone with “Microsoft” for 2 hours! She drove to her bank while keeping them on the phone and did stuff with her bank account for them. She took a senility test with her doctor after that and got a 29/30. She has better mental acuity in her 80’s than some in their 20’s!!! She’s just from a different high-trust, high-competency universe I guess. (one that her generation confidently tore down to show how much better they were than all previous generations, knew better… I love her anyway.)

    She’s going to be out the door just in time to miss the worst of scamming and screws falling out of aircraft wings and of course the blood cults and such.

    Incidentally, the latest Brave browser version has DNS filtering built in now. Settings > Privacy and Security > Security > Use Secure DNS – various options like NextDNS, OpenDNS, Cloudfare, etc are available.

    August 14, 2024 at 5:20 pm #166366
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Thing about relatives getting scam-hacked (hacked because they fully cooperated with scammer instructions) You assume they got into trouble because their mind is going, only to find out it isn’t.

    This relative had a PREVIOUS scam-hacking incident which I bailed her out of. I did all the security things you’d do for a normal Windows user, gave her good advice, figured it would be fine from here on out because she learned her lesson.

    Was she consciously aware of my advice when the new incident was happening? YES. Was she consciously aware of the previous incident? YES. She was evasive but basically, she didn’t follow my advice because well, I’m just some guy.

    So to hear about it is hurtful. Why wouldn’t you trust my advice? Why would you trust a stranger over me? Especially when my advice aligns with common sense? When you know I care about you and made a great investment in concentration, research, time, etc for you?

    It’s not being slighted that hurts. It’s the more intrinsic dismay. How does a loved one distrust you in preference for claimed authority? Like… ANY claimed authority? And in a way that common sense tells them is dangerous?

    She’s old enough to remember Thalidomide and Hepatitis in the vaccine (iirc it contaminated a Tuberculosis vaccine? back in the 60’s or something?) and many other public scandals. When it came to the notavax “Nah, not gonna trust you for a second. Won’t even give me pause. You??? You’re just some guy”

    I’m baffled. It makes the mind wander… IS this some wokeist thing??? – I’m a white male so Not A Real Person? In recent years, I’ve noticed both Boomer and Millennial women responding fairly regularly with a contemptuous sneer to polite, deferential, context-appropriate cautions/advice to remain safe be it street smarts, technology, whatever. (I use my Customer Care bedside manner, not what you see here.) I’ve tried to understand if this is due to my immutable characteristics or some underlying principle – I’m a strong independent woman, therefore these threats that would impinge on that, must leave me alone? Those hazards would simply Be Wrong and I would Be Right And Just Some Kind Of Hero if they did impinge? A strange sort of divine right? In years past, all my life, I would have laughed at such thoughts. My attitude towards the sexes was essentially a cut & paste from Star Trek Next Generation. Total blank slate equality.

    PS. When migrating elderly relatives to Proton, change their old email password, do the bridge from their old email, then never, ever give them the new AOL/Juno/Netzero/MSN/Lycos/Netscape/Hotmail password.

    August 14, 2024 at 5:46 pm #166367
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Once again (as is so often the case) there is BIG news hiding behind “small” news.

    The “small news” is that there are two astronauts (Sunita Williams and Barry Wilford) stranded on the International Space Station “Starliner” unit that got them there. The unspoken admission, which NO ONE wants to speak is that the REASON they are stranded is the we do not currently have any operational means of getting them back. There are many promises of soon GETTING that means–of-rescue, but the cold fact is that we DO NOT have it now.

    Which of course leads to the NEXT unspoken admission, which is that in order to develop such a means of rescue will require development and production of a real workable spacecraft that is NOT YET DONE, nor has it even been finally decided WHAT it will consist of specifically. They haven’t even finally decided WHO will do the building! Will it be Boeing? Will it be SpaceX? who knows? NASA says it is going to make that momentous decision real soon now.

    Meanwhile two astronauts are living on borrowed time and LIMITED life support systems up there so far from home. How long before they die horribly? The clock is ticking.

    I’ll let that sink in a while. They have not even DECIDED what they are going to try to develop and fly to rescue the two astronauts.

    And finally there is the even BIGGER calamity that awaits the entire nation if those two human beings DIE from the GROSS CORRUPTION AND INCOMPETENCE rampant and running wild at both Boeing and SpaceX.

    What happens THEN is that the cornucopia of limitless funding for both of those companies, WHO ARE MAINSTAYS OF THE US ECONOMY, dries up into a tiny little turd that will get flushed down the financial toilet with the rest of the Western financial hegemony.

    Not an inconsequential event. Like I said, BIG news hiding behind “small” news.

    August 14, 2024 at 5:48 pm #166368
    zerosum
    Participant

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    The USA is doing everything that it can to spook Iran into starting WWIII.

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