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Debt Rattle August 30 2024

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 August 30, 2024  Posted by at 8:57 am Finance Tagged with: , , , , , , ,


M. C. Escher The Tower of Babel 1928

 

• God Wants Me To Save The World – Trump (RT)
• Kamala Blows Pre-Taped Interview Question With Walz Right Next To Her (ZH)
• US Will Be ‘Crypto Capital Of The Planet’ – Trump (RT)
• UK Bankers Hoping Trump Regains White House – Politico (RT)
• Jim Rogers: Durov’s Arrest Could End France’s Appeal for High-Tech
• The Sound of Enforced Silence (Patrick Lawrence)
• Terrorists Planned To Kill ‘Tens Of Thousands’ At Taylor Swift Concert – CIA (RT)
• ‘Karbala Is The Path To Al-aqsa’: An Iraq Diary (Pepe Escobar)
• X Warns Of Brazil Shutdown ‘Soon’ (ZH)
• Ukrainian Army Shoots Down Its Own F16 Jet, Pilot Killed (ZH)
• Suspected Nord Stream Bomber Used Ukrainian Gov’t Car To Flee – Spiegel (RT)
• Hungarian FM Slams EU’s Borrell Over Ukraine (RT)
• Ukrainian Impunity Could Result In Major Nuclear Incident – Moscow (RT)
• The Lies of the US Empire Will Be Its Undoing (DeMartino)
• Houthis To Allow Salvage Crews To Access Oil Tanker They Hit In The Red (OP)

 

 

 

 

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Not how he said it. But if you believe in God, living in a nation under God, it’s inevitable you try to find a purpose in such a experience.

The craziest thing here is not Trump, it’s the media silence.

• God Wants Me To Save The World – Trump (RT)

US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has said it was God who spared his life in last month’s assassination attempt at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The GOP firebrand claimed that he has a mission to save America, and perhaps the whole world. Trump narrowly escaped death when 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire at him on July 13. The would-be assassin had taken position on a nearby rooftop that gave him an unobstructed view of his target. Crooks fired off several shots, one of which grazed the former president’s right ear. One rally attendee was killed and two others were seriously injured. The shooter was subsequently killed by return fire from the Secret Service. In an interview on Tuesday with psychologist and TV host Phil McGraw, better known as Dr. Phil, Trump argued that “there had to be some great power” at play on that fateful day.

“The only thing I can think is that God loves our country and he thinks we’re gonna bring our country back,” Trump explained. “It has to be God. I mean how can you say it’s luck when it’s, you know, twenty million to one?” he insisted. Commenting on the Democrats replacing Joe Biden with Kamala Harris as their presidential nominee for the November 5 election, Trump lamented that he now had to face a “nice fresh opponent.” The Republican went on to suggest that if he prevails, it would mean that “there’s some incredible power up there that wanted me to be involved in saving, and maybe it’s more than saving the nation, maybe it’s saving the world.” Speaking of the Secret Service agents’ performance during the incident, Trump expressed gratitude and admiration for their bravery, but noted that there appeared to have been a lack of communication between them and local law enforcement.

The GOP nominee went on to allege that Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden are partly responsible for last month’s attempt on his life. He accused the top-ranking Democrats of “making it very difficult to have proper staffing in terms of Secret Service.” According to the former president, Harris and Biden have also been routinely portraying him as a “threat to democracy,” which “can get assassins or potential assassins going.” “Maybe that bullet is because of their rhetoric,” Trump suggested. The former president doubled down on his claims about alleged voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, telling Dr. Phil that he had won in California. “If Jesus came down and was the vote counter, I would win California,” Trump insisted.

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“..deadlines around time..”

• Kamala Blows Pre-Taped Interview Question With Walz Right Next To Her (ZH)

Kamala Harris had one job – don’t blow your first sit-down interview with the press. No word salad. No ‘unburdened by what has been’ mantra. Don’t cackle to cover up for a lack of brain cells. She couldn’t even do that… Sitting down with running mate Tim Walz for a pre-taped CNN interview set to air at 9 PM Thursday, a preview clip reveals she’s still an absolute moron. Dana Bash (whose CIA ex-husband signed the Hunter Biden disinfo letter) tossed Harris what should have been a well-rehearsed softball; asking how voters should “look at some of the changes you’ve made.”

“Is it because you have more experience now and you’ve learned more about the information? Is it because you were running for president in a Democratic primary? And should they feel comfortable and confident that what you’re saying now is going to be your policy moving forward?” In other words, why shouldn’t you believe you’re full of shit over your dramatic shift in positions towards moderate policies? There are a million ways to answer that spoon-fed question, but Harris chose more word salad. “I think the most important and most significant aspect of my policy perspective and decisions is my values have not changed,” she replied. “You mentioned the Green New Deal. I have always believed – and I have worked on it – that the climate crisis is real, that it is an urgent matter to which we should apply metrics that include holding ourselves to deadlines around time.” Yes, deadlines around time.

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Right at the center of decentralization.

• US Will Be ‘Crypto Capital Of The Planet’ – Trump (RT)

US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has promised to unveil a plan that will make America the world cryptocurrency capital. In a post on X on Thursday, the former US president shared a video of himself with the voiceover: “This afternoon, I’m laying out my plan to ensure that the United States will be the crypto capital of the planet.” “They want to choke you. They want to choke you out of business,” Trump says in the video, without specifying who “they” are. “We’re not going to let that happen,” he concluded. The post included a link to World Liberty Financial, a decentralized finance project that his sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, have been promoting recently. Trump Jr. has said previously that the platform would rival the traditional banking system. The project’s Telegram channel has been quickly gaining subscribers, with more than 53,000 followers as of Thursday.

Trump is the first major presidential candidate to accept donations in cryptocurrency. He was the featured speaker at a Bitcoin conference last month, where donors were asked to pay $844,600 for a seat at a round table with him. Trump has said that crypto is essential to his vision of America in the future. Last month, he pledged to ensure that the US government never sells off its Bitcoin holdings and creates a Bitcoin “strategic reserve,” if he returns to the White House. On Tuesday, Trump launched a fourth collection of nonfungible tokens (NFTs), which feature images ranging from the former president in a superhero costume to figurative Bitcoins. The NFTs sell for $99 each. According to CNBC, the crypto platform and the NFTs are a private Trump family enterprise in the digital currency space, and are not officially connected to Trump’s presidential campaign.

Trump, who in 2019 wrote on social media that Bitcoin’s value is “based on thin air” and in 2021 warned that cryptocurrencies were a “disaster waiting to happen,” made a U-turn in his rhetoric early in the current election campaign. The Republican candidate’s embrace of crypto has led to endorsements from some well-known venture capitalists and executives in the sector, such as Elon Musk, Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz.

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“The political appointments determine the political agenda in terms of trade for financial services and more..”

• UK Bankers Hoping Trump Regains White House – Politico (RT)

British business would prefer to see Republican nominee Donald Trump prevail over Vice President Kamala Harris in the US presidential election in November, Politico has reported, citing finance experts from the City of London. While there are concerns that a Trump presidency could bring a protectionist approach towards global trade, his “laissez-faire” policies could make access to the US market easier for British companies, the outlet said on Tuesday. This is something the City of London is reportedly looking for as it seeks avenues for growth after losing a major share of its EU business after Brexit. “You could have a White House that may want to have a less restrictive regulatory framework for financial services, which might indirectly engender more financial flows across the Atlantic,” a senior UK financial lobbyist told Politico on condition of anonymity.

A senior City of London lawyer described Trump as “pro-business,” noting that Harris’ policies are expected to be “less helpful” to British business. Even though the former US president was “wild and unpredictable” in his first term, his financial policies “did not lead to a run on the dollar or any major problems in financial markets even though a number of his policies were controversial.” Meanwhile, a Harris presidency is “the big unknown” and her economic agenda reportedly involves attacking big business for alleged price gouging, according to the lawyer. Earlier this month, Trump blasted his Democratic rival over the current administration’s record on inflation, which has consistently remained at over 3% since Joe Biden became president. City of London experts also hailed the appointments to top regulatory roles Trump made during his first term, highlighting their competence and experience in the industry.

Under the Trump administration (2017-2021), former Goldman Sachs executive Steven Mnuchin was appointed secretary of the Treasury, while Randal Quarles, a private equity investor and Treasury veteran, was given a key banking oversight position at the Federal Reserve. “The political appointments determine the political agenda in terms of trade for financial services and more,” Angus Canvin, director of international affairs at UK Finance, which represents British banks, told Politico. Trump and Harris are currently neck-to-neck in most polls, with Harris holding a narrow lead over the former president, according to recent surveys.

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“..Andy Yen warning that if they are sustained, he doesn’t see “how tech founders could possibly travel to France, much less hire in France.”

• Jim Rogers: Durov’s Arrest Could End France’s Appeal for High-Tech

The fallout from Telegram CEO Pavel Durov’s surprise arrest in France over the weekend continues to reverberate, with observers asking what the move means for free speech in Europe. But money talks too, and right now it’s saying that the French Republic is no longer a safe place for business, especially in the tech sector. Pavel Durov was transferred to a Paris court for “initial questioning and possible indictment” on Wednesday, days after his arrest at Paris’s Bourget Airport Saturday in connection with a long list of dubious charges, from looking the other way on fraud, money laundering and illegal cryptography to abetting or facilitating drug trafficking and child pornography, to refusing to respond to requests by authorities in criminal investigations. The charges against Durov have been slammed by some in the tech world with Proton VPN founder and tech entrepreneur Andy Yen warning that if they are sustained, he doesn’t see “how tech founders could possibly travel to France, much less hire in France.”

“This is economic suicide and is rapidly and permanently changing the perception of founders and investors” toward France, Yen wrote in an X post on Tuesday. Macroeconomist and UnHerd contributor Philip Pilkington echoed these concerns, warning in an article this week that Paris’s move could drive investors of all stripes out of France, and Europe in general. “The damage that this could do to France’s image in the eyes of the technology and entrepreneurial communities is profound,” Pilkington wrote, pointing out that Durov’s detention has opened a Pandora’s Box in which the French state begins to systematically bring criminal charges against the developers of internet communication platforms. “Europe is already destroying its international competitiveness in its manufacturing sector through sanctions and counter-sanctions on Russian energy.

Now, it seems, securocrats in the European bureaucracies want to turn the continent into a place where technologists fear the creation of platforms that allow for communications,” Pilkington warned. The Durov case will likely lead to an exodus of entrepreneurs from Europe – a far cry from French President Emmanuel Macron’s promises in 2017 to make France a “startup nation,” the observer added. “Whenever a country starts arresting high-level executives, especially [in] technology, or in an industry which is international and usual, it attracts attention, and many people will think it is unjustified and many people will say it’s unjustified,” Jim Rogers, renowned investor and chairman of Beeland Interests and co-founder of Quantum Fund, told Sputnik.

“So I don’t know, I hope that France knows what it’s doing. If France has an ironclad 100% case, then it probably will not hurt them. Otherwise, many people will say ‘wait a minute, we don’t want to do anything in France. It is too dangerous,’” Rogers stressed. “I don’t know the facts. I don’t know if anybody’s guilty or not, but I will say this will make many people wonder about doing business in France. This will make many people check to see that everything they are doing in France is okay. It’s an added level of expense. It’s an added level of operation. Nobody wants to be caught doing something wrong in the country. And if people now worry about France, it’s another expense. Another level of caution,” the veteran investor and predictor of global financial trends said.

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“It is now hard to tell where the Democratic Party ends and the national-security state begins.”

• The Sound of Enforced Silence (Patrick Lawrence)

Is there some connection, — not quite official but it may as well be— between censorship and presidential politics? I pose the question as a survivor of the Russiagate years, when illiberal liberals started talking about “free-speech absolutists,” and when corporate journalists cheered the censoring of unincorporated journalists so long as it was called “content moderation.” I cannot answer my own question, honestly. But as this November’s elections draw near, a new and aggressive campaign to suppress dissent — in social media, at airports, on campuses, and elsewhere — is hard upon us. This is a trans–Atlantic, trans-national operation. Let us not fail to take note. Straight off the top, you probably noticed that the Democratic Party’s openly undemocratic elite refused to allow any speaker of Palestinian background to address the convention in Chicago last week.

We can read this, disgraceful in itself, as an indication of how the Democrats intend to deal with the Gaza crisis and other such foreign policy matters if they succeed in extending their power another four years. Yes, they will continue supporting terrorist Israel and the Nazi-infested regime in Ukraine just as they have to date, but they will avoid talking to you and me about the imperium’s gruesome business as they conduct it. Silence on such matters will be as gold to these people, especially between now and Nov. 5. Kamala Harris, or the cynical operatives busily inventing Kamala Harris, are selling “joy” this political season, not any kind of sober, responsible view of our circumstances. Harris is supposed to ride into the White House on a carpet of good vibes. Gaza, the war in Ukraine, Washington’s provocations at the other end of the Pacific: Nah: All such questions are bad vibes.

One of the things the Russiagate years exposed was the close collaboration between the Democratic Party and the national-security state. People who know their history have long understood that “the intelligence community” — so odious, this term — has been, from its beginnings in the late–1940s, more liberal than conservative in its culture and sensibilities. Hillary Clinton’s embarrassing defeat in 2016 consolidated this relationship. It is now hard to tell where the Democratic Party ends and the national-security state begins.

I have been, since the Russiagate years, perfectly comfortable with the term “Deep State.” And here it comes again, reliant as always upon its appendages in the Big Tech social media platforms and the more repellant quadrants of corporate media as they attempt to extinguish all other-than-approved opinions and perspectives. Of the many recent incidents of censorship, suppression and intimidation, the one that got me to the keyboard concerns Sharmine Narwani, who founded, three years ago this month, an online journal of news and comment called The Cradle, as in “the cradle of civilization.” Narwani, based in Beirut, now writes columns regularly and edits features for the English-language version of the site. She calls The Cradle a collective effort, “an online magazine covering the geopolitics of West Asia from within the region.” Those last four words are the ones that matter most to me.

Last week — on the first day of the Democratic National Convention, indeed — Meta permanently banned The Cradle from Facebook and Instagram, the holding company’s most trafficked social media properties. Narwani now stands accused of “praising terrorist organizations” and engaging in “incitement to violence.” This ruling came without warning. All Narwani got was this: Your account, or activity on it, does not follow our community guidelines. No one can see or find your account and you can’t use it. All your information will be permanently deleted. You cannot request a review of this decision. How’s this for the sound of liberal authoritarianism? Big Brother could not have got down the poetry of fascistic finality any better.

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Not possible. Israel killed 40,000 in ten months in Gaza. They were going to do it in an afternoon? “..using knives as well as a homemade explosive device..”?

• Terrorists Planned To Kill ‘Tens Of Thousands’ At Taylor Swift Concert – CIA (RT)

Terrorists aimed to kill “as many people as possible” using homemade explosives and knives at a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna earlier this month, CIA Deputy Director David Cohen has said, adding that the US spy agency warned the Austrian authorities about the impending attack. According to Cohen, the attackers, who are said to have been connected with Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS), “were plotting to kill a huge number – tens of thousands of people, including, I am sure, many Americans – and were quite advanced in this.” He noted that Austrian security forces were able to arrest the suspects because the CIA and “our partners in the intelligence community provided them information about what this ISIS-connected group was planning to do.”

“I can tell you within my agency, and I’m sure in others, there were people who thought that was a really good day for Langley, and not just the Swifties in my workforce,” he said, speaking at an intelligence summit outside Washington D.C. The plotters reportedly planned to attack one of three Swift concerts in Vienna, which were set to begin on August 8 as part of the European leg of her Eras Tour. However, the shows were canceled by the event organizers, Barracuda Music, after the authorities informed them of the foiled plot. The main suspect in the alleged plot was taken into custody on August 6, along with a 17-year-old accomplice, according to Austrian officials. On August 8, another suspect, 18, was also detained.

The authorities said the unnamed mastermind behind the attack, reported to be 19 years old, had pledged allegiance to IS after being self-radicalized online. The attack was supposedly set to take place outside the stadium where as many as 65,000 people were expected to attend the show. The terrorists are said to have been planning to carry out the attack using knives as well as a homemade explosive device, police said after reportedly finding chemical substances and special technical devices at the home of the 19-year-old. The main suspect is also said to have confessed to planning to “kill as many people as possible outside the concert,” according to Austrian officials.

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“Twenty-one million walking pilgrims..”

• ‘Karbala Is The Path To Al-aqsa’: An Iraq Diary (Pepe Escobar)

Arriving in Baghdad today comes as an electric shock to any visitor who remembers recent, somber Iraqi history. There are virtually no checkpoints, apart from sensitive government areas. None of those ghastly cement blocks from the time of the American occupation, forcing a slow slalom every few minutes. No sense of unpredictable danger capable of striking at any minute. Lush greenery thrives all over the capital city. Haifa Street has been rebuilt practically from scratch. Bustling commerce, from non-stop action in Karrada to a complex of restaurants by the Tigris called (most appropriately) Thousand and One Nights. After over three decades of unspeakable horrors inflicted on the cradle of civilization, for the first time, Baghdad exudes a sense of normalcy. This has much to do with the new administration, led by Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, that has been in power for just over two years.

Last week, the Office of the Prime Minister sponsored a unique conference titled The Road to Al-Aqsa Flood, inviting popular bloggers and influencers from the Arab world – Palestine, Kuwait, Jordan, Sudan, and Lebanon, among others – and only a few westerners. The bloggers were all young; most had never been to Iraq and, thus, had no memories of Shock and Awe and the occupation – at best, some hazy recollection of the ISIS years. They were all stunned by the hospitality, the dynamism, and, most of all, the hope now firmly embedded in Baghdad life. The Iraqi government actually came up with a titillating concept, tying a serious discussion about all aspects of today’s ongoing Palestinian tragedy not only to Baghdad but to Arbaeen in Karbala.

Arbaeen marks the 40th day after Ashura, the Shia rite to honor the martyrdom of Hussein Ibn Ali, the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, who was brutally murdered alongside his entire family by the Umayyad Caliph Yazid Ibn Muawiya. For Shia Muslims, this dishonorable slaughter represents the ultimate embodiment of injustice and betrayal, considered foundational evils by the religious sect. It’s all about Resistance – without explicitly mentioning the Axis of Resistance. The martyrdom of Imam Hussein at the Battle of Karbala was – in Baghdad today – directly tied to the ongoing Israeli genocide of tens of thousands of Palestinians, in a “twenty-first-century Karbala.” lying right before sunset on a Soviet helicopter from a military base by the Tigris in Baghdad to a mini-base in Karbala, some 10 kilometers away from the magnificent Hazrat Abbas shrine, is an astonishing experience.

Irrepressible commander Tahsin, in Karbala, had ordered the pilot to follow the Arbaeen pilgrim route – one of the multiple axes crisscrossing Iraq and leading to the shrine. The feeling is of a long cinematic traveling shot. Rows and rows of pilgrims, mostly dressed in black, with their backpacks, carrying banners, walking at a steady pace, going through a collection of stalls, resting places, and mini-restaurants, mingling with volunteers offering free water bottles and free drinks to quench the thirst on this spiritual, yet, arduous journey during a scorching Iraqi summer. As we approach Karbala, the crowd gets much thicker. It’s a sort of community spirit moveable feast. Spontaneous chants pop up, punctuated by infectious rhythm, and above all, there’s this relentless drive to keep walking, to try get as close to the shrine as possible.

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Darth Vader is pretty crazy.

• X Warns Of Brazil Shutdown ‘Soon’ (ZH)

On Thursday night, X’s Global Government Affairs account posted a dire warning over service availability in Brazil, after dictatorial Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes punished them for not complying “with his illegal orders to censor his political opponents,” according to the post. “When we attempted to defend ourselves in court, Judge de Moraes threatened our Brazilian legal representative with imprisonment. Even after she resigned, he froze all of her bank accounts. Our challenges against his manifestly illegal actions were either dismissed or ignored. Judge de Moraes’ colleagues on the Supreme Court are either unwilling or unable to stand up to him. We are absolutely not insisting that other countries have the same free speech laws as the United States.

The fundamental issue at stake here is that Judge de Moraes demands we break Brazil’s own laws. We simply won’t do that. In the days to come, we will publish all of Judge de Moraes’ illegal demands and all related court filings in the interest of transparency. Unlike other social media and technology platforms, we will not comply in secret with illegal orders. To our users in Brazil and around the world, X remains committed to protecting your freedom of speech.” Meanwhile, Musk says that SpaceX is going to continue to provide Starlink in Brazil to schools and hospitals for free…

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One day after Brazillian Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes threatened to suspend social media platform X unless Elon Musk appoints a new legal representative in 24 hours, the judge – dubbed “Brazil’s Darth Vader” by Musk – issued a subpoena against the company. Today, he blocked the financial accounts of Musk-owned Starlink Holdings, due to the absence of an attorney. According to Moraes, the companies are a “de facto economic group” commanded by Musk. On August 18, Moraes sanctioned X’s bank accounts in order to guarantee the payment of fines imposed by the Brazilian justice for refusing to censor content, Metropoles reports. According to information published by the G1 and confirmed by the Metropolis, advisors to the office of Minister Alexandre de Moraes said that another company under Musk in the country, Starlink Holding, responsible for the sale of satellite internet services, also had the finances blocked. All Starlink managers in Brazil received notifications and were subpoenaed to answer for the values due to the Brazilian Justice by the network X. -Metropoles (translated)

In response, Musk called Moraes a dictator, and said “this picture of you in prison will be real. Mark my words.” Earlier this month, Moraes ordered an investigation into Musk after the billionaire vowed to defy a court order as part of an ongoing probe into social media accounts allegedly spreading misinformation and ‘hate’ speech. “The flagrant conduct of obstruction of Brazilian justice, incitement of crime, the public threat of disobedience of court orders and future lack of cooperation from the platform are facts that disrespect the sovereignty of Brazil,” wrote de Moraes. While X initially said in a they would comply, blocking certain popular accounts in Brazil – Musk said an hour later, after the release of the “TWITTER FILES BRAZIL,” that they would not, noting that “As a result, we will probably lose all revenue in Brazil and have to shut down our office there.”

in a post the next day, Musk said that Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes had “brazenly and repeatedly betrayed the constitution and people of Brazil,” and should “resign or be impeached.” De Moraes said that as part of his decision to open an inquiry, that “X shall refrain from disobeying any court order already issued, including performing any profile reactivation that has been blocked by this Supreme Court,” Reuters reports. The justice said that Musk would face a fine that equates to approximately $20,000 each time an account is reactivated on X.

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When someone brings it up, act surprised.

• Ukrainian Army Shoots Down Its Own F16 Jet, Pilot Killed (ZH)

It appears that the US-made F-16 fighter jet, which was handed over to Ukraine earlier this year, was downed by a Ukrainian Patriot air defense system in a friendly fire incident, Ukrainian lawmaker Maryana Bezuglaya said cited by TASS. “According to my information, the F-16 of the Ukrainian pilot Alexey ‘Moonfish’ Mes was shot down by the Patriot anti-aircraft missile system due to a lack of coordination between the [military] units,” she wrote on Telegram. The lawmaker criticized the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces for falsely describing the incident as “a crash.” “The culture of lies in the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as in other higher military headquarters, leads to the fact that the system of managing military decisions does not improve on the basis of truthful, consistently collected analytics, but deteriorates and even collapses, as is happening in the other directions,” she wrote.

In her words, none of the generals was punished over the incident that led to the loss of both the aircraft and its pilot. Earlier, an unidentified US official told the Wall Street Journal that Ukraine had lost a donated F-16 fighter jet in the first such case. According to the official, the jet was not shot down, and the crash was likely due to pilot error. Later, the Ukrainian Air Force confirmed the death of a Ukrainian F-16 pilot, Alexey Mes. The man was trained to fly F-16, according to CNN. The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said the pilot was killed in an aerial fight, when his plane crashed on August 26.

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They’re getting creative with their alternative truths.

• Suspected Nord Stream Bomber Used Ukrainian Gov’t Car To Flee – Spiegel (RT)

The Ukrainian diver allegedly behind the sabotage of Nord Stream pipelines managed to escape a German arrest warrant with the help of Ukraine and possibly Poland, Der Spiegel has claimed. The pipelines under the Baltic Sea were damaged in a series of explosions in September 2022, ending the flow of natural gas from Russia to Germany. No one has claimed responsibility for the blasts, but some media outlets in the West have blamed a group of Ukrainian nationals. Earlier this month, German media revealed that Berlin had issued an arrest warrant for “Vladimir Z,” a former Ukrainian military diver who they alleged had planted the explosive charges on the pipeline. Russian outlets have identified the suspect as Vladimir Zhuravlev. According to an investigation by Der Spiegel published on Thursday, Zhuravlev was actually in Germany in May and in Poland at the time the warrant was issued.

Polish authorities did nothing to detain him, the outlet claimed, and Zhuravlev was able to cross into Ukraine on July 6 in a car belonging to the Ukrainian embassy in Warsaw. “Why should we arrest him? For us, he is a hero!” Der Spiegel quoted German security officials as paraphrasing their Polish counterparts. The German outlet noted that Zhuravlev and his family entered Germany in May, on their way to Denmark. They even found the exact apartment in Copenhagen where the Zhuravlevs stayed, in the Bryggen Syd neighborhood. On May 26, the family takes the ferry to Rostock and stops in Berlin, on their way back to Warsaw.

Zhuravlev was already on the German authorities’ radar, but they had yet to issue a warrant for his arrest. Berlin only acted in the first week of June, and it took until June 21 for a European arrest warrant to be forwarded to Poland. Warsaw, however, did nothing. Zhuravlev fled the country on July 6, crossing the border into Ukraine at Korczowa at 6:20am. Security sources told Spiegel that he was in a vehicle with diplomatic plates, used by the Ukrainian embassy in Warsaw.

Spiegel’s security sources claim that Germany is “very angry” with Poland and will not forget Warsaw’s “foul play.” Responding to media reports about the attack, former head of German intelligence August Hanning claimed earlier this month that Poland and Ukraine likely worked together. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk responded by telling all “initiators and patrons” of Nord Stream to “apologize and keep quiet.” Reports about a group of Ukrainians working off a rented yacht – with or without Vladimir Zelensky’s blessing – being responsible for the Nord Stream sabotage surfaced only after Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh claimed that the US government was behind the blasts.

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“Borrell has previously called on the West to lift all restrictions on Kiev’s use of the weapons it has provided [..] He argued that this would “help advance peace efforts.”

• Hungarian FM Slams EU’s Borrell Over Ukraine (RT)

Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has slammed the EU’s top diplomat, Josep Borrell, over his recent remarks on strikes deep into Russian territory. Borrell suggested that Ukraine should be allowed to use Western-supplied weapons to conduct these attacks. Commenting on Ukraine’s surprise incursion into Kursk Region, Russia in early August, Borrell told Kiev that it has the “full support” of the EU. Also this month, the bloc’s top diplomat said, “we are not a party to the war, but we are part of the conflict.” In a post on Facebook, the Hungarian foreign minister described the Ukraine conflict as “madness” that “must be put to an end.” “However, if more and more weapons are sent to this region, if depth strikes arrive on the territory of Russia, then the danger of escalation will only increase and this war will become even more serious,” Szijjarto warned, apparently referring to Borrell’s recent statements.

Budapest’s top diplomat added that to avoid this, his country will “continue to represent the pro-peace position” during an informal meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels on Thursday.In a separate post on X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday, Zoltan Kovacs, the spokesperson of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s office, wrote that Szijjarto “criticized the European Union’s outgoing High Representative for Foreign Affairs, who is calling for more weapons to be sent to Ukraine and even suggesting that these Western-supplied arms should be used for deep strikes on Russian territory.” Borrell has previously called on the West to lift all restrictions on Kiev’s use of the weapons it has provided, particularly with regard to long-range strikes. He argued that this would “help advance peace efforts.”

Last week, the head of the prime minister’s office, Gergely Gulyas, characterized Kiev’s actions on Russian soil as “wrong” and not conducive to a peaceful settlement of the conflict. In July, Szijjarto also criticized the top EU diplomat over his reported scheme to undermine Hungary’s efforts to organize an informal foreign affairs summit, calling the supposed plan childish. He went on to accuse Borrell of overseeing the “most unsuccessful period of European foreign policy” ever.

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Nobody’s telling them nuke plants are off limits.

• Ukrainian Impunity Could Result In Major Nuclear Incident – Moscow (RT)

The refusal to hold Ukraine accountable for attacks on the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant has emboldened Kiev to target the Kursk NPP in the same way, Russia’s deputy envoy to the UN, Dmitry Polyansky, has said. Speaking at a UN Security Council session in New York on Wednesday, Polyansky denounced the Western powers for failing to acknowledge the escalating Ukrainian threat to nuclear safety. The Zaporozhye plant is located in the city of Energodar in Zaporozhye Region, Russia, which Kiev claims under its own sovereignty. Moscow has accused Ukrainian forces of targeting the city and the facility itself on multiple occasions with artillery fire and drone attacks. An incendiary device deployed by a Ukrainian drone caused a major fire at one of its two cooling towers earlier this month, according to the plant’s management.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which has an observer mission at the location, has confirmed that the blaze did not start at the base of the structure and that the tower may need to be dismantled. Russia has urged Western backers of Ukraine to use their leverage to stop attacks on the Zaporozhye site. Polyansky said Kiev’s impunity for these actions has put another nuclear power plant, in Kursk Region, in its crosshair. Ukrainian forces have shelled the plant and attempted to seize it during their incursion into the Russian region, he explained. “This kind of recklessness, which potentially could trigger a nuclear incident with tragic consequences for the whole of Europe, is the best rebuff” to people who ignored the situation in Zaporozhye Region, Polyansky said. “This is what your unprincipled ostrich-like stance leads to.”

Senior Russian officials have previously accused Kiev of engaging in “nuclear terrorism” by attacking Russian reactors. President Vladimir Putin specifically mentioned this when he stated that peace talks with Ukraine have been ruled out in the wake of the incursion into Kursk Region. He also cited Kiev’s attacks on civilians as a reason that negotiations are no longer possible. Following the incident with the Zaporozhye plant’s cooling tower, the Russian Foreign Ministry warned that Ukrainian forces would target the Kursk facility, and urged the IAEA to denounce these actions.

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“This does not mean that we cannot interact with the same enemy in certain situations. There is no harm in that, but do not place your hopes in them. Do not trust the enemy..”

• The Lies of the US Empire Will Be Its Undoing (DeMartino)

On Tuesday, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei opened the door to negotiations with the United States, saying there was “no harm” in talking with the “enemy.” The decision opened the way for Iran’s new reformist President Masoud Pezeshkian to fulfill a campaign promise to be more open to the West. While speaking to his President, Khamenei told him not to trust the United States. “This does not mean that we cannot interact with the same enemy in certain situations. There is no harm in that, but do not place your hopes in them. Do not trust the enemy,” Khamenei told Pezeshkian. Iran has significant reasons to distrust the United States. In 2015 the United States, Iran and several other countries signed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), better known as the Iranian nuclear deal. The deal placed significant restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of Western sanctions on Iran.

In 2018, former US President Donald Trump withdrew from the deal. In 2022, current US President Joe Biden rejected an offer to return to the deal. Since the US withdrawal, Iran is believed to have significantly advanced their nuclear program. “I think this is just to placate the new president. He’s a reform president. He ran on that ticket to try to open up more avenues to the West,” former senior security policy analyst at the Office of the Secretary of Defense Michael Maloof told Sputnik’s The Final Countdown. “But [JCPOA] is clearly dead, as far as I’m concerned, simply because for three and a half years they tried through the Biden administration and got nowhere. And if Trump comes in, you can almost be guaranteed that he will cancel any agreements.” For countries around the world, the US reneging on deals is nothing new, it is nearly par for the course.

In 1990, as East and West Germany were in the process of unification, then-US Secretary of State James Baker assured Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev that “neither the President nor I intend to extract any unilateral advantages from the processes that are taking place,” and that the US Government understood that “not only for the Soviet Union but for other European countries as well it is important to have guarantees that if the United States keeps its presence in Germany within the framework of NATO, not an inch of NATO’s present military jurisdiction will spread in an eastern direction.” However, over the next three decades, NATO continued to expand eastward, eventually resulting in the Ukraine conflict.

[..] The Iran nuclear deal is a moot point at this juncture. “[The International Atomic Energy Association (IAEA)] discovered that the Iranians had actually exceeded 60% and had gone up to 90% enrichment, ‘accidentally.’ So, they have that capability. So, what’s the point of an IAEA inspection any longer?” But the effects of the United States Empire’s lies will be much more profound than a rapidly advancing Iranian nuclear program, they will destroy its geopolitical influence, decimate its economy and isolate it from much of the rest of the world. The first to go will be the end of effective unilateral sanctions from the West, a phenomenon that has already begun. “That’s why you see Iran now a prominent member of BRICS, a prominent member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SGO),” Maloof said. “They have learned to get around Western sanctions and it’s going to increase, and that’s why they’re flourishing in many respects.” It is not only Iran.

The West has imposed as many sanctions as it could muster against Russia following the start of its special operation in Ukraine. Despite this, Russia grew its economy to the largest in Europe and the fourth largest in the world in purchase power parity (PPP). While sanctions were never effective in their stated goal of removing leaders from power, they were able to limit the economic growth of that country at the expense of the population living there. Now, even that tool is leaving the American cupboard. “Over time, they have learned to find ways around [sanctions] and it has actually strengthened them. It’s allowed them to become more self-sufficient to build more indigenous industries, which Iran has done,” explained Maloof.

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I think I read it’s 4x the Exxon Valdez.

• Houthis To Allow Salvage Crews To Access Oil Tanker They Hit In The Red (OP)

The Iran-aligned Houthis have agreed to allow salvage crews including rescue ships and tugboats to access an oil tanker that the Houthis hit with a missile in the Red Sea earlier this month. “Several countries have reached out to ask Ansarullah (the Houthis), requesting a temporary truce for the entry of tugboats and rescue ships into the incident area,” Iran’s mission to the United Nations in New York said, as carried by Reuters. The Houthi movement has agreed to this request, “in consideration of humanitarian and environmental concerns,” the Iranian mission to the UN added. Reports last week said a tanker on fire was drifting in the Red Sea. It later emerged that the vessel had come under attack by armed groups traveling on small vessels some 90 miles from the Yemeni port city of Hodeida. The tanker was also reportedly struck by missiles or drones.

“The vessel reports being not under command,” the UK Maritime Trade Operations office said at the time, likely meaning it lost all power. “No casualties reported.” The Greek-flagged oil tanker, the Sounion, had 25 crew members and was traveling from Iraq to Cyprus. The crew was rescued by a European warship and transported to Djibouti. Earlier this week, U.S. Pentagon officials said that the Greek tanker that the Yemeni Houthis struck in the Red Sea a week ago is now leaking oil. “The MV Sounion now sits immobilized in the Red Sea, where it is currently on fire and appears to be leaking oil, presenting both a navigational hazard and a potential environmental catastrophe,” Pentagon Press Secretary Major General Pat Ryder said, as quoted by the Maritime Executive. The oil tanker holds close to a million barrels of crude oil and if it spills as a result of the strikes, it could become one of the largest oil spills from a vessel in recent history.

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  • August 30, 2024 at 8:57 am #167830
    Raúl Ilargi Meijer
    Keymaster

    M. C. Escher The Tower of Babel 1928   • God Wants Me To Save The World – Trump (RT) • Kamala Blows Pre-Taped Interview Question With Walz Right
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle August 30 2024]

    August 30, 2024 at 10:17 am #167833
    tboc
    Participant

    i’ve asked before:

    What did you think Full Spectrum Dominance means?

    August 30, 2024 at 10:25 am #167834
    tboc
    Participant

    trying to understand the plan?

    Imagine you are a child and you are being raped.

    August 30, 2024 at 11:27 am #167835
    my parents said know
    Participant

    Why does that relaxing biden have six fingers on his left hand?

    August 30, 2024 at 11:32 am #167836
    Raúl Ilargi Meijer
    Keymaster

    What I like is he doesn’t look like Biden at all, but everybody knows it’s him.

    August 30, 2024 at 11:41 am #167837
    Dr. D
    Participant

    On Escher:
    EverythingOldNewAgain
    https://wallup.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/19/549307-Tower_of_Babel-European_Union.jpg

    “48% Of NYC Bus Riders Don’t Pay Fares

    Not enforcing the rules has CONSEQUENCES? Tell me more!

    “Friendly Fire Fiasco: Ukrainian Army Shoots Down Its Own F16 Jet, Pilot Killed

    Wow I paid $63 Million for the Jet, $10 million for the training, AND $10 Million for the missiles. …They’ll all American, they come from us. So $100M accident.

    I don’t mind. Ain’t no bridges falling or hungry people here in Ukraine America.

    Benz: did anyone not know that the CIA etc ran all Social Media? In complete contradiction to their founding law, Sec230? And when he says “They need the [Army] to protect their monopolies” what economic system is that again? Oh wait, is that illegal under a wiiiiiiiide variety of laws already in the United States, including Sec230, but also not excluding 1A and a Civil Human Rights violation?

    Like the other things, we don’t have a Constitution problem, we have great laws and a great system that everyone is far too immoral to enforce. Sorry, Madison and Franklin can’t help you there.

    Trump: well true or false, even as a scam, turning to God means something. Even for a psycho, that means they are ADMITTING there is a God, and that God means something and has power. He is then bringing God back into the discussion and setting a Meta presumption that the PEOPLE also generally believe in a God, and his power. We have been way past that, with our narcissists rejecting God at levels far beyond, and it hasn’t done us any good. Any leader should Machiavellian just PRETEND there is a God, and they believe in him, just to get better behavior out of the people, like Santa Claus. They did for centuries, but now even lying is too moral for them.

    So even as the worst possible read, this is a step up. This what happens when you push pure evil too far.

    “Kamala: “The climate crisis is real that it is an urgent matter to which we should apply metrics that include holding ourselves to deadlines around time.”

    I love it. This kind of word salad is the sort of thing every politician says with every sentence. That’s literally what they always sound like, what all their phrases mean. However, Kamala does it badly. It’s like a magician who keeps dropping the ball and lifting the handkerchief. I think she should lead into it, since it’s her core competency. However, a magician that does that is a comedian. Steve Martin did that gig many times as the Great Flyzini.

    “I’ll never demean another member’s service.” — Walz.

    Wow indeed.

    And again, my point wasn’t that Walz was good, it was that the media was attacking the wrong thing, and using E8/E9 jargon that means nothing and no civilians understand. Like so many times, and so many time to get the criminal off: it’s not that we shouldn’t impeach Bill Clinton, but not for having an affair on the side. That’s actually not illegal, and jumping just a technicality on that doesn’t make it any better. He sold the entire military patent book to China, then threw a dart and started bombing random locations on the globe. And those places were “Europe”. Maybe impeach for that? Spitballing? So accusing Walz for things he didn’t do, or didn’t matter, instead of the breathtaking things he DID do, that DID matter, is basically covering for him and letting him off. It’s the Prosecutor bringing the wrong crime to court knowing it will be thrown out and then scot-free on double jeopardy. At least don’t help.

    “• US Will Be ‘Crypto Capital of The Planet’ – Trump (RT)

    Hard to know what to say to this. Yes, in a way we are and have been, that’s good. And in a way most states are behind North Korea on Crypto laws. And we need that change after years of Biden using illegal tactics to corruptly encourage FTX while ALSO shutting down normal things like Etherium. But it reminds me of Trump knows that we’re going down, the Petrodollar is dead, and at the 49 year turn nothing can stop it. America First knows this, it’s been written since 1971, but especially when that turn was chosen in 1979 and 1981 not by Reagan, a figurehead, but the Fed and other bankers behind. So Trump knows when that falls, our “Exorbitant Privilege” will suddenly end, even as it is now. Therefore we MUST have domestic manufacturing as imports will be cut off, MUST have oil, farm, and exports, MUST have tariffs as that the revenue path under that system.

    The Derp State side says “No, we’ll kill, rob, murder, and extort the world.” With nuclear war. We’ll blow it all up rather than let a single dollar go. The “End of History”, we are the hyperpower and hegemon, and forever shall it be, amen. 1,000-Year Reich. But history’s not like that.

    Take it from Pool, moderately long: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMIVFu5Ce9o

    But put this way does something else: clears out the cobwebs of the mind for reporting.

    RUSSIA IS WARNING WWIII. THEY WILL NUKE US WITHOUT WARNING. Why?

    AMERICA AND NATO ARE INVADING, BOMBING ALL RUSSIA. Including BLOWING UP DEEP INTERNAL OIL DEPOTS. Day after day after day.

    Any sparks go off here? We somehow got sloooooowly sucked into this, incrementally, without noticing we’re now here, starting with a couple of loose, retired NATO training sergeants back in 2014? JUST. LIKE. WE. SAID.

    “That’s World War Three, Jack.” If we send Javelins, [Trump] that’s WWIII. If we Naval Embargo them, steal their entire world banking account, that’s WWIII. If we send cluster bombs and use them on a civilian beach, that’s WWIII. If we sink their flagship, that’s WWIII. If we send long-range missiles and use them, that’s WWIII. If we send Abrams with nuclear bullets, that’s WWIII. If we send F16s, that’s WWIII. If we send F16s with JESSAM stealth nuclear missiles, that’s WWIII.

    If we INVADE RUSSIA and BLOW UP ALL THEIR OIL DEPOTS from coast to coast, internally, That’s WWIII.

    Well, I can’t make it any clearer. The Social Engineers know if you hear the same thing over and over, you get numb to it, like taste, and started 2014 and before, every day lulling, hypnotizing, stroking us to sleep until we can feel nothing. Like any cobra.

    So total collapse of the US Currency, end of all imports such that we have to use cryptos? That’s the BEST case outcome.

    ““Borrell has previously called on the West to lift all restrictions on Kiev’s use of the weapons it has provided [..] He argued that this would “help advance peace efforts.”

    All weapons, full war, anywhere in Russia, all the time. “That’s called World War Three, Jack.”

    Now, for PCR here: If Russia just tsunami-bombs all the East Cost and collapses the U.S. he K-Pop Derp State pulls a Starmer and wins just when it’s losing. Boot on the Face forever. That’s MORE dangerous to Russia, not less. Yet they need a firing solution. The US$ and Yemen is a good one.

    “Trump blasted his Democratic rival over the current administration’s record on inflation, which has consistently remained at over 3% 13% since Joe Biden became president.”

    Everything doesn’t double or triple in 3 years at 3%.

    ““This is economic suicide and is rapidly and permanently changing the perception of founders and investors” toward France,”

    Like NYC. And business people have a lot of stuff to move, so they don’t say anything, just call a meeting, make a plan, and execute it quietly as a point of legal fact.

    All late systems do this, because they’re broke and desperate, but also at their point of maximum power and corruption. As has been said many times: Why not just re-pass the budget of 2015? Was much too small for you? Nothing ran on that teeny, tiny far-right small government libertarian Obama guy? Yeah, well that budget is like a trillion smaller than today’s budgets. We didn’t have any problems with that budget only YESTERDAY. It was pork-fest omni-budget, black hole too large THEN. But now it’s too small.

    Point being: at maximum power and arrogance, they could save themselves by shrinking, adjusting just a Leeeeeeeetle bit. They could save themselves by shutting off corruption for their kids and forcing them to more merit just a leeeeeeeeetle bit. But they never do.

    This is also the difference in Tainter’s collapse: Nations have all kinds of challenges and changes, all the time. The challenge is never the issue. It’s that this ONE time they can’t adjust and respond and address it, even with all their resources, sum resources of the whole civilization at their disposal. They stop cooperating, which is what “Civilization” is. VOLUNTARY cooperation.

    ““This is economic suicide and is rapidly and permanently changing the perception of founders and investors” toward France,”

    France is fine, there’s nothing there they can’t change by going back to I dunno, 2019 or 2010, with a steady, mild lean in that direction. They commit suicide instead, with China right there stealing it all, barely less corrupt than Europe is. Day after day watching it happen. Why? We MAKE it happen. Designated capital flows. I MAKE the country rise, buy in, then MAKE it be corrupt by hiring suck leaders and policies nobody wants, then I short and MAKE it go down, while I’m buying Capital Flows in the NEW place.

    Ra’s al-Ghul. League of Shadows. WE decide when your society will fall or be killed. We MAKE it happen. There’s no “Organic” about it. If it doesn’t go down, there’s nothing to short, no burned up property to buy for pennies.

    France has to commit suicide. When you’re at the top, whenever that was, back years ago, it has to go down, that’s life and the wheel of time, right? Well we’re just helping. God’s work. Religious calling.

    “I have been, since the Russiagate years, perfectly comfortable with the term “Deep State.”

    Hard to believe just a few years ago they were denying there was any Deep State, by anybody, of any kind at all. Like “Lockheed Martin” doesn’t exist, they have no lobbyists. The “NeoCons” they wrote about for 20 years now never were and don’t continue from one administration to the next, but 100% of all employees are fired every time.

    Brain was not engaged. No terms are ever defined. It’s an emotional wash “Bad word, naughty word” vs “Good word, like word.” All I have to do is feed you chumps words, not even bananas? Sold! I can do this all day.

    Anyway, we’ve moved on all fronts, but it’s taken valuable years. Consensus reality is indeed shoved a mile in this direction. WHO shoved it? Again, so long as Agenda 2030 isn’t in, then I guess we’re still shooting at them, aren’t we? There are still endless good guys, White Hats, preventing it.

    So if there are no White Hats, what’s stopping them from their Plans? Their own self-control and good nature? If there’s none in government, then who’s restraining them? Shaylee down at the counter at the Dollar Store? Use your head.

    But! I know the best thing to do if you’re in a situation like this is to “Attack all your allies, say they don’t exist, reject them, and give up. That’s the road to winning” – Sun Tzu.

    “new administration, led by Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, that has been in power for just over two years.”

    Seen and the unseen. Suddenly we never heard about Iraq. What leader? What election? What prosperity? Iraq ceased to exist on earth and was airlifted to the moons of Jupiter like “Ultron”. Never heard from again.

    “Musk after the billionaire vowed to defy a court order”

    That’s pretty serious, but what if the Court Order is illegal? Qui Vadis?

    JB I don’t know if I fell into any traps. I don’t concede any of their premises in the first place and think they’re stupid. They can say “Aha” point and say I did all day, but if I shrug and refuse, what are they going to do except type at me? I know what they’re up to.

    These narcissistic psychopaths require codependents at this level, they need me to play along as if they’re actually in good faith. What if I refuse? By neither fighting nor conceding to them? I know who I am, they can accuse me of all kinds of things and generally do. So? The only thing that matters is if I GIVE something to them. Like telemarketers, I’m just using up all their valuable time for my sole amusement, with me in control and they lost money because I reeled them in, preventing them from using that time to attack and extract someone else.

    When it stops being amusing, I’ll walk away again.

    Actually very pleasant movie. Has that relaxed, paced vibe of the 80s action like Demolition Man, not taking itself too seriously, with just the right cast for the purpose. If you want to be successful and make a ton of money, make like 10 of these movies, since they must be incredibly cheap to make. That’s “The Message.”

    August 30, 2024 at 11:42 am #167838
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Tboc: the Power of the Rainbow, of course!

    Taste the Rainbow.

    August 30, 2024 at 12:25 pm #167840
    those darned kids
    Participant

    nope.

    full spectrum, as in autism. there are so many autistic kids now that the plan is for them to soon take over.

    i hope they put someone with asperger’s in charge of nasa!¡!

    August 30, 2024 at 12:38 pm #167841
    Oroboros
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    August 30, 2024 at 12:39 pm #167842
    Oroboros
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    August 30, 2024 at 12:43 pm #167843
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    August 30, 2024 at 12:44 pm #167844
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    August 30, 2024 at 12:46 pm #167845
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Deep Thoughts from SNL

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    August 30, 2024 at 1:19 pm #167846
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    I don’t have to imagine it…tboc.

    Ask Bishop Connare Greensburg Diocese and his acolyte Fr. George Pierce Holy Family Parish.

    So which one is it?:

    1. Ukraine F-16 crashed itself, pilot error
    2. Ukraine F-16 took a missile hit from a U.S/Ukr Patriot missile battery
    3. Russia shot down the Ukraine F-16 with a barrage of Russian missiles

    Does it matter?
    Who wants it to matter?
    Until Correspondent Ritter addresses it than the fallen tree never made a sound, right?

    Almost like:

    1. Matthew Thomas Crooks shot Trump
    2. Unknown would-be assailant shot Trump
    3. Secret Service snipers shot Trump

    Or this:
    1. Matthew Thomas Crooks shot at Hercules Team 1 (they wore Black Hats fulfilling Ds knot theory of the mind)
    2. Matthew Thomas Crooks shot at Hercules Team 2 (they also wore Black Hats also fulfilling Ds prophesy)
    3. Matthew Thomas Crooks shot at the running Butler county sniper (standard sniper procedure as running steadies the respiratory rate and alternately the heart rate better than beta blockers) who was shooting at Matthew or the guy below Matthew in the window

    Or
    1. Whose shrapnel hit Trumps ear?
    2. What targets were hit by SSST Hercules 1 and 2? (After all, Snipers don’t miss. Just ask them and all there fanboys)
    3. Compatore’s homicide is a local/state case. So where’s the bullet(s)? Who killed the local firefighter in the crossfire?

    Short quiz

    On every SEAL Team, the masters of covert operations and weapons experts, by NAVREGs and OPNAV, how many team members must be qualified to:

    1. fly/pilot a SH-60 or MV-22?
    A. 25%
    B. 10%
    C. 1 guy

    2. Land an F-22 on a carrier?
    A. 25%
    B. 10%
    C. 1 guy

    3. Drive a ship, SWO qualified
    A. 25%
    B. 10%
    C. 1 guy

    4. Perform an appendectomy or insert a chest tube in the field (SEAL Team corpsman)
    A. 25%
    B. 10%
    C. 1 guy
    D. None he’s more intent on killing

    5. Who’s the biggest bullshitter?
    A. Don Trump
    B. Tulsi his aide de camp
    C. Ritter
    D. Tim Walz

    August 30, 2024 at 1:37 pm #167847
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    August 30, 2024 at 1:43 pm #167849
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://x.com/overton_news/status/1829350037136048384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1829350037136048384%7Ctwgr%5Ec1a2d0ff8a3a757135b4baa7d78358e6f32d3248%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theautomaticearth.com%2F2024%2F08%2Fdebt-rattle-august-30-2024%2F

    NEW – Harris is asked why her admin waited 3.5 years to implement asylum restrictions, she then blames Trump for killing border bill; “Because he believes that it would not have helped him politically, he told his folks in Congress, don’t put it forward.”
    ————
    https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/4361/text
    S.4361 – Border Act of 2024
    (Opinion: Spend $ you don’t have, Increase printing of $, increase inflation, Increase Pork)
    ————
    “It is now hard to tell where the Democratic Party ends and the national-security state begins.”

    • The Sound of Enforced Silence (Patrick Lawrence)
    https://scheerpost.com/2024/08/29/patrick-lawrence-the-sound-of-enforced-silence/

    Yes, they will continue supporting terrorist Israel and the Nazi-infested regime in Ukraine just as they have to date, but they will avoid talking to you and me about the imperium’s gruesome business as they conduct it. Silence on such matters will be as gold to these people,
    ————
    Alternative Truths.

    Senior Russian officials have previously accused Kiev of engaging in “nuclear terrorism” by attacking Russian reactors. President Vladimir Putin specifically mentioned this when he stated that peace talks with Ukraine have been ruled out in the wake of the incursion into Kursk Region. He also cited Kiev’s attacks on civilians as a reason that negotiations are no longer possible. Following the incident with the Zaporozhye plant’s cooling tower, the Russian Foreign Ministry warned that Ukrainian forces would target the Kursk facility, and urged the IAEA to denounce these actions.

    The West has imposed as many sanctions as it could muster against Russia following the start of its special operation in Ukraine. Despite this, Russia grew its economy to the largest in Europe and the fourth largest in the world in purchase power parity (PPP). While sanctions were never effective in their stated goal of removing leaders from power, they were able to limit the economic growth of that country at the expense of the population living there. Now, even that tool is leaving the American cupboard. “Over time, they have learned to find ways around [sanctions] and it has actually strengthened them. It’s allowed them to become more self-sufficient to build more indigenous industries, which Iran has done,” explained Maloof.
    ———–

    Ukraine Lost 15% Of The F-16s They Had Karlivka And Synkivka Have Fallen⚔️Military Summary 2024.8.30

    Ukraine wants permissions to send missiles into Russia.
    However, NATO officers who are trained to operate the systems, will not operate missile systems to attack Russia.
    ———

    August 30, 2024 at 1:43 pm #167850
    zerosum
    Participant

    The media silence.


    CITY OF DREAMS | Official Trailer | In Theaters August 30
    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwUE6WU_mdr5JZRU_omf6Cg
    or Vivek Ramaswamy Trailer- City of Dreams
    ———–

    August 30, 2024 at 1:50 pm #167851
    those darned kids
    Participant

    WAIT! THIS JUST IN FROM GLOBOCENTRO!¡!

    “nyaah, nyaah, nya, nyaah, nyaaaaaaaah”

    August 30, 2024 at 1:56 pm #167852
    zerosum
    Participant

    Believe or Not
    From the report of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation dated 08/29/2024.
    The enemy’s losses for yesterday were:
    ➖➖➖
    ⏺ 2525 military personnel
    ⏺ 33 units of armored vehicles
    ⏺ 22 * artillery systems, including 2 self-propelled guns
    ⏺ MLRS launcher (no specification)
    ⏺ 40 units of special vehicles
    ⏺ 36 UAVs
    ⏺ Electronic warfare station “Anklav-N”
    ⏺ electronic warfare station “Kvertus”
    ⏺ six electronic warfare stations (no specification)
    ➖➖➖
    ❗️ Units of the West military group have liberated the settlement of Stelmakhovka in the Luhansk People’s Republic .
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    ❗️ Units of the Center group of forces have liberated the settlement of Nikolaevka in the Donetsk People’s Republic .
    ➖➖➖
    Four ammunition depots were destroyed in the Kupyansk and Kherson directions.
    ➖➖➖
    A warehouse for long-range cruise missiles “Storm Shadow” and an oil depot that supplied fuel for military equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were damaged.
    ➖➖➖
    Air defense systems shot down three Hammer guided bombs and a HIMARS rocket .
    ➖➖➖
    The Black Sea Fleet destroyed three Ukrainian unmanned boats in the Black Sea.

    *1 unit in the Kursk direction are indicated without decoding

    https://x.com/GeromanAT/status/1829228756235379104
    Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 30 2024

    August 30, 2024 at 2:12 pm #167854
    zerosum
    Participant

    It’s that time of the year again. Prepare.
    https://www.onxmaps.com/hunt/blog/deer-tracking
    Deer Tracking Tips for a Successful Hunt

    August 30, 2024 at 2:15 pm #167855
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    Ukraine bankrupts Britain.
    Why?

    https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/the-coming-collapse-of-britain

    Who will bail out this chick?
    You, Dr d !?!?
    You, Pavel Durov?
    You, LT Weinberg??

    “Horrific testimony on the arrest in the UK of Sarah Wilkinson for opposing the genocide in Gaza. This is the fascist reaction from Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper to losing control of the narrative, as the people overwhelmingly reject zionism. Sarah faces up to 14 years in jail.”

    “police came to her house just before 7.30am. 12 of them in total, some of them in plain clothes from the counter terrorism police. They said she was under arrest for “content that she has posted online.” Her house is being raided & they have seized all her electronic devices”

    I’m sure Tucker Carlson, Ritter, Tulsi et al will immediately address this indication of the Apocalypse on Free Speech.

    7% of the adult population multiplied by 3 or 4 family members knows exactly what E-4 means and the difference between E-8 and E-9. They know E-7, E-8 and E-9 never become (haha become) Colonel, Captain, Admiral or General.
    And they know how National Guard obtain Veteran status if ever.
    Is someone projecting their cluelessness onto the body politic?
    Yet the same reader never makes the same observation about the genuine obscurity of Tulsi Gabbard’s, Tim Walz’s National Guard bragging points. Why should the uninformed reader give a damn about an ?attribute? 1/4th the size of the active duty force?
    Tulsi’s National Guard service is more substantial because she’s pretty hot in uniform. Is that what does it for you Dr d?

    False equivalencies

    August 30, 2024 at 2:56 pm #167856
    zerosum
    Participant

    Ceasefire negotiations has hidden nor prevented a genocide of +40,000 Palestinians.
    Peace

    August 30, 2024 at 3:36 pm #167857
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Let’s inflict another mixed metaphor (I love ’em). There are two ships setting sail into a stormy future. One of them looks battered but seaworthy, and the other one is sinking in front of our eyes, with people and rats diving overboard like lemmings over a cliff. Choose your ride.

    August 30, 2024 at 3:38 pm #167858
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Capitalism – definitions? Why can’t we have a discussion where we respect others’ definitions?

    Well, first, because you are asking me to have amnesia and think you can get my agreement without even clearly making the request, without articulating your reasons so I can review your request and let you know my decision. (…but the answer on that is no)

    Consider, if you will, an abusive stepfather.

    On one side of a piece of paper, he writes “This is you”

    On the other side, he writes a whole bunch of words. “Stupid, lazy, malicious, exploitative, dumb animal, evil…” He draws a picture intended to be his 7 year old stepson. It’s badly drawn. Nevertheless, it looks suspiciously more like the stepfather than the kid. He does not notice.

    The abusive stepfather puts the piece of paper up against the 7 year old stepson’s face, “This is you” side towards him, and punches the picture in the face.

    capitalism:

    Make or do something that someone else would willingly pay you for
    without lies or coercion

    YES, there was no “Capitalism™” until Marx. Since Marx writes self-recursive self-negating word salad garbage, really, you can just throw the term Capitalism he coined IN the garbage. But, as often happens with the oppressed, they fight back by making a word their own.

    You ask anyone passing through leftist institutions, particularly academia, they will give a definition of Capitalism™ related to Marxism in some way. HOWEVER, ask any normal person NOT part of The Cathedral, not part of the intelligencia NOT indoctrinated by elitest academia what capitalism is and they will say THEIR definition, The Common People’s definition, which boils to mine above.

    HOW did The Common People, The Normal People, come to have such a different definition of capitalism from upper class and aspirational elitist upper middle class leftists? And the gentrified poor that uses their way of thinking as a luxury belief?

    Because that’s what you keep ATTACKING, assholes. The 7 year old kid is NOT at all fooled when you keep “punching your definition” over and over. It’s obvious that you are going through a sick pantomime of writing and drawing on the paper, putting it against their head, and punching.

    150 years of your obvious, very consistent use of this “definition” and STILL the special pleading for “respect” goes on. Not only are you going to DO it still, you beg, offendedly demand, etc that they pretend along with you about the paper.

    Your piece of paper is the marxist definition of Capitalism™ you tell us and your TARGET is clearly actual capitalism. (As we the people have defined it – for longer now than YOUR definition – we get it.) And the way your paper is psychologically functioning in terms of writing words on both sides, the portrait attempt, rings particularly true.

    August 30, 2024 at 3:53 pm #167859
    jb-hb
    Participant

    KARL MARX was extremely exploitative. Extremely and malignantly. All his life.

    IS IT ANY WONDER he created the memeplex of congnitohazards he did?

    Narcs (Cluster B personality disorders/Narcissistic Personality Disorder) will normally operate within their particular sphere – their underlings at work, their nuclear or extended family depending on how much is actually under their power.

    Trained as a Hegalian theologian and being a malignant narcissist, it is no wonder at all that Marx would have created a system of formalizing, systematizing, and legitimizing malignant narcissistic personality disorder.

    Trained into thinking of All Reality and Being as he was, he would reflexively have applied the typical Narc Envelopment techiques (as well as other Narc defense mechanisms) to everything. Narcs reflexively, stupidly use their defense mechanisms on whatever is in front of them. Hegel just happened to be in front of Marx. He made a narc net that can be cast over All Being. Fractal in nature, able to cover everything or focus down on any smaller group, any individual.

    Banking is a utility – enables exchange between entities. USEFUL to people. Bankers are useful as the ones who facilitate this service, as basic and obviously desirable as plumbers ensuring you have running water and flush toilets. They facilitate transactions between human beings – ie, normal humanity, having society, us interacting with each other. Human life itself.

    Banksters are frausters who use the banking system to insert themselves as middlemen. Instead of facilitating transactions for a fair fee, they interpose themselves. Once they take a blocking position in the middle spaces in between people, not only do they use it to collect inappropriate fees, they even direct the flows of interaction in ways people do not desire – interaction-paths that optimize skimming and scalping.

    Since humans live and survive socailly and this is not possible without service to others, misdirection of social/energy/monetary flows between humans TO skimming/scalping paths is far more harmful than the % they manage to skim. You ruin, by misdirection, the entire network of social interaction to get a 5% vig and collapse everything.

    But banksters are only theiving parasites – at least the idea that there would be SOME kind of continued flow TO scalp isn’t questioned.

    Narcissists absolutely cannot stand other people seeing and thinking clearly, coming to their own evaluations and judgments. If they experience anxiety over even the possibility of this, they swing their defense mechanisms into gear to disrupt and disregulate the person in question. Same goes for social situations. A narc will slander, triangulate, isolate, whatever it takes to keep people apart – from comparing notes, discussing. The coworkers underneath them, the family members under their sphere of influence.

    Decentralized interaction directly between their various family members – as opposed to going through THEM – is to be stopped or at least disrupted by any means necessary.

    In capitalism, we are ALREADY acting in each others’ service – intrinsically. We are already cooperating.

    Marxism wants to insert itself JUST LIKE A BANKSTER as a middleman between all human-to-human interactions. With an important distinction.

    It’s a typical mindfuck by an abuser to say a thing while doing its opposite. The abusive stepdad might yell at that 7 year old “APPLY YOURSELF!!!!” WHILE punishing him with physically or mentally traumatic punishments anytime he tries – or sabotage his efforts when he tries. And then yell at him to apply himself some more.

    No. NO. YOU’VE GOT TO COOPERATE!!!!!

    And then Marx interposes himself into EVERY human interaction, blocks free person-to-person transaction and requires it all be centralized – up to me and back down.

    From. To.

    Communal without service to others, because service to others intrinsically requires free individual evaluation of reality, individual value judgments, individual decision, individual to individual transaction, interaction – which deeply disturbs and agitates the Narc at their most fundamental level of being.

    Doing what kills communities while admonishing all to be communal. Berating others to be cooperative while blocking and punishing cooperation. A net (of projection) that can be fractally targeted over All or One, which can interpose itself between ANY peer-to-peer connection. (to isolate, triangulate, etc)

    August 30, 2024 at 4:10 pm #167860
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Basically a bankster/crony-capitalist and a marxist/communist/socialist does the same thing — interpose themselves as a blocking middleman in peer-to-peer transactions.

    The style of interposition and blocking is determined by the particular Cluster B personality disorder they have

    Bankster – antisocial personality disorder

    marxist/communist/socialist – narcissistic personality disorder

    August 30, 2024 at 4:17 pm #167861
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    I don’t begrudge you using the word “capitalism” any way that you want to, but you have no right to insist that anyone else accept your idiosyncratic definition verbatim and without question as being authoritatively absolute especially when your definition doesn’t even come close to any dictionary definition of the word “capitalism” that I have found in any dictionary or other reference text. You can’t just declare out of a clear blue sky that “this is what capitalism is” and expect the world to just agree.

    Clearly this topic has triggered a deeply sensitive conflict in your past experience, but hey, DON’T SHOOT YOUR CONVERSATIONAL PARTNERS. They are not the one’s who did you wrong.

    I fully sympathize with almost all of your values and viewpoints, even your opinions, but I firmly disagree with your thick-skulled insistence that the words of the English language are yours to define and carve into stone for the rest of us.

    August 30, 2024 at 4:24 pm #167862
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    The reason that NATO still refuses to launch long range missiles deep into Russia is because, at the end of the day, the LAW still does mean something.

    It is a matter of well documented fact that the missiles can only be managed and fired by actual and legitimately authorized NATO forces. If the missiles are fired then it was NATO itself who fired them, not some flunky in Ukraine.

    Thus, if the missiles are fired deep into Russia, then Russia can classify that act as a LEGALLY defined unprovoked preemptive act of war BY NATO against Russia, which then LEGALLY authorizes Russia to then do whatever the Laws of War allow to any and all NATO countries.

    NATO deeply deeply deeply understands that its member states (including much US owned property) stand no chance at all against Russia and its treaty-bound allies. It would be a remarkably short war.

    That is why the United States will do ANYTHING to get Russia to strike first. If Russia strikes first then it’s NATO who is the innocent victim of an unprovoked preemptive act of aggression . . . and all of the LEGAL advantages which that bestows upon the plaintiff in the multi-gazillion dollar quasi-legal financial battles around the entire globe which follow every major war. In those future battle the LAW still does mean something.

    August 30, 2024 at 4:49 pm #167873
    jb-hb
    Participant

    I don’t begrudge you using the word “capitalism” any way that you want to, but you have no right to insist that anyone else accept your idiosyncratic definition

    You have not paid attention. Please go back and read my first post.

    The Communist/Socialist/Marxist and the Normal Person AGREE on my definition of capitalism.

    The communist deploys word-salad as a weapon while their actions of 150 years show their agreement in detail.

    Think about their definition of Pragmatism.

    The Boomer Paradigm, the Boomer Eschatology, requires that we not only express ideas in certain idealistic ways, not only that we agree TO conjointly express ideas in certain idealistic ways, but that we agree that we all ARE expressing ideas and acting in such a way EVEN WHEN IT IS NOT WHAT IS HAPPENING.

    The 7 year old stepson thinks he’s being punched. The abusive stepfather thinks he’s punching the stepson. AND the abusive stepfather keeps writing, drawing, and waving that piece of paper around.

    I most certainly did not START any shooting.

    August 30, 2024 at 5:23 pm #167874
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    I have paid close attention. You are still insisting upon garnering to yourself sole authority to tell the rest of us what those words mean. Up ’til this point the shooting has all come from your side of the discussion, casting real aspersions upon anyone who doesn’t go along with your private definition of words that are not yours to define for others. What you choose to call “capitalism” just does not happen to coincide with the dictionary definition of “capitalism”. That leads to unnecessary conflict. I suggest that we use a common everyday dictionary, because otherwise I would have to agree with you changing the very definition of the word.

    August 30, 2024 at 5:26 pm #167875
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    We should all be delighted that so many pirates are abandoning their sinking ship, but be careful! They’re still pirates. Up until a few days ago they were trying to board your vessel and steal the silverware, sell you into slavery at the nearest port and make off with the rum.

    Musk, Trump, RFK Jr, Tulsi, the whole roster. “Former” pirates only since yesterday. Don’t trust any of them farther than you could throw them.

    Warren Buffet just bet 3.8 billion dollars that Bank of America (and Apple a couple weeks ago) is toast. He’s right. Everybody knows that he’s right. As good Pirates they know that it’s time to abandon ship, so I reckon that as early as this coming week the whole magilla goes south. Not just bank failures, but BIG BANK failures. I have a bet with my sister (stakes are a home-made apple pie and the ice cream to go with it. She reckons Wells Fargo will be first to go, but I said “Naw. The drug cartels have way more collective power than the Italian Mafia, so I reckon Bank of America will be the first to greet Davey Jones.”

    It will be a biggie, boys. The Fed is gonna be SERIOUSLY rattled, but can probably print one-more round of counterfeit to buy themselves a few more months. It will only be borrowed time, and not much even of that.

    They will ALL jump ship just as fast as they are able, but only those closest to the rail will make it. And don’t forget that the ones who try to switch sides NOW were all fully on-board with as rapaciously energetic Buccaneers just minutes ago and they are NOT your friend. After the handshake be sure to count your fingers. Better yet, walk them off the plank.

    August 30, 2024 at 5:34 pm #167876
    thomasjkenney
    Participant

    re: F-16, there’s an interlock. Can’t shoot friendly, transponder says. Was the transponder off? (!) Did Uncle Samwise not enable the interlocks when he handed over the keys and pinkslip?

    re: Kennedy, make Americans the healthiest… Yeah, totally not scary Obamaspeak.

    August 30, 2024 at 5:35 pm #167877
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Pirates will be pirates, and politicians will be politicians. The latest batch of pirates will stop doing what Zionest Israel (and its horde of money men) tells them to do when Zionest Israel (and gang) can no longer pay and blackmail the politicians and dirty cops into willing submission.

    I reckon that will be when the banks go down and drag the FED (and its corporate MIC sucklings) down with it.

    August 30, 2024 at 5:39 pm #167878
    Dora
    Participant

    I wish comedy sketch/improv artist Tim Conway was still alive.
    Every time I see Tim Walz speechifying I see Tim Conway doing a satire comedy sketch as Tim Walz. Makes me chuckle.

    August 30, 2024 at 5:41 pm #167879
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Don’t let slip the hounds of war to devour the enemy until those hounds have a fighting chance of living to devour more enemies after the first. We’re really close. I can tell by how hard the hounds are tugging at the leash. Soon they will eat their fill.

    August 30, 2024 at 5:42 pm #167880
    jb-hb
    Participant

    You are still insisting upon garnering to yourself sole authority to tell the rest of us what those words mean.

    No, man. No. The Communist is telling you by 150 years of countless discrete, specific actions in many countries, in many societies, in many contexts, replicated over and over.

    Agrh.

    Imagine a bug that can emit ant-pheromones that say it is one of the hive. It eats ant eggs.

    It goes down into the hive and is chomping away at the eggs, erasing the hive’s future. Ants, as they pass by, give it a jaunty wave “howdy neighbor! top o the day to you!”

    One defective ant notices something wrong is happening. Maybe it tries to physically stop what is happening, maybe it just tries to raise an alarm.

    Then an ant named DBS pushes in and says “Friends! We need to act according to agreed norms!”

    I’m not shooting at you nor do I think you are taking shots at me. But you are walking, mesmerized, into a firefight and loudly insisting, even when I directly speak of it, that the Boomer Paradigm is in play and MUST be what we all agree is happening.

    No, man. No.

    And how do you know what to help self-police? How do you know what NOT to be aware of with consistency?

    This is what I was talking about what, half a year, a year ago, about being disgusted that I fed on lies, internalized them, had become composed of them. The unspoken assumptions. What I let into myself without filter or actively participated in making myself blind to WHILE being so very proud of how hard-nosed, realist, and courageous I was.

    A social worker shows up. The abusive father in law explains that the kid is confused, doesn’t explain things very well. Hey social worker, I only punch this picture I drew. Kids huh. Maybe it comes off as a little weird, but here’s all the shit this kid puts me through…..

    Social worker coaches the kid on how we all need to not be big meanies and criticize each other for harmless idiosyncrasies, we’re all different. Also, Timmy, here’s a lot of ways you give your father trouble…

    They always attack capitalism, not Capitalism.

    August 30, 2024 at 5:43 pm #167881
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @Dora

    I can see it, too! Great performance.

    August 30, 2024 at 5:46 pm #167882
    thomasjkenney
    Participant

    re: Waltzing… “Wouldn’t you say that your dereliction of duty in The Guard presaged your dereliction of duty as mayor of Minneapolis?” Keep hammering it, because it’s a standalone and because it segues into many another fertile field.

    August 30, 2024 at 5:52 pm #167883
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @jb_hb

    Then an ant named DBS pushes in and says “Friends! We need to act according to agreed norms!”

    I said no such thing. You, sir are a liar. If you want to refute my position on something then you must refute what I actually said and meant. You do NOT have permission to put false and deliberately misleading PHONY words in my mouth so that you can refute the bullshit “straw man” that you claim is me.

    Also, if you choose to continue along this vein of using sand-box slurs (like calling me an ant) as means of argument then you should be ashamed of yourself. I thought you had better brains than that.

    August 30, 2024 at 6:10 pm #167884
    John Day
    Participant

    Days Of Crisis https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/days-of-crisis

    We are in a crisis-period of death throes of an established global financial and military power structure, composed at the end of World War-2, contested through the cold-war decades, then thrust to global dominance with the collapse of the USSR, and now collapsing from internal corruption consuming it like widespread cancer.
    Causes leading into this include the rate of profit taking being maintained as industrial output, especially in western countries, declined for many reasons, so the profits ate healthy industries. Many industries were moved to China, where they could produce at lower costs, maintaining the profits. those which remained in the west became weaker without productive investment, taking on loans to buy their own stocks back, maintaining “shareholder value”.
    Net oil production, including natural-gas-liquids and fracked-liquids, peaked in late 2018, and is on a plateau with ups and downs since then. I expect it to fall. There may be large, secret reserves in the Arctic and Antarctic, but they would take over a decade to bring online. Oil is Real Economy in the modern world.
    Two days ago I posted BOE Needs World War Three https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/boe-needs-world-war-three , which makes the case that the City Of London global financial interests are badly over-extended on their failing leveraged bets, calculated to profit from the political and economic collapses of Russia and Ukraine in such a way as to asset-strip both countries for further leveraged loans, and the payment of debt-service on these large, leveraged debt-bets.
    I was surprised to see that the post had garnered 14,400 views in about 6 hours, which is 10X what my typical post might get in 24 hours. I searched Substack statistics and could not tell where the views came from. Likes, comments and new-subscriptions were all stable. I immediately suspected that I had attracted the attention of some government-surveillance entity somewhere. I have not yet been invited to dine in Paris with Emmanuel Macron, and I am certain that I would decline such an offer.
    We are in an epoch where all constraints have been removed from the global elites. Appearances are much less important than the retention of raw power this year as their cancerous system consumes itself. It is our life support system, also. We have longer-term interests to support. They would kill as many of us as don’t comport to their plans. That is underway, with options to suddenly trip into World War Three, with emergency powers, such as were wielded by the heads of all great powers, and their financiers 80 years ago.

    ​ Largest in 2 decades, Israeli army launches major military operation in northern West Bank
    Israeli operation in northern West Bank involves 2 army brigades, helicopters, drones, bulldozers, according to local media​ https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/largest-in-2-decades-israeli-army-launches-major-military-operation-in-northern-west-bank/3314912

    Condemnations of Israeli offensive in West Bank pour in
    The Arab League and several countries strongly condemn the recent Israeli offensive against the occupied West Bank and warn it could further escalate tensions.​ https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/condemnations-of-israeli-offensive-in-west-bank-pour-in

    Israel blocks ambulance access to Nur Shams refugee camp in West Bank​ https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240829-israel-blocks-ambulance-access-to-nur-shams-refugee-camp-in-west-bank/

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