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M. C. Escher Development II 1939

 

A Period of Great Uncertainty – Martin Armstrong (USAW)
France Extends Durov Arrest – Media (RT)
Rumble Boss Flees EU After Durov Arrest (RT)
#FreePavel: Telegram CEO Becomes Latest Target of European Censors (Turley)
Telegram Founder Finds Out That ‘Freedom’ Isn’t Free (Marsden)
The Undemocratic Party (Miles)
Trump Suggests He Might Pull Out of ABC Debate With Harris (ET)
“RFK, Jr. Murders Whale with Chainsaw!” (Kunstler)
Secret Service Rescinds Protection For RFK Jr. After Trump Endorsement (ET)
The Agenda Is To Elect Kamala (Paul Craig Roberts)
Another Former Democrat Joins Trump Campaign (RT)
Trump Suggests Consulting Role for Musk in Cabinet If Elected (Sp.)
This Election Is a Referendum on Free Speech (RCP)
Trump Lauds Russia’s ‘Winter Fighting’ (RT)
America’s Reckoning With Reality (Douglas Macgregor)
Is President Putin Preparing For Istanbul-II? (Helmer)
Hezbollah Could End Normal Life in Israel, Drive Israelis ‘Underground’ (Sp.)

 

 

 

 

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– 2016: 51% of young men identified or leaned Democrat
– 2023: This number dropped to 39%

 

 

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“I am very concerned they will start WWIII before the end of the year and maybe by September.”

A Period of Great Uncertainty – Martin Armstrong (USAW)

Almost everything you see and hear with the Lying Legacy Media and the government is a lie. Just this past week, the Biden Administration backtracked about employment as it was widely reported, “US economy added 818,000 fewer jobs than first reported in year that ended in March.” A huge miss or a huge lie–take your pick. Other big lies we have been told in recent years: “Trump is colluding with Russia,” “Hunter Biden’s laptop is Russian disinformation, and the “CV19 vax injections are “safe and effective.” That is just scratching the surface of the lies we are told on a daily basis. The lies, which people realize are becoming preposterous, are adding to the public’s lack of confidence in everything, including the economy. Martin Armstrong says, “We are in a period of great uncertainty. . .. When people are uncertain, they don’t spend. They save. That’s what happens in a depression and a recession. . ..

So, if you have no confidence in the future because of all this crazy stuff going on, what do you do? You don’t borrow, and you pull back and say let me see what is going to happen.” Armstrong says another big lie told to the public is the approval rating of Kamala Harris. The so-called polls say Harris is running neck and neck with Donald Trump in the presidential race. Don’t believe it. Armstrong says a recent data dive on his Socratees computer program shows, “Kamala’s approval rating came in around 10.5 %. (A second confidential source says Kamala’s approval rating is 8.5%.) Confidence in government is 7%. So, how can Kamala possibly be 40%, 50% and 60%? It’s illogical. . .. The polls are really propaganda at this point. They were propaganda back in 2016. They all said Hillary would win, and she would sweep Trump under the carpet.”

On news RFK Jr. suspending his campaign and endorsing Trump, Armstrong says, “I was always pushing RFK Jr. to be Attorney General. I think I got his eyes to light up when I said if you take the Attorney General job, you could even indict Pfizer.” Armstrong says the Trump camp is seriously considering RFK Jr. for AG, and Armstrong says he has been in contact with top Trump advisors. We will see, but we do know RFK Jr. is going to be a part of Trump’s Administration. On Trump winning in November, Armstrong says, “Look, the computer says Trump should win. I don’t know how the hell they allow that to happen.

They have to trap Trump into a war or they kill him, one or the other. These people are unconscionable. . .. We are looking at serious civil unrest regardless of who wins in November. Neither side is going to accept it.” On gold at $2,500 an ounce, Armstrong says it’s not about inflation, it is about the fear of a US debt default. This is why central banks are buying. Armstrong says, “If there is a big war, the US will default on it’s debt. . .. I am very concerned they will start WWIII before the end of the year and maybe by September.”

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Tomorrow the judge must press charges or let him walk.

“..the arrest warrant was issued by France’s OFMIN, the agency tasked with combating violence against minors..”

France Extends Durov Arrest – Media (RT)

The judicial authorities in France confirmed on Sunday the arrest of Pavel Durov, the CEO and founder of the Telegram messaging app, extending the detention of the Russian tech entrepreneur, AFP has reported, citing a source close to the investigation. The detention of the 39-year-old dual Russian-French national was reportedly extended beyond Sunday night by the investigating magistrate who is handling the case. The detention period for initial interrogation is limited to 96 hours in France; however, it can be extended to 144 hours for serious offences such as drug trafficking and terrorism. During the detention phase, the judge must either press charges and remand in further custody, or release the detainee.

Officials speaking on condition of anonymity told the news agency that the arrest warrant was issued by France’s OFMIN, the agency tasked with combating violence against minors, to conduct a preliminary probe into alleged fraud, drug trafficking, cyberbullying, organized crime, and promotion of terrorism. Reuters reports, citing unnamed sources, that a cybersecurity gendarmerie unit and the national anti-fraud police are leading the investigation. The Paris prosecutor’s office told RT that a press release concerning the case will be issued later on Monday. French media had previously reported that Durov’s detention at Paris-Le Bourget Airport on Saturday was related to alleged offenses regarding Telegram.

The reports indicated that the authorities believe he is complicit in a range of crimes allegedly committed via the social media app due to insufficient moderation. Telegram, which has nearly reached 1 billion active monthly users, was created by Durov and his brother in 2013 in Russia. The entrepreneur, who is also a citizen of the UAE and St. Kitts and Nevis, left Russia in the mid-2010s and settled in Dubai. He was granted French citizenship in 2021. Commenting on Durov’s arrest, Telegram said the platform “abides by EU laws, including the Digital Services Act – its moderation is within industry standards,” adding that claims that a platform or its owner are responsible for abuse committed by users are “absurd.”

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Rumble Boss Flees EU After Durov Arrest (RT)

France has crossed all boundaries by arresting Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov, Chris Pavlovski, the CEO of video-sharing platform Rumble, has said, adding that he left Europe after the news broke. Durov was taken into custody at a Paris airport on Saturday evening after arriving from Azerbaijan by private jet. While the French authorities have yet to publicly announce the reason for detaining the Russian tech mogul, reports indicate that the charges are related to his alleged complicity in drug trafficking, pedophilia offenses, fraud, as well as failure to address criminal activity on the messenger. Telegram has denied any wrongdoing, adding that it is “absurd to claim that a platform or its owner are responsible for abuse of that platform.”

In a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Sunday, Pavlovski said he had “safely departed from Europe” in the aftermath of Durov’s arrest. He slammed the move by France, saying it “crossed a red line,” while noting that the country had already threatened Rumble. ”Rumble will not stand for this behavior and will use every legal means available to fight for freedom of expression, a universal human right. We are currently fighting in the courts of France, and we hope for Pavel Durov’s immediate release,” he added.

Pavlovski’s platform, which has positioned itself as a free speech alternative to YouTube, has been embroiled in its own legal battle with the French authorities. It began in November 2022 after officials in Paris banned Rumble over its refusal to comply with a request to remove Russian media accounts blocked in the EU due to sanctions over the Ukraine conflict. Though Durov’s arrest occurred in France, a number of opinion leaders, including American entrepreneur David Sacks, have suggested that the US was behind the move. In April, Sacks also predicted that Washington could go after Telegram, X, and eventually Rumble, given that the US passed a law that would ban the video-sharing platform TikTok if its Chinese-based developer, ByteDance, refused to sell it within 12 months.

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“Social media is now the dominant form of communication between people. It surpasses telephones.”

#FreePavel: Telegram CEO Becomes Latest Target of European Censors (Turley)

Elon Musk put it simply: “#FreePavel.” For many, a hashtag of one billionaire calling for the release of another billionaire is hardly a compelling cause. Telegram CEO Pavel Durov, 39, is neither a familiar nor sympathetic figure for most Americans. However, for free speech advocates, Durov’s arrest is a chilling escalation of global censors in using European laws to control speech on the Internet. The press and pundits heralded the arrest and played up the allegations that Durov is under investigation for fraud and child abuse. Some might think from the headlines that Durov is himself being investigated for committing such crimes. While we have not seen anything akin to a charging sheet, reports indicate that French authorities took the action because of his refusal to yield to their demands to censor content on his messaging app.

Others have been ecstatic that censors could soon come for Musk. Retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who testified in the Trump impeachment proceedings, declared “There’s a growing intolerance for platforming disinfo & malign influence & a growing appetite for accountability. Musk should be nervous.” Social media is now the dominant form of communication between people. It surpasses telephones. There is, however, a major difference in how such communications are protected. There would be an outcry if AT&T broke into a telephone call to object to the views of the parties and cut off access to the telephone lines until they moderated their views. The Europeans have been threatening to hold executives liable for how others use their sites. Imagine if a mobster used a telephone to do business and the FBI arrested the CEO of AT&T.

The implication of this case goes far beyond Durov. Social media sites allow large numbers of people to communicate and to associate. They share values or viewpoints, including some that most of us find offensive or repulsive. However, free speech should protect the right of people to associate so long as they do not commit crimes. Under free speech principles, those crimes should not include viewpoints or ideology. If individuals are engaging in child pornography or human trafficking, they should be arrested. That is conduct, not just speech. While the media emphasizes the allegations that there are people engaged in fraud or child porn, officials add that Durov has failed to remove viewpoints that they consider extreme or offensive. French officials have cited the failure to engage in greater “content moderation,” the euphemism of censorship.

We have been discussing how countries like France and the United Kingdom have been ramping up anti-free speech crackdowns. Recently, the European Union threatened Musk that he could be charged if he did not censor political speech in this election, including any information deemed by the EU to be false in his interview with Donald Trump. European Commissioner for Internal Markets and Services Thierry Breton issued a threatening message to Musk, “We are monitoring the potential risks in the EU associated with the dissemination of content that may incite violence, hate and racism in conjunction with major political — or societal — events around the world, including debates and interviews in the context of elections.”

The law behind these threats is the Digital Services Act. The act bars speech that is viewed as “disinformation” or “incitement.” European Commission Executive Vice President Margrethe Vestager celebrated its passage by declaring that it is “not a slogan anymore, that what is illegal offline should also be seen and dealt with as illegal online. Now it is a real thing. Democracy’s back.” In addition to Musk, Robert Kennedy Jr. has denounced the arrest. This action is not due to the encryption capacity or child porn rationales. European officials have been making the same threats against other sites over the failure to censor views that they deem unacceptable. Rumble CEO Chris Pavlovski wrote “France has threatened Rumble, and now they have crossed a red line by arresting Telegram’s CEO, Pavel Durov, reportedly for not censoring speech.”

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“Russia could actually start looking not too bad by comparison the minute that his new pals decide that they’re fed up with him..”

Telegram Founder Finds Out That ‘Freedom’ Isn’t Free (Marsden)

French officials have sprung into action with an arrest warrant that seemed to have been scribbled on the back of a napkin when they realized that the founder of the globally-popular online chat app, Telegram, was about to make the colossal mistake of landing in France, despite his company being based well out of the EU’s reach in Dubai. Russian Pavel Durov mysteriously managed to get French citizenship in 2021 without ever even living in the country. Normally, French citizenship requires proof of five years of residency, and seemingly more importantly to French authorities, five full years of paying income tax in France. Instead, Durov managed to get fast-tracked citizenship through a French Foreign Ministry initiative that awards naturalization based on some kind of action that contributes to the image, prosperity, and international relations of France.

No one has been able to actually articulate what exactly Durov has contributed to France beyond badmouthing Russia, or having created the chat app that French media have long qualified as the top choice of French President Emmanuel Macron and his entourage since at least 2016. Just as equally puzzling is the fact that just three years later, the judicial branch of the same French government that gifted him with a highly political shortcut to citizenship is now suddenly accusing him of taking an overly laid-back approach to his platform’s content. French press reports have been citing anonymous judicial sources close to the case, alleging that the app has turned into a giant free-for-all for assorted scum of the earth (in addition the aforementioned elites): terrorists, money launderers, drug traffickers, pedophiles.

No explicit mention of people who happen to just have opinions that the establishment doesn’t particularly like, and whose online proliferation European officials are always whining about and threatening these platform operators about publicly – the most recent being X platform owner Elon Musk. TikTok, owned by China? National security threat that the West wants to ban – unless they hand over data management and access to the US. Huawei? National security threat, mostly for honing in on the turf of Western competitors who struggled to compete. RT and other Russia-linked platforms? National security threat offering alternative views and information to the EU’s official narrative on Ukraine. Now we’re down to French media outlets like C8 and CNews being threatened like they were Russian – because they haven’t fallen in line with the French regulator’s content demands.

Durov’s arrest was apparently enough to incite the Canadian founder of another free speech platform, Rumble’s Chris Pavlovski, to grab his go-bag and get the heck out of dodge. “I’m a little late to this, but for good reason – I’ve just safely departed from Europe,” Pavlovski wrote on the X Platform.”France has threatened Rumble, and now they have crossed a red line by arresting Telegram’s CEO, Pavel Durov, reportedly for not censoring speech.” Pavlovski previously opted to outright geoblock Rumble across France rather than censor content that the French government had asked him to – like RT for example. But Durov was singing a tune that the West really liked for a while, about how he was pressured by the Russian government over content control and backdoor access and how he basically just flipped them off heroically.

His persecution by Russia was such that he was never actually arrested or charged with anything there, and Telegram is still operational in Russia while Durov is free to go around the world promoting himself as a professional victim of his homeland. Durov even fell right in line with top-down EU demands to censor RT and other Russian media. But there has been a significant shift recently. He had started to change his tune to one that probably wasn’t such a crowd pleaser for the Western establishment, suggesting a few months ago in an interview with Tucker Carlson that the FBI tried to convince one of his engineers to basically start installing Western-friendly backdoors that would allow intelligence services easy access to encrypted Telegram content. He added that they seemed particularly interested in infiltrating groups that opposed Covid mandates and jabs.

Former Russian President Dimitry Medvedev said in the wake of Durov’s arrest that he previously warned him that he’d have problems in virtually any country where he didn’t want to cooperate with the authorities on major crimes. Not that people denouncing Covid mandates are committing major crimes, which makes you wonder how much of this is really just France playing up the major crime element in order to tackle much lesser things that they consider a threat to their own power rather than to society. Durov may now be on the verge of learning that despite his anti-Russian rhetoric, Russia could actually start looking not too bad by comparison the minute that his new pals decide that they’re fed up with him – and your app goes from being the toast of the Elysee to the trash bin.

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“..observers worry about the precedent set by the Democrat Party’s end run around its own voters.”

The Undemocratic Party (Miles)

“For the first time since 1968, the Democratic nominee will win the nomination without winning a single primary vote… it would be a culmination of the elite-oriented trends that have shaped the nominating process since 1984, in which party elites have played an increasingly large role in shaping the presidential nomination,” [Beth] Daley warned. “If Democrats truly want to make this election about democracy, they might start by looking at the recent trends in their own house.” Analyst Richard Morgan considered America’s democratic deficit as demonstrated during previous presidential administrations, such as that of Gerald Ford in the 1970s. Ford was selected to be Richard Nixon’s vice president after the resignation of Spiro Agnew in 1973 then became president the following year when Nixon stepped down amid the sprawling Watergate scandal. He is notable for having served as both president and vice president of the United States without winning a single vote.

Harris has also come under scrutiny for her political track record, with critics accusing her of opportunism. “Her record as a [San Francisco District Attorney]… sounds spotty, with her embracing two different extremes at different times – from strong against drugs and crime to weak,” said former US Justice Department prosecutor Ronald Sievert in an interview with Sputnik. Harris has received criticism from some in the Democratic Party who accuse her of running as a self-styled “tough on crime” politician in the years before Black Lives Matter and a string of high-profile police shootings brought a renewed focus to criminal justice reform. She was famously criticized by former Democratic Party Rep. Tulsi Gabbard during a primary debate in 2020 for her record as District Attorney and California’s attorney general during which she enforced heavy penalties for drug possession.

“When you were in a position to make a difference and an impact in these people’s lives you did not, and worse yet in the case of those who were on death row, innocent people, you actually blocked evidence from being revealed that would have freed them until you were forced to [turn it over],” said Gabbard during an exchange often credited with ending Harris’s previous run for president. “There is no excuse for that and the people who suffered under your reign as prosecutor, you owe them an apology.” Harris’s acceptance speech during the final night of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago has been slammed by many within the party for its hawkish tone. The Democratic candidate signaled strong support for Israel’s military operation in Gaza and the Western proxy war in Ukraine while also receiving an endorsement from controversial former CIA director Leon Panetta.

Panetta delivered a speech praising Harris during which he claimed he was “proud” to have served in the US Army and as head of the CIA. US military aggression throughout the Middle East during the so-called “War on Terror” is estimated to have caused the deaths of at least 4.5 million people while the CIA has been implicated in numerous coups and human rights violations. “In her speech [Harris] was talking about how [former US President Donald] Trump supposedly coddled [foreign leaders] like Putin, and that’s totally false,” said CovertAction Magazine managing editor Jeremy Kuzmarov on Sputnik’s The Final Countdown program recently. “Trump had a pretty hardline policy toward Russia. He pulled out of the INF Treaty. He ramped up weapons supplies to Ukraine. So that’s just like an extreme right-wing position that they’re adopting.”

“They’re celebrating this war in Ukraine [that] siphoned off billions of hard-earned taxpayer dollars into a sinkhole just like Afghanistan, and a lot of those weapons have been stolen. And this party is cheerleading for that. So that’s where they are.” The 2024 presidential campaign cycle represents the third in a row during which Democratic Party leaders have intervened heavily to boost their favored candidate. Leaked DNC emails revealed the extent to which party officials sought to subvert Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders’ candidacy during 2016’s party primary while former President Barack Obama intervened to once again undermine Sanders in 2020. 2024 marks the first year in decades that a major US political party’s presidential candidate has been chosen without a democratic primary process, and observers worry about the precedent set by the Democrat Party’s end run around its own voters.

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“The Vice President is ready to deal with Trump … in real time,” Fallon said. “Trump should stop hiding behind the mute button.”

In the Biden debate the Dems insisted on the mute button.

Trump Suggests He Might Pull Out of ABC Debate With Harris (ET)

Former President Donald Trump suggested on the evening of Aug. 25 that he may skip a Sept. 10 ABC News debate with Vice President Kamala Harris amid dueling statements issued by both campaigns about whether the microphone should be muted. Trump wrote on Truth Social that he did not like how the network’s Jonathan Karl handled an interview with Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) on Aug. 25, questioning ABC’s capacity to be impartial. Trump then wrote, “Why would I do the debate against Kamala Harris on that network?” On Aug. 26, Trump told reporters inside a Vietnamese restaurant in Falls Church, Virginia, why he didn’t like how the network handled the Cotton interview. “When I looked at the hostility of that, I said, ‘Why am I doing it? Let’s do it with another network,’” the former president said. “I want to do it.”

When asked directly whether he will participate in the September ABC debate, he said, “We’re thinking about it. We’re thinking about it. They also want to change the rules. You know, the deal was we keep the same rules. Now, all of a sudden, they want to make a change in the rules.” He did not elaborate on the proposed rule changes but said he wants to have a fair debate and is seeking “tough questions.” He argued that the Disney-owned channel should not be holding the debate. “I‘d much rather do it on NBC. I’d much rather do it on CBS. … And certainly, I‘d do it on Fox. I’d even do it on CNN. I thought CNN treated us very fairly the last time,” Trump said. Statements issued by both campaigns on Aug. 26 indicated that there was an impasse over microphones and whether they should be turned on or off. Trump told reporters in the Virginia press conference that he would prefer to have his microphone switched on.

During his CNN-hosted debate with President Joe Biden, his microphone was muted much of the time. “Doesn’t matter to me. I’d rather have it, probably, on. But the agreement was that it would be the same as it was last time,” the former president said. “I’m not spending a lot of time on it. I think my whole life I’ve been preparing for a debate. “You can’t cram knowledge into your head, for, you know, 30 years of knowledge in one week. So, you know, there’s a little debate prep, but I’ve always done it more or less the same way.” In response to Trump campaign comments and his Truth Social post, Harris spokesperson Brian Fallon said in a statement that their campaign wanted ABC News to keep their microphones on for the full event and not be muted. “The Vice President is ready to deal with Trump … in real time,” Fallon said. “Trump should stop hiding behind the mute button.”

Trump campaign senior adviser Jason Miller said in a statement that the team already agreed to the same terms as the debate hosted by CNN in June. “We said no changes to the agreed-upon rules,” he said. Harris obtained the Democratic Party’s nomination after Biden stepped aside last month, and she had said that she would do the Sept. 10 debate hosted by ABC News previously agreed to by Biden and Trump. Trump had floated another debate hosted by Fox News on Sept. 4, which he said would become a televised town hall with just himself and host Sean Hannity if Harris didn’t accept. The Harris campaign said it was not interested. The vice presidential candidates, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, are scheduled to debate on Oct. 1 on CBS News.

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“..it’s become obvious that Mr. Trump’s aims and ideas are more in-tune with those forsaken principles of Mr. Kennedy’s father and his uncle, JFK.”

“RFK, Jr. Murders Whale with Chainsaw!” (Kunstler)

The raptures of “joy” tend to obscure the idea that there is a future to be concerned about. Enter Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. He explained his view of the situation and his role in it with unsurpassed clarity last Friday in a powerful and moving speech outlining a decision that must have been very painful for him. As I averred he would do last Friday morning, he denounced the party of his ancestors in unequivocal terms for coming to militate against its own traditional principles — opposing war, fighting for free speech, helping poor working people, and against weaponizing government agencies. He threw his support to Mr. Trump because it’s become obvious that Mr. Trump’s aims and ideas are more in-tune with those forsaken principles of Mr. Kennedy’s father and his uncle, JFK.

And now he’ll campaign on behalf of Mr. Trump, with the expectation that he will play an important, well-defined role in the next Trump administration — in charge of a range of public health issues that he is deeply familiar with from decades of litigation and researching the books about pharmaceutical racketeering actually written by himself. It’s Monday after the convention. What’s on the candidates’ campaign schedule today. CNNs “Campaign Latest” page says that Mr. Trump will give a speech in Detroit today to the National Guard Association where he is expected to greet the endorsement of former Rep. (and Lt. Col. In the National Guard) Tulsi Gabbard. Kamala Harris has no public appearances scheduled, but CNN reports that she has raised a fabulous $540-million since her launch a few weeks ago. Isn’t that nice? Boolah boolah, lotsa moolah. On Wednesday, Ms. Harris and her veep sidekick, Tim Walz, embark on a bus tour around Georgia. Bus tours will be the signature of their campaign.

Let me tell you what that means: instead of flying expeditiously between campaign stops where they might have to state some positions on public issues, Harris & Walz will eat up many hours on long bus rides from Point-A to Point-B, hiding from the public and the press. Bobby Kennedy, meanwhile, is cramming as many media appearances as possible into his schedule, submitting to questions about everything, including the latest barrage of accusations about his fully-disclosed personal history. Fox has had him on several programs, though the other cable news stations are ignoring him, as are The New York Times and the WashPo, except to publish scurrilous stories from his mindfucked siblings and cousins — the latest being that he cut the head off a dead whale on the beach at Cape Cod with a chainsaw. Readers are supposed to construe that to mean he murdered a whale with a chainsaw.

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They want them both dead.

Secret Service Rescinds Protection For RFK Jr. After Trump Endorsement (ET)

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will no longer receive Secret Service protection after he announced on Aug. 23 that he was suspending his campaign in 10 battleground states and urging voters in those states to support former President Donald Trump instead. “Mr. Kennedy no longer has USSS protection,” Kennedy’s press secretary, Stefanie Spear, told The Epoch Times on Aug. 25. Anthony Guglielmi, Secret Service chief of communications, confirmed that Kennedy “is no longer a protectee given he suspended his campaign,” in an Aug. 25 statement to The Epoch Times. Kennedy was denied Secret Service protection five times before the Department of Homeland Security granted it shortly after the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump on July 13.

Thomas Michael Crooks was identified by authorities as the gunman. Trump’s ear was grazed by the gunfire, former fire chief Corey Comperatore was killed, and two others were injured. Following the attack, Trump said that Kennedy should “immediately” get Secret Service protection. “In light of what is going on in the world today, I believe it is imperative that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. receive Secret Service protection—immediately,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Given the history of the Kennedy Family, this is the obvious right thing to do!” On July 15, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas authorized Kennedy’s Secret Service protection.

“We are in a heightened and very dynamic threat environment. The United States’ Secret Service, we—including the FBI and our other partners across the federal government—take the threats very seriously and adjust security measures as warranted, maintaining the safety and security of the president, the former president in their campaign events is one our most vital priorities,” Mayorkas said. “In light of the weekend’s events, the president has directed me to work with the Secret Service to provide protection for Robert Kennedy Jr.” It’s standard procedure for the Secret Service to end protection when a presidential candidate drops out of the race. Kennedy said that he has suspended his campaign in 10 battleground states but will be on the ballot in the other 40 states during his Aug. 23 address. He encouraged voters to support him in states where he would not be considered a “spoiler” and detract backing for their Trump or Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris.

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“What the Russians will end up destroying is a Sodom and Gomorrah Tower of Babel. No one will miss it.”

The Agenda Is To Elect Kamala (Paul Craig Roberts)

Dear American, this is your next presidential administration: It will be anti-white, anti-family, pro-open borders, pro-legalization of sexual perversity, pro-sexualization of young children, and pro-war. It cannot be deterred by your votes, because the election will be stolen. In the swing states the methods used by Democrats to steal the 2020 and 2022 elections have been legalized. Moreover, if news reports are correct, in some, perhaps all, of the swing states it is now illegal to challenge election outcomes. If you will remember, when Kamala Harris competed for the presidential nomination in 2020, she was immediately eliminated. She had zero support. If you will remember, she has been an unpopular vice president. Yet today the media presents her as leading Trump, who continues to turn out massive attendance at his appearances, as the likely next president.

The media uses rigged polls and positive coverage of Kamala and negative coverage of Trump to create in the voting public’s mind the expectation of a Kamala victory. The polls are rigged by overweighting Democrats in the polled population. Google Kamala and you will find 90% of the information is favorable. Google Trump and 90% is unfavorable. By creating the expectation of a Kamala victory, the ground is laid for stealing the election. It is not possible to steal an election unless the election is close or the person for whom the election is stolen is presented as the leading candidate. Ask yourselves, how did Kamala go from zero support among Democrats to the leading presidential contender? She did not win the primary election as there was no primary. She has not had any debates, much less triumphed in one.

She represents everything but white Americans, families, sexual morality, peace, law as a shield of the people instead of a weapon in the hands of government, nationhood instead of a tower of babel, truth instead of lies, the Constitution instead of a woke agenda- based rule. The media have made it completely obvious that the election is going to be stolen. Why else the rigged polls and biased coverage? The public is being prepared to accept a stolen election. And Republicans are silent. If Trump raises the issue, the media will say that Trump has already admitted that he is going to lose and is already raising the theft issue prior to the election. Obviously, Trump cannot be the one who raises the obvious issue in front of our eyes that the Democrats are going to steal the election. The theft has to be raised by Republican governors, US Senators, US Representatives, and that small part of social media where free speech is still possible.

Try to imagine Republican wimps raising a real issue. Republicans are incapable of fighting. As they have never done it, they don’t know how. Moreover, even if they were capable of fight, they wouldn’t, because it would cast aspersion on the purity and sanctity of “American democracy.” Republicans regard any effective self-defense as a reflection on the American myth. The “USA USA USA” crowd would get upset. Americans need to try to understand what life is going to be like under a Kamala regime. Federal marshals and FBI SWAT teams are going to be sent house to house in red states seizing firearms. Once disarmed, legions of immigrant-invaders will be sent to throw you out of your homes and move in. It will be treated as a rental issue and be decided in favor of the tenant, the underdog favored by the Democrat regime. Your unrealized capital gains, which you were relying on for your retirement, will be taxed. You will have to sell retirement funds in order to pay the tax. When the market falls, you will not be compensated for the disappeared capital gains that you paid taxes on.

You will lose all control over your children, who will be groomed in public schools for pedophiles and gender change. Not too far into this process of “transformation to a diverse, equitable, and inclusive society,” white people, as in The Camp of the Saints which we are now living, will not be permitted to marry and to procreate. The white people you see in the video of the DNC convention are so utterly stupid, or brainwashed, or insouciant that they cannot realize that they are supporting their own elimination. They signify the inability of white Americans to recognize their peril and to defend themselves. Defense is impossible, because not even the Republican Party will say a word about the election theft that has so obviously been set in place. The border remains wide open.

Critical race theory continues to be taught in public schools. Transgender promoters are gaining parental authority over children. The attempted assassination of Trump remains non-investigated and has disappeared from the media. Free speech has been labeled “a threat to democracy.” My advice to young white heterosexual Americans stands: Get out of the country. You have no future here. White women who remain can expect to be used for the sexual comfort for the immigrant-invaders, just as they are in Sweden, Norway, UK, Germany, France, and the rest of what was once Western civilization. What the Russians will end up destroying is a Sodom and Gomorrah Tower of Babel. No one will miss it.

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Join in, Tulsi. Many more will follow.

“..describing the ex-president as the only candidate who can walk the US back from “the brink of nuclear war.”

Another Former Democrat Joins Trump Campaign (RT)

Former Democratic lawmaker Tulsi Gabbard has endorsed Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, describing the ex-president as the only candidate who can walk the US back from “the brink of nuclear war.” Trump brought Gabbard on stage during a speech at the National Guard Association’s annual conference in Detroit on Monday, introducing the former Hawaii congresswoman as a “true American patriot” with “great common sense” and “great spirit.” Gabbard, a 17-year National Guard veteran who served two combat tours in the Middle East, praised Trump’s isolationist brand of foreign policy. “We saw this through his first term in the presidency when he not only didn’t start any new wars, he took action to de-escalate and prevent wars,” she said, adding that Trump had “the courage to meet with adversaries, dictators, allies and partners alike in the pursuit of peace.”

“The same can not be said about Kamala Harris,” Gabbard continued. “In fact the opposite is true, and we’re living through this reality today as this administration has us facing multiple wars on multiple fronts in regions around the world, and closer to the brink of nuclear war than we ever have been before.” “This is one of the main reasons why I’m committed to doing all that I can to send President Trump back to the White House,” she told the crowd. “Because I am confident that his first task will be to…walk us back from the brink of war.” Gabbard left the Democratic Party in 2022, arguing that it had fallen “under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers” and social-justice ideologues. Three years earlier, Gabbard was widely credited with ending Harris’ 2020 presidential campaign with a single debate performance.

In the 2019 Democratic primary showdown, Gabbard slammed Harris’ record as California’s attorney general, criticizing her for jailing thousands of marijuana offenders “and then laughing about it,” for her use of prison labor, and for blocking evidence that would have freed innocent men on death row. “There is no excuse for that and the people who suffered under your reign as prosecutor, you owe them an apology,” Gabbard said, leaving Harris unable to respond. Gabbard has long opposed US involvement in and funding of foreign conflicts. During her four terms in office from 2013 to 2021, she advocated dialogue with America’s rival superpowers, coupled with a hardline policy on Islamic terrorism. Like Trump, she has faced accusations of being a “Russian asset,” most notably from failed 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

Gabbard responded to Clinton’s 2019 jab – likely a reference to her past praise for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s fight against terrorism in Syria – by calling Clinton “queen of the warmongers” and suing her for defamation. Gabbard is the second high-profile former Democrat to endorse Trump in recent days, after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspended his third-party campaign and backed the former president on Friday. Gabbard and Kennedy have both cited President Joe Biden’s funding of the Ukrainian military and “weaponization” of the justice system and intelligence agencies against Trump as key factors behind their decision.

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Musk can pick his own role.

Trump Suggests Consulting Role for Musk in Cabinet If Elected (Sp.)

US presidential candidate Donald Trump has said that SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk would likely be too busy to serve in his cabinet but suggested that the entrepreneur could play a consulting role in his administration if he wins the November election. “He wants to be involved. Now look, he’s running big businesses and all that, so he can’t, really, I don’t think he could be cabinet… He can sort of, as the expression goes, consult with the country and give you some very good ideas,” Trump told The Shawn Ryan Show, as quoted by US media. Trump emphasized that he had an excellent relationship with Musk, who stated earlier that he was willing to take up a position in the White House. The entrepreneur also posted an image of himself behind a podium, with the caption “Department of Government Efficiency.”

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“The Supreme Court had multiple opportunities during the last term to end the censorship of conservatives by social media. It chose a different path.”

This Election Is a Referendum on Free Speech (RCP)

The Supreme Court had multiple opportunities during the last term to end the censorship of conservatives by social media. It chose a different path. Now, Democrats are free to double down on the Biden-Harris administration’s massive censorship enterprise. There is every indication they intend to do so. The bedrock of American democracy, the First Amendment, prohibits Congress from making laws “abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.” The prohibition also applies to executive actions and state governments. Until recently, there was bipartisan agreement on the centrality of free speech to American liberties. Today, nearly a third of Americans believe free speech rights go too far. When Donald Trump was elected president, Democrats in Congress threatened social media platforms with antitrust actions and repeal of the libel protections in Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act if they failed to rein in conservative speech.

When Joe Biden took office, the federal government institutionalized a censorship enterprise that coerced and collaborated with social media platforms to censor, suppress, and demonetize disfavored views. The New York Times acknowledges the left has long sought to limit “unfettered speech.” Former president Barak Obama told a Stanford University conference that government controls must be imposed to stop so-called “disinformation.” Vice President Kamala Harris announced a White House task force to block disinformation involving women’s issues. Democrat vice presidential candidate Tim Walz told MSNBC, “There’s no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech.” In fact, both are generally protected by the First Amendment. The Democrat platform sees controlling disinformation as a priority.

By contrast, in July, the Republicans adopted a platform that states: “We will ban the Federal Government from colluding with anyone to censor Lawful Speech, defund institutions engaged in censorship, and hold accountable all bureaucrats involved with illegal censoring. We will protect Free Speech online.” In Murthy v. Missouri, healthcare professionals, Missouri, and Louisiana sued to block the Biden-Harris censorship regime. During discovery, officials testified that they knowingly sought to end-run the prohibitions on government interference in free speech by working with and through third parties, including Stanford, non-profit associations, and social media companies. After reviewing extensive discovery, U.S. District Court Judge Terry Doughty found that the Biden-Harris administration had engaged in “a broad pressure campaign designed to coerce social media companies into suppressing speakers, viewpoints, and content disfavored by the government” and issued an injunction to stop it.

A unanimous panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with the findings but tailored the injunction to eliminate ambiguities and exclude some agencies. Florida and Texas then passed laws to make it more difficult for social media platforms to ban political speech. The 11th Circuit struck down Florida’s law, finding that it impermissibly limited editorial discretion, while the Fifth Circuit upheld Texas’ law, concluding that content moderation activities are not speech.

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“He also promised to have it “settled” as president-elect and not wait for the January inauguration.”

Trump Lauds Russia’s ‘Winter Fighting’ (RT)

Former US president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has expressed admiration for the Russian military’s warfighting skills and vowed to end the Ukraine conflict before the end of the year, if elected. Trump addressed the Russia-Ukraine conflict as part of an hour-long interview, posted on Monday. Advertised as “unfiltered stories of heroic events and current world issues,” the show is hosted by the former US Navy SEAL and CIA contractor Shawn Ryan. “Russia’s a great winter fighter,” Trump told Ryan. “They beat Germany and they beat Napoleon. They’re not easy to beat. And they are a massive military, and Ukraine isn’t. But Ukraine has us giving them a lot of money.”

The US and its allies have channeled more than $400 billion in aid to Kiev since the conflict began in 2022, including over $120 billion in direct military aid, according to estimates from the Kiel Institute, a German think-tank tracking the contributions. Without going into the details, Trump objected to the US accounting for the lion’s share of the military aid, arguing the European members of NATO needed to “equalize” their contribution. “That war is much more devastating than people understand,” Trump said in the interview. He also promised to have it “settled” as president-elect and not wait for the January inauguration. Trump has repeatedly argued that the conflict would not have broken out had he stayed in the White House, instead of being replaced by Joe Biden in 2021. He has also claimed he would end the fighting within 24 hours.

The Shawn Ryan show was not the first time Trump has praised the Russian “war machine,” either. He first brought it up during a Fox News town hall in February, then again in July, recounting a phone call with Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky. Asked by Ryan what he would spend the $175 billion that the US Congress has appropriated for Ukraine aid, Trump pointed out that the US has over $30 trillion in national debt. The former president also lamented the fact that the Pentagon has managed to empty the stockpile he had worked so hard to replenish during his time in office. “These guys gave it all to Ukraine,” Trump told Ryan. “Now we have no ammunition again.”

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“As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”

America’s Reckoning With Reality (Douglas Macgregor)

Why would the Uniparty inflict this damage on the American People? The Uniparty knows that, without common identity or kinship, democracy is replaced with tribal anarchy, a societal condition that leads to nihilism, drug abuse, criminality, and worse. The goal is painfully obvious. It is the denationalization of the United States, the fundamental destruction of national identity and the social cohesion that supports it. The process involves the conversion of Americans into an amorphous mass of sedated consumers. The transformation of the U. S. Armed Forces into mercenary military formations staffed by illegal migrants is an enormously important step in the direction of denationalization. After all, before Americans won their independence, their national identity rested on the shoulders of the Continental Army.

If General Washington could hold the Continental Army together despite fearful odds, our country and its governing body—congress—existed. The Continental Army was, and today’s Armed Forces still are, the repository of American national Identity. The Uniparty rejects these charges. Instead, the Uniparty tells us how fortunate we are to welcome tens of millions of foreigners into our country where they will enhance our culture, society and way of life. Really, how many “Rs” are there in “fat chance?” Meanwhile, the Uniparty promotes the sexualization of children in our public school systems. Naturally, the Uniparty pretends to care for the workingman or woman, and it promises everything to everyone for nothing in perpetuity—tuition-free college, free health care, free housing, free everything. The Uniparty is giving non-paying, illegal immigrants access to our healthcare system.

How the Uniparty will pay for these things is a question no one answers. Servicing the national debt on an annual basis already involves a sum larger than the defense budget. Are the presidential candidates aware? Do they care? For the Uniparty, none of these concerns matters. The daily life of the Uniparty is about self-enrichment, sensual pleasure, and social prestige. The Uniparty motto is “When in doubt, print more money.” Equally troubling is the Uniparty’s enthusiasm for war. In fact, the Uniparty sees enormous benefit to war, even to the point of turning over control of the U.S. Armed Forces to the direction of a foreign power for use in a major war that will escalate to involve other nuclear-armed powers.

But Americans are not stupid. Americans know that open borders are not a net benefit, and they know that modern war is not a game or an event that occurs only on foreign soil. The new, emerging constellation of potential adversaries in Eastern Europe and the Middle East is no longer a loose collection of hapless opponents without armies, air forces, navies, air defenses, or persistent surveillance from seabed to space. President Abraham Lincoln was right: “If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.” The time for Americans to halt the destruction is upon us. The question is whether Americans will remain bystanders or intervene to save the Republic.

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“Moscow sources believe it was the Kremlin which was taken by surprise by the Kursk attack on August 6, but not the General Staff and the military intelligence agency GRU..”

Is President Putin Preparing For Istanbul-II? (Helmer)

Remember the old adage — sticks and stones will break my bones but words will never harm me. In the war by the US and its Anglo-European allies to destroy Russia since 1945, the propaganda war has been lost by the Russians many times over. That war is still being lost. But for the first time since 1945, the battlefield war is being won by the Russian General Staff. The uncertainty which remains is whether President Vladimir Putin will continue to restrict the General Staff’s war plans in order that Putin can go to negotiations with the Americans on terms which will forego the demilitarization and denazification of the Ukrainian territory between Kiev and the Polish border, and concede to the Kiev regime unhindered control of the cities to the east — Kharkov, Odessa, Dniepropetrovsk.

Call those terms Istanbul-II. As with the draft terms initialled in Istanbul at the end of March 2022, Istanbul-II amounts to an exchange of dominant Russian military power for US and Ukrainian signatures on paper with false intention and temporary duration. The US administration says it believes Putin will concede. It also believes that by staging its war of pinpricks — that’s the drone, artillery and missile barrages fired by the Ukrainian military, directed by the US and UK – in the Black Sea and Russia’s western border regions, Putin’s red lines and threats of retaliation are exposed as empty bluff. The same interpretation of Putin, and confidence that he will accept US terms, are the foundation of the Ukraine “peace plan” of Donald Trump’s advisors. The Trump plan’s offer of “some limited sanctions relief” reflects the conviction in Washington that Putin’s oligarch constituency can be bribed to push Putin into the same “frozen war” concessions as Roman Abramovich got Putin to accept at Istanbul-I – until the General Staff stopped them both.

Putin’s restrictions on the General Staff’s proposals for neutralizing the US and British air surveillance and electronic warfare operations; and his orders to stand by while the Ukrainians have assembled several thousand forces, first to cross into Kursk, and then into Bryansk and Belgorod, are now as visible in Moscow as they have been in Washington. Moscow sources believe it was the Kremlin which was taken by surprise by the Kursk attack on August 6, but not the General Staff and the military intelligence agency GRU. They understood the battlefield intelligence as it was coming in and requested Putin’s agreement to respond. In retrospect, they say “we told you so”; they imply their hands were tied by the Kremlin orders.

“My understanding for now,” says one of the sources, “is that these are pinpricks that feel painful but they are not life threatening. Russia will not take any land, for now, other than the four regions. It should be the eight regions but it’s obvious Putin doesn’t have the will and the military does not have the capacity to hold. So we will see Ukrainians inside Kursk for a while. But it should be downplayed because it should not be allowed to be a bargain chip in negotiations the other side is aiming at.” Putin said this himself, the source points out at his meeting on August 12 with the Chief of the General Staff, Valery Gerasimov, and others. “These [Kursk] actions clearly aim to achieve a primary military objective: to halt the advance of our forces in their effort to fully liberate the territories of the Lugansk and Donetsk people’s republics, the Novorossiya region.”

Putin also said: “It is now becoming increasingly clear why the Kiev regime rejected our proposals for a peaceful settlement, as well as those from interested and neutral mediators…. It seems the opponent is aiming to strengthen their negotiating position for the future. However, what kind of negotiations can we have with those who indiscriminately attack civilians and civilian infrastructure, or pose threats to nuclear power facilities? What is there to discuss with such parties?” “It’s obvious at this point,” comments a military source, “that the Americans and Ukrainians have decided that Putin will come to terms if they snatch enough Russian territory and keep up their strikes behind the Russian lines…The Ukrainians are going for broke in the north while the centre collapses. But they know, no matter how expensive it is, the longer they remain on the attack, the worse it looks for the Russian leadership. They also have the measure of Putin who gives orders for half measures.”

This is also obvious in the Security Council in Moscow. The Council’s deputy secretary, ex-president Dmitri Medvedev, made the point explicitly in his Telegram account declaration on August 21, implying that until he had said it, no one else dared: “In my opinion, recently, even theoretically, there has been one danger – the negotiation trap, into which our country could fall under certain circumstances; for example. Namely, the early unnecessary peace talks proposed by the international community and imposed on the Kiev regime with unclear prospects and consequences.” Medvedev was referring to Istanbul-I. “After the neo-Nazis committed an act of terrorism in the Kursk region, everything has fallen into place. The idle chatter of unauthorized intermediaries on the topic of the beautiful world has been stopped. Now everyone understands everything, even if they don’t say it out loud. They understand that there will BE NO MORE NEGOTIATIONS UNTIL THE COMPLETE DEFEAT OF THE ENEMY! [Medvedev’s caps]”

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“Hezbollah has the “will and the ground resources it needs [to] have a very, very, very large impact on Israeli soil..”

Hezbollah Could End Normal Life in Israel, Drive Israelis ‘Underground’ (Sp.)

Tensions between Hezbollah and Israel have boiled over amid a series of increasingly powerful back-and-forth attacks. But neither side, nor their allies truly want a full-scale war, since it would end any semblance of normal life in Israel, sink Tehran’s hopes on the diplomatic front, and stretch US resources to a breaking point, observers say. Major airlines began canceling and diverting flights to and from Beirut and Tel Aviv over the weekend amid fears of all all-out war between Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Israel. The cancellations came in the wake of large-scale preemptive aerial attacks by as many as 100 Israeli warplanes against suspected Hezbollah targets across southern Lebanon, with the militia launching a barrage of hundreds of drones and rockets at 5 am Sunday morning in retaliation to Tel Aviv’s assassination of senior Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut last month.

Smaller follow-up targeted back-and-forth air-drone and rocket attacks have been reported, with scores Hezbollah fighters, Israeli soldiers and civilians killed or injured in the latest escalation. In a televised speech Sunday, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah cited the militia’s successful targeting of Israeli military and intelligence sites. Nasrallah said the delay in the militia’s response to Shukr’s July 30 murder was meant to provide time for the Gaza ceasefire talks to bear fruit – a chance he said was squandered by Prime Minister Netanyahu and the United States. “Our goal…is to end the aggression on Gaza, so we gave it [the ceasefire process, ed.] enough of an opportunity, but after all this time, it is clear that Netanyahu is putting in new conditions and the Americans are working with him and this is all a waste of time, so there was no reason to delay any longer,” Nasrallah said.

“Regional and international actors indirectly involved in this war such as the US and Iran have no intention to directly be involved,” American University of Beirut Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy international affairs section coordinator Yeghia Tashjian told Sputnik, commenting on the escalating tensions between Hezbollah and Israeli. Pointing to the factors of the upcoming US presidential election, plus Iran’s attempts at diplomatic rapprochement with Western countries following July’s elections, Tashjian said he believes the recent back-and-forth strikes, serious as they are, remain “managed clashes,” signaling that neither side is “ready to shift the current status into a major war.” There are other reasons Israel and the US in particular don’t truly want a full scale conflict, says Furkan Halit Yolcu, an academic and Middle East Institute faculty member at Turkiye’s Sakarya University.

Hezbollah, unlike Hamas, isn’t “a small-scale non-state actor,” but a force to be reckoned with approaching national armies in terms of its ground strength, and has missile and air defense power that can do great “harm and hurt” to any army attacking it, the observer told Sputnik. Hezbollah has the “will and the ground resources it needs [to] have a very, very, very large impact on Israeli soil,” Yolcu warned, noting that ordinary Israelis may literally be driven into underground bomb shelters their government has prepared for them, and see their day-to-day lives disrupted completely thanks to Hezbollah’s ability to saturate Israeli air and missile defenses.

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    M. C. Escher Development II 1939   • A Period of Great Uncertainty – Martin Armstrong (USAW) • France Extends Durov Arrest – Media (RT) • Rumble
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle August 27 2024]

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    it would be quite lovely if the elephant rescue video is a metaphor for the republican party

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    In Stunning Letter To Congress, Zuckerberg Admits Biden-Harris Pressured Facebook To Censor Content

    He violated the Constitution and all human rights, but he promises he’s kinda sorry about it. No hard feelings about 100,000 felonies and toppling Democracy, right?

    “Ukrainian Commanders Blame Poorly Trained Soldiers for Donbas Losses: ‘Panic & Chaos’

    Dum-Dums?? YOU are in charge of training them properly. YOU are giving them 4 weeks training, max, and YOU outlawed national gun ownership so that they have no basic skills. Sounds like YOU caused panic, chaos, and defeat.

    From this week, What’s going on in Kursk? It’s certainly possible that Ukraine is stronger and the Russian army is simply terrible there as they keep advancing. That’s the level 1, obvious conclusion that should be stated. However, I don’t think so. There are so many reasons. Ze for example keeps changing WHY they are there at all. It changes hourly, he can’t seem to articulate a reason. And any normal general would make his point, then withdraw to…do something else. There are NO viable targets there aside from the Nuke plant, they could hold the WHOLE thing and make no military difference. Russia’s doctrine (Never Fight a Land War in Asia) is always to trade land for men, which means evacuation. So their “Losing” is merely NATO – that is WESTERN warfare – thinking they “win” when the map grows. That’s foolish. Because we’re fools and drooling morons who apparently are more illiterate than barefoot tarheels signing up in 1941, and never read no larnin’ books.

    No, I have to fall back on my original impression – even as we discover that they had 10x more men there: the Russian doctrine of withdrawing land for men, then as their front line becomes infinitely diluted, they are doing what they did 5 times before, and in fact did in the Rebellion of 2014: They EXIST, and so then Ukraine – being made of utter frothing morons, apparently, but rabid and brave – then keep feeding men and machines into a standing loss, just like Bakhmut and Avdiivka for only two examples, WHILE “surrounded”, or as Russia learned early here, not QUITE surrounded. If surrounded they fight harder and it’s over. They specifically TRY to leave the supply road open, and the fight AS IF they might win something. Then they just throw men at a standing Russian line and are “Aggressive Attrition” to utter extinction. So they die for Zelensky’s ego. As long as Zelensky and his Ego exist, Ukrainians will die by thousands. Per DAY.

    As that worked, why change it? The Russians maybe should, but that’s not their nature. IF something is working, why invent the wheel? Keep doing it and everybody’s happy. Do something else and you might fail and everybody’s mad. Like if you lost a bunch of MIGs the social loss would be dismal – EVEN IF you won the battle or made it sooner by doing so. That may or may not be a detriment to them, but it’s how they act, and they’re in extreme danger from all NATO and 400M in Europe, and you might want to do what’s working and not F- around right now.

    On the flip side, why pick on Russia? Ukraine, the Yanks and Brits have hit upon the perfect solution for LOSING. With embarrassment that is absolute, unable even to sell weapons anymore, as everything we own is 10x overpriced and literally useless. Pointless. Every single weapon is a pea-shooter, having no effect on the Russian command.

    Yet they keep doing the same utterly losing actions, having hit upon no military “solution” to the situation Russia is throwing at them. Sounds stupid, but part of this is basic problem-solving. IF your enemy is doing THIS, then you need to stop, frustrate, and divert them doing it. NATO not only hasn’t, they don’t even seem to realize Russia exists, as they are quite literally insane and unable to uptake “reality” on the ground from their daily reports. So they just go back to Ze Rulez, the textbook written in 1991, and fax that back to the front line. Then take in a loose hour from jockeying spreadsheets by listening to “Times Radio” (MI6) about how they’re winning right now. So sure, Russia lacks all imagination, but why should they have to? We’re even dumber than they are.

    CJ Hopkins article yesterday, as if we didn’t have enough trouble, he redefines “Global Capitalism” in yet another new way that takes nothing from anyone’s existing definitions. Maybe he didn’t get that we don’t invent words, we inherit them, because they need to be agreed upon widely. That’s what a “Word” is. Also I understand it, but his definition doesn’t work and falls apart everywhere, so I disagree. His point that GloboCap is Orlov’s TechnoSphere that is trying to digest everything like the Borg is well taken but needs to be thought of clearer and isn’t “Capitalism” either. …Well, it’s really, really hard to invent a totally new, insightful, accurate avenue of thought. Lots and lots stab at it for years until someone gets a lightning strike.
    All that for this:

    “”It’s A Nightmare In Every Direction”: In Communist Cuba, Elderly Left To Struggle On $10 Pensions
    After more than 60 years of communism, Cuba’s population is suffering with a broken health care system, plummeting birth rates, and economic collapse.”

    So is that not “Communism”? The core remaining Communist country isn’t communist? “It’s never been tried?” They don’t have health care either AND they’re poorer than we are.

    “Canada Hits China With 100% Tariff on Electric Cars

    Trudeau channels his inner Trump. Also not Capitalism as he screws with every market, but he never said he was, quite the opposite.

    “Another Pete Buttigieg Failure? Merchant Marine Manpower Deficit Sidelines 17 Support Ships For Wartime  

    Doing his part to completely collapse the United States. And this man was to be President? Well if you want to be F-d up the A–, he’s your guy.

    RFK Announcement.

    Okay now that makes sense. And if they can do far more, it will be rich and with roots. What was the major line they could stop MAGA? They said MAGA was outlier, extreeeeeeme, a polarized division. If you were near them, like gay hairdressers, you were the enemy. This is exactly the sort of thing campaign wonks think up in a year long committee meetings. And it’s a good idea that will work.

    Young Men Leaving:

    This is a problem as the DNC rests in the youth vote. As they’re morons who don’t know anything yet. Or put graciously, the quote “If you’re a Conservative when you’re young, you have no heart; but if you’re a Progressive when you’re old, you have no brain.”

    It’s not that they don’t care: Conservatives give to charity like 30% more than Progressives – but that they’ve seen way too many things get stolen and not work. It’s humility. It’s not the INTENT, it’s the delivery.

    DEI Reporter: He tells HER, the Madam President, what she thinks and what she will do, only THEN lets her speak. Ummmm….??? Is that ’cause she’s Brown? Or is it Black? Or something? White Liberal reporters throw the test for the poor jungle children who fell out of a coconut tree. God! that’s offensive. Attack her like an honored enemy. With respect and honor.

    And given that softball, she still can’t do anything.

    ““I am very concerned they will start WWIII before the end of the year and maybe by September.”

    So many definitions: but they already have? Since 2001? 2014? But we know what he means and makes it clear: they need to bomb Russia directly so there’s a hot war too large for Trump to back out of. Yeah, we know. They’ve said they want to kill all humans for 100 years, but especially since 1971. I’ve heard nothing my whole life except I’m a maggot and we all need to die.

    “• France Extends Durov Arrest – Media (RT)

    Amazing system, and legal, if you call being a weasel “legal”. They issued the warrant AS THE PLANE WAS LANDING. Which means they’ve been tracking him for this purpose. Then the legal basis is fishy, so you think they’re going to follow any other laws and norms here? They’ll re-up his arrest for 40 years, hold him in solitary, anything they want. If not, we’re demonstrating the GloboHomos have no power, and that’ll be a huge loss for them, a collapse of their Mafia of Fear.

    And we can’t let Russia’s authoritarian system be the the Good Guys, the standard here. Sure, I appreciate they’re better than anyone in the West right now, maybe by 50%, but we need to get back to OUR baseline of freedom, not theirs. Same thing with China: they 5x control and authoritarian actions and make that the new Overton Window and baseline instead of de Toqueville.

    ““..observers worry about the precedent set by the Democrat Party’s end run around its own voters.”

    “Observers” do, but Democrat do not. That’s “Collectivism” it’s sort of a “family”, you don’t criticize “Us”, you support. Well, yeah, that’s the Female orientation and “The Future is Female” but they’re missing the Masculine energy of toughening up and problem-solving. Criticizing, holding the line, is the first step in fixing it and making it – that is, “Us” — better.

    Anyway, good thing we’re talking about an election that won’t happen rather than WWIII, which is.

    “• Secret Service Rescinds Protection For RFK Jr. After Trump Endorsement (ET)”

    Oh good: he might live then. But actually, that’s probably all correct and by the rules. We are protecting a guy just – associated – with a campaign? With no official title at all? Not like VP or nothing? Yes, that is exactly what should and has to be done or USSS would be protecting everybody. “Protected” in huge quotes of course, in theory, like a “Hypothecated” protection.
    OTOH, he IS technically and residually on the ballot. I’d say no though.

    “Dear American, this is your next presidential administration: It will be anti-white, anti-family, pro-open borders, pro-legalization of sexual perversity, pro-sexualization of young children, and pro-war.”

    Many have stated the DNC can’t win on their platform because this is it. They can’t NOT have this platform, because this is their intent. They’re already promising drug prices, health care, legalizing pot, and reversed every one one of them so that “campaign promise lying” bridge is behind them. Where do they go up from here? How do you install a full Stalinist State and get people to vote for it? Just Kidding! As Unkle Joe said, “It only matters who COUNTS the votes.” Here’s a vote for you: DO IT OR I’LL SHOOT YOU. Like Trump or Assange.

    “Harris competed for the presidential nomination in 2020, she was immediately eliminated. She had zero support. If you will remember, she has been an unpopular vice president. Yet today the media presents her as leading Trump, who continues to turn out massive attendance”

    Yup, and they’ve so destroyed reason and words with ceaseless lies that people are worn down and exhausted, unable to find reserves for a defense. Ask any abused wife. That’s why women are the sole remaining base for them!

    “Ask yourselves, how did Kamala go from zero support among Democrats to the leading presidential contender?”

    Ah, but that’s where you’re wrong Paul: they are NOT going to ask themselves. If they asked themselves anything they’d be Republicans.

    “The white people you see in the video of the DNC convention are so utterly stupid, or brainwashed, or insouciant that they cannot realize that they are supporting their own elimination.”

    Don’t hypothesize: go ask them.
    They’ll tell you White people are evil and should be killed. Starting maybe not with themselves, but maybe they themselves as White people could live as house-boys to the morally and socially superior Black people or something if they are lucky and permitted. I’ve asked.

    Okay, great for you if you want to be a simp, but have you thought about your children or anything? Now they will be migrant slaves in a segregated planet, 2nd class citizens with no legal rights. That’s the America you’re fighting for? Again: Yes. I’ve asked. White people are so innately evil from birth they deserve it. ALL of them.

    Quite a level of racism there. Hey buddy: what’s “White” person? If a “White” person is born in Japan, are they innately racist and superior? For that matter, what’s a “Black” person as we split hairs over Jamaicans vs Africans vs Canadians and how they’re truly and essentially different from the “African-American” experience, which is quite true.

    No one can define any of these things. PCR as well, who is lost in “White America”. Wtf does that mean? Whites here are Muslim Serbians. The other whites are non-religious Jews. A minute ago the third Whites were Catholic Italians still speaking Sicilian. They’re of course exactly the same people, and the same as White trailer trash in Oklahoma with two cars on blocks, 10 generations old.

    In other words: WTF are you talking about?

    “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” — Voltaire.

    Easy: force-inject a lie, a false premise. All subsequent equations and actions will be contaminated, and corrupt, useful to bend, leverage, attack, and extract from that group. That’s WHY I injected the lie about my brother in law, my wife. For POWER. Then I USE the power to GET stuff. STEAL it. TAKE it. RAPE it. Over and over. All starts with a lie you ate, like a poisoner. Roofies of the mind, in every water supply I can find.

    ““The Supreme Court had multiple opportunities during the last term to end the censorship of conservatives by social media. It chose a different path.”

    Yes, this “Ultra Conservative” Supreme Court holds zero Conservative or Constitutional values. Not even to hear cases on interstate election interference. Nothing on Human rights. Nothing on 1A. And then Kavanaugh voted pro-abortion as his first act. Stunning and Brave.

    “The Shawn Ryan show was not the first time Trump has praised the Russian “war machine,” either.”

    NPR writers of RT. Is that REALLY what he’s saying? Or is he saying a throwaway comment? Like, “Sure Leon Sphinx is a great boxer…” …But no Muhammad Ali? What’s the alternative here? Well OBVIOUSLY, no one can say anything good about Russia EVER, even if it’s perfectly and agreed upon to be true, like this is. Then a country that no one can say ever did anything good is OBVIOUSLY evil and one we should attack, right? That’s just common sense. Roofies of the mind.

    And how does this work? Saddam was our guy, we put him in, we loved him so much Rumsfeld mouth-kissed him while doing a reach-around and gave him a warehouse of America chemical weapons. Anthrax, SCUDS, VX, da worx. Then a minute later Saddam was evilly-evil man with an evil hat. “Obviously” evil that no one could say good about, so we had to go to war with him, didn’t we? I mean, who’s the real victim here? So just like the “Mob Rule” of the Founding Fathers, “Democracy” writ large, the Mob in “Julius Caesar”, “The People” are told with idiot media “Chelsea’s Uncool and pooped her pants! Nobody likes her!”

    Two seconds later we’re dropping 10,000 year Depleted Uranium on Iraqi unborn. All those guys who are Pro-Life voters back at home.

    Back to Putin: Roofies of the Mind. Start with ONE lie. I’m kinda, sorta, hard to just be “normal” and give Russia their due for who they are and who they’re not. If you’re weak in this one tiny thing…boom, I’m going to use it as a wedge to start a war and kill you all!!! Hahaha, then you’ll pay!

    But hey, if you’re too much of a coward to say “Russia defeated Napoleon”, then maybe this isn’t the game for you. Maybe we should take all your stuff and strap you in a high chair and feed you baby formula. Nope: that Bar is MUCH too high for RT. NPR reporters are running the whole place. Russia is evilly-evil with a side of evil, today. And tomorrow? Well, YOU’RE NEXT. Next week we’re coming for you. They said You’re Chelsea’s Friend, you like her and you’re uncool too. Probably solitary confinement for life, I guess. Take all your bank accounts.
    …And you’d think that I’m kidding. If only.

    Corpus
    http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SEo8o0s0N4k/T7c-x2yKZXI/AAAAAAAAGGQ/LU-rnnTKkXk/s1600/invasion+of+body+snatchers+22FF.jpg

    Why would the Uniparty inflict this damage on the American People?”

    Indeed, ask that question instead of wasting my time with rhetoricals. Why don’t you go ask some random muscle car mechanic, they seem to have it figured out, unlike American Army Generals.

    “How the Uniparty will pay for these things is a question no one answers.”

    Here, let me help: the POINT is not to pay for it, the POINT is to COLLAPSE. Europe is attacking, and COLLAPSING the U.S. They don’t WANT us to pay for it. They want us to DIE. Russia’s not the only resource-rich nation they’re trying to topple, regime-change, Balkanize, chop up, and digest. A Army General might know that, or ask. If I can figure it out in a box under this bridge, you can too. “No Mr. Bond, I expect you to DIE.”

    “If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”

    Yes, and like de Toqueville and the Madison quotes, your ENEMY then reads that and says, “Huh, that’s how a Arleigh Burke destroyer works? Well shoot, then we just remove Q,R, and Y, and attack D, F, and G and the whole thing goes kablooey. Thanks.”

    They don’t think like you do. They are trying to kill you, and kill you all. They don’t even really want or need your stuff they’ll steal ‘cause it’s lying around after. The killing of you is its own reward and makes their happy heart go pitter-pat.

    “The uncertainty which remains is whether President Vladimir Putin will continue to restrict the General Staff’s war plans in order that Putin can go to negotiations with the Americans”

    Helmer has turned to NPR, the dark side. There will be no negotiations. Negotiate with who? No, I mean literally, not just “America and the Anglos have never kept a treaty ever” I also mean, Blinken, Biden don’t exist and have no power in themselves, even this very minute. Nuland for example, never followed any orders, and neither does much of the government. So you’re having a treaty with one guy, Marvin, in Accounting. He has no power over anyone else in the Federales.

    Am I kidding? If Trump doesn’t who does? And over VERY, excruciatingly clear orders like: YOU ARE LEAVING AFGHANISTAN AND SYRIA. Nope. No orders followed. You can’t treaty even with Trump because the whole Federal government will just ignore it. (And do whatever the WEF says)

    So Helmer grew up in a NON postmodernist, “burn it all” world. He adorably thinks there are still “Nations” and “Rules.” On our way back to the Neo-Middle Ages of NeoFeudalism, we also passed Westphalia, where the ground rules for nations were writ.

    We passed and discarded Vienna and Geneva decades back, in 2001. Now if you WANT to live in a world of 6th century feudal warlords, just say so openly and we can discuss it.
    Back to Russia: SINCE there is no one in the West to negotiate with NOR would they ever allow peace, therefore Russia must keep fighting until all Ukraine is held. Okay fine.

    BUT next: IF that keeps being true – and it looks like it will be – THEN the war never ends then either. When they reach Lviv, the border only changes to Poland and Russia is not allowed to rest then either. Did they not already say they’re going to attack and they are starting child-conscription in Germany, UK? Yes, when Russia reaches that point, and 200k men are dead, THEN Nato will only START attacking Russia in CENTRAL Europe. In 2030. On the 30 Year’s War. We’ll see who run out of men first.

    PCR says “Why didn’t Russia Shock and Awe and send 100% of all their material there the first day?” Dude: it’s not like what WEF, RAND, NATO writes is an f-ing state secret. Because they OPENLY PRINT what they’re planning for Russia. With great pride and gold pension plans. They already SAID they will attack Russia forever or die trying. Russia is ABLE TO READ ENGLISH. That’s their genius master plan. And you all just publish that you’re going to force Russia to attack Donbas. Suck them in, sanction them, chop them up and utterly erase them from the earth with all Slavs. So…um…Russia responded to your openly-published war plan?

    Back to this: their openly published war plan is a “War of exhaustion, all against all” in “Three World Wars” that goes on until no one can remember anything else? And that war has dates, like 2030?

    Okay then maybe don’t use all your jets, tanks, Khinzals first month? I mean if they’re nice enough to tell you, then at least try to accommodate them.

    Speaking of, one last thing: since Russia’s attack yesterday was the largest so far in the war, it’s also THE LARGEST ATTACK IN RUSSIAN HISTORY. Meh. No headlines. No news. No WWIII. Kamala said something stupid about an election that’s not going to happen is much more important.

    #167570
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    What ails us, U.S.?

    ” The transformation of the U. S. Armed Forces into mercenary military formations staffed by illegal migrants is an enormously important step in the direction of denationalizatio”

    To say nothing of The National Guard and promotion of my cousin Molly to Colonel on her way to General and the likes of Tulsi Gabbard and Tim Walz.

    As the author more than in the intimates, a short hell, shame and damnation.

    Zuckerberg
    N
    Prince

    “I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it..”

    “Where is the rightful outrage from environmentalists? Thousands of tons of crude oil will now pour into the Red Sea,” Prince wrote on X, adding, “Thousands of tons of crude oil will now pour into the Red Sea.” 

    Please arrest more billionaires and mercenaries fast.

    #167571
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Real Inflation

    It has consequences

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    #167572
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    Sounds like a great idea

    I remember kindergarten, lots of mandatory naps

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    #167573
    adrian144
    Participant

    i worry about paul craig roberts a bit

    #167574
    Oroboros
    Participant

    She actually said this shit.

    Kim Dotcom:

    [Kamala La-la >>>>>]

    “66% of Americans died from Covid.”

    That’s why she’s not allowed to do interviews. Anything unscripted is a minefield for this low IQ puppet.

    https://x.com/i/status/1827971009930207611

    #167576
    Oroboros
    Participant

    How did she even work in the judicial system?

    Oh wait….. I remember now

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    #167577
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Even the Pigeons have dialed in her number

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    #167578
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    As the author more than in the intimates, a short hell, shame and damnation

    As the author more than intimates, a short ride to hell, shame and eternal damnation

    #167579
    those darned kids
    Participant

    that’s some badass yodelling..

    #167580
    John Day
    Participant

    I like the dog cart school-shuttle.
    😉
    Max Keiser said to pray together.
    He seemed a bit uncomfortable, but driven to it by necessity.

    Barack Obama was “taken out of context”.
    😉

    #167581
    those darned kids
    Participant

    elon musk’s 247,200,000,000$* divided by 653,104** homeless u.s. peoples = 378,500.21$ each

    just sayin’..

    *forbes, ** hud

    #167582
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Do as I say not as I…..

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    #167583
    Oroboros
    Participant

    If, of all words of tongue and pen,

    The saddest are, “It might have been,”

    More sad are these we daily see:

    “It is, but hadn’t ought to be.”

    ~jg whittier

    Regret for the hole you’ve dug for your entire culture

    I know…….

    In Duh’merica, only one possible solution to remedy the dilemma of Clusterphuck FUBAR …..

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    #167584
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Good Old Fashion Duh’merican Ingenuity to the Rescue!

    #167585
    Oroboros
    Participant

    The Empire of Lies has it covered bitchez…

    And don’t forget bring up the rear…..

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    #167586
    Oroboros
    Participant

    .

    I want this for my birthday.

    I love bears

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    #167587
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #167588
    Oroboros
    Participant

    @Dr D

    “Words have meanings”

    Thought of you when I saw this

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    #167589
    zerosum
    Participant

    Lender’s dilemma

    The US will default on it’s debt, If there is a big war
    The US will default on it’s debt, even if there is no war

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    The Democrat platform sees controlling disinformation as a priority.

    #167590
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    Everyone is in on it….it being The Scheme of Non-Sense.

    About Zuckerberg:

      Previously: Facebook CEO Zuckerberg Blames “The Establishment” (Jews) for Censorship! (June 11, 2023)

      Say what you want about Zuck. I’m sure he’s using all of your data in diabolical ways, to fuel his infernal machines. Or whatever. But he’s always been anti-censorship.

      I was writing in 2014 that Zuck was refusing former ADL head Abe Foxman’s demands that he stop Holocaust denial on Facebook. He went as hard as he could fighting against censorship, until he was forced to by the ADL manipulating advertisers and the federal government threatening him.

      He seems mad about the federal government threatening him and directly interfering with his business. He’s talked about this several times already.

    I’m sure there’s no projection and introjection going between The Author and The Zuckerberg.

    Is there anything as fearful as a millionaire?

    Yeah, billionaires

    I guess Zuckerberg didn’t censor The Biden Laptop story at the explicit request of Kamala and Joe then conjecture he might be Pavel Durov-ed by France before CEO Telegraphgram.
    Brave guy.
    Heroic billionaire.

    #167591
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Sanity is now manifested on what has been labeled as the Right, with the wiser of that cohort being criticized as Far Right and the most brilliant being vilified as Far Right Extremist. Likewise, insanity is now manifested most blatantly on the so called Left, wherein the craziest of the lunatics call themselves Woke (hint: their grasp of grammar, usage and spelling should give you a hint about the state of their cognitive ability).

    Wouldn’t it simplify things and make more sense to give the so-called “Left” a more descriptive name? Because “Left”, as a prepositional word, is descriptive of nothing because there is no frame of reference with which to determine direction). I think we should switch to a word that is both more descriptive and also more directly comparable to the word used to identify the other side of the divide.

    I propose that we just call them “Wrong”. The more demonstrative of those wrong people could be called “Wack” (short for “Wacky Wrong”) and the most extreme of that ilk can simply be referred to as Democrat, or any other equivalent term that means WAY wacked out wrong, Satanic Zionist, or so on.

    #167592
    zerosum
    Participant

    Printing/Leveraging/borrowing/Lending/Spending

    IF something is working, why invent the wheel?
    Keep doing it and everybody’s happy.
    Do something else and you might fail and make everybody mad.
    ———–
    If the US didn’t want to start WW3, it wouldn’t be providing Zelensky more weapons.
    If the US didn’t want Genocide, it wouldn’t be providing Israel with more weapons.
    ———-

    #167593
    those darned kids
    Participant

    whatever you do, ¡¡¡DON’T PUSH THE RED BUTTON!!!

    #167594
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    The most annoyingly baffling thing about the wacked out woke WRONG people is their violent insistence on their RIGHT to be wrong. It would be hilarious if it weren’t so profoundly tragic.

    Demonstrably, these “Wrongsters” believe that just because they do indeed have the absolute (and unremovable) free will to do something that it is therefore their inalienable MORAL “right” to do it without consequences. Well, sorry Bud, but that’s not even possible (much less morally right). Right or wrong, regardless, all “doings” all kinds have their inescapable consequences. Every time. No exceptions.

    The difference is that when you do things right the consequences are good and when you do things wrong the consequences are called bad. In actual practice the way it goes down is that good consequences are called “the results of honest hard work”, and the bad consequences are called somebody else’s fault.

    #167595
    SeaBirds
    Participant

    Yeah, great to see Tulsi join in.

    RT reports Zuck may be shifting a little.

    https://www.rt.com/news/603142-biden-demand-covid-censorship-zuckerberg/

    Don’t say there is a conscience lurking there somewhere, the gutless hypocrite. Or is it simply a courtcase getting in his way? How many young deaths happened/are waiting to happen around the world, because trusting young ignoramuses took note of fake ‘fact checks’ re vaccine safety being touted all over his website? His timing’s good. So convenient to have the old has-been Biden to point the finger at.

    Love Trump’s adverts, the Obama one is brilliant. He seems to be building quite a team.

    Hell, dare we hope they can pull it off and actually DO SOMETHING??! Big history in the making.

    #167596
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Everybody is against censorship until the finger of accusation gets pointed at THEM.

    THAT’s when the men get separated from the boys.

    And the good from the bad.

    #167597
    John Day
    Participant

    Who Gambles On Death https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/who-gambles-on-death

    Simplicius, Israel’s Path of Peril
    Last night Hezbollah carried out another large-scale attack on Israel, billed as their ‘retaliation’ for the death of commander Fouad Shukr. The usual occurred: Israel’s night sky bloomed with constellations of Iron Dome rockets and panicked citizens packed airports to flee the country. Israel claimed to have carried out a large preemptive attack that destroyed much of Hezbollah’s rocket stock before it was used…
    ..What’s most remarkable is that we are now approaching the one year anniversary, this October, of the start of Israel’s war on Gaza, and yet Israel has still not been able to entirely defeat a tiny Hamas force…
    ..“If the Hamas battalions were largely destroyed, Israeli forces wouldn’t still be fighting,” said retired US Army Col. Peter Mansoor, who helped oversee the deployment of an additional 30,000 US troops to Iraq in 2007 – a counterinsurgency strategy known as “the surge.”
    “The fact that they’re still in Gaza, still trying to rout out elements of the Hamas battalions shows me that Prime Minister Netanyahu is wrong,” he added. “The ability of Hamas to reconstitute its fighting forces is undiminished.”
    The article quotes Palestinian civilians fleeing from the north of Gaza, who said that Hamas there is stronger than ever and is actively rebuilding their forces.
    “We began to notice a resurgence in Hamas less than a week after Israel withdrew from northern Gaza in January,” said Carter from CTP. “We saw this effect continuing throughout the strip … This has been the defining process from the Hamas battalions.”
    One ‘high ranking Israeli soldier’ told CNN that Hamas’ statements on rebuilding are true, and that they have recruited ‘thousands’ of new members in the past few months…
    ..What’s most remarkable is the fact that many increasingly believe the situation is leading to Israel’s eventual dissolution. In some ways, it can be argued that Netanyahu and his racist rightwing clan is deliberately fostering a Hamas renewal because their plan B is to use the Hamas specter as an excuse to continue devastating Gaza indefinitely until all Palestinians are purged, one way or another…
    ..In fact, more and more observers believe that Israel is in a kind of ‘death spiral’. While Israeli general Yitzhak Brik dropped a bombshell the other day on Haaretz, declaring that Israel will collapse in less than a year.
    ..Yitzhak Brik has reportedly been called ‘The Prophet of Wrath’ in Israel for accurately predicting the Al-Aqsa Flood operation. Now, in an Oped for Haaretz, he accuses the Israeli government of ‘throwing dust in the eyes’ of the public by lying about their destruction of Hamas.
    “I assume that Defense Minister Gallant already understands that the war has lost its purpose. Israel is sinking deeper into the Gazan mud, losing more and more soldiers as they get killed or wounded, without any chance of achieving the war’s main goal: bringing down Hamas.
    The country really is galloping towards the edge of an abyss. If the war of attrition against Hamas and Hezbollah continues, Israel will collapse within no more than a year.”…
    ..He saves his gravest condemnations for Netanyahu himself:
    Netanyahu decided to “die with the Philistines” – in this case, the citizens of Israel – only to retain his power.
    “He has lost his humanity, basic morality, norms, values, and responsibility for Israel’s security. Only replacing him and his cronies as soon as possible can save the country. Israel has entered an existential tailspin and could soon reach a point of no return”…
    ..Israel’s Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar said in a letter to Netanyahu, Gallant and other ministers published by Channel 12 that “Jewish terror” by settlers in the West Bank and Ben Gvir’s incursions into Al-Aqsa Mosque are doing “indescribable damage to Israel.”
    In response to his warnings about settler terror in the West Bank, Ben Gvir reportedly demanded Ronen Bar’s dismissal, and withdrew from the ministers’ meeting, according to the Israeli army’s radio station…
    ..If Israel continues to deny the bitter truth that a Jewish wild weed that has grown in the territories is now out of control, Jewish terror will bring Israel down. “The ‘hilltop youth’ phenomenon has long grown into a platform for committing violence against Palestinians,” wrote Bar.
    In essence, what they’re saying is that Israel is now openly ruled by radical extremists who are taking the entire country down with them. Saner heads in Israel are calling for a more moderate government which can acknowledge that unbridled terror and genocide is not a winning long term strategy. Unfortunately, the Netanyahu, Ben-Givir, and Smotrich types are too strongly entrenched at the top of the ruling pyramid. After all, some of them like Ben-Givir are open Kahanists—an openly racist ideology that outright views all Arabs as enemies and works to deprive them of any rights within Israel…
    ..Iran sees that Israel is slowly choking from the pressure. Hundreds of thousands of essential Israeli farmers and citizens from the north have fled, many of them stating openly they will never return. Israel’s economy is in freefall, with its only port on the Red Sea, Eilat, having been in complete shut down for months with the port operator announcing the lay off of most of the workers…
    ..The only saving grace might be if Trump wins the presidency and manages to “save” Israel by negotiating some settlement, which would then result in some of the radicals eventually being outed, then Israel would likely continue hobbling along for quite some time. But the country would be greatly weakened internationally, as the damage done to its image has gravely wounded Israel’s future prospects.
    Furthermore, the rise of BRICS and the Global South in general means that Iran and other adversarial countries will continue gaining power and ascendancy while Israel’s allies are steadily weakened on the world stage…
    ..Netanyahu and Zelensky are two birds of a feather with the same desperate goals: they need to drag the US into a wider global war to save their regimes and their country. But what they don’t know is: they are doomed whether that happens or not. That’s because the US does not have the power to win a wider war against either adversary, and both Ukraine and Israel would be doomed to their fates, with US merely sacrificing itself in the process as well.
    There’s good chance that by 2050-2075 Israel goes the way of Rhodesia, or at least won’t exist in its current form. The only thing that could save it, or at least buy it time, is the one thing its leadership would never allow: a two state solution. https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/israels-path-of-peril

    ​ Israel awaits Iran’s retaliation following Hezbollah strikes
    ​ Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah said the early-morning firing of more than 300 Katyusha rockets at northern Israel and the occupied Golan Heights was followed by the launching of several drones that hit carefully chosen and sensitive military targets close to Tel Aviv. In a speech on Sunday evening, he declared that the attack was the party’s response to last month’s assassination by Israel of top Hezbollah military leader Fouad Shukr in Beirut’s southern district.
    ​ He indicated that the operation concluded the party’s retaliation for the assassination but that it reserved the right to carry out further attacks in the future. Meanwhile, Nasrallah said that Hezbollah will continue to engage Israel in the north within the rules of engagement in support of Palestinians in Gaza, adding that only an end to the war there would stop the hostilities with Israel.
    ​ Nasrallah admitted that Israel had carried out what it called a preemptive strike against Hezbollah positions in Lebanon, but he debunked Israeli claims that it had destroyed thousands of missiles or undermined the party’s plans to launch a retaliatory attack on Israel.
    ​ He revealed that Hezbollah had chosen the military-run intelligence base of Glilot, a few kilometers north of Tel Aviv, as its primary target, adding that the operation was successful. But Israel has denied that the base was hit and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the army had intercepted most of the drones and missiles. Israel had earlier said that its response to the Hezbollah threat was also concluded, while Netanyahu said that Sunday’s showdown “was not the end of the story.”​ https://www.arabnews.com/node/2569035

    Israel-Hamas ceasefire, hostage talks to continue after weekend meetings fail to resolve gaps
    The U.S. and other mediators see a ceasefire in Gaza as key to averting a wider Mideast war. Hezbollah has said it will halt its strikes on Israel if there is a ceasefire A round of high-level talks in Cairo meant to bring about a ceasefire and hostage deal to at least temporarily end the 10-month Israel-Hamas war in Gaza ended Sunday (August 25, 2024) without a final agreement, a U.S. official said. But talks will continue at lower levels in the coming days in an effort to bridge remaining gaps. https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/israel-hamas-ceasefire-hostage-talks-to-continue-after-weekend-meetings-fail-to-resolve-gaps/article68567934.ece

    And he might be assassinated for it again: John F. Kennedy Would be on the Side of the Palestinians, Not Israel
    Kennedy in July 1957 delivered a famous speech where he voiced his opposition to then President Eisenhower’s military and political support for French colonialism, and called on the US administration to support the fight for freedom and independence in Algeria.
    The situation in Gaza, the Occupied West Bank, and Occupied East Jerusalem today is very similar to the events that marked the end of French rule in Algeria.
    “The most powerful single force in the world today is neither communism nor capitalism, neither the H-bomb nor the guided missile – it is man’s eternal desire to be free and independent,” Kennedy said. “Thus the single most important test of American foreign policy today is how we meet the challenge of imperialism, what we do to further man’s desire to be free.”
    “The time has come for the United States to face the harsh realities of the situation and to fulfill its responsibilities as the leader of the free world – in the UN, in NATO, in the administration of our aid programs and in the exercise of our diplomacy – in shaping a course toward political independence for Algeria”…
    ..The French authorities and the French settlers had dehumanized the Algerians and referred to them as animals, which morally justified their killing of thousands of human beings. The massacre of 45,000 Algerians in May 1945 secured another nine years of occupation, but it served to strengthen the Algerian’s resolve to fight for an end of French occupation.
    On November 1, 1954, the war of liberation began in earnest. It took eight years for Algeria to win its independence over France; in what British historian Alistair Horne dubbed “a savage war of peace”.
    The Algerian people paid for their freedom with 1.5 million lives, which was 20% of the population.
    As France was seeking to maintain its brutal military occupation of Algeria, then US President John F. Kennedy clearly voiced his belief that French rule over Algeria was not sustainable in the long term, condemned colonialism, and openly rooted for Algeria’s independence. Kennedy was voicing a core American value held dearly today, and one fought for by countless Americans since 1776. The US stance in the 60’s played an important role in the success of Algeria’s liberation struggle. https://www.globalresearch.ca/john-f-kennedy-side-palestinians-not-israel/5866236

    #167598
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://postimg.cc/64NLRkvt
    Ukraine blackout map

    #167599
    John Day
    Participant

    Three Israeli high ranking officers killed in Gaza
    The officers, two major generals, and a lieutenant colonel were killed in central Gaza, the military stated, without providing any other information… The additional deaths raise the military’s total losses in the Gaza assault to 338 since the Israeli occupation launched its invasion of the Gaza Strip while 696 have been killed since October 7, 2023.
    The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continue massacring and bombarding Palestinian civilians across the Gaza Strip for the 323rd day of the genocide. https://english.almayadeen.net/news/Arts&Culture/three-israeli-high-ranking-officers-killed-in-gaza

    ‘Operation al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 325: As ceasefire talks falter, Israeli army orders evacuation of al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital
    The only running hospital in central Gaza is threatened with closure after an Israeli evacuation order amidst ongoing military operations in the area. Meanwhile, ceasefire negotiations resume in the wake of Hezbollah’s retaliatory attack.
    Hezbollah detailed in a statement that it had launched 320 Katyusha rockets on Israeli positions in order to “clear the way for the drones to cross safely towards the target in the depth of the entity [Israel],” adding that the operation was completed “with success.”
    Israeli media quoted the Israeli army saying that Hezbollah’s attack is “thought to have targeted the Mossad headquarters near Tel Aviv,” which would mean that the attack reached some 100 kilometers across the border.
    Hezbollah denied Israeli claims regarding the targeting of thousands of rockets and launchpads in a later statement, saying that “all the drones left their bases in their appointed time and crossed the border safely towards that target,” asserting that Israel’s claims were “baseless.”
    The secretary general of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, said in a live speech on Sunday that Hezbollah had delayed its response to Israel’s assassination of Shukr to give a chance for ceasefire talks. https://mondoweiss.net/2024/08/operation-al-aqsa-flood-day-325-as-ceasefire-talks-falter-israeli-army-orders-evacuation-of-al-aqsa-martyrs-hospital/

    ​ Greek-flagged oil tanker on fire after Houthi attack, EU naval mission says​ (minor fires up top are shown in the photo)
    Aug 26 (Reuters) – The Greek-flagged crude oil tanker Sounion has been on fire in the Red Sea since Aug. 23 after an attack by Yemen’s Houthis with no obvious signs of an oil spill, the EU Red Sea naval mission Aspides said in a post on X on Monday.
    ​ The EU mission published photos dated Sunday showing fire and smoke coming out of the vessel’s main deck. Reuters has verified the authenticity of a Houthi video of a fiery assault on the ship.​ https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/eu-naval-mission-greek-flagged-ship-sounion-fire-since-august-23-after-houthi-2024-08-26/

    Freed Israeli captive Noa Argamani says she was wounded by Israel, not Hamas
    Argamani denies reports that Palestinian fighters shaved her head and beat her during captivity, saying her injuries resulted from an Israeli strike https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/noa-argamani-freed-israeli-captive-says-misquoted-about-hamas-mistreatment

    Palestinian teen killed by Israeli sniper during shift at carwash , The Israeli police were quick to release a statement 90 minutes after the murder, citing that Israeli Border Police had “neutralized a terrorist.”
    An Israeli occupation forces sniper murdered Shadi Shiha, a 16-year-old from Anata, while he worked at his father’s carwash. Despite being in a car wash far from the schoolyard, Shadi was “mistakenly” targeted by the sniper as unsubstantiated claims were made that Palestinian children in a neighboring playground threw Molotov cocktails at Israeli border guards…
    ..The child’s father recalled hearing two shots and recognizing sniper sounds.
    Shadi was hit by a single bullet that entered his femoral artery. His cousin rushed him to a nearby hospital in Anata and doctors attempted to stop his bleeding. He later died at a different medical facility from his injury…
    .. A week after his death, his family has still not been given his body and Israeli police are imposing harsh conditions on his father Wissam, that Shadi be buried in a different town rather than his hometown of Anata, northeast al-Quds. They are also asking for a hefty deposit to ensure the funeral has no issues…
    ..The OCHA has also documented 1,250 Israeli settlers’ attacks on Palestinians since October, including around 120 settler assaults that resulted in Palestinian fatalities and injuries. According to a UN investigation, on August 12, Israeli settlers armed with knives abducted two 15-year-old Palestinian shepherds and dragged them into a recently formed Israeli outpost colony near Khallet an-Nahla, where they “assaulted the boys, broke their legs, and urinated on them” before driving them to an open area where they abandoned them. https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/palestinian-teen-killed-by-israeli-sniper-during-shift-at-ca

    #167600
    John Day
    Participant

    Dutch football player El Ghazi to donate $560,000 of his Mainz payout to Gaza children
    Anwar El Ghazi, a Dutch winger of Moroccan descent, will donate €500,000 ($560,000) of his Mainz payout to Gaza children…
    “I hope Mainz, despite their repeated failed attempts to avoid making the due payment, take solace from the knowledge that they have, through me, contributed financially in trying to make life a little more bearable for the children of Gaza,” he added.
    “Secondly, in attempting to silence me, making my voice even louder for the oppressed and voiceless in Gaza,” the 29-year-old said.
    The Mainz Labor Court ruled that the Dutch player’s statements fell within the scope of freedom of expression and his dismissal was “invalid.”
    The court ordered El Ghazi to continue to be paid his monthly salary of €150,000 ($163,500) and to be reinstated.
    Mainz first suspended and then warned El Ghazi in October about the “River to the sea” phrase he used on Instagram. https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240824-dutch-football-player-el-ghazi-to-donate-560000-of-his-mainz-payout-to-gaza-children/

    Grabbed off the streets and rushed to the front: Ukrainian Commanders Blame Poorly Trained Soldiers for Donbas Losses: ‘Panic & Chaos’​ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukrainian-commanders-blame-poorly-trained-soldiers-donbas-losses-panic-chaos

    ​Andrew Korybko, Ukraine Might Be Gearing Up To Attack Or Cut Off Belarus’ Southeastern City Of Gomel
    ​ Its Foreign Ministry’s ominously implied ultimatum to Minsk and reaffirmation of Ukraine’s right to self-defense suggest that Kiev might invade Belarus’ Gomel Region and/or Russia’s Bryansk Region.
    ​ The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry released a statement on Sunday warning about what it described as the “threat” posed by Belarus’ military buildup along the border, the motivations of which were analyzed here in early August. Belarusian President Lukashenko also drew attention last week to the whopping 120,000 Ukrainian troops that he claims were the first to deploy there. For reference, Belarus only has around 65,000 active soldiers, one-third of whom are stationed along the Ukrainian border.
    ​ Less than a week ago, a small Ukrainian force unsuccessfully tried to invade a tiny village in Russia’s Bryansk Region that’s only 30 kilometers from the Belarusian border. It was likely a probing attempt in hindsight, but any Kursk-like invasion along that front could risk impeding or even cutting off Russia’s military logistics to Belarus’ southeastern city of Gomel. That’s because there’s a nearby highway running between there and Bryansk’s eponymous capital just 30-50 kilometers inside of Russia from the border.
    ​ Ukraine might be gearing up to either attack Gomel (which is just 30 kilometers from the border) or at least threaten Russia’s military logistics to there from Bryansk…
    ​..This was backed up by them reminding Belarus that “We warn that in case of a violation of Ukraine’s state border by Belarus, our state will take all necessary measures to exercise the right to self-defense guaranteed by the UN Charter. Consequently, all troop concentrations, military facilities, and supply routes in Belarus will become legitimate targets for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.” The stage is therefore set for opening up another front on this false pretext if Kiev has the political will to do so.​.. (5 scenarios presented)…​ Out of these five, while the first​ (bluffing only) would arguably be the best, it appears to be the least likely. The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry wouldn’t have made its first statement about Belarus in almost a year if it didn’t believe that this would bring it some sort of benefit, let alone ominously imply an ultimatum and then reaffirm its right to self-defense, which would be twisted to justify aggression in the event that it decides to attack Gomel and/or Bryansk. Something is cooking, and it doesn’t bode well for Belarus.​ https://korybko.substack.com/p/ukraine-might-be-gearing-up-to-attack

    “BACK in the USSA”: “We’re Looking At Serious Civil Unrest Regardless Who Wins” – Martin Armstrong Fears Post-Election Chaos
    Armstrong says another big lie told to the public is the approval rating of Kamala Harris. The so-called polls say Harris is running neck and neck with Donald Trump in the presidential race. Don’t believe it.
    Armstrong says a recent data dive on his Socrates computer program shows:
    “Kamala’s approval rating came in around 10.5 %.
    (A second confidential source says Kamala’s approval rating is 8.5%.) Confidence in government is 7%. So, how can Kamala possibly be 40%, 50% and 60%? It’s illogical…
    The polls are really propaganda at this point. They were propaganda back in 2016. They all said Hillary would win, and she would sweep Trump under the carpet.”
    On news RFK Jr. suspending his campaign and endorsing Trump, Armstrong says, “I was always pushing RFK Jr. to be Attorney General. I think I got his eyes to light up when I said if you take the Attorney General job, you could even indict Pfizer.”
    Armstrong says the Trump camp is seriously considering RFK Jr. for AG, and Armstrong says he has been in contact with top Trump advisors…
    ..On Trump winning in November, Armstrong says, “Look, the computer says Trump should win. I don’t know how the hell they allow that to happen..”
    “They have to trap Trump into a war or they kill him, one or the other. These people are unconscionable… We are looking at serious civil unrest regardless of who wins in November. Neither side is going to accept it.”
    On gold at $2,500 an ounce, Armstrong says it’s not about inflation, it is about the fear of a US debt default. This is why central banks are buying. Armstrong says,
    “If there is a big war, the US will default on it’s debt. . .. I am very concerned they will start WWIII before the end of the year and maybe by September.” https://www.zerohedge.com/political/were-looking-serious-civil-unrest-regardless-who-wins-martin-armstrong-fears-post

    Less risk without their “help”? Secret Service Rescinds Protection For RFK Jr. After Trump Endorsement https://www.zerohedge.com/political/secret-service-rescinds-protection-rfk-jr-after-trump-endorsement

    #167601
    John Day
    Participant

    Another former Democrat joins Trump campaign
    ​ Former Democratic lawmaker Tulsi Gabbard has endorsed Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, describing the ex-president as the only candidate who can walk the US back from “the brink of nuclear war.”
    ​ Trump brought Gabbard on stage during a speech at the National Guard Association’s annual conference in Detroit on Monday, introducing the former Hawaii congresswoman as a “true American patriot” with “great common sense” and “great spirit.”
    ​ Gabbard, a 17-year National Guard veteran who served two combat tours in the Middle East, praised Trump’s isolationist brand of foreign policy.
    ​ “We saw this through his first term in the presidency when he not only didn’t start any new wars, he took action to de-escalate and prevent wars,” she said, adding that Trump had “the courage to meet with adversaries, dictators, allies and partners alike in the pursuit of peace.”​ …
    ​..Gabbard left the Democratic Party in 2022, arguing that it had fallen “under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers” and social-justice ideologues. Three years earlier, Gabbard was widely credited with ending Harris’ 2020 presidential campaign with a single debate performance.
    ​ In the 2019 Democratic primary showdown, Gabbard slammed Harris’ record as California’s attorney general, criticizing her for jailing thousands of marijuana offenders “and then laughing about it,” for her use of prison labor, and for blocking evidence that would have freed innocent men on death row.
    ​ “There is no excuse for that and the people who suffered under your reign as prosecutor, you owe them an apology,” Gabbard said, leaving Harris unable to respond.
    https://swentr.site/news/603118-tulsi-gabbard-endorse-trump/

    The arrest warrant was issued just before he landed, an ambush. US orchestrated Durov arrest – former spokesman.
    The Telegram CEO wouldn’t have landed in Paris if he thought he was in danger
    Durov was arrested at Paris-Le Bourget Airport on Saturday, immediately after arriving from Azerbaijan by private jet. According to French media, prosecutors in Paris plan to charge the 39-year-old with complicity in drug trafficking, pedophilia offenses, and fraud, arguing that Telegram’s insufficient content moderation, its strong encryption tools, and its alleged lack of cooperation with police allow criminals to flourish on the app.
    “It’s a big mystery why he disregarded his own safety and decided to land in Paris,” Loboushkin told RT on Sunday. “He has shown throughout his history that he is a pretty cautious person in that sense. He has said many times that there is no point in going to jail.”…
    ..According to Loboushkin, the Russian-born businessman must have been unaware that a warrant was being prepared for his arrest, or thought – given Telegram’s compliance with local laws and sanctions – that he wouldn’t be in serious trouble.
    “I think the attack is coming neither from the EU nor from France,” Loboushkin said. “It’s most likely an attack from the United States, which has been after Pavel Durov for a long time, and Durov has always talked about it.”
    “He said, for example in an interview with Tucker Carlson, that he and his employees are under pressure, or at least there’s some kind of surveillance conducted by the FBI,” the former spokesman continued. “I think the root causes are there, so it doesn’t make any sense to discuss the intentions of the French authorities who arrested him, because they don’t play any role here at all.”
    In an interview with Carlson in April, Durov said that he drew “too much attention” from law enforcement any time he visited the US, and claimed that American intelligence agents had attempted to recruit one of his employees to install a backdoor in the app that would have allowed them to spy on Telegram users. https://swentr.site/news/603054-us-behind-durov-arrest/

    ​ “#FreePavel”: Telegram CEO Becomes Latest Target of European Censors.
    ​ The law behind these threats is the Digital Services Act. The act bars speech that is viewed as “disinformation” or “incitement.” European Commission Executive Vice President Margrethe Vestager celebrated its passage by declaring that it is “not a slogan anymore, that what is illegal offline should also be seen and dealt with as illegal online. Now it is a real thing. Democracy’s back.”
    ​ In addition to Musk, Robert Kennedy Jr. has denounced the arrest.
    ​ This action is not due to the encryption capacity or child porn rationales. European officials have been making the same threats against other sites over the failure to censor views that they deem unacceptable.
    ​ Rumble CEO Chris Pavlovski wrote “France has threatened Rumble, and now they have crossed a red line by arresting Telegram’s CEO, Pavel Durov, reportedly for not censoring speech.”​ https://jonathanturley.org/2024/08/26/freepavel-telegram-ceo-becomes-latest-target-of-european-censors/

    Macron Widely Mocked For Saying Telegram CEO’s Arrest ‘Not Politically Motivated
    ‘It appears President Emmanuel Macron is feeling the pressure after French authorities arrested Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov over the weekend. The prosecutor’s office has since said his detention may last until Aug.28.
    Several prominent tech entrepreneurs and public figures – for example Elon Musk – have decried the move as selective persecution against a known advocate of free speech. In a rare move Macron weighed in directly on Monday, claiming it has nothing to do with his government and that Durov’s arrest and ongoing detention is not politically motivated.
    Macron said Monday, “The arrest of Telegram’s president on French territory took place as part of an ongoing judicial investigation. This is in no way a political decision. It is up to the judges to decide.” Macron further condemned what he called “false information” surrounding the case. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/france-extends-detention-telegram-ceo-pavel-durov-questioning

    ​Maybe the missed head-shot on Trump jolted him: In Stunning Letter To Congress, Zuckerberg Admits Biden-Harris Pressured Facebook To Censor Content
    ​ In a stunning Monday evening letter to House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, Zuckerberg admitted that senior Biden administration officials “repeatedly pressured” Facebook teams to suppress information related to COVID-19 that the platform would not have otherwise censored – and the administration ‘expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn’t agree.’​ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/stunning-letter-congress-zuckerberg-admits-biden-harris-pressured-facebook-censor-content

    #167602
    John Day
    Participant

    Weaponisation of the Food and Water Supplies, David A. Hughes via Meryl Nass MD
    The Great Poisoning; the war on farmers; lab-grown meat; “Pharma Food” and eugenics; manufactured food shortages; and the looming threat of artificial water shortages
    One aspect of the unfolding Omniwar is the weaponisation of the food and water supplies. In some respects, this has been going on for a long time, but since 2020 there have been some new and troubling developments.
    What van Hamelen (2022) calls the Great Poisoning has been taking place for decades, e.g. through:
    high-fructose corn syrup commonly used in processed foods and soft drinks (Nur Bulbul et al., 2024);
    widely used additives such as the sweetener aspartame, which was recently classified as “possibly carcinogenic to humans” (WHO, 2023);
    the presence of glyphosate, used in Roundup weedkiller and labelled as a “probable human carcinogen” by the International Agency for Research on Cancer in 2015, in 80% of urine samples taken from U.S. children and adults (Gillam, 2022);
    inorganic micro- and nanosized contaminants in food that are non-biodegradable, toxic, and without nutritional value (Gatti et al., 2009); and
    fluoride in the drinking water of certain jurisdictions, which has “potential to cause major adverse human health problems” [Low IQ] (Peckham & Awofoso, 2014).
    Rising obesity and sickness levels in Western societies almost certainly have something to do with this gradual poisoning of the population.
    Since 2020, however, food has been weaponized in new ways. There is a war against farmers, e.g. through the “European Green Deal,” which places extreme regulations on farmers, forcing many out of business (Vanheuckelom, 2023; van Hamelen, 2023). In China, 100 million farmers were moved off the land, while more and more food is grown inside giant greenhouses (Wood, 2023). In England, “rewilding” policies are reducing the amount of land available for agriculture, and farmers are being offered lump sum payments to leave their land (Beck, 2024). As one observer summarises the situation, “Small farmers everywhere are under attack and only massive conglomerates are able to survive, but the quality of their production is inferior and so is the health of those that consume it” (Patrick, n.d.).
    Meanwhile, Bill Gates and Ted Turner, both known eugenicists who call for global depopulation, have become the first and second largest owners of farmland in the United States. https://merylnass.substack.com/p/more-on-the-apocalypse

    South Korean drivers scramble to get rid of electric vehicles, citing safety concerns following fires
    There are more than half a million EVs in South Korea, accounting for about 2 per cent of registered vehicles https://www.channelnewsasia.com/east-asia/south-korea-electric-vehicle-fire-incheon-mercedes-benz-used-cars-4563796

    Samsung Develops New Solid-State Battery Using Silver, Will Nearly Double Energy Storage Density and Cause Global Surge in Silver Demand https://discernreport.com/samsung-develops-new-solid-state-battery-using-silver-will-nearly-double-energy-storage-density-and-cause-global-surge-in-silver-demand/

    The Effects of Pulsed Microwaves And Extra Low Frequency Electromagnetic Waves on Human Brains? Governments Routinely “Classify Information” Pertaining to the Manipulation of the Human Nervous System
    In the year 1962 the American scientist Allan H. Frey carried out experiments with pulsed microwaves, which produced clicking, buzz, hissing or knocking sounds in the heads of people at a distance of up to several thousands yards. In his report, he also wrote that with the change of parameters he can produce pins and needles sensation or perception of severe buffeting in the head and claimed that this energy “could possibly be used as a tool to explore nervous system coding… and for stimulating the nervous system without the damage caused by electrodes“…
    ..For governments it is not difficult to pulse the cell phone signals in the brain frequencies and in this way manipulate the thoughts of their own or foreign citizens. The difference between pulsed microwaves and extra long electromagnetic waves is that pulsed microwaves can be targeted on one person (or the whole nation if cell phone signals are pulsed in brain frequencies) while extra long electromagnetic waves, transmitted in brain frequencies, with their length up to 300 hundred thousands kilometers will reach brains in large areas. For sure so far the legislations around the world (except the Chile and Brazil) do not prohibit such actions to the governments or anybody else on human brains (for example Elon Musk is building system of 20.000 satellites around the planet and working on neuralink research at the same time).
    Neurotechnologists around the world, who do not dare to disclose the national security information they had to sign, before starting research in the area, are calling for creation of legislations protecting people against such manipulations of their minds. https://www.globalresearch.ca/why-governments-around-world-classify-information-about-effects-pulsed-mirowaves-extra-low-frequency-electromagnetic-waves-human-brains/5839545

    Jessica Rose Ph.D. Replacing objective morality with subjective morality, A trick of the cabalists
    Morality to me is actually knowing that there is a difference between right and wrong. To act in a moral way, is to act in the “right way”, which embodies a decision to “do the right thing”. In my opinion, every single human being knows the difference between right and wrong. It’s a heart thing. Logic is more a brain thing. We can argue about what is right, and what is wrong, but I don’t want to now.
    Subjective morality is thinking that what is right for you may not be right for others or vice versa. Subjective reality might be applicable according to age and circumstances. An example of this could be a child being raped, getting pregnant and wanting not to have the baby. Terminating the pregnancy might be considered to be subjectively good for this little girl, even though objectively, it might not be considered to be so. This particular morbid example of something we must all think about (because this is happening all the time) is a good example of when subjective morality can over-ride objective morality for the benefit of the community of all. Just so that you know, I think child rapists should be castrated. This would be objectively good because they wouldn’t be able to rape children anymore.
    Objective morality is the big gun morality of us humans. It refers to the good and bad that certainly applies universally – the governing dynamics of humans. We all know (or perhaps feel is a better word) that some things are good, and that some things are bad. For example, hurting animals with the intention to inflict pain and suffering is bad. Objectively, it hurts the whole and breeds unnecessary conflict, chaos and pain. Making another person laugh is good. Objectively, the ripple effect of a laughing human would be beneficial for the mood of all, at least locally. But what about our little girl who was force-impregnated who does not want to be a mother yet? What is good for her? What is bad for her?
    To illustrate the deployment and the nature of the balance of these moralities in decision-making, we can use the morbid example from above. Again, a person may believe that terminating pregnancies (objective morality) is bad, but this same person might also believe that in the case of this little girl, the objective morality thing doesn’t cut it, and that perhaps there must be a subjective morality invoked and deployed in her case. In other words, what is generally the right thing to do is not the right thing to do in this specific case and under these specific circumstances (age, force). This is the invocation of subjective morality; not really in lieu of objective morality, but a balancing of both.
    After quite a bit of thinking about this, I have decided that both must co-exist, but that subjective morality must only be invoked in specific circumstances wherein violations of objective morality dwell and ultimately, the integrity of objective morality is maintained.
    This is where it gets interesting on the subject matter of the cabalists. I call them this – rather than globalists (in this article) – because I believe that the globalists are just an off-shoot of a much older, darker, sect of human cults… It seems to me from my own considerably shallow investigations into the history of these ‘underground’ culty people that they share a characteristic that is seated in hubris, narcissism and most importantly, ego. From what I understand, there is a separation of God as an ‘outside’ entity, and God as some kind of manifestation of man. Sort of like the idea that God made us versus we made/are God. https://jessicar.substack.com/p/replacing-objective-morality-with

    #167603
    John Day
    Participant

    From Agrarianism to Transhumanism: The Long March to Dystopia, Colin Todhunter
    “A total demolition of the previous forms of existence is underway: how one comes into the world, biological sex, education, relationships, the family, even the diet that is about to become synthetic.” — Silvia Guerini, radical ecologist, in ‘From the ‘Neutral’ Body to the Posthuman Cyborg: A Critique of Gender Ideology’ (2023)
    We are currently seeing an acceleration of the corporate consolidation of the entire global agri-food chain. The big data conglomerates, including Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook and Google, have joined traditional agribusiness giants, such as Corteva, Bayer, Cargill and Syngenta, in a quest to impose their model of food and agriculture on the world…..
    ..Humanity’s relationship with farming and food and our connections to land, nature and community has for millennia defined what it means to be human…
    ..“The past becomes something to be erased in order to break the thread that binds us to a history, to a tradition, to a belonging, for the transition towards a new uprooted humanity, without past, without memory… a new humanity dehumanised in its essence, totally in the hands of the manipulators of reality and truth”.
    This dehumanised humanity severed from the past is part of the wider agenda of transhumanism. For instance, we are not just seeing a push towards a world without farmers and everything that has connected us to the soil but, according to Guerini, also a world without mothers.
    She argues that those behind test-tube babies and surrogate motherhood now have their sights on genetic engineering and artificial wombs, which would cut women out of the reproductive process…
    ..This is being pushed by powerful interests, who, according to Guerini, are using a rainbow, transgenic left and LGBTQ+ organisations to promote a new synthetic identity and claim to new rights. She says this is an attack on life, on nature, on “what is born, as opposed to artificial” and adds that all ties to the real, natural world must be severed. https://www.globalresearch.ca/agrarianism-transhumanism-long-march-dystopia/5865602

    #167604
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @ThoseDarnedKids

    Marxism is a way of examining and critiquing the socio-economic conditions and class status. It promotes a transition to a more egalitarian arrangement based primarily on the following observations and principles:
    Marxism acknowledges that there exists a historical tendency to divide people into social classes that are characterized by inequality and injustice. This results in a constant state of class struggle.
    •• impossible! you can see the glory that capitalism has given us on every street corner of los angeles, san francisco, seattle, portland, chicago, gary, flint… a rising tide and such.
    Marxism acknowledges that unfettered capitalism creates a system in which the majority of labor is performed by a class of people who do not reap the most benefits from their labor.
    •• impossible! in our current model, a ceo (certified marxist, it seems) only makes 17,353,498 times the salary of schlub. THAT’S FAIR!
    This labor is done to benefit an elite class instead of benefiting the needs of all.
    •• no way! that amazon driven gets a 0.0000000000023% profit share cheque every other christmas!
    The elite use many tools, such as organized religion and the promotions of racial, ethnic, and gender prejudices to help maintain their power.
    •• that kinda sounds like the democrat party to me.
    It is the responsibility of the labor class itself to emancipate themselves from this exploitive system. Relying on the elite class to level the playing field means perpetual exploitation.
    •• pitchforks and such.
    It is likely that a violent revolution is the only way for the working class to secure their rights and privileges.
    •• what?! vote harder, vote earlier, vote aggressivelyer!
    An egalitarian society requires the elimination of private property.
    •• blackrock and vanguard gonna beat ’em to it.
    This is an international struggle that transcends political borders. In fact, a true Marxist revolution would lead to the end of nations themselves and result in a global community.
    •• that’d be nice. but human way too dumb for that. we gotta wait at least 500 more years.
    Once this has occurred, resources and labor will be divided based upon needs and abilities without regard to previous social stations.
    •• that’d be nice. but human way too dumb for that. we gotta wait at least 500 more years.

    That’s too good to languish at the tail end of Yesterday’s comments. It’s the most articulate, concise and accurate analytic summation of human geopilitics that has ever graced these pages. You HAVE been busy busy busy, haven’t you?

    #167605
    John Day
    Participant

    regular guy
    Regular humans with ripening pecans

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