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Trump Threatens Zuckerberg With Life In Prison (RT)
Nuclear War Is World’s Biggest Threat – Trump (Sp.)
World Leaders, Even Macron, Still Use Telegram Despite Durov Arrest (Sp.)
Kremlin Affirms Putin, Durov Never Held Any Meetings (Sp.)
France Stoops To Hostage-taking of Pavel Durov (SCF)
3 Key Battlegrounds May Still Omit Kamala (HUSA)
Tulsi Gabbard About Endorsing Trump: ‘This Is Personal For Me’ (ZH)
The Significance of the Passage of Time (Kunstler)
Judge Bans X In Brazil For Refusing To Comply With Demands (ZH)
Musk’s X Lawsuit Against Media Matters Can Proceed To Trial: Judge (ZH)
US To Give Zelensky ‘Free Hand’ On Deep Strikes Into Russia – Moscow (RT)
Ukraine Says Its Biggest Problem Is Western Concern for Escalation (Antiwar)
Medvedev Believes He Knows Why Kiev Wants Donbass (RT)
Putin ‘Not Worried’ About ICC Warrant On Mongolia Trip – Kremlin (RT)
Look, If You Guys Have To Go, We’re Behind You All The Way (Alastair Crooke)
“That Little Piece of Paper” of the Founders (Turley)

 

 

 

 

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“We already know who you are. Don’t do it! Zuckerbucks, be careful..”

Trump Threatens Zuckerberg With Life In Prison (RT)

Former US President Donald Trump has accused Mark Zuckerberg of plotting against him during the 2020 election and has warned the Meta CEO against doing it again in the vote this November, according to an excerpt from his soon-to-be released book seen by Politico. Titled ‘Save America’ and set to be published next week, Trump’s book features a photograph of himself meeting with Zuckerberg in the White House when he was president. Under the photo Trump wrote a caption stating that the Meta chief “would come to the Oval Office to see me. He would bring his very nice wife to dinners, be as nice as anyone could be, while always plotting to install shameful Lock Boxes in a true plot against the president.” Trump, Politico’s report says, appears to be referring to a $420-million contribution that Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan made during the 2020 presidential election to fund voting infrastructure.

The former president went on to claim that Zuckerberg had told him that there was “nobody like Trump on Facebook” but at the same time had “steered it against me.” “We are watching him closely, and if he does anything illegal this time he will spend the rest of his life in prison – as will others who cheat in the 2024 Presidential Election,” Trump reportedly warns in the book. The excerpt examined by Politico follows similar statements made by Trump in the past. In July, the Republican presidential candidate also wrote on his Truth Social platform that, if elected, he would pursue “election fraudsters at levels never seen before” and would send them to prison for “long periods of time.” “We already know who you are. Don’t do it! Zuckerbucks, be careful,” Trump wrote.

While Meta has not commented on the former president’s allegations and warnings, earlier this week Zuckerberg sent a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, confessing that senior officials from US President Joe Biden’s administration had “repeatedly pressured” Facebook to “censor” Covid-19 content back in 2021. The Meta CEO noted in the letter that he believed that “government pressure was wrong” and expressed regret for not speaking out about it at the time. Zuckerberg went on to declare that he will no longer compromise Facebook’s content standards due to pressure “from any administration in either direction.” He pledged to “push back if something like this happens again,” and will remain politically “neutral” ahead of the November election.

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“..help maintain stability around the world by keeping lines of communication open..”

Nuclear War Is World’s Biggest Threat – Trump (Sp.)

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said during a town hall event in the state of Wisconsin that the biggest challenge the United States and the international community face is preventing a nuclear war in the near future. “In my opinion, the biggest problem our country has, the biggest problem the world has, is nuclear weapons,” Trump said on Thursday. “They are a destructive force, the likes of which nobody has ever seen before, and we have to make sure they’re never used.” Trump said he’d be able to help maintain stability around the world by keeping lines of communication open, adding “I could do it with telephone calls, by being smart.”

Trump mentioned that the United States and Russia are the biggest nuclear powers, but expects that China will catch up in about five years as it builds up its nuclear arsenal. Trump is expected to enter arms control talks with Russia if he returns to the White House after the November election.

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“The list could go on indefinitely..”

World Leaders, Even Macron, Still Use Telegram Despite Durov Arrest (Sp.)

Despite recent allegations that Telegram is being used for criminal activities, leaders from around the world, including French President Emmanuel Macron, continue to actively utilize the encrypted messaging service. Earlier this week, Pavel Durov, the CEO of Telegram, faced preliminary charges for allegedly facilitating criminal activities on his encrypted platform. These charges include accusations of enabling drug trafficking and the sharing of sexual images of minors due to inadequate moderation. Durov’s arrest has not deterred President Macron from using the messaging app. According to European press reports, on August 26, the head of state was indicated to have logged into Telegram “recently.” Additionally, French lawmakers, cabinet members, and presidential advisers frequently use the messaging platform, as revealed by the media.

Macron has been active on the platform since the early days of his first presidential campaign. He has over 112,000 followers and his latest post is dated August 12. Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who boasts over 1.6 million followers, shares posts on Telegram practically on a daily basis. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is also active on Telegram, with his most recent post dated August 28. A verified account belonging to Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador also exists on the platform. On August 30, he began sharing a series of posts about the Tren Maya, a renowned railway project in Mexico. Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s account, which boasts almost 200,000 followers, makes use of Telegram for official announcements. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu runs an official account on the messaging service in Russian. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali takes to Telegram regularly to shed light on the African nation’s urgent issues. The list could go on indefinitely. The platform has evolved into a convenient means for world leaders to engage with their constituents.

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“No, as far as I know, they never met..”

Kremlin Affirms Putin, Durov Never Held Any Meetings (Sp.)

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Telegram founder Pavel Durov have never held meetings, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday. On August 24, Durov, the Russian-born founder of Telegram, was detained at a Paris airport on charges related to the criminal use of his messaging app, including terrorism, child pornography, drug trafficking, money laundering and fraud. The 39-year-old billionaire holds citizenship of several countries, including France. On Wednesday, Durov was released under judicial supervision, banned from leaving France and ordered to pay a 5 million euro ($5.5 million) bail. “No, as far as I know, they never met,” Peskov told reporters. Durov had not held any negotiations with the Kremlin, the official said, adding that there were no agreements.

Peskov on also refused to comment on the detention of two Colombian citizens in Russia, redirecting the question to the relevant departments. “I have no information at all about the detention of Colombian citizens. I suggest you contact the relevant services — the Ministry of Internal Affairs or the FSB. This is not a topic for the Presidential Administration,” Peskov told reporters. Earlier in the day, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said that it had detained two Colombian citizens suspected of participating in military operations on Ukraine’s side as mercenaries.

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“Why not arrest the owners of telephone companies based on the same logic..”

“Why shouldn’t Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk be arrested next ..?

France Stoops To Hostage-taking of Pavel Durov (SCF)

The charges against Durov are not only draconian but also absurd. The notion of holding the owner of a social network platform as being responsible for or complicit in the content of the network is preposterous. Why not arrest the owners of telephone companies based on the same logic? It’s ridiculous and indicates an ulterior motive. Telegram was founded in 2013-2014 by Durov (and his older brother). He left Russia in 2014 because he refused to comply with Russian authorities on allowing access to the privacy of users. Over the years, Telegram has grown worldwide to become one of the major messaging apps with nearly one billion monthly users. It has gained a reputation for secure communications and fierce independence from governments.

Pavel told American journalist Tucker Carlson in an interview earlier this year that he has routinely been harassed by U.S. authorities to hand over the encryption keys of Telegram, which he has refused to do. By contrast, Western-based competitor apps such as WhatsApp and Western-controlled internet companies are known to have relented to pressure from the U.S. and European authorities on allowing “backdoor access” to supposedly private communications between individuals and groups. Having said that, however, the content of these Western apps is also tainted with crime networks and horrendously sordid material. Why shouldn’t Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk be arrested next on similar charges to those leveled at Pavel Durov? The difference is that Telegram has refused to comply with Western state intelligence services as it previously did with Russian counterparts. A case can be made that the Telegram owner is a “free speech absolutist”.

Much more important than the marginal criminal use of Telegram (as all apps are prone to), is the preponderant use of the platform for disseminating independent news and analysis. Telegram has gained an enviable reputation for its accurate information on the war in Ukraine. Numerous independent news channels have flourished on Telegram to bring reliable and critical information about the conflict. Unlike Western media and social network platforms that kowtow to Western governments and NATO propaganda, Telegram has enabled a much more informed view of the war that exposes the Western narratives as a sham. Defense of Ukrainian democracy? More like defense of a NeoNazi regime and defense of Western war economies. The fact is Telegram has become a globally important independent media network that is not controlled by Western regimes.

It is for this reason that it is in the cross-hairs for repression, not because of alleged criminal activity by its owner. The latter reason is a pathetic pretext. At a time when the U.S.-led NATO proxy war in Ukraine against Russia has entered a disastrous phase of defeat, the Western elite must shut down all and every critical media. It is no coincidence that following the outrageous persecution of Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange (five years in solitary confinement in a British dungeon) for exposing U.S. and NATO war crimes, we now see a surge in cases of cracking down on free media. American commentator Scott Ritter who has been a valued critic of the U.S. proxy war in Ukraine, recently had his home raided by the FBI. Other independent journalists have been arrested or harassed in Britain, France, Germany and across Europe for their critical views on the war in Ukraine or the Western-supported Israeli genocide in Palestine.

Western so-called democracies are increasingly using fascist jackboot attacks on independent journalism and freedom of thought. The Western elites and their fascistic power cannot abide any criticism or dissent that is fatal to their charade of authority. Emmanuel Macron, with his pretensions of grandeur and brittle egotism, embodies the Western elite. Pavel Durov is awaiting the outcome of a vague and nebulous cybercrime investigation that may take years to complete. After which he may be imprisoned for another 10 years and pay huge financial fines. France which claims to uphold the highest principles of free speech has just descended to hostage-taking of innocent people for the vile purpose of killing free speech and independence of thought.

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“..the deadline for removing Biden from the ballot has already long since passed in Georgia, Wisconsin and Nevada.”

3 Key Battlegrounds May Still Omit Kamala (HUSA)

Earlier this month, leftist secretaries of state pounced at the opportunity to attack Trump-backing billionaire Elon Musk over allegations that his artificial intelligence chatbot had errantly suggested that Vice President Kamala Harris would not make the ballot in several states. Curiously enough, the complaint appeared to ignore three major battleground states where the law still stipulates that President Joe Biden will appear on the ballot as the Democrat candidate, according to a leading conservative think-tank, which suggested that claims of Harris being eligible to appear in all 50 states may be the real disinformation. Grok—which is available only to subscribers of the premium versions of X—debuted last year and was touted by Musk as a “rebellious” AI chatbot that would answer “spicy questions that are rejected by most other AI systems.” However, not all of its responses may be entirely accurate.

Top election officials from Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Washington sent a letter to Musk on Aug. 5 complaining that the chatbot had produced false information about state ballot deadlines shortly after President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race. According to the letter, Grok had indicated that the deadline for replacing Biden had already passed in nine states states where it had not: Alabama, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Washington. “In all nine states the opposite is true: The ballots are not closed, and upcoming ballot deadlines would allow for changes to candidates listed on the ballot,” the secretaries wrote. Following the fix, the chatbot now says, “For accurate and up-to-date information about the 2024 U.S. Elections, please visit Vote.gov” before listing responses to election-related questions.

“We appreciate X’s action to improve their platform and hope they continue to make improvements that will ensure their users have access to accurate information from trusted sources in this critical election year,” the secretaries of state wrote. Even while Biden was in the race, ballot eligibility in Ohio, Alabama and Washington was a source of concern since all three initially had ballot deadlines that took effect prior to last week’s Democrat convention in Chicago. In each case, however, the state legislature or the secretary of state worked to resolve the loophole and ensure that the Democrat nominee would be on the ballot. That nominee, of course, proved not to be Biden but rather Harris, his former running mate, after party elites forced the incumbent president out of the race. To play it safe, Democrats conducted a virtual nominating process that took place prior to Harris’s ceremonial nomination and acceptance speech at last week’s convention.

Yet, despite the focus on states where Harris is now assured her spot on the ballot, major questions remain as to whether she will be eligible to appear in at least three other crucial swing states. According to the Heritage Oversight Project, an election-integrity watchdog launched by prominent conservative think-tank the Heritage Foundation, the deadline for removing Biden from the ballot has already long since passed in Georgia, Wisconsin and Nevada. [..] Mike Howell, the executive director of the Oversight Project, told Headline USA in an email that its researchers “were not mistaken at all” about their read on the state laws. Democrats are “not out of the woods yet … and I’m wondering why no one with standing is suing,” Howell said. “The DNC and Biden claimed that Biden was already the nominee before he was taken out, Howell added. “So now they have two nominees, without formally withdrawing and substi[tu]ting one of them, and I’m not sure why Secretaries of State are okay with that process.”

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“He would meet with whoever he needed to pursue peace. Kamala Harris criticized Donald Trump for doing exactly that.”

Tulsi Gabbard About Endorsing Trump: ‘This Is Personal For Me’ (ZH)

Former Democrat Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (HI) offered a detailed explanation for her endorsement of former President Donald Trump’s 2024 White House bid earlier this week on Fox Business’s “Kudlow.”

DAVID ASMAN: since you and RFK are part of the Trump campaign, explain why did you go with Trump?

TULSI GABBARD: The choice in this election is very clear and the differences between President Trump and Vice President Harris couldn’t be more stark. Frankly, to put it simply, the choice for the American people is a choice with Donald Trump, a man who values peace, prosperity, and freedom. He has a record that proves that. And Vice President Kamala Harris, whose record shows an increasingly tyrannical government undermining our freedoms. We are embroiled in multiple wars and the world is closer to the brink of nuclear war than ever before, with increasing economic hardship for Americans throughout the 3Ω years she served as Vice President of the United States. The contrast couldn’t be more clear.

This is personal for me, the endorsement of President Trump. As a soldier for over 21 years, I deployed to multiple war zones in different parts of the world, putting my life on the line for the safety, security, and freedom of the American people. It is important to me and every one of my brothers and sisters in uniform that we have a Commander-in-Chief who values every one of our lives, who carries that responsibility as Commander-in-Chief very seriously, and who will exhaust all diplomatic avenues before seeing war truly as a last resort.

The last point that I will make on this—another point of contrast—is that President Trump showed through his last administration that not only did he not start any new wars, but he took action to prevent them by courageously meeting with adversaries, allies, partners, dictators. He would meet with whoever he needed to pursue peace. Kamala Harris criticized Donald Trump for doing exactly that. That shows if she is elected President, she will not do what is necessary in the pursuit of peace, and I’m certain she will lead us very quickly into a war to mask the weakness and insecurity that she feels and try to project strength using the lives of my brothers and sisters in uniform to do so.

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Zero Hedge is right: the title should have been “Why Haven’t You Done That Already?”. Jim is one round behind.

The Significance of the Passage of Time (Kunstler)

Did you think Kamala would still be rising on the joyful billows of hot air that blew out of the Democratic Convention? Like so many of the magic tricks in the party’s repertoire, that one was a spoof of artificial levitation, to give the appearance of something holding up, like, say, the US economy, when there is actually nothing underneath. Nothing real, that is. What’s giving the economy its appearance of loft has been “Joe Biden” pouring government money into scores of party-connected NGOs as pure grift. The main effect of that is the inflation that everybody notices. Meanwhile, nobody gets hooked up to promised broadband and only eight EV charging stations get built for $7.5-billion allocated to the Department of Transportation.

The current prank, though, is to artificially pump-up Ms. Harris in the polls in the attempt to justify the coming ballot fraud to be executed two months from now, as engineered by election lawfare maestro Marc Elias, now on the Harris campaign payroll. That is, an effort to obviate any apparent discrepancies between actual poll numbers and harvested ballots flooding in at two o’clock in the morning on Nov 6. As it happens, Ms. Harris’s poll numbers have begun to sink the past week, as the tactic of hiding the candidate from the press has backfired. As of August 29, Nate Silver has her chance of winning down at 42.7 to Mr. Trump’s 56.7. Voters have begun to notice that the candidate represents nothing except whatever happened the past four years in Biden-Land — which is to say, open borders, war for the sake of arms profiteers, flagrant censorship, inflation, cratering business activity, and overt DOJ political persecutions. Martin Armstrong, for instance, has estimated Kamala Harris’s true polling number in the ten percent range. Yikes.

So, what was the net effect of the CNN interview with Ms. Harris? It couldn’t have helped. They had to get her out of hiding, considering the significance of the passage of time in an election campaign. Even the in-the-tank news media was starting to complain about her holing-up on the bus. Dana Bash was surprisingly harsh at times when the veep confabulated about her plans to “fix” America’s problems, like asking, “Why haven’t you done that already?” The answer was the bizarre, “We can do what we’ve accomplished so far.” Roger that. You’re probably wondering: how Mr. Trump will play this? He’d best be polite about it and assume that the voters can see and understand the obvious: that the Democrats have put up an especially inadequate candidate who can’t explain away the fiascos of the past four years. He doesn’t have to rub in so hard that it seems cruel.

His own policy intentions are a quite clear alternative to four years of hoaxes, pranks, trips, gaslighting, and grift. Installing Ms. Harris without any input or votes from the party rank-and-file was about as desperate an affront to “our democracy” as anyone could imagine, like something straight out of the old Soviet politburo, picking an Andropov or a Chernenko. Mr. Trump should remind audiences of this at every opportunity if the Democrats keep yapping about “our democracy,” which seems to be all they’ve got. Something is slip-sliding out there, perhaps the solidarity of the news media. Even The New York Times dissed Kamala Harris — Bret Stephens called her interview “vague and vacuous” the day after. One thing you have to give CNN credit for: they didn’t show a whole lot of Kamala Harris cackling in her trademark manner — to cover that mental vacuum. The cackle has been getting very mixed reviews, anyway, when you disconnect it from the fake “joy” trope. Maybe a laugh-riot is what’s in the missing 23-minutes that CNN edited out of the 41-minute recording.

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“..In the days to come, we will publish all of Judge de Moraes’ illegal demands and all related court filings..”

Judge Bans X In Brazil For Refusing To Comply With Demands (ZH)

As we previewed overnight, Elon Musk’s X has been ordered ‘immediately suspended’ by Brazilian Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes, citing the company’s refusal to comply with a legal order to censor the judge’s political opponents, Bloomberg reports. Officially, the ruling was due to Musk’s refusal to name a legal representative for the social network (after the judge froze his last attorney’s bank accounts). On Thursday, X’s global government affairs account said that it would “not comply in secret with illegal orders,” and said that it would publish Moraes’ demands and related court documents for transparency.

More: “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.”

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The judge in Brazil wants to bring in Starlink in a suit vs X. Media Matters wants to bring in Tesla. But these are all separate companies, in completely different industries. You can’t hold the shareholders of one company responsible for what happens at another.

Musk’s X Lawsuit Against Media Matters Can Proceed To Trial: Judge (ZH)

A federal judge in Texas has ruled that a lawsuit brought by Elon Musk’s X against Media Matters can proceed to trial, after dismissing a request by the Democrat-run enterprise. “Because the Court has personal jurisdiction over Defendants, venue is proper, and Plaintiff has properly pled its claims, Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss is denied,” wrote Judge Reed O’Connor in his ruling. X, formerly known as Twitter, filed the suit in November after Musk threatened to bring a “thermonuclear lawsuit” against the left-leaning nonprofit and “all those who colluded” for “completely misrepresenting” the real user experience on X.” According to the lawsuit, Media Matters – founded by Democratic operative David Brock, who left the organization in 2022, used manipulative and deceptive tactics to convince advertisers like Apple, IBM and Disney that ‘hateful’ content was being displayed next to their brands – leading them to pause their X advertising campaigns. X claims Media Matters fabricated the results. From the original complaint:

“Media Matters has opted for new tactics in its campaign to drive advertisers from X. Media Matters has manipulated the algorithms governing the user experience on X to bypass safeguards and create images of X’s largest advertisers’ paid posts adjacent to racist, incendiary content, leaving the false impression that these pairings are anything but what they actually are: manufactured, inorganic, and extraordinarily rare. Media Matters executed this plot in multiple steps, as X’s internal investigations have revealed. First, Media Matters accessed accounts that had been active for at least 30 days, bypassing X’s ad filter for new users. Media Matters then exclusively followed a small subset of users consisting entirely of accounts in one of two categories: those known to produce extreme, fringe content, and accounts owned by X’s big-name advertisers.

The end result was a feed precision-designed by Media Matters for a single purpose: to produce side-by-side ad/content placements that it could screenshot in an effort to alienate advertisers. But this activity still was not enough to create the pairings of advertisements and content that Media Matters aimed to produce. Media Matters therefore resorted to endlessly scrolling and refreshing its unrepresentative, hand-selected feed, generating between 13 and 15 times more advertisements per hour than viewed by the average X user repeating this inauthentic activity until it finally received pages containing the result it wanted: controversial content next to X’s largest advertisers’ paid posts.”

Andrew Carusone, president of Media Matters and one of the defendants, said that it was a “frivolous lawsuit” that was “meant to bully X’s critics into silence.” Judge O’Connor didn’t buy it, and denied the nonprofit’s effort to have the case dismissed, ruling that X “had properly pled its claims.” In August, O’Connor dismissed a request by Media Matters to force Musk to list Tesla as an interested party in X’s lawsuit against the nonprofit. O’Connor said at the time in a legal filing that “there is no evidence that shows Tesla has a direct financial interest in the outcome of this case.” O’Connor was also overseeing a recently filed antitrust lawsuit by X against a global advertising association and its member companies like Unilever, Mars and CVS Health. O’Connor then recused himself from the lawsuit. Although he didn’t provide a reason for the recusal, a recent financial disclosure showed that the judge invests in Unilever.” -CNBC

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“..Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov compared the US and their allies to “children playing with matches” over their continued speculations about greenlighting Ukrainian strikes..”

US To Give Zelensky ‘Free Hand’ On Deep Strikes Into Russia – Moscow (RT)

Washington is prepared to lift its ban on Ukrainian strikes deep inside Russia’s territory with the use of US-supplied weapons, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said. Last week, Pentagon Deputy Press Secretary Sabrina Singh said that US “policy does allow for Ukraine to conduct counter fires to defend itself from Russian attacks coming over that border region,” including Kursk Region, where an incursion by Kiev’s forces has been ongoing since early August. On Monday, White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters that Washington was aware of Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky’s “desire” to be allowed to fire US weapons such as ATACMS missiles, which have a range of up to 300km (186 miles), deep into Russia. “We will keep the conversations with the Ukrainians going [on the issue], but we are going to keep them private,” he said.

“Extremely serious conclusions” can be drawn from the latest statements coming from Washington, Zakharova said on Friday. “Ukraine has been given a carte blanche for operations in Russian regions,” she added. “Furthermore, the administration of [US President] Joe Biden is obviously getting ready to make new concessions to Zelensky and give him a free hand to use virtually any type of American weapons, including [for attacks] deep into Russian territory,” the spokeswoman stressed, as cited by RIA Novosti. Through its continued support for Kiev, Washington “has effectively become a party to the armed conflict over Ukraine,” she insisted.

“The US course towards escalation is becoming increasingly outrageous. It seems that the American elites have cast aside the last vestiges of common sense and believe that anything is allowed to them,” Zakharova said. Earlier this week, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov compared the US and their allies to “children playing with matches” over their continued speculations about greenlighting Ukrainian strikes deep inside Russian territory. “It is a very dangerous thing to do for grown-ups, who are entrusted with nuclear weapons in one or another Western country,” he said. Russian President Vladimir Putin warned earlier that Moscow might engage in an asymmetrical response to the US supply of long-range systems to Ukraine, by arming groups or countries hostile to Washington – such as North Korea – with advanced weaponry.

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We should welcome nuclear war.

Ukraine Says Its Biggest Problem Is Western Concern for Escalation (Antiwar)

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said Wednesday that the biggest problem Kyiv has faced in its war against Russia is the Western concern for escalation and the risk of provoking Moscow. “Ever since the beginning of the large-scale invasion, the biggest problem Ukraine has been facing is the domination of the concept of escalation in the decision-making processes among our partners,” Kuleba said, according to Reuters. The foreign minister’s comments come as Ukraine is pushing hard for the US to allow long-range strikes inside Russian territory using US-provided missiles. Russia has strongly warned against the move and suggested that it would risk World War III. “The war is always about a lot of hardware: money, weapons, resources but the real problems are always here, in the heads,” Kuleba said.

“Most of our partners are afraid of discussing the future of Russia… This is something that is very upsetting because if we do not speak about the future of the source of threat, then we cannot build strategy.” Throughout the war, the US and NATO have taken steps that they previously ruled out over escalation concerns, such as providing tanks and fighter jets. The most recent significant escalation was President Biden’s decision to give Ukraine the greenlight to use US weapons in attacks on Russian border regions. A few months later, Ukraine launched its invasion of Kursk. Kuleba made the comments during a conversation with Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, who expressed support for allowing Ukraine to launch long-range strikes with NATO weapons. Sikorski said NATO should “let Ukraine fight with whatever it has, with whatever we have delivered them, and let’s deliver them more.”

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“..the natural resources located in Donbass are estimated to be worth $7.3 trillion..”

Medvedev Believes He Knows Why Kiev Wants Donbass (RT)

Ukraine is fighting for Donbass because of the region’s vast natural resources, which Kiev and its foreign backers want to exploit, former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday. The Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, which officially joined Russia together with Kherson and Zaporozhye Regions in the fall of 2022, are “completely alien” to Ukraine in terms of culture, Medvedev wrote on Telegram. The reason why the Kiev authorities are trying to get them back so desperately, he explained, “is trivial: money is needed.” “The criminal clique” of Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky, which “has stolen so heavily,”has led the country’s economy to “disaster,” while Kiev’s backers in the US and the EU have also “spent a lot” on aiding Ukraine during conflict, which “irritates” their populations, Medvedev, who serves as deputy chair of the Russian Security Council, also pointed out.

The West needs a “payback” from Ukraine, he said, adding that it has nothing to do with Zelensky personally. “This kid will be gone soon, but the debt will remain. And it must be paid off, with interest,” the former president noted. Medevdev reminded readers that, according to open-source data, the natural resources located in Donbass are estimated to be worth $7.3 trillion. The area is rich in coal, metals, rare-earth elements and other valuable materials, including lithium, he added. “To get access to the coveted minerals, the Western parasites shamelessly demand that their wards [in Kiev] wage war to the last Ukrainian,” he wrote. Western politicians are “directly voicing” their plans, the official said, referring to a statement made by South Carolina’s Republican Senator Lindsey Graham.

In June, the Republican lawmaker called Ukraine a “gold mine” due to its vast reserve of “critical minerals.” Graham argued that Washington should keep helping Kiev in the conflict with Moscow to make sure those “assets could be used by Ukraine and the West, not given to Putin and China.” With the Russian military making steady gains in Donbass since the start of the year and now approaching the strategic town of Pokrovsk, “the fact remains that the economic basis of Ukrainian statehood has been undermined,” Medvedev wrote. The resource base that had been “illegally obtained” by Kiev after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 “has returned to its native country,” which is Russia, he said. As for Ukraine, the Western aid it gets “will soon dry up” and all that awaits the country is “rapid decomposition and imminent disintegration,” the former president concluded.

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The ICC has now “ordered” Mongolia to arrest Putin.

Putin ‘Not Worried’ About ICC Warrant On Mongolia Trip – Kremlin (RT)

Russian President Vladimir Putin is not concerned that Mongolia might arrest him on International Criminal Court charges during his upcoming trip, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. Putin is scheduled to visit Mongolia on Monday for a World War II commemoration. This would theoretically put him at risk of arrest on the ICC’s “war crimes” warrant, as Ulaanbaatar recognizes the court’s jurisdiction. “We have excellent relations with our friends from Mongolia,” Peskov told reporters on Friday. All issues concerning Putin’s visit have been “worked out separately” he added, noting that Moscow “has no concerns” about the ICC warrant. Putin is expected to attend a ceremony commemorating the 1939 Battle of Khalkhin Gol. The Soviet-Mongolian victory over the Imperial Japanese Army secured the USSR’s eastern flank until 1945. The Russian president received assurances from the Mongolian government that he will not be arrested, Bloomberg reported on Friday, citing two sources familiar with the matter.

The ICC issued a warrant for Putin’s arrest in March 2023, accusing the Russian president of “unlawful deportation of population (children)” and “unlawful transfer of population (children) from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation.” Moscow has rejected the claims as ridiculous, noting that evacuation of civilians from combat zones – where they were targeted by Ukrainian artillery and drones – was not a crime. Moreover, neither Russia nor Ukraine signed the Rome Statute, so the ICC has no jurisdiction in the matter. Mongolia, however, ratified the ICC’s founding document in 2002. Six months ago, one of its judges was appointed to sit on the court in a historic first for the Central Asian nation. Mexico has rejected Ukraine’s demand to detain the Russian leader should he travel there later this year for the inauguration of the new Mexican president.

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“..it sets up expectations of available military success from which wrong conclusions will be drawn. We have been here before. It didn’t go well …”

Look, If You Guys Have To Go, We’re Behind You All The Way (Alastair Crooke)

“The successful thwarting of Hizbullah’s attack on Sunday, symbolized Israel’s intelligence and operational edge”: According to the IDF spokesman, the Hezbollah attack was thwarted for the most part – thanks to 100 Israel aircraft carrying out around the clock – pre-emptive strikes that destroyed “thousands of missile launchers”. “The group [Hizbullah], did manage to fire hundreds of rockets at northern Israel, but the damage they caused was quite limited”, the Israeli spokespersons disdainfully suggested (amidst a complete blackout on publication, under full censorship, in Israel of any reporting on damage caused to strategic Israeli infrastructure or to military sites). In effect, it was ‘theatre’ mounted by both sides: By limiting their 20 minute strike to within 5 kms of the border – and by Hizbullah staying within the ‘equations’ of war – both sides signalled plainly to each other they were not looking for all-out war.

The ‘winner narrative’ from Israel was to be expected in today’s psy-war atmosphere. Yet it comes at a cost: Amos Harel in Haaretz suggests that “there’s a tendency in Israel [as a result] to view the success in foiling Sunday’s attack as renewed evidence of the consolidation of regional deterrence and [of western] strategic supremacy. But such an assessment” he concedes, “appears to be far from accurate”. Indeed it is (far from accurate). The Sunday theatre concluded with no change to the strategic situation in the north of Israel: Daily attrition continues from across the frontier of Lebanon, down to the new 40 km border defining the extent of Israel’s loss of territory to the Hizbullah no-go zone. The strategic point is not that this narrative of a successful thwarting of Hizbullah’s capabilities is highly misleading. Rather, it sets up expectations of available military success from which wrong conclusions will be drawn. We have been here before. It didn’t go well …

Seymour Hersh, doyen of U.S. investigative journalism, this week re-posted a piece that he wrote in August 2006 about U.S. thinking in the context of an Israeli war on Hizbullah – and on its intended role as a pathfinder-project for a subsequent U.S. strike on Iran. What Hersh wrote then represents a striking déjà vu of today’s situation. It remains to the point because U.S. neocon thinking rarely evolves, but remains constant.

“The big question for our [U.S.] Air Force”, Hersh noted in 2006, “was how to hit a series of hard targets in Iran successfully”, the former senior intelligence official said. “Who is the closest ally of the U.S. Air Force in its planning? It’s not Congo—it’s Israel”. The official continued: “Everybody knows that Iranian engineers have been advising Hezbollah on tunnels and underground missile emplacements. And so the USAF went to the Israelis with some new tactics and said to them: ‘Let’s concentrate on the bombing and share what we have on Iran – and what you have on Lebanon.’”. “The Israelis told us [that Hesballah] would be a cheap war with many benefits,” a U.S. government consultant with close ties to Israel said: “Why oppose it? We’ll be able to hunt down and bomb missiles, tunnels, and bunkers from the air. It would be a demo for Iran”. “I was told by the consultant that the Israelis repeatedly pointed to the war in Kosovo as an example of what Israel would try to achieve.

“The NATO forces … methodically bombed and strafed not only military targets but tunnels, bridges, and roads, in Kosovo and elsewhere in Serbia, for seventy-eight days …“Israel studied the Kosovo war as its role model … The Israelis told Condi Rice: You did it in about seventy days, but we need half of that—thirty-five days’ [to finish off Hizbullah]””. “The Bush White House”, a Pentagon consultant said, “has been agitating for some time to find a reason for a preëmptive blow against Hizbullah”; adding, “It was our intent to have Hezbollah diminished, and now we have someone else doing it … According to a Middle East expert, with knowledge of the current thinking of both the Israeli and the U.S. governments: Israel had devised a plan for attacking Hezbollah—and shared it with Bush Administration officials—well before the July 12th [2006] kidnappings: “It’s not that the Israelis had a trap that Hezbollah walked into,” he said, “but there was a strong feeling in the White House that sooner or later the Israelis were going to do it”, Hersh wrote.

“The White House was more focussed on stripping Hezbollah of its missiles, because – if there were to be a military option against Iran’s nuclear facilities – it had to get rid of the weapons that Hezbollah could use in a potential retaliation at Israel. Bush wanted both”, Hersh was told”. “The Bush Administration was closely involved in the planning of Israel’s retaliatory attacks. President Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney were convinced … that a successful Israeli Air Force bombing campaign against Hezbollah’s heavily fortified underground-missile and command-and-control complexes in Lebanon could ease Israel’s security concerns and also serve as a prelude to a potential American preëmptive attack to destroy Iran’s nuclear installations – some of which are also buried deep underground”.

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“..Americans becoming “slaves” to the U.S. Constitution and that the Constitution itself is now the problem for the country..”

“That Little Piece of Paper” of the Founders (Turley)

We have been discussing Democratic leaders and activists who have been calling for revolutionary change and a rejection of the foundation of the American constitutional system. The latest is Human Rights Campaign president Kelley Robinson, who spoke at the National Democratic Convention. In an earlier speech, Robinson rejected what she referred to as the Founders’ “little piece of paper” and called for the reimagining of our constitutional system. The voices calling for radical change have been growing for years, including among law professors and legal commentators. Viewers now get a steady diet of figures like MSNBC commentator Elie Mystal who called the U.S. Constitution “trash” and argued that we should simply just dump it. In a New York Times column, “The Constitution Is Broken and Should Not Be Reclaimed,” law professors Ryan D. Doerfler of Harvard and Samuel Moyn of Yale called for the Constitution to be “radically altered” to “reclaim America from constitutionalism.”

Georgetown University Law School Professor Rosa Brooks went on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” to lash out at Americans becoming “slaves” to the U.S. Constitution and that the Constitution itself is now the problem for the country. I was recently called for a response to Robinson’s call. Yet, it is not clear if Robinson is speaking about the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution as that “little piece of paper.” However, she insists that “[i]n this moment, we’ve got to reimagine it with people that look and love like us at the center.” Robinson added: “And I think for us right now is about reimagining freedom and this American story in a way that is more revolutionary than what our Founders actually put down on that little piece of paper, but instead is the type of democracy that is by and for all of the people in this country. That’s the opportunity that we have.” Her comments did include positive views of the progress made under the current system:

“The story of America is the story of progress towards freedom. In just a few generations, my family went from being enslaved in Mississippi to the first free Black family in Muscatine, Iowa, to preparing to elect President Kamala Harris. Progress is happening my friends!” As someone who has supported LGBT rights for over four decades, I have nothing but admiration for those who fight for equal rights for everyone to be able to live their lives according to their own values and associations. However, a radical “reimagining” of our constitutional system is a popular and growing call on the left. It is often left vague in terms of what such a reimagination would entail, but suggests structural, not just policy, changes. It is that “little piece of paper” that has secured the equal rights for members of this community. Assuming that the “little piece of paper” is a reference to the Madisonian constitution, it is a “type of democracy” that has proven the oldest and most successful constitutional system in the history of the world.

It has survived precisely because it was designed for the most pluralistic nation in the world. It allows for tremendous social and political changes but does so within a framework that protects individual rights. Before we start “reimagining” our way out of the most stable constitutional system in history, we may want to consider how the alternatives have been faring around the world. It is that “little piece of paper” that introduced a revolutionary concept of governance that permits a nation of rivaling factions and values to govern as one. That does not mean that we do not have deep and at times bitter divisions. However, we are joined in a common article of faith in the Constitution. While he spoke more about democracy in general, Churchill’s famous comment could as easily refer to the Madisonian system: it may be “the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.”

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    Pablo Picasso Five women 1907   • Trump Threatens Zuckerberg With Life In Prison (RT) • Nuclear War Is World’s Biggest Threat – Trump (Sp.) • Wor
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle August 31 2024]

    #167926
    oxymoron
    Participant

    Dr D. Working on that Dopamine song. Lyrics won’t budge – did a search looks like the young ones are maybe just maybe starting to build a conversation about what they are going through…
    some young kid got this song out – I may not need to touch that one and throw my work in the bin – he has it pretty much covered.

    Six months clean off the dopamine
    Throw my phone through the wall
    My friends can’t get a hold of me
    Just a dial tone when they call

    Chills and sweats coming over me
    And I’m aching from the withdrawal
    This chemistry has got a hold of me
    Got a hold of me, got a hold of me

    I’m a dopamine addict, I can’t break the habit
    Runs in my head, psychosomatic
    Stare in the mirror, hide in the attic
    Cry in my bed, I’m a dopamine addict

    And I feel like I’m out of touch
    Keep thinkin’ I need that crutch
    Keep thinkin’ I need that rush
    I just can’t break the habit, can’t break the habit
    Runs in my head, dopamine addict

    I have these dreams where I’m me again
    And they almost feel like they’re real
    It’s as if I have self-esteem again
    It’s as if I’m starting to heal

    The chills and sweats grab a hold of me
    And they pull me out of my dream
    They just won’t seem to let go of me
    To let go of me, to let go of me

    I’m a dopamine addict, I can’t break the habit
    Runs in my head, psychosomatic
    Stare in the mirror, hide in the attic
    Cry in my bed, I’m a dopamine addict

    And I feel like I’m out of touch
    Keep thinkin’ I need that crutch
    Keep thinkin’ I need that rush
    I just can’t break the habit, can’t break the habit
    Runs in my head, dopamine addict

    The psycho is doomed, your psycho re-used
    And then up the potency
    The psycho is doomed, your psycho re-used
    It just won’t let go of me
    Won’t let go of me, got a hold of me

    I’m a dopamine addict, I can’t break the habit
    Runs in my head, psychosomatic
    Stare in the mirror, hide in the attic
    Cry in my bed, I’m a dopamine addict

    And I feel like I’m out of touch
    Keep thinkin’ I need that crutch
    Keep thinkin’ I need that rush
    I just can’t break the habit, can’t break the habit
    Runs in my head, dopamine addict

    #167927
    tboc
    Participant

    a litmus test:
    Do you find Manzoni Cans have artistic value?

    There is a difference between being a disciple of Jesus the Messiah and being a Christian.
    One brings life the other brings death. Good News versus dogma and doctrine. Merton vs Hagee
    One puts their shoulder to the cross, the other demands you do it for them.

    Those who attempted to eliminate Mr. Trump knew what the backlash would be for failure.
    There is something vaguely reminiscent about September 2016 in the air. Is it “we love to hate”?

    #167928
    aspnaz
    Participant

    How it ends: 96% of Big Corporations are quietly abandoning their climate commitments

    The problem isn’t the corporations trying to control the world and take your rmoney, that is what corporation means, that is what CEO means, it is all about business, the cover for sin. The real problem is that the world is full of morons who believe the corporate shit and think that corporations are the saviours of the world; they wank over Apple, Google etc, they are very sad beings. Of course there are the other few percent who would sell their balls for a few bucks, so are easily bought to promote the corporate shit, like that NPC who did the BudLite adds, a complete unemployable discovered by Budlite, but their existence depends on the believing morons; monkey see, monkey do. The BudLite moron was a step too far, or rather too early, the bikers will be gagging for that NPC to give them a blow job within 10 years.

    #167929
    Dr. D
    Participant

    From the internets: (Greer)

    “At this point the range of confounding variables is even more extreme. An election in which one party tries to throw the other party’s candidate in prison, replaces its nominee with a person for whom not one person cast a vote in the primaries, and may have colluded in an assassination attempt is not a normal election year, and the gods themselves know what will happen between now and January 20, when the next president is to be sworn in.”

    Ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

    Luongo was talking with Krainer on the UK imminent Default and like me said the same thing: this is EXACTLY “V for Vendetta”. Like the UK comic, not the Movie, although the movie is very close. https://tomluongo.me/2024/08/29/podcast-episode-190-alex-krainer-and-how-all-financial-fuses-lead-to-london/

    This was odd, in that the interview does have a lot, lot more detail, and the detail is important, but it somehow obscures the very narrow, very concentrated facts published here two days ago: Ukraine default – literally, they suspended payments – UK over their heads – they not only did this, they ALSO co-signed all the WorldBank loans – and then immediately panicked knowing they now have to have a completely collapsed, police state that puts “Fascism” to shame. I realized arrested for “Praying” (how can they prove that?), T-Shirts, and 2 years for “Naughty posts” now put Stalin to shame, and relatively fast. I mean it’s not like they weren’t a Stalinist State slowly for years, even as far back as before Thatcher, but this is falling off a cliff they’d been sliding down in essentially one day.

    “Biden was fine, that he was strong. Nobody believes that.
    PANEL MEMBER: “I do.”
    JENNINGS: “Then why isn’t he running?”

    Breathtaking, isn’t it? This is where “It is-but-it ain’t All things are their #Opposites at the same time” leads you. Still not widely recognized though.

    “if it was “appropriate” for President Trump to visit Arlington National Cemetery”

    WAYFKM? It’s a cemetery. EVERYONE can go. How would it possibly be appropriate to have him NOT go?

    “HOW ITALY STOLE THE US 2020 ELECTIONS FOR THE CIA & JOE BIDEN. Sworn testimony from Maria Zack.”

    And no action. From Republicans. Nobody cares. Sworn testimony is as water now.

    “Will they do it again?”

    Is the Pope a pedophile?

    All the political ads: BLAH. BLAH. BLAH.

    How about this for news:

    “Coning this Gilbert Doctorow report down to one point, a decapitating nuclear first-strike by US/NATO: For Russia, recovering Kursk is no walk in the rose garden

    In short, the Zelensky gambit that is being enabled fully by the United States is not a PR stunt but a full-blown invasion intended to be the vanguard of what will be an air assault on Russia’s strategic assets far in the rear using JASSM, Storm Shadow and other long-range missiles launched from F16s.

    Klintsevich has further intimated that the two U.S. aircraft carriers and their escorts now in the Eastern Mediterranean may be there not to contain Iran but for an all-out attack on Russia using their jets to deliver nuclear strikes. I add to his analysis that this may explain the knock-out of Russia’s early warning radar stations in the south of the country by Ukrainian drones acting on orders from Washington.

    For Russia, recovering Kursk is no walk in the rose garden

    WE ARE NUKING RUSSIA. And doing it to prevent our real master, ENGLAND, from going bankrupt.

    Got your attention now? No?

    What can I do? I tried. If you want to focus on clowns and fictional sitcoms and movie shows.

    “We already know who you are. Don’t do it! Zuckerbucks, be careful..”

    Do it! Do it!!!

    …Actually, wouldn’t matter. I’d arrest him after the election anyway for all his OTHER crimes.

    “Trump is expected to enter arms control talks with Russia if he returns to the White House”

    Why would I believe that? Oh yeah, because of North Korea, leaving F-Stan, trying and ordering them to leave Syria, and the Abraham Accords. That.

    ““..the deadline for removing Biden from the ballot has already long since passed in Georgia, Wisconsin and Nevada.”

    I haven’t commented on this since it’s reasonable there would be a date you can’t back out from. What any jerk can sign up, drop, and make them print $100M in new ballots every year? Screw that.

    “3 Key Battlegrounds May Still Omit Kamala (HUSA) “

    Also hilarious. Don’t care.

    When we nuke Russia and they nuke us back and there’s no power for the rigged voting machines, will there be an election? A: Without the electric voting machines, the Democrats will lose, so: no.

    “the choice for the American people is a choice with Donald Trump, [or] Vice President Kamala Harris, whose record shows an increasingly tyrannical government undermining our freedoms. We are embroiled in multiple wars and the world is closer to the brink of nuclear war than ever before, with increasing economic hardship for Americans throughout the 3+ years she served…”

    Yes but those are words and they mean nothing. They’ve done their job well. “Nuclear War! I’ve seen it a thousand times already!” (On the little blue screen) Nothing happened!”

    ““..In the days to come, we will publish all of Judge de Moraes’ illegal demands and all related court filings..”

    This was astonishing even by modern standards. Like Starmer, all these guys are putting Stalin in the dust and making him seem like a favorite uncle.

    “You can’t hold the shareholders of one company responsible for what happens at another.”

    Yes, but that would be a in country with a rule of law. None of these countries are under a rule of Law. Now you know what that means. What it means when words have no meaning, there are no boundaries, and Logos is forbidden. Madness, and Hell, the absence of reason, order, and God.

    Newsflash: “Capitalism” doesn’t work in those conditions. Only violence and war. The minute this happens, put down your shovels and pick up your gun. Robbing the neighbors and raping their womenfolk is then the only way.

    “• US To Give Zelensky ‘Free Hand’ On Deep Strikes Into Russia – Moscow (RT)

    If you missed the last 20 articles, the Point of Kursk …well let me back up: Ukraine DEFAULTED. Wait, let me back up:

    FIRST, Ze goes to UK and gets a tongue bath as Churchill only eclipsed by Nutsy. They all shake hands on Ukraine – UK merger, overjoyed!

    Second, a DAY LATER, Fitch downgrades all Ukraine debt to “C” “Certain default: Past Tense.” Huh? SIX MONTHS EARLIER THAN THEY SHOULD. Whut?????? Yes, they upped the date of the review for no reason, never happens. They CLUBBED THAT SEAL right in front of its mother.

    Wait: “They” who? WTF runs the rating agencies? They never, ever, ever, ever, ever move without orders, as seen in ‘08 and the TOTAL collapse of Greece, where they said, “No they didn’t. Not Default.” Everyone said “La de da, okay” and kept paying them.

    Who runs the agencies? Who can make a phone call to either refuse all re-rating or call and make one happen overnight? NY, Wall Street, and the Fed.

    That means Ukraine was defaulting in DAYS. Hours. They were already in default and only on 15 day grace period.

    “…And then a miracle happened…” Ukraine invaded Kursk in a move so retarded it’s going to be in history books for centuries. …AND THEN THE EU GAVE THEM EMERGENCY $50B. BECAUSE of the invasion. WHILE they were rated “Certain, 100% default,” officially, by Fitch. Default averted, that ONE payment was made. Gee, Europe, Der Lyin’, WHO can officially and legally give $50B to a nation ALREADY IN RATINGS DEFAULT?

    Starmer then calls for the biggest lockdown since the Warsaw Ghettos. On no events, with no riots.

    But back to the point here, UKRAINE INVADED RUSSIA. In a Land War in Asia. For why?

    To get JESSAM, etc, missiles deep enough in the country to strike targets in protected Russia. Because otherwise, Ukraine goes bankrupt > UK goes bankrupt in 24 hours > Europe goes bankrupt in 48 hours > U.S. goes bankrupt in 96 hours, but we can already deal with that and recover quickly. We have oil.

    What’s a JESSAM, Propeller-head? Translation. IT’S A NUCLEAR MISSILE, on an F16. So: drive a hundred mile hole in Kursk, sit on the nuclear plant, and fire away with LONG RANGE ATACMs and nuclear weapons. At Moscow.

    At the same time, shut down long-range, over-the-horizon ICBM radar Crimea. In the south. Put your warships there. NUKE RUSSIA FROM THE SOUTH as well.

    Will that stop a Ukrainian>English>European>Western default? Maybe. But it sure the f—k will distract everyone and cover it up!!! You can default 20 times after that and not turn the dial. That’s the whole POINT of war, to default, then kill every young man who would rise up, toss you out, and make trouble. While you sit in the castle and laugh with two of Epstein’s 12-year-olds.

    DO I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION YET?

    Kamala got a funny laugh, and she Can’t Read Good and Wanna Do Other Stuff Good Too. Cat memes!

    We should welcome nuclear war.
    • Ukraine Says Its Biggest Problem Is Western Concern for Escalation (Antiwar)

    Yes, Ukraine, of course says they should get everything, be cleared to attack anything with anything, no restrictions. But CONGRESS is advocating the same thing. And newsflash: than can happen in 60 seconds with one phone call. Gen Austen calls Kiev, with or without authorization, and says, “Fire away boys.” An hour later, the missiles are loaded, U.S. operators are firing them.

    Escalation much?

    Okay, let’s rephrase this: This is the FIRST WORLD WAR OF COLLATERAL. Without COLLATERAL, UK collapses, as does all Europe immediately, hours after. RUSSIA is the only collateral large enough for their $30 Trillion debts and maybe now $10 QUADRILLION derivatives leverage, which may and probably has legal priority and seniority. $10,000 Trillion, $10,000,000,000,000,000.00

    Get Russia’s COLLATERAL or everyone dies. No joke. There are no alternatives. Nuke Russia? Or else what?

    OR ELSE ALL EUROPE DIES. As if Europe is nuked.

    So I nuke you before you nuke me? Yes. Well nuke them then! That’s not even a decision, what are we waiting for?

    See what I mean, removing the lies and put that way? Do you all want to die, right now, this week, or do you want to defend yourself and kill the other guy? Boom, done. There’s no one that won’t take that math and slap that big Red Like Button.

    “• Ukraine Says Its Biggest Problem Is Western Concern for Escalation (Antiwar)

    We must escalate or die.

    …Now I, personally, disagree. I don’t think any of that is true because all that “Collateral” is fantasy. All those Promises won’t be paid, whether we beat and eat Russia or not. We can transition. Or at least the U.S. can, Europe’s in a far, far worse situation, one with like, NO FOOD. …Thanks to Rutte’s brother buying stealing all the seaside farms and paving them for condos.

    Thanks to Blair, May, Starmer, importing 20 million new mouths to feed who aren’t British. They WANT a collapse, but they need to own the COLLATERAL after.

    They MUST escalate, and they MUST Nuke Russia.

    …But they still haven’t. Who’s stopping them?

    Aw shucks, but the entire government, every institution, every media, every person, every employee, every rich guy are one identical monolith and there are no White Hats. They haven’t because no one’s stopping them, there’s no resistance anywhere, and they’re just tricky-tricky that way. Like Russia shelling their own bases and nuclear plants. Tricky.

    Anyway, this is why nothing mattered and the only answer to all events was escalation. At some point, maybe by 2000 or 2008, Europe would have collapsed anyway if they stopped. So they have two choices: Collapse today, this very minute. Or…not.

    Doubling down really doesn’t matter then, does it? You already can’t stand up from the table and walk away. Vinny from the casino will take you out back and shoot you if you do. What’s the Dif? Double down.

    “Ukraine is fighting for Donbass because of the region’s vast natural resources,”

    Collateral. And more, they need no PEOPLE there claiming it, so they must all be murdered. So they did, past tense. Blackrock alone now owns more of Ukraine than Russia does, and that’s STILL not enough COLLATERAL. Ukraine isn’t BIG ENOUGH, I want to emphasize that. A nation the size of France is barely adequate to keep off bankruptcy this week.

    What was that about Einstein and the exponential function of compounding interest?

    They’re trying not to die TODAY, but if they took Russia that would only hold off the same problem of compounding exponents a few more years. 10, 20.

    Hezbollah: Same thing there. Same bankruptcy, same collateral, same end that they all die and prison if they don’t commit genocide and start WWIII. What’s the option? Why are we still discussing? Didn’t I already tell you to hit that button? What’s to decide?

    “Human Rights Campaign president Kelley Robinson,” ...Wants to get rid of all Human Bill of Rights.

    “Vrba’s efforts in early 1944 to warn other Jews of their coming fate in the Nazi death camps were betrayed by European leaders of the Zionist movement, who silenced him.
    That movement was prepared to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of Jews in return for the Nazis escorting the Zionist elite out of danger in Europe to Palestine. There the Zionist movement was already well-advanced in its preparations to expel the native Palestinians and build a self-declared Jewish state on the ruins of their homeland.”

    Ding Ding Ding! Yes, I remember when I first heard of the traveling salesmen hawking Israel to Eastern Europe back in 1919. What? Huh? And zero interest (I guess for reasons that are now happening but are quite obvious in theory). “And then a miracle happened” and – whoever – got themselves a reason to got themselves a country! Wot a coincidence! Guess it was all ordained in the Bible n’ stuff. Uh-huh.

    How about this: CERTAIN guys, rich psychopathic satanists who have Kings at command, said “What on this earth do I not already own? I know: my own COUNTRY!” and then set about getting one of their own. Killing millions of Jews? But a trifle. Would have killed twice as many if that’s what it takes. …And so we see in Vrba.

    You see, Vrba didn’t realize they WANTED all the Jews in Auschwitz, to set the conditions for buying a country. The people he was “Warning” to, were the people who PLANNED and demanded it.

    Yeah, History’s weird that way.

    #167930
    Dr. D
    Participant

    That song didn’t come off like I expected. I love it, and it runs on the baseline, at least in that cut.

    Can’t believe you have enough fans to sing along like that, what a treasure.

    #167931
    Oroboros
    Participant

    • Trump Threatens Zuckerberg With Life In Prison

    We have entered a Critical Mass phase of devolution in Duh’merica where Billionaires can now be routinely imprisoned.

    Putin did this years ago with his Oligarchs

    They’re not invincible

    Then again……

    Duh’merican Psycho

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    #167932
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #167933
    Oroboros
    Participant

    O-bomber

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    #167934
    zerosum
    Participant

    Telegram – the encrypted messaging service.
    • World Leaders, Even Macron, Still Use Telegram Despite Durov Arrest (Sp.)
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    It’s ridiculous and indicates a hidden, ulterior motive. A pathetic pretext.
    ——————
    allowing “backdoor access”
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    It is the preponderant use of the platform for disseminating independent news and analysis.
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    Peace is the enemy.
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    false information about state ballot deadlines
    https://vote.gov/
    https://www.usa.gov/presidential-election-process
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    #167935
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Meanwhile AI is warming up to Mind=Phuck us into submission

    God save the King!

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    #167936
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #167937
    oxymoron
    Participant

    “Conceive, Believe, Achieve”
    Dr D. I’m getting swamped by game theory, three d chess and word definitions at the mo but the Harley guy you linked to the other day was trying to describe American values based on the freedom of the individual. I AM NOT American but everything I have got (apart from birthing myself and that whole philosophical rabbit hole which I will not attempt to look down this windy eve) is through that framework.
    He absolutely nails the way back. Sack the commies and crazies (I prefer to ignore them) and Conceive of the future, believe it’s true and work toward it.
    For me right now it is reconnecting and working with the rugged blokes out my way. Pig farmers, mushroom inoculators, foresters, cooks, booze makers etc. There are some women, but the yang activators I am finding now are predominantly male (Tess is a notable exception)
    It’s very exciting here as a lot of people who had their dopamine hurt them with false firing or restricted firing by resisting the dominant group during the Scamdemic are building the vasopressin and oxytocin by catching up with tree planting and drinking and planning.
    Spring is in 2 hours. My sons 15th birthday and good times to come for the weeds in the country. A lot of soil disturbance.

    #167938
    Oroboros
    Participant

    True Dat!

    Only Haters would think that’s False

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    #167939
    Oroboros
    Participant

    URGENT CLIMATE ALERT!

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    #167940
    Oroboros
    Participant

    I had a friend in elementary who looked like this.

    He had Five O’clock Shadow by lunchtime.

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    #167941
    oxymoron
    Participant

    Herr Docktor I’m glad you pounded out the situation with default and UK-Rain. I watched the whole interview about 10 hours ago and was mind-blown. Yes Fitch went C++… Nah try C and not in December NOW.
    Banks are definitely moving toward DEAGLE. Look at those numbers again.
    Deagle would appear to be a business plan. Stock and domestic.
    It looks like shit is getting very quickly to the beans, rice and acoustic guitar around the campfire stage.

    #167942
    oxymoron
    Participant

    Oroboros the oil in America meme. True? explain in small sentences – it’s late here and I’m getting full to the brim with facts and implications. I may need to pleasure myself to survive the highs and lows of the last few days in geopolitics. sigh.

    #167943
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Theology comes up at TAE sometimes

    Here’s my Alpha-Omerga two bits on the subject

    A picture is worth a thousand words

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    #167944
    Oroboros
    Participant

    @oxymoron

    Just a little cheek

    The first oil well was drilled in 1859 by Col. Drake in Pennsylvania.

    Oil being The Master Resource it was the subtext to becoming an industrial super power and thus keeping the Union together all the more.

    Plus Oil will always out produce slaves picking cotton.

    #167945
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Manifest Destiny

    Ironically comes in many favors!

    Hahahahahahahahahaha!

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    #167946
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Just a joke, of course, but oil was discovered in Pennsylvania in 1859 and a year later we were in a war fought muchly in Pennsylvania. Coincidence? I think not.

    #167950
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Oil allowed industry to be free of water powered river mill towns and be anywhere it was most profitable to be located.

    Oil also allowed commercial transport to be free of Wind sailing vessels.
    Historic Big Time change in transport.

    The coal fired railroad locomotive had reached it’s mechanical complexity limits of profitability by the turn of the century.

    The Diesel-Electric locomotive had about 250 moving parts.

    The big 16 drive wheel coal locomotives had 2500 moving parts, they were in the repair shop longer sometimes than they were hour wise pulling freight.

    The Diesel-Electric locomotive, invented in 1907 was the Prius EV of it’s day, a century earlier.

    Cost effective, low maintenance, fast, cheap to make and run. Still used to this day by the way.

    #167951
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Talk about inefficiency.

    Public schooling.

    What a phucking joke.

    Most Big Shity school. systems, Chicago, can’t even “graduate” student whocan read and write at elementary school levels.

    Home schooling isn’t for everyone but……..

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    Putting the DUH in Duh’merica

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    #167952
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Kids learning gardening from an early

    Good idea

    Not in the Hood

    Not for suburban soccer woketards

    Project De-population

    Smokin’ hot and on track for a Big Win

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    #167953
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #167954
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #167955
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Woketurd Alert:

    More Civil War left over unprocessed chaff

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    #167956
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Inside Pedo Jo-jo’s fevered Dreams

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    #167957
    Dr. D
    Participant
    #167958
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    The pirates are abandoning ship faster. Pirates leaping from their sinking ship onto one that is not sinking are doing so for REASONS. The basic reason of course is that, in their own well informed selfish estimation, some current event has finally convinced them that their ship is going down, cannot be saved, and must be abandoned with NO FURTHER DELAY. In other words, they don’t jump until they HAVE to, and something just happened to convince them that they have to. Now.

    Personally, I think that there are two events that just happened which caused these pirates to change their minds and jump ship sooner rather than later

    The first event was the arrest of Pavel Durov. Victory is going to go to the side which first reveals the TRUE information that will take their enemy down. The Cabal arrested and threatens Durov to ensure that he could not or would not do that to them. ALL other pirates took notice, and acted accordingly. They jumped ship to the free speech side. They damned well better, because they are now convinced that their actual physical lives and personal freedom depend on it. Prison and death are real things, and even Zuckerberg is smart enough to know it. He’s dead either way, but I have no sympathy because he richly deserves what he IS going to get.

    Event number two is the collapse of the banks, the Federal Reserve (which is , after all, merely a club-of-banks) and the dollar, which is about to be swept away by the Mother Of All Tsunamis in defaulted Commercial Real Estate loans (and enormous tranches of BlackRock owned Residential Real Estate as well, because since 2008 those two types of real estate asset holdings are virtually the same thing). The first pirate to take the leap was none other than the Wizard of Omaha himself, Warren Buffet. Dumping 4 Billion in Apple and B of A stock got a lot of attention fron the other privateers. What does Warren know that they don’t know? Pretty fucking obvious, dontcha think?

    Although not immediately apparent those two events are intimately connected and therefore move in tandem because when one of them goes up (or down) that change CAUSES the other one to go up and down concurrently.

    It works like this: financial profit derived from financial transaction can be increased by lying, cheating and stealing (and sometimes even murdering) therefore those who are inclined to such criminal behavior DO engage in it and consequently amass lots of money. In point of fact and practice, they amass ALMOST ALL of the money, actually.

    Revelation of the dirty details of precisely how they lied, spied, bribed, cheated, stole and killed has the reverse effect. It results in LOSING the money and power that was amassed by doing those things. In other words, increased true information causes DECREASED ill-gotten-gains.

    Likewise, since increased CONTROL of the content and flow of information increases the opportunity for getting money in crooked and/or violent ways, so does a DECREASE in ill-gotten-gains reduce the ability to control the content and distribution of that flow.

    It’s a classic feedback loop, and plays out like such loops tend to do: exponentially.

    The Cabal has lost control of BOTH the money and the information, and the feedback loop has reached the point that some of the brighter pirates can see where both are headed. The truth is coming out AND the transactional value of their ill-gotten-gains ARE going to zero.

    So they make their play to switch sides while they’ve still got a coat they can turn.

    I’m pleased as punch that they are doing so, and maybe some of them should even be spared from the gallows if they convert sincerely enough, but never forget that they are pirates.

    #167959
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    Two guys “expounding” on Economic Geography and Titusville.
    Y’all know Titusville?

    About the only thing more economically bereft than those lands north of 80, Titusville is the wasteland east of Pittsburgh onward just past Johnstown.

    So much for the Economic Geographical Theory that is location, location, location where the black stuff oozed from the ground. The topic used to be required study for PA elementary students. It went the way of the Eastern American Indians and The French & Indian War, the study of, that is no longer existent.

    #167961
    John Day
    Participant

    @Dr. D: Thanks for reading and colorizing.

    @zerosum
    : I put it all in one pot until it overflows.

    #167962
    citizenx
    Participant

    Tai chi is an ancient Chinese martial art.

    Initially developed for combat and self-defense, it has evolved into a gentle form of exercise in which practitioners perform a series of deliberate, flowing motions while focusing on deep, slow breaths.

    Bull fucking shit. Western retards are competent at one thing- ruining things. Western women think yoga is wearing yoga pants in public- they don’t even have “yoga pants” in the Traditional East.

    This is not Tai ji- this is Shaolin Wu Shu – “Evolved into…” No this is devolved into, not fucking evolved into. Just as “Smart Phones” have evolved humans into brain dead retarded addicts that cannot go for more than 5 minutes without looking at their retard phone.

    evolved into a gentle form of exercise in which practitioners perform a series of deliberate, flowing motions while focusing on deep, slow breaths.

    BULLSHIT

    Time for everyone to jam their smart phones up your asses and call it an intelligent evolved enema…. or better yet, an improved ass fucking with your vibrate on.

    So disgusted with the West devolving into arrogant morons. I watched a video, now i’m an expert know it all retard completely detached from reality.

    #167966
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Creative design and the miracle of basic thermodynamics

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    #167967
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #167968
    Celticbiker
    Participant

    Well stated CitizenX. The jewphone tracks and traces you, listening to your conversations as the microwaves induce cancer. What’s not to like? Naturally everyone has one, diddlin and fiddlin with em like fuckin 3 year olds. I don’t see most of em making thru what is coming. Sad but true.

    #167969
    oxymoron
    Participant

    Dennis Rancourt on free speech in Canada
    https://archive.md/BUtrZ

    #167970
    poppie
    Participant

    trying to figure out upload

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